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More Than 8,200 Students Graduate WCPSS in 2010

June 2, 2010 - The Wake County Public School System will award diplomas to 8,223 students in 21 ceremonies through Friday, June 11.

Most of the students will continue their education in college, while others will enlist in the military or join the workforce.

Class of 2010 earned $65 million in scholarships, had 991 qualifying for the North Carolina Scholars program

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The class of 2010 earned $65 million in scholarships, had 991 students qualifying for the North Carolina Scholars program and more than 1,200 Honor Society graduates.

Three high schools have senior classes with 500 or more students. Wakefield High has 621 graduates. Enloe Magnet High has 579. Broughton High has 509. The 8,223 graduates this year compares with 8,094 last year.

At Athens Drive High, there are 60 Presidential Academic Excellence Award Recipients. 18 students will be recognized as Graduation Project Scholars for continuing with their Graduation Project after the NC Department of Public Instruction removed it as a requirement for graduation.  At graduation they will wear  a special cord  on their gown. The students include Abdul-Rahman Al-Hindi, Caitlin Alexander, Caleb Barnhart, Munir Bharde, Colleen Calliham, Megan Carroll, Hannah Gardner, Zahra Girnary, Laurel Hillen, Janna Hockaday, Rose Isadore, Carrie Lomelino, Mike Marvin, Ethan Miller, Asad Rahman, Chrystal Smith, Dan Tavalin and Alexa Wright.

At Cary High, Rebecca DeNardis became the school system's first winner of the Braxton-Craven Scholarship to Duke University. There are two National Merit Scholarship Winners; a Robertson Scholar who earns a full four year scholarship with classes at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill; and one Air Force Academy appointment.

At Garner Magnet High, there are six Presidential Excellence Awards, 17 International Baccalaureate Diploma Candidates and two NC Teaching Fellows. A State Employees Credit Union Scholarship was awarded to Hilliary Davis. The Susan Ellis Roberts Scholarship was awarded to Heather Tapp. The Wake Forest College Scholarship was awarded to John Walsh. The Elon University Presidential Scholarship was awarded to Matthew Wescoe. The Triangle Educational Advancement Foundation Scholarship was awarded to Cody Woodall. Olivia Bass earned the UNC-CH Covenant Award. Garner Magnet High students earned 97 academic, 10 athletic, and one band scholarship.

At Knightdale High, there were 72 Honor Students, two NC Teaching Fellows and one President’s Education Award Recipient.

At Leesville Road High, there are five National Merit Finalists and five NC Teaching Fellows. There are five students attending Duke University with one on a full scholarship. One students is going to MIT.

At Middle Creek High, one student earned an appointment to the United States Air Force Academy, one earned an Air Force Academy ROTC Scholarship, one was named a National Merit Achievement Scholar and four were named NC Teaching Fellows. There are 15 Presidential Scholars, 72 Distinguished Honor Graduates and 46 High Honors Graduates.

At Millbrook High, Kaosisochukwu Uzokwe received scholarship offers from Duke University, MIT, Cornell University, NC State University and the National Achievement Scholarship for a total of more than $850,000.  He will attend MIT in the Fall of 2010. There are 46 students who earned Presidential Awards, one NC Teaching Fellow and one National Merit Finalist.

At the East Wake School of Arts, Education & Global Studies, Ashley Stacy was the recipient of the State Employees Credit Union Scholarship and the East Wake Education Foundation scholarship. Sarah Broadwell won the Zebulon Rotary Club scholarship. Mary Carnes won an FBLA scholarship. Two students had over $200,000 in various academic scholarships: Jessica Garcia and Ashley Stacy. Ajean Deloatch and Vaughn Carrington won scholarships from the Princess Network, a women’s leadership group.

At East Wake School of Engineering Systems, Amber Frazier and Kalen Bryant received The Counselor’s Award for Leadership Excellence presented to students who have strong people and communication skills, exemplary character, team player, enthusiasm, goal oriented and solution focused, commitment to excellence, tolerance and understanding. Drew Geib was presented the first PTSA Ralph A. Shipp Memorial Scholarship, created by the PTSA to honor the father of the school's principal, Sebastian Shipp. Emily Baker, Aaron Little and Jordan O’Brien competed in the FFA’s local, district or state competition and received several awards for Leadership and Career Development. Nine students were FFA Honor Graduates and also completed 20 hours of community service.

