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June 3,1988
Awards
Seniors receive awards, cont'd. continued from page 1 The Maine South Motliers' Club honored 26 seniors this year. TTiey are: Lisa Apolinski, S andra Carlson, Kathleen Connolly, Cathy Ciprian, Maura Cunningham, John Cox, Joe Sclafani, Jennifer Drozd, Edward Kinsella, Anna Choi, Jay Pinto, Jennifer Fugiel, Kavita Sabnani, George Karris, Mary Buckley, Chris Ann Komosa, Kathryn O'Connor, Lisa Okerstrom, Marcus Seme], Colette Pusczan, Tracy Minor, Hyun Shin, Sandra Soeder, Carolyn Sorquist, Amanda Steele, and David Schwalb. College and University scholarships went to Ron Kenyeri (U of I, Chicago); Steve Bringas and Amy Karabin (U of I, Urbana); Ed Kinsella (Boston University); Janine Marcuccilli and Paul Delano (Blackburn College); Julie Pfaff (Bethel College); Daihan Patemo (Calvin College); Keith Piscitcllo (Carthage College); Allison Hammond (Cornell College); and Katie Clark (University of Notre Dame).
Department Award Science Jayant Pinto
Department Award Home Economics Lisa Duzansky
Additional college scholarships were awarded to John Cox (Indiana University); Janet Myers (Loyola); Dan Berthold and Dennis Funk (Olney Central College); Jacki Brieske, Linda Infante and Anthony Mazukelli (St. Norbcrt College); Eric Berg (Marquette University); Jim Lobitz (University of Louisville); Eric Hibbeler(Augustana College); and Tim Musa (North Central College). Colette Pusczan received the Premier Industrial Corporation award. The General Assembly Scholarship of the 28th Legislative District, awarded by Senator Bob Kustra, went to Patricia Harris. Sandra Soeder was honored with the W. R. Hotchkiss Foundation Academic Scholarship. Jayani Pinto won the Joseph Blazck Foundation Scholarship Award.
Members of the upper five percent of the class of 1988 were presented certificates by the Maine South Mothers' Club. This year's recipients were Meredith Brammcier, Katherine Clark, John Cox, D. Jacobs Crampton, Allison Hammond, Douglas Hodapp, Nancy Hua, Joanne Hwang, Anthony Kamezis, George Ktirris, Tracy Minor, Janet Myers, Kathryn O'Connor, Julie Pfaff, Jayant Pinto, Colette Pusczan, Kavita Sabnani, Kelly Schacfer, David Schwalb, Maura Scott, Miircus Semel, Hyun Shin, Carolyn Sorquist, Robert Sroka, Pau-icia Tseng, and Ramadan Zcnkich. Meredith Brammeier was awarded the Best Journalist award from Pioneer Press, presented by Mr. Chuck Hutchcraft, editor of the Park Ridee Herald.
South words wins honors Maine South's school newspaper Southwards has recently been honored by a number of organizations for excellence in reporting, feature story writing, and publishing in general. From the Suburban Press Club, Jeff Bauer received an Honorable Mention for his alumni profile, "Mark Greenwald, '86, an Olympian," while Tanja Pajevic and Chris Pater received a Second Place award for their feature story, 'They're making it on their own." Also, Pajevic and Pater's article was cited as a Best Story by the American Scholastic Press Association (ASPA)—an award of which there were two in Illinois and 27 in the nation this year.
In addition, the ASPA awarded Southwords itself a First Place rating for its general excellence. The ASPA judge commended the paper's "clean, crisp style" and "a staff, editor, and faculty advisor who understand and work hard on the fundamentals of reporting and production." Also, Co-Editors-in-Chief Meredith Brammcier and Maura
Department Award Industrial Education Erik Peterson
Scott each won Blue Ribbon awards from the Northern Illinois School Press Association. From this same Association, Greg Barrington garnered an Honorable Mention for his cartoon illustration. Maura Scott also won the Maine South Outstanding Journalist award, with her co-editor-inchief Meredith Brammeier taking a similar honor awarded by the Pioneer Press. Southwords adviser T. R. Kerth commended his editors for the success of the newspaper this year. "All the editors have done a tremendous job this year, learning a new computer system, working under a new adviser, and putting out a paper every two weeks while most other schools come out only once a month, with the work being done in a newspaper production class. All our editors have to work before and after school and get no class credit for their efforts. To be able to compete so well with newspapers from other schools is a testimony to their dedication." Congratulations to all winners in all categories.
Department Award Mathematics Nancy Hua
Department Award Music Mark Lundell