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Grace Moore (December 5, 1898 – January 26, 1947) was an American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film. She was nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale." Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in One Night of Love.

In 1947, Moore died in a plane crash at the age of 48. She published an autobiography in 1944 titled You're Only Human Once. In 1953, a film about her life was released titled So This Is Love starring Kathryn Grayson.

Moore was born Mary Willie Grace Moore, the daughter of Tessa Jane ( Stokely) and Richard Lawson Moore. She was born in the community of Slabtown (now considered part of Del Rio) in Cocke County, Tennessee. By the time she was two years old, her family had relocated to Knoxville, a move Moore later described as traumatic, as she found urban life distasteful at the time. After several years in Knoxville, the family again relocated to Jellico, Tennessee, where Moore spent her adolescence. After high school in Jellico, she studied briefly at Ward-Belmont College in Nashville before moving to Washington, D.C. and New York City to continue her musical training and begin her career. Her first paying job as a singer was at the Black Cat Cafe in Greenwich Village.

Grace Moore's first Broadway appearance was in 1920 in the musical Hitchy-Koo, by Jerome Kern. In 1922 and 1923 she appeared in the second and third of Irving Berlin's series of four Music Box Revues. In the 1923 edition she and John Steel introduced Berlin's song "What'll I Do". When Moore sang "An Orange Grove in California", orange blossom perfume was wafted through the theater.

In 1932 she appeared on Broadway in the short-lived operetta The DuBarry by Karl Millöcker.

After training in France, Moore made her operatic debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on February 7, 1928, singing the role of Mimì in Giacomo Puccini's La bohème. She debuted at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on September 29, 1928 in the same role, which she also performed in a Royal Command Performance at Covent Garden in London on June 6, 1935. During her sixteen seasons with the Metropolitan Opera, she sang in several Italian and French operas as well as the title roles in Tosca, Manon, and Louise. Louise was her favorite opera and is widely considered to have been her greatest role.

In the 1930s and 1940s she gave concert performances throughout the United States and Europe, performing a repertoire of operatic selections and other songs in German, French, Italian, Spanish, and English. During World War II, she was active in the USO, entertaining American troops abroad. In 1945 she sang Mimi to Nino Martini's Rodolfo in La bohème for the inaugural performance of the San Antonio Grand Opera Festival.

She also performed during and after WWII in support of Allied Forces. From the personal memoire of Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee, on 24 July 1945: "After an early dinner drove in convoy to the Paris Opera House for the gala performance entitled "Pacifique 45" given by the French for the benefit of the families of French war veterans. The program laid particular emphasis on the war in Japan and included the showing of two films - "Fighting Lady" and "Iwo Jima" and the rendition of several songs and the French and American national anthems by Grace Moore. Seated in the box of honor were General Alphonse Juin, the French Minister of Information Jacques Soustelle, and a number of important American and French officers. It seemed to be a great success and was particularly appreciated by the crowd of some 20,000 gathered in the square outside the Opera House."

Attracted to Hollywood in the early years of talking pictures, Moore had her first screen role as Jenny Lind in the 1930 film A Lady's Morals, produced for MGM by Irving Thalberg and directed by Sidney Franklin. Later that same year she starred with the Metropolitan Opera singer Lawrence Tibbett in New Moon, also produced by MGM, the first screen version of Sigmund Romberg's operetta The New Moon.

After a hiatus of several years, Moore returned to Hollywood under contract to Columbia Pictures, for whom she made six films. In the 1934 film One Night of Love, her first film for Columbia, she portrayed a small-town girl who aspires to sing opera. For that role she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1935. She starred in 1936 as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Josef von Sternberg's production The King Steps Out.

By this time, she was so popular that MGM was able to insist on equal billing for Moore in a projected film with Maurice Chevalier, who had always enjoyed solo star billing up until then. Chevalier felt so deeply about this blow to his status that he quit Hollywood and the film was never made.

A memorable highlight of When You're in Love (1937) was a comic scene in which Moore donned flannel shirt and trousers and joined a 5-man band for a flamboyant rendition of Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher", complete with gestures and "hi-de-ho's", but with the lyrics slightly altered to conform with Hollywood sensibilities. Also, she performed the popular Madama Butterfly duet "Vogliatemi bene" with American tenor Frank Forest in the 1937 film I'll Take Romance.

The last film that Moore made was Louise (1939), an abridged version of Gustave Charpentier's opera of the same name, with spoken dialog in place of some of the original opera's music. The composer participated in the production, authorizing the cuts and changes to the libretto, coaching Moore, and advising director Abel Gance. This production also featured two renowned French singers: dramatic tenor Georges Thill and basse cantante André Pernet.

She was widely criticized in December 1938 when she curtsied to the Duchess of Windsor, in Cannes. Upon her return to the United States after six months and ten days in Europe ("to save money in income tax"), Moore defended her curtsy, saying:

She would have been a royal duchess long ago if she had not been an American. After all, she gave happiness and the courage of his convictions to one man, which is more than most women can do. She deserves a curtsy for that alone.

According to Joe Laurie Jr., vaudeville performer and historian, Grace Moore would not perform on vaudeville bills that had black performers.

In 1935 Moore received the gold medal award of the Society of Arts and Sciences for "conspicuous achievement in raising the standard of cinema entertainment." In 1936 King Christian X of Denmark awarded her his country's medal of 'Ingenito et Arti.' In 1937, she was commissioned as a colonel (an honorary position) on the staff of the governor of Tennessee, and was also made a life member of the Tennessee State Society of Washington, D.C. She was decorated as a chevalier of the French Légion d'honneur in 1939. Moore was also a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 1940 to 1942.

Moore married Valentín Parera, a Spanish movie actor, in Cannes, on July 15, 1931. They had no children. During the 1930s they maintained homes in Hollywood, Cannes, and Connecticut.

Grace Moore died in a plane crash near Copenhagen's airport on January 26, 1947, at the age of 48. Among the other plane crash victims was Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, who was at the time second in line to the Swedish throne and who was the father of the present King of Sweden, King Carl XVI Gustaf. Moore is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Chattanooga.

A collection of Moore's papers is housed at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

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Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned over 70 years, appearing in film, television, and theater. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood.

Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963 and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than 300 performances on Broadway. She then toured the country in the show, earning numerous awards and accolades. Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. Horne died of congestive heart failure on May 9, 2010, at the age of 92.

Early life

Lena Horne was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She was reportedly descended from the John C. Calhoun family, and both sides of her family were through a mixture of African, Native American, and European descent and belonged to the upper stratum of middle-class, well-educated people. Her father, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne Jr. (1893–1970), a numbers kingpin in the gambling trade, left the family when she was three and moved to an upper-middle-class African American community in the Hill District community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Edna Louise Scottron (1894–1976), was a granddaughter of inventor Samuel R. Scottron; she was an actress with a black theatre troupe and traveled extensively. Edna's maternal grandmother, Amelie Louise Ashton, was a Senegalese slave. Horne was raised mainly by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne.

When Horne was five, she was sent to live in Georgia. For several years, she traveled with her mother. From 1927 to 1929, she lived with her uncle, Frank S. Horne, dean of students at Fort Valley Junior Industrial Institute (now part of Fort Valley State University) in Fort Valley, Georgia, who later served as an adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From Fort Valley, southwest of Macon, Horne briefly moved to Atlanta with her mother; they returned to New York when Horne was 12 years old. She then attended Girls High School, an all-girls public high school in Brooklyn that has since become Boys and Girls High School; she dropped out without earning a diploma. Aged 18, she moved to her father's home in Pittsburgh, staying in the city's Little Harlem for almost five years and learning from native Pittsburghers Billy Strayhorn and Billy Eckstine, among others.

