If Santa wanted to liven up the North Pole, he could take a few pointers from the elves at Lyons Township High School.

The school’s south campus in Western Springs hosted nearly 400 children for the 23rd annual Holiday Write Night Dec. 9.

The slew of activities for children in preschool through third-grade featured a computer chat with Santa, rather than old-fashioned letter writing. The keyboard exchanges weren’t quite as quick as some Instant Messaging programs, but the North Pole responses were worth the wait.

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Seven-year-old Marissa Murray of LaGrange Park asked a string of questions with a little typing assistance from her personal elf, La Grange senior Anne Gertsmeier. The two girls giggled and speculated on what Santa would say.

Soon, he responded, “No, I don’t think Santa will be getting any more reindeer or elves to help out. They are already doing such a good job.”

At the computer next door, 9-year-old Lilly Dodge of La Grange did her own typing, telling Santa she had been “VERY GOOD!!!” when she asked for a sewing kit.

Dorothy Cochran, director of the south campus Discovery Center housing computers and books, urged young visitors to have patience. Cochran kept her fingers crossed all the computers would keep working and stay connected to the North Pole on the school’s second floor, where other student elves assisted Santa.

“We have 367 LT kids volunteering this year,” Cochran said.

Some students served as personal escorts for the children, while others staffed a variety of stations. Young visitors had the chance to hear stories read, record a holiday greeting for WLTL-FM 88.1, the school’s radio station and celebrate with crafts and phrases according to German, French and Spanish traditions.

Children also could have their faces painted, take a funny photo to be emailed home, color a picture and sample punch and cookies. Visitors had their pictures taken with school mascots Noil and Nessie for a keepsake passport stamped at each station.

Other LT students, including madrigals singers, entertained parents as they sat in chairs near the main entrance, waiting for their children to return from the afternoon’s adventure.

New this year was a sing-along and cupcake decorating project based on the Disney movie, “Frozen.” Numerous pint-sized princesses embraced the theme, wearing long ice-blue dresses as they toured the classrooms and sang along with costumed characters.

For several visitors, the afternoon’s highlight was an elaborate project to make a cupcake version of the “Frozen” snowman Olaf lounging in a hot tub with a snowman buddy.

LT students were busy rolling lumps of white fondant for the snowmen, stirring huge bowls of blue frosting for the water and coaching kids on how to shape and apply the carrot for a nose. Students assisted visitors in lining a chocolate-iced cupcake with sections of Tootsie Roll to make the hot tub.

The cupcakes were designed by foods teacher Ann Stickman, who started the holiday program in 1992. She stood at the door of the classroom, greeting each young decorator with a squirt of hand sanitizer.

“The first year the weather was horrible, and we had five or six kids,” Stickman recalled. “The next year, we had 200 and then it went to 500.”

Mila Mileti, 8, from Countryside said assembling the cupcake was a challenge, but worth the effort.

“I’m going to take it home and save it for a while,” Mila said. “Then I’ll eat it.”

Nazareth Academy’s attendance has returned to usual levels, following a flu outbreak that closed the LaGrange Park high school Tuesday and Wednesday, the principal said.

“Our main goal is to keep our students safe and healthy,” said Principal Deborah Tracy. “We are confident that our recent decision to close school for two days helped to break the flu cycle. This will enable our students to focus on studying for their semester exams next week.”

Twenty five percent of Nazareth’s 730 students and more than 10 staff members were absent Monday. That prompted classes to be cancelled to allow students to recover and the school to undergo a deep cleaning.

Classes have been called off due to snow, cold and record-breaking heat, but not due to a flu outbreak in recent years.

Reports of students hit by the flu had been building gradually since the state championship football game Nov. 29 in Champaign, when several players were sick.

After-school activities and athletic practices were cancelled Monday and Tuesday. Although classes were called off for both Tuesday and Wednesday, some coaches held practices on Wednesday, including the varsity girls basketball team, which reported five players missing.

Coach Kim Connell said only two of the 16 girls on the varsity basketball team so far have escaped the flu. She estimated 80 percent of the girls basketball program at all three levels showed symptoms.

Sports reporter George Wilcox contributed to the story.

In an electrifying mix of shimmering snowflakes, glamorous evening gowns, proud parents and enthusiastic high school students, Montini Catholic High School in Lombard celebrated its 32nd Annual Fashion Show, benefitting the San Miguel Fund.

The theme of this year’s show, held Dec. 7 at the Oak Brook Marriott, was Let It Snow With Fashion. The production was organized by Montini Catholic parents Linda Giordano, Alice Myk and Linda Pohlman, and featured a luncheon and raffle opportunities before the big show.

Each year, the Montini Parents’ Club hosts the event which features junior and senior students entertaining guests, while modeling the latest fashions from local business supporters. Family and alumni members are also invited back to join in the holiday fun by modeling in the show.

Businesses with fashions on the runway this year included Alixandra Blue, Alixandra Collections and Hollis AC of Hinsdale; Peaches Boutique of Chicago; Black Tie Formalwear of Glen Ellyn; Buckle (in Yorktown Mall) of Lombard; and York Furrier, Inc. of Elmhurst City Centre and Deer Park Town Center.

“This event allows us to come together as a school community and celebrate the Christmas season together, while supporting a great cause,” said President Jim Segredo, who also modeled in the show alongside Principal Maryann O’Neill.

The San Miguel Fund provides financial assistance to Montini Catholic families who find themselves experiencing hardships, such as serious illness, death or severe financial difficulties. The fund provides these students with an opportunity for a Catholic education that they may not otherwise be able to afford.

“St. John Baptist de LaSalle, our founder, devoted his life to the education of the economically, socially and educationally impoverished children of his community,” O’Neill said in her letter to attendees appearing in the show’s program. “This lovely event gives us a chance to live out that mission, while sharing a meal with family and friends, renewing old friendships and letting it snow dollars into the San Miguel Fund.”

On a brisk December afternoon in Naperville, when most North Central College students were off campus on a three-week break, a group of about 25 students huddled around desks in a small classroom.

The group had opted to go through an intensive, seven-plus-hour training on identifying and preventing sexual assault and other forms of violence. The trainers followed a program called Green Dot, developed by an Alexandria, Virginia-based nonprofit to encourage bystanders to call for help, create distractions or potentially intervene to stop an assault.

Sarah Avery, the director of residence life, asked if students had experienced or knew someone who’d experienced violence because of a power imbalance and if a bystander could have intervened. With each question, the students clicked a personal remote and their responses were shown anonymously on a projector in graph form.

“That’s the main reason why we’re here today,” Avery said, pointing to the graph.

Bystander training has become an important part of sexual assault prevention on college campuses. The White House even released a celebrity-studded public service announcement in September as part of the “It’s on Us” campaign aimed at getting students, especially men, to be better bystanders.

Later, Avery asked students to write down their personal connections to violence on a piece of paper, which she collected. Advocates say one of the best ways to make prevention efforts stick is to tell real stories and share personal connections that go beyond the statistics.

“When you share stories, people can relate and they start understanding,” said Michelle Curry Meyer, the executive director of Mutual Ground in Aurora, where victims can get free counseling for domestic violence and sexual assault.

North Central is one of several colleges and universities in the area working to stem sexual assaults on campus and improve education efforts — amid an increased focus on the issue by staff, students, the White House and media.

In January the White House formed a task force to protect students from sexual assault. In April the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued a 53-page memo to clarify mandated reporting requirements.

Notably, the Office for Civil Rights began releasing the names of schools in May that are under investigation for possibly violating Title IX, a federal law that protects against discrimination over the handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints. A list that started at 55 schools had grown to 90 this month, according to department records. Two are in Illinois: the University of Chicago and Knox College.

More training

Interviews with officials and a review of crime statistics from area colleges and universities found that many schools are working to improve training for students and staff about sexual violence and other gender-based crimes, to update policies to follow new federal rules, and create websites with clearer explanations about resources available to students who’ve been assaulted.

Elmhurst College covers sexual assault during its summer advising programs, “so that we reach incoming students before they ever move onto campus or attend their first class here,” said Jeff Kedrowski, the college’s executive director of security and emergency management.

“We can introduce the topic, and then link (it) to other aspects like alcohol and drugs, knowing that alcohol or drug use is a factor in many sexual assault incidents.”

Elmhurst, which has about 3,300 students enrolled this year, also has students complete an online training program as part of their course registration, “to ensure that all our students are well-informed and receive a consistent message,” Kedrowski said.

The statistics

A 2010 sexual violence survey from the federal government found that nearly one in five women and one in 71 men in the United States has been raped during his or her lifetime. The same study found that eight in 10 female victims were raped before age 25 and that one in five women had been sexually assaulted while in college.

College sexual assault survivors suffer from high levels of mental health problems, such as PTSD and depression, and reporting rates are “particularly low,” according to a January White House report.

“The dynamics of college life appear to fuel the problem, as many victims are abused while they’re drunk, under the influence of drugs, passed out, or otherwise incapacitated,” the report said. “Most college victims are assaulted by someone they know — and parties are often the site of these crimes.”

At Elmhurst College, “the narrative has evolved over the years, such that we have gone from the early messages of how women can prevent sexual assault, to how both men and women have important roles in prevention,” Kedrowski said.

Training at Elmhurst covers how to recognize predatory behavior and intervene, such as stopping a friend who is hitting on a girl who is too drunk to have good judgment.