At East Wake School of Health Science, Marlenee Abreu, Cherrell Jenkins, Dominique Kelly, Brooke Proctor and Jenny Shiver earned scholarships over $30,000. Rachel Nicole Duke was the recipient of the State Employees’ Association of NC Scholarship. Morgan Goettge is the recipient of a scholarship from Catawba College for her participation in Girl’s State, which teaches young women about state government. Bernadine Okoroji was awarded the Alberta P. Smith Scholarship, honoring one of the school's former social studies teachers who was an advisor for the African American Culture Club. Shelley Bishop and Victoria Hamm were FFA Honor Graduates completing 20 hours of community service.  Bishop also received the Annie Mae Horton Scholarship for Horticulture.  Hamm was recognized in prepared speaking and earned a Certificate of Outstanding Service in the FFA. Morgan Piner was the recipient of the Gene D. Yeargin Choral Award and will have her name engraved on a permanent plaque at the school.

At East Wake School of Integrated Technology,  Veronica Stanberry received a scholarship for $88,000 from Johnson C. Smith University. Johnathan Barnes-Smith received the Student Athlete Award sponsored by the Triangle Chapter of The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, the Wendell Rotary scholarship and the Kappa Beautillion Scholarship. Kristen Bolick received a scholarship from State Employee’s Association of North Carolina.

The first $500 Gary Dixon Memorial Scholarships created by the East Wake high schools' Business Alliance in honor of the late Gary Dixon, who served as the school's career development coordinator for 11 years were presented to Lillian Barrett of East Wake School of Arts, Education & Global Studies, Emily Baker of East Wake School of Engineering Systems and Brittany Holley of East Wake School of Integrated Technology.

Enloe Magnet High had 21 National Merit Finalists and four National Achievement Finalists. Three students received the NC Teaching Fellows: Porcelain Cheek, Lauren Kepke and Adam Raby. George Ramsay earned the Morehead-Cain Scholarship and was offered the Davidson College Bryan Scholarship. Madhulika Vulimri received the Morehead-Cain Scholarship and was offered the Park Scholarship. Peter Alfredson was awarded the Pogue Scholarship; Shikha Singh received the Centennial Scholarship. Kayee Au was one of 50 Cocoa-Cola National Scholarship finalists. Five students received full-ride athletic scholarships. The school had 30 students complete the Medical Bio-Science Academy and 44 International Baccalaureate Diploma Candidates. Rachel Harris was a Presidential Scholar Semi-Finalist. 121 students earned the President’s Education Award. Ten students completed the Graduation Project.

At Phillips High, four students received scholarships. Nichelle Lanier, Rosa Leyva and Katashia Platt received Guardian Ad Litem Scholarships and Cushandra Burnette received a GlaxoSmithKline Opportunity Scholarship.

At Green Hope High, Elijah Baik received a US Air Force Academy appointment and Claire Kilmer earned a SECU scholarship. Ashley Byrd, Kyle Chalker, Andrea Estes, Linelle Gorman, Leigh Iler, Calais Johnson, Corey Roe, Bryan Warwick, Katherine White and Bethany Wilcox were named NC Teaching Fellows. There were 323 Honor Graduates and 23 students completed the graduation project. 

At Broughton High, Ellen Corbitt Currin earned a Morehead-Cain Scholarship and Alex Jin-Wei Chin earned a Park Scholarship. There was one West Point appointment and one student earned a Duke Alumni Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship. Six students were named NC Teaching Fellows and there were 12 athletic scholarship offers. The school has 67 students who are candidates for IB Diplomas. Over their four years, seniors completed 78,800 hours of community service. 

At Fuquay Varina High, Callan Andreacchi earned a Air Force ROTC Scholarship valued at $100,000. Shane Lympany was a National Merit Finalist. Bethany Irwin and Lydia Jones were NC Teaching Fellows. Emily Guy received a State Employees Credit Union Scholarship. Seniors earned 103 academic scholarships, four athletic scholarships, four Fine Arts scholarships, two military scholarships and one band Scholarship. There were 13 Presidential Scholars, 74 Honor Graduates and 18 seniors completed the Graduation Project.

Panther Creek High has one Morehead-Cain Scholar, four National Merit Finalists and three NC Teaching Fellows. The Class of 2010 marks the first graduating class of students to be at Panther Creek all four years, since WCPSS opens new schools with ninth and tenth grades.

This year, WCPSS high schools will hold graduation ceremonies at the Raleigh Convention Center, the Progress Energy Center and in Holiday Gym at Broughton High. With most schools having 300 to 500 graduates, there will be additional traffic and parking demands in the area during the ceremonies.