Career

Road to Hollywood

In the fall of 1933, Horne joined the chorus line of the Cotton Club in New York City. In the spring of 1934, she had a featured role in the Cotton Club Parade starring Adelaide Hall, who took Lena under her wing. Horne made her first screen appearance as a dancer in the musical short Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935). A few years later, Horne joined Noble Sissle's Orchestra, with which she toured and with whom she made her first records, issued by Decca. After she separated from her first husband, Horne toured with bandleader Charlie Barnet in 1940–41, but disliked the travel and left the band to work at the Cafe Society in New York. She replaced Dinah Shore as the featured vocalist on NBC's popular jazz series The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. The show's resident maestros, Henry Levine and Paul Laval, recorded with Horne in June 1941 for RCA Victor. Horne left the show after only six months when she was hired by former Cafe Trocadero (Los Angeles) manager Felix Young to perform in a Cotton Club-style revue on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood.

Horne already had two low-budget movies to her credit: a 1938 musical feature called The Duke is Tops (later reissued with Horne's name above the title as The Bronze Venus); and a 1941 two-reel short subject, Boogie Woogie Dream, featuring pianists Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons. Horne's songs from Boogie Woogie Dream were later released individually as soundies. Horne made her Hollywood nightclub debut at Felix Young's Little Troc on the Sunset Strip in January 1942. A few weeks later, she was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In November 1944, she was featured in an episode of the popular radio series Suspense, as a fictional nightclub singer, with a large speaking role along with her singing. In 1945 and 1946, she sang with Billy Eckstine's Orchestra.

She made her debut at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Panama Hattie (1942) and performed the title song of Stormy Weather based loosely on the life of Adelaide Hall, (1943), at 20th Century Fox, while on loan from MGM. She appeared in a number of MGM musicals, most notably Cabin in the Sky (1943), but was never featured in a leading role because of her race and the fact that her films had to be re-edited for showing in cities where theaters would not show films with black performers. As a result, most of Horne's film appearances were stand-alone sequences that had no bearing on the rest of the film, so editing caused no disruption to the storyline. A notable exception was the all-black musical Cabin in the Sky, although one number from that film was cut before release because it was considered too suggestive by the censors: Horne singing "Ain't It the Truth" while taking a bubble bath. This scene and song are featured in the film That's Entertainment! III (1994) which also featured commentary from Horne on why the scene was deleted prior to the film's release. Lena Horne was the first African-American elected to serve on the Screen Actors Guild board of directors.

In Ziegfeld Follies (1946), she performed "Love" by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. Horne lobbied for the role of Julie LaVerne in MGM's 1951 version of Show Boat (having already played the role when a segment of Show Boat was performed in Till the Clouds Roll By, 1946) but lost the part to Ava Gardner, a personal friend in real life. Horne claimed this was due to the Production Code's ban on interracial relationships in films, but MGM sources state she was never considered for the role in the first place. In the documentary That's Entertainment! III, Horne stated that MGM executives required Gardner to practice her singing using Horne's recordings, which offended both actresses. Ultimately, Gardner's voice was overdubbed by actress Annette Warren (Smith) for the theatrical release.

Changes of direction

By the mid-1950s, Horne was disenchanted with Hollywood and increasingly focused on her nightclub career. She made only two major appearances for MGM during the 1950s: Duchess of Idaho (which was also Eleanor Powell's final film); and the 1956 musical Meet Me in Las Vegas. She was blacklisted during the 1950s for her affiliations in the 1940s with communist-backed groups. She would subsequently disavow communism. She returned to the screen three more times, playing chanteuse Claire Quintana in the 1969 film Death of a Gunfighter, Glinda in The Wiz (1978), which was directed by her then son-in-law Sidney Lumet, and co-hosting the MGM retrospective That's Entertainment! III (1994), in which she was candid about her unkind treatment by the studio.

After leaving Hollywood, Horne established herself as one of the premier nightclub performers of the post-war era. She headlined at clubs and hotels throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, and the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. In 1957, a live album entitled, Lena Horne at the Waldorf-Astoria, became the biggest-selling record by a female artist in the history of the RCA Victor label at that time. In 1958, Horne became the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Tony Award for "Best Actress in a Musical" (for her part in the "Calypso" musical Jamaica) which, at Lena's request featured her longtime friend Adelaide Hall.

From the late 1950s through to the 1960s, Horne was a staple of TV variety shows, appearing multiple times on Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dean Martin Show, and The Bell Telephone Hour. Other programs she appeared on included The Judy Garland Show, The Hollywood Palace, and The Andy Williams Show. Besides two television specials for the BBC (later syndicated in the U.S.), Horne starred in her own U.S. television special in 1969, Monsanto Night Presents Lena Horne. During this decade, the artist Pete Hawley painted her portrait for RCA Victor, capturing the mood of her performance style.

In 1970, she co-starred with Harry Belafonte in the hour-long Harry & Lena special for ABC; in 1973, she co-starred with Tony Bennett in Tony and Lena. Horne and Bennett subsequently toured the U.S. and U.K. in a show together. In the 1976 program America Salutes Richard Rodgers, she sang a lengthy medley of Rodgers songs with Peggy Lee and Vic Damone. Horne also made several appearances on The Flip Wilson Show. Additionally, Horne played herself on television programs such as The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and Sanford and Son in the 1970s, as well as a 1985 performance on The Cosby Show and a 1993 appearance on A Different World. In the summer of 1980, Horne, 63 years old and intent on retiring from show business, embarked on a two-month series of benefit concerts sponsored by the sorority Delta Sigma Theta. These concerts were represented as Horne's farewell tour, yet her retirement lasted less than a year.

On April 13, 1980, Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, and host Gene Kelly were all scheduled to appear at a Gala performance at the Metropolitan Opera House to salute the NY City Center's Joffrey Ballet Company. However, Pavarotti's plane was diverted over the Atlantic and he was unable to appear. James Nederlander was an invited Honored Guest and noted that only three people at the sold-out Metropolitan Opera House asked for their money back. He asked to be introduced to Lena following her performance. In May 1981, The Nederlander Organization, Michael Frazier, and Fred Walker went on to book Horne for a four-week engagement at the newly named Nederlander Theatre on West 41st Street in New York City. The show was an instant success and was extended to a full year run, garnering Horne a special Tony award, and two Grammy Awards for the cast recording of her show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music. The 333-performance Broadway run closed on Horne's 65th birthday, June 30, 1982. Later that same week, she performed the entire show again to record it for television broadcast and home video release. Horne began a tour a few days later at Tanglewood (Massachusetts) during the weekend of July 4, 1982. The Lady and Her Music toured 41 cities in the U.S. and Canada until June 17, 1984. It played in London for a month in August and ended its run in Stockholm, Sweden, September 14, 1984. In 1981, she received a Special Tony Award for the show, which also played to acclaim at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1984. Despite the show's considerable success (Horne still holds the record for the longest-running solo performance in Broadway history), she did not capitalize on the renewed interest in her career by undertaking many new musical projects. A proposed 1983 joint recording project between Horne and Frank Sinatra (to be produced by Quincy Jones) was ultimately abandoned, and her sole studio recording of the decade was 1988's The Men in My Life, featuring duets with Sammy Davis Jr. and Joe Williams. In 1989, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 1995, a "live" album capturing Horne's Supper Club performance was released (subsequently winning a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album). In 1998, Horne released another studio album, entitled Being Myself. Thereafter, Horne retired from performing and largely retreated from public view, though she did return to the recording studio in 2000 to contribute vocal tracks on Simon Rattle's Classic Ellington album.

