The General Journal

The student news site of Heritage High School

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The General Journal

The General Journal

2022-2023 Staff

Mr. Peace
Advisor

Mr. Peace

Mr. Peace is in his ninth year of teaching, though he can't quite believe it's been that long, and in his sixth year of teaching Journalism. Having spent the past three years of his life traversing the grad school gauntlet and finally graduating last May with a Master's degree in English Literature, Mr. Peace has spent his newfound focus and energy over the last year on teaching and revamping The...

Allie Boyd
Yearbook Editor

Allie Boyd

Allie Boyd is a current junior at Heritage High School. She is a returning student of Journalism and has been recently promoted to co-editor of the HHS Yearbook in company with her good friend Briley Simpson. Allie is also a member of the Heritage Girls Soccer Team, along with being a part of Tech Team for the musicals, and Secretary of the junior class. Allie is very involved in her school which she...

Briley Simpson
Yearbook Editor

Briley Simpson

Briley Simpson is a junior this year at Heritage High School. She has taken Journalism for three years and has recently been upgraded to the position of yearbook co-editor, alongside fellow staff member and best friend Allie Boyd. Briley is excited about this upcoming school year and can’t wait to see what adventures await. Briley has also been a part of the Heritage Girls Soccer Team for two years...

Natalie Ferry
Editor-in-Chief

Natalie Ferry

Natalie Ferry is the newspaper editor and a sophomore at Heritage High School. She is still very excited about working on The Legacy. Other than Journalism, Natalie is a part of Heritage’s musicals and numerous other clubs. In her spare time she enjoys playing video games, going to museums, cooking, and sitting down to read a nice book with her cat, Penny. Her current reads include Ocean Vuong’s...

Lorelai Canady
Staff Writer

Lorelai Canady

Lorelai Canady is a 15-year-old freshman at Heritage High School. She is very excited to enter a new chapter of her life. Lorelai is on the cheer team at HHS and now participates in Journalism. Although she enjoys writing and being creative, she dreams of having a career in the medical field, preferably as a dermatologist. Lorelai would like to study dermatology at either UGA or UH. She was very excited...

Katherine Ceballos
Staff Writer

Katherine Ceballos

Katherine Ceballos is a fifteen-year-old sophomore at Heritage High School. She is still looking for clubs to join that interest her at Heritage High School, and is looking forward to being involved. This is her first week of joining Journalism, and so far she loves it and finds it amazing. Some subjects she enjoys in school include math and history. Katherine also enjoys spending her lunchtime talking...

Hailee Cicili
Staff Writer

Hailee Cicili

Hailee Cicili is a 15-year-old sophomore at Heritage High School trying to do her best. Within the first few days of the year, Hailee has joined HOSA and is seeing if there are any more interesting clubs to join. She also is in her second year of doing Journalism and loves it. She can be as creative as she would like to be and get to meet new people. In her free time, she works one of the two jobs....

Miles Clark
Staff Writer

Miles Clark

Miles Clark is a 16-year-old student here at Heritage High School. He has a lot going on this time of year as a football player here at the school. Miles and his teammates are most excited about the upcoming Ringgold game. Outside of football, Mile's favorite things to do in his free time include playing video games, fishing, listening to music, and doing things with his friends. This summer, Miles...

Kendra Collins
Staff Writer

Kendra Collins

Kendra is a current senior and a newcomer to the Journalism staff. She wants to do her best to help out with the yearbook and news. She’s excited to finish her high school career and move on to bigger and better things. Kendra hopes to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, to get a Bachelor’s degree in Art History, and then get a Master’s degree in Fashion History. Kendra...

Hailey Drafahl
Staff Writer

Hailey Drafahl

Hailey Drafahl is a 17-year-old junior attending Heritage High School. This is her first semester on the Journalism staff. She is excited for what's to come. She enjoys taking challenging courses and has maintained all this As this year. Hailey is the best parker at Heritage High School: she's been told by the principal three times to fix her parking; she's only been driving for one semester. Scien...

Emalee Grant
Staff Writer

Emalee Grant

Emalee Grant is a 15-year-old Freshman at Heritage High School. This is the first ever Journalism class she has ever taken. Emalee used to play soccer for the Grass Sharks in middle school. Even though this is just the beginning for her,  she doesn’t want to look back at high school saying, “I should have tried more things.“ Her hobbies includes drawing and painting. She is a very artistic person t...

