2020-21 Board of Education Lisa Szczupaj, President Frank J. Annerino, Vice President Samantha Bray Ader, Secretary Wenda Hunt Zubair Khan James Taylor Anthony Wang Superintendent of Schools Laurie Heinz, Ed.D.
Thank you to Ben and Lauren of the NOW Arena for their hospitality and efforts in helping to make today’s graduation possible for our students, families and staff. Thank you to our PTSA for their continued support of our students and programs. And lastly, thank you to District 15 for the supportive collaboration in this special day.
Cover art by Shruti Malasala
Plum Grove Junior High School Class of 2021
Commencement Program Tuesday, May 25, 2021 11 AM NOW Arena
Commencement Program Pledge of Allegiance
Ms. Nitya Borra, Student Council Representative
Welcome
Dr. Kerry Wilson
Student Reflection
Ms. Nitya Borra, Student Council Representative
PG Charger Spirit Award Recognition
Presented by Mr. Mark O’Kelly
American Legion Award Recognition
Presented by Mr. Mark O’Kelly
“We Are the Champions”
Ms. Riya Ramalingame and Ms. Pradhanya Sudhakar
Presentation of Diplomas
Mrs. Samantha Ader, Board of Education, and Dr. Laurie Heinz, Superintendent, and Dr. Claire Kowalczyk, Deputy Superintendent
Closing
Dr. Kerry Wilson
Recessional
Guests, please remain seated until all graduates have exited the arena. You may then exit through the main entrance. Graduates will exit through Door 4 and can meet up with guests in the closed section of Hoffman Boulevard.
Congratulations Graduates Abella, Melinda Agarkar, Ruhee Aguirre, Kevin Allam, Cynthia Amano, Dylan Anderson, Rachel Arai, Yuri † Ariza, Valeria Arun, Mithun Ganapathy * Athwale, Mitali * Avila, Christopher Awad, Christopher Bago, Dylan * Bai, Emma Balan, Kashish Balica, Victor Balusu, Rithesh Barbour, Lewis † Barretto, Ryan * Bartoszek, Justyna Bayarbat, Chuluunbat Belmonte, Victoria Bennett, Lauren † Berkmans, Adrian Bieschke, Cole Blane, Steven Blasevich, Olivia Blume, Sarah * Bond, Dennis Borra, Navya Sai * Borra, Nitya Sai *†‡ Brandson, Maxwell Brault, Parker Breen, Edward Budzisz, Andrew Burgos, Anysa
Cabungcal, Brian * Calderon, Alexander Cambray, Sebastian Caminiti, Emilly † Carney, Ryan Cassiday, Stella *†‡ Caulfield, Hannah Cazares, Christian Chahal, Nimar Chaiyaroj, Chloe Chanda, Samyukta Chandhok, Aditya *† Chandran, Charan Venkat Chandrasekar, Ranjani * Chandrasekaran, Varun Chang, Daniel Chapin, Samantha Chen, Isabella * Chen, Landon Cheng, Preston Chierico, Kayli Chirumanilla, Sadhika Cho, Minhee * Chuang, Katelyn Conneely, Ethan Corso, Jace Creamer, Nolan Cymmer, Jacob D'Agostaro, Luigi †‡ D’Antonio, Federico Dalal, Isha * Dave, Rahguvir Degiulio, Gabriella Dhaliwal, Gia Dharwadkar, Malvika †
Di Giacinto, Sophia DiGirolamo, Natalia Dilillo, Isabella *†‡ Dilles, Nicholas Dompke, Natalie Donohue, Erika Drenth, Maia †‡ Du, Ryan Dudley, Cannon †‡ Duncan, Ariana Ekwonwa, Obinna Ellis, Heaven Enciso, Zoe Englisz, Ewa Enkhtuvshin, Michelle Fairley, Cameron Farwell, Adrienne Fay, Eleanor Fischer, Noah Flahive, Ethan Fligel, Abby Floody, Kenneth Florine, Sophia Foley, Charles Foreman, Alexander Franke, Tyler * Fujino, Zoe Galsandorj, Enerel Gama, Julia Ganti, Nithya Garst, Ethan † Garthwait, James † Gentile, Douglas Gershon, Alexis Gersic, Tyler Giandonato, Michelle Gillaizeau, Emily Giustino, Angela