Civil rights activism

Horne was long involved with the Civil Rights Movement. In 1941, she sang at Cafe Society and worked with Paul Robeson. During World War II, when entertaining the troops for the USO, she refused to perform "for segregated audiences or for groups in which German POWs were seated in front of black servicemen", according to her Kennedy Center biography. Because the U.S. Army refused to allow integrated audiences, she staged her show for a mixed audience of black U.S. soldiers and white German POWs. Seeing the black soldiers had been forced to sit in the back seats, she walked off the stage to the first row where the black troops were seated and performed with the Germans behind her. After quitting the USO in 1945 because of the organization's policy of segregating audiences, Horne financed tours of military camps herself.

She was at an NAACP rally with Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, the weekend before Evers was assassinated. She also met President John F. Kennedy at the White House two days before he was assassinated. She was at the March on Washington and spoke and performed on behalf of the NAACP, SNCC, and the National Council of Negro Women. She also worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to pass anti-lynching laws. Tom Lehrer mentions her in his song "National Brotherhood Week" in the line "Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek" referring (wryly) to her and to Sheriff Jim Clark, of Selma, Alabama, who was responsible for a violent attack on civil rights marchers in 1965. In 1983, the NAACP awarded her the Spingarn Medal.

Horne was a registered Democrat and on November 20, 1963, she, along with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman John Bailey, Carol Lawrence, Richard Adler, Sidney Salomon, Vice-Chairwoman of the DNC Margaret B. Price, and Secretary of the DNC Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush, visited John F. Kennedy at The White House, two days prior to his assassination.

Personal life

Horne married Louis Jordan Jones, a political operative, in January 1937 in Pittsburgh. On December 21, 1937, their daughter, Gail (later known as Gail Lumet Buckley, a writer) was born. They had a son, Edwin Jones (February 7, 1940 – September 12, 1970) who died of kidney disease. Horne and Jones separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944. Horne's second marriage was to Lennie Hayton, who was music director and one of the premier musical conductors and arrangers at MGM, in December 1947 in Paris. They separated in the early 1960s, but never divorced; he died in 1971. In her as-told-to autobiography Lena by Richard Schickel, Horne recounts the enormous pressures she and her husband faced as an interracial couple. She later admitted in an interview in Ebony (May 1980) that she had married Hayton to advance her career and cross the "color-line" in show business.

Horne had affairs with Artie Shaw, Orson Welles, Vincente Minnelli, and the boxer Joe Louis.

Horne also had a long and close relationship with Billy Strayhorn, whom she said she would have married if he had been heterosexual. He was also an important professional mentor to her. Screenwriter Jenny Lumet, known for her award-winning screenplay Rachel Getting Married, is Horne's granddaughter, the daughter of filmmaker Sidney Lumet and Horne's daughter Gail. Her other grandchildren include Gail's other daughter, Amy Lumet, and her son's four children, Thomas, William, Samadhi, and Lena. Her great-grandchildren include Jake Cannavale.

From 1946 to 1962, Horne resided in a St. Albans, Queens, New York, enclave of prosperous African Americans, where she counted among her neighbors Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and other jazz luminaries.

Death

Horne died of congestive heart failure on May 9, 2010. Her funeral took place at St. Ignatius Loyola Church on Park Avenue in New York. Thousands gathered and attendees included Leontyne Price, Dionne Warwick, Liza Minnelli, Jessye Norman, Chita Rivera, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Lauren Bacall, Robert Osborne, Audra McDonald, and Vanessa Williams. Her remains were cremated.

Legacy

In 2003, ABC announced that Janet Jackson would star as Horne in a television biographical film. In the weeks following Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" debacle during the 2004 Super Bowl, however, Variety reported that Horne had demanded Jackson be dropped from the project. "ABC executives resisted Horne's demand", according to the Associated Press report, "but Jackson representatives told the trade newspaper that she left willingly after Horne and her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley, asked that she not take part." Oprah Winfrey stated to Alicia Keys during a 2005 interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show that she might possibly consider producing the biopic herself, casting Keys as Horne.

In January 2005, Blue Note Records, her label for more than a decade, announced that "the finishing touches have been put on a collection of rare and unreleased recordings by the legendary Horne made during her time on Blue Note." Remixed by her longtime producer Rodney Jones, the recordings featured Horne with a remarkably secure voice for a woman of her years, and include versions of such signature songs as "Something to Live For", "Chelsea Bridge", and "Stormy Weather". The album, originally titled Soul but renamed Seasons of a Life, was released on January 24, 2006. In 2007, Horne was portrayed by Leslie Uggams as the older Lena and Nikki Crawford as the younger Lena in the stage musical Stormy Weather staged at the Pasadena Playhouse in California (January to March 2009). In 2011, Horne was also portrayed by actress Ryan Jillian in a one-woman show titled Notes from A Horne staged at the Susan Batson studio in New York City, from November 2011 to February 2012. The 83rd Academy Awards presented a tribute to Horne by actress Halle Berry at the ceremony held February 27, 2011.

In 2018, a forever stamp depicting Horne began to be issued; this made Horne the 41st honoree in the Black Heritage stamp series.

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Day 198/365 - Ben Franklin In Paris

By Sidney Michaels, Mark Sandrich Jr and Jerry Herman

Ben Franklin arrives in Paris with his two grandsons seeking support for the Colonies' war against England. He quickly wins the friendship and popularity of the French court, but winning the King's recognition and support is another matter. Ben learns that an old friend, Madame La Comtesse Diane de Vobrillac, is close to the King. He appeals to her romantic nature, but now as a confidante to King Louis XVI, Diane is more practical. She demands more proof that America is not a losing proposition-it must win a battle. Franklin's hopes seem dashed when the British capture Philadelphia. Diane won't see or talk with Franklin, but he manages to trick her up into a hot-air balloon. Alone in the gondola, he gets her to agree to winning a battle of a different sort-to get another major power to split the cost of financing America's war effort. Believing it impossible, she agrees. The Spanish ambassador hears of Franklin's mission to involve Spain as the second ally and avoids him at all costs. The persistent Franklin arranges an encounter at the Abbey de Morellet amid a flowing grape harvest. After several toasts, the ambassador becomes friendly and agrees to fund arms and supplies. With this help the tide of the war begins to change. The Colonists defeat the British at Saratoga. This is all Ben needs to sway the King. But the

The British have countered by winning over Ben's son William, the governor of New Jersey. The traitorous act pulls the rug from under Ben's plan. To regain the upper hand he offers to marry Diane, but is rejected. As a final effort Ben prepares to go to England where he knows he will be hanged-an act of martyrdom he feels sure the French could not overlook. However, Diane learns of the plan and intercedes with the King. Soon thereafter the King summons Benjamin Franklin, not the Philadelphian, but the Ambassador of the United States of America.

Favourite Songs: I Invented Myself, To Be Alone With You, Too Charming and Look For Small Pleasures.

Favourite Character: Ben Franklin

Ever the charmer to make sure the US have the support they need, he’s a man with true passion for his country.

#sidney michaels #mark sandrich jr #jerry herman #ben franklin in paris #ben franklin #ayearofmusicals #a year of musicals #music criticism #musical theatre #musical #musicals

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Happy b-b-b-b-b-b-b (go Bayside!) birthday Mark-Paul Gosselaar! The actor perhaps immortalized as scheming high school student Zack Morris turned 45 Friday. Though maybe take a "time out" before reminding him of that. When this reporter said in light of the milestone USA TODAY wanted to talk about all his years in the biz, he deadpanned, "You're making me feel great about my age.”