It’s “about getting friends to short-circuit undesirable behavior,” Kedrowski said. “That’s what a good friend would do.”

A huge part of effective prevention is making sure students understand what “force” and “consent” mean — often murky terms, especially to teens and college students surrounded by drinking and hook-up culture, said Karli Johnson, a prevention educator at the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago’s Patterson and McDaniel Family Center in Glendale Heights, a rape crisis center that serves DuPage County.

“Everyone knows ‘no’ means ‘no,’” Johnson said. “What we need to teach kids and adults is that the definition of consent is permission. The true definition is ‘a freely given yes.’”

A review of campus security reports and federally collected data from 2011 to 2013 shows 29 forcible sexual offenses — which include any sexual act without the consent of the victim, such as rape or groping — occurred at Northern Illinois University, eight at North Central, four at the College of DuPage, three at Elmhurst College, and two at Aurora University, including those that happened in off-campus housing and nearby public property.

As of next July, colleges will have to publish reports of dating violence, domestic violence and stalking, as well as disclose the number of reported crimes that were investigated and deemed unfounded. Some colleges already have begun to report the additional statistics in their annual safety reports, which are due every October.

There were 32 reported incidents of domestic violence last year at NIU, four at College of DuPage and four at North Central. North Central reported four incidents of stalking in 2013, while NIU had one. Elmhurst College reported five cases of dating violence and NIU reported one dating violence incident last year.

If you or someone you know needs help, free and confidential support is available 24 hours a day by calling these hotlines: Mutual Ground sexual assault hotline 630-897-8383; Mutual Ground domestic violence hotline 630-897-0080; YWCA rape crisis hotline for DuPage County 630-971-3927; Safe Passage rape crisis hotline 815-756-5228.

Despite some students’ objections, first semester exams will be split over a weekend next year and wrap up Dec. 22 at Lyons Township High School.

Student Council President Thomas Cushing urged the School Board to choose Dec. 18, the earliest date to end the semester, rather than Dec. 22 or 23 as the last day of finals.

Of 88 students at a recent Student Council meeting, 78 were in favor of Dec. 18, 10 voted for Dec. 22 and no one chose Dec. 23 to end the semester a year from now, Cushing said.

A second student, Joe Dillon, who serves as a student liaison on a faculty advisory committee, said winter weather, holiday distractions and families wanting to leave on vacations are reasons to end the semester earlier rather than later.

Amanda Bolton, student liaison to the School Board, also noted the late end to the semester would be stressful for teachers as well as students.

Scott Eggerding, director of curriculum and instruction, said administrators weighing the plans recommended the Dec. 23 end date to avoid splitting three days of finals over a weekend.

In addition, the semesters are more balanced with 86 days in the first semester and 90 in the second, Eggerding said.

But after listening to student concerns, Eggerding said splitting finals would not be “the end of the world.” Some consideration may have to be given to test security so that content wouldn’t be shared over the weekend by those who took the test on the prior Friday, he said.

Associate schools plan to be in session until Dec. 22, Eggerding said.

Board member Tom Cushing said he favored the Dec. 18 end date, which would result in a first semester with 83 days and a second semester with 93 days. Extra days in the second semester would be helpful if up to nine days would be lost for state testing in the spring, Cushing said. State testing for 2016 hasn’t been set yet.

Other board members opted for the Dec. 22 final date, with Cushing voting against the measure.

After studying calendar issues for several years, the board voted to end the first semester before winter break for the first time in the 2011-12 school year.

Minutes were shaved, added and tweaked to deliver a new school day schedule at Lyons Township High School, carving out a 25-minute study hall for all students.

The School Board accepted a report Dec. 15 of a new bell schedule stretching the school day by six minutes for the 2015-16 school year.

Classes will continue to start at 7:45 a.m. but end at 3:05 p.m. next year, instead of at 2:59 p.m. now. Class periods will drop to 48 minutes from 51 minutes this year with six-minute passing periods continuing through most of the school day.

Split classes around five lunch periods will be eliminated, and students will have 25 minutes for lunch and 25 minutes for a study period with five minutes in between. Four lunch periods will be scheduled, accommodated by a reconfigured and expanded cafeteria at the north campus in La Grange for juniors and seniors.

The new school day represents a shift in philosophy, as well as remodeled physical space to accommodate the changes, including a renovated computer lab near the cafeteria for students to use before or after lunch.

School officials have said building in a study period to do homework will benefit students coping with increased academic pressures, as well as students struggling to master material and who need extra help.

A fact sheet compiled on the new study halls notes one in four students do not meet or exceed academic standards. Although intervention programs have been developed, a way to connect students to get help was missing, requiring them to come before or after school and miss after-school activities or part-time jobs.

Parent Elizabeth Slezak of Western Springs asked the board to consider a later start, following research released by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Researchers found teens learn better by getting more sleep with a later start time.

Some high performing districts start as late as 8:30 or 8:45 a.m., Slezak noted.

Board members said they appreciated the input, which may factor into a bell schedule down the road. Administrators must balance a later start time with a later end to the school day, which conflicts with students getting to part time jobs or participating in certain activities and athletic contests, officials said.

A Colorado school superintendent with 19 years of administrative experience has been named the new leader of La Grange Elementary School District 102, effective July 1.

Kyle Schumacher currently serves as superintendent of a kindergarten through high school district in Telluride, Colo. Before being named to that post in 2011, Schumacher was the assistant superintendent for educational services in Lake Forest District 67.

Schumacher will replace Warren Shillingburg, who was hired in 2009. Shillingburg and the School Board differed on an approach to asking voters to approve a tax increase proposal, so his contract wasn’t renewed, according to a mutual agreement reached in August.

Board members said they would specifically look for someone with experience in successfully passing a referendum proposal to increase taxes for operating expenses in District 102.

Unofficial results from the Nov. 4 election in San Miguel County showed Telluride School District R-1 residents narrowly approved a $24 million bond issue by just 25 votes to build new classrooms, improve recreational facilities and renovate the cafeteria. Returns showed 1,299 residents in favor and 1,274 opposed.

An Illinois native, Schumacher worked in suburban Chicago schools as a band teacher, instrumental music director, assistant principal, principal and director of fine arts.

“Dr. Schumacher was selected after an extensive process that included surveys, focus groups and a multi-stage interview process involving parents, staff, administrators and the School Board,” Board President David May said in a written statement.

The statement was released Thursday night after the board voted to approve a three-year contract for Schumacher.

Freshmen instead of juniors will take a new state achievement test in the spring at Lyons Township High School and other schools seeking the change.

Schools were given the option to switch Dec. 1, after voicing concerns about the lengthy test’s impact on juniors taking tests for college entrance and credit, as well as high school finals.

“That relieves the pressure on our juniors for those high stakes tests,” said Superintendent Tim Kilrea. “The ACT will be given March 3, and AP tests are later on in the spring.”

Kilrea referred to tests for Advanced Placement courses offered at the high school, which can lead to college credit at some universities for certain scores earned.

LT administrators were especially concerned about losing nine days of instruction to administer the new test developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career consortium. Two separate testing periods are required to gauge student learning.

The test is based on content developed from national Common Core standards and measures students’ problem solving abilities, rather than memorized materials. It replaces Illinois’ Prairie State Achievement test, which included the ACT exam used for college admissions.

Freshmen were selected for a number of reasons, Kilrea said.

In addition to easing the stress on juniors, it’s likely that only five days instead of nine will be needed to administer the test to LT freshmen at the south campus in Western Springs. That complex offers more facilities for mass testing, officials noted.

Although this will be the first year for PARCC statewide, freshmen data can be correlated with results from high school placement tests, such as EXPLORE and the Measure of Academic Progress computerized test.

Having scores from freshmen also will allow for a continuity of analysis with PARCC tests to be given in grades three through eight.

About 400 fewer students will be pulled out of class to take the test administered to those taking Algebra I and English I. Enrollment in sophomore- and junior-level courses often includes younger students capable of additional challenge, so more students would need to be tested.

Kilrea said the exemption allowing freshmen to take the PARCC test is just for 2015. Details about testing dates are being worked out.

Whether the test will be administered in future years is uncertain, he said. A number of states across the country have found fault and opted out of PARRC.

Initially, 24 states embraced PARCC, but only eight states, including Illinois, and Washington, D.C. still are using it, according to Scott Eggerding, LT’s director of curriculum and instruction.

Lyons Township High School announces its first quarter Advisory Honor Roll for the 2014-2015 school year. The Advisory Honor Roll is based on quarter work only, including mid-term examinations. Listed are senior, junior, sophomore and freshmen students who have achieved a grade point average of 3.125 or higher. Honor rolls are determined using an unweighted/weighted grade point, whichever is higher.

