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Northeast Suburban Life
August 19, 2009
SCHOOLS
ACHIEVEMENTS | NEWS | Editor Dick Maloney | rmaloney@communitypress.com | 248-7134
HONOR ROLLS
Mount Notre Dame High School
The following students from the Northeast Suburban Life area have earned honors for the fourth quarter of 2008-2009.
Freshmen
First honors – Brooke Dennis, Mary-Kate Mullinger and Kelsey Wolf. Second honors – Margaret Ferguson, Gabrielle Geraci and Madeline Stecz.
Sophomores
First honors – Carla Becker, Lauren DiNardo, Holly Laub, Lisa Renner and Elizabeth Warning. Second honors – Kathleen Donnellon, Akanksha Mishra, Kathryn Reynolds, Katherine Schwegman, Jennifer Sheehan, Jennifer Vonderbrink and Mary Wiesenberg.
Juniors
First honors – Rebekah Pike Second honors – Elizabeth Betz, Andrea Burns, Kelly Dennis, Madeline Duckworth, Jessica James, Carly Mears, Molly Mullinger, Kiley Powell, Natalie Torbeck, Alexandra Wilkens and Andrea Wolf.
Seniors
First honors – Megan Laub and Alexandra Schaefer. Second honors – Erin Centner, Kristen DiNardo, Jessica Keller, Erin Navaro and Jamie Stofko.
Sycamore Junior High School The following students have earned honors for the fourth quarter of 2008-2009.
Honor roll
Seventh-grade – Hannah Abrahamson, Jerry Arentz, Madeline Baker, Sari Baum, Brianna Bell, Christopher Bell, Olivia Bell, Sarah Birckhead, Dominique Bookwalter, Gary Bouajram, John Carroll, Rishabh Chatterjee, Brian Cleary, Hannah Coletts, Stefan Fakoukakis, Adam Finer, Juan Marco Francisco, Natalia Garcia, Ian Geverdt, Gabriela Godinez-Feregrino, Ideleth Gomez Ramirez, Rachel Gore, Nathan Gregg, Nicholas Hamburg, Meredith Hayden, Jennifer Hill, Jackson Hughes, Charles Jahn, Charnese Johnson, Brittany Jones, James Keefe, Tristan Kim, Noah Koehne, Abagail Kremchek, Victor Kurz, Trent Langland, Alec Leyendecker, Cara Leyendecker, Noah Loftspring, Andres Lopez, David Lopez, Genna Lukshus, Gabrielle Mahuet, Alexander Malone, Michael Masset, Laura Mendez, Austin Morrow, Martina Oroz, Christopher Pendergast, Angela Phillips, Whitney Philpott, Grant Price, Connor Pruitt, Justin Pruitt, Alora Reiff, Brady Ridener, Kristin Rodriguez, Jordan Schneider, Matthew Schneider, Gianina Schwegmann, Andrew Seide, Camellia Sengupta, Christina Shehata, Alexander Spohr, Jacob Thorn, Megan Vorpe, Vladislav Vovrichko, August Wagers, Bilal Wright, Jack Yang and Christopher Young. Eighth-grade – Madison Ashley, Conor Baas, Bradley Baird, Natalie Beck, Paige Berling, MacKenzie Bower, Evan Chu, Adam Darwiche, John Eifert, Brooke Esper, Mitchell Evans, Morgan Feldhaus, Kathleen Flavin, Aaron Frankel, Daniel Gushin, Madeline Haines, Wade Hare, Alexander Harpring, Katrina Hilvers, Matthew Hoopes, Marshall Hortel, Bradley Huber, Charles Johnson, James Jolley, Madison Jones, Alexander Kessler, Jennifer Khosla, Jessica Kim, Colin Knowles, Ram Tha Len, Manasphorn Linananda, Daniel Manion, Andrew Marchant, Thomas Marshall, Mitchell Mazzei, Wesley McKie, Lydia McWilliams, Alexander Miller, James Reece, Amelia Rogers, Matthew Russell, Aditi Sharma, Alexandra Stacey, Daniella Star, Nicole Streicher, Hayley Sypniewski, Karambir Tatla, Elisabeth Taulbee, Jon Vardanyan, Joseph Vuotto and Hailey Wagers.