Gosselaar says his time in front of the camera began when he was just 4 years old. A friend of his mother's, who was a model, encouraged her to have photos taken of him and get an agent. Gosselaar says local print work led to commercials, which led to appearances in the '80s on series like "The Twilight Zone," "Punky Brewster" and "Charles in Charge." Gosselaar then booked the role of Zack Morris on the series "Good Morning, Miss Bliss" with Hayley Mills, which lasted just one season before it was re-imagined as "Saved by the Bell."

Still, it wasn't until "Saved by the Bell: The College Years" (1993-1994) provided "prime time money" that Gosselaar really thought of acting as his job.

"I saw how much money I was getting paid to do something that I really loved and made the decision that... I could categorize (my occupation) as being an actor."

Gosselaar didn't even take "Saved by the Bell" seriously, predicting each season the show would be cancelled. It premiered in 1989 and lasted for four seasons, plus a single season for the college spinoff.

"Every season it was like, ‘OK, we had our run and we’ll see each other at some point,' " he said. "And then we were always surprised to come back."

Gosselaar says he doesn't think the show "had that big of a coolness factor" while filming.

The "cool show" Gosselaar says was another about California teens: (the soon-to-be rebooted) "Beverly Hills, 90210."

"That was high school," he said. "They were really doing some edgy things for young adults."

Edgy wouldn't necessarily be the way to describe the caffeine pill addiction Jessie Spano (Elizabeth Berkley) had, which makes Gosselaar laugh when it's brought up.

"If I were to be in that position now, I would seriously look at the producers and writers and go, 'Really, caffeine pills? That’s what were hooked on?'" he admitted. "But at the time, we were just having fun with each other; we were having fun being actors."

Perhaps a little too much fun behind the scenes. Gosselaar made headlines in January when he revealed he and Berkley – dated. To USA TODAY, Gosselaar described the behind-the-scenes romances as very intertwined.

"It was very incestuous," There was so much fraternizing Gosselaar says they were spoken to by the series' executive producer.

"Peter Engel at one point had to sit us all down and say, 'Hey we have a show to do, you guys need to calm down,' because at some point one person wasn’t talking to the other one. One person was friends with the other person who wasn’t talking so they weren’t talking to you. It was high school in a very sort of small, micro bubble."

"We were in very close quarters for nine months out of the year," he explained, "and there’s a little bleed-over from your characters – I mean you see it on films all the time, you see it on TV shows all the time with adults. Inevitably kids are gonna do something."

After Zack Morris, Gosselaar continued to work steadily. From 2001-2005 he portrayed his favorite character, Detective John Clark, Jr. on "NYPD Blue" and also found success with the series "Franklin & Bash" (2011-2014). While he wishes he could've played Mike Lawson longer on Fox's "Pitch" (2016), he now stars on "The Passage" from the same network. The sci-fi drama, which USA TODAY gave ★★★ out of four, is based on Justin Cronin's trilogy: "The Passage," "The Twelve" and "The City of Mirrors."

Saniyya Sidney and Mark-Paul Gosselaar in "The Passage." (Photo: Eliza Morse/Fox)

Gosselaar said he enjoys playing the role of government agent Brad Wolgast, who meets Amy Bellafonte (Saniyya Sidney) and refuses to give her up to the government for testing to ward off a global pandemic.

"It’s a challenging role for me. It’s physical," Gosselaar said. "It’s got pretty much all the elements that I’m always looking for and a role that will sustain your interest for hopefully the run of a few years."

Gosselaar described the first part of the two-hour finale airing March 11 as "unbelievably ambitious."

"What we are able to accomplish in the eight days that we had to film that episode arguably could’ve taken a month on a film," he said. He adds the second half of the finale is "a bit of a departure from what we’ve shown you through the rest of the season."

From "Preppy" to "The Passage." Gosselaar's current show airs Monday (9 EST/PST).

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Dean’s List Fall 2018

NATCHITOCHES – One thousand two hundred sixty students were named to the Fall 2018 Dean’s List at Northwestern State University. Students on the list earned a grade point average of between 3.5 and 3.99. Those named to the Dean’s List by hometown are as follows.

Aberdeen Proving Grd, Maryland -- Adrian Borel

Addis -- William Seaman

Alexandria – Iris Barrera, Marquita Benjamin, Morgan Bryant, Katylyn Cox, Ashley Day, Qurshea Decoste, Destiny Dotson, Selena Elmore, KelVina Ford, Daryn Freeman, Maeghan George, Khloe Jasper, Leslie Katz, Taylar Lee, Kelli Leone, ShaKiyla Lindsey, Jimmie Magee, Madalyn Mayer, Lauren McLeod, Olivia Mosley, Lashanda Moss, Kellie Pebbles, Ragan Richey, Imani Ricks, Sydney Roseman, Kaitlin Roshto, Caleb Ross, Shakera Shorts, Kizzy Slaughter, Avery Tharp, Alexander Trotter, Hailey Urena, Alysha Walker, Christopher Warren, William Welch, Aalyiah Williams;

Anacoco – Alan Cosio, Danielle Egan, Elizabeth Guy, Andrea Halladay, Madeleine Hensley, Karington Johnson, Kelen Kay, Jason Ortiz, Clarissa Owens, Brooke Phillips, Amanda Sorg, Erica Wade, Emily Williams;

Angers, France – Sophie Podevin;

Angola – Ursula Poarch;

Arlington, Texas -- Samantha Bell, Devin Gipson, Charles Rogers;

Arnaudville –Bailey Dautreuil;

Athens – Ryan Carroway;

Atlanta – Jonathan Friis, Alexis Hanson, Peyton Howell,

Aurora, Colorado – William McCullough;

Austin, Texas – Skylar Besch, Ysmina Smith;

Avondale – James Brown, Mikala Clark;

Ball – Stephen Carpenter, Lauren Nugent, Vanessa Toney;

Barksdale AFB – Victoria Charles, Jeanine Matthews;

Bastrop – Anna Akins, Alisha Bolton, Haleigh Irby, Chadwick Jones, Haleigh Vollmar;

Baton Rouge – Merodac Beraki, Randy Blackwell, Rosa Campbell, Joshua Cheatwood, Peyton Clark, Emmanuel Dunn, Bryn Edmonston, Maisyn Guillory, Kelly Guillot, Melvin Hudson Misterie Jarrell, DJacqulyn Johnson, Elizebeth Ledet, Bethany Lee, Sarah Lovern, Madalyn Mullins, Mary Pourciau, Colleen Reese, Ethan Smith, Reagan Smith, Haley Sylvester, Sarah Talbot, Jessica Joseph;

Bayside, Nova Scotia – April Trowbrige;

Baytown, Texas – Norma Trejo;

Belcher – Jessica Herbert;

Belle Chasse – Hayley Barbazon, Alexander Melcer, Jade Talazac, Natalie Wilson, Annie Wright;

Belle Rose – Thomas Daigle;

Belmont – Jayce Gentry;

Bentley – Stephanie Hayes;

Benton – Haley Crosby, Holly Crosby, Jessica Gates, Joshua Johnson, Kara Knippers, Abigail Lauterbach, Hannah Schott, Daniel Scott, Ted Scott, Jadyn Sepulvado, Torea Taylor, Audrey Trujillo, Kimberly Umphries, Jackson Mathews;

Berwick – Brittany Vidos;

