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JMG Featured Alumni:
Brooke MacArthur, 2008 JMG Graduate, Freeport High School
Brooke MacArthur had a 1.0 GPA after her freshman year. After joining JMG in her sophomore year, she improved her GPA to 2.0. This year Brooke is graduating with a 3.8 GPA.
“Watching Brooke’s personal transition from freshman to senior has been truly amazing. She has developed a strong sense of self, values and goals,” says Freeport High School Family & Consumer Science teacher, Debbie Wescott.
Brooke credits JMG with helping her to succeed. “I love JMG,” she says. “This class gave me the confidence to believe in myself and to apply myself in school. Mr. Harper (her JMG Specialist) was always checking our grades and telling us we could do better and we needed to try harder. I guess I finally listened to him and started trying, for him and for myself.”
Art teacher Eliza Damon says, “Brooke is passionate about academics and is a tremendously hard worker and all of her achievements and potential are grounded in her high work ethic.”
Among the awards Brooke has garnered this year are the Freeport JMG Outstanding Senior Award, the President’s Award for Academic Achievement, recognition for Outstanding Achievement in Senior English, and Outstanding Achievement in Family Consumer Science. Brooke’s plans for the future include attending SMCC to study Culinary Arts.
Freeport JMG Specialist Jay Harper says, “You could see Brooke’s confidence growing from year to year and the motivation to do well grew with this confidence. Brooke leaves Freeport and JMG as an organized, motivated, hardworking and extremely personable young lady.”