Steven A. Forte

If you cannot make that meeting, there will be two other sessions:

• Saturday, March 1, at 10 a.m. in the Laning School media center
• Wednesday, March 5, at 7 p.m. in the H.B. Whitehorne Middle School auditorium

MyVeronaNJ.com has developed comprehensive coverage of the referendum, which will be put to voters on March 11. You can read all our stories here.

There is also a Board of Education meeting tonight at 8 p.m.

Mount Saint Dominic Academy has announced that the following Verona residents have attained first honors for the second marking period: Fiona Ambrosio ’14, Elizabeth Cowell ’16, Quinn Dunnigan ’17, Kaitlyn Finn ’16, Erin Hogan ’16, Jillian Kearns ’14, Kelly Malanga ’14, Hallie Mae Miller ’15, Molly Oser ’15, Elizabeth Oser ’15, Jasmine Spinelli ’15, Kaitlyn Staranka ’14 and Julia Stusnick ’17. Jillian Harris ’14, Katie Leonard ’15, Ariana Matias ’16, Ciara Negron ’17 and Kahaia Voelkl ’16 attained second honors.

First honors qualifications are comprised of a total weighted average 92 or higher for major courses, all grades for major courses in the marking period must be 85 or higher, including all exam marks in the second and fourth marking periods and a passing grade is necessary in all other courses. Second honors qualifications are a total weighted average for major courses 87 or higher, all grades for major courses in the marking period must be 80 or higher, including all exam marks in the second and fourth marking periods and a passing grade is necessary in all other courses.

Mount Saint Dominic Academy, established by the Sisters of St. Dominic in Caldwell, is a Catholic college preparatory school, dedicated to the education of young women from a variety of ethnic, religious and economic backgrounds. Since 1892, The Mount has been empowering young women in the Dominican tradition. For more information about Mount Saint Dominic Academy, visit www.msdacademy.org.

Executive Kids, which has been providing day care and pre-school from its Grove Avenue location, is expanding to offer pre-school and private full-day kindergarten at Brookdale Avenue elementary school. It will hold an open house at Brookdale on Friday, February 28, so that families can see the new facility and learn about the options there.

The open house will run from 1 to 4 p.m. at Brookdale, which is located on Brookdale Court. If you are heading east on Bloomfield Avenue, make the first right after the 7-11 shopping plaza. If you are heading west, turn left just past the DeCozen auto dealership.

There will be a show by the New Jersey “Lizard Guy” at 1 p.m. and a hands-on activity at 2 p.m.

Executive Kids will operate from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and is now accepting enrollment for the fall. For more information, call 973-571-9515 or see Executive Kids’ Web site.

C.H.I.L.D, the Verona non-profit that advocates for children with learning issues, and Verona Schoolsʼ Special Services Department are sponsoring a screening of an important movie on dyslexia on Thursday, March 13.

“The Big Picture”, which was created in conjunction with the Yale Center for Dyslexia, provides insight into the mysteries, difficulties and gifts of dyslexia. After the showing, there will be a question and answer session with a panel of Verona teachers, as well as students, ranging from grades 5 through 11, who will share their personal experience discovering their strengths in the midst of their struggles with this hidden disability. Speech and language expert, Jeanne Tighe, CCC-PLC, of Beyond Communication LLC, will moderate the panel.

This will be an opportunity for teachers, parents and students to learn more about dyslexia, and educators will receive professional development credit hours for this valuable workshop.

Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of the Junior Womanʼs Club of Verona. I AM Possible Dyslexia
Awareness bracelets will be available for purchase, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to C.H.I.L.D. In addition, representatives from Learning Ally—a provider of audio books making reading accessible for all—will be on site.

The event will be held on Thursday, March 13, and the snow date, if needed, will be the following Thursday, March 20. It will be at F.N. Brown Elementary School auditorium, 125 Grove Avenue, in Verona. Registration opens at 6:30 p.m. and the movie screening starts at 7 p.m. The question and answer panel of students and teachers starts at 8 p.m.

