Samuel C. Crumly

Good morning my name is Samuel C. Crumly. I was born in Marietta, Georgia in Piedmont hospital in June 2009. I am the youngest of seven children to Jonathon and Kimberly Crumly. Before I was born my parents decided to homeschool the entire family so that they could see their children’s growth, and educate them in a Christian way. They wanted to send us to a Christian school but they did not have enough money at the time to do this.

When I was very young I broke both of my arms, and because of this I had to be in a cast for a whole year of my early development. Because of this my hand coordination skills have always been lacking. I have dysgraphia, which is a mental disorder where everything in my brain is shifted to the right, leading me to be terrible at sports like basketball, volleyball and football. I should be horrible at drawing because of this disorder, but because I kept with it the majority of my life I am a decent artist now, or at least that’s what my mom says. I was homeschooled from kindergarten to the 8th grade, but after four of my siblings moved out of the house and started living on their own they sent my brother and I to the Stonehaven upper school. This school was started in the early 2000s and they started their high school in 2016. Personally I like to learn about modern history, global news and work out. In my free time I will sometimes play around with legos, or take my dog Bear on a walk. I like picking up other hobbies as well, like learning how to skateboard and surf, but I recently quit skating because I got hit by a car while skating down a hill, so I probably won’t be doing anything like that anytime soon.

I am 16 years old, a sophomore in high school. I am on the varsity Track team at this school, I’m not super fast but I’m fast enough to be competitive. In 10th grade I worked to start the student newspaper, the first newspaper at this school. I have worked to keep it afloat for the past year, the newspaper has around 12 people writing. The name of the newspaper is the Stonehaven Spotlight. This year my brother graduated from high school and from his role as captain of the Track and Field team. For the summer I am working at the school to repair the building. We paint walls, fix doors and repair dry wall. I started getting into journalism when I was around 14 because I remember seeing people fight over this or that thing. Not for any real reason besides them just having different information, both of the people fighting were very reasonable people. I always thought that kind of thing was dumb, and I thought it would be cool to be one of the voices educating people about stories they haven’t heard before. I want to tell stories about things that people who are genuinely curious, and who want to learn more about the stories of people around the world.

My main goal in my career is to do on scene international reporting, to see the world, to let people know what’s going on in places they cannot reach on their own. Working in some form of broadcasting for international events would also be extremely interesting. I’ve started learning some basic levantine Arabic, because one of the main requirements for international reporting is being bi-lingual. This is my main goal with my career and it will happen one day. I want to educate people who are interested in learning about these places. People should know what happens around the world and how it affects the average Joe across the world. Because even if it is reletively nice over here, the same could not be said about many other places, and their stories deserve to be heard as much as ours do.