Golden, A'Maya Gorceac, Ionela Gosz, Evan Grabowski, Elise Grela, Andrew Hadcock, Kevin Hadjiev, Maxim Hammond, Kathryn Han, Esther Handa, Akshat * ‡ Handa, Ananmay Hanrahan, Paul † Haupa, Natalia Hays, Kai Heavener, Colton Helms, Noah † Herman, Caleb Herman, Evan Hernandez, Aliyha Hewson, Cooper ‡ Hinkle, Nathaniel Hinton, Jaeden Hirsch, Samuel Holloway, Blace Hsu, Audrey* Hunt, Natalyn Hussain, Hania Hussain, Zaid Ilkiv, Bohdan Indiamaowei, Bubaraye * Jacobsen, Joshua Jain, Samanvee Jakubowski, Greta Jekova, Victoria Jhaveri, Rhea Johnson, Abigail Johnston, Joseph Johnston, Thomas
Kaiser, Isabella Kaminska, Emilia Kanchi, Rishi * † Kang, Samuel * Kannan, Shreya Kannan, Sneha ‡ Kanupke, Claire Kaparthi, Aditi Karanjkar, Trisha Kashyap, Ashish Kaushik, Isha Kawaguchi, Momoko Kawczynski, Jacek † Keller, Taso Khalimsky, Kennedy Khan, Ziyan* Kim, Andrew Kim, Clara Kim, Derek Kim, Eden Kim, Emily J *† Kim, Emily S * Kim, Jungi Kim, Kaylee Kim, Sena *† Kim, Yechan Klimas, William Knize, Alexander Koltz, Emily Kosakowski, Gabriel Kowalczyk, Laura * Kozak, Nicholas Krishna, Keerthi Ku, Caitlin * Kulpins, Joseph Kurihara, Ryo Kwon, Gia* Laabs, Karl
Lakshminarasimhan, Vaishnavi
Lawry, Austin Lebron, Santino Lee, Allison Lee, Yujun Leon, Annelis Li, Andy Li, Jason B Li, Jason Y Lialios, Theodore Lightfoot, Caden Lin, Joshua* Litchfield, Lukas Liu, Evangeline Lobraco, Athina* Lu, Edwin Lucas, Hailey* Luna, Dakota Lyall, Selene* Ma, Ouci Madamsetty, Rashmi* Mahidhara, Ashwin Major, Jalen Malasala, Shruti *‡ Manne, Spandna Manzo, Michael † Marathe, Omkar Martin, Kaelee *† Martin, Trinity Martinez, Iysis Maruyama, Kaito Matuleviciute, Hilarija * McAvoy, Jacob McClurg, Noah McGoldrick, Lily McGowan, Alayla McIlhon, Luke * McMillan, Grace †
Mikula, Nickolas Mimura, Kilala * Ming, Aaron Mistry, Ved *‡ Mitchell, Amerah Mleko, Kyle Moan, Isabelle Modjeski, Max Mohanty, Isha Moretti, Jessica Moy, Aaron Muhundan, Kowsikram Muppalla, Devansh Murray, Cole Myftiu, Alexia Nacorda, Patrick Nadas, Draven Nakayama, Sota Nass, Rachel Nattami, Nethra Nayar, Aarav Nehls, Elisa * Nelson, Cooper Nguyen, Sonya Nikas, Iphigenia Novak, Andrew Numata, Chisato O'Kelly, Colin * Oh, Hyelin * Olech, Konrad Osorio, Alonso Pabbu, Ruthwik Pae, Hannah Palani, Shriya Panzino, Vincent Park, Alex * Patel, Aidan Patel, Aney Patel, Maya *†
Pathapati, Ansh Patterson, Hannah * Pavshok, Vadim Pavshok, Victoria Paweleck, Riley Pedraza, Betsabeth † Peers, Corey Peng, Yixiang Peterson, Stephen Pettinger, Chase Philip, Esther Philip, Zachary Piento, Taylor Pietrini, Gianna †‡ Pitner, Bryson Plizga, Samantha Porawski, Oliver Porter, Adrian Porter, Kevin Potter, Jackson Powell, Gavin* Price, Allison Price, Pierre Prince, Ashish* Quaschnick, Sophia Rajan, Anirudh Rajesh, Nia Ramah, Jacob Ramalingame, Riya Rao, Julianna Rao, Shushil * Ratliff, Carter † Ratliff, Chloe Ravela, Manasvini Riskind, Noah ‡ Robbins, Nicholas † Rodino, Molly ‡ Rothmeyer, Kate *
Rushing, Addison *† Russ, Gabrielle Sadorf, Avery Saju, Alvin Sallade, Sasha Sanchez, Angela Sanchez, Mario Sanders, Dai'jour Santos, Camryn Saraiya, Prisha * Sashinaka, Naoko Sauer, Jonathan Saxe, Brennan Schader, Tyler †‡ Schillinger, Katherine Schleede, Madison Schleser, Chloe Schlesinger, Elyse Schmeling, Nathaniel Schuld, Kara Sciuckas, Lukas Serges, Maya Serwinek, Oliver Sgroi, Karly Shah, Aadi * Shah, Arjun * Shah, Kashvee Shah, Shivein Shaikh, Fathima Sharma, Dev * Shi, Haoran *† Shimizu, Kotaro Shin, Zion Siddiqi, Shayan Siemionka, Julia Sim, Brian * Simhadri, Sahasra * Simonian, Sofia †
