Wade Hampton High School Graduate Overcame the Odds

By Connie LeGrand
Anchor
Published: June 19, 2008

More than 40,000 students recently graduated from South Carolina’s Public High Schools - each with a story to tell.  Many overcame tough circumstances and great odds, but the Greenville County School District says one of its graduates is a true inspiration.
According to the District’s Marketing Services Specialist, Tiffany Warlick, “The most interesting would have to be Nateashia R. Green-Rose from Wade Hampton High. Her father killed her mother and then shot himself when she was 18 months old. Her aunt was granted custody of her, but they were on drugs and were barely making ends meet, so Child Support Services took them all away. Nateashia and her cousin were taken in by a great aunt, but they couldn’t support them either. She ended up in the custody of Earlene, a relation of her mother and father, where she received the emotional, mental, physical and financial support she needed. One of her motivations in life is the proving wrong those people who thought she couldn’t make it. “
We spoke to Nateashia who says she doesn’t let the darkness of her future, shade the light of her past. “I’ve learned to live with it, and I take it as a stepping stone in my life; because I’ve learned to focus on my potential and not my limitations, which have helped me, become the person that I am today.”
Nateashia told News Channel 7 she doesn’t know much about her parents, other than the circumstances of their deaths. She credits many great teachers and school leaders for helping her along the way.
Nateashia earned a scholarship from Pepsi and will attend Winthrop University in the fall, where here she hopes to study journalism. She’s a young woman with an amazing story to tell who wants to make sure other peoples’ stories are told.


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http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/gcsd/news/release/2008d/pepsi.asp