Seniors
Yanal Abusamen, Monica Acevedo, Sofia Acevedo, Timothy Acker, Emma Ahlert, Kashan Ahmed, Yara Alagha, Matthew Albertini, Sarah Aldrich, Celine Allan, Lindsey Allen, Joshua Althoff, Teresa Alvarado-Patlan, Sabrina Amaya, Saige Anderson, Christopher Andreoni, Anthony Angelico, Daniel Archundia, Lindsey Arnston, Eric Arroyo, William Asfour, Emily Atseff, Mayra Baeza, Emily Bastian, Grace Baumel, Lindsey Bazzoni, Mitchell Beasley and Caroline Bednara.
Kelly Bednara, Samantha Beilke, William Belden, Anthony Bellantuono, Jessica Bendyk, Ashley Benitez, Matthew Benz, Joshua Bernier, Hayley Bernson, Madeline Bernstein, James Berry, Susan Better, Jack Bibeau, Alexa Bissell, Eleanor Boardman, Amanda Bolton, Jacob Bonk, William Bonk, Nicholas Bonneville, Carolyn Boo, Edward Braunstein, Lidia Breen, Caitlin Bresnahan, Cara Bresnahan, Stuart Brewer, Seth Briskey, Charles Brom, Kellie Bronson and Abigail Brown.
Ellen Brown, Daniel Bruce, Joseph Bruni, Joseph Brunner, Madeleine Buel, Brendan Buhle, Albert Burkes, Chandler Burns, Anthony Buscareno, Elyse Campion, Stephany Cansino, Richard Capalby, Jeanne Caplice, Michael Caplice, Nathan Carnevale, Josephine Carrabine, Riley Carroll, Connor Carson, Sophia Caruso, Vincent Caruso, Haley Casper, Mackenzie Castle, Daiga Cers, Thomas Chadwick, Nina Chamberlin, Grace Chambers, Vivian Chavez, and Carly Ciraulo.
Mitchell Ciszewski, Jeremy Cizek, Alexander Clark, Alec Cohen, Julia Cohen, Samantha Cohen, Caria Collins, Lucy Collins, Michael Collins, Samantha Concklin, Samuel Conde, Eamon Condon, Joseph Connors, Samantha Conrad, Anna Cook, Christopher Cooper, Nayeli Corona Campos, Emmett Corrigan, John Cosgrove, Christopher Courtney, Dionte Cox, Mary Claire Cox, Shakira Cox-Norman, Joshua Craggs, Haydn Cramer, James Cramsie, and Andrew Crawshaw.
Thomas Crawshaw, Sarah Crosby, Austin Cruz, Jennifer Cummings, Ryan Cunningham, Kevin Cushing, Thomas Cushing, Ella DaDan, Paul Daly, Chase Davidson, Noah Davis, Mitchell De Boer, Spencer Decker, Daniella DeLaurentis, Grace Delleman, Reese Dellios, Kate DeMonica, Elizabeth Deneen, Annie Denten, Sergei Deptula, Thomas Derrah, Daniel Devine, Joseph Dillon, Daniel Dinh, Aileen Dobersztyn, Meggie Donley, Paige Dore, William Dow, and Cameron Dowling.
Amana Droblas, Daniel Drozda, Vivian Drury, John Ducham, Almasa Duheric, Patrick Duncan, Eric Dunlap, Patrick Dunleavy, Gillian Dunlop, Josephine Dunne, Sheila Dunne, Casey Dybas, Pijus Dzidolikas, Jenna Dzwierzynski, Trevor Edgerton, Blake Edwards, Elizabeth Eicken, Caitlyn Elder, Megan Elliott, Valerie Elser, Joseph Elvin, Miguel Espino, Adam Espinosa, William Estey, Jonathan Ezell, Madeline Fabris, Celia Faison, Reece Faloon, Patrick Falvey, Sean Farrell, and John Fatora.
Matthew Faucher, Karli Fehrman, Mark Fela, Anthony Fera, Besarta Ferataj, Kara Ferguson, Zaralyn Dawn Fernandez, Thomas Fiedler, David Fiflis, Frederick Figge, Hannah Finley, Jacob Fisher, Matthew Fisher, Teagan Fisher, Daniel Fiszer, Michael Flaherty, Adrian Flores, Logan Flott, Emma Floyd, Brian Flynn, Grace Flynn, Christopher Fonseca, Steven Fornalsky, Emma Fornaro, Andrew Foster, Katlyn Freeman, Madeline Frieze, Colin Fuhr, Madeline Fuhrman, and Adrian Fulgencio.
Jacqueline Fuller, Elizabeth Gabrek, Leo Gabrek, Julie Gabrisak, Gabriella Galassini, Mitchell Galgan, Andrew Galletti, Ivan Galvan, Holly Garbis, Esequiel Garcia, Jack Garrow, Melissa Gatewood, John Gauen, Benjamin Gawthrop, Marie Geraghty, Anne Gertsmeier, Bradley Gibbons, Cole Gilchrist, Kelsey Gillespie, Juliana Gioia, Nicholas Girgis, Aleksandr Glavnik, Thomas Godinez, Meghan Golden, Jackson Golz, Gissel Gomez, Anthony Gonia, Alexandra Gove, and Jennifer Goyer.
Michael Grace, Gabriella Granada, Fiore Graziano, Maria Grba, Claudia Gregory, Emma Greifenkamp, Danielle Gresge, Christina Grimes, Nicholas Gron, Brittany Grosser-Basile, Salvatore Guardino, Grace Gumbiner, Alexis Gutierrez, Mary Hadley, Toby Halamka, Emily Halm, Rain Hammon, Katherine Hamor, Cori Hansen, Lucas Harrington, Autumn Harris, Shireen Hassan, Emma Haugen, Aaron Hausser, Brooke Hawk, Kathryn Hayes, Sophia Hebble, John Heilenbach, and Jenna Hein.
Emma Heinz, Jacob Heinz, Liam Held, Nathan Henderson, Margaret Henehan, Matthew Hennessy, Charles Herbert, Jose Hernandez, Benjamin Hewett, Christine Hicaro, Mary Hickey, Megan Hickey, Roberts Higgins, Katherine Hillyard, Frieda Hinojosa, Emmanuelle Hirt, Chadwick Holland, Jack Hollinger, James Hollowed, Colton Hood, Kalie Hoskins, Jonathan Howard, John Howorth, Aidan Huddleston, Jonathan Hudson, Bryce Hughes, Emma Hughes, Quinton Hughes, and Jacob Hulten.
Joie Huneryager, Hannah Husemann, David Hussey, Thomas Hyland, Rachel Iffert, Christophor Jablonski, Daniel Jabr, Emilio Jacobo, Abigail Jacobs, Kristen Janicki, Matthew Janicki, Phillip Janowiak, Alexander Jaros, Stanley Jasiak, Nikola Jeknic, Ryan Johnson, Delaney Johnston, Celine Jones, Olivia Jones, Mason Joseph, Madeleine Joyaux, Hannah Juley, Mark Just, Katarina Kaplarevic, Thomas Kaptur, Taylor Karey, Lambros Karkazis, Damjan Karlovic, and Kevin Karpinski.
Sofia Kasnesi, Constance Kass, Christopher Kelley, Cara Kelly, Skye Kienitz, Alexander Kimberling, Alexander Kimble, Matthew Kinsley, Madeleine Kirklys, Katherine Kizyma, John Klafta, Andrew Klein, Jessica Klimes, Maureen Klopp, Samuel Knowles, Kaitlin Kober, Colette Kocek, Gunnar Koch, Amanda Kocimski, Jagat Kohli, Marisa Kopping, Thomas Korenchan, James Kowalski, Caroline Kralovec-Kirchherr, John Kraus, Alexander Kristy, and Karl Krull.
