Mr. Robert Keyes, Principal of Susquehanna, Community Elementary School, announces the following students who made the Honor or High Honor Roll for the first marking period of the 2012-13 School Year.
High Honor Roll – Grade 5 – Haley Hayndshaw and MacKenzie Steele.
High Honor Roll – Grade 6 - Devon Dubanowitz, Emily Fremberg, Robert Polonis, Rhiannon Potter, Benjamin Prentice, Adam Rockwell, Canyon Stone and Ashley Wallace.
Honor Roll – Grade 4 – Gavin Baker, Cortney Bennett, Devyn Benson, Jacob Downton, Fasmine Funk, Austin Gow, Ella Hansen, Kyleigh Jones, Jenna Krall, Sophie Lawrenson, Shannon Marinari, Skylar McClain, Anthony Palonis and Hayden Wayman.
Honor Roll – Grade 5 – Ryan Armitage, Carson Beamer, Steven Brown, James Clark, Rachel Day, Mackenzie Heath, Taylor Huyck, Jonathan Jenkins, Shania Mcgivern, Geena Miller, Shane Muiter, Airyll Rockwell, Jakub Tomczyk, Kailye Towner and Samantha Voege.
Honor Roll – Grade 6 – Angel Bieloski, Michael Braun, Robert Burns, Rylee Cook, Cierra Cotter, Dallas Cude, Lia Heath, Garrison Kiernan, Erika Knifer, Kaylee Landry, Cody MacDonald, William Perry, McKenzie Rhone, Chloe Tinklepaugh, Cameron Wasko and Andrea Westbrook.
Following is the Susquehanna Community High School First Marking Period Honor Roll for the 2012-13 school year.
Highest Honors 93 -100:
12th Grade – Brianne Bianco, Emily Carmody, Mitchell Corse, Emily Day, Kayla Decker, Cody Dibble, Elizabeth Fink, Kyleigh Fiske, Lindsey Glidden, Britney Glover, Coleman Hansen, Dylan Haynes, Kristen Kruger, Melissa Kukowski, Chelsea Matta, Brett Metcalf, Patricia Pauswinski, Raymond Polak, Christopher Snyder, Ryan Swanson, Ashley Sweeney, Andrzej Tomczyk, Zachary Vaughn, Donald Wilmot, Ling Jing Yang.
11th Grade –Sydney Avery, Chastity Carvin, John DeLaPlaine, Joseph DeLaPlaine, Jonathan Felter, Mashawna Hargett, Rachel Hubal, Alyssa Jacobs, Ashley Miller, Micaela Rhone, Sarah Serfilippi, Emily Staros.
10th Grade - Ivy Christensen, Willard Cobb, Ariana Hagopian, Clayton Hansen, Mikayla Hargett, Keith Hubal, Dale Reid, Olivia Rockwell, Justin Stanford, Emily Stark.
9th Grade – Daniel Braun, Kevin Butts, Cori Glidden, Kaitlyn Gow, Alyssa Hubal, Miranda Rhone.
8th Grade – John Abruzzo, Madison Canfield, Hannah Day, Garret Grausgruber, Evan Haley, Jessica Lamb, Siage Perry, Kathryn Woodruff.
7th Grade – Isabella Abruzzo, Faith Benedict, Emily Frye, Macayla Hyndshaw, Bridget Iveson, Marisa Kenny, Emily Lawrenson, Eric Lee, Tristan Megivern, Kaylin Trynoski and Stephen Vivona.
Honor Roll 90-92.99
12th Grade – Jagr Briar, Megan Canfield, Derek Case, Amanda Marco, Chelsea Sparks.
11th Grade - Chelsea Ayres, Amber Dubanowitz, Nicholas Hall, Mollie Mroz, Kaelin Payne, Alexis Roe.
10th Grade – Nicole Barnes, Brianna Burlingame, Austin Felter, Jerry Hallisey, Felicia Hines, Nicole Hines, Brendan Lamb, Brad Sherman, Anastasia Smith, Daniel Staros, Abigail Stumbo, Kayla Swartz.
9th Grade – Breanna Bushong, Miranda Groover, Marissa McConnell, Alyssa Rockwell, Rachel Serfilippi.
8th Grade – Brittany Burlingame, Annabell DiNoto, Myra Hargett, Chad Lee, Robert Murphy, Alexandria Warring.