Bossier City – Christian Baker, Clayton Brown, Amber Engel, Sydney Gootee, Sydney Shannon, Austin Averitt, Alexandra Borrmann, Courtney Brooks, Abigail Castillo, Emily Cheatham, Lacy Chism, Caitlin Cover, Ri’Kaela England, Kelly Flores, Matthew Flynn, Kelsey Gallman, Candace Guillory, Rebecca Hickson, Jodi Hill, Anqumesha Jeter, Elizabeth Jones, Abigail Kent, Tina Kile, Marci King, Rebecca Markle, Arielle Martignetti, Claire McMillan, Brittany Morris, Kennedy Parson, Brittani Phillips, Khayla Pugh, Litzy Rivera, Kassidy Robideaux, Andrew Robinson, Rheagan Rowland, Jeffrey Ruiz, Elisha Scott, Hope Spaw, Brittany Spence, Tori Spraggins, Terrence Stewart, Susan Stone, Savannah Swaim, Benjamin Tanner, Avery Tibbets, Kortney Toellner, Jirneicia Ward, Courtney Wilson, Dominique Wineglass, Jennifer Woods, Nour Zeidan, Andrea Holley, Ashley Bennett, Ashanti Hill, Brittney Malmay,

Boyce – Bo Bowers, Sarah Hill, Amanda Land, Hannah Miller, Wyatt Miller, Miranda Perry, Ashley Smith, Jessie Turner;

Breaux Bridge – Blythe Duvall, Shayla James, Ashtin Mouton, Tyler Thibodeaux;

Brookeland, Texas – Morgan Horn, Paige West;

Brusly – Emma Wallace;

Buda, Texas – Kathryn Wristen;

Bullard, Texas – Brandon Duecker;

Bunkie – Brett Baker, Izola Williams, Kearia Wilson;

Burleson, Texas – Eric Neeley;

Bush – Saige Tassin;

Callisburg, Texas – Maycy English;

Calvin – Chris Price;

Campti – Destiny Potts, Stoney Slaughter, Alexis Smith;

Canton – Tiffany Cayson;

Carencro – Malik Babin, Destiny Kennerson, Jasmin Thibodeaux;

Cartagena, Colombia – Edwin Castro Frias, Jose Colon-Marrugo, Valeria Correa Meza, Victor Lopez Ramos, Romulo Osorio Herrera, Cristian Paez Geney, Daniel Racero Rocha;

Cartagena Bolivar, Colombia – Alejandro Dager Carrasquilla, Luis Osorio Betancourt, Saily Romero Marrugo, Valeria Perez Espinosa, Veronica Perez Espinosa, Ramon Sarruf Monroyl

Carthage, Illinois – Nicole Clark;

Castor – Kaycee Collinsworth;

Center, Texas – Chelsea Henderson;

Central – Christian Chustz;

Chalmette – Dylan Fuselier, Sara Mendoza;

Cheneyville – Fontana Mitchell;

Clayton – Glendalyn Boothe, Ruben Smith;

Cleburne, Texas – Patrick Murr;

Clifton – Toni Smith;

Clinton, Mississippi – Adam Moncure;

Cloutierville – Alexia Gistarb;

Colfax – Camren Bell, Alison Churchman, Mikayla Richardson, Evan White;

College Station, Texas – Jasmyn Hunter;

Columbia – Tyler Duchesne, Jackson McCann;

Converse – Zachary Faircloth, Nicolas Farmer, Ashley Forgues Brock, Skyler Laroux, Elaina Richardson, Noah Sepulvado, Ashley Sims;

Coppell, Texas – Jada Freeman;

Cottonport – Rayne Canoe, Zachary Gauthier, Justin Tigner;

Coushatta – Kori Allen, La’Zaria Clark, Elizabeth Cummins, Dillon Foshee, Jason Gross, Ashley Guye, Tawanda Johnson, Sidney Jones, Emily King, Jeremy Lawson, William Lee, Aaron Murray, Allison Pearah, Jon Russell, Amey Sepulvado, Carmie Williams, Caroline Wren;

Covington – Kayla Keys, Andrea Mier, Cathleen Oviedo, Etienne Blanchat;

Crowley – Alyssa Huval;

Cumberland, Maryland – Rebekah Apple;

Cypress, Texas – Alexis Gomez;

Dallas, Texas – Nadia Carney, Natalie Robledo;

Darrow – Micheal Douglas;

DeKalb, Texas – Jaquan Jackson;

DeQuincy – Austin Nichols, Hayden Robertson;

DeRidder – Carson Brown, Maygin Chesson, Alphonse Engram Ashleigh Fedderman, Bambi Hardesty, Michael Keeper, Dustin Lauderback, Kyla Lockhart, Kimberly Nolen, Don Prater, Hayley Richard, Shynikia Roberson, Mikalyn Russell, Lauren Taylor, Ebony Terry;

Deer Park, Texas – Patrick McDonald, Blake Stephenson;

Denham Springs – Caitlyn Cutrer, Caitlin Griffin Halle Mahfouz, Jonathan Rodriguez, Stephanie Ryals, Amy Thomas, Emily Williams;

Denton, Texas – Ian Edwards;

Derry – Hannah Antee;

Des Allemands – Dilaney Deroche;

Destrehan – Patrick Juneau, Kiera Robinson;

Deville – Kealee Anderson, Hailey Bolton, Alexis Dennis, Kayla Dewilde, Candice Dryden, Amy Henderson, Karlee Littleton, Marlee Paulk, Vivian Vallery;

Dike, Texas – Brynn Offut;

Dodson – Kierstyn Cyrus, Nolan Griffin, Lydia McGaha, Brittany Walker;

Donaldsonville – Natalie Landry, Madeline Sotile;

Doyle – Mackensie Ulrich;

Dry Creek – Kayla Mandelin;

Dry Prong – Jacob Boydstun, Sarah Desselle, Christy Gough, Alisabeth Lockhart;

Duson – Autumn Ritter, Lane Royer;

Duvall, Washington – Jason Smigelski;

Effie – Jaydan Perkins;

Elizabeth – Clyde Hurst;

Elm Grove – Gabrielle Smith;

Elmer – Jerrica Beebe, Mikayla Deloach, Halston Rachal, Joseph Rachal;

Enon Valley, Pennsylvania – Jennifer Smiley;

Eros – Alecia Smith;

Ethel – Abby Guillory;

Eunice – Carli Esters, Tammy Richard, Emily Deshotel;

Evans – Lakin Smith;

Evergreen – Shelby Riche;

Farmerville – Jalissa Loyd;

Ferriday – Shanequa Tyler, Dalenesha Wimley;

Fisher – Hayden Courtney;

Flatwoods – Jasmine George;

Florien – Gabrielle Bryant, Ashley Carter, Travis Cook, Faith Hopkins, McKenzie Kuhlow, Megan Lampkin, Noah Parker, Emma Ray, Ashley Ross, Elizabeth Squillini, Shari Wilson;

Forest Hill – Andrianne Dore, Rachel Humphries, Claudia Marie, Charli Stanley;

Forest Park, Illinois – Kimberly Murray;

Forney, Texas – Kaymi Wheeler;

Fort Polk – Laura Cerqueira, Amanda Dhondt, Jasmine Dyer, Clarrissa Lancour, Jennifer Lara Hager, Andrea Marquez, Clare Masa, Blaise Nkengafac, Madison Popp, Lindsay Romero, Shiela May Tabonares, Whitney Tipton, Christian Wood;

Fort Riley, Kansas – Breanna Bryan;

Fort Sill, Oklahoma – Iryana Burrus;

Fort Worth, Texas – Charles Gregory Meade;

Franklin – Chaqaire Jenkins, Cheyenne Smith;

Franklinton – Brian Geragthy, Aron Stephens;

Freeland, Washington – Paul Aune;

Fresno, Texas – Terres Anderson;

Frierson – John Rachal, Valerie Smith;

Frisco, Texas – Adam Trupp;

Gardena, California – Cole Llorens;

Geismar – Kristi Contreary;

Georgetown – Laura White;

Gibsland – Tyler Sneed;