Please RSVP, via email, to childverona@gmail.com

For more information about the movie, watch the trailer below, or see its Web site.

It was about 9 degrees outside when Verona’s public school students headed to school this morning. But it wasn’t much better inside the building at Verona High School.

Even though the boilers at VHS have been running day and night, the inside temperature in the gym was just over 57 degrees at 8 a.m.

The heating system at VHS is original to the building, which was dedicated in 1956. It fails frequently, and even when it does work, it struggles to keep up with winter. The referendum that will be put to Verona voters on March 11 would earmark $3.85 million to replace the heating system. That is the second largest expense in the proposal, after the $5.3 million planned for general repairs to all six Verona school buildings.

The total cost of the referendum to taxpayers now stands at $13.8 million, after the Board of Education secured a nearly $2.8 million grant from the state of New Jersey. The cost works out to 48 cents per day for the average Verona property.

Verona’s public schools superintendent, Steven A. Forte, will hold his third information session about the upcoming referendum to improve the schools tomorrow, Saturday, March 1, at 10 a.m. in the Laning School media center. If you cannot make that meeting, there will be just one other session, on Wednesday, March 5, at 7 p.m. in the H.B. Whitehorne Middle School auditorium.

MyVeronaNJ.com has developed comprehensive coverage of the referendum, which will be put to voters on March 11. You can read all our stories here.

Verona’s public schools superintendent, Steven A. Forte, will hold his third information session about the upcoming referendum to improve the schools tomorrow, Saturday, March 1, at 10 a.m. in the Laning School media center.

If you cannot make that meeting, there will be just one other session, on Wednesday, March 5, at 7 p.m. in the H.B. Whitehorne Middle School auditorium.

The total cost of the referendum to taxpayers now stands at $13.8 million, after the Board of Education secured a nearly $2.8 million grant from the state of New Jersey. The cost works out to 48 cents per day for the average Verona property. Most of the money would be spent on repairing Verona’s aging school buildings, including $3.8 million to replace the heating system that is original to Verona High School, which was dedicated in 1956.

MyVeronaNJ.com has developed comprehensive coverage of the referendum, which will be put to voters on March 11. You can read all our stories here.

Ms. Yvette McNeal, principal of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, is proud to announce the names of those fifth grade students who have earned academic recognition during the second marking period of this school year 2013-2014.

These students have qualified for the honors award by attaining all A’s and B’s during the first marking period for the 2013-2014 school year.

Diana Aleynikov, Britney Allteni, Maya Altman, Iviana Anderson, Jaelyn Barkley, Matthew Barnett, Ben Batson, Antonio Belotta, Killian Blitz, Grace Boutcher, Gabriel Breitenbach, Matthew Brown, Zachary Bucher,

Julia Caprari, Christian Castner, Byron Chu, Elyse Chu, Aaron Clarion, Sarah Cole, Cailan Compierchio, Pierce Coppola, Hannah Davey, Matthew Day, Jacqueline DeVivo, Derek Diskant, Faith Fauerbach, Isabella Freda,

Olivia Gasin, Sofia Guide, Maryclare Hahula, Ryan Hajtovik, Lily Harding, Katherine Hensal, Audrey Hoffman, Claire Jackson, Kara Johansen, Sophia Josephson, Maggie Kenny, Woody Klose,

Jack Lambert, Michael Lipesky, John Lonsinger, Jessica Loudon, Gabriel Lugo, Sean Maida, Declan Maisano, Cole Martin, Abigail McAneney, Malya McHugh, Andrew Meyer, Jeffrey Monacelli, Thomas Monroe, Megan Moran, Dylan Munjack,

Kelly Nulty, William O’Donnell, Nikhil Parekh, Thomas Radigan, Jack Raff, Emma Rice, Frank Riggio, Alexander Rodner, Natalie Romanyshyn, Mariam Sabet, Eugene Sarbaev, Renee Schuldiner, Buster Shick, Matthew Siegel,
Evan Silvia, Jordan Stafford,

Nicole Thompson, William Toomsoo, Lia Tortoriello, Arthea Valderrama, Olivia Vasalani, Maria Vega, Joseph Visone,
Graham Weber, Talia Williams, Daniel Zamloot

The names of some students who qualified for the honor roll do not appear on this list because their parents have elected not to release personal information to the media.