The WCPSS Security Department, Raleigh Police Department and Wake County Sheriff's Department will attend graduation ceremonies. Only persons with an admission ticket will be admitted to a graduation ceremony. In addition, no laptop computers, packages, artificial noisemakers, balloons, or other disruptive devices will be permitted.

WCPSS High School Graduation Information

Name

Date and location

Principal phone

Number students

president

valedictorian

salutatorian

Apex

12 pm, June 11 at Raleigh Convention Center

Matt Wight

452

Chelsea Payne

Anmol Singh

Julie Boyles
&
Eric Porter

Athens Drive

8 pm, June 9 at Raleigh Convention Center

William Crockett

348

Haley Thigpen & Alexandra Davis

Ryan Douglas Cowles

Carrie
Lomelino &
Sarah Levine

Broughton

10 am, June 10 at Holiday Gym

Stephen Mares
509

Mary Morgan Bittler

Eason Michael Abbott 

Patrick Allen Royal

Cary

9:30 am, June 11 at Memorial Auditorium

Doug Thilman

377

David Alecio

Thomas Alexander Pendlebury

Rebecca Ann
Denardis

East Wake High School of Arts, Education and Global Studies 

1:30 pm June 11 at Memorial Auditorium

Ericka Lucas

97

Victoria Lockliear

Ashley Stacy

Sarah Broadwell

East Wake School of Engineering Systems

Sebastian Shipp

65

Katie Watkins

Drew Geib

Joanna Pursley

East Wake School of Health Science

Craig Baker

92

Adrinne Beaver

Bryan Duttman

Morgan Goettge

East Wake School of Integrated Technology

Jamee Lynch

71

Caroline Richards

Garrett Johnson

Nathan Thomas

Enloe

8 am, June 11 at Raleigh Convention Center

Dr. Beth Cochran

579

George Edmonds Ramsay

Ekaterina Roze

Jennifer Chen Li

Fuquay-Varina

8 am, June 9 at Raleigh Convention Center

Edward McFarland
373

Franklin McKoy
Dominic Evan Boccaccio

Geoffrey Storm

Garner

8 pm, June 11 at Raleigh Convention Center

Drew Cook

               419              

Mark Nyutu

Jonathan P.H. Sherron

Kasey Hamrick

Green Hope

8 am, June 10 at Raleigh Convention Center

Dr. James Hedrick

447

Alexandra Klavik

Michael Jin

Taylor Elliott

Holly Springs High

4:30 pm, June 10 at Memorial Auditorium

Timothy Locklair

355

Carli Anne Gast

Elizabeth Windham

Christopher Tomlinson

Knightdale High

9:30 am, June 10 at Memorial Auditorium

Carla Jernigan

388

Jasmyn Graham

Anna Powell

Bradford Knight

Leesville Road

4 pm, June 9 at Raleigh Convention Center

Scott Lyons

495

Edwin Woodhouse

Min Jae Chin

James Wei

Middle Creek

130 pm, June 10 at Memorial Auditorium

John Williams

360

Aimee Mushrush

Heather Newman

Judy Ugwuegbu

Millbrook High

12 pm, June 9 at Raleigh Convention Center

Dana King

476 

 Alexandra
Klimczyk

Eric Mackie 

Mark Hoffman 

Panther Creek High

8 pm, June 10 at Raleigh Convention Center

Rodney Nelson

468

Jennifer Hodshon

Salma Azam

Elizabeth Whitfield

Phillips

11 am, June 10 at Meymandi Hall

Fred McNary

42

Bryonna Marshall

  

Sanderson

12 pm, June 10 at Raleigh Convention Center

Greg Decker

385

Kyle Maxwell Faltisco

James Martin Kuo

Megan Mary Willey

Southeast Raleigh

7 pm, May 29 at Memorial Auditorium

Beulah Wright

341

Lance Dunn

Calvin Kao

Kevin Le
Wake Early College of Health and Sciences

7 pm, May 28 at Southeast Raleigh High auditorium

Teresa Pierrie

54

Carl Antonio Santos

Julie Gassmann

Samantha Chambers and Victoria Jones

Wake Forest Rolesville

4 pm, June 10 at Raleigh Convention Center

Tina Hoots
409

Megan Perry
Julie Arnold and Young Huh

Nicholas Savage

Wakefield

4 pm, June 11 at Raleigh Convention Center

Tripp Crayton

621

Emma Rosenthal

Hannah Young Chae

Edward Bartels

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