Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Friday, January 24, 2003
Thank You to my coaches
Colin,
You have helped me out more than you will ever know. I will never forget how you took time out of your busy schedule to go work with a high school kicker that was going to walk on to texas. Your dedication to teaching me how to punt is something I will always be grateful for.
Rocky,
What can I say. You have truly helped in getting me here. From teaching me at Garland, to setting up my walk on spot at Texas, to encouraging me to win the spots, to putting in your word to the coaches for me, everything. I am truly grateful. Thanks for everything you have done for me.
Coach Beaty,
Thanks for the influence you have had on my life. I remember like it was yesterday when you asked me to come out for the football team. No way was I gonna do that, but because it was you, I decided to give it a shoot. I am so grateful you were there to encourage me to play and to set everything up so that I could play. Thanks for being their through the good and bad, and always sticking your neck out for me. I am truly grateful for having you as a coach, for believing in me, and for being my friend.
You have helped me out more than you will ever know. I will never forget how you took time out of your busy schedule to go work with a high school kicker that was going to walk on to texas. Your dedication to teaching me how to punt is something I will always be grateful for.
Rocky,
What can I say. You have truly helped in getting me here. From teaching me at Garland, to setting up my walk on spot at Texas, to encouraging me to win the spots, to putting in your word to the coaches for me, everything. I am truly grateful. Thanks for everything you have done for me.
Coach Beaty,
Thanks for the influence you have had on my life. I remember like it was yesterday when you asked me to come out for the football team. No way was I gonna do that, but because it was you, I decided to give it a shoot. I am so grateful you were there to encourage me to play and to set everything up so that I could play. Thanks for being their through the good and bad, and always sticking your neck out for me. I am truly grateful for having you as a coach, for believing in me, and for being my friend.
Friday, June 21, 2002
Rachel's Resume at 18
Resume
Rachel Kay Shaheen
1500 Las Entradas Dr Austin,TX 78669
Phone: (512)264-3905 Cell: (512)751-0742
Birth Date: October 8, 1983 Age: 18
University of Texas, Austin
Status : Junior
Major : Psychology/Pre-Med (accepted 6/02)
AP Hours 20 GPA: N/A
UT Spring Hours 2002 15 GPA: 3.400
Hours Transferred 28 GPA: 3.813
Total Hours UT + Transfer 63
(see attached detailed grade report)
Texas Tech University
Accepted into the Honor’s College at Texas Tech
Deans list – earning a 4.000 grade point average
Honor’s College $1500 scholarship recipient
Attended Spring 2001 prior to transferring to UT in January of 2002
Universidad Internacional Center for Bilingual Multicultural Studies located in Cuernavaca, Mexico
After early graduation from Lake Travis High School, and prior to attending the Honors College at Texas Tech University, attended an intensive language program in Cuernavaca, Mexico for one semester earning 12 hours Spanish credit with a 4.000 GPA.
Lake Travis High School
Graduated: December 2000
Class Standing: 54 / 275
Quartile: 1st Quartile of the Graduating Class
Grade Point Average: 92.19 % out of 100 %
College Honors, Achievements and Activities
Accepted into the Psychology/Pre-Med program at the University of Texas, Austin
Texas Tech University Dean’s List Fall ’01
Placed 8th in age group in the 2002 Danskin Triathlon
Active Triathlon Competitor
Intramural Soccer Program
Texas Tech Honor’s College Scholarship Recipient
Fundraiser for Tierra Vista Montessori School owned by Willie and Annie Nelson
High School Honors
Scholarships: Texas Tech Honor’s College - $ 500 scholarship $1,000 Lake Travis Ed Foundation Scholarship AP Scholar: Recognized as one of 33 students earning a level three or higher on three or more AP exams resulting in being awarded 20 hours of college credit (see detailed grade report attached)
Austin City-Wide All High Schools Art Competition: One of two Lake Travis Students selected to participate in this city-wide competition earning Honorable Mention Voted Student Athlete of the Month by LTHS Faculty
National Honor Society – Nominated Sophomore, Junior and Senior Years Placed 5th in Regional Texas Forensics in Duet Acting Model United Nations – only sophomore level student selected to participate
High School Activities
Varsity Soccer team – Starting player for two years and functioned as game co-captain.
Team won District Championship in 1999 Awarded individual All District Honorable Mention in Soccer
Varsity Swim Team – Founder and Participant which required getting approval from the ISD School Board
Competed in both English and Western Riding Member of the National Quarter Horse Association
Community Service: Student Council Co-chairman of Community Service
Active volunteer for the Marbridge Foundation for three years and Tierra Vista Montessori School
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
Social Mobility
I have two loving parents, Richard and Bonnie McGee, who have been married for almost 25 years. Both my parents went to college. My father went to Texas Tech University, earning a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1971. After this he worked for Campus Crusade for Christ for six years, at LSU and the University of Southern Mississippi. Then he married my mother and they moved to Dallas, where he attended Dallas Theological Seminary for four years, receiving a Master of Theology degree in Old Testament in 1981. After he graduated, he worked for a year for his father (my granddad) in his machine shop, which he had done part time while in seminary. He then joined the staff of Campus Crusade again, and he is still with this organization.
