Accomplishments
• The following Robert Morris College honor students, who participated in graduation ceremonies at Chicago’s Arie Crown Theater in November, have been recognized:
Darien: Thomas Kuba, special high honors award, bachelor of business administration
Hinsdale: Mark Schaefer, summa cum laude, bachelor of business administration
Willowbrook: Alicia Gray, magna cum laude, bachelor of business administration
• Cadet Shannon Marcolini, a 10th-grader at Howe Military School from Clarendon Hills, was named to the superintendent’s list for the second six-week grading period of the 2007-08 school year. Shannon received this special award by attaining at least a 3.5 B+ average in her studies.
• Members of the Clarendon Hills Middle School Symphonic Band have been invited to perform at a music educators’ conference in Chicago that is expected to draw more than 15,000 participants from around the world. The Midwest Clinic is the largest international band and orchestra conference in the world. The CHMS Symphonic Band presented a rehearsal lab at the clinic on Dec. 20 at the Palmer House. The band is under the direction of Terry Melbourn.
• One hundred and eighty-three Hinsdale Central High School seniors and 78 Hinsdale South High School seniors have been named Illinois State Scholars by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission. Although program participation by high schools is voluntary, nearly all of Illinois’ top students elect to have test scores and high school class ranks sent to ISAC for consideration. About 10 percent of Illinois’ high school seniors are designated State Scholars and receive a Certificate of Achievement for the accomplishment.
The Hinsdale Central High School students named as Illinois State Scholars are: Zayna Afifa, Mavara Agha, Omar Akhtar, Lauren Albanese, Eric Anden, Kenneth Anderson, Scarlett Angelo, Elizabeth Awick, Michael Baker, Kaitlin Baranowski, Timothy Barrett, Jacquelyn Bell, Caroline Berger, Binoy Bhansali, Nicholas Brady, Peter Bromann, Kevin Bruns, Tori Burchett, Christopher Burlet, Kacey Byczek, Li Cai, Carolyn Cakir, Lauren Caron, Grace Carpenter, Elizabeth Carroll, Meaghan Cassin, Margaret Cavenagh, Natalie Chan, Faye Cheng, William Cheng, Frances Ciolino, Emily Cleary, Chase Culberton, Timothy Curran, Harrison Dahl, Danielle Davis, Kyle Denlinger, Rebecca Dillon, David Discipio, William Edwards, Katherine Eilers, Vidal Ekechukwu, Michael Ellis, Allison Emery Robert Everette, Matthew Falislek, Christine Fayette, Anuhya Gampa, Monil Gandhi, Haley Gelz, Margaret Geoga, Katherine Georginis, Emily Gilmore, Kristen Glomb, Mihir Gokhale, Elizabeth Golden, Vikram Gourineni, Amanda Graveline, Adam Gross, Maxwell Grove, Alexis Gui, Peter Hahn, Selma Haverich, Grant Hawkins, Kirsten Henshaw, Jennifer Houpy, Ouwen Huang, Thomas Hutchinson, Scott Istvan, Akshay Jain, Laura Jerzyk, Parker Johnson, Alexandra Joyce, Robin Kalsbeek, Charlie Kane, Joseph Kapusta, Jenna Kauppi, Ashlyn Keefe, Amanda Kim, Molly Kinsella, Blake Kocian, Karishma Kollipara, Anurag Kondapalli, Kathleen Kopolovic, Shreya Kota, Rachel Landsman, Kyle Larkin, Samantha Larson, Alexandra Lederhausen, Elizabeth Leung, Yuan Li, Anne Lindberg, Chloe List, Andrew Liu, Michael Liu, Jason Loebig, Emily Lombardi, Jared Lowenthal, Cassandra Lubenow, Lindsay MacKenzie, Nick Makowski, Jennifer Marcucci, Catherine Mardula, Olga Matsyuk, Kevin McDonald, Mohit Mehta, Michelle Meyer, Ingrid Mielke-Maday, Nina Mohan, Lauren Monaghan, Lili Montoya, Megan Moran, Kevin Mori, Paul Morimoto, Benjamin Morrison, Nicollette Muniz, Esha Nagpal, Christina Newkirk, Amanda Nieman, Brendan O’Flaherty, Arne Olsen, Ilene Palacios, Max Parry, Nicole Parsons, Shachi Patel, Gregory Patterson, Gregory Paul, Anthony Pedota, Swetha Penmasta, Kirsten Peterson, Scott Pfisterer, Baxter Phillip, Brock Piche, Colleen Potocki, Joseph Pribyl-Shay, Ellie Proussaloglou, Meghana Pulikuri, Visha Rao, Kathryn Rentas, Peter Richard, Nicholas Ruge, Nina Salami, Allison Seibel, Davis Shah, Juying Shang, Katherine Sims, Vivek Singhal, Kathryn Sipos, Khaja Diraj, Saraswathi Sista, Andrew Smiles, Kevin Smith, Michelle Smith, Kathryn Somerfield, Laurel Stankus, Mari Sullivan, Alexander Sun, Miranda Sun, Michael Switala, Charles Tarabour, Amir Tarsha, Shehzad Ukani, Kathryn Ventura, Mahima Vijayaraghavan, Alexandra Vogts, Alyssa Vrdoljak, Stefan Vukajlovic, Kerstin Walker, Alexis Ward, Lauren Weaver, Katherine Weller, Alice Werley, Kyle Willson, Katherine Witham, Ivan Wu, Kyna Xu, Naomi Yarin, Jonathan Yu, Alexandra Zaccone, Egle Zakarauskaite, Bo Zhang, David Zheng, and Frank Zogas.
