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The choices range geographically from California to Washington D.C., with Iowa and Indiana in between. Parish seniors were showing their new colors with shirts from Pepperdine, George Washington, Dordt (IA.) College, Indiana, Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma and Baylor among the dozens of choices.
Several dozen Parish students from North Dallas have made their college picks. Among them are Amanda Daum (Indiana), David Haines (Alabama), Kat Herriman (Colby), Cozette Kale (Vanderbilt), Braeger Moore (Texas Tech) and Kathryn Woodward (Clemson).
The Class of 2008 is Parish's second graduating class after it expanded in 2002 from being a 20-year elementary school based at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Far North Dallas. Parish's Upper School campus is the former Exxon Mobil headquarters in North Dallas.But the ritual of choosing a college remains the same for all students. Longtime friends and Parish classmates Lucy Keith of North Dallas and Alex Kaiser of Richardson find themselves wearing opposing colors now. Keith will attend Texas and play for the woman's soccer team. Kaiser was a kicker on Parish's football team who also led Parish's soccer team to the TAPPS Class 5A state tournament. He will attend Oklahoma.
"I've already been practicing booing the Longhorns," Kaiser said.
Six Parish students will be attending Baylor.
'It wasn't something we talked about," said Parish's Polette Galvan. "The number of us just kept getting bigger."
Parish's Herriman, who moved to North Dallas from Boston, will be going back to the Northeast in attending Colby College Museum of Art in Maine. But first Herriman will spend her first semester in France.