Glenmora – Kristopher Devore, Precious Goins, Abbie Johnson, Megan Johnson, Nellie Johnson, Savannah Thompson, Tiara Baker;

Gloster – Kylee Causey, Jennifer Simmons, Johnette Whorton;

Goldonna – Alexander Guillory;

Gonzales – Addison Adams, Ryan Gremillion, Victoria Gardner, Legand Lilly, Corey Payne, Jamien Sampson, Zoe Tapp, Jaci Templet, Trencia Washington;

Gorman, Texas – Kourtney Seaton;

Gramercy – Amber Theisges;

Grand Cane – Nathan Graham, Emily Miller, Matthew Raybon;

Gray – Cassie Becnel, Tevyn Johnson;

Greenwell Springs – Katherine Bryant, Katherine Langlois;

Gretna – Chloe Johnson, Jasmine Myles, Trinity Velazquez;

Gueydan – Hannah Sedatol;

Gulfport, Mississippi – Tamara Benton;

Gun Barrel City, Texas – Colton Banghart;

Hahnville – Catelyn Errington;

Hammond – Andrea Hidalgo, Kaylon Willoughby, William Woodworth;

Harlingen, Texas – Frances Knight;

Harvey – Tajalai Evans, Christiana Johnson, Alexis Taylor;

Hattiesburg, Mississippi – Mary Mitchell;

Haughton – Matthew Bailey, Benny Broadway, Arneshia Brooks, Katelynn Edwards, Shelby Grubbs, Kobe Jackson, Kylee Jackson, Daniel Langen, Sarah Ledford, Nicklaus Lowery, Angie Nguyen, Jamie Phillips, Makenzie Rains, Licentra Randolph, Kaylee Swart, Valerie Taylor, Zoey Thomas, Logan Turner, Lomia Watkins, Larissa Wells, Hunter Woods;

Haynesville – Eriel Fields, Sabrina Sowell, Allyssa Dodds;

Heflin – Rachael Vickers;

Henderson, Texas – Andrew Blackmon, Christina Marie Colley;

Henderson – Asha Cormier;

Hessmer – Kaitlynn Burke, Laney Jeansonne;

Hineston – Richard Clark, Madison Morrison, Karlie Taylor;

Homer – Francene Ferguson, Shannon Rhodes;

Honolulu, Hawaii – Melissa Baker, Hans Andersen Tan;

Hornbeck – Sarah Ceballos, Jerry Hughes, Jr., Carrie Wilson;

Hosston – Alaysia Fredieu;

Houma – Kelsey Chauvin, Anna Gautreaux, Zoe Hebert, Dylan LeBlanc, Venessa McKinley, Sara Rebstock, Kyle Siddle;

Houston, Texas – Bruce Beth, Brittany Davis, Oai Lee Huynhl

Hutto, Texas – Tommi Long;

Ida – Madison Campbell;

Independence – Chloe Whiddon;

Iota – Morgan Gotte, Katie Latiola;

Iowa – Marvette Williams;

Jamestown – Kylie Knotts;

Jeanerette – Brandy Jackson;

Jefferson – Matthew Broekman, Codi Vernace, Amanda Wilburn;

Jena – Tiara Brown, Candace Decker, Jessi McNeely, Dena Ray;

Jennings – Emily Benoit, Destany Brown, Phillip Gotte, KaTierra Lewis;

Jonesboro – Natalee Gray, Tia Moore;

Jonesville – Rachel Eichmann, Kayla Robertson, Kameron Stevenson, James White;

Kalaupapa, Hawaii – Kamamalu Nishihira-Asuncion;

Keatchie – Brittany Miller, Amber Nash, Sarah Plaisance;

Keithville – McKenzie Knotts, Shleby Loftin, Cara Lorensen, Dominique Jackson, Jerry Parks, Deja White;

Kemp, Texas – Katelynn Messer

Kenner – Gennyfer Pena;

Kerens, Texas – Brandon Brumbelow, Diego Maldonado;

Killeen, Texas – William Hooper, Nathalohn Nanai;

Kinder – Teralyn Plumber, Stewart Wheeler;

Kingwood, Texas – Alexandria Bailey;

Konarskie, Poland – Elzbieta Iwaniuk;

Labadieville – Jacelynn LeBlanc, Logan Simoneaux;

Lacombe – Casey Casler;

Lafayette – Taylor Aucoin, Bailey Begnaud, Natalye Bradley, Javian Bush, Amari Carmouche, Joshua Delaughter, Shaniya Fuselier, Ashley Guidry, Adele Hebert, Bryce Hernandez, Julia Laperouse, Collin Monaghan, Joshua Monaghan, Sarah Palmintier, Christina Poole, Jordan Redd, Madison Weathers, Ireland Williams;

Lake Arthur – Nicole Andrews, Tuesdi Stipek, Hannah Worley;

Lake Charles – Rebekah Nicholas, Emily Roller, Isaiah Roy;

Lake Wales, Florida – LaRon James;

Lakeside, California – Amanda Lee;

LaPlace – Melvin Bates, Jalen Haydel, Jacob St. Pierre;

Larose – Nicholas Hebert;

Las Vegas, Nevada – Caitlin Schweighart;

Lavon, Texas – Berenice Bretado, Matthew Howeth;

League City, Texas – Kennedi Carter, Mary Gilbert, Emily Ornelas, Lacee Savage, Christopher Zirkle;

Leander – Karissa Boswell;

Leavenworth, Kansas – Anuhea Iyo;

Lecompte – Logan Cheek, Allison Williams;

Leesville – Dakota Abrams, Kimberly Alwell, Summer Atkins, Kaitlyn Bailey, Hannah Baker, Marilyn Brooks, Rachal Brown, Kaylee Busby, Victoria Carbaugh, Jessica Clare, Angie Culbert, Baylor Dillon, Raegan Dotson, Brandon Fredieu, Miranda Fulks, Ashley Garcia, Sean Grady, Morgan Hall, Britney Harvey, Kimberly Henley, Haley Hood, Kelly Kealaula, Zachary Keeton, Lane Koury, Samatha LaMonte, Daniella Lowry, Karl Marzahl, Kylie McAllister, Amy McKellar, Kelly Mitchell, Emily Moore, Taylor Newman, Joseph Orchi, Kaitlyn Pajinag, Victoria Perkins, Elizabeth Rios, Amber Rose, Chloe Rouleau, Destiny Sanders, David Santos, Erin Schwartz, Riley Shackelford, Brandy Sherman, Joseph Slaughter, Claire Smyth, Heather Snell, Alicia Stanford, Collin Strickland, Sydni Striedel, Matthew Ward, Marissa Weldon, Mikayla Zills;

Lena – Lashae’ Lucas, Courtland Smith;

Lettsworth – Meilyn Woods;

Lindale, Texas – Eden Cook;

Little Elm, Texas – Jasmine Ealy, Daniel Larin, Brian Lenox, Kaitlyn McCullogh;

Livingston – Chase Crane;

Logansport – Kendoyle Cox, Megan Holmes, Maci Martin, Charles McClintock;

Longview, Texas – Hannah Dunn;

Lonoke, Arkansas – Rachel Terry;

Loranger – Cambree Bailey, Jessi Dominique;

Luling – Macie Barrios, Nathan Roth;

Lumberton, Texas – Joshua Terry;

Mabank, Texas – Dustin Huffman;

Madisonville – Sarahjane Ladut, Bailey Perrilloux;

Magnolia, Texas – Kyle Moore;

Mamou – Melissa Soileau;

Mandeville – Maci Burt, Mya Holmes, Sheridan Smith, Jalen Willis;

Mansfield – Canessia Johnson, Samantha Powell;