The Hinsdale South High School students named as Illinois State Scholars are: Sean Adair, John Michael Aguilar, Kristin Alyinovich, Laura Armstrong, Jonathan Asimakopoulos, Louis Asimakopoulos, Michelle Bigelow, Gregory Blachut, Laura Breier, Justine Bzowski, Jessica Carlson, Kenneth Castaneda, Ksenia Chernova, Huzefa Chinwala, Kirsten Damon, Rebecca Davies, Margaret Dayhoff, Cassandra Deking, Michael Difiglio, Lisa Fan, Jake Folkerts, Kelsey Gibson, Lauren Graczyk, Colleen Hannon, Kinan Hayani, Daniel Herber, Donald Higgins, Lindsey Hinni, Daniel Hopp, Kelsey Isaacson, Kaitlyn Jahelka, Keith Janson, Arathi Jayaraman, Daniel Johnson, Jillian Jones, Amanda Jue, Katie Kaczmarski, Lucas Kelleher, Matthew Koltis, Elizabeth Kong, Elizabeth Kubik, Lauren Lavan, Roger Li, Michael Lim, Kathryn Mayka, Laura McInerney, James McNally, Amara Mian, Frankie Michalak, Daniel Miller, Jennifer Milner, Christopher Mlynarczyk, Hristo Oskov, Sapana Parikh, Natalie Patterson, Amanda Peterson, Deepa Ramadurai, Jeremy Ramilo, Vyshnavi Reddy, Johnna Reggi, Brittany Reidy, Daniel Sabo, Matthew Schwarz, Sabeen Shamsi, Afia Shareef, Pranali Sheth, Bradley Shewalter, Timothy Silver, Anne Marie Sweeney, Viktor Terziysky, Alexander Vega, Shilpa Viswanath, Lee Vlcek, David Walker, Ashley Weis, Reed Wilson, Brian Wolf and Michael Zevin.
Honor roll
• Lakeview Jr. High School, first trimester
Academic Excellence - for students who earn a GPA of 5.0, all A’s and have no U or I grades
Sixth grade: Karolina Ambrazaite, Jacob Amiri, Dawn Arrington, Deanna Bailey, Ryan Bovard, Alan Bui, Caitlyn Buongiorno, Kevin Chentorycki, Esabelle Cherry, Kristian Cikoch, Christopher David, Kimberly Donner, Ryan Gannon, Haley Holz, Alexander Johnson, Steven Kirkolis, Brian Kulpinski, Jack Marcoski, Rebeca Martinez, Ahona Mazumder, Patrick O’Donnell, Christopher Pedrak, Marissa Peyer, Emily Pikul, Robert Quinn, Kaanan Raja, Kovas Rugienius, Amanda Rutkowski, Jason Ryan, Shirali Shah, John Stoppelman, Vidya Velayutham, Partick Wisdom and Stephanie Zurales
Seventh grade: Celeste Aguzino, Claire Aguzino, Abigail Armato, Connor Bailey, John Bonk, Brittany Dietz, Robert Dudasik, Emily Foernssler, Povilas Golokvoscius, Grace Grannan, Stephanie Hall, James Ivkovic, Anna Jedralski, Tosha Kadakia, Ammar Kalimullah, Ryan Koniecko, Morgan Krause, Amy Lanega, Nicole Leon, Tony Liu, Martin Lyman, Ashley Maghirang, Alison Maslar-Donar, Taylor Meek, Supal Mehta, Ryan Morrissey, Alexander Page, Dhara Puvar, Sarah Tinoco, Daniel Wisdom, Julia Wood and Alvin Wu
Eighth grade: Bridget Albright, Kimberly Bauer, Christopher Behnke, Steven Birch, Jamei Borges, Madeline Cahill, Carly Charles, Michael Cho, Gregory Cohen, Katherine Depa, Kristin Dwan, Keaton Ford, Rosaley Gai, Noelle Gancero, Matthew Glad, Brian Kelly, Maura Killian, Bhavana Kolli, Andrew Kryk, Daniel Kubik, Ericka Laviste, Lisa Ledvora, Jennifer Lee, Rachael Loek, Justin Marquez, Milica Mihajlovic, Kelsey Miller, Alexa Ozcanli, Elizabeth Palumbo, Jessica Pikul, Erin Quinn, Karyna Rodriguez, Michael Ruth, Evan Sarros, Michelle Spiewak, Rebecca Stearns, Adam Tscherny, Bryanna uhlir, Erin Walsh, Michelle Wrzesinski and Angela Zurales
High Honors - for students who earn a GPA of at least 4.5 and have no D, F, U or I grades
