2019-2020 Staff
Cooper Hamill
Cooper Hamill, a senior at Heritage High now in his second semester of Journalism, plans to leave a lasting legacy with his fellow classmates on his last yearbook of high school. Cooper is a very outgoing, go-with-the-flow kinda guy. He loves the outdoors, and if he isn’t working, you can catch him somewhere outside. His hobbies include hiking wherever there is a beautiful view, fishing for any...
Paige Johnson
Paige Johnson is a second-year member of the Journalism staff, and is a sophomore at Heritage High School. Paige has hopes of travelling the world once she gets out of high school, and she plans on writing about all of the things she sees. She hopes to go to college to become a preschool teacher, or work with kids in any way she can. She is excited to be in Journalism class again, for she enjoys wri...
Amanda Strickland
Amanda Strickland is a 14-year-old who loves to write, put together puzzles, sketch, sing, dance, help others and have fun. She thought the Journalism class was about something completely different than helping with the yearbook, but once she found what Journalism really was, she knew she was going to enjoy helping with the HHS General Journal and yearbook during her last semester as a freshman. ...
Cade Stone
Cade Stone is a first-time member of the Journalism staff but in his second year of high school at Heritage. He is Shane Morehead’s apprentice, learning the ins and outs of Journalism. His hobbies include gardening, playing video games, hanging out with friends, graphic design, and just being happy. Cade considers his greatest achievements to be growing a lemon tree from a seed he got at O'Charley...
Noah Pennington
Noah Scott Pennington is an 18-year-old senior at Heritage High School. This final year, he really wants to make a lasting impact on the school any way he can. Rather it be from the countless amounts of friends he makes or the activities he partakes in. He prides himself on how involved in his music career he is. Just to name a few things he’s done over the past seven years, he’s been involved in ...
Jaden Paul
Jaden Paul is a freshman that recently came from Heritage Middle School. He loves to make and listen to music, especially classic rock, R&B, rap, and alternative rock. Jaden has always been fond of anything music-related since he was around three, when he first learned how to play a ukulele. He has talked to many famous producers from record label Internet Money, such as Nick Mira and Repko. Ja...
Katie Davis
In her first class of Journalism and her last semester of high school, Katie Davis is 18 years old and enjoying life as it comes. She is a part of the Legion of Generals Color Guard, being one of three veterans on weapon line this year. Performing with the band is where Katie feels the happiest, and she is somber about leaving this year. Katie spends most of her time on her phone, with her best fri...
Makela Patten
Makaela Patten, the editor-in-chief of 2019-2020 The Legacy, is a senior at Heritage High School and a fourth-year Journalism student. Having been in the class for so long, she has seen a lot: two Journalism teachers, countless plays and games through the lens of a camera, dozens of SIM cards, a taxidermied groundhog named Bobby Shannon, and 11 (soon to be 12) yearbooks, just to name a few. Her cu...
Emily Kittle
Emily Kittle is a freshman at Heritage High School. When not in school or church she’s either painting, writing stories, or even singing songs that she wrote herself. Sometimes she even writes some poetry too. Her favorite color is white, simply because it is minimalistic and clean. She loves to help people; even though she is not the most outgoing person in the world, she’ll still help if you need...
Madison Vines
Madison Vines is a seventeen-year-old senior at Heritage High School but is, unfortunately, often mistaken for being much younger due to her height. Having just transferred from Hixson and recently deciding that Journalism would be an exciting addition to her many writing-centered hobbies, the new environment is a huge change, but she refuses to let such a small challenge stop her from pursuing great th...
Rachael Jarman
Rachael Jarman is 16 years old and a junior in high school. She moved to Ringgold when she was 6 years old from Virginia. She doesn’t really participate in anything at school, but she has hobbies such as singing and playing the guitar in her free time. She always wanted to play the guitar, and the time finally came for her to do so. Rachael spends a lot of her time hanging out with her friends an...
Emily Smith
Emily Smith is a 17-year-old who came to school one day and was shocked to find Journalism on her schedule again. Even though she was shocked, she found herself overjoyed to be able to help out with the yearbook and the HHS General Journal during her last year of high school. As you may have figured out, Emily Smith is a senior at Heritage High School with three years of experience in the J...
