White named STAR Student

Senior A.J. White has been named Darlington’s 2010 STAR Student. He selected Beth Wilson, chairperson of the English department, as his STAR Teacher.

"Mrs. Wilson makes class fun; she made me learn to love what she loves to teach," said White, the son of Ken and Terri White of Rome.

White has taken 10 honors and nine AP courses. He is a member of the National Honor Society, Cum Laude Society, Spanish National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, the varsity football and track teams, and has received the Georgia Certificate of Merit, the Sewanee Club Award, the Yale Book Award, and the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award. A Centre College Fellow and Furman Scholar, he is also a two-time recipient of the Hanks Medal; a three-time recipient of the Class Scholarship Award; and has earned E.L. Wright Awards for Algebra 1H, Spanish 3H, English 1H, Geometry H, Spanish 4H, AP World History, AP Physics B, AP U.S. History and AP English Language.

The PAGE Student Teacher Achievement Recognition (STAR) program, in its 52nd year, is sponsored by the Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE) Foundation, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the Georgia Department of Education. Since its inception, the STAR program has honored more than 21,000 students and the teachers they have selected as having had the most influence on their academic achievement. Students are selected on the basis of their SAT scores and class standing/scholastic averages.