Mother Nature didn’t grant them an outside graduation, but the weather was just one more challenge met and answered for the Verona High School Class of 2011 at its graduation on June 22, 2011.
Though a small class–just 151 of them in all–they were large enough to field a ringing, senior-only chorus to sing the National Anthem. The music teachers they grew up with did, however, have to fill the gaps in the band left by all those in cap and gown. The student speakers–Jody Freinkel, valedictorian; Jack Denton, salutatorian; Alex Sniatkowski, senior class president and Paul Corrente, student council president–urged them to celebrate what they had accomplished at VHS and to prepare to change the future.
Said Denton: “Go out and make your life something worth retweeting.”
Congratulations to them all:
Danielle Ackerson, Joseph Ashley, Jack Atmeh, Kathleen Attamante;
Emily Banks, Ella Barnes, Kara Bartow, Samuel Bendtsen, Nicholas Berra, Lindsay Bongo, Daisy Bourne, Julianne Boyle, Eva Brandt, Caroline Brenneis, Logan Bronson, Simone Brown, Christina Brozyna, Daniel Bryan, Andrew Burns;
Luis Caicedo, Richard Camejo, Alexa Canning, Juliet Carvajal, Nicole Casalino, Kimberly Castellanos, Christopher Chasse, Tyler Collins, Brandon Collis, Edward Congdon, Michael Congero, Paul Corrente, Marc Cortese, Joseph Costa, Theresa Courter, Colin Cummings, Craig Cundari;
Christian Davila, Anthony DeCandia, Stephanie DeGennaro, Montana DelColle, Taylor DelColle, Michele Della Vecchia, Marisa DeNicola, Nicole Deniflee, Ryan Denora, Alyssa Dente, John Denton, Alex deVries, Victor Di Sanzo, Alyssa DiGiacinto, DonnaJo DiNorcia, Alyssa Drennan;
Jared Egan, Colin Farawell, Joseph FitzMaurice, Jody Freinkel, Nicolas Freschi, Rebecca Gannon, Alex Graves, Rocky Giudicipietro, Mariya Guzner;
Stephen Hahula, Hailey Harrington, Joshua Held, Brian Hill;
Donna Jeklinski, Cassandra Jung, Christopher Karydes, Robert Kaslander, Gregory Keating, Danielle King, Mette Kolind, Ana Komar, Richie Kumar;
William LaRiccia, Jason Lawrence, Rebecca Lee, Michael Liberato-Randall, Harshil Limbachia, Alyssa Lopomo;
Carly Maestas, Matthew Malanga, Alyssa Malfettano, James Mann, Lauren Marden, Michael Masucci, Sean McGinley, Andrew McIntosh, Emily McIntosh, Nicole McLaughlin, Alex McLoughlin, Thomas McManus, Adam Miller, Ralph Minelli, Daniel Moczula;
Emma Newkirk, Christopher Nolan, Patrick O’Brien, Canberk Oguz, Connor O’Neil;
Anthony Parra, Gopi Patolia, Jasmin Pena, Alison Perna, Danielle Prezioso, Julia Procopio, Michael Puerari;
Alexa Quattrocchi, Cristiano Queiroz Jr., Dayana Quesada;
Amanda Reyes, Vivian Richardson, Joseph Rivera, Nikolette Robertella, Matthew Robinson, Claudia Rollo, Matthew Rosenfeld, Katherine Ruggiero;
Kweku Sapara-Grant, Alexis Savva, Gregory Schiffenhaus, Kelly Scully, Robert Serafino, Luke Sheehan, Christopher Silber, Emilyanne Smith, Holly Smith, Thomas Smith, Alexander Sniatkowski, Samantha Snyder, Claire Spardel, James Staudinger, Aria Straus;
Briana Tansey, Julia Temple, Hugo Tenorio, Ryan Thomas, Matthew Tischio, Alexandra Tortorella, Zachary Trapani;
Kaival Vaishnav, Carlos Vassallo, Michael Verschleiser, Miho Watabe, Gordon Watkins, Jessica Weiss, Richard Williamson, Emma Wozny, Paige Zebrowski.
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