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Wheeling High School Student Accepted to West Point

Wheeling High School senior Michael Yoshino of Prospect Heights has been accepted into the

     Wheeling High School senior Michael Yoshino of Prospect Heights has been accepted into the United States Military Academy at West Point.  Recruiting only the best students who have maintained academic excellence, along with excellent physicality, West Point has been educating, training, and inspiring leaders of character for the United States Army and for the nation for more than 200 years.

Yoshino will attend West Point in the fall of 2013 for his academic studies, but will report on July 1 for Cadet Basic Training. 

     A student attending West Point is provided a tuition-free education; in return, the student commits to five years of active duty as a commissioned officer in the army and an additional three years as a reserve. 

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     Yoshino has attended Wheeling High School all four years and has participated in many extracurricular activities: football team's varsity quarterback, three years in band (wind symphony), the founder and director of Operation Snowball at WHS (an anti-drug and alcohol group), peer mentor, and the New Daawns show choir, to mention a few.  Yoshino has also been named to the National Honor Society and is an Illinois State Scholar, scoring in the top five-percent on the ACT exam.

     "Michael is simply an astounding young man," said Wheeling Principal, Dr. Lazaro Lopez.  "His sense of service and contribution represents the best of our WHS student community. We are so proud of his appointment to West Point and all he will surely accomplish."

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