Cairo-Durham Middle School
Cairo-Durham Middle School has released its principal’s honor, high honor and honor rolls for the first quarter.
Grade 8 Principal’s Honor — Samuel D. Bruck, Kyra A. Byrne, Robert Lampman, Ally J. MacGiffert, James D. Mutinsky, Kiyana Pereira, Colleen Unzelman.
High Honor — Kirsten R. Andersen, Aidan R. Bailey, Marissa P. Barth, Richard W. Clevenstine, Megan E. Coons, Angela M. Cooper, Mackenzie L. DuHart, Arden G. FarnsworthMoore, Samantha L. Gumnitz, Tyler F. Jackson, Stuart M. Jones, Oliva R. MacGiffert, Ryan C. Morgan, Mckayla A. Mudge, Arianna Myers, Joshua Sanford, Anika R. Soholten, Joscelyn Seiler, Jacob A. Waldron, Webner Rielli, Christopher W. Whitaker.
Honor — Alexis R. Baitsholts, Jaylynn Balkaran, Kylan Brendan Bujak Harrington, Kelly M. Cardarella, Stephen A. Colon-Dugan, Serenity Ayiana-Destiny Cortese, Sydney R. Darran, Katherine A. Decker, Robert J. Fortini, Marissa A. Gardella, Emily R. Hoffman, Kylie M. Kleinmeier, Aiden D. Leo, Isabella J. McLaughlin, Brehan A. Metzler, Blake M. Morton, Sarah K. Mulligan, Kyla E. Murphy, Kayla E. Murphy, Thomas C. Rohan, Evelyn J. Schirripa.
Grade 7 Principal’s Honor — Olivia L. Coletti, Sadie R. Hall, Wyatt L. Handel, Lily A. JohnsonCole. Casey J. Macklin, Jena A. Maggio, Gianna M. Pernice.
High Honor — Dominic Acompora, Noelle O. Amoroso, Christopher S. DeCiel, Braeden M. Deyo, Connell D. Deyo, Tamesh G. Dwarka, Brina S. Halvorsen, Ryan M. Johnson, Hailey M. Lasher, Caitlyn E. Loucks, Marissa E. Markiewicz, Nolen C. McCabe, Shawn R. Moon, Hailey Morrison, Saadia Nance, Danna M. Saad, Connor Shields.
Honor — Connor Bloom, Alexander Bourgeois, Gannon Culver, Aiden Cummings, Victoria A. DellaMonica, Grace E. Elmendorf, Cierra A. Ford, Arianna E. Foster, Chloe A. Giordano, Claudia Giura, Samantha Giura, Yahzeahn S. Green, Korinee’ Hawley, Grace A. Herbek, Richard Hogan, Jeremy J. Kosciusko, Victor R. Linary, Mason M. Messenger, Patrick W. Mooney, Dakota E. O’Brien, Ryan O’Connell, Olivia R. Orin, Rachel S. Ott, Dean Parmelee, Breeley Rawls, Angelina M. Saxe, Jasmaine A. Smith, Catherine A. Stallhohm, Alanna Stewart, Bethanie Van Tassel, Jason E. Vaughn.
Grade 6 Principal’s Honor — Ashley E. Beck, Kennedy T. Bleau, Abigail A. Brandow, Marc Cammarata, Nova C. Conti, Sophia R. Cooper, Chloe Cunningham, Brendan J. Feeney, Alexander Gouza, Tashana S. James, Skyler R. Kelly, Colin MacGiffert, Connor Luis Reed Palmer, Cole Partridge, Hannah Ranzer, Echo A. Roe, Zachary Russell, Savannah J. Thomas, Samantha Traver, Zak Wagor, Adrian C. Werner, Jonathan Zyryi.
High Honor — Hannah J. Ahl, Emelia B. Biondolillo, Jenna G. Cammarata, Lance E. Curless,
Grace M. Cuti, Joshua Cuti, Tyler J. de Visser, Elexzandreah R. Desmarais, Morgan E. Deyo, Ciara G. Falvey, Robert Kinney Jr., Jake T. Lane, Braiden S. Marcell, Brooke H. Morton, Shayne Neumann, Jacklyn Nielsen, Selena M. Perez, Robert M. Poelstra, Ariana L. Powers, Michael Premo, Mercedes F. Relyea, Hailey M. Schrull, Jaylin M. Shores, Charles Smith, Louise R. Smith, Sarah E. Stapchuk, Anthony D. Sternbach, Wyatt J. Van Earp, Josheph S. VanHolsteyn, Kaylee VanWagner, Summer R. Winig, Tatyanna A. Young.
