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High schools' seniors receive their diplomas Sunday
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| These Worthington Kilbourne High School seniors earned "Highest Honors" status for their academic performance throughout their high school career. |
* Thomas Worthington and Worthington Kilbourne students graduate during commencement at OSU's Schottenstein Center.
By PAMELA WILLIS
Worthington Kilbourne and Thomas Worthington High School
seniors will take their first steps into future careers as
they glide down the aisles of the Schottenstein Center to
celebrate 2010 Commencement.
The following information sums up some of the activities going on related to this year's graduations.
Worthington Kilbourne
Student Activities Director Ralph King said 341 seniors will receive diplomas in a ceremony that begins at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 6, at the Schottenstein Center, 555 Borror Drive, on Ohio State University's campus.
Boys will wear black robes and mortar boards; girls will wear blue.
"We have 35 seniors graduating with highest honors and will be giving out 127 honors diplomas," King said.
King said the school does not recognize a single valedictorian, but all seniors who graduate with a cumulative grade point average of 4.0 or above are named Graduates with Highest Honors.
They are: Mary Kate Blackmon, Kristen Bond, Rebecca Borden, Kristyn Burgess, Holly Chen, Stephanie DiBartola, Preston Gall, Matt Goldberg, Roy Greim, Danielle Hart, Ryhan Hassan, B.J. Hwang, Kevin Jiang, Joshua Keller, Maria Kharakovsky, Namhyeon Kim, Kelsey Koke, Taylor Kuepfer, Matt Mayberry, Elizabeth Martin, Kevin Metka, Laura Millar, Kristin Moore, Jaclyn Mowery, Ian O'Keefe, Robbie Schram, Emily Singeltary, Nathan Sparks, Leslie Stovall, Melanie Swick, Kyle Troutner, Bernard Wen, Jessica Williams, Peter Worley and Julie Young.
Class president Matt Goldberg will speak at the ceremony, along with Superintendent Melissa Conrath and Board President Julie Keegan.
King said the class of 2010 was offered more than $5 million in scholarship funds.
Principal Ed Dunaway described the class of 2010 as "memorable."
"This is an extraordinary and dynamic group of young people," he said.
According to the senior issue of the school newspaper The Ravine, the top three movies picked by members of the senior class were Avatar, The Hangover and The Dark Knight; the top artists were Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and Black Eyed Peas and the top books were Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, the Twilight saga and tied for third, The Last Song and Dear John.
Thomas Worthington
Boys will don royal blue and girls will wear white gowns and mortar boards as 357 seniors step to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance at Thomas Worthington's Commencement, which begins at 7 p.m. on the same day, at the same location.
Student activities director Kim Hanlin said class president Karam Sheban will welcome the class.
Two former graduates, Claire Shipman and Susannah Shipman, will give the commencement address.
The Thomas Worthington Commencement Band, conducted by Eric Doolittle, will play Pomp and Circumstance and Sine Nomine and the Symphonic Choir, conducted by Jerry Parsons, will sing It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday and lead the students in singing the school's Alma Mater.
Hanlin said Board of Education members, along with some district administrators, will hand out diplomas.
Conrath will help Sheban lead the "turning of the tassels."
At the end of the ceremony, the Commencement Band, conducted by Michael Maynard, will play Procession of the Nobles.
Straight A seniors are Alek Adkins, Nana Agyepong, Mohammad Choueiki, Lana Dennison, Max Friedlander, Mounika Gutti, Kyle Hann, Jesse Hart, Rachel Keeler, Chirayu Patel, Eric Petry, Casey Smiley, Kellen Sullivan, Matthew Tischer, Andrew Uhlman and Rachel Webb.
Students graduating with a 4.0 GPA include the straight-A students, along with Raymond Anderson, Meghan Atterbury, Molly Bachmann, Seth Bullock, Elka Del Portal, Kathleen Dotts, Melissa Girgis, Stuart Holmes, Jonathan Katz, Benjamin Lemberger, Alexandra Nash, Seung Wan Paik, Shannon Perry, Spurthi Reddy, William Reidenbach, Shaadee Samimy, Erika Senk, Anna Simmons, James Smith, Kuanwei Tseng, Srivaths Venkatachari, Matthew Walker, Jennifer Wallace, Samantha Ward, Zachary Weinrich, Dorien Xia and Rebecca Zeid.
Linworth Alternative Program
Linworth seniors will wear a burgundy ribbon around their necks to distinguish themselves, as they will participate in graduation ceremonies at their home schools.
