Tamara Mangum, a 16-year-old junior, hopes to go to the University of South Carolina to study pediatrics. After graduating from the university, she wants to get a job involving children in some way. She is considering working as a nurse, midwife, babysitter, pediatrician, or preschool teacher. When asked why she is interested in this field, she replied, “[I] want to help [children]... They’re very interesting and fun to play with.”
Mangum has already had experience working with children. “I babysit a lot.” She takes care of her six-year-old brother and a five-year-old child. Ideally, she would like to work with elementary school-age children in the future.
She is already taking two classes at OHS, a teen living and a child development class, to prepare her for her career. Mangum is planning to have children of her own, but she wants to wait until after she is through with high school and most of college. She would like to start having children when she is 20 to 24 years old.
During the summer, Mangum spent her time away from OHS playing baseball with her father and shopping with her mother. Her father, George, plays on a local team, the Destroyers, in his spare time. She also went to Myrtle Beach, where she swam in the ocean and walked on the beach shore.
Mangum feels “good” about her second semester of journalism. “I feel good because I’ve taken it one time.” She is taking the class again because “I like finding out information… Everybody would have their different story if the truth didn’t come out.”
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