Honor — Joshua E. Adams, Kayden Bell, Nicholas M. Bier, Katelyn Marie Brayman-Blackwood, Constantine Gabriel Burgan, Caleb C. Burrage, Ayrassa Butta, Alex Cabbagestalk, Christian DeLarosa, James T. Dorpfeld, Nathan A. Duhart, Ethan R. Grover, Connor L. Jackson, Dylan Knott, Daryl J. Lackie, Jose Angel Mejia Deyo, Sara L. Mickle, Brodon J. Montgomery, Ayla Neves, Alexander F. Nieves, Nayeli Orozco, Kaitlyn Peterson, Axel Y. Rendon, Adam M. Rhriss, Alberto G. Rivera Jr., William C. Schoonmaker III, Aidon J. Stannard, Triton C. Vigotty, Jakob Weisinger.
YOUTH ON THE GO
Saugerties High School students Rebecca Sauer, Rebecca O’Dell and John Skiff participated in the Area All-State Choral Festival at Tri-Valley Secondary School in Grahamsville in November.
They were selected based on their outstanding performances and high scores at the New York State School Music Association solo festival.
“It was a very competitive audition process,” Saugerties High School music teacher Rebecca MacDougall, who teaches all three students in her choral music class, said in a press release.
Sauer and O’Dell are sopranos. Skiff is a tenor. All three are juniors.
MacDougall said Saugerties had not been represented in the vocal category of Area All-State for the last eight years, making the selection of three students in one year a mark of pride for the high school and school district.
••• The entire seventh-grade class at Dutchess Day School in Millbrook traveled to Poughkeepsie on Dec. 8 to visit the largest of the Astor Head Start schools to deliver a school bus filled with holiday gifts and to spend the afternoon reading to, and playing, with the school’s children.
The Children’s Foundation of Astor Sponsor-a-Family program is the favorite project of the seventh-grade class at Dutchess Day School. Every year, the current seventh-grade organizes a school-wide initiative to drum up a wonderful holiday for struggling families in the region via the Astor program. Gifts both “needed” and “wanted” are purchased and festively wrapped by the extended members of the school community, from current families and teachers to friends of the school.
The class loaded the packages into a large rented school bus and drove with them to Poughkeepsie. After unloading the bus and hiding the gifts in a private room from which they will be distributed to the families for whom they were purchased, the seventh-graders visited classrooms to interact with the preschoolers. Play, conversation and, most importantly, books, were shared with the two groups. COLLEGIANS
Ten area residents attending the State University of New York at New Paltz were among those recognized as the very best of the college’s December graduating class at the Outstanding Graduates ceremony on Dec. 14.
The students were David Liebman and Andrew Monk, both of Kingston; Veronica Fassbender of Lake Katrine, Tara Fitzgerald and Amanda Monges, both of Rosendale; Carlos Aponte of Kerhonkson, Devon Deery of Krumville, Esther Divyasruthi Bakki of New Paltz, Dylan D’Alatri of Wallkill and Benjamin Barry of Tivoli.
The occasion provided an opportunity for faculty mentors, close family and friends to come together and recognize the dedication of select undergraduate and graduate students who performed at an exceptional level in the classroom, independent research, internships and jobs, and leadership positions.
Students representing all five of New Paltz’s schools — the School of Business, School of Education, School of Fine and Performing Arts, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Science and Engineering — as well as the students pursuing upper-level degrees through the Graduate School, were named Outstanding Graduates this semester. They were selected by a facultynomination process.
••• Tyler Dezago of Rhinebeck, a student at Paul Smith’s College in Paul Smiths, N.Y., was named a United States Collegiate Athletic Association Academic All-American for the fall semester.
Student-athletes earn the honor by achieving a grade point average of 3.5or higher.
Dezago is a member of the men’s marathon canoe team at the college. He is majoring in ecological restoration.