PUBLISHED: June 9, 2007 at 11:01 pm | UPDATED: November 14, 2015 at 4:38 am
Name: Angeline M. Babcock
Parents/guardians: Beverly and Wynn Babcock
College, major: University of Minnesota, art/English
Favorite quote: 'Don't tell me, 'It can't be done.' If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there's some way to do it. Now keep after it until we get it!' – Walt Disney
Name: Claire E. Dockter
Parents/guardians: Michelle and Kevin Dockter
College, major: University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology, chemical engineering
Favorite quote: 'Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.' – Dr. Seuss
Name: Melissa A. Kloek
Parents/guardians: Wendy and Jim Kloek
College, major: University of Minnesota-Morris, biology
Favorite quote: 'As you think, so you are. As you imagine so you become!' – Unknown
Name: Jacqueline J. Kramer
Parents/guardians: Mary and Greg Kramer
College, major: Bethel University, nursing
Favorite quote: 'I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead. I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to heaven.' – Philippines 3:12-14
Name: Martha C. Kramer
Parents/guardians: Julie and Steve Kramer
College, major: University of Minnesota, pre-law
Favorite quote: 'Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.' – Martin Luther King Jr.
Name: Gina M. Piscitello
Parents/guardians: Kate and Ralph Piscitello
College, major: Northwestern University, chemistry
Favorite quote: 'Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.' – Confucius
Name: Meagan L. Radecke
Parents/guardians: Tess and Kurt Radecke
College, major: University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology, biomedical engineering
Favorite quote: 'You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? GO GET IT. Period.' – 'Pursuit of Happyness'
Name: Laura B. Secor
Parents/guardians: Helen and Robert Secor
College, major: Gustavus Adolphus College, biology
Favorite quote: 'It is our moral obligation to disobey unjust laws.' – Martin Luther King Jr.
Name: Lili Yang
Parents/guardians: Zhongping Yang and Daiwei Chen
College, major: California Institute of Technology, undecided
Favorite quote: 'When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.' – John F. Kennedy
Name: Danielle E. Kruse
Parents/guardians: Diane and Craig Kruse
College, major: Middlebury College, Spanish and chemistry
Favorite quote: 'Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.' – Dr. Seuss
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