Sippel, Lauren Sloan, John Sobanski, Benjamin Song, Ellie * Soulakian, Sophia Srihari, Vedanth * Srivathsa, Meera Srivatsa, Shashwat *‡ Stankiewicz, Jacob Stevens, John *†‡ Subash, Shivani Suderman, Aaron Sudhakar, Pradhanya ‡ Sumida, Shiori Sunkara, Ishani Sutanto, Gabriel Suzuki, Rayna Sydor, Kevin Syed, Uzma Sze, Patrick Tajima, Kei Takahashi, Nahoko Takano, Kaito Talbott, Mckenzie Talluri, Ritej Tateishi, Kent † Tateoka, Lea Tellez Farias, Maximiliano Tellez Fuentes, Gael Terry, Karma Thanasri, Aidan Thiry, Jocelyn Thota, Rushita Timonen, Zachary Tofilon, Camryn ‡ Tomaino, Gabriella Torlakovic, Alem Tsuji, Yume
Tulga, Murun Tybon, Mary Upadhyaya, Aarna Usubalieva, Meerimai Vadamodula, Harika Vaghela, Aarya Vanukuri, Anvith Varon, Michael Vazquez, Jared Veeramachaneni, Tapasvi †‡ Vega Jimenez, Hanna Velamoor, Ananth Venkatesh, Sanjana VerSteegh, Alayna Villagrana, Llarely Vitogiannis, Angelos Vonah, Madeline Vora, Sohan Vozas, Patrick
Wachi, Nonoka Wager-Corrado, Gianna Wagner, Christopher Wang, Yi Yan Welch, Colin Wier, Jessica Winklebleck, Colton Woo, Ayden * Wulfram, Nicole Ye, Samantha * Yoon, Caleb *‡ Yoon, Daniel Yu, James Yuguchi, Gaku Zhang, Ying Fei Zhang, Zi Jing Zhou, Eddie Zhou, Jason *†
*Reflects Cumulative GPA of 4.0 (7th Grade, terms 1-4, and 8th grade, terms 1-3)
† Reflects Plum Grove Charger Pride Award Recipients ‡ Reflects American Legion Award Nominees Charger Pride Award Student Recognition: Students from each grade are chosen monthly to be recognized for their respect, responsibility and leadership. The American Legion Award is an annual award given to the eighthgrade boy and girl who best exemplify the American Legion ideals of honor, courage, scholarship, leadership, and service. Any seventh- or eighth-grade teacher may nominate a student for this award. Teachers determine the recipients by voting on nominated students.
Plum Grove Faculty and Staff Principal, Dr. Kerry Wilson Assistant Principal, Tamara Byrne Joanne Atkinson-Kloser Brad Baker Amy Berry Laura Blair Natalie Brady Anne Bridges Matt Bruns Samantha Carlin Eileen Casey Stacy Cassiday Kelly Cavalieri Sue Chen Jo Colucci Mike Courtney Carol Coutts-Siepka Matt Crafferty Suzanne Dowd Jacqui Downing Denise Erbele Linda Fehlberg Meegan Filosa Loren Freeman Teri Freer Elizabeth Gama Matt Gaspar Julie Gedgaud Cheryl Glassmann Jeff Goodenough Susan Graves John Hamann Paul Hays Jeremy Helfrich Annie Julius Lori Jacoby Tracy Kanda Ayana Kawahara Lisa Kearney Filka Keele
Bobby Koziol Beth Krueger Doug Landerman Sharon Lennstrom Rob Lightfoot Julie Lucash Mike Lynch Vidal Malagon Chris McCarthy Minerva Milford Mario Mongello Amy Muller Lesa Northam Maureen O'Brien Mark O'Kelly Teresa Ostoich Tom Ouimet Nisha Patel James Pike Lynn Piper Dawn Pisarski Paula Pozucek Julie Quitschau Maura Reid Ralph Rittner Laura Robinson Gina Ruta Carol Salerno Katie Sauer Zoe Shapera Olivia Spera Laura Vanderploeg Angie Vasey Nick Vassos Nelly Velasco Kelly Wilcox Holly Wittel Christine Yoon
2021 Plum Grove Graduates, We wish you all the best. Please remember, Be Respectful ● Be Responsible ● Be Safe