Accomplishments

• Senior Pete Cappetta from Lisle, a high honor roll student at Montini Catholic, has been nominated for the Wendy’s High School Heisman Award for his outstanding performance in the classroom and on the sporting field. Cappetta is the treasurer of the National Honor Society. In the baseball off season, Cappetta acts as captain of both the basketball team and the football team. Last summer, Cappetta volunteered to work with the children at the DuPage Easter Seals.

• Kari Chesney, a Woodridge resident and senior at Downers Grove South High School has been awarded a Presidential Scholarship, to attend North Central College, Naperville. The Presidential Scholarship is North Central’s most prestigious merit-based award.

• Natalia Kecala of Lemont was among 79 students at Fenwick High School have been named 2006 State Scholars by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission. The State Scholar program recognizes Illinois high school students for outstanding academic achievement.

• Gwendolyn Meldrum of Bolingbrook has been selected for membership in the National Society of High School Scholars. The society recognizes the top scholars in the nation and invites only those students who have achieved superior academic excellence.

• Cadet Evan Holmes, a junior at Howe Military School in Indiana, was named to the Headmaster’s List for the fourth six-week grading period of the 2006-07 school year. Holmes, a Darien resident, received this special award by attaining at least a 3.0 B average in his studies in a college prep curriculum.

• The National Society of High School Scholars has announced that Mount Assisi Academy student Danielle Dement of Lemont has been selected for membership. The society recognizes the top scholars in the nation and invites only those students who have achieved superior academic excellence.

• Victoria House of Westmont, a junior at Nazareth Academy, La Grange Park, has been selected to participate in the National Student Leadership Conference State Leadership Workshop - Illinois during the summer at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

• Valparaiso University student Erin Votava of Naperville is one of several social work majors who are helping out the community through their internships. She is an intern at Kyle Elementary School in Portage, Ind. She is also helping to improve self-esteem and team work among students as well as working with other behavioral problems such as anger management.

• Woodridge resident Jennifer Barnes won the Illinois Community College of Trustee Association’s Student Essay Contest at College of DuPage. She earned a $100 award and entry into the state competition through ICCTA. Her essay was “What College of DuPage Means to Me.”

• Deanna Jourdan of Woodridge won second place in the Illinois Community College Trustees Association Student Essay Contest at College of DuPage. She wrote on the theme topic, “How My Community College Has Changed My Life.”

• Kathryn R. Braun, a Naperville resident and senior at Naperville Central High School was awarded the Arlo Schilling Presidential Scholarship to attend North Central College, Naperville.

• Jenna Jungels, a senior at J. Sterling Morton High School West, Berwyn, was awarded a Presidential Scholarship to attend North Central College.

• Nearly two dozen College of DuPage honors students were among the 60 presenters at the Honors Council of the Illinois Region Annual Spring Student Conference at North Central College, Naperville.

Wheaton: Camille and Kennerly Diebold and Victor Nguyen

Glen Ellyn: Erin Curzio, Morgan Hirsch, Kristina Komorowski and Vincent Scola

Lombard: Eriona Jaupi, Kristina Gorton and Jacob Stelter

Naperville: Lauren DelCarlo, Marko Glisic and Rachel Baisley

Bartlett: Angela Cibich

Carol Stream: Patrick Clemens

Villa Park: Christine McParland

Warrenville: Christine Dyslin

Woodridge: Noah Mann-Engel

Brookfield: James Loulousis and Edward Verity

Dean’s List

• Curry College

Lisle: George Cademartori

• Azusa Pacific University

Lisle: Erik Anderson

• Washington University

Lisle: Daniel Modaff and Linda Yang

Downers Grove: Kevin Mulqueeny

• Marquette University

Woodridge: Jeanna Altosino

• University of Iowa

Woodridge: Ryan Dornbos, Sarah Marseille, Michael Panko, Janelle Pluta and Lindsey Winter

• Aurora University

High honors

Bolingbrook: Sofia Rodriguez and Michelle Vaught

Romeoville: Alan Milstead

Woodridge: Yury Kolesnikov

Regular honors

Bolingbrook: Roberto Hernandez, Jessica Hilliard and Candace Savage

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

Woodridge: Prakash Rao and Susan Samreth

• Illinois Wesleyan University

Bolingbrook: Egle Baliukaite, Stephanie Bannos, Mallory Roberts and Dorothy Wawrzak

Romeoville: Sara Longtin and Liesl Miller

Lisle: Stephanie Gockley, Haleigh Morgan and Jessica Wiley

Woodridge: Matt Goergen

High Honor Roll

• Nazareth Academy

Lemont: Kailyn Hmura, Cynthia Zavala

Honor Roll

• Nazareth Academy

Lemont: Brittany Bossard

• Mount Assisi Academy

Lemont: Melissa Berardi, Kathleen Dillenburg and Christina Yang,  Renee Clinton, Stephanie King, Stephanie Mikel, Srividya Ranganathan and Monique Slad, Mary Beecher, Danielle Dement, Leah Henrikson and Ann Szram, Katherine Wallace

Naperville: Emily Adams

Romeoville: Selina Sepulveda

Woodridge: Gileene Daradar

Bachelor’s degrees

• St. Xavier University

Bolingbrook: Marcus Clemons

Lisle: Shannon Mayor

Romeoville: Michele Gena

• Valparaiso University

Naperville: Erik Horton and Jennifer Nagle

Roselle: Kathryn Pawula

Willowbrook: Neil Gross

• Columbia College

Lisle: Amy Coyle, Edward Emanuelson, Megan Mackinnon, Frank Panek, Donald Parenteau, Andrei Szwajka, Alaina Paul, Aimee Campos, Amanda Cline, Jason Evers, Stephanie Kilburg, Elizabeth Klafeta, Bryan Serafini, Ian Smith and Helen Failing

Woodridge: Lisa Conant and Kimberly Reed

Master’s degrees

• St. Xavier University

Naperville: Vanessa Acoff and Maria Labova

• Valparaiso University

Lisle: James Schroeder Jr.

Law degree

• Valparaiso University

Roselle: Michael Biederstadt

Scholarships available

• Rich Duran, Will County regional superintendent of schools, has applications available for the Julie A. and Lloyd Lehman Journalism Scholarship. The scholarship is offered by the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education in honor of the late Dr. Lloyd Lehman and his wife, Julie. This year’s Lehman Scholarship will award three $2,900 scholarships to graduating seniors in Illinois who plan to study journalism in college. The deadline for submitting the application materials is Sunday, May 25. For more information, or to receive an application, contact Duran at the Will County Regional Office of Education, 302 N. Chicago St., Joliet, IL 60432, or call the office at (815) 740-8360.