Principal’s Honors
Seventh-grade – Munazza Aijaz, Ryan Aleksa, Prativa Amom, Jacob Barnhorst, Jacob Belcher, Helen Berger, Elisa Berry, Rajat Bhageria, Jake Biegger, Michael Bigliano, Thomas Bleesing, Ashley Bonnoitt, Kelly Borman, Parker Brarens, Julian Braxton, Abigail Brewer, Dylan Brown, Emily Callaway, Sydney Carroll, Bethany Caspersz, Krittika Chatterjee, Anshu Chen, KuanWen Chen, Dana Coleman, Taylor Combs, Sara Constand, Alexis Corcoran, Megan Crone, Jason Darpel, Nimit Desai, Andrianna DiMasso, Paige Domhoff, Madelyn Dukart, Elena Duran, Sabrina Eddine, Zachary Eklund, Jordan Elder, Zachary Farquhar, Sarah Frey, Samantha Games, Madeline Garrett, Jordan Gause, Thomas Gerrety, Dan Ginsburg, Erin Glass, Mikhail Goldenberg, Benjamin Goldschneider, Alekya Goli, Hanna Gottschalk, Angela Green, Azante Griffith, Leah Grinshpun, Sarah Grout, Lindsay Grzegorzewski, Morgan Grzegorzewski, Stephanie Gunter, Arushi Gupta, Jordan Guskey, Caitlin Guy, Carolyn Halstead, Jenny Ham, David Hamburg, Benjamin Hammer, Brent Hamre, Andrew Hanus, Emily Hayes, Tyler Henley, Brianna Hensley, Nicolas Hershey, Kalman Heyn, Jessica Hill, Austin Honeycutt, Allison Hsu, Brian Hu, Hayley Huge, Parker Hughes, Ami Ishver, Emanuel Jackson, Rupali Jain, Jonathan Jih, Elizabeth Johnson, Eli Kapourales, Allyson Karnell, Faith Kaufman, Zachary Kaufman, Grace Kays, Kristen Keane, Alison Kerry, Michaella Keyes, Omar Khan, John King, Annie Kitchin, Rachel Klein, Stephanie Kley, Melanie Klyop, Christopher Koellhoffer, Claire Koellhoffer, Adam Kuhr, Nicolas Kumar, Caroline Lawley, Kathryn Ledbetter,
Carly Lefton, Zara Leventhal, Todd Lewis, Trei Lewis, Sarah Li, Xiao-Wei Lin, Yao-Yu Liu, Alexandra Logsdon, Kathryn Lothrop, Anan Lu, Wendy Lu, Elizabeth MacVittie, Samuel Mangold-Lenett, Kara Marth, Logan Mather, Cassidy McDowell, John McLaughlin, William Meaders, Ricardo Medina, Anand Mehta, Hannah Melvin, Adam Merk, Natalie Michael, Jessica Miller, Evan Moeller, Kristine Monaghan, Anna Mondro, Kevin Mosko, Alonna Motley, Anesu Moyo, Neeraj Narayan, Gunnar Nelson, Karin Oh, Hadis Palic, Aaron Pang, Elina Panteleyeva, Shyam Parikh, Brandon Peck, Gabrielle Peck, Nicholas Pinkerton, Anthony Piper, James Ponticos, Kami Previte, Katherine Pruitt, Vinay Rayini, Elise Reardon, Elizabeth Reece, Mark Reinhart, Dasha Revina, Paola Reyes, Matthew Rickert, Edward Rivin, Ayla Robinson, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Hannah Roth, Kathryn Roth, Aditya Roy-Chaudhury, Jacquelyn Rudich, Andrew Sadler, Yusef Saeed, Allison Salach, Monica Sandoval, Michaela Sanford, Michael Saxon, Gabriel Schenker, Sara Sess, Cameron Seyler, Aleeya Shareef, Nathan Silverman, Andrew Size, Kai Smith, Madeline Smith, David Sorger, Rieko Sotojima, Ethan Spare, Ryan Stoneberger, Hanna Suggs, Rachael Sun, Elizabeth Swofford, Nikita Tandon, Ruochen Tang, Mark Tenenholtz, Doris Teras, Lauren Thompson, Margaret Thompson, Jackson Thurnquist, Katherine Touvelle, Liza Truncellito, Sanika Vaidya, Justin VanWagenen, Benjamin Vasunia, John Vuotto, Hope Wang, Manal Waqi, Bryan Waterhouse, Samantha Weiss, Kristen Wessinger, Nathan Whitney, Emily Wick, Emily Winchell, Shawna Wing, Morgan Winnestaffer, Abigail Wise, Chun Wong, Rachel Wright and Samuel Yengo. Eighth-grade – Aaron Abraham, Stephanie Adamec, Soham Agarwal, Patrick Aguilar, Janelle Adrienne Aguilon, Macalister Auciello, Michael Bacha, Anna Bailes, Lynn Bakes, Brooke Banner, Sara Barrett, Savannah Bates, Brian Beaudry, Matthew Benson, Caroline Berghoff, Mitchel Bie, Bridget Blood, Zoe Bochner, Shelby Breed, David Brown, Kealy Buckley, Randall Buka, Jay Burgin, Alison Buzek, Eric Byers, Alexandre Cabello, Katie Caldwell, Hanna Chang, Jacob Ciricillo, Marielle Co, Sallie Cohen, Madeline Conrad, Jenna Cooper, Mary Claire Cron, Yoseph Dalia, Madison Davies, Katherine Demarest, Mahima Devarajan, Samuel Dhiman, Ian Diersing, Rachel Dukart, Michael Edelson, Muhammed Erden, Michelle Ewert, Jacob Fischer, Elizabeth Fleming, Tallin Forshey, Robert Freeman, Charles Fry, Gabrielle Gerbus, Brendan Girten, Daniel