Chrislyn Ellen Sands, 18, is a cheerful senior at Indiana Academy (IA) where she is involved in band, bell choir, gymnastics, campus caring ministry, and playing her guitar or flute for campus ministry services. She is a true renaissance lady who enjoys all the arts and helping make people happy.

A native of the Bahamas and the daughter of Roger and Peggy Sands, she attends the Cooperstown Adventist Company. She came to the United States—after working with a former IA student, Anita David, in the Bahamas—to continue her Christian education.

"She always has a smile and is positive in the dorm," says Peggy Fisher, Indiana Academy girls' dean. "Ellen is cheerful and really shows appreciation for living in the dorm."

Ellen says the most important thing she has learned in academy is that "friends are one of the most important things (in life), and that God works in little mysterious ways, coming to help exactly when you need Him." Her most memorable experience was receiving her brand-new guitar from her best friends on her 18th birthday. She says that her favorite class is music.

Michael Ryan Shull, 18, is a senior at Indiana Academy where he is a hardworking, responsible student. His ambition for a career is to become an X-ray technician.

"Michael is a right-hand man in the registrar's office; dependable, bright, very capable; and a person who gets along with others," says Beth Bartlett, Indiana Academy registrar. "He will be successful wherever God leads him."

As senior class vice president and yearbook editor, Michael has a lot to do. He says that the most important thing he has learned during academy is "the value of hard work."

Michael is a member of the National Honor Society and was the president of the local chapter his junior year. He enjoys playing piano and organ, taking numerous pictures, and working with computers.

The son of Ed Shull and Ann Miller, Michael is a member of the Cicero Church where he helps run audio systems and plays the organ.