The Virginian-Pilot
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              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Sunday, June 25, 1995                  TAG: 9506240126
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON    PAGE: 28   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   37 lines

OPEN DOOR CHRISTIAN: VALEDICTORIAN

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Name: Deborah Lortscher

Age: 15

Parent: Anne Lortscher

GPA: 95 percent

Extracurricular activities: SCA treasurer and president,

yearbook, volleyball, soccer and school Snackshop.

College plans: I plan to wait a year before I go to college,

probably Bible college.

Career plans: Whatever God has for me in the future.

Favorite book: The Bible

High school memoir: My friends, the teachers and people who made

it special. Mostly I look at it as a time of growth, not only

mentally and physically but also spiritually.

Most embarrassing moment: I was eating a piece of cake off the

teacher's desk (the teacher was my mother), when she came up behind

me and spanked me in front of the whole class.

Advice for junior class I am leaving behind: Always have faith!

If you really believe you can ask Him. God will help you get your

work done.

Person I admire most: My mother. She has always persevered when

it seems everyone else would give up. She always had faith that God

would bring her through whatever she faced. Her courage, endurance,

determination and faith are admired by almost everyone.

by CNB