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The GOOD NEWS
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contributions and accomplishments of our staff, students, and community.
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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!
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Coghill Community Service Award to Miracle Aiono with over
1900 hours of Service Learning
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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
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Nichole Mustello, Fine Arts Departmental Scholar
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Nick Fagan, Robert Jackson Block Award for Excellence in the
Arts - Visual Arts
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Mark Brutke, Robert Jackson Block Award for Excellence in
the Arts - Music
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Quinise Ercolano, Business Education Departmental Scholar
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Hamdi Jabril, English Language Learner Departmental Scholar
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Stephanie Vincent, Family and Consumer Sciences Departmental
Scholar
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Reeve Lichtman, Individual Education Departmental Scholar
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Taylor Matalone, Language Arts Departmental Scholar
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Anniejae Fischburg, Mathematics Departmental Scholar
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Marian Caculitan, Physical Education Departmental Scholar
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Tina Fu, Science Departmental Scholar
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Brianna Behar, Social Studies Departmental Scholar
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Kayla Terry, Technology Departmental Scholar
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Brenna Kajikawa, World Languages Departmental Scholar
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Gemma Clarke and Ian Willson, Outstanding Contribution to
the Drama Department
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Zack Desmond, Robert Jackson Block Award for Excellence in
the Arts - Drama
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Whitney Elder and Sivona Lingle, Female Scholar Athletes
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John Jinneman, Schoenfeld Award for Male Scholar Athlete
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Nicole Nedervelt, Hannaford Award for Outstanding Female Athlete
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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
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For Technical/2 Year schools ($1000 each.): Russul Abtan,
Jacob Rosales, Danilo Valasquez
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Future teacher ($1000): Hali Stromberg
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School Service: ($1000); Carly Smedsrud (for her work on turning
the newspaper around)
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Community Service ($1000) Anh Nguyen
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First Generation ($1000): Nicole Robinson
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Wildcat ($4000 each): Manika Bhandari, Ruben Chie, Sonia Segovia
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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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