Glauser, Ellie Goldman, Hannah Goldman, Laura Gonzalez, Brian Goodman, Nikhil Grandhi, Kelsey Green, Nathaniel Green, Amy Ham, Elliot Handkins, Rachel Handkins, Daniel Harmon, Kennedy Harris, Jamie Heiney, Charles Heldman, John Hinzman, Erin Hirst, Anna Hoffmeister, Elizabeth Howell, Joshua Hunter, Nanki Hura, Pinar Inanli, Stephen Ioas, Aaron Ishida, Xavier Jimenez, Justas Jodele, Timothy Jones, Abigail Kaluba, Corey Kandil, Yuri Karev, Grace Keeton, Pallavi Keole, Kelsey King, Emily Kissela, Nathan Kolb, Sandhya Krishna, Kelsie Larkin, Sydney Larkin, Kayla Lawson, Angela Lee, Joonhyuk Lee, Jenetta Lehn, Mara Leyendecker, Amy Liu, Hannah Locke, Christine Lu, Alexander Martinson, Alexander May, Madison May, Nicholas May, Sarah May, Kelly McDonald, Jaclyn Mendelson, Melissa Mendelson, Matthew Messina, Mallika Miglani, Alana Miller, Leah Miller, Michelle Muskal, Madison Nelis, Lindsey Neville, Samuel Niederhelman, Matthew Nurre, Joseph Perin, Hanna Peterson, Charles Poff, Austin Post, Sarah Pulliam, Claire Pustinger, Casey Rayburn, Sarah Refaei, Marybeth Reinhold, Bianca Rhodenbaugh, Ingri Rivera Sanchez, Emma Rogge, Christine Rollins, Samuel Roth, Paul Salach, Jonathan Seger, Nicholas Setser, Fiona Shaw, Madeline Shaw, Samantha Siler, Nicholas Singstock, Will Sloan, Alexandra Smith, Katharine Sohlden, Alexander Southward, Andrew Spiller, Jonathan Stein, Dylan Stern, Stephen Strickland, Jonathan Sussman, Caitlin Tanis, Nikita Thomas, Elysha Thoms, Ryan Toomey, Mariana Troncoso, Chelsey Wade, Amelia Wells, Garrett Whitfield, Rachel Willis, Alexis Wilsey, Alexander Winchell, Samantha Wolkoff, Tracy Wong and Kento Yamamoto.
Freshmen
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College offers scholarship to returning National Guard Raymond Walters College is offering a special scholarship in recognition of the service exhibited by members of the military. In a collaborative effort with the local unit, members of the Ohio National Guard’s 123rd Air Control Squadron and their dependent family members can receive three free credit hours at the college, which is part of the University of Cincinnati. The scholarship, in the amount of tuition for three credit hours, will be offered August 2009 through August 2010 in any open enrollment class at the RWC in Blue Ash.
the scholarship, members need to provide military ID at RWC’s OneStop (Muntz Hall, 150) at the time the application is submitted. The college’s enrollment services will verify applicant’s eligibility as a deployed member of the 123rd or a dependent of the deployed member. Eligibility will be forwarded to the RWC Business Office for scholarship application to student’s account. For more details about the scholarship or assistance in applying, contact Tom Minter in RWC’s Intake Services at 745-5783 or at thomas.minter@uc.edu.
Those eligible for the scholarship must meet the following criteria: • Must be on the official roster of the Ohio National Guard’s 123rd Air Control Squadron. • Must have been deployed to Iraq from December 2008 to May 2009 or be a dependent family member of one deployed. • If a dependent, UC dependent procedures will apply and the member must provide proof of dependency. The scholarship can only be applied to Raymond Walters College credit courses only. In order to take advantage of
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Ultimate auction
Ursuline Academy will hold the 27th ultimate auction, the largest fundraiser of the school year, Nov. 21 in the school’s Besl Theatre. The Ultimate Auction’s executive board met recently to gear up for the annual late fall fundraiser. Members include, from left: front row, Allison Yeager of Montgomery, Michelle Morgan of West Chester Township, Barb Backscheider of Blue Ash, Ginnie Donovan of Blue Ash and Anne Marie Kaes of Blue Ash; back row, Ellen Bourgeois of West Chester Township, Sue Dickens of Montgomery, Micki Harrell of Kenwood, Mary Alice LaPille of Maineville, Lori Haines of Anderson Township, Julie Ruggiero of Blue Ash and Becky Ishee of West Chester Township.
