By Tony Burchyns

Considering his grueling math and physics double-major, leadership activities and summer abroad doing astrophysics research in Italy, it’s hard to imagine Lewis Johnson was almost on the wrong path in high school.

But the 20-year-old University of the Pacific junior, who graduated from Vallejo’s Jesse Bethel High School in 2012, said he had to “beat the odds” to overcome stereotypes and other challenges that go with being an African-American male from a single-parent family.

“I was getting into fights … I got suspended … but even though I had difficulties, I still took honors classes,” Johnson said.

via Bethel grad hopes to inspire college dreams in Vallejo – Vallejo Times Herald.