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By Carrie Forrister
Staff Writer

While most sixteen-year-olds are worrying about their taking driver's license tests and preparing for the SAT, Jessica Lovell is studying Western Civilization and Art History (among other things) at Georgia Highlands College.

This sixteen-year-old says, like most teens, music is in her heart. However, while most people only listen to music, trying to find the latest band or newest beat, Jessica Lovell Lovell has taken an active part in it.

Along with her two sisters, Megan and Rebecca, Lovell has studied the violin. With great devotion and numerous teachers, she has played the violin for nine years. Her current teacher is Mrs. Marie Griffith of Rome.

Due to her incredible talent, Lovell has become a member of several quartets, trios and symphonies. Two symphonies she identifies herself with are the Rome Symphony and the Southern Adventist University Symphony.

Lovell and her two sisters have formed their own trios as well. The sisters have formed both an instrumental and vocal trio. While their instrumental trio is taking off, their vocal trio has really taken a backseat.

Over the summer the vocal trio was recorded for television; the recording was broadcast on the station 3ABN. The three of them are currently scheduled for additional spring sessions to be broadcast on the television and the radio. Also, they can be hired to play at weddings and special occasions.

Along with the violin, Lovell enjoys playing the piano. After taking lessons for three years, she now continues to play the piano in her spare time. What is left of that time she hopes to fill with teaching herself to play classical guitar.

Lovell is an active Christian who has found an interest in learning new languages. Over the summer she attended a six-week language program in Sagunto, Spain, to learn Spanish. Other languages she plans to learn are French and Japanese.

Lovell also holds a place in her life for animals. In 1998 she founded a dog kennel, Mukiwa Kennels. There she raises Rhodesian Ridgebacks. Her oldest dog, Halley, has earned her championship and several other national class wins.

Lovell has high hopes in the future of attending medical school and living somewhere on the west coast. To start those dreams she attends Georgia Highlands College while still being home schooled to complete her high school education.

Lovell plans to transfer to the University of Georgia, and then on to the Medical College of Georgia. For her residency after medical school, Lovell dreams of an internship in Portland, Ore.

But for now she will have to make do with her busy life in Rome.