Kyle Kulhanek, Kevin Kundid, Kelsy Kurfirst, Cody Lamana, Steven Lamb, Dominik Lameter, Victory Lampert, Jacob Langan, Sean Lannan, Kathryn Larson, Cierra Lathan, Amelia Launspach, Casey Lawry, Patricia Layden, Christine Le, Tiffany Le, Jaclyn Leake, Ross Leavitt, Anne LeFevour, Luc Leo, Joseph Leonard, Andrew Lezon, Andrew Lichtenauer, Alejandro Lima, Stephanie Lin, John Linden, Lauren Link, Katherine Lively, Madeleine Loehman, and Brendan Loftus.
Abel Lopez, Emmalyn Lopez, Marina Luciano, Caroline Lupetini, Margaret Lynch, Joseph Madden, Stephen Mahar, Adam Maksimovich, Daniel Malaga, Cody Malkmus, John Maloney, Isabel Manske, Denisse Manzanilla, Nina Marco, Melissa Marston, Oliver Martinez, Hannah Mathieson, Erin Mattucci, Anne McCarter, Maeve McDermott, Matthew McDonnell, Sarah McDonough, Marshall McElvogue, Ethan McGahay, Olivia McGann, Audrey McGee, and Pierce McLawhorn.
Jacob McMillan, Owen McNulty, Katherine McTigue, Sara McTigue, Carlos Medina, Faith Medlock, Edwin Mendez, Maria Mendez, Karen Merida, Alec Messino, Craig Metsch, Michael Metz, Tessa Metz, Molly Meyer, Rachel Michaels, Molly Miklosz, Clare Mikulski, Alexander Miller, Hope Miller, Suzanne Miller, Bakhtawar Mirjat, Kasey Mitzit, James Mohan, Shelby Mohrs, Brandon Monarrez, Steve Montalvo, Jose Montelongo, Alona Montgomery, and Emma Montgomery.
Carolyn Moore, Justinia Moore, Kristen Moore, Alyson Morici, William Most, James Mostek, Alyssa Mota, Eric Mueller, Andrew Mulligan, Keefe Mulligan, Matthew Mungai, Celeste Muniz, Mitchell Murphy, Scott Murphy, Annika Murrell, Nicholas Musick, David Mysz, Blaze Nacker, Christian Naval, Jacob Nelson, Kariann Nelson, Peter Newman, Nicholas Newsome, Amanda Ng, James Nicketta, Daniel Niedermeyer, Harrison Niego, John Nolan, Timothy Nolan, and Daniel Noonan.
Jacob Norris, Guinevere Ann Nueva Espana, Matthew Nutley, Miranda O’Brenski, Claire O’Brien, Lucas O’Bryan, Katherine O’Connell, Mark O’Connor, Rory O’Donnell, Janna O’Halloran, Daniel O’Heron, Daniel O’Malley, Jack O’Malley, Lindsey Oettel, Joseph Okkema, Samuel Okkema, Justin Olewinski, Max Olson, Jack Oremus, Natalie Orsic, Salina Ortega, Andrew Ostrowski, Austin Ott, Jacqueline Pace, Emilie Palacios, Emma Palmer, Joran Palmer, and Ariah Palter.
Georgianna Panopoulos, Emily Parkes, Timothy Parzyck, Ronze Pavone, Alexus Pelletiere, Rebecca Pennington, Christina Penrod, Jennifer Perez, Elizabeth Peterson, Kevin Petrak, Courtney Petrosius, Lawrence Pettrone, Mia Phillips, Jaquan Phipps, Luke Pieczynski, Mateusz Pietrusiak, Luke Pigman, Rachel Pinta, Vincent Pittacora, AnnaJean Pittman, Evelyn Podolsky, Maeve Poggensee, Bradley Powers, Hayley Prena, Gabriela Prylinski, Giuliana Pudlo, and William Purcell.
Claire Quinlan, Holly Quirk, Andrew Ragains, Julia Rakoczy, Thayana Rangel, Anika Ranginani, Michael Rasmussen, Christopher Rediehs, Lauren Remijas, Austin Rice, Jackson Ridge, Kathryn Rigley, Connor Riordan, Kelly Riordan, Kevin Rius, Anna Rivera, Alexander Robles, Brandon Rodriguez, Kelly Roemer, Claire Roesler, Jake Rohrbacher, Mykola Romanyuk, David Romero, Kevin Romero, Zhilang Rong, Ellen Rosicky, Alex Ross, Leonard Ross, and Joseph Rossetti.
Raymond Rotolo, Victoria Ruiz, Michael Rundle, John Rupar, Mitchell Russell, Zachary Russo, Kacie Ryan, James Ryckman, Madeleine Rykal, Kelly Ryser, John Sagols, Timothy Sam, Juana Santillan, Toni Saracco, Jaime Saucedo, Matthew Sauer, John Scaramella, Isabella Schaub, Elaine Schiek, Virginia Schoder, Charles Schramka, Alexander Scotty, Christopher Scotty, Adrian Serrano, Claire Sexton, Madeline Sexton, Mert Sezer, Sean Shafer, Daniel Shannon, and Liam Sharkey.
Michael Shea, Deirdre Sheldon, Kaitlyn Sheppard, Jessica Sholler, Michele Siamis, Caroline Sikes, Kiarra Sims, Elizabeth Skolba, Jessica Skonning, Nicholas Slinkman, Ajla Smajlovic, Dillan Smejkal, Cody Smith, Grace Smith, Jackson Smith, Vance Smith, Brittany Sneed, William Spartz, Elizabeth Sprague, Natalie Sprovieri, Mardi Sramek, William Stahnke, Dena Stamatelos, Patricia Stamatelos, William Stampfl, Joseph Starr, Dante Stefanini, Christopher Stegner, and Matthew Stevens.
Forrest Stewart, Kathryn Stoettner, Magen Storc, Max Strohl, Samantha Stuba, Adam Stubitsch, Erin Suhajda, Samuel Suhajda, Claire Suknovich, Claire Sullivan, Lauren Sutkus, Jake Suva, Egle Sventnickaite, Alison Swanson, Victoria Swift, Brendan Swinehart, Zachary Szczesniak, Chloe Szot, Macy Tabachka, Carolyn Tannura, Aleksandar Tasevski, Margaret Taylor, Shantiera Taylor, Isabella Tenorio-Bucci, Katherine Tenuta, Krista Tenuta, Gabriel Thalji, and Lauren Theiss.
Alexis Thiesse, Grant Thomas, Mary Thometz, Daniel Thuma, Madeline Tisa, Olivia Tisa, Bethany Tomasian, Elizabeth Trop, Jamie Truax, Harrison Turckes, Madeline Turner, Bridgett Turro, Patrick Underwood, Matthias Urban, Daniel Ureel, Nicholas Valdivia, Aidan Van Nest, Mark Van Wormer, Eric Varga, Sara Vasquez, Alexander Vasti, Brandon Vavra, Anthony Vega, Alexandra Venchuk, John Vercimak, Juan Vergara, Morgan Vickery, Gerardo Villasenor, and Nicholas Vitas.
Kimberly Vitek, Hallie Vlahos, Steven Vogel, Marisa Von Drasek, Nicholas Vonkeudell, Emma Vuillemot, Jacob Walczyk, Jonathan Wallace, Caroline Walsh, Mariah Walsh, Matthew Walsh, Michaela Walsh, Clayton Walters, Michael Warmus, Thomas Waters, Isabella Watts, Anna Weber, Hailey Weller, Thomas Wennerstrum, Alexander Wenstrup, Chloe Wesley, Braden Westerhoff, Caroline Westrick, Kevin Whelan, Olivia White, Conor Wiegmann, Tyler Wielgos, and James Wilder.
Paige Williams, Brianna Wilson, Sandricka Wilson, Patrick Windmoeller, Luke Winner, Quinn Winters, Jessica Wittenberg, Jeffrey Wolf, Timothy Wolf, Mary Wood, Angelica Wozniak, Elizabeth Wyckoff, Peter Xeros, Soumya Yallapragada, Erin Yang, Kyle Yang, Aminah Yassin, Michael Yelovich, Kristen Young, Christopher Zeitler, Nicole Zieba, Jack Zimmerman, Brian Zolnierczyk, and Marisa Zulaski.

