A separate awards ceremony took place June 5.
Delavan-Darien High School 2017 graduation ceremony 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 8 – east gym
June 2017
Class of 2017
Honoring the graduates of Delavan-Darien High School
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DELAVAN-DARIEN CLASS OF 2017
Class of 2017 â€
DELAVAN-DARIEN HIGH SCHOOL
Michael Alder
Carlos Altamirano Orozco
Jared Amborn
Leonardo Aranda
Raquel Aranda
Cesar Arredondo
Ariel Austin
Rosa Bautista
Jacob Benzing
Dolores Bernal-Juares
Aria Bickett
Sydney Bickett
Skylah Blanco
Seth Borca
Brittany Brandemuehl
Jesse Brown
Kayla Bunnell
Kylee Busse
Haley Campbell
Ian Campbell
Harim Cano
Yesenia Cardenas
Ethan Cesarz
Alexander Chanda
Jacob Chapman
Ismael Coello Ramirez
Alejandra Contreras
Hollylynn Converse
Jayce Crull
Erik Cruz
Jasmin Cruz
Tatiana Cruz
Jacqueline Damrow
Morgyn DeLara
Cassidy Dodge
Karina Dorantes
Kole Driscoll
Elvia Echeverria
Brandon Edmonds
Madeline Edwards
Asdi Elguero
Taylor Ensminger
Abigail Even
Troy Feeney
Evan Ferguson
Michael Figueroa
Eric Fleming
Christian Flores
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DELAVAN-DARIEN HIGH SCHOOL
Edith Flores
Katie Gallup
Jesus Garcia
Stephanie Garcia
Bryson Gebauer
Emily Geffers
Ryan Gengler
Quinn Gibson
Abigail Gomez
Angel Gomez
Alexandra Gonzales
Alyssa Gonzalez
Fernando Gonzalez
Makenzie Gordon
Tiffany Gustafson
Kaylee Guzman
Kristin Hardwick
Benjamin Hartogh
Morgan Hennessey
Areli Hernandez
Carly Hopkins
Hunter Huber
Erika Huerta
Ricardo Huerta
Tigrio Huerta
Thomas Hummel
Michael Huth
Benjamin Ingersoll
Emanuel Iniguez
Cristian Jaramillo
Guadalupe Jaramillo
Heidi Jaramillo
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Class of 2017
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Cristina Lopez
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SOFTBALL PLAYER, STAFF HEADING TO WISCONSIN ALL-STAR GAME Delavan-Darien High School softball Coach Hank Johnson, his assistant coaching staff and senior outfielder Morgyn DeLara will represent the Comets in the Wisconsin Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association All-Star Game on June 13 in Wisconsin Dells. DeLara is leading the Comets this season from the plate with 30 hits including four homers and a .517 batting average, according to WisSports.net. Johnson and his coaching staff of Nieves Gonzalez and Marty Speth will join DeLara on the bench to lead one of the Division 2 teams this year. Johnson, who led the D-DHS squad to a second-place finish in the state tournament last year, reached the 100-win plateau for his career as coach this season, a school record. The Wisconsin Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association All-Star game is a fundraiser for Special Olympics of Wisconsin. Participants are asked to raise $300 for the cause. Donations can be made on DeLara’s website at http://www.wfsca.org/page/show/3338397morgyn-delara-delavan-darien or Johnson’s site at http://www.wfsca.org/ page/show/3338568-coach-johnson-
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D-DHS senior gets academic scholarship to University of Southern California SOON-TO-BE GRAD AIMS TO BECOME MOVIE STAR
Jesus Garcia
Delavan-Darien High School senior Jesus Garcia was awarded the University of Southern California trustee scholarship – a full-tuition award worth $53,440 for the 2017-18 academic year. The scholarship is renewable for eight semesters provided Garcia makes satisfactory progress toward his degree and upholds USC’s standards for conduct and academic integrity. “You are part of a very select group of students chosen for this award,” reads a letter he received from the university’s admissions office. “He is absolutely a great kid and a great student. Jesus is very deserving of this award and I am incredibly proud of his accomplishments,” said D-DHS Principal Jim Karedes, one of the first at D-DHS to find out about the award. As a recipient, Garcia is eligible to other perks such as applying for housing in the McCarthy Honors College in the new USC Village. He also will receive personalized academic and scholarship advising by USC Academic Honors and Fellowships, and can join the Trojan Scholar Society, an exclusive student organization that programs academic, social and cultural events for the personal and professional development of the university’s top students. Garcia