A heat pipe broke at VHS in February, spreading the rusty water on a floor. The referendum would replace the high school’s heating and ventilation system, which is original to the 58-year-old building.

The total cost of the referendum to taxpayers now stands at $13.8 million, after the Board of Education secured a nearly $2.8 million grant from the state of New Jersey. The cost works out to 48 cents per day for the average Verona property. Most of the money would be spent on repairing Verona’s aging school buildings, including $3.8 million to replace the heating system that is original to Verona High School, which was dedicated in 1956.

MyVeronaNJ.com has developed comprehensive coverage of the referendum, which will be put to voters on March 11. You can read all our stories here.

Most of us are not techno-geeks or a technology wizards, but can appreciate the ability to sit on our couches, watch TV and check email, pay bills, surf Facebook or have a Facetime chat with family far away, all at the same time. For most of us, our wireless world looks like the one described here, but what it means in our schools is something entirely different.

Last fall, in a meeting with Charlie Miller, Verona’s director of curriculum, I learned that educational apps and wireless access are not as prevalent in school as they are at home. Until that moment, it had seemed to me that the network we had was just fine: Grades are posted online, parents can email teachers and the district-wide announcements successfully land on our phones and in our email inboxes. What more was needed?

As we discussed wireless technology in the classroom, Miller told me about a sixth grade science teacher who was using iPod Touches to test her students helping them (and her) identify trouble spots before a test. As a regular app user, I thought that seemed like a very cool tool. As a parent, my immediate question was why is my daughter, who is in 6th grade, not benefitting from that approach. “How,” I asked Miller, “do we get more teachers to do the same?”

The answer is training and technology. Verona’s public schools have not had training workshops on incorporating technology into traditional subject areas or the classroom in general. But even if they had been trained, our teachers couldn’t all use iPod touches or iPads every day in every classroom because the network isn’t strong enough to handle that many users and wireless devices at one time. Verona’s network is 10 years old, an astounding age in tech terms. The $889,086 earmarked for technology in the $13.8 million referendum could change that.

At Verona High School, where the computer backbone is housed, teachers rig wireless routers for their needs and hope the network doesn’t crash like it did over the summer when Chris Tamburro’s students lost two months of history research that had been stored on the district’s server. That crash cost the district $25,000.

Technology now means a tangle of wires at VHS

Tamburro (a history and social sciences teacher) and Rich Wertz (VHS computer sciences and math teacher) believe that students are more engaged in the classroom when technology is introduced as a method to teach.

“Verona teachers have done so well with what they have and stretched every resource,” says Tamburro. “They are motivated, young, and aggressive, striving to move teaching to the current level.”

For Tamburro, wireless access across the district would allow students to do research online while in the classroom and openly discuss the results in real time. Ideally, this wired wireless environment gives students an active voice inviting group discussion and gives teachers a platform for discussion. It captures the students attention because it’s new and encourages collaboration. Additionally, students learn that handheld devices like their phones can be used for more than Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Even better, many of the educational apps are free.

A strong wireless network isn’t just about students using iPod Touches and iPads in the classroom. It’s also about taking the computer sciences curriculum to the next level, and not just for students strong in math. There are many students who benefit more than others in technology classes, specifically the ones who would otherwise be lost. Given the level of interest among students using handheld devices in the classrooms, this was not surprising. Students who struggle with the traditional classes of world language, literacy, or math, and don’t like coming to school, have found a home in computer programming. Whether visually stimulating, less intimidating, or more diverse in applications, these students thrive on computer classes; some have even found early motivation to become architects or programmers. Computer classes have, says Wertz, “created awareness of a path where students can excel beyond traditional classes. Students have attained unexpected success driven by their own interest.”