My mother went to the University of Southern Mississippi, where she earned a bachelors degree in education in 1974, and then a Masters degree in early childhood education in 1976. She then worked in a children’s home in Atlanta for a year as a case worker. Then she and my dad married. They moved to Dallas and she taught kindergarten for two years while Dad started graduate school at the seminary.
My father experienced upward social mobility. He came from a home in which neither parent graduated from college. On his father’s side of the family, no one else had ever graduated from colleg. Among the relatives of my father’s mother, two of the brothers among her twelve siblings graduated from college, and the other ten did not attend at all. Dad went to school on money saved by his parents, plus money he earned at summer jobs and on campus as a Resident Assistant his last year of school. He has a strong work ethic and an ambition to move up in the world, and it has paid off. He is now a part of the upper middle class, having a steady job for over 30 years, apart from his time in graduate school.
While I was growing up, we were not exceedingly well off. I would say that we were at the lower end of the upper middle class. I was not spoiled, did not have many of the things my friends had, and did not get everything I wanted. But I had everything I needed. We lived in a very nice neighborhood of custom homes. Most of the children I grew up with were from families whose parents were professionals, in the capitalist social class, such as lawyers, architects, orthodontists, and business owners or managers. This let me experience the difference between the two classes. I am glad that I was not spoiled. I have learned to appreciate what I have when I have it. I also have two sisters, one two years older than me and the other four years older. While I was growing up, they taught me how to share what I have with them and others. We are all close now and frequently talk.
All three of us children went to college. From childhood we understood that we were to go to college. Both my parents think very highly of getting a good education. My parents were able to put away money for us to attend college. This would not have happened if we were in a lower social class.
Education has always been highly regarded in my family. There was a major influence to go to college for my parents as well. My Mom’s parents went to college, and they expected her to further her education as well. My Dad’s parents valued education highly, knowing that was the way to get ahead in life. They both went to a junior college and received the two-year certificate. They did not go any farther because of lack of money.
I would say there is an upward social mobility in our family’s history, on my father’s side. My paternal grandfather, Jess Lee McGee, did not have any encouragement to go to college. His father was a day-laborer and might not have even finished high school. His mother died when he was six, and her parents took him and his younger brother in to raise. These grandparents of his ran a general store in a small farming community. So my grandfather grew up working the fields, chopping cotton and getting in the harvest. He had little contact with his own father, and his grandfather seemed to resent having to raise him. After he finished two years of junior college, which he paid for by driving a school bus for the college, he then moved to the city and got a job driving streetcars and then city buses. He was in the Navy in the Pacific in World War II, and then he used the GI Bill to go to machine shop school. This made it possible for him to get a job in a factory as a machinist. He worked his way up and became a department foreman and eventually reached the front office in a management position. So my paternal grandfather was a member of the working poor in his younger years, and then he moved up to the working class. In his later years, he took early retirement and owned and operated his own machine shop into his 70’s.
My paternal grandmother was from a similar class family. Her father was a farmer. He eventually owned land, but mostly he worked on rented land. He and his wife, my great grandmother, probably had a high school education at best.
On my mother’s side of the family, there has been little social mobility in the last three generations. My maternal grandfather, Henry C. Richmond, was brought up in a well-to-do home. His parents were divorced and he was raised by his mother, who ran an insurance agency. Her family had oil money, and owned a big house. He attended college at Memphis State University and played on the tennis team.
My maternal grandmother was from a well-off family also. Her father was a manager for a railroad company. His wife, my great grandmother, was a school teacher. After he died, she also ran a boarding house.
There has never been divorce in my nuclear family. In my extended family, both of my mother’s sisters have been divorced. This allowed me to see the effect divorce has on families. One of these aunts has a son who is an only child and was raised primarily by his mother.
Now my parents are empty nesters, after 22 years of having children in their house. I was the last child to leave. I do not think it has been hard for them to live without children, because we are still relatively close to home and keep in contact. They love it when we come back and are sad when we leave, but they have done their job in raising us and are now free of many responsibilities.
My family has a career legacy handed down from the past. My great grandmother on my mother’s side was a teacher. Her daughter, my grandmother, Bonnie Caldwell Richmond, was also a teacher. Her daughter, my mother, is trained and experienced as a teacher. My sister Mollie is studying for a minor in education, and plans to be a teacher.
I will probably not end up doing what my father does. I hope to play professional football before entering an engineering career. However, I do not fully rely on the professional football to work out, so I will study hard and have a degree to fall back on.
