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Berook is an honor roll student who served as the student liaison of the National Honors Society. He attended Charles Herbert Flowers High School and was in the Science and Technology Program. Berook is multitalented to say the least. He was a soccer player, a member of the high school choir and gospel choir, who did not only have several solo performances, but has been awarded the Outstanding Lead Singer Award. Berook also speaks Amharic and Spanish.
He was member of the Spanish Honors Society, and even had time to successfully earn his black belt in Tae Kwon Do from the Arnis Tae Kwon Do Academy. In 2003, he gave a speech at Howard University on the AIDS epidemic in Ethiopia, which was sponsored by the World Bank. Many of you may recognize him from Debre Genet Medhane Alem Ethiopian Orthodox Church where he is not only an active member, but a junior deacon. He will be attending University of Maryland Baltimore County in the fall.
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