Class of 2011: Senior Inspired by Efforts of Mom and Great-Grandfather

 seniors will graduate on Thursday. Patch will highlight students from the Class of 2011 periodically until their graduation. 

Name: Adelah Johnson

College Attending in the Fall: University of Sciences in Philadelphia, Pharmacy

Extracurricular Activities: National Honors Society, Junior Commission of Bergen County on the Status of Women, Flag and Praise Dance, Black Youth Organization, Terpsichoreans, Musicals, Second-Degree Black Belt in Karate

1. What did you enjoy most about your senior year? Finally receiving college acceptance letters. I applied to 10 and got accepted at eight.
2. What will you miss most about Teaneck High School? I’ll miss the teachers because they were really active with the senior class, and they were very helpful in keeping me focused.
3. What advice do you have for next year’s seniors? Make sure you start the college process early, and stay focused.
4. What are you looking forward to the most about college? The new atmosphere and meeting new people
5. Who helped you to get where you’re at in life? My mother and great-grandfather. My mom inspires me because she’s a single mother of three and she went back to school to get her master’s degree in administrative science. She’s helped me to study harder. My great-grandfather, Edwin Edmunds, is blind, but that never stopped him from doing things in life. He was a civil rights activist. And, he always wanted the best for me. I bought him a book in the fourth grade to read to him, and I could barely pronounce the words, but I read it to him.