Bailey Sexton
Bailey Sexton is a junior this year at Heritage High School. She has been dancing for eight years now; this will be her second year as a Five Star Dancer at her high school. Bailey also enjoys being a part of the HOSA program at her school. By the end of her junior year, Bailey will complete two career pathways: Early Childhood Education and Health Occupations. She hopes to go to college to become a nu...
Austin Riddell
Austin Riddell is 17, and he is looking forward to all of the new and exciting things going on for his senior year at Heritage High School. During all of his years in high school, he has been able to experience what it is like to be a part of the HHS band, in which he plays the tuba and sousaphone. Austin is also a part of many clubs at school ranging from National Honor Society, Beta Club, and Games C...
Shane Morehead
Shane Morehead, the right-hand man of yearbook editor-in-chief Makaela Patten, is a veteran boasting his seventh semester of Journalism, as well as a senior at Heritage High School. His hobbies include graphic design, sketching, admiring his chickens, listening to music in his hammock, and writing unnecessarily long reviews for restaurants. Shane’s favorite bands are Modest Mouse, Charly Bliss, Kin...
Victoria McConathy
Victoria McConathy is a 14-year-old girl that enjoys writing and spending time with friends. She also loves animals very much, which is why she wants to go to school to be an exotic veterinarian as soon as possible. Her education began at Boynton Elementary, continued to Heritage Middle, is now happening at Heritage High School, and hopefully will end at Louisiana State University. She was born in Jan...
Maggie Hurst
Maggie Hurst is a senior here at Heritage High School. She is seventeen years old and is looking forward to being a part of Journalism, as this is her first time taking the class. She is beginning to learn the many different responsibilities of the class, such as helping to create this year’s yearbook. Journalism helps ensure that the yearbook’s layout is very current and practical, with various col...
Kahlynn Holcomb
Kahlynn Holcomb is a new freshman at Heritage High School, which makes this her first year taking the Journalism class. She is fourteen with a passion for writing and loves to read books. Most of her time out of school is spent at cheerleading practices, traveling, and writing a fictional book with two of her friends. She is enrolled in all Honors classes while also being committed to the competit...
Luke Harold
Luke is a freshman just out of Heritage Middle School. He likes basketball and is a fan of the Atlanta Hawks. He’s even met Trae Young and multiple other Hawks players and has been to more than a dozen Hawks games. Luke has always liked sports and video games like NBA 2K19 and NBA Live 19. Luke is vegetarian, so he doesn’t eat any meat. His favorite fast food restaurant is Subway, and his favorite foo...
Shane Davis
Shane Davis is a first-year journalist and a sophomore at Heritage High School. Being in these positions at HHS, he feels he understands the school more than any other he’s been to. He loves Journalism now and hopes to get more involved into this path as his school career progresses. He loves making people laugh and being weird, crazy, and funny with his friends. His hobbies are sleeping, playing v...
Alyssa Blake
Alyssa Blake is a very fun and caring 14-year-old girl that loves to adventure and learn about what she has yet to discover in the big, mysterious world. A freshman now at Heritage High School, Alyssa attended Ringgold Elementary and Heritage Middle when she was younger. Her hobbies range from binge-watching a whole Netflix series to finishing a whole book in a day. She’s very intrigued by the o...
Caroline Boland
Caroline Elizabeth Boland is in her final year at Heritage High School yet this is her first year in Journalism. She is a weapon section leader for our very own Legion of Generals Colorguard. She has all the plans in the world to go to Kennesaw State University and major in Media and Entertainment. She enjoys going on wild adventures with her friends even if there's no plan. Caroline has two dogs,...
Gavin Anchondo
Gavin Anchondo is a founding Pathfinder of Dreamworthy and a Junior at Heritage High School. He first got involved in Impact2one and other clubs his freshman year through his school’s Leadership class. After having an opportunity to meet and bond with individuals in Nicaragua, he found his passion in serving others. He has since traveled to Nicaragua multiple times, led Project Move, and identifie...
Madison Ables
Madison Ables is a junior at Heritage High School. Madison has two sisters, a brother, and a dog whom she’s been close with her whole life. Madison enjoys going to the beach and spending time with her friends and her family. Her favorite beach to go to is Panama City Beach, Florida, and her favorite activity at the beach is to spend all day going back and forth from the pool to the ocean. Madison ...