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Delbarton Has 113 AP Scholars he results are in! Congratulations to the 113 Delbarton students who qualified as AP (Advanced Placement) Scholars in 2011. Only about 18 percent of the more than 1.8 million students worldwide who took these exams in May 2010 performed at a sufficiently high level to merit such recognition. 15 Delbarton students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award (as well as AP Scholar with Distinction Awards) by earning an average grade of 4 or higher on a 5-point scale on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 4 or higher on eight or more of these exams:
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Class of 2011: Christopher Aquino, Peter Godart, Brian Khoe, Nicolas Luzarraga, Andrew MacMaster, John McMahon, Robert Patten, Douglas Peters, Thomas Pigott, Adam Suczewski and Alex Tarnowski Class of 2012: Omar Rizwan, Ritchie Shen, Alexander Shypula and James Weldon The following 44 (59 if you include National Scholars) students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams:
Class of 2011: Matthew Albano, Nicholas Cerrone, Peter Chambers, Peter Cozzi, Nicholas Donatiello, Hunter Dougherty, Andrew Flatley, Gregory Fobben, Brian Grumka, Nicholas Howard-Johnson, Spenser Huston, Kyle Kaplan, Rob Kautzmann, Colton Klein, Brian Limbo, Kyle McLaughlin, Wade Morgan, Mike Noelke, Patrick O'Meara, William O’Donnell, Sawyer Rice, Dominic Rizzo, Matthew Saburn, Jason Saitta, Gregory Scalera, Albert Smith, Adam Suczewski, Gregory Sweetman, Alexander Tarnawski, Derek Veslasco, Timothy White and Walter Wygera Class of 2012: David Colavita, Connor Feeley, Thomas Fickinger, Kevin Larkin, John Lee, Michael Li, Kevin Liu, Vincent Pacelli, Jonathan Rogers, John Russell, Ryan Slattery and Andrew Tsukamoto The following 26 students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams: Class of 2011: Gregory Ballanco, Liam Cross, Peter Kelly, Morgan Pearson, Daniel Pirovano, Evan Santoro, Albert Striano, Chetan Sukh, and Patrick Toolan
Class of 2012: James Berkman, Yasin Damji, Spencer Furey, Matthew Gibbons, Michael Johnson, Gregory Keiser, Ryan Maguire, Timothy Mason, Brian Paskas, Steven Penny, Max Rogers, Ryan Rogers, Luke Rossi, Steven Rybicki, Vivek Shimpi, Kevin Sweeney and Michael Woo The following 28 students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP exams with grades of 3 or higher: Class of 2011: Kyle Brennan, Dean Brierley, James Ferrando, William Huff, Matthew Killian, Justin Park, Stephen Reynolds, Thomas Skea, Sean Spatz and John Tetnowski Class of 2012: Eric Benz, William Beute, Henry Bolo, Andrew Christie, Devon Gobbo, Chad Heal, Gregory Herrigel, Christopher Kohl, Nicholas Lee, Sean Maguire, Sean Onderdonk, Zachary Posess, Jonathan Ramirez, Eric Shiuey, Adam Vincent, Gregory Vlahakiss and Harrison West Class of 2013: Christopher Chen We salute our 113 Delbarton 2011 AP Scholars! TJ Sullivan ’10’s name was mistakenly omitted from last year’s list of AP Scholars. We regret this error.
did a crash course of the Balkans (Trieste, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia), spent a month backpacking across Turkey, toured the Causcauses, (Georgia and Armenia), and travelled to the rest of what he had not yet seen of eastern Europe, including Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Slovakia and a brand new country, a breakaway territory not yet recognized internationally, called Transnistria. Dan Szelingowski will complete his M.A. in Education Leadership, Management and Policy at Seton Hall University this March. English department chair Michael Vermylen studied at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT, working on his M.A. in English. He took two courses: Playwriting, in which the final project was to write a one-act play, and Chaucer, in which his class read both The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde in the original Middle English.
TIDINGS Faculty member Dan Szelingowski married Kristin Storz on Saturday, July 30, 2011 at St. Cecelia Church in Rockaway, NJ. The couple lives in Morristown, NJ English department chair Michael Vermylen and Emily Rossi Vermylen were married on June 4, 2011 at the University of Chicago’s Bond Chapel in Chicago. The couple resides in Hoboken, NJ. Faculty member Patrick Finn and his wife Susan welcomed their son Zachary (continued on page 40) FALL /W INTER 2011 39