Juniors
Nicholas Abbs, Charles Abrahamson, Alexa Adolfino, Lina Alamayreh, Ariel Alcala, Danielle Aldridge, Jeannette Alexander, Sophia Allison, Maria Almeida, Anastar Alvarez, Victor Alvarez, Somayra Anacleto, Jocelyn Arciniegas, Garrett Ariana, Siddartha Ariga, Elin Arnadottir, James Arnold, Thomas Ashby, Ezra Avery, Madisen Babich, Malgorzata BachledaZawacki, Colin Bailey, Eleanor Baird, Carolyn Baldwin, Obrad Balla, Paige Ballagh, and Caleb Baron.
Madeleine Barrett, Stephanie Barrett, Ian Bauer, Jordan Baum, Matthew Begeman, Kyle Bell, Daniel Benson, Emma Bergman, Anthony Berley, Iona Bermon, Veronica Bernard, Andrew Best, Andrew Best, Emily Bielski, Rachel Bielski, Jack Blahnik, Michelle Blahnik, Bailey Blum, Sydney Bocik, James Bolt, Anthony Bonanno, Matthew Bonistalli, Amy Borgstrom, Tenley Bozzi, Eamon Bracht, Kayla Bradley, Shalyn Brady, Andrea Branz, Benjamin Breitenbucher, and Cailin Briody.
Claire Brom, Luke Brom, Jacob Brown, Ryan Brown, Sarah Brunet, Amelia Buckler, Samuel Bugaieski, Emily Bulir, Katherine Burke, Robert Burke, David Burns, Benjamin Butikofer, Ryan Byrne, Mia Cabela, Ramon Cabrera Mendez, Madison Caldwell, Aurora Camacho, Paul Cammarata, Meghan Cannon, Adam Cardone, Casey Carlson, Victoria Casas, Bernard Casella, Isabel Castillo, Lyrik Castro, Tomislav Catic, Michael Catrambone, and Nicole Cattin.
Kassandra Cenoz-Olivares, Anna Chaloupka, Harrison Chesloe, Jenna Chesswas, Lyndon Chlumsky, Megan Chrzas, Chayla Chung, Christian Ciancanelli, Alexander Ciessau, Margretta Ciessau, Lena Cirone, Lauren Clark, Robert Clark, Spencer Coffee, Samantha Cohen, Margaret Cole, Josephine Coleman, Madison Collard, Lydia Collazo, Jacob Collier, Robyn Collins, Jacob Conger, Alexis Contreras, Caroline Cooke, Andrew Cooley, Nicholas Cooper, and Jacqueline Cordell.
Madeline Cordell, Donavyn Coronado, Erin Corrigan, Carol Cotts, Lucas Courtemanche, Marisol Cowan, Emma Cox, Natalie Cozzi, Weston Credit, Carson Crisp, Erica Crockett, Alexander Cronvich, Nina Crouchelli, Rebecca Crown, Delanie Cruz, Joseph Cuba, Nathan Cundari, Lara Cuomo, Robert Curlin, Andrew Cushing, John Cushing, Grace D’Aprile, John Dahill, Olivia Dallavo, Matthew Danbury, Donald Darrus, Nikolas Darrus, and Nolan Delaney.
Marissa DeLaurentis, Tyler Delitko, Vassiliki Demakis, Elizabeth DeSae Silva, Kayla Devereux, Natalia Di Zillo, Matthew Dickett, Ally Dilcher, Jeremy DiMonte, Isabella DiPaolo, Lauren Dolehide, Dana Dombrowski, Isabelle Donile, Nicholas Dorner, Reed Doubek, Tessa Dougherty, Kathryn Dow, Megan Downing, Ceili Doyle, John Drogosz, Jessica Duelm, Jack Dulla, Madison Dunbar, Emily Dunlap, Brandon Dunn, Mackenna Dunn, Jesse Duque, Hannah Dutler, and Jarrett Dutton.
David Dybalski, Hannah Dziura, Thomas Eckert, Nicholas Economou, Patrick Egan, Riley Egan, Nathan Egert, Hannah Ellenby, Grant Engelhard, Berk Erkan, Abigail Espitia, Gabriela Esposito, Ian Farnan, Eleni Fegos, Leanna Feldt, Samantha Ferrer, Kameron Fezekas, Stephanie Findley, Elizabeth Finnerty, Paige Firmin, Vanessa Flaherty, Michelle Flaws, Bridget Flynn, Liam Flynn, Colleen Fogarty, Claire Foley, Kevin Foody, Delaney Fox, Claire Frank-Carr, Keira Frese, and Riley Frisbie.
Robert Fritz, Melissa Fuentes, Nicholas Fuentes, David Furlan, Rebecca Gacek, Joseph Gallagher, Gabriela Gamboa, Alexander Garay, Rebecca Garbe, Abdiel Garcia Ruiz, Rosa Garcia, Nathaniel Garon, Peter Garvey, Arianna Garza, Isabella Garza, Juliana Gassmann, Magaly Gaytan, Paige Geissler, Deanna Gennett, Albert George, Michele George-Griffin, Matthew Georges, Michael Gilger, Victoria Gioia, Anisa Godinez, Justin Goethals, Noah Goetz, and Gita Golonzka.
Alejandro Gonzalez, Cristian Gonzalez, Cristian Gonzalez, Marina Gonzalez, Douglas Grasty, Timothy Grider, Isaac Griffin, Jennifer Grissim, Katherine Grissim, Taylor Guagenti, Kimberly Guerrero, Emilio Guitron, Lauren Haan, Alli Hagman, Jordan Halic, Claudia Hall, Sariah Hall, Nader Hamdan, Erin Hamilton, Rebecca Hamilton, Benjamin Hampton, Sarah Hampton, Timothy Hangsterfer, Connor Hankins, William Harders, Geraldine Harding, Robert Harlow, and Kalyn Harris.
Jacob Hart, Clare Hauch, Heidi Hauch, Brandon Hayes, Lenore Hayes, Michael Hayes, Frank Hedderman, Kathryn Heilenbach, Steven Heim, Kelly Heinz, Cody Helms, Adam Hemauer, Samantha Henehan, Brandon Herman, Mariela Hernandez, Joy Herzog, Griffin Hickey, Maddox Hill, Claire Hinckley, Thomas Hofer, Nicholas Hojnar, Bria Holt, Kerry Hopp, Eleanor Horan, Hannah Hornacek, Kyle Hornacek, Samantha Horvath, Naomi Houston, Omer Houston, and Andrew Hubona.
Lauren Hucko, Brendan Huddleston, Mark Huebner, Julia Hughes, Zachary Hughes, Cora Hulten, Cayla Hultmark, Aidan Hunt, John Hurley, Isaac Husemann, Zachary Hyerdall, Niko Iacono, Arturo Jacobson, Madeline Janik, Charles Jankowski, Elizabeth Januska, Natalie Jaramillo, Kaylee Jasinski, Jelena Jeknic, Grace Jelinek, Sarah Jernberg, Jacob Jimenez, Emily Johnson, Brynn Johnston, Samantha Jordan, Michael Josefik, Marissa Juarez, Diana Kafkes, and Zachary Kaloustian.
Jack Kaminski, Sydney Kapp, Kathleen Katoll, Ayah Kayali, Grant Kedzuch, Collin Keefer, Clint Kefer, Kestutis Kelecius, Brenden Kelley, Carlyn Kelly, Emily Kelly, Brian Kenny, Megan Kern, Julia Kiely, Philip Kim, Abigail King, Daniel King, Bridget Kirby, Ilka Kleijnen, Alexander Klesken, Jamee Klima, Petar Knezevic, Laura Knowles, Jillian Koester, Timothy Kogucki, Kyle Kohn, Samantha Kohn, Alexandria Kopicki, Maja Kostic, Christina Kralovec, and Natalie Krause.