SCHOOL NOTES Students earn credit
Sycamore High School students Anne Brant, John Brooker, Dev Patel and Aaron Sears earned dual high school and college credit by completing the inaugural STEM Summer Academy at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College. The students successfully completed college-level courses in engineering technologies, bioscience or Spanish on an accelerated schedule. Students also received free tuition, parking and a lunch allowance along with a $700 stipend. The STEM Summer Academy at Cincinnati State was funded by a $167,000 grant from the Ohio Board of Regents.
Scholarship
St. Ursula Academy
The following students have earned honors for the fourth quarter of 2008-2009.
ACTIVITIES
Evans
Abigail E. Evans of Montgomery has been named a winner of Fifth Third Bank’s 2009 Fifth Third Scholarship Program. Established in 2004 by the Fifth Third Foundation and administered by the National Merit Scholarship Corp., the Fifth Third Scholarship
Program annually recognizes and rewards the academic and civic achievements of 17 children of Fifth Third employees. Each winner receives a one-time scholarship of $2,500 for undergraduate study at a college or university. Evans, who graduated from Sycamore High School, summa cum laude, and finished among the top five students in her class, is a National Merit Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction and served as president of Sycamore’s National Honor Society. She was also co-director of MAGIC, a charitable, community-based a cappella singing ensemble and served as a volunteer for Operation Give Back, Unified for UNIFAT and Relay for Life. Evans will attend The Ohio State University as a Distinguished Scholar in the fall, and has been selected as one of 40 freshmen to participate in the OSU Leadership Collaborative. She is the daughter of David, a vice president in the corporate tax department with Fifth Third Bank, and Mary Lou Evans.
ARTrageous Saturdays
ARTrageous Saturdays begins its 23rd season Oct. 24 with comedic juggling from The Gizmo Guys, and wraps up in April 2010 with performances from Catskill Puppet Theater. The performing arts series for families with children ages 3 to 10 is sponsored by the city
of Blue Ash. All performances for ARTrageous Saturdays are at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in Muntz Theater, on the UC Raymond Walters College campus. Parking is free. Season subscriptions are $20 for all five performances. Single tickets are $5 and can be purchased in advance. For more information, tickets or a complete list of the lineup, call 745-5705 or visit www.rwc.uc.edu.
Rhythm ‘n’ Blue Ash
Raymond Walters College is inviting music lovers to feel the rhythm in Blue Ash at the 23rd season of Rhythm ‘n’ Blue Ash concert series. The 2009-2010 series features local stars the Faux Frenchmen (Oct. 24), Kathy Wade (Nov. 14) and Percussion Group Cincinnati (Jan. 30) as well as newcomers the Hunt Family Fiddlers (March 6) and Irish step dancers. Season subscriptions for all concerts are now available for $35. Single tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Special student and child rates are also available. All concerts are at 8 p.m. in the Raymond Walters College Theater located in Muntz Hall. Parking is free. For ticket information, call the ticket hotline at 745-5705 or visit www.rwc.uc.edu.
First Honors – Lauren Elizabeth Eckhoff, Sarah Ruth Kappers, Claire Elizabeth Sheanshang and Katherine Grace Woebkenberg. Second Honors – Rachel Elizabeth Court, Katherine Alicia Metzger and Elizabeth Amorette Zilch.
Sophomores
First Honors – Natalie Patricia Bryans, Claire Elisabeth Niehaus, Emily Marie Nimrick, Michelle Christine Platz, Ellen Marie Reinhold and Meghan Anne Winter.
Juniors
First Honors – Christine Louise Metzger and Shannon Marie Reilly. Second Honors – Katherine Elizabeth Albers and Jessica Parker Hedgebeth.
Seniors
First Honors – Lauren Elizabeth Amyx, Ann Bronwyn Bryans, Anne Elizabeth Dirkes, Margaret Lynn O’Brian and Mary Margaret Platz. Second Honors – Kaitlin Michelle McCafferty and Emily F. Mertens.
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Christian leaders
Ursuline Academy students in each class are invited to recognize the student in the class who best exemplifies integrity, kindness and compassion with the Christian Leadership Award. These students were honored at the Academic Awards Ceremony at the end of the school year. The 2008-2009 Christian Leadership awardees are, from left: freshman Jennifer Holbrook of Montgomery, sophomore Grace Reifenberg of Loveland and junior Desirae Ball of Sharonville. The senior winner was Rebecca Callahan of Milford (not pictured).
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