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Helping others, while pursuing a dream
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Helping others, while pursuing a dream
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Ray Meese
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2018
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Chanz Hopkins, a fish conservation major in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment, has reinvented himself and will graduate this year, 17 years after graduating from high school.
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