William Kreikemeier, Megan Kristy, Craig Krzyzaniak, Madison Kuehn, Emily Kula, Chase Kwit, Amy Lacny, Sammy Lam, Colleen Lamb, Jonas Lambert, Genevieve Lampert, Olivia Land, Emily Lange, Catherine Lannan, Nicole Lata, Samantha Lattner, Michael Le, Allison Leach, Killian LeClainche, Daisy Lemus, Keith Lenz, Kyle Leonida, Jarod Lindberg, Kristopher Liutov, Thomas Lombardo, William Loomis, Diego Lopez, Yair Lopez, John Louder, and Lucas Lovelace.
Luke Lucio, Svenja Lukas, Matthew Lundeen, Claudia Lundgren, Eleanor Lundgren, George Lundgren, Susanna Lussier, John Luxem, Morgan Machaj, Shannon Mack, Katryna MacLean, Connor Madell, Margaret Madro, Meghan Magats, Autumn Maldonado, Alyse Malikowski, Chloe Malkinson, George Manaves, Joseph Mancuso, Emily Markert, Adam Marogil, Maeve Marsh, Nicole Marsik, Alexis Martinez, John Mazur, Nicholas Mazzone, and Laura McAllister.
Hannah McAtee, Jacob McCarty, Moira McDermott, Gavin McGill, Jack McGuinn, Will McLawhorn, Sarah McLean, Paige McMahon, James McMillin, Brittany McPhee, Nathan Meade, Claire Meany, Christopher Medema, Emilio Medina, Elijah Medlock, Ghalib Mehmood, Elizabeth Meidinger, Carlos Mejia, John Meksto, John Melone, Julia Melone, Anna Mennemeier, Bailey Merritt, Jason Miller, Matthew Miller, Honor Millette, Kevin Minik, Aleksandra Misojcic, and Sara Mitrovic.
Anna Mlynski, Dirk Molek, Claire Molenda, Melissa Monrroy, Ethan Mora, Mary Moravek, Trace Mortimer, Catherine Mossing, Thomas Mota, Joshua Mrowca, Chase Mulvenna, Madeleine Munguia, Karen Muraoka, Alexander Murphy, Liam Murphy, Matthew Murphy, Sheila Murphy, Timothy Murphy, John Murray, Phoebe Murray, Isabella Nardi, Katherine Nash, Patricia Nash, Anne Naughton, Mark Neagle, Joshua Neary, Talya Nelson, Luke Nelson-Sandall, and Quintin Newman.
Alyssa Nicasio, Samantha Noonan, Benjamin Nowak, Efren Nunez, Michael Nutter, Rebecca O’Brien, David O’Connor, Kenneth O’Connor, Shannon O’Connor, Kaylah O’Dea, Audrey O’Donnell, Madaleine O’Donnell, Margaret O’Donnell, Jack O’Flaherty, Thomas Oeltgen, Daniel Ogrodny, Larissa Ogurkiewicz, Vitaliy Oprysko, Karoline Orloff, Isabel Orozco, Joseph Orr, Jamie Osborne, Lorenzo Ovalle, Rowan Ownby, Sylvia Pacheco, Jakob Pallisard, and Yesenia Palomares.
Ariana Pantoja, Capri Pappas, Katrina Pasquinelli, Krupa Patel, Vishal Patel, Allison Pawlak, Emily Pender, Matthew Petrak, Anders Petterson, Kelsey Pettrone, Andrew Pfannkuche, Michael Phelan, Christopher Phillips, Michaela Phillips, Joseph Piccione, Gregory Piechalak, Nicholas Piento, Jake Pigatto, Anna Pilipuf, Aracely Pina, Nolberto Pina, Maciej Piwowarczyk, Kenna Pospisil, Owen Post, Madison Potts, Kiera Prinz, Jessica Pritz, Madeline Prokaski, Jacob Ptak, and Claudia Puskarz.
Mary Radice, Filip Radunovic, Giuseppe Rallo, Samantha Ramirez, Nicole Ranieri, Dominic Raphael, Samantha Rasulo, Lyle Reichert, Cade Reid, Carly Reimer, Medine Rexhepi, Cristina Ribaudo, Dominic Riccione, Daniel Rick, Lauren Rickman, Brooke Ridlen, Javier Rivera, Jorge Rivera, Ruby Rocha, Jose Rodriguez, Kristen Roemer, Molly Rogan, Judy Rogel, Michael Rogers, Brian Roggensack, Nicholas Rohan, Bryan Romero, Emily Rosenberg, and Nicholas Rosenberger.
Sophie Rout, Cavase Rutherford, John Rymsza, Gabriela Sabatino, Jack Salazar, Mario Salazar, Andrew Salerno, Michael Salina, Grace Salvino, Victoria Sam, Cristian Sanchez, Erica Sandberg, Carlos Santoyo, James Saracco, Tara Satala, Peter Scaletta, Nina Scaramella, Madeline Schaeffer, Anna Schiferl, Sierra Schmilke, Patrick Schneider, Griffin Schultz, John Schwartz, Isabelle Scott, Alexandra Scotty, Katherine Scotty, Samuel Scriba, Meghan Selip, and Benjamin Senffner.
Celeste Serrano, Jesse Severin, Jack Shadle, Alexis Shapiro, Hannah Shay, Kelsey Sheehan, Domonique Shelby, Cullen Sheridan, Emma Shippee, Danielle Sievers, Andrea Simms, Katie Sindelar, David Skiba, Alison Slezak, Haley Sliwa, Anastasiya Smal, Chloe Smeltzer, Andrea Smith, Cecilia Smith, Cole Smith, Isaac Smith, Noah Smith, Thomas Sopic, Cynthia Soto, Elinor Sovcik, Dusan Spegar, Julia Staiano, Thomas Stamatakos, Alexander Stanczik, Matas Stankus, and Ann Stapel-Kalat.
Molly Stark, Colin Steele, Thomas Stenner, Jacob Stern, Srecko Stevanovic, Nicole Stevens, Grace Stewart, Halee Stirrat, Madeline Stoettner, Eric Strass, Kylie Strasser, Mary Sullivan, John Svoboda, Owen Swanson, Samuel Szczepaniak, Tiffany Talley, Brian Taylor, Alyssa Tegtmeier, Kimberly Tegtmeier, Nicholas Tegtmeier, Colin Temple, Olivia Tennison, Madison Thiessen, Alexa Thomas, Sean Thomas, Asia Thompson, Samuel Tiemeyer, Samuel Tio, Adam Tooke, and Samantha Tracy.
Pearl Truax, Haley Uckerman, Meghan Uhrick, Magnus Urosev, Margaret Vacchiano, Luke Vaiciulis, Sebastian Valdes, Lorenzo Valdivia, Yulissa Valenzuela-Contreras, Cole VanCura, Daniel Varela, Leobardo Vargas, Stefana Vasic, Alexander Vazquez, Kayla Vercelli, Natali Verdin, Kayla Verdon, Gabriela Vidakovich, Adilene Villa, Salvador Villasenor, Jhadira Villavicencio, Lindsey Volz, Ivana Vukanic, Andrea Vukovic, Grace Wackerman, and Brandon Waite.
Katherine Walker, Bridget Wallen, Matthew Walsh, Nicole Warble, Ellen Ward, James Watkins, Sarah Weibel, Julia Wenderski, Charles Wennerstrum, Tea Wheat, Amerald Wheatley-Johnson, David Wilczynski, Cameron Wilkins, Maiya Wilkins, Meghan Wilkinson, Gloria Williams, John Williams, Samuel Wilson, Sara Wilson, Abigail Yates, Jonathan Yeager, Abigail Zabrodsky, Trevor Zagara, Michael Zahorik, Benjamin Zak, Luca Zambelli, Olivia Zawojski, Nicholas Zembower, and Bailey Zinanni.

