“I don’t even know what free time is.”
Still, Lorie Carpenter was driven to obtain a 4.0 GPA by parental encouragement, as well as a need for scholarship money.
“I think I did it for myself, to prove something to myself,” she said.
“It’s what I wanted to do, so I just did it.”
Her encouraging parents, by the way, are Steve and Deanna Carpenter. Lorie has a brother, Thomas.
Carpenter is headed to K-State University in the fall with a plan to major in kinesiology so as to become a physical therapist.