said he was anxious waiting about a month for a response from USC and finally got the news. “Boom, I blew up,” Garcia said. “I told my dad (Jesus Sr.). I was screaming it to his face. I showed him the screen of the computer and he was just gazing at it, taking it all in. He was speechless. I told my mom (Maria) and she gave me a hug. She started tearing up. I loved it.” Garcia is a first-generation college student in his family. His parents never were educated past high school, he said. “Getting accepted into such a prestigious university, along with a full-tuition scholarship, is not only an accomplishment to myself, but it’s also a big accomplishment to my parents and my whole family,” Garcia said. Garcia said he worked hard to put together the “perfect essay” on the application and to get his grades up to where they needed to be for the school to consider accepting him. USC accepts only 16.5 percent of all applicants. He took the ACT test three times until he scored high enough that
he was satisfied he could make it into USC and have a shot at the scholarship. He was also very active in school sports, extra-curricular activities and community service, which he said gave his application a huge boost. He credits his teachers and the course offerings and extracurricular offerings with his success, as well as a supportive community. “The education I received, not only did I challenge myself with hard courses, such as honors and (Advanced Placement) courses, but my teachers always sought out to help me in any way they could,” he said. “Having D-DHS be such a close, tightknit community with the City of Delavan has made it so much easier for me to gain resources that wouldn’t be available if I was in, say, a city that was not so close and bonded like Delavan is. Delavan-Darien, I love the school.” Garcia plans to double-major in acting and cinematic arts, despite having only started acting in his junior year of high school. He loved performing (breakdancing at school dances and at pep rallies, especially), but only got into acting at the urging of a close friend, he said. Once on the stage, he was hooked. “I’m a novice, no doubt about it, but I’m ready to embark on something huge,” Garcia said. “Overall, my biggest goal is to become a successful actor. I’m not talking like, ‘I’ve seen him here or there.’ I’m talking about blockbuster movies. I want my own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.” He chose USC because it’s one of the top theater and cinematography schools in the country, and Hollywood and major movie studios are just minutes from campus. He even bought a replica Hollywood Walk of Fame star keychain with his name on it while visiting there during his junior year. It’s a motivator he’s not shy of talking about. “I have it on keychain as a reminder as to what my overall goal is,” he said. “Whenever I see it, it reminds me to keep striving, to keep grinding, to one day achieve my dreams.” Moving west will be a big switch for a young man who grew up in the small, close-knit community of Delavan but, “At this point, getting accepted into USC and receiving such a prestigious scholarship, anything is possible. I’m ready for it,” he said.
Class of 2017 â€
DELAVAN-DARIEN CLASS OF 2017
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DELAVAN-DARIEN HIGH SCHOOL
Julian Morales-Ochoa
CJ Morse
Katie Nicholas
Brian Norris Jr
Luis Nova
Maribel Nova
Torrie Noyes
Jacob Ochoa
Torran Oler
Jonathan Olson
Xavier Ortiz
Chandni Patel
Priyanka Patel
Erinn Penniman
Jennifer Perez
SanJuanita Perez
Natallya Perry
Jessica Pohl
Paige Purcell
Luis Ramos Rivera
Joshiah Reyes
Julien Riviere
Seth Robers
Tamika Robinson
Alexis Rodriguez
Gerardo Rodriguez
Lannie Ross
Tucker Rote
Nilda Ruvalcaba
Teresa Salgado
Clara Sallmann
Iyla Sankey
Hannah Santeler
Autumn Schauer
Valeska Schmid
Jarred Shepard
Chelsea Shoafstall-Moreno
Noah Smith
Jesus Solis-Sanchez
Lyndsay Sorg
Natalie Soto
Kyle Sterling
Xhevat Tahiri
Gary Taylor
Alejandro Tejeda
Kenna Timmerman
Reece Torkelson
Cameren Torres
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Class of 2017
DELAVAN-DARIEN HIGH SCHOOL
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Eric Valadez
Guadalupe Valadez
Jovanny Valadez
Mariysa Valadez
Pricila Valadez
Hailey Volmar
Crispin Waller
Hector Zamora
Robert Zaratzian
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