Sixth grade: Michael Arbet, Jessika Avanzado, Joseph Bernas, Meaghan Bosman, Lauren Buckley, Ryan Casey, Ellen Chiligiris, Marissa Chow, Matthew Colip, Connor Corradi, Wesley Dahle, Emily David, Pavel Dimitrov, Andrew Fox, Chase Gozdziak, Theresa Grannan, Luke Grischow, Deja Hale, Mark Horeni, Jana Issa, John James, Claudia Jarmakowicz, Austen Johnson, Dana Kendzierski, Spero Kouchis, Dana Kremer, Chandree Lacanlale, Miranda Luna, Patrick Maczko, Kellyn Maguire, Marija Markovski, Julian Martinez, Melissa Marusarz, Kelly McCarthy, Nia Monjes, Michael Mule, Evan Murley, Ryan Nowakowski, Karley Polivka, Nolan Sarros, Alyssa Saunaitis, William Shi, Emily Slayden, Shannon Snyder, Jessica Stacko, Kevin Stanuch, Meaghan Stec, Christopher Tegeler, Daniel Thiel, Cameron Welker, Heather Wrzesinski, and Tyler Zowaski
Seventh grade: Nicholas Alfini, Jena Armouti, Jason Baird, Krystal Berryman, Mitchell Bild, Sadie Bredwell, Finnian Burke, Anna Burton, Kelly Cavanaugh, Edward Cheng, Marie Domabyl, Alexandria Dwan, Andrea Fogarty, Taylor Froats, Olivia Germann, Grace Goodwyn, Charles Harris, Marissa Jama, Jeffrey Jelen, Andrew Jovien, Gregory Kobliska, Steven Kryk, Marc Kurdas, Matthew Kurdas, Kristine LaRue, Vincent Leong, Erin Maloney, Robert Mara, Teadora Markovski, Alyssa McLean, Macy Murray, Kishore Palla, Zachary Paskvan, Dakota Pawlak, Gabriela Pecenka, Ariel Pitts, Caroline Porlier, Kevin Raher, Nicholas Rossi, Kierstin Scheitlin, Kevin Seelander, Richard Soria, Peter Stahulak, Kelly Stapleton, Benjamin Stearns, Jessica Szynal, Ivan Tang, Daniel Tedeschi, Matthew Tokarski, Sara Uhlir, Lucas Welker, Connor Wilson and Dean Wynn
Eighth grade: Bret Adams, Alex Bahaveolos, Jesus Bahena, Brett Bialek, Alejandro Canales, Rachel Caraher, Amber Carpenter, Daniel Catalano, Charles Chang, Timothy Chow, Nicholas DeSanto, Jessica Gabric, Amanda Grata, Kara Haugh, Robert Heatherington, Alexandria Irvin, Malak Issa, Rishikesh Iyer, Ryan Jordan, Michele Jurkovic, Lillie Kase, Karoline Kijowski, Marija Kleivaite, Mary Kouchis, Jack Luce, Lisa Malina, Jenna Maloney, Tara Marcoski, Michael McCallion, Michael Mommsen, Nicole O’Janovac, Nicholas Panko, Nola Pieper, Dominic Pjescich, Lori Pluchrat, Kelsey Roske, Dominick Rovito, Shailabh Shah, Stephanie Skarin, Madeleine Snyder, Jacquelyn Thate, Arianna Tonietto, Christopher Truong, Eric Veverka, Christopher Whitt and Alisa Zhou
Honors - for students who earn a GPA of at least 4.33 (B+) and have no D, F, U or I grade
Sixth grade: Lauren Bennett, Paul Daly, David Fish, Kayla Galvez, Partick Markmann, Alex Meier, Alenna Olvera and Kayleigh Stewart
Seventh grade: Matthew Baker, Jessica Bejna, Danielle Conrad, Cody Freischlag, Michael Keslinke, Jordan Krawczyk, Kristin Kremer, Charles Kumkoski, Jessica Lach, Mary Marley, Patirck Mosebach, Adam Newton, Alyssa O’Neill, Elena Orozco, Kevin Stapleton, Austin Sun, John Walsh and Christopher Widdel
Eighth grade: Alyssa Arway, Paulina Baba, Fredrick Barton, Christopher Eberhart, Colin Flynn, Kaitlyn Fox, Zachary Froats, Karrianne Fuller, Stephen Gaul, Caitlin Grudzinski, Mason Maguire, Danielle Meyer, Jerin Pappachan, Shobana Rao, Sydney Rice and Daniel Viskocil
