EDUCATION
Student Profile:
► Megan McCurry
► Pace Academy, graduate
Megan McCurry has been singing
just about since she was able to talk.
Her love of music led to the theater.
Megan has taken part in 15 plays and
taken the lead role in five of them. Last
fall, she played Maria in Pace Academy’s
production of “West Side Story.”
“I hope to continue to be in musicals
and continue to sing. I love perform
ing,” Megan said.
Megan has been praised for her the
atrical talent with over 15 awards in this
area over her high school career. She has
the knack to adapt when a role calls for
it — she had to learn to roller skate and
perform for her part in Xanadu. “I am
very proud of my achievements in the
arts and the roles I have played,” Megan
said. “I will never forget how much fun
I had in Pace Theatre!”
One of her teachers, Beth Barrow-Ti-
tus, describes Megan as one of the “most
gifted female singers I have encountered
over my course of 42 years of teaching.”
But Megan is engaged in plenty of
offstage activities, too.
She volunteers with the Homeless
Pets Foundation each weekend, she said.
She combined this program with Pace’s
Service Learning Program, through
which students to help out with ani
mals and earn service hours. “I do this
because I have loved animals my entire
life,” she said.
In the peer-tutoring program at Pace,
Megan helps younger students with
Spanish and physics. And as secretary
of Pace’s student advisory group, Me
gan helps students deal with social and
health issues by promoting healthy eat
ing, learning how to cope with stress,
and fighting self-harm.
She also is involved in Pace’s literary
magazine, The Knight Gallery. Megan is
the assistant editor of the magazine. Stu
dents submit their literary work to be
reviewed and, if accepted, published in
the magazine. “The variety of pieces we
see is very exciting,” Megan said, “and it
was always fun to have a break from my
homework or everyday life just to read
poems and prose.”
In the classroom, Megan especial
ly enjoys science and math courses.
She lists biology, statistics, calculus and
chemistry among her favorites, but says
she enjoys her chorus class, too.
“Megan is an extremely diligent
worker in every arena,” Barrow-Titus
said. “The faculty and her peers respect
her, and she possesses a passion for the
sciences. She is an amazing young wom
an!”
that’s Next:
Next fall, Megan will be attending
Rice University to major in biochemis
try and cell biology. She hopes to study
and make a difference in microbiologi
cal research. She also says she would love
to keep singing and performing.
This summer Megan will be volun
teering at the Boulis Lab at Emory Uni
versity, gaining some experience before
college. This lab focuses on the research
of gene therapy and stem cells.
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