MEET LOGAN LOCKNER: Not your average teenager, this Daniel Boone High School senior has earned himself a full ride to college
In some ways, Logan Lockner is like any other high school senior. He works hard, gets good grades and still isnt exactly sure what he wants to be when he grows up.
But talk with Lockner for five minutes and youll quickly learn this Daniel Boone High School student is hardly your average teenager.
Im really interested in the relationship between language and society how documents become more than just nouns and verbs and adjectives, Lockner said. Im interested in how they become a living, breathing social organism.
Thats right. While other high school seniors are probably deciding who to take to prom or what theyre going to do this weekend, Lockner is contemplating the way words come to life.
As the coeditor of the high schools yearbook, president of Beta Club and captain of the schools academic team, Lockner has proven himself as a bit of an academic.
And it is Lockners academic intelligence that has earned him a full ride to Emory University in Atlanta, a scholarship valued at approximately $200,000. Based on merit, the Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship is named after the former president of Coca-Cola who donated much of his money to Emory University.
Lockner, whose grade point average is somewhere around a 3.9, plans to study English and political science at the university. He said he chose to attend Emory University because of its liberal arts program and all of the resources it has available for research.
Going to a university like Emory, coming from a small, rural, publish high school is really unique, Lockner said. We have some wonderful people here at Boone that have been able to help me get to this point.
Lockner credits two of his teachers at Boone for being most influential during his high school career AP English teachers Deanna Carey and Sandra Fair.
I am thankful to them for meeting me where I was at academically and challenging me to go beyond that, Lockner said. And this might sound corny, but for being my friends as much as they were my teachers.
Carey said she really couldnt do much to teach Lockner, who was already so widely read by the time he arrived in her class.
All I did was sort of polish off a few points. He has read books that Ive just read in the past five years and hes only in high school, she said. If I read hes won the Pulitzer or the Nobel Prize, I wont be surprised. He sees the big picture.
But Lockner is more than just an academic, Carey said.
Hes not some ivory-tower type, she explained. Hes got friends in every social rung of the high school hierarchy. He relates on every level.
When hes not studying the ways of the world, Lockner enjoys reading contemporary literary fiction and calls himself a huge classic film buff. He is actively involved in student council at DBHS and the youth church group at Crossroads Church in Gray.
Lockner is the son of Diann and Kyle Lockner. He is the grandson of Dan and Mary Haley and Wayne and Joan Lockner.