Sophomores
Isaiah Adkins, Omar Alagha, Elizabeth Albertini, Emily Aldrich, Jordan Alexander-Storm, Lacey Allen, Jillian Almase, Marissa Anderson, Xializ Andrade, Julia Andreoni, Mary Catherine Andreoni, Bridget Anscombe, Michael Antkiewicz, Andrew Archundia, Owen Arnold, Audrey Ashburn, Hope Atkinson, Thomas Atseff, Julia Aubert, Marina Auwerda, Jacob Bandyk, Steven Barhorst, Lukas Barkauskas, Grace Barone, Alexander Barrett, Ross Bartolomei, and Emma Bastyr.
Nicholas Bator, Claire Battista, Matthew Beck, Elizabeth Becker, Max Beedle, Natalia Bernard, John Bernstein, Anna Best, Megan Beumer, Bartlomiej Bielski, William Bleck, Emily Bloedorn, Megan Bobrowski, Jane Bolton, Grace Borawski, Thomas Borst, Mason Borzym, Treyton Boston, Ann Boyle, Andjelija Bozovic, Samuel Bradley, Camille Branch, Erich Brandt, Matthew Brandt, Grace Brannen, Jose Bravo, Ruben Bravo, Mary Brenner, Gabriela Brewer, and Elijah Bright.
Alyssa Brillisour, Mia Brizz, Katherine Broedlow, William Brom, Roxana Brown, Margaret Bruck, Merrell Brzeczek, Andrew Buel, Meghan Bulger, Madisyn Burk, Tanner Burke, Brendan Burtker, Anna Busza, Shannon Butler, Alexa Cabrera, Kathleen Caithamer, Andrew Callahan, Siobhan Callahan, Marisa Capizzano, Margaret Caplice, Kathryn Carlson, Austin Carmody, Patrick Caruso, Jennifer Carver, Terry Casella, Imants Cers, Evan Charbonneau, and Maya Chiapetta.
Nicholas Chomko, Blessing Chukwunonye, Connor Ciecko, Thomas Cirrincione, Christian Coclanes, Elizabeth Cogan, Alexander Cogelja, Hallie Coleman, Lois Combs, Shannon Cone, Erin Cook, Clare Cooley, Eleanor Cooper, Camille Copp, Francesca Coppola, Henry Cordes, Ivy Cornelison, Madigan Courier, Michael Courtney, Diondre Cox, Matthew Cumbo, Abigail Cundiff, Claire Cunningham, Aubrie Darlin, Grady Davis, Dana Dean, Julia Dean, and Joseph Deditz.
Alicia DeGeatano, Juan DelaRosa IV, Ian Delleman, Alexander Dellios, Jennifer Deneen, Avery Denning, Ceazar DePaoli, Kathryn DeVries, Danilo Devulsky, Vincenzo DiMaggio, Michelle Dinh, Campbell DiVenere, Milanka Dobrasinovic, Jordan Dockins, Margaret Doheny, Charlsie Domabyl, August Domanchuk, Matthew Donahoe, Mateusz Drwal, Alec Ducham, Ryan Duerkes, Mary Dufficy, Therese Dufficy, Rachel Duffy, Daniel Dugan, Emily Dulla, and Benjamin Dusza.
Edward Echeverria, Hailey Edenfield, Peter Eggerding, Lauren Engels, Ronell Esquivel, Yendi Esquivel, Nathan Evans, Catherine Everett, Lucy Everett, Benjamin Ezsias, Ryan Farrell, Amy Fatora, Molly Ferguson, Christopher Figge, Brendan Finley, Sara Finnegan, John Fitzgerald, Kathryn Fitzgerald, Sarah Fitzgerald, Claire Fitzpatrick, Andrew Fleming, Emily Flores, Juan Flores, Laura Flores, Zoe Forsyth, Julianne Fortuna, Sara Franceschina, Anastasia Franco, and Nadia Franco.
Jared Frank, Zion Frazier, Jeremy Freund, Jenna Fuller, Megan Galbreath, Alexandra Gamboa, Daniel Gamboa, William Gannon, Elias Garcia, Emma Garcia, Frida Garcia, Katya Garcia, Kevin Garcia, Nadia Garcia, Ivana Garibay, Caroline Garrow, Margaret Garvin, Christian Garza, Alexandra Gawthrop, Nynena Gaye, William Geisert, Anna Geraghty, Taylor Giacchetti, Michael Giacomelli, Alec Gilchrist, Ljupka Gjorgjevska, Jacob Gleason, Yesenia Gonzalez, and Max Good.
Ryan Gorey, Haley Gorman, Meghan Gove, Austin Graf, William Greenup, Mason Greving, Margaret Grier, Nicholas Grossi, Henry Groya, Victoria Guevara, Campbell Gunst, John Hagan, Lillian Hahn, Jacob Halon, Juliana Halpin, Alison Hamilton, Peyton Hammon, Ryan Hammond, William Hannigan, Anna-Marie Hansen, Kenna Hansen, Sydney Hansen, James Hanson, Gabriela Hardman, Tatiana Harvel, Robert Hatch, Samantha Hauser, Emma Hawkins, and Francesca Heffner.
Raphael Hernandez, Avery Herndon, Joseph Hess, Joshua Hesse, William Higgins, Madison Hilling, Clare Hillshafer, John Hirstein, Lauren Hoffman, Charlotte Hoigard, Maryna Hoskins, Dayne Hultman, Kali Huynh, William Hyland, Christina Iacono, Austin Iturralde, Maranda Jackson, Adam Janicki, Benjamin Jaramillo, Aleksander Jarzen, Hunter Jasinski, Theodore Jatczak, Maziar Javadi, Marc Johnson, Benjamin Johnston, Dylan Jones, Stephanie Jones, and Tiffanie Jones.
Zachary Joseph, Lily Joyaux, Stephen Joyner, Joseph Kalata, Matthew Kappas, Alexis Karkazis, Madeline Karlson, Julia Karpinski, Angela Kasper, George Kasprzyk, Ana Kates, Benjamin Keeley, Luke Kehle, Michaela Kelliher, Clare Kelly, Matthew Kennedy, Jianna Keska, Kate Kidwell, Peter Kiley, Patrick King, Katelyn Klein, Corey Kline, Maxwell Klitchman, Sarah Klusendorf, Rachel Kocek, Kayla Kocimski, Mikaela Kohut, Caroline Konstant, Armin Korsos, and Joseph Koszut.
Megan Kotil, Stella Kowalski, William Kraus, Aaron Kriha, Emma Kriho, Jonathan Krol, Nicole Krueger, Nikolaus Krull, Colin Kubacki, McKenna Kuehn, Jakub Kundzicz, Marissa Kural, Arden Kurhayez, Courtney Kurhayez, Paul Kurtzner, Graham Kutchek, Brian La Belle, Christopher Lacny, Zachary Lake, Alix Lamana, Matthew Lang, Kannon Larison, Joseph Larson, Shawn Lasrado, Jane Layden, Isabella Lazarski, Nicholas Lazzarotto, Greta Leader, and Iris Leahy.
Mark Lehmann, Sarah Lehmann, Delaney Leibforth, Jacob Leonard, Evan Lewandowski, Courtney Lewis, Halee Lewis, Kylee Leyden, Nathan Lezon, Brianna Liddell, Zuri Lima, Kayle Lindberg, Matthew Linden, Kristyn Lisowski, Ashley Lites, Emma Longoria, Viviana Lopez, Kaden Lovelace, Alexandra Lubera, Maximillian Lux, Alexander Lynch, Thomas Lynch, Kelly MacDonald, Quinn Madarang, Timothy Madigan, Isabella Mahmoud, and Alexander Maldonado.
Alexandra Manaves, Ethan Mangerson, John Masella, Colleen McCabe, Ciara McCormack, Declan McDermott, Rory McDermott, Thomas McDonnell, Brinn McDowell, Eamon McGovern, Michael McInerney, Kevin McKenzie, Mattis McLean, John McNealy, Erin McNicholas, Liam McNulty, Lucy Meehan, Antonia Mendez, Aaron Meneses, Melanie Mesick, Philip Metcalf, Katherine Meyer, Kate Miklosz, Timothy Mikulski, Nicole Miller, and James Miranda.
Bryce Mitchell, Meagan Mitchell, Paige Mitchell, Michael Mlynski, Lauren Mochizuki, John Mohler, John Mologousis, Alex Monarrez, Philip Monterrosa, Jarod Montgomery, Frederick Moody, Annika Moore, Tyler Morales, Kevin Moran, Elizabeth Moravec, David Morey, Patrick Morgison, Margaret Morris, Caleb Moskowitz, Drew Mrazek, Maris Munguia, Sapphire Munoz, William Murdoch, Caroline Murphy, Hope Murphy, Timothy Murphy, and Tegan Murrell.
Nathan Myslicki, Eleanor Nalbach, Matthew Narbutis, John Naughton, Keri Neuland, Blake Newsome, Megan Ng, Zachary Nichol, Natalie Nicoletti, Connor Niego, Noah Niego, Jessica North, Mary Nutter, Amanda O’Bryan, Colleen O’Connell, Claire O’Connor, Claire O’Donnell, Timothy O’Gallagher, Ryan O’Malley, Sarah O’Malley, Sarah O’Malley, Sullivan O’Malley, Timothy O’Malley, Jelena Obretkovich, Ryan Oeste, Isabella Oliver, and Clara Olsen.
Mariana Orbegozo, Isabella Oremus, Sarah Orozco, Jacqueline Osborn, Arianna Ozanich, Christian Pabon, Kathleen Palermo, Alexander Pall, Daniel Palmer, Grace Palmer, Brandon Paras, Antonia Parrish, Jillian Pars, Melanie Parus, Caroline Pavlecic, Sarah Pavlik, Dominic Pavone, Erin Pawlak, Robert Peacock, Ryan Peake, Ethan Peck, Hunter Pendleton, Collin Peters, Shanti Peterson, Morgan Petrosius, Joseph Phelan, Matthew Phillipp, Nicole Pigatto, and Jacqueline Pittacora.
Alexander Plotke, Grace Polka, Thomas Powers, Madeline Prendergast, John Prescott, Jeremiah Presley, Shayna Prinz, Jessica Prost, Leonard Prystalski, Christian Pudlo, Brendan Pugliese, Claire Purcell, Alexander Pusateri, Michael Quinlan, Ian Quinn, Cameron Racelis, Jane Ragains, Dylan Ragaishis, David Rak, Dheeksha Ranginani, Olivia Raphael, Cara Rasmussen, Noah Reardon, Joseph Rebello, Timothy Rediehs, Julia Reichert, and Grace Reilly.
Jonathan Remijas Jr., David Rendon, Jeremy Rendon, Yunuen Reyes Vera, Lauren Reynolds, Alexandra Rich, Jacqueline Rigley, Ann Rius, Nicholas Rivera, Andrew Rodgers, Alex Rodriguez, Caroline Roe, Hayley Roesler, Nicholas Rogers, Joseph Rohaly, Mary Rokicki, Stephen Romero, Gianni Ross, Nicolas Rossi, Jessica Rotstein, Jack Rudzinski, Alexander Russell, Thomas Saggau, Faith Saibert, Serena Salvato, Nicholas Sandoval, Brooke Sands, and Charles Sargent.
John Schaefer, Lucy Schaefer, Justin Schlender, Bryce Schmitz, Jacob Schoneman, Jake Schroeder, Rhiannon Schuenemann, Peter Schwabe, Cassidy Schwartz, Seamus Scotty, Andrea Serrano, James Shanahan, Mia Shapiro, Brandon Sheehan, Brenna Sheehan, Kate Sheehan, Lauren Shelby, Conor Sheldon, David Shi, Grace Shine, Morgan Sides, Grace Siegelman, Kyle Sievers, Robert Siewiorek, Abby Sindelar, Megan Sindelar, Paul Skolba, Matthew Slivinski, and Leah Slivovsky.
William Sloyan, Grant Smith, Isabella Smith, Jamie Smith, Philip Smith, Erin Smothers, Ewelina Soltys, Marianne Soriano, Quinten Sorice, Emma Sorrentino, Alyssa Soto, Andrea Spasojevic, Sheridan Spiess, Caroline Spitkovsky, Alex Stahnke, Jeffrey Stejskal, Charles Stelnicki, Claire Stevens, Henry Stevens, Sofia Stirn, Anthony Stotler, Stephen Strawbridge, Elizabeth Strzelczyk, Colette Stubitsch, Erin Sullivan, Emily Suski, Maeve Swinehart, and Jack Sylvia.
Wyatt Tawse, Sarah Tenuta, Blaine Teppema, Olivia Thiakos, Grace Thomas, Jack Thoms, John Thornton, Henry Tio, Emily Titzer, Allyson Tomsik, Emilia Topor, Alyssa Townsend, Eric Townsend, Gabrielle Trimborn, Amber Troesch, Cole Tuisl, Karina Urquizo, Roland Van Tassel, Benjamin Van Vuren, Anthony Vecchio, Emily Vega, Madalyn Velisaris, Francisco Verdin, Joshua Veroeven, Victoria Vila, Mia Vilanova, Adrian Villalobos, Lorena Villasenor, and Natasha Vitas.
Joseph Vlcek, Julia Vock, Graham Voetberg, Lea Voytovich, Stefan Vukovic, Abigail Vulich, Dillon Wagner, Catherine Wahl, Hannah Walleck, Hope Walsh, Jack Walton, Brooke Warble, Marisa Washburn, Griffin Wasz, William Weems, Daniel Wennerstrum, Elizabeth West, Kathleen Westrick, and Megan White.
Jonathan Wilder, Hannah Williams, Jason Williams, Justin Williams, Maxwell Williams, Myranda Williams, Spencer Wilson, Eric Wisnewski, Christopher Wojciak, Nicholas Wojcicki, Nicholas Wolf, Linnea Wood, Zachary Wood, Caroline Wuerl, Brian Zak, Kamil Zeglen, Dijana Zenelaj, Joanna Zienkiewicz, Adam Zimmerman, Vincent Zona, and George Zurowski.