Based on out family’s historical solidarity, my sisters and I should someday become parents in stable families of our own. We three share strong desires to be parents and to help out children develop lives even better than ours. This outcome would fulfill the hereditary promise inherent in out ancestry and upbringing.
My mother went to the University of Southern Mississippi, where she earned a bachelors degree in education in 1974, and then a Masters degree in early childhood education in 1976. She then worked in a children’s home in Atlanta for a year as a case worker. Then she and my dad married. They moved to Dallas and she taught kindergarten for two years while Dad started graduate school at the seminary.
My father experienced upward social mobility. He came from a home in which neither parent graduated from college. On his father’s side of the family, no one else had ever graduated from colleg. Among the relatives of my father’s mother, two of the brothers among her twelve siblings graduated from college, and the other ten did not attend at all. Dad went to school on money saved by his parents, plus money he earned at summer jobs and on campus as a Resident Assistant his last year of school. He has a strong work ethic and an ambition to move up in the world, and it has paid off. He is now a part of the upper middle class, having a steady job for over 30 years, apart from his time in graduate school.
While I was growing up, we were not exceedingly well off. I would say that we were at the lower end of the upper middle class. I was not spoiled, did not have many of the things my friends had, and did not get everything I wanted. But I had everything I needed. We lived in a very nice neighborhood of custom homes. Most of the children I grew up with were from families whose parents were professionals, in the capitalist social class, such as lawyers, architects, orthodontists, and business owners or managers. This let me experience the difference between the two classes. I am glad that I was not spoiled. I have learned to appreciate what I have when I have it. I also have two sisters, one two years older than me and the other four years older. While I was growing up, they taught me how to share what I have with them and others. We are all close now and frequently talk.
All three of us children went to college. From childhood we understood that we were to go to college. Both my parents think very highly of getting a good education. My parents were able to put away money for us to attend college. This would not have happened if we were in a lower social class.
Education has always been highly regarded in my family. There was a major influence to go to college for my parents as well. My Mom’s parents went to college, and they expected her to further her education as well. My Dad’s parents valued education highly, knowing that was the way to get ahead in life. They both went to a junior college and received the two-year certificate. They did not go any farther because of lack of money.
I would say there is an upward social mobility in our family’s history, on my father’s side. My paternal grandfather, Jess Lee McGee, did not have any encouragement to go to college. His father was a day-laborer and might not have even finished high school. His mother died when he was six, and her parents took him and his younger brother in to raise. These grandparents of his ran a general store in a small farming community. So my grandfather grew up working the fields, chopping cotton and getting in the harvest. He had little contact with his own father, and his grandfather seemed to resent having to raise him. After he finished two years of junior college, which he paid for by driving a school bus for the college, he then moved to the city and got a job driving streetcars and then city buses. He was in the Navy in the Pacific in World War II, and then he used the GI Bill to go to machine shop school. This made it possible for him to get a job in a factory as a machinist. He worked his way up and became a department foreman and eventually reached the front office in a management position. So my paternal grandfather was a member of the working poor in his younger years, and then he moved up to the working class. In his later years, he took early retirement and owned and operated his own machine shop into his 70’s.
My paternal grandmother was from a similar class family. Her father was a farmer. He eventually owned land, but mostly he worked on rented land. He and his wife, my great grandmother, probably had a high school education at best.
On my mother’s side of the family, there has been little social mobility in the last three generations. My maternal grandfather, Henry C. Richmond, was brought up in a well-to-do home. His parents were divorced and he was raised by his mother, who ran an insurance agency. Her family had oil money, and owned a big house. He attended college at Memphis State University and played on the tennis team.
My maternal grandmother was from a well-off family also. Her father was a manager for a railroad company. His wife, my great grandmother, was a school teacher. After he died, she also ran a boarding house.
There has never been divorce in my nuclear family. In my extended family, both of my mother’s sisters have been divorced. This allowed me to see the effect divorce has on families. One of these aunts has a son who is an only child and was raised primarily by his mother.
Now my parents are empty nesters, after 22 years of having children in their house. I was the last child to leave. I do not think it has been hard for them to live without children, because we are still relatively close to home and keep in contact. They love it when we come back and are sad when we leave, but they have done their job in raising us and are now free of many responsibilities.
My family has a career legacy handed down from the past. My great grandmother on my mother’s side was a teacher. Her daughter, my grandmother, Bonnie Caldwell Richmond, was also a teacher. Her daughter, my mother, is trained and experienced as a teacher. My sister Mollie is studying for a minor in education, and plans to be a teacher.
I will probably not end up doing what my father does. I hope to play professional football before entering an engineering career. However, I do not fully rely on the professional football to work out, so I will study hard and have a degree to fall back on.
Based on out family’s historical solidarity, my sisters and I should someday become parents in stable families of our own. We three share strong desires to be parents and to help out children develop lives even better than ours. This outcome would fulfill the hereditary promise inherent in out ancestry and upbringing.
Friday, October 19, 2001
Monday, June 25, 2001
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