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Profile: Zachary Zombo Profile: Jared Montgomery

January 2014, Volume 54, Issue 2

Amy Weed

Starria Coppins

Flash Staff Reporter

Editor-in-Cheif

Junior Zachary Zombo sat in the back of Kyle Ray’s AP Calculus class
learning how to derive a function. In the seventh grade Zombo was placed
into Pre-Algebra. After he was in that class he was moved to Algebra and has
been in advanced math ever since.
   “I don’t mind math, but it’s starting to get a little complicated. Next year,
I’m not sure what I’m going to do. I might be able to take classes at Macomb,
take Statistics, or Data Analysis,” Zombo said.
   Not everyone is good with math, but for Zombo it just comes naturally.
   “Zach is a great student who does his work on time and pays attention in
class.  I can tell he cares about his education,” Ray said.

Zachary Zombo in front of the Rambler’s
Baseball Collage
Photo Credit: Starria Coppins

   Zombo is an honor roll student striving to
be the best person he can be. He has other
advanced classes like AP English, accelerated physics, and accelerated
Spanish. Most of his hard work is done at school so he’ll have leisure time
at home.
   “I think Zach works harder at school, only because I rarely see him doing
homework,” mother Julie Zombo said.
   The most important thing to Zombo is to keep his math grade high and to
not make silly mistakes.
   “I never really had any struggles in math except for this year: I seem to be
making more stupid mistakes than in the past,” Zombo said.
   Whether he’s working hard in school or playing hard in his sports, he’s
still striving to be the best.
   “After school I am usually at hockey or baseball practice. On weekends in
the summer I am usually at a baseball tourney somewhere,” Zombo said.   
   As a quiet guy, Zombo is focusing on his life goals of going to college and
maybe playing baseball for the school he chooses.
   “After college it would be nice to get a job, maybe as an accountant, and
start a family,” Zombo thought.
   Focusing on the future is always good; however, Zombo is focusing on how
he’s going to get there.
   “Zach, I am sure, will be successful in whatever he goes for.  If you work
hard and have your priorities straight you’ll be alright in life.  Zach has a
good head on his shoulders: he will be fine,” Ray said.

When a person is young, he/she sometimes becomes interested in an
activity or subject that can later blossom into a career choice. This very
experience happened to Jared Montgomery, a senior at Fraser High School.
“When I was very young I was interested in church music because
my father was a pastor: I was sort of always around music. I didn’t like
volunteering or doing crafting, but I really enjoyed the music part of it. Then
going to Fraser, the program is so good; I just got into it,” Montgomery said.
A flimsy interest starts playing a larger part in Montgomery’s life.
Montgomery was
surrounded by music,
and his childhood
surroundings
influenced him to like
music.
“I think I started
playing the piano
seriously before
I started singing
seriously, but that
sort of switched, so
now I sing more than
I play,” Montgomery
said. “Including
the piano, I am a
classically trained
Jared Montgomery practicing the piano.
organist, the violin, the
Photo Credit: Amy Weed
clarinet ‘technically,’ but mostly voice.”
There were several children’s programs, including children’s choir, youth
choir, and drama club that he has participated in. A big reason Montgomery
even came to Fraser High School is because of its music program.
“I was in three or four plays for church. I was in Phantom of the Opera;
as Piangi, the bi