I wasn't sure of the most appropriate place to post this, but had to post it somewhere. My DS told me about this great speaker he heard at VMI graduation and then told me what he knew about him. I looked him up on the VMI website and did a google search to find out more...
Drew Borinstein, now 2nd Lt in the Marine Corps, and valedictorian of VMI class of 2017 spoke at the graduation yesterday. Borinstein, an applied mathematics major and business minor from Shelbyville, Indiana, valedictorian of the Class of 2017 and recipient of the Jackson-Hope Medal for highest attainment in scholarship maintained a 4.0 grade point average while at VMI. Wow.
Pretty amazing performance. But then add in that he lost his most of his family during his time at VMI - his mother, sister and brother in a plane crash on their way to visit him after OCS only 16 months after the sudden loss of his father.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/educati...cle_b79330bb-fe52-5655-b06c-9e1965b57cc5.html
What an incredible young man.
Drew Borinstein, now 2nd Lt in the Marine Corps, and valedictorian of VMI class of 2017 spoke at the graduation yesterday. Borinstein, an applied mathematics major and business minor from Shelbyville, Indiana, valedictorian of the Class of 2017 and recipient of the Jackson-Hope Medal for highest attainment in scholarship maintained a 4.0 grade point average while at VMI. Wow.
Pretty amazing performance. But then add in that he lost his most of his family during his time at VMI - his mother, sister and brother in a plane crash on their way to visit him after OCS only 16 months after the sudden loss of his father.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/educati...cle_b79330bb-fe52-5655-b06c-9e1965b57cc5.html
What an incredible young man.