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Local student wins state STAR competition and aims to follow in fathers footsteps
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William Franklin Morris, a senior at Gainesville High School, was named the state winner of the STAR student award tonight at the PAGE Star Student Banquet at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia Hotel in Atlanta. William's STAR Teacher is Pam Michelsen.
Though William Morris is just getting ready to step out into the world, he already knows he wants to make a difference in it. Morris, a senior at Gainesville High School, was named Georgia’s STAR student Monday night at the Professional Association of Georgia Educators STAR Banquet in Atlanta. The recognition earned him a $5,000 scholarship, which he will use to study history and Chinese at Harvard University in the fall.