On Wed., May 10th, the Class of 2017 was recognized in front of the annual all-school Recognition Assembly, held in Memorial Gym. Many seniors were recognized as recipients of awards and college scholarships. Here are the award winners: Big Sisters Scholarship: Mackenize Munn and Lauren Robinson Post-Dispatch Scholar-Athlete: Carly Campbell U.S. Army Reserve Scholar-Athlete Award: Drew Sobol and Carly Campbell East Alton Rotary Scholarship: Ashley Johnson and Mikayla Freeman Merle Bassett Memorial Scholarship: Lauren Wayman Shelter Insurance Scholarship: Lauren Robinson Pump House Scholarship: Victoria Kallal and Joe Ziegler Student Council Scholarship: Mackenzie Munn Masonic Scholarship: Emilee Sabatino Meghan Hickerson Christian Teen Leader Scholarship: Mackenzie Munn East Alton American Legion Scholarship: Hannah Lamere and Brenden Allen Shirley Thatcher Memorial Scholarship: Lauren Robinson Midwest Credit Union Scholarship: Lauren Robinson Midwest Credit Union "Oiler of the Month Scholarship: Brenden Allen Marines All-American Award: Zach Kincade (Junior) Senior Art Purchase Award: Cameron Brown Scott King Memorial Scholarship: Raechel Springman Toni Fry-Hilgert Memorial Scholarship: Marrisa Morrison Wood River Lions Scholarship: Abigail Cathey Wood River Rotary Scholarship: Raechel Springman and Brenden Allen EAWR Educators Scholarship: Mackenzie Munn, Lauren Wayman, and Lauren Robinson Orville & Kathleen Brunjes Scholarship: Marrisa Morrison Wood River American Legion Howard Oetting Memorial Scholarship: Brenden Allen DAR Award: Marrisa Morrison SAR Award: Brenden Allen Illinois State Scholars: Marrisa Morrison and Raechel Springman Presidential Academic Award: Raechel Springman, Rachel Rodriguez, and Zach Hudson Those entering into the military after graduation are: Brian Fudurich and Jake Roustio (Army National Guard) and Christian Hunter (U.S. Army - Active Duty) The Class of 2017 Valedictorian, Marrisa Morrison, was introduced to the audience. Mrs. Robinson recognized our two retiring faculty members: Susan Ledford (English) and David Sobol (Industrial Arts) Also recognized were the Distinguished Graduates: Brenden Allen, Joel Biesk, Jesse
Brewer, Caroline Campbell, Abigail Cathey, Kaylee Dailey, Brian Fudurich, Carissa
Gilreath, Tyler Hayes, Sierra
Henry, Hunter Jones, Hanna Lamere, Brianna Lewis, Katelyn Lindquist, Allison
Mitchell, Marrisa Morrison, Mackenzie Munn, Timothy Oseland, Lauren Robinson, Rachel
Rodriguez, Emilee Sabatino, Jordan Schmidgall, Haley Shewmake, Allison Shook, Amanda
Smay, Emily Smith, Andrew Sobol, Raechel Springman, Brayden Stone, Jacob Vassos,
Alyssa Volk, Lauren Wayman, Kaleigh Young, Joseph Ziegler.
Finally, the Class of 2017 selected two teachers to be the Senior Faculty Award winners. These two teachers will read the names of the graduates during Commencement on May 17th: Sarah Jones (Science) and Kelly Gardner (English). |
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