Wireless, a luxury most of us take for granted at home, is becoming more of a tool for education. Upgrading our network and introducing wireless throughout the district is not the answer to every problem. We still need to figure out devices, develop a platform to continue to keep kids safe online, and provide training for teachers. But without referendum dollars to upgrade the network backbone, Verona cannot be a leader in education.

Ms. Yvette McNeal, Principal of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School is proud to announce the names of those fifth students who have earned academic recognition during the second marking period of this school year 2013-2014.

These students have qualified for the high honors award by receiving an “A” in every school subject.

Ronald Arias, Anna Barile, Ethan Beninghof, Kristen Brown, Nia Chesney, Dylan Ferrara, RioMarie Gagnon, Lia Gardner, Paige Hensal, Katherine Hipp, Peter Hoogterp, Andrew Hunt, Isabella Hussar,

Luke Lambert, Robert Leland, Kyle McCaffrey, Grace McKeown, Melanie Naeris, Benjamin Niesmertelny, Madison Nigro,
Bridget O’Donnell, Emma Ramsthaler, Kathryn Romanyshyn, Grace Russo,

Taylor Spinelli, Trevor Spinelli, Karina Squilanti, Savannah Szamborski, Veronica Valera, Sophia Villani, Mary Wallace, Drew Weisser, Griffin Willner, Emily Wynne, Alison Zanders, Quinn Zebrowski

The names of some students who qualified for the High Honor Roll do not appear on this list because their parents have elected not to release personal information to the media.

Ms. Yvette McNeal, principal of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School is proud to announce the names of those sixth grade students who have earned academic recognition during the second marking period of this school year 2013-2014.

These students have qualified for the honors award by attaining all A’s and B’s during the first marking period for the 2013-2014 school year.

Brooke Anquillare, Elijah Baker, Ashley Baumgard, Madeline Bello, Xavier Beltran, Erika Boone, Stephanie Boyle, Nikolai Bujnowski, Brianna Camp, Arianna Canal, Andrew Castillo, Alexander Cheung, Joseph Ciccolini, Simone Conforti, Renata Curcio,

Jenna Da Rin, Alyssa Deo, Jayson Despecci, Richard DiGeronimo, Christian Dionisio, Kiernan Dunphy, Kiera Egan, Meaghan Elliott, Eva Fiore, Owen Fogarty, Wyatt Fortgang, Alexa Friedman,

Alena Gabbe, Will Gaccione, Kylee Gallagher, Maggie Gorman, Julia Grise, Chelsea Gruskin, Emily Hack, Jacob Harding, Olivia Hasel, Patrick Hogan, Vincent Hogan, Julia Holland,

Nicole Imbriano, Derek Jocelyn, Antoinietta Johnson, Anna Konrad-Parisi, Nicolas Kozachuk, Christopher Lakin, Shane Lawless, Sloan Lawless, Margaret Lonsinger, Tess Lucanie, Steven Luehs, Tristan Lugo,

Nina Machnowski, Bryan McKeen, Caitlin McKeown, Morgan Michelson, Elizabeth Molloy, Gabriella Montagna, Thomas Mulligan, Aidan Murphy, Kathleen Nagy, Nicholas Napoli, David Navarro,

Gillian O’Donnell, Leah Pandian, Liam Patel, Zachary Peronilla, Nickolos Pilauri, Alyssa Raimondi, Caitlin Remler, Adam Renna, Thomas Romano, Michael Ruggiero, Jack Rysavy,

Marian Salib, Jacqueline Serino, Rachel Seubert, Sara Sexton, Abigail Shorter, Rebecca Siclari, Eric Song, Robert Sposato, Jeremiah Strippoli, Catherine Swanstrom,

Arianna Tietjen, Andrew Tracy, Ethan Triggiano, Olivia Vogel, Jordan Warner, Kelly Waterman, Emily Weisser, Patrick Yeates, Alexander Zebrowski,

The names of some students who qualified for the honor roll do not appear on this list because their parents have elected not to release personal information to the media.

