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Monday, October 23, 2000

Distinguished Scholar piles up the achievements
Kimberly Buehring, science scholarship winner, is precocious, multifaceted, say those who know her
By Stephanie L. Jordan
Caller-Times

Michelle Christenson/Caller-Times

Banquete High School senior Kimberly Buehring, 17, a Caller-Times South Texas Distinguished Scholar in science, went to a science fair in Japan.

Kimberly Buehring was in the second grade when she came home and announced to her mother that she wanted to be judged on her achievements.
   "I want people to think of me by what I do and what I say," her mother remembers her saying.
   One of her achievements has attracted international attention.
   Kimberly, daughter of Harvey and Jane Buehring, took her project on sun block to Tokyo for an international science fair early this year.
   "I read something that commercial sunscreen was not blocking the damage being done . . . so thought I should do this," she said. "There's just a lot of skin cancer in the area. . . . There's a lot of skin cancer in my family, but nothing fatal."
   This Caller-Times Distinguished Scholar in science is second in her class of 60 at Banquete High School and has a grade average of 96.8, or 101.68 with honors classes factored in.
   Kimberly said her trip to Japan was the best experience of her life. She met Japanese students, toured the country and met the Imperial Prince and Princess of Japan.
   Her dream school is Duke University, though she's still undecided on her major. She has been awarded a five-year scholarship to Drexel University, which she also is considering.
   "She's smart in so many different ways," said Banquete High School teacher Michael Reichle. "She's one of those kids teachers want 100 of."
   She has been class president throughout high school, plays basketball and volleyball and has won the Rotary Youth Leadership Award.
   Although she excels in science, her favorite subjects are English and history.
   "I think they're subjects you can really get into," she said. "With history you can learn how things from before made us what we are today. When you read, you can understand the world and yourself better and when you write you can let things out."
   Jane Buehring said her daughter has always been perceptive.
   "Even as an infant she watched people and then talked, but in complete sentences," she said. "It was surprising sometimes."
   And she hasn't lost that ability with age, Reichle said.
   "At the competitions she conducts herself as if she were a graduate student," Reichle said. "She can talk about some abstract things and the judges are just drooling all over themselves. In class I'll say something that's confusing and she'll explain, 'Here's what he's trying to say' in a way that actually makes more sense than how I said it.
   "She's that match that sparks everyone in class."


Staff writer Stephanie L. Jordan can be reached at 886-3724 or by e-mail at jordans@caller.com

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