FRANKTON — Frankton High School senior Mary Turner loves school.

In fact, when the school day is over, she heads to the elementary school to help students with their homework.

“I enjoy being around the kids,” she said, “most of the time.”

Turner is one of the high school’s graduates this year. She has developed a passion for helping people that she plans to pursue after high school.

She was accepted into Indiana University in Bloomington and plans to room with one of her friends from school. Rooming with someone she knows will make the college transition easier, she said.

While at college, she plans to study nursing, because she wants a career that will let her help other people.

Also, biology was one of her favorite subjects in school. She was not a fan of math.

As a student, Turner is involved with the National Honor Society.

In her spare time after school, she went to Frankton Elementary School and participated with a program there that gave the younger students extra help with their homework and studies.

She has enjoyed helping other people for as long as she can remember, she said.

Part of the reason is because church and Christian values are important to her, she said.

She is an active member of the First Pentecostal Church in Elwood. Fellow church members are like an extended family to her, she said.

For instance, church members helped her a lot when her parents divorced during her sophomore year in high school.

She lived with her mother at first but now lives with her father.

Her church helped her with the transition.