Verona sent seven of its teachers to the February Mini-Institute at Teacher’s College, Columbia University from February 17-20. It is part of the Reading and Writing Project.

The purpose of the institute was to help K-8 educators develop the curriculum and methods necessary to ensure that students reach the rigorous new standards for content area literacy embedded in the Common Core. Verona’s teachers were able to collaborate with teachers from all over the country, and told us that they found the experience to be “stimulating, informative, and invigorating”.
Left to right: Anne Marie Ruggiero, Linda Wangner, Claire Duffy, Kristina Ellenbogen, Kelly Flynn and Joan Weiss. Not pictured, Cindy Graves.

Ms. Yvette McNeal, principal of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School is proud to announce the names of those sixth grade students who have earned academic recognition during the second marking period of this school year 2013-2014.

These students have qualified for the high honors award by receiving an “A” in every school subject.

Abigail Bermeo, Colleen Dennis, Monica Egnezzo, Andrew Emanuilidis, Carolyn Feeley, Ethan Forrest, Clara Frizzi, Amanda Galarowicz, Maximilian Handler, Maxine Haralambiev, Rebecca Katsios,

Harry Mastrogiannis, Chloe Mathewson, Alessandra Newman, Emily Osborne, Erin Petrino, Jessica Sidrak, Michael Sluck, Rebecca Wenzel-Rideout, Henry Wertz, Jenika Ying

The names of some students who qualified for the High Honor Roll do not appear on this list because their parents have elected not to release personal information to the media.

Laning Avenue School celebrated Read Across America Day with an assembly led by Principal Julie DiGiacomo on Monday, March 3. The day was created to mark the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, the children’s book author best known as Dr. Seuss.

Laning had a week of activities in honor of Dr. Seuss, who was born on March 2, 1904 and published 46 children’s books. Each day before lunch the school stopped to read together, and there were different special touches to every day like pajama day and crazy hair day. Monday, the day of the assembly, was silly sock day.

(l-r) VHS Music Director Erik Lynch, Seamus Elliot, Eric Foy, Chris Buneo, Skyler Fortgang, Dustin Nguyen, Michael Lipsey (Queens College), Ryan Lavoie, Al Cerulo ( Mantra Percussion).

The festival was organized under the auspices of Mantra Percussion, a cutting edge percussion ensemble from New York City. The VHS students performed for the public and members of Mantra group, who also taught a hands-on master class for the student musicians. Participants included middle school, high school, university, and professional percussion ensembles and soloists from the Montville, Ridgewood, and Randolph public schools as well New York University, Rutgers University, Bard College, New Jersey City State University, Queens College, SUNY Purchase, Stony Brook University, and Rowan University. It was not a juried festival, but rather a chance to listen and learn from percussionists across the area.

While VHS has a drum line that performs with the marching band in the fall, the Verona High School Percussion ensemble focuses on concert percussion. Last year, it performed Christopher Rouse’s Ogoun Badagris as part of the Rutgers Percussion celebration. Rouse is the resident composer for the New York Philharmonic. This year’s Verona ensemble–Eric Foy, Chris Buneo, Skyler Fortgang, Ryan Lavoie, Seamus Elliott and Dustin Nguyen–performed Thom Hasenpflug’s Bicksa at the Montville festival.

You can watch Verona’s performance below. We’ve been told that, after listening to it, the Mantra member said, “How did you do that?”

On Tuesday, March 11, Verona voters will cast their ballots in a referendum to repair Verona’s six public schools, improve their security and technology, fix a 35-year-old problem on one school field and make another work for Verona’s heavy field demand. There are two simple reasons to vote in favor of the referendum: Our substantial need and the measure’s reasonable cost.

