YJUHSD graduates receive many honors


Sara Tingley, alternative education staff award winner with teacher Marc Utheim.

 

 

Silvestre Gaeta and Maggie Mae Ramos were named Students of the Semester for Spring 2003 at Ahwahnee High School. They are shown with their teacher, Brenna Neely. The two were selected on the basis of excellent attendance, academic skills and attitude. Mrs. Neely said Maggie will graduate one semester early and will be taking community college classes in the fall while she completes her credits for graduation from high school.


Numerous honors were bestowed on graduates from the Yosemite Joint Union High School District during ceremonies June 6 for the five Alternative Education schools and June 11 for Yosemite High School.

During the graduation ceremony for the Alternative Education schools, Sara Tingley, a Foot-hill High School graduate, received the Staff Award for the outstanding graduate.

During an awards ceremony the week prior to the YHS graduation, a number of students were honored. These awards were in addition to the community awards presented in May.

Recognized as California Scholarship Federation Life Members / National Honor Society were: Jena Albertson, Nicholas Bryant, Brook Bull-ock, Michelle Deckert, Mich-ael Graves, William Irizarry, Nicole Koczanowicz, Eliza-beth Luca, Luke Millar, Alex Olsen, Jonathan Oulton, Grace Reeve, Edward Sichel, Gregory Stewart, Elizabeth Tucker and Kahlin Wolf.

Bank of America Award winners were:
Luke Millar, Applied Arts; Karissa Rickards, Fine Arts; Elizabeth Hixson, Liberal Arts; and Elizabeth Tucker, Science and Mathematics.

Also receiving Bank of America awards were:
Kimberlee Youman, agriculture; Katharine Napier, art; Brit-tany Sellars, bus-iness; Jonathan Oulton, computer studies; Ashley Newton, drama; Amy Johnson and Nicole Koczano-wicz, English; Brook Bullock, Grant Fonda, Michael Graves and Brandon Johnson, foreign language; Gregory Stewart, history; Christina Schwader, home economics; Elizabeth Luca and William Irizarry, mathematics; Christopher Gordon and Grace Reeve, music; Alex Olsen, science; Brian Johnson, social science; Ian McAleece, technology and Lawrence Mielke, trades and industry.

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