Verona High School held its 122nd commencement on Thursday, June 23, graduating 172 members of the Class of 2022.
Biology teacher Casey Harris gave the faculty speech, telling students that they must help the world to achieve the change they want to see in it, and how a helping community saved him from death when he had a heart attack on Valentine’s Day.
The class valedictorian was James McHugh and the salutatorian was Annalie Ying. They addressed the class and guests on Sellitto Field, along with Senior Class President Marykate Dougherty and Student Council President Sean Buoye.
Verona High School Class of 2022
Ahmad Abdel-Jabbar, Sofia Albanese, Michael Andolino, Brandon Andrade, Rose Arias*, Milo Attal, Amelia Axelrod
Dermot Badman, Alyssa Balerio, Evan Bannon**, Zachary Benanchietti, Aidan Bermeo, Derek Bernardino*, Theodora Bilbili, Sara Bochicchio*, Emily Bosco*, Joshua Boyle*, Alek Breitenbach*, Kayla Brower, Sean Buoye
Sadie Cantwell, Tyler Carvalloza, Alyssa Casalino, Abigail Castillo*, Abigail Cleary*, John Henry Cleaver*, James Coad, Anthony Collucci*, Cassandra Conklin*, Dylan Conway*, Tyler Coppola, Samantha Costigan*, Jasmine Cuartas-Ruiz*, Christian Cunningham*, Jayden Czupak, Marcos Czupak*
Jessica Day*, Nathalie De Leon, Noah DeJesus, Andrew Della Fera, Emma Derderian, Christian Despecci, Matteo DeVito, Luca DiNatale, Patrick Donnelly, Marykate Dougherty**, Scott Duffy*, Ashley Duhaney*, Michael Dunphy, Alyssa Dymkowski
Sabrina Farro*, Stefano Farro*, Wednesday Fischer, Samantha Flannery, Alexandre Freire Pires, Liliana Freire Pires, Viviana Freire Pires, Julianne French**
Jamie Gabriel, Pierre Gadelkarim*, Seham Gafare, Megan Gallagher*, Timothy Gavin, Chase Gebbia, John Ghingo*, Olivia Giessen*, Maya Golebieski, Dashiell Greenberg*, Aimee Griffin, Angelina Guarducci, Sascha Gutierrez
Jordan Hajtovik, Alec Hamson, Nocolas Handler, Meaghan Haughney*, James Haveron, Noah Hayden, David Held*, Anders Heyniger*, Emma Hogan*, Lucy Hogan*, Alana Holton*, Katherine Hunt
Nicholas Jacobsen*, Giselle Jandoli*, Alexandre Jean, Ava Keating*, Meghan Kenneally*, Alba Kilian, Ian Kirby, Collin Knight, Lauren Kobernick**, Amelia Koelhofer*, Michael Kosulin
Nicholas LaBruno, Dunia Lajili, Jacob Lapid*, Dominick Latino, Alyssa Lipesky, Jacquelyn Loudon
Ben Mackey, Grace Madigan*, Addison Marriott, Gavin Martin, Ella Mathewson*, Kaitlyn McCaffrey, James McHugh**, John McHugh, Ryan McMahon, Gianna Mecca, Aidan Millar*, Abby Miller*, Adam Mizia, Ella Moore*, Isabella Morales, Sean Mulligan*, Michael Murphy
Gianna Napoli, Brodie Neale*, Eleanor Newman*
James Ortiz, Ian Ostermayer
Domenick Pandiscia, Gavin Perry, Christopher Petrino*, Joseph Petro, Alyssa Pichardo, John Piro
Edhy Quimbayo Urrego
Lindsey Rawding, Faith Reed**, Tanner Reed, Carly Renna**, Aaron Richards*, Connor Robinson, John Rosinski
Thomas Sabo, Sofia Saj*, Hilton Sales, Connor Santos, Shalena Seepaul*, Paul Shaw, Emma Sheehan*, Stella Shepard, David Sidrak*, Nicholas Socci*, Daisy Steup, Madison Suk, Caroline Swanstrom
Olivia Tedesco, Sydney Theilmeier*, Sabrina Thompson*, Sabrina Toth, Lauren Tracey*, Emma Triggiano
Michael Vaccaro, Emily Vallone*, Diane Valverde, Zachary Van Wagner, Daniel Vecchio, Allyson Volpe
Naizha Wegesa, Aidan Whiting
Ketoula Xanthakos
Annalie Ying**
Emma Zalewski*, Cael Zebrowski, Giovanni Zerbini**, Devin Zheng, Paige Zickerman*, Tyler Zimany, Christopher Zysk
*Honors: GPA of 3.7 and above
**High Honors: All As for all four years