Brooklynn Henson
Staff Writer

Brooklynn Henson

Brooklynn Henson is a 16-year-old junior attending Heritage High School. This is her first semester in Journalism. In the second semester of her junior year, she began dual enrollment online classes at Shorter University. She enjoys taking challenging science courses. Her favorite subject is science, and her favorite science class was honors chemistry. A new hobby of hers is reading: her favorite b...

John Hurst
Staff Writer

John Hurst

John Hurst is a 16-year-old senior at Heritage High School. This is John's second year in Journalism. John has been a member of the football team all four years of high school, solely playing on the line on both sides of the ball. In his free time, John likes to fish, play Xbox, hang out with friends, go to the gym and play golf. John has been fishing ever since he was about three with his dad and...

Tru Johnson
Staff Writer

Tru Johnson

Tru Johnson is a freshman at Heritage High School, and is in her first semester of journalism. Tru was excited to start her freshman year and has tried her best to excel in all her classes. She is an all Honors student and strives to be in NHS and Beta Club her junior and senior year. She participates in football management and plans to continue managing for her next three years here at Heritage. T...

Abigail Maynor
Staff Writer

Abigail Maynor

Abigail Maynor is a 14-year-old freshman at Heritage High School. She is very excited about starting her first year of high school. In her free time, Abigail loves to hang out with family and friends. She has a dog named Brutes. He is a Boxer-Collie mix and the sweetest dog in the world. Also, Abigail is currently a level one red belt. In January, she will be able to receive her official black belt....

Alyx Quist
Staff Writer

Alyx Quist

Alyx is a 14-year-old freshman attending Heritage High School. In school, they strive to do the best they can in everything, no matter what. Alyx joined Journalism late, so they’re still trying to catch up.  Their favorite things to do include reading, writing, listening to music, and hanging out with their close friends. Usually, they tend to read sci-fi books, but they enjoy the occasional roman...

Thomas Scherzer
Staff Writer

Thomas Scherzer

Thomas Scherzer is a freshman at Heritage High School in Journalism for the first time. Thomas is excited and has a busy schedule for soccer and outside-of-school activities with sports going on. Thomas is most looking forward to being able to get back to playing soccer, with a broken ankle currently, and to getting through the school year. Thomas’ favorite thing to do outside of school is to play...

Parker Scott
Staff Writer

Parker Scott

Parker Scott is a 14-year-old Freshman at Heritage High School. She is heavily involved in Band and Chorus. She recently auditioned for and made it into All-District Honor Band, playing Alto Saxophone, but she hopes to play Soprano Saxophone too. Jazz Band is very important to her, and she was also in the Christmas Jazz Band. This semester, she is involved in Jazz Lab and the elite Jazz Ensemble. Be...

Addie Kate Stafford
Staff Writer

Addie Kate Stafford

Addie Kate Stafford is a 15-year-old freshman student at Heritage High School. This is her first year of Journalism. Addie Kate was very excited to start her first year of high school. So far high school has been a blast for her, and she has already met a variety of incredible people. Her number one goal this year is to exceed in all of her classes with high grades. She is going to attempt to be i...

Evan Wamsley
Staff Writer

Evan Wamsley

Evan Wamsley is a 17-year-old student at Heritage High School. Evan is a member of the soccer team, getting All-Region last year. He has played since he was three years old. In his free time, he likes to play video games, practice soccer, longboard, play basketball, play golf with John Hurst, fish with Connor, swim in his pool, run, lift weights, watch Youtube, and hang out with friends. His favorite ...

Maryetta Williams
Staff Writer

Maryetta Williams

Maryetta Williams is a 14-year-old freshman attending Heritage High School. She tries to be involved a lot in the Heritage community. This is Maryetta’s first semester in Journalism, and she is an all-Honors student. Maryetta plays volleyball for the school, and she also plays club volleyball during the winter. She works very hard to try to have good grades, so she can have a good GPA for college...

Azrael Woody
Staff Writer

Azrael Woody

Azrael Woody is a 17-year-old senior who attends school at Heritage High School in Ringgold, Georgia. They work at Taichi Bubble Tea next to Target and work to do their absolute best in everything they do. They keep to themselves and are very quiet around other people. Azrael loves to help the people around them to grow and accomplish their goals. They strongly believe in helping others, along with...