The Arrow’s “The Museum of Me”
Friday, September 17, 2021
By Alyssa Lunsford
At Southeast, we all pass by new faces every day. Each student, faculty and staff member possesses artifacts which make them who they are, whether they be trinkets or relics. This weekly feature explores a gallery of those personal artifacts and the stories behind them. This is the Arrow’s “Museum of Me.”
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Sunee Hermon is a senior psychology major at Southeast. You may pass by her and not notice during your busy day, but here she shares three items that mean the most to her and why. This is her Museum of Me. (Photo by Alyssa Lunsford )
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2015 - 2016 Women's Choral Award. This award was awarded to Sunee and another girl for the women's section in the concert choir at her highschool in Festus, Missouri. After Hermon took her music credit, her high school told her and others that they were not required to have any more music classes .However, she decided to stay in choir until her senior year. "We always play music in the house, and I really jam in my car, but never did anything outside of that other than a vocal competition that nothing came of," Hermon said. "I think that this was the first thing that I'd actually gotten rewarded for music, aside from competitions." (Photo by Alyssa Lunsford)
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Quarry Critters Little Mouse a gift from her grandfather. As a young girl Sunee was called Little Mouse by her grandfather due to her small size. "My mom's dad called me Little Mouse when I was a kid, and he lived with us before he died. So, he had my mom go online and look for figurines, and he found the Quarry Critters. I think that I've got seven of them before he died; they kind of just sit, and they are really cute. Being a smaller child is what led her grandpa to call her Little Mouse. "I really do think that he called me [little mouse] because I was really small. One of the Christmas gifts that he had gotten me before he passed was a textured book, and it said, 'Merry Christmas, Little Mouse,' and it had the grandpa mouse reading the story to the granddaughter mouse. It was just super precious." (Photo by Alyssa Lunsford)
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Letterman jacket patch from Festus, Missouri High School. During her high school career, Hermon did three years of track and earned the Scholar Athlete Award twice. She was on her school's varsity track team the last two years she participated. Her events were the open 100-meter dash, the open 200-meter dash, the open 400-meter dash, the four by one relay, the four by two relay and the four by four relay. "I did lots of sprints,"¯ Hermon said. "I did pole vaulting, too. Once they figured out that most of us on the pole vault team could run, we basically ended up having to run." (Photo by Alyssa Lunsford)