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I hope you enjoy browsing through my site and learning how
you or your student can improve their academic success through musical studies.
~ Victoria
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Congratulations to my "Little sister queen", Nashville's
OT Victoria Calton,
on being crowned the 2009 Tennessee Outstanding Teen!
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| MIRACLE NETWORK THROUGH VICTORIA'S PAGE |
Click on any of the photos below to take you to various pictures and slide shows of events from the past year including
Victoria's trip to Miss America and coverage of the tornado she survived. Also, the tabs in the menu bar at the top of
the page will help you explore AIMS as well as various other information related to Victoria's platform and education.
| Union University Variety Show |
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| The R.A.s present the NEWSIES |
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| Victoria @ Vegas |
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| Miss America 2009 competition |
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| Good News! NO SURGERY!!! With TLC and |
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| therapy Victoria was good as new by December! (click in) |
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| SUMMER INTERN 2008 |
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| Union University Tornado Clean up (click in) |
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| Bag/Tag saving as many students' precious memories as they could. |
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| Click in for Fox 17 Interview w/ Victoria |
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2008
- A year of challenge. In
January Victoria sang at her grandmother's funeral. In February she crawled out of a collapsed building after an
EF4 tornado destroyed Union University. Over the next three months she worked to finish the semester and continued as
an R.A. of students living in a hotel. In June she competed at Miss TN and then finished the summer as a music intern
with FBC working with the staff, choir and orchestra. She also volunteered as a counselor where she went on trips with
students to New Orleans repairing houses; worked with middle school girls in TN at a survival camp; and with children as a
music instructor during funweeks. In September Union opened the newly restored campus and Victoria was involved in a freak
accident that broke her elbow into three pieces. The next three months involved therapy and some intense pain.
Her father's new company became a victim of the economy; Victoria had to give up paying positions that involved her playing
the piano; she learned to get by with her left hand in all her classes. 2008 was a very challenging year; a year of
growth; of character building. 2009 - A year of promise and hope.
Victoria began 2009 with a trip to Vegas to cheer on Miss
TN, Ellen Carrington. In February, she began her final semester of core classes. She will student teach in the Fall and
graduate with a Bachelors of Music and three teaching certificates. Victoria produced the fundraiser "Union Idol"
for Union's SAI chapter in February, sang at the Union "Remembering Feb. 5th Thanksgiving Service" at the Carl
Perkins Center, and worked with her fellow RAs to present the "Newsies" at Union's Variety Show. She currently
performs with three of Union's choirs as well as serves on the ResLife staff and as a hostess at the Carl Grant Events
Center to continue paying off her college tuition. She continues to promote A.I.M.S. through writing legislators, going to
classrooms and being an active member of S.A.I., MENC and various other organizations. As Miss Nashville 2009, Victoria is
preparing for the Miss TN 2009 competition in Jackson, TN this June. She has made several appearances and has served by judging
a local high school pageant, volunteering at community events in Nashville, speaking in classrooms and organizing a fundraiser
for the Children's Miracle Network.
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