Geoffrey “Geoff” Bentsen is a senior at North High School. He was named Rotary Student of the Year. The award is presented annually by the Rotary club. Geoff has demonstrated outstanding performance His quiet personality, and his kindly attitude and Outside the classroom. He is number one in his class and academic. “I feel grateful; I don’t know how many times I can say thank you. My parents are very supportive and they are so proud.”
Outside the classroom, Geoff plays in the band and in show choir combo. Jeff has been doing theatre since 5th grade. He has been in several plays such as: The Preacher Son, Joseph and the magical color coat, Once Open A Mattress, Oliver, The King and I, Then There Were None, Match Maker, Bye Bye Birdie, Music Man, imperfect proposal, Small Wooden House, Fiddler On The Roof, and Just Like Us. Being in theatre helps him to be himself and not be afraid of what others think and just have a blast being on stage and sharing a laughter with the audience.
Geoff is planning on going to St. Olaf and majoring in math. Geoff loves to read, and prefers fantasy novels. “I just got the three musketeers, and can’t wait to start reading it.”
One of Geoff favorite course is World Religion. He loves this class because it teaches you to think and you explore things on your own. You get a piece of paper and write down what you would like to learn in the class and the teacher allows you too. Courses that he highly recommend: CIS college composition, communication and world religion. These classes helped him in finding what he wanted to do for college and it’s a great college in school practice.
One of the thing he remember of high school is that he had a lot of work but it made him work hard to achieve what he wanted. “Do what you enjoy and pursue it to the best of your capability, challenge yourself.”
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