Substantial Need: The 58-year-old heating system at Verona High School does not adequately heat the building, leaving students struggling to stay warm as they try to learn. The masonry facade at Brookdale is separating from the building. There are failing doors at all six schools, classroom phones cannot call 911, the computer network is more than a decade old. A poor choice of landfill at VHS three decades ago has left us with a site deemed hazardous by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. This is not a desirable image for Verona schools and we need to fix it.

Reasonable cost: The Board of Education won a $2.8 million grant from the state, which cut the cost of the referendum to taxpayers to $13.8 million, or less than half of the 2005 referendum. With the lower total cost, and lower borrowing cost, that works out to $176.75 per year to the average home in Verona, or 48 cents a day. It is a small price to pay to keep our property values high.

Much of the discussion around this referendum has centered on the sports fields, at VHS and elsewhere. We cannot legally walk away from the problems on the upper VHS field, and the $1.88 million that the Board of Education has earmarked for remediation is a sound, middle-of-the-road solution. It fixes what can be fixed without excessively burdening taxpayers and creates some benefits for the community. Since we must cap the problem landfill near the VHS parking lot, the BOE has chosen to turn that cap into an extra tennis court and more parking, neither of which will go unused.

But fixing the upper field will not, unfortunately fix our field problems. After remediation, the upper field will work for gym classes but it will no longer be large enough for any high school sport. Verona has used the original high school football field near Grove Avenue for two seasons now, showing both its strengths and its weaknesses. The referendum would spend $3,806,994–or 22.8% of the total–on creating a turfed field that can host multiple sports (baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse and football) and activities like marching band. The Verona Education Association has estimated that 75% of VHS students would be able to use the refurbished field. They could stay after school and get help from their teachers and still make it to practice on time. The Hilltop fields proposed by the Town Council would be for youth sports and not high school athletes. The money that is available to fund their construction belongs to Verona’s municipal budget and not the BOE’s.

Does this referendum get us everything we all want? No, of course not. We all can come up with a long list of what we think a town like Verona should have in and around its schools. But voting yes gets us a step closer to that goal.

The polls are open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday. Your vote counts.

Ms. Yvette McNeal, Principal of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School is proud to announce the names of those seventh grade students who have earned academic recognition during the second marking period of this school year 2013-2014.

These students have qualified for the honors award by attaining all A’s and B’s during the first marking period for the 2013-2014 school year.

Daniel Ambrosio, Kathleen Ashley, Zachary Balogh, Augustin Caprari, Brandon Cariani, Brooke Cooney, Emily Coppola, Hunter Coppola, Jessica Derderian, Julia DiGeronimo, Dean DiPaolo, Matthew Dollaway, Ariana Dyer,

Victoria Eriksson, Anthony Farro, Sophia Francullo, Eric Frey, Maria Gabriele, Michael Garcia, Nicholas Giuliano, Kayla Golebieski, Reilly Hughes, Kyle Jacobsen, Ashley Kenneally, Julia Kosko, Molly Ligon,

Julia Mackey, Michael Maglione, Melanie Matarazzo, Victoria McHugh, Matthew Monroe, Holly Montick, Jake Morisseau, Abigail Nochimson, Robert Parent, Caitlin Richinelli, Lourdes Ricks, Nicholas Riggio, Christopher Robinson, Kathleen Ryan,

Nardin Salib, William Sheehan, James Short, Jessica Spinelli, Charles Torikian, Joseph Trapani, Hector Vega, Nicole Volpe, Brooke Wagner, Colleen Whelan, Jack Zickerman

The names of some students who qualified for the honor roll do not appear on this list because their parents have elected not to release personal information to the media.

Ms. Yvette McNeal, principal of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School is proud to announce the names of those seventh-grade students who have earned academic recognition during the second marking period of this school year 2013-2014.