7th Grade – David Armitage, Kolby Baker, Alexis Beach, Brockway Blodgett, Christian Burke, Becca Bushong, Kendra Colwell, Elizabeth Delaney, Kayla Marino, Morgan Rivenburg, Madisson Stanford and Kelsey Swartz.
Merit Roll 85-91.99
12th Grade – Brett Archambault, Danielle Barnes, Douglas Bishop, Alycia Cuevas, Maria Del Vecchio, Brandon DeRose, Kara Gow, Dessine Herzog, Caitlynn O’Dell, Brooke Sampson, Taylor Soules, Casey Williams.
11th Grade – Cameron Barnes, Lindsey Burdick, Nathan Carpenter, Nicholas Chamberlain, Macy Consla, Jonathan Haines, Lauren Marco, Brooke Morrison, Richard Pelicci, Cody Rockwell, Brandon Soden, Evan Stone, Cody Towers.
10th Grade - Lucas Brinton, Kasey Burdick, Susan Chamberlain, Abigail Day, Luke Falletta, Ashley Fisk, Brianna Graves, Katie Greene, Sarah Heath, Tiara Leonard, Adam MacDonald, William Reddon, Allison Ryder, Alisha Sanborn, Nicole Shay, Martin Swartz, Taryn Tross.
9th Grade – Haley Aldrich, Michael Armitage, Bailey Barnes, Abby Burdick, Donna Jo Decker, Sean Elliott, John Krieg, Trevor Passetti, Michael Pelicci, Jessica Plutino-Gilleran, Jessica Staros, Kayla Wayman.
8th Grade – Shaun Andersen, Taylor Bennett, Kendra Cole, Angelica DeLong, Briana Ferrante, Gabrielle Glover, Lyndsey Mroz, Beenie Samsair, Shayna Slocum, Lauren Soden, Casey Staerker, Jonathan Teribury, Skyler Voege, Taylor Williams, Tyler Williams, Yong Yang.
7th Grade – Stephanie Ballard, Shaun Chandler, Chloe Haskins, Taylor Millard and Griffin Payne.
On November 17-18, there were two places to be if you were one of the elite high school debaters in the country: suburban Chicago or suburban Philadelphia.
The Elk Lake Forensics Team chose the latter and attended the 33rd Annual St Joseph’s University Villiger Speech and Debate Tournament with the hopes of getting rounds of tough competition against the best debaters from 9 states in the northeast region of the country.
What the team got was two of the top 32 debaters, including the overall champion, in the tournament.
Senior Austin Cohen dominated the field and captured the overall title while senior Matthew Horvath, in only his second year in debate, advanced to the round of 32.
Pictured are EL Forensics Team Place Winners at 33rd Annual St. Joseph’s University Forensics Tournament: Matthew Horvath – 29th in Lincoln-Douglas Debate; Austin Cohen – 1st Place in Lincoln-Douglas Debate.
During the 5 preliminary rounds, Cohen put up a record of 4 wins and 1 loss by defeating debaters from Truman (PA), Hunter College (NY), Delbarton (NJ), and Regis (NY) High Schools. His only loss came to Robert Gormisky from LaSalle College HS.
As a result of his record, Cohen would enter the round of 32 as the 4th seeded debater.
Horvath put together a preliminary record of 3 wins and two losses by defeating debaters from Loyola Blakefield (MD) and Hunter College (NY). His two losses came to debaters from Hunter College (NY) and Regis (NY) High Schools.
His preliminary round record placed him as the 29th seeded debater. Unfortunately, for the Round of 32, Horvath was seeded against Cohen. As a result of his higher initial seeding, EL Forensics Director Keith Brosious advanced Cohen to the Octo-Final Round.
Cohen would run off unanimous decision wins in Octo-Finals, Quarter Finals and Semi-Finals over debaters from Shrewsbury (MA), Hunter College (NY), and Regis (NY) High Schools respectively.
His Semi-Final win would advance him into a Final Round against Gina Li from Blacksburg HS (VA).
Cohen dominated the round and won another unanimous decision and the tournament championship.
The only ballot Cohen lost was in the fourth round.
“Impressive. There is simply no other word for his performance at this tournament,” commented Brosious who watched the Cohen’s Final Round.
Cohen’s record on the season is 18 wins and 2 losses. He has won 3 consecutive tournament championships in LD. He became the first debater from Pennsylvania in 10 years to win LD at Villiger and only the 5th in the state to win in the 33 year history of the tournament.
The team will compete at home on December 1 as Elk Lake hosts the Scranton CFL Tournament that weekend.
