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Congratulations to the following members of the Class of 2008 for earning these awards which were announced at Honors Night on June 3!

SENIOR CLASS AWARDS:

  • Coghill Community Service Award to Miracle Aiono with over 1900 hours of Service Learning
  • Inspirational Seniors as voted by the Class: Zack Desmond and Sivona Lingle
    The Willard Shield - the highest honor a Class can bestow on a member: Zack Desmond and Whitney Elder

DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS:
Each departmental scholar receives a $1000 Barney Brush Scholarship

  • Nichole Mustello, Fine Arts Departmental Scholar
  • Nick Fagan, Robert Jackson Block Award for Excellence in the Arts - Visual Arts
  • Mark Brutke, Robert Jackson Block Award for Excellence in the Arts - Music
  • Quinise Ercolano, Business Education Departmental Scholar
  • Hamdi Jabril, English Language Learner Departmental Scholar
  • Stephanie Vincent, Family and Consumer Sciences Departmental Scholar
  • Reeve Lichtman, Individual Education Departmental Scholar
  • Taylor Matalone, Language Arts Departmental Scholar
  • Anniejae Fischburg, Mathematics Departmental Scholar
  • Marian Caculitan, Physical Education Departmental Scholar
  • Tina Fu, Science Departmental Scholar
  • Brianna Behar, Social Studies Departmental Scholar
  • Kayla Terry, Technology Departmental Scholar
  • Brenna Kajikawa, World Languages Departmental Scholar
  • Gemma Clarke and Ian Willson, Outstanding Contribution to the Drama Department
  • Zack Desmond, Robert Jackson Block Award for Excellence in the Arts - Drama

ATHLETIC AWARDS:

  • Whitney Elder and Sivona Lingle, Female Scholar Athletes
  • John Jinneman, Schoenfeld Award for Male Scholar Athlete
  • Nicole Nedervelt, Hannaford Award for Outstanding Female Athlete
  • Christian Crain, Thornton Award for Outstanding Male Athlete

ACADEMIC AWARDS - WAHINGTON STATE HONORS AWARD RECIPIENTS
These students are graduating in the top 10% of all the graduates in the State of Washington based on an index of their accumulative GPA and their SAT/ACT scores. This year we have more than we have ever had!!

Lindsay Anderson, Rachel Barnecut, Alex Barnett, Marian Caculitan, Zack Desmond, Maddie Dunn, Whitney Elder, Martha Ercolano, Anniejae Fischburg, Tina Fu, Galen Howard-Markley, Sivona Lingle, Taylor Matalone, Robert Mendenhall, Angela Moroles, Colin Morrow, Jacob Nauss, Giang Nguyen, Thanh Nguyen, Quynh Nguyen, Brodie Peterson, Warren Pope, Mohamed Shek, Katie Tarabochia, Angie Tyler, Sara Umeda, Alex Van-Den-Ende, Japjit Verraich, Helene Viger, and Jasmine Whiting

SCHOLARSHIPS:
The following scholarships were awarded to these students by the WSHS scholarship committee (a fun one to be on!)

BARNEY BRUSH

  • For Technical/2 Year schools ($1000 each.): Russul Abtan, Jacob Rosales, Danilo Valasquez
  • Future teacher ($1000): Hali Stromberg
  • School Service: ($1000); Carly Smedsrud (for her work on turning the newspaper around)
  • Community Service ($1000) Anh Nguyen
  • First Generation ($1000): Nicole Robinson
  • Wildcat ($4000 each): Manika Bhandari, Ruben Chie, Sonia Segovia
  • Barney Brush ($6500): Zack Desmond

Selma Rodgers Scholarship ($1000 each)
Brian Bui, Emily Cook, Hai Le, Sivona Lingle, Dacotah Moline-Livdahl, Kyle Smith, Anastasiya Voronstova, Brenda Woo

LaFromboise Scholarship ($3500 each)
Lindsay Anderson, Gemma Clarke, Jack Hilton, Michael Oliver, Erin Shannon, Jasmine Whiting

SSD Scholarship ($2000 each) Clark Woodward Scholarship ($1000)
Anthony Adams, Alfreida McKinney Jesse Roark

These scholarships were awarded by the noted group:

WSHS Alumni Association Scholarships WSHS Monogram Club Scholarships
Rachel Barnecut Christian Crain
Mark Brutke Tina Fu
Whitney Elder Alfreida McKinney
Tina Fu Michael Oliver
Courtney Gordon Kelsey Shewbert
Laura Mustello Alex Van-Den-Ende
Brodie Peterson
Drew Simpson
Kayla Terry
Alex Van-Den-Ende

GATES MILLENIUM SCHOLARSHIP
F our year full ride to any college in the United States - Angelica Amesquita

Additional Scholarship Winners (from outside groups): Lindsay Anderson, Christian Crain, Zack Desmond, Niki Elkinton, Tina Fu, Galen Howard-Markley, John Jinneman, Jaelynn Johnson, Sivona Lingle, Malcholm Love, Giancarlo Martino, Taylor Matalone, Angela Moroles, Colin Morrow, Nicole Nedervelt, Anh Nguyen, Giang Nguyen, Quynh Nguyen, Warren Pope, Maria Rapoza, Mariana Razo, Nicloe Robinson, Carly Smedsrud, Katie Taraboachia, Nahid Tewelde, Angie Tyler, Sara Umeda, Alex Van-Den-Ende, Anastasiya Vorontsova, Jasmine Whiting, Michelle Wong

All told, 61 students have received scholarships so far for over $750,000. There may be more coming. Additionally, 111 gold cords were awarded to the Seniors who are graduating with a 3.2-4.0 accumulative GPA. This is over 48% of our total graduating class.

Congrats to these outstanding students and their parents and teachers!

Office Depot Rewards for WSHS

If and when you shop at Office Depot – please identify WSHS by submitting the number #70107365 with your purchase, 5% of any purchase goes back to WSHS for the purpose of replenishing school supplies for our student learners and teacher leaders. Thank you for your continued support!

Support WSHS with E-Scrip

WSHS is participating in a powerful fundraising opportunity called E-Scrip.

How it works: Register your Safeway club card and E-Scrip will pay a small percentage of each purchase to WSHS. There's no cost to you; no change to discounts or coupons that you already receive. Register right now! It's quick, it's easy, it's free! www.escrip.com

Click on the 1 to begin.
Select the group you would like to support by using the WSHS group ID 8567836, or search on West Seattle PTSA. Enter your name, address and Safeway card number. Invite all your relatives, friends and neighbors to register their Safeway cards too! The contributions of hundreds of families can add
up to thousands of dollars for our school! The program is very secure and popular across the country.
Every purchase you make will benefit the school at no cost to you.


 




 

 

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