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April Lewis is a class of 2016 grad. While at Jennings, she served as Student Council President, National Honor Society President, was the captain of the volleyball and soccer teams, and even played basketball for a season.  April also was a member of Healthcare Occupational Students of America (HOSA) and the Concert Choir. As student council president, she had the opportunity to travel Missouri to expand the vision and impact of Jennings’ Student Council. After graduating, she went to Spelman College in Atlanta, GA on a full-ride scholarship and graduated in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences. While there, she worked in the Health Careers Office, tutored students in biochemistry and chemistry, and mentored elementary schoolers. Immediately after graduating from Spelman, she returned back home to St. Louis to attend medical school at St. Louis University School of Medicine, as her dream was always to become a doctor to assist people in her local community and combat racism and barriers in the medical field. At her medical school, she served as a Class President and Executive Council Vice President, SNMA president (an organization that supports those underrepresented in medicine), conducted several research projects, and initiated and spearheaded numerous service initiatives for the local area. She will graduate from medical school in May of 2024 with her Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.) from St. Louis University, and will begin a 4 year residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She will deliver babies, perform surgeries, and provide women with pregnancy-related and routine health care. April has actively worked to increase the number of diverse people in medicine by serving in positions alongside stakeholders to advocate for change. She even started an organization called More Black Docs to encourage others who are interested in healthcare and in need of assistance. April loves serving the St. Louis community, and she particularly enjoys giving back to Jennings and getting involved with the students.

Dan Gray is a proud graduate of Fairview high school in 1969.  He has become a familiar face in the St. Louis area as he has been a prominent news caster in our area.   Dan Gray joined the KTVI FOX 2 News team in 2004 and the KPLR News 11 team in 2008. He anchors Fox 2 News at 11 AM and News 11 at Noon and reports weekdays for both stations. Dan is also the Fox 2/News11 Medical Reporter.

From 1992 to 2003, Dan was an anchor/reporter for KSDK-TV in St. Louis. He also worked as an anchor/reporter at KOVR-TV in Sacramento, California and KETV-TV in Omaha, Nebraska.

Dan has won several journalism awards including seven Emmy awards. He received the “Best Anchor” Emmy four times. He has been nominated for Emmy awards numerous times.  In a recent “Fairview high school Jennings, Missouri” facebook group page post, Dan Gray said “Love the memories…Class of 69! Always a Warrior.

 

Todd Jordan (2009) became a standout student athlete through his years at JSH.  Todd played cornerback for the football program as well as catcher for the baseball program.  Todd stated that most of his memories at Jennings came from the old practice field (grass area to the west of the campus).   Todd’s proudest accomplishment was being a part of the 2006 conference and district champion football team.  He believes that team, that season, could’ve been made into a movie.  Todd racked up many awards while at JSH including honor roll, team captain, and 2nd team all conference in back to back years.
After Jennings, Todd went on to Quincy University on a football scholarship where he was named the freshman of the year in 2009.  In 2010, Todd was named Defensive captain, which he held to 2013.  Todd earned 2nd team all conference honors while at Quincy and after graduating, he went on to play professional football in Brazil for 3 years.  Todd Jordan has mentioned his old DB coach Carl Allen as his initial inspiration in continuing improving in the game of football and moving to the next level.
Todd is currently teaching English as well as the offensive coordinator at Lely High in Naples Florida and has worked in radio broadcasting/podcasting as well.  Look for Todd’s rado show called “CoolAzz Saturday’s” at coolassradio.com and his podcast called “Crazy but True”.

 

Prince Lyons (2013) is full product of the Jennings School District, running his entire K-12 education, from Northview to JSH in the JSD.  Some of Prince’s memories and titles are being Homecoming King in 2013, a member of the Student Council (VP in 2013) and was the 1st recipient of the Superintendent Scholarship.  Prince starred at “Danny” in “Grease” at Jennings.  Prince was a member of the Jennings dance team, choir, DECA.  Prince earned a BFA in dance at Webster University (Class of 2017).  Currently Prince Lyons is a professional dancer, model and choreographer.  Since graduating, Prince has danced for Visceral Dance in Chicago, The Cambrians, Hanna Brictson & Dancers, Own/Cox Dance Group, and most recently, Ballet Rambert in the United Kingdom.  Prince has performed the work of Robyn Mineko-Williams, Jermaine Spivey, Ohad Naharin, Sidi Larbi, Mathew Rushing, and Damien Jalet.  Prince has modeled for Dick’s Sporting Goods and Nike and performed with recording artists like Jessie Ware, and danced  at theaters as world renowned as Sadler’s Wells.

 

Ryane Boyd (2010) was such an amazing presence in the building during her time at Jennings Senior High School.  Loved by her classmates and teachers, Ryane was certainly a breath of fresh air in the J.   Amongst the many great memories Ryane said she had, the opportunity to travel to Europe with some of her peers through the Student Travel Leaders group was at the top.  The students saved money for 2-3 years in order to make this trip a possibility.  Ryane says she wouldn’t trade that experience for anything.  Ryane’s proudest accomplishment during her years at Jennings was her induction into the National Honor Society and made the Deans List.  She always strived for good grades but fell short of hitting the 3.5 GPA mark by her sophomore year.  Ryane worked to build her GPA up during her Junior year and was able to become a member of the 110% club (which was an organization for students with a high achieving GPA).    Ryane made it her point to be involved in as much as possible in order to get into her “dream” University.  Some of her honors included honor roll, 110% club, NHS, Class President/Student Government, and Student Travel Leaders.
Currently, Ryane is on the Associate Board for Boys and Girls Hope, a board for the Good Shepherd Arts Center, and a member of the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council at Wyman Center.
Ryane is currently holding a position as the Persistence Manager for Wyman Leader.  She also is an adjunct teacher at UMSL through the UMSL Bridge Program where she teaches 11th grade College Prep.  Ryan Boyd continues to lead so many youth along side of being a model who was featured in magazines in the past three years.