The program does host several events for its 50 seniors on Saturday, June 5.
First, seniors will share presentations on their "Walkabout" experiences, starting at 11:45 a.m.
Later that day, at 3 p.m., the school, 2075 W. Dublin-Granville Road, will host a senior recognition celebration.
The following information sums up some of the activities going on related to this year's graduations.
Worthington Kilbourne
Student Activities Director Ralph King said 341 seniors will receive diplomas in a ceremony that begins at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 6, at the Schottenstein Center, 555 Borror Drive, on Ohio State University's campus.
Boys will wear black robes and mortar boards; girls will wear blue.
"We have 35 seniors graduating with highest honors and will be giving out 127 honors diplomas," King said.
King said the school does not recognize a single valedictorian, but all seniors who graduate with a cumulative grade point average of 4.0 or above are named Graduates with Highest Honors.
They are: Mary Kate Blackmon, Kristen Bond, Rebecca Borden, Kristyn Burgess, Holly Chen, Stephanie DiBartola, Preston Gall, Matt Goldberg, Roy Greim, Danielle Hart, Ryhan Hassan, B.J. Hwang, Kevin Jiang, Joshua Keller, Maria Kharakovsky, Namhyeon Kim, Kelsey Koke, Taylor Kuepfer, Matt Mayberry, Elizabeth Martin, Kevin Metka, Laura Millar, Kristin Moore, Jaclyn Mowery, Ian O'Keefe, Robbie Schram, Emily Singeltary, Nathan Sparks, Leslie Stovall, Melanie Swick, Kyle Troutner, Bernard Wen, Jessica Williams, Peter Worley and Julie Young.
Class president Matt Goldberg will speak at the ceremony, along with Superintendent Melissa Conrath and Board President Julie Keegan.
King said the class of 2010 was offered more than $5 million in scholarship funds.
Principal Ed Dunaway described the class of 2010 as "memorable."
"This is an extraordinary and dynamic group of young people," he said.
According to the senior issue of the school newspaper The Ravine, the top three movies picked by members of the senior class were Avatar, The Hangover and The Dark Knight; the top artists were Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and Black Eyed Peas and the top books were Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, the Twilight saga and tied for third, The Last Song and Dear John.
Thomas Worthington
Boys will don royal blue and girls will wear white gowns and mortar boards as 357 seniors step to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance at Thomas Worthington's Commencement, which begins at 7 p.m. on the same day, at the same location.
Student activities director Kim Hanlin said class president Karam Sheban will welcome the class.
Two former graduates, Claire Shipman and Susannah Shipman, will give the commencement address.
The Thomas Worthington Commencement Band, conducted by Eric Doolittle, will play Pomp and Circumstance and Sine Nomine and the Symphonic Choir, conducted by Jerry Parsons, will sing It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday and lead the students in singing the school's Alma Mater.
Hanlin said Board of Education members, along with some district administrators, will hand out diplomas.
Conrath will help Sheban lead the "turning of the tassels."
At the end of the ceremony, the Commencement Band, conducted by Michael Maynard, will play Procession of the Nobles.
Straight A seniors are Alek Adkins, Nana Agyepong, Mohammad Choueiki, Lana Dennison, Max Friedlander, Mounika Gutti, Kyle Hann, Jesse Hart, Rachel Keeler, Chirayu Patel, Eric Petry, Casey Smiley, Kellen Sullivan, Matthew Tischer, Andrew Uhlman and Rachel Webb.
Students graduating with a 4.0 GPA include the straight-A students, along with Raymond Anderson, Meghan Atterbury, Molly Bachmann, Seth Bullock, Elka Del Portal, Kathleen Dotts, Melissa Girgis, Stuart Holmes, Jonathan Katz, Benjamin Lemberger, Alexandra Nash, Seung Wan Paik, Shannon Perry, Spurthi Reddy, William Reidenbach, Shaadee Samimy, Erika Senk, Anna Simmons, James Smith, Kuanwei Tseng, Srivaths Venkatachari, Matthew Walker, Jennifer Wallace, Samantha Ward, Zachary Weinrich, Dorien Xia and Rebecca Zeid.
Linworth Alternative Program
Linworth seniors will wear a burgundy ribbon around their necks to distinguish themselves, as they will participate in graduation ceremonies at their home schools.
The program does host several events for its 50 seniors on Saturday, June 5.
First, seniors will share presentations on their "Walkabout" experiences, starting at 11:45 a.m.
Later that day, at 3 p.m., the school, 2075 W. Dublin-Granville Road, will host a senior recognition celebration.
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