BETHANY PUBLIC

SCHOOL DISTRICT ______

Office of the Superintendent

TO: Local Papers

FM: Timothy F. Connellan

RE: Press Release – For Immediate Release

DATE: June 18, 2008

Bethany Community School’s Graduation Ceremony took place on June 18th. Superintendent of Schools Mr. Timothy F. Connellan, Housemasters Mary Federico and Rob Spino expressed words of welcome and encouragement to students, families and friends.

Bethany’s outgoing sixth graders won a number of local awards at their moving-up assembly on June . The awards included:

SIXTH GRADE AWARDS – JUNE 2008

TREAT B. JOHNSON: Kathleen Feng Joseph Choiniere

BETHANY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: Izabela Banka Joseph Amarante

BETHANY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: Chloe Brinton Michael Antonellis

JULIAN”WOODY” JAKUBSON ART AWARD Isabella Bierezowiec Evan Gentile

BETHANY PTO MUSIC AWARD Kathryn Zielinski Kyle Sullivan

SUPERINTENDENT AWARD Amanda Vecchio Scott Saffran

CONSERVATION AWARD Jacqueline Krebs Philip Amarante

DAVID J. BARONE Krista Reynolds Joseph Babbitt

LENA FENWICK NATURAL SCIENCE AWARD Larisa Tomassoni Alexander Tkeshelashvili

MERRITT RUSSELL MEMORIAL AWARD Taylor Plaskowitz Harrison Mass

BARBARA J. PARENTE “NEVER STOP LEARNING Kristen Whyte Timothy Drozdz

AWARD” FOR EXCELLENCE IN MATH

WARREN DWIGHT JOHNSON MEM’L AWARD Dakota Kelly Arlo Eitzer

BERNICE LINSKY READING AWARD Alexandra D’Onofrio Harry Unger

SUSAN E. JACOBSON CREATIVE WRITING AND Samantha Austin Joshua Schaperow

COMMUNICATION AWARD

PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT

Heather Watt Ryan Hauser Sara Abriola

Samantha Woodward Chrisopher Amadeo David Buono

Nicole Buono Joshua Timpko

PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Kathleen Feng Harry Unger Joseph Choiniere

Nicholas Bottone Krista Reynolds Scott Saffran

The program concluded with the class chorus singing “Bethany” the school song.

The following students participated in the Graduation Ceremonies on June 18th.

K. Kadel

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J. Perrone

Abriola, Sara
Amarante, Philip
Babbitt, Joseph
Bierezowiec, Isabella
Colapietro, Pasquale
Douglas, Jeremy
Dulko, Alexandra
Hitchcock, Blake
Kehlenbach, Mark
Krebs, Jacqueline
Maschio, Martine
Mayo, Daniel
Ottaviano, James
Peterson, Briana
Plaskowitz, Taylor
Rivellini, Dominic
Saffran, Scott
Shea, Adam
Tomaselli, Emily
Tomassoni, Larisa
Vongsavanh, Amanda
Wang, Zihe
Woodward, Samantha / Amarante, Joseph
Asis, Nolan
Banka, Isabella
Brownstein, Nathan
Buono, David
DeLucca, Brianna
Eitzer, Arlo
Firine, Isabelle
Gaulin, Maxwell
Gidakos, Lizetta
Gowisnock, Taylor
Harsche, Christopher
Kozan, Mary
Malerba, Marissa
Prinz, Jillian
Sullivan, Kyle
Taylor, Emily
Tkeshelashvili, Alexander
Unger, Harry
Vecchio, Amanda
Whyte, Kristen
Zhu, Jennifer

S. Pacelli

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N. Poland

Antonellis, Michael
Austin, Samantha
Bottone, Nicholas
Buono, Nicole
Crocco, James
DelBuono, Nicholas
DiGiacomo, Christopher
Dunn, Christopher
Feng, Kathleen
Gentile, Evan
Hauser, Ryan
Kelly, Dakota
Koenig, Emily
Krohley, Brooke
Leibowitz, Zachary
Leonard, Madeline
Nodiff, Isabel
Pignataro, John
Rakfeldt, Jaak
Reynolds, Krista
Salmon, Zara
Santos, Kolby
Smith, Alexandra
/ Brinton, Chloe
D’Onofrio, Alexandra
Fantarella, Courtney
Johnson, Emily
Knox, Allison
Maruna, Jennifer
Mayzler, Tamara
Stark, Nadia
Vece, Cozette
Watt, Heather
Zielinski, Kathryn
Amadeo, Christopher
Choiniere, Joseph
Drozdz, Timothy
Kirschbaum, Steven
MacKay, Christopher
MacNamara, Alex
Mass, Harrison
Mehta, Akash
Schaperow, Joshua
Timpko, Joshua
Uscilla, John
Velardi, John