 

 

Jennifer Kelch came to Jennings in 1998 after a 2 year stint in the Normandy School District as an art teacher.  Kelch claims to have so many memories, from seeing all the students at Prom to the fun art club activities to the family ceramic nights.  She also has enjoyed going to New York for the NAEA Conference.  The surprise of being named the teacher of the year by Dr. Anderson and being nominated by Dr. McCoy for the Midwest Outstanding Teacher of the Year for Making IT Happen Teacher Award 2019.  Mrs. Kelch was awarded the District Teacher of the Year award in 2015, along with being the co-founder of the the 1st animation class with artists from LION Forge (2017-Present).
More positions Mrs. Kelch held are:

District Fine Arts Coordinator (2010- Present)

Member of the Missouri Art Education Association (1997-Present)

District Fine Arts Festival Coordinator (1999-Present)

New Teacher Mentor (on-going when needed)

Art Guild Sponsor (1999- Present)

Founder and Sponsor of Annual Art Contest (1999-Present)

District Gala Committee Member (2014-Present)

Member of NAEA (August 1997–Present)

Founder of the Family Ceramic Night (2017-Present)

Member of ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) (August 2018—Present)

 

Class of 1997, Lashondolin Brown (now Moriya Rose), was a three sport student-athlete, student council, school newspaper, and National Honor Society member for Jennings Senior High.    Moriya’s favorite memory at Jennings is having made it to state on the 4 x 100 relay team and becoming a state champion.  Moriya also represented Jennings as the salutatorian, graduating second in her class.  Moriya went on to graduate from the University of Northern Iowa and served in the US Army from 2003 to 2007.
After her military service, Moriya became a published author and performs spoken word and poetry.

 

Darryl “Scoop” Grady (Class of 2007) was a four year track star and state champion along with one of the most elusive football student athletes to ever walk the halls at Jennings Senior High.   Scoop was a junior during the historic 2006 (9-2) Conference Champion football team where he broke the school record in receiving yards at 513 yards on 35 receptions (14.7 avg. yards per catch) along with 73 carries for 595 yards (8.2 avg.).  In his senior season, Scoop tallied 2 more receptions from the previous year with 37 receptions for 616 yards (16.6 avg.) along with and 68 carries for 433 yards (6.4 avg.).  Most of the receptions to Scoop were quick screen, wide receiver screen, play action screen, and quick hitting – high percentage passes that he would break for so many first downs and touchdowns.   The night of November 8th, 2006, Scoop compiled 237 receiving yards and 3 touchdowns from QB Nelson Rainey, who threw for a total of 343 yards in our season ending playoff loss to Parkway North.   Scoops receiving statistics are still a school record today.  When looking at his averages of when he touched the football, you can understand how he single handedly made his football teams that much more successful.  Scoop Grady went on to play college football at Highland community college in Kansas then transferred to Lindenwood University.  After college, Scoop played professional indoor football with the St. Louis Attack where he played running back.   It was in his college years where scoop discovered his gift of gab and gradually began working on his comedic podcast called “Da inside Scoop” where you can catch the latest laughs from this Jennings legend.  Scoop is a proud father to his son Brayden and husband to his wife Tam.

 

 

Breenae Washington graduated Jennings Senior High in 2007 where she excelled in the classroom and was a member of the 2005 State final four basketball team.
Growing up, she excelled at math and science but often questioned her abilities because she didn’t see other girls who shared her interests.  Despite the lack of representation, with the support of her family and teachers, she found the strength to take the road less traveled.   After receiving her degree from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and starting a career in IT, she quickly noticed that the lack of diversity in STEM/STEAM was still a serious issue. This fueled her desire to make a difference.  Breenae became an engineer with a passion for diversity and inclusion.  Today, her mission is to bridge the gender and diversity gap in STEM/STEAM through early exposure and education. She hopes that young girls can see themselves throughout the pages of her book titled “THE STEAM QUEENS” and are inspired to learn more.  Breenae was recently (March 2022,) was a contestant on the FOX Network’s “Domino Masters” (Season 1 Episode 1) where groups compete against each other in performing domino engineering challenges.

Brock Seals, class of 2011, was an outstanding student at JSH and became known in the St. Louis area for creating art & opportunities for others.  Seal’s provides a platform for emerging artists to display and showcase their work to large crowds. Many say that Seals is a young man with an ‘old soul’. Brock is said to have a level of wisdom that he conveys through his art like no other.  Brock Seals has created art work for several sports stars and celebrities like the late Nipsy Hustle, Jonoris Jenkins of the LA Rams/NY Giants and St. Louis Cardinal Harrison Bader.  Brock has taken his work to the streets of St. Louis where he has beautified so many areas with large murals of his work.