Mansura – Beau Barbry, Magen Hegger;

Many – Chelsa Arthur, Victoria Barnhill, Rachel Bensinger, Toby Bruce, Maegan Burkett, Hannah Chanler, Patrick Colston, Sarah Cross, Timothy Early, Tiarra Frazier, Brittney Garcie, Emily Holcomb, Mayci Lewis, Jenifer Meadows, Athena Mitchell, Kasey Moore, Seth Ozsoy, Chelsea Parrie, Andrew Penfield, Heather Trichel, Krisha Williams, Tyler Colston, Sheridan Gowen;

Marble Falls, Texas – Sarah Lewis;

Maringouin – Laura Scronce;

Marksville – Olivia Johnson, Shelby Lemoine, Madeleine Morrow, Tanner Nugent, Mackenzie Stanley;

Marrero – Tara Brown, Jade Duthu, Dorothy Gioia;

Marshall, Missouri – KaNeeshia Gay;

Marshall, Texas – Sydney Swilley, Abigail Upton;

Marthaville – Dylan Daniels, Mallory Powell, Hannah Sattler, Frank Lester;

Maurice – Jenna-Clair Courville, Adele Vincent, Elise Vincent;

Meraux – Sophie Stechmann;

Merryville – Aric Johnson;

Metairie – Kathryn Bancroft, Anna Birbiglia, Taylor Crawford, Cameron Duhe, Mary Gaffney, Ellie Mandel, Andrew Pitari;

Midlothian, Texas – Rachel Fowler;

Midlothian, Illinois – Daniel Hlad;

Minden – Roxy Easley, Abby Greene, Peyton Gray, Fisher McLemore, Kirsten Sibley, Amber Slater, Asata Sylvas, Edoard Talamayan, Madison Tanner, Jordan Young;

Minneapolis, Minnesota – Jenna Carlson;

Missouri City, Texas – Cayla Jones;

Monroe – William Adcock, Allie Ellerbe, Jaronda Griffin, Parron Jones, Skylar Sorrell, Jarviar Wade, Brittany Wilson;

Montegut – Megan Pellegrin;

Montgomery – Morgan Bartlett, Morgan McManus, Erikk Sluss, Hannah Vercher, Michael Waxley;

Moreauville – Austin Dismer, Nicholas Jackson;

Morrow – Quaniqua Joseph;

Murcia, Colombia – Cristina Gonzalez Corchon;

Natchez – Jackson Carroll, Jacorrian Davis, Courtney Sarpy, Morgan Slaugher, Patricia Wise;

Natchez, Mississippi – Victoria Bradford;

Natchitoches – Adedayo Adeniji, Jordan Alex, Tyler Anderson, James Armstrong, Aaron Averett, Brock Barrios, Gracie Bennett, Gavin Bergeron, Ciara Blade, Keaton Booker, Charles Bouchie, Shenita Braxton, Taylor Burch, Deasia Burrell, Ladiamond Burrell, Morgan Burris, Ebone Burton, Kezia Butler, Savannah Bynog, John Byone, Maria Carmona-Ruiz, Kiondra Clark, Lane Clevenger, Kaia Collins, Leanna Coy, Whitney Crooks, Kenneth Darcy, Kara Davis, Kelsy Davis, Sean Day, Leah Deford, Trenton Downs, Ashley Dranguet, Peyton Ebarb, Virginia Falgoust, Daniela Forero Salcedo, Hannah Forsythe, Eric Fredieu, Katlynn French, Luis Gallo Quintero, Abbie Gandy, Jeffrey Goff, Samuel Greene, Julian Guerrero Acevedo, Laura Guzman Rodriguez, Brianca Hall, Valentina Herazo Alvarez, John Howell, Jared Hulsey, Emily Johnson, Zachary Johnson, Abagael Kinney, Lyndon Knueppel, Karlee Laurence, Carlomagno Leon Jimenez, Maya Levo, Alba Maloff, Brooklyn Martin, Paula Martinez Marrugo, LiZhang Matuschka, Tyler McCain, Michael McClung, Kristin McQuillin, Jasmine Milsap, Sarah Moody, Coy Morgan, Matthew Nelson, Jorgia Nevers, Kevin Nutt, Kiara Padilla, Griffiana Paige, Kenneth Penrod, Chaka Palm, Kevin Price, Shalondria Rainey, LaKendria Remo, Alejandro Restrepo Cardozo, Kierstin Richter, William Rogers, Maria Rushing, Chandler Sarpy, Gabrielle Scarborough, Natalle Sers, Anise Settle, Anna Sibley, Jonathan Simmons, Patrick Sprung, Josie Stamey, Nicholas Swank, Carosha Taylor, Samuel Taylor, Harrison Thomas, Enonedria Thompson, Margaret Thompson, Caitlyn Tobin, Austin Townsend, Ricardo Ventura, Eva Venzant, Lauren Vienne, Ryan Wade, Daniel Whatley, Thomas Wiggins, Sherri Williams, Rylee Wyer, Naoko Yoshida,

Navasota, Texas – Shelton Eppler;

New Braunfels, Texas – Charli Fouts;

New Iberia – Tara Bonvillain, Kyrsten Freyou, Jacob Gary, Jeannette Hardy, Nicole Moore, Madison Romero, Alexis Trosclair;

New Llano – Laura Cowell, Sylvia Milerski, Dennis Stein, Collar Wilson;

New Orleans – Faith Burke, RyShaneka Kirsh, Trevor Morgan, Gloria Smyly, Rishard Winford;

Noble – Savannah Anderson, Landen Funderburk, Joshua Ray;

Nolensville, Tennessee – Joseph Tappel;

Norfolk, Virginia – Samantha Broughton;

North Richland Hills, Texas – Cody Germany;

North York, Ontario – Alexander Comanita;

Oakdale – Clayton Ashworth, Staci Brown, Kirstin Richard;

Olla – Morgan Barbo, Cierra Evans, Tanner Terrell;

Opelousas – Jordan Brisco, Kenya Gradnigo, Amy Levier, Sheridan Mayo, Kayla Pitre;

Paincourtville – Hannah Brister;

Panama City, Florida – Adam Normand;

Paradis – Kaitlyn Dunn, Kallie Lutz;

Pearland, Texas – Clent Jones;

Pineville – Victoria Bordelon, Raegan Brocato, Kaitlyn Burns, Taylor Campbell, Caitlin Crawford, Deanna Daniel, Katlin Ernst, Victoria Gambino, Brooke Gongre, Kaitlyn Jackson, Landon King, Laura Lachney, Carlee Lake, Jeffery Lepage, Emily Litton, James Perry, Cinnamon Player, Hannah Pusateri, Diane Richey, Rachel Rudd, Amaria Sapp, Jordan Sensat, Micah St. Andre, Reygan Taylor, Jaclyn Whatley, Rodney Williams;

Plain Dealing – Nicholas Cason;

Plano, Texas – Asher Van Meter;

Plaucheville – Matthew Armand;

Pleasant Hill – Makenzi Patrick, Yasmine Maxie;

Pollock – Tanner Brazil, Erika Clark, Dalton Kopp, Samantha Wilber,

Pollok, Texas – Katelyn Boles;

Ponchatoula – Kaitlyn Hawkins;

Port Allen – Kennedy Cullen, Evan Daigle, Samantha Moses;

Port Barre – Lauren Deville, Skylar Guidroz, Kirsten Sonnier;

Prairieville – Donesha Blount, Lauren Breaux, Claire Credeur, Chloe Lambert, Kyle Munson, Ellise Vice, Derek Walle, Brady Wilson;

Princeton – Micah Larkins, Alyssia Mobley, Katelyn Nattin, Ariell Shield;

