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Students Receive 'Student of the Year' Awards
The awards are from the Somerville Elks Lodge.
A total of 32 students from and other area schools received the High School Student of the Year award from the at a recent dinner.
The awards were given to one boy and one girl from each grade in Bridgewater-Raritan, Somerville and Immaculata high schools, and the.
Each student winner received a U.S. Savings Bond and certificates from the Elks Lodge as well as from local representatives Senator Christopher "Kip" Bateman, Assemblyman Peter Biondi and Assemblywoman Denise Coyle.
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"Beyond their solid classroom work, these students exhibit the character, maturity and leadership that define good citizenship," Somerville Elks Scholarship Chairman Ron Czajkowski said in a release about the awards.
The award winners are:
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Immaculata High School
- Patrick Grifone, Branchburg, freshman
- Naomi Shuyama, Hillsborough, freshman
- Anne Marie Barrett, Branchburg, sophomore
- Ryan Gorman, Flemington, sophomore
- Megan Chan, Somerset, junior
- Michael Tarnovetchi, Manville, junior
- Nicholas Ackerman, Hillsborough, senior
- Maria Lopez, Somerville, senior
Bridgewater-Raritan High School
- Elizabeth Feusse, Raritan, freshman
- Joseph Fogarty, Bridgewater, freshman
- Evan Cohen, Bridgewater, sophomore
- Nicole Colarusso, Bridgewater, sophomore
- Karen Bu, Bridgewater, junior
- Kenneth Campbell, Bridgewater, junior
- Lucy Ayers, Bridgewater, senior
- Martin Kim, Bridgewater, senior
Somerville High School
- Rebecca Carra, Branchburg, freshman
- Joseph Lucas, Branchburg, freshman
- Greg Bielat, Branchburg, sophomore
- Stephanie Guzman, Somerville, sophomore
- Marisa Chin, Somerville, junior
- Shai Horowitz, Branchburg, junior
- Trevor Szabo, Branchburg, senior
- Leila May Pascual, Somerville, senior
Somerset County Vocational & Technical High School
- Tyler Soden, South Bound Brook, freshman
- Stephanie Gonzalez, Bridgewater, freshman
- Warren Canosa, Martinsville, sophomore
- Olabade Omole, North Plainfield, sophomore
- John Tamanas, Hillsborough, junior
- Zoe Petitt, Basking Ridge, junior
- Jack Mazellan, Branchburg, senior
- Shweta Patro, Bridgewater, senior
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