Joe Hornaday
With only a few short weeks before graduation, the seniors at Greensburg Community High School are preparing for the next step in their lives. Among them is 18 year-old senior Jeremy Moorman, who already has a solid plan for the summer, college and his career.
Moorman has always lived in Greensburg, and is currently serving as president of the Junior Optimist Club following his participation in the club for many years. His involvement with the group has had him spearheading things like the yearly shoe sale to benefit the Bread of Life and last October’s coat drive with the Psi Iota Xi sorority. Moorman said he became involved with the Junior Optimists because of his older brother’s past presidency and participation with the group.
Moorman said he used to play both basketball and tennis for the school, but has since centered his focus on the game of golf. He explained that he had always liked golf best anyway, and noted that for him, driving was his strength and much easier than being on the green clutching a putter.
While not on the golf course, working with the Junior Optimists or in school, Moorman can often be found working at HOP Communications, a job he said he will have until he leaves Greensburg at the end of the summer.
Once the college semester begins at the end of the summer, Moorman will be packing up and moving to West Lafayette to attend school at Purdue University. He is going to study aviation management, and Moorman said he hopes to become an air traffic controller.
“I just like that challenge,” Moorman explained.
He said he knows it’s going to be a tough and stressful job following the four years post-secondary education and then six months learning the ropes at a working airport, but it is a career in which he is very interested.
Moorman said he was inspired by the movie “United 93,” the film that chronicles the events of the United Airlines Flight that was hijacked during the terrorist attacks in September of 2001. United 93 was the flight that ended up crashing in a field in Pennsylvania.
Moorman is looking forward to graduation, and already has set up an apartment near Purdue with his best friend Chris Mirik. With a solid plan for his future, Moorman is ready to leave his school career behind in Greensburg and move on.
