Alexis Godard (10) sat in the car at 4:30 a.m., sobbing. No one in the car made any motion to get out, knowing that once they did, they would have to say goodbye for seven months. Finally, Godard and her family stepped out of the car and walked to the Navy ship in the dark. Godard’s stepfather’s last words to her were, “Be good and help out your mother while I’m gone.”
Reaching into her bag before field hockey practice, Michelle Cook (12) takes out three containers of prescribed medication. One is full of Aleve, one is Tylenol and the other is Advil.
Alex Luong (12) waited anxiously in the busy auditorium, one of the hundreds of high school students present. Suddenly, a voice crackled to life over the microphone.
Westview’s chapter of Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA), a national organization for students interested in business and marketing, attended the Southern California Development Conference, Saturday.
