SENIOR SPOTLIGHT: Cindi Adkins

SENIOR SPOTLIGHT: Cindi Adkins - Hannan High School

by Delyssa Huffman, Point Pleasant Register

05.27.10 - 12:09 am

ASHTON — Since January, Cindi Adkins has been learning a new language at Hannan High School — guitar language.
This senior, who is looking forward to graduation, reflects on her years spent at Hannan and said she will miss her good teachers and fun classes.

One of those classes is a guitar class where Adkins and her classmates have learned how to play the stringed-instrument. This class formed five months ago uncovered some talented students including Adkins.

“It really is like learning a new language,” Adkins said. “We actually became pretty advanced players.”

The group of students showcased their newly found talents during a concert held at the school.
“I wasn’t nervous at all,” Adkins said. “More like excited because we played our class song, ‘Don’t Stop Believing.’”

Her love for playing guitar also has Adkins thinking about her future involvement in music programs at HHS. She continued to say that she has thought about the option given to her to come back and assist the guitar instructor next year.

When she isn’t stringing the guitar, this 17-year old stays involved in numerous other school activities including theatre.

Adkins played a large part in the ‘Pride and Prejudice’ play put on by theatre students in 2009. She played the role of the mother in the school’s version of the classic.

As for some of her other classes, this senior has taken many college courses, as well as advanced placement courses. Those classes include English 101 and 102, forensic science, calculus and psychology.

In her forensic science class, Adkins talked about how she got to write a script about the TV show, ‘Bones’.

“It was 30 pages long,” Adkins said. “I have a passion for writing and I was so excited when we received that assignment.”

Also at HHS, Adkins is a former vice-president of the National Honor Society, and a participant in the Math Field Day. She was just recently crowned the high school’s Prom Queen and was voted ‘Class Clown’ by her peers.

“My reaction was ‘Why did you vote me that?’”, Adkins said. “I always thought I was the only one who thought I was funny. I can’t believe other people think that.”

Recently accepted to the University of Charleston, this senior is looking forward to getting her pre-law degree. She also will be taking psychology as a minor.

“I have always wanted to be a lawyer,” Adkins said. “And psychology is very interesting.”
Adkins continued to say that she may pursue fields in law enforcement or criminal justice. But wherever she ends up, she is going to continue writing, just in case she needs a back-up career.
Perhaps it was during her county science fair project that Adkins was intrigued by psychology.
“We did a group project on remembering dreams and we learned from our subjects that men remember emotions more and women remember details,” Adkins said. “We thought teenagers would beat the adults in remembering the most.”

Adkins stated that her hobbies include composing music, making cartoons and album covers on the computer, and collecting TV show series.
“I guess I like watching TV series because I enjoy analyzing the psycho-social relationships of fictional characters on current media shows,” Adkins said.

She is the daughter of Greg and Brenda Adkins of Ashton.

Seniors for “Senior Spotlight” are chosen from all three area high schools and are nominated by the principals.