Provencal – Rachel Head, Christopher Jennings, Samantha Toro;

Puyallup, Washington – Aine Oh;

Quitman – Cassie Tucker;

Raceland – Paige Parks, DQuincy McGuire;

Rayne – Bailey Beard, Bishop Breaux;

Rayville – Emily Rawls, Terry Rogers, Leslie Sharbono;

Reno, Nevada – Olivia Marazzo, Sydney Oren;

Richardson, Texas – Riley Cantrell, Lauren-Ashley Clarke;

Ringgold – Joseph Hays, Terreny Langford, Lauren Nelson, Olivia Prado, Aileecia Tipton, Darrion Sims, Caleb Vining, Tyler Weathers;

River Ridge – Alexander Thibodeau, Taylor Young;

Robeline – Chad Berly, Jonathan Chism, Hunter DuBois, Alecia Eddleman, Kelsey Elkins, Hannah Hennigan, Richard McCollum, Morgan Neugent, Ember O’Bannon, Megan Palmer, Lillian Rachal, Tyler Tousek, Jeffrey Watley;

Rosepine – Emilee Johnson;

Rosharon, Texas – Whitney Washington;

Ruston – Irene Hild, Lara Schales, Jamesha Woods;

Saint Amant – Kylie Nix;

Saint Bernard – Emily Snyder;

Saint Francisville – Robert Burke, Claire Leming, Ryan Reed;

Saint Gervais la Foret, France – Marcelline Poitevin;

Saint Martinville – Chaselyn Lewis;

Saline – Isabella Jones, Malayna Poche;

San Antonio, Texas – Hayden Brown, Paris Finkbeiner, Kelli Gamble;

San Pedro Sula, Cortes, Colombia – Jose Bustillo Aguero, Cesia Corrales, Bella Trimino Gutierrez;

Saratoga, Arkansas – Christie Sain;

Scott – Hannah Durgin, Taylor Joseph;

Scurry, Texas – Rebecca Blackshear;

Shantow City, China – Zhixin Lin;

Shongaloo – Kayla Mouser;

Shreveport – DayJah Alexander, Maria Awwad, Shakendra Bailey, Erin Batts, Antanae Baylock, JiKeeriya-Jontay Bowden, Rakeisha Brown, Anquaneshia Burnham, Kaylan Campbell, Neeley Caudle, Kesherion Collins, Hannah Crnkovic, Kendall Crosby, April Daniels, Joslyn Davis, Destiny Deal, Kevin Denks, Kimberly Dennis, Kaitlyn Doyal, Chenara Dredden, Laura Mary-Katherine Duhon, Shalanda Duncan, Reagan Escude, Chloe Farrar, Jenna Fielder, Sterlin Foster, Jamie French, Tyler Gardner, JaSae Gatlin, Rayvin Gaudet, Evan Gibson, Karina Goodnight, Lauren Gore, Ashleigh Grace, Anna Green, Elaina Guerrero, Matthew Haltom, Jennifer Hardey, Regyne Hardy, Kelsey Harlow, Madison Harper, Kimberly Housley, Shleby Hunter, Madyson Istre, Jazzmine Jackson, Caitlin Johnson, Carly Johnson, Christopher Johnson, Jada Johnson, Zachary Johnson, William Mahoney, Caitlyn Malloy, LaTonya Martin, Aysia Mills, Acquiria Mitchell, Dylan Molenhour, Shanautica Montgomery, Kelly Moody, Kendall Murray, Aaron Navarre, Hannah Nicholls, Olivia Noonan, Annabelle Parker, Soleil Paterson, Mary Murray, Michael Phelps, Hayden Pilcher, Laura Pritchard, Bailey Rech, Nahjee Reid, Mallori Sanders, Kendall Sanford, Angelica Satcher, Yuriana Sauseda, Katherine Sawyer, Lawson Scott, Cynthia Shahriar, Shermaine Shorter, Mary Sibley, Ciara Sipes, Richard Sloan, Jessica Sowers, Lindsey Sullivan, Jordan Taylor, Joyce Taylor, Rodnisha Terry, Anne Tibbit, Chloe Vance, Kayla Waller, Lajayda Williams, Suzanne Williams, Kristy Wilson, Jonathan Zavalydriga;

Simmesport – Olivia Draper, Taylor Myers;

Simpson – David Marquis, Christina Snider;

Singer – Emily Smith;

Slidell – Rikki Ayers, Brittany Brooks, Jacqueline Coleman, Shakera Dixon, Jordan Garcia, Thomas Garner, Claire Harvey, William Jensen, Tristan Johnson, Allyssa Marshall, Isabel Melhado, Kha Nguyen, John Norvel, Theresa Sharp, Raina Woods;

Spain – Judit Castillo Gargallo;

Spring, Texas – Victoria Harris;

St. Francisville – Emeria Jones;

St. Martinville – Cassandra Zenon;

Starks – Sara Hyatt, Melina Royer;

Stonewall – Carolyn Davlin, Emmy Hinds, Tobert Mcallen, Hunter Tuck, Jonathan Perot, Hunter Tuck;

Sulphur – Andrina Ferguson, Madeline Fortenberry, Derek Henry, Helen-Lois Mancil, Trevor Molitor, Elisabeth Perez, Makenzie Simon, Justin Sittig, Andrew Stephens, Shelby Sullivan, Sonya Wren;

Sunset – Deandra Eaglin, Sonia Vidrine;

Talihina, Oklahoma – Heidi Couch;

Taylor, Texas – Jake English;

Texarkana, Texas – Sydney Cowgill, Cody Hambly, Jasmine Neal;

Texarkana, Arkansas – Monique Walker, Kenneth Williams;

Thibodaux – Beth Olin, Cierra Winch;

Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania – Brianna Morosco;

Trout – Harley Lisenby, Kalee McGuffee;

Tupelo, Mississippi – Bailey Griffin;

Vidalia – Charles Johnson, Brittany Kennedy;

Ville Platte – Regan Hazelton;

Vinton – Shae Cramer, Kelsie Rayon, Madison Zaunbrecher;

Vivian – Jaylon Berry, Hannah Campbell, Chase Lewis;

Warrenton, Virginia – Melissa Martinez;

Washington – Madelyn Dupont, Ambrieanna Lazard;

Waskom, Texas – Mary Alexander, Blakely Canfield;

Waynesboro, Mississippi – David Hodo;

Welsh – Edna Hofmann, Daniel Menard;

West, Texas – Nathan Nors;

West Monroe – Abigail Beck, Brandy Chapman, Alexandra Clack, Kirstin Elrod, Brianna Fife, Evelyn Maguire, Cassandra Phillips, Candyce Steele, Melissa Taylor, Syroi Webb, Christopher Wynn;

Westwego – Tja’h Edwards;

Wills Point, Texas – Rebekah Clark;

Winnfield – Jermesia Anderson, Taylor Burnett, Mia County, Ashlyn Duck, Rhonda Duff, Jourdan Fitzgerald, Hunter Johnson, Kayla Jones, Caitlyn Martin, Tenisha Phillips, Avonna Wilson;

Winnsboro – Samantha Browning, Hunter Cooper, Darrel Doyle, A’Lexus Johnson;

Winter Springs, Florida – Justin Garretson;

Youngsville – Blair Fontenot, Charli Fontenot, Brette Reaux, Isabelle Vivien;

Zachary – Lydia Johnson, Chasity Matthews, Demetriona Goudeau;

Zwolle – Kierstyn Cartinez, Hillary Charles, Michantwana Lacey, Courtney McDaniel, Holly Laroux, Konner Parrie, Treveon Perrty, Marcelina Remedies;

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