Updated 12:00 a.m., Sun May 19, 2013
PHOTO BY: Nick Hillemann

Joseph Taylor Benton V of Greenbrier High School is a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship program.

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Greenbrier student graduates as National Merit Finalist

Carol Rolf

As a young boy, Joseph Taylor Benton V distinctly remembers “wanting to be a cowboy-butcher-astronaut.” “I wanted to be all three of those when I learned you could have more than one job,” he said with a smile. Now, 18 and a recent highest-honor graduate of Greenbrier High School, Benton plans to attend Hendrix College and major in physics. “I really don’t know what I want to be yet,” he said, “maybe a professor or a physicist or any... READ MORE

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