These students have qualified for the high honors award by receiving an “A” in every school subject.

Emily Marie Andersen, Elizabeth Barile, Liliana Benanchietti, Angelo Benfante, Lauren Brown, Isabelle Buneo, Julia Burke, Sarah Carlucci, Maria Celentano, Gracie Cleaver,

Kelly Esposito, Margaret Evans, Megan Forrest, Maya Fortgang, Elizabeth Hensal, Harrison Keating, Jarrod Keating,
Erin Kiernan, Christina Liggio, Nicolette Marino, Maeve McGinley, Ryan McKeown, David Motley,

Allison Naeris, Mercy Neal, Gabriel Quagliata, Colby Ruggiero, Connor Seawright, Rebecca Seubert, Thomas Sharkey, Marnie Shick, Alan Stoloff, Lara Tole, Nora Walsh, Emma Yee, Elyssia Yung,

The names of some students who qualified for the High Honor Roll do not appear on this list because their parents have elected not to release personal information to the media.

Ms. Yvette McNeal, principal of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School is proud to announce the names of those eighth-grade students who have earned academic recognition during the second marking period of this school year 2013-2014.

These students have qualified for the honors award by attaining all A’s and B’s during the first marking period for the 2013-2014 school year.

Margaret Ashley, Hannah Boyle, Daniel Burkhart, Samuel Chambers, Francesca Cortese, Cecilia Courter, Michael Daggett, Sean DeCandia, Carly Denora, Matthew DiDia, David Festa, Delayna Feuerzeig, Adrianna Fierro, Olivia Fiore, Brendan Fleming,

Frank Gabriele, John Gabriele, Sierra Gagnon, Lauren Gruskin, Lucas Hamson, Alexandra Holland, Evan Huaman, Tyler Jackson, Michael Johnson, Adam Kazanfer, Lucas Konrad-Parisi, Margarita Kousoulou, Emma Kubacki,

Charles Lavery, Carli Lavoie, Daniel Lucinese, Andrew Luehs, Jaclyn Marrese, Sara Marriott, Madisyn Matthews, Justin Munjack, Ashley Nigro, Gwynneth O’Donnell, Kitty Pagano, Karishma Parekh, Maguire Pecci, Julian Pena, Samuel Pensiero, Michael Petillo, Zoie Petronzo, Celia Poueymirou,

Constantino Quagliata, Amber Reed, Amy Renzulli, Julia Rigney, Anna Rosinski, Daniel Sandoval, Kevin Scanlon, David Schuldiner, Aydin Sidali, Victoria Socci, Kate Stanisci, Jenna Staranka, Isabel Stocker,

Julianna Tuorto, Salvatore Vassallo, Mark Walsh, Rachael Weir, Isabella Williams, Michael Willner, Cianna Winkler,
Alexander Ziolkowski,

The names of some students who qualified for the honor roll do not appear on this list because their parents have elected not to release personal information to the media.

Ms. Yvette McNeal, Pprincipal of H.B. Whitehorne Middle School is proud to announce the names of those eighth-grade students who have earned academic recognition during the second marking period of this school year 2013-2014.

These students have qualified for the high honors award by receiving an “A” in every school subject.

Julia Cambreleng, Matthew Dillane, George Du Laney, Marwa Elessawy, Christine Feeley, Brian Feury, Grace Gault, Isabella Josephson, Lauren Kiwior, Caitlin Klose, Isabel Latorre,

Matthew Nagy, Henry Noren, Garrett Percevault, Dean Ramsthaler, Evan Saleh, Jordan Shaffer, Andrew Siegelin, Jason Siegelin, Cole Smith, Kyle A Smith, Dario Spina, Julianna Spina, Olivia Symczak,

Elliot Urgent, Colin Vega, Brendan Wallace, Lauren Zanders, Annabelle Zebrowski

The names of some students who qualified for the High Honor Roll do not appear on this list because their parents have elected not to release personal information to the media.