Freshmen
Sabrina Abbate, Katelyn Abraham, Maxwell Abrahamson, Abigail Ahrens, Michael Ahrens, Patrick Akaniroj, Courtney Aldridge, Joseph Ales, Lillian Alicea, Gabriella Allen, Amanda Amador, George Anagnos, Belinda Andrade, Giselle Andrade, Graham Andrews, John Andrews, Martin Arbide, Mary Arito, Karli Artale, Grace Ashby, Amanda Avizius, Lianne Awah, Christopher Azzarello, Michael Baker, Louis Banda, Ryan Barker, Nina Barnett, Maggie Barney, and Andrew Barnicle.
Christopher Beard, Cooper Bearman, Natalie Bednarz, Izak Bedolla, Wesley Beeler, Cameron Belden, Damian Benitez, Anna Rose Benson, Eileen Bergman, Olivia Berley, Rebecca Bernier, Emily Best, Sarah Better, Katherine Beumer, William Black, Jennifer Blouin, Megan Bonneville, Jack Boo, Geneva Boyd, Richard Boyd, Ryan Boyd, Allison Bradbury, Tara Brankin, Kyle Branz, Daniel Breakey, Amelia Brisk, Omar Brito, John Brown, Kayla Brudnicki, and Lydia Bruni.
Johnathan Brunner, Benjamin Bryant, Jordan Bryant, Sean Brynda, Sidney Bugaieski, Abigail Bulir, Courtney Buralli, Jack Burke, Megan Burke, MacKenzie Burnside, Jacob Burr, Nicholas Burriesci, Tyler Byrne, Ethan Cabela, Arianna Cabrera, Sarah Ann Cada, Grant Campbell, Maxwell Campbell, Domenic Campo, Jesse Campos, Alicia Camuy, Anthony Cappa, John Carinato, Abagail Carlson, David Caro, Sean Carr, Margaret Carrabine, and Hector Carrazco.
Jacqueline Carrillo, Rowan Carroll, Kendall Cassidy, Edgar Castellanos, Patrick Catezone, Kyle Cattin, Matthew Cavanaugh, Alexander Cefali, Jiyan Cen, Ethan Chadwick, Hope Chamberlin, Mollie Chambers, Mitchel Charlier, Ahtziri Chavez, Grant Chesloe, Katrina Chlapik, Yoonje Cho, Chaz Chung, Henry Claesson, Amaria Clarke, Charles Clarke, Michael Cleary, Michael Clifton, Madeline Cohen, Malachy Collins, Meghan Collins, Frank Colonna, and Elizabeth Conboy.
Clare Condon, Melissa Condon, Eliana Condotti, Alex Conger, Will Conn, Anna Conneely, Liam Connelly, William Cooke, John Cooley, Michael Cooley, Eric Cooper, Sydnie Cooper, Jessica Coronel, Bridget Corrigan, Nathan Corsino-Estrada, Cameron Cowan, Jasmine Cozzi, Julia Cozzi, Benjamin Cranny, Antoine Crumpton, Antrone Crumpton, Ryan Cummings, Luke Cunningham, Timothy Curley, Lindsey Cwik, Angelina D’Amico, Melissa Danilov, and Marisa Darrus.
Remi Davis, Samuel De Boer, Lauren DeLaRosa, Christina Demes, Natalie Demes, Sophia DeSae Silva, Dominic Detente, Mary Devine, Samuel Dillon, Madeline Dixon, Jack Doherty, Neil Doherty, Alexander Dolgner, Kaylee Domanchuk, Riley Dominiak, Ryan Dow, Aidan Doyle, Emma Doyle, Matthew Driscoll, Mackenzie Drummond, John Dudley, Jonathan Duelm, Connor Duffy, Kelly Dunleavy, Nora Dunleavy, Griffin Dunn, Mary Durkin, and Emma Dziura.
Ryan Easterday, Hannah Eckert, Bridget Egan, Gabriel Egert, Jessica Elder, Jenna Elliott, Tessa Elliott, Dylan Ellison, Cayla Erzinger, Epiphany Esparza, Mauricio Espitia, Carolyn Euwema, Makaela Faldani, Andrea Farias, Diana Farley, Alexis Fergon, Lauren Ferguson, Riezzealyn Fernandez, John Ferraro, Hannah Fezekas, Emma Fink, Andrew Finn, Allison Fischer, Tara Flaherty, Yareli Flores, Cole Flott, Ian Flueck, Samuel Fonseca, Jack Fornaro, and Anthony Forsell.
William Foster, Quinn Fraser, Kayla Frederick, Jordan Frerk, Tyler Fronk, Katherine Fuhr, Ryan Furlan, Juliette Galassini, Addiz Galeana Hernandez, Annie Gallagher, Matthew Galletti, Adali Garcia, Anaya Garcia, Andres Garcia, Gabriella Garcia, Marco Garcia, Mitchell Gardner, Luke Garrett, Taylor Garrett, Alexander Gartner, Olivia Garza, James Gazis, Meredith Gebhart, Alexa Geissler, Anthony Gennett, Gillian Geraci, Claire Gertsmeier, Jeffrey Gianone, and Casey Gignac.
Maggie Gilchrist, Joseph Gilger, Julia Gilman, Antonio Giron, Natalie Giron, Samantha Gleason, Jordan Glover, Catalina Gogonea, Karen Gomez, Josue Gonzalez, Nandia Gonzalez, Nicholas Gonzalez, Sarah Gorecki-Westrick, MacKenzie Gould, Marlene Govea, Eric Gradilla, Ian Graham-White, Gianna Graziano, Nicholas Grba, Grace Gremer, Olivia Gresge, Sarah Grier, William Grimm, Kenneth Grodsky, Tyler Guagenti, and Genna Guarino.
Lauren Hahn, Charles Hall, Elizabeth Hall, Sarah Halm, Fiona Hamilton, Jeffrey Hank, Marshall Harck, Sara Harck, Charles Harders, Owen Hardy, Isaac Haro, Yvette Haro, Mary Hart, Phoebe Hartoonian, Joshua Haschke, Lindsey Hauch, Grace Hayes, Spirit Healy, Ellen Henderson, Michael Henehan, John Henneberry, Nora Hennessy, Lucas Herbeck, Megan Herndon, Brenden Hesik, Miles Hession, Ryan Hiatt, Peter Hill, Garrett Hinshaw, Holly Hinton, and Hannah Hoekstra.
Jacob Hoekstra, Jordan Hoekstra, Jade Hofbauer, Nina Hoffman, Andrew Hogan, Anna Hohman, Kassidy Hollinger, Jacob Hollowed, Madison Holt, Tyler Hone, Andrew Hossack, Timothy Houston, Daniel Hudetz, Hunter Hughes, Nicholas Hughes, Seamus Hughes, Christopher Hummel, Lucas Huneryager, Yusuf Husain, Keller Hyde, George Hyland, Brandon Jackson, Nicholas Jacobs, Emily Janis, Dominic Janusek, Maksymilian Jasiak, Michael Jasiak, and John Jelinek.
Isabelle Jensen, Christopher Jesovic, Abigail Jocke, Emily Johanns, Catherine Johnson, Derek Johnson, Maren Johnson, Megan Johnson, Nicolette Jones, Elizabeth Joyce, Evan Junius, Elizabeth Juracic, Emma Jurusik, Margaret Justus, Sydney Kaehler, Alexandra Kales, Ryan Kallal, Patrick Kane, Angelina Kapp, Peyton Kapp, Jane Kapsalis, Joseph Kartzmark, Morgan Kaspar, Spiro Kass, Zayn Kayali, Lily Kedzuch, Raymond Keenan, Daniel Kefer, Audrys Kelecius, and Ayse Kelemet.
Kevin Keller, Alexander Kelly, Mattigan Kelly, Neama Keshta, Kaley Kessler, Summer Kienitz, Daniel Kilrea, Laura Kimberling, Colleen Kirby, Michelle Kleidon, Zachary Klimes, Grace Knowski, Eric Ko, Taylor Koc, Margaret Koch, McKenna Koch, Raunaq Kohli, Rhyan Komsthoeft, Luka Kosic, Jessica Kowalski, Margaret Kowalski, Alexander Kreczko, Joseph Kreikemeier, Joseph Kressmann, Payton Krone, Joseph Krupiczowicz, Julius Krupowicz, and Mariah Kulhanek.
Alexander Kuntz, Alexander Kuptel, Karyssa Labayen, Aaron Lack, Daniel Lada, Samantha Land, Krista Landers, Joseph Langan, Erica Larios, Patrick Larmon, Mikaela Larson, Isabel Launspach, Brian Le, Jennifer Le, Andrew Leach, Joshua Leavitt, Kaelan Lee, Cary Leiter-Weintraub, Lydia Lenigan, Bella Lestina, David Letsinger, Spencer Levinson, Trevor Lewandowski, Natalie Liotta, Claire Lizak, Kaitlin Lizik, Kevin Lizik, Teodora Ljuboja, and Lisa Lopez.
Madison Lukowski, Luke Lusson, Simon Lux, Grace Luxem, Kristina Lynch, Max Madro, Ognjen Madzarevic, Katelyn Mannella, Stefan Marin, Greta Markey, McKayla Marlowe, Elliott Marovec, Ximena Martinez Ruvalcaba, Mayahuel Martinez, Anthony Martino, Michael Martino, Liam Mathie, Anna Mattern, Charles Mavon, Sarah McAllister, Francis McCarter, Caitlin McCarthy, John McCarthy, Aidan McCauley, Skylar McCauley, and Nicholas McColgan.
Lawson McCoy, Zachary Mcfarland, Adam McGahay, Colleen McGovern, Elsa McMahon, Cassidy McNichols, Thomas McTigue, Otto Meccia, Delilah Medina, Isabella Melilli, Noah Mendoza, Natalie Metsch, Kirsten Meyer, Madeline Meyer, Gabriel Michor, Delaney Miller, Eric Miller, Joseph Miller, Morgan Miller, Michael Mitchell, Eduardo Molina, Mathew Molloy, Justin Monarrez, Gabrielle Monte, Robert Montesano, Michael Moore, and Paul Moorehouse.
William Moran, Christine Moravek, Ryan Morfoot, Tanner Mortimer, Bryce Moskiewicz, Cormac Most, Kevin Mota, Kyle Muntwyler, Nicholas Murphy, Ahmed Mustafa, Danielle Nabor, Reece Nadle, Elise Naval, Luke Neale, Caroline Nelson, Kelly Nemecek, Daniela Nesta, Claire Netzel, Brooks Neumann, Grant Nicholaus, Kathleen Niedermeyer, Justin Nielson, John Novak, Ruben Noyola, Oliver Nunez, Angel Nunnery, Daniel Nyhan, and Aidan O’Brenski.
Charles O’Connor, Clare O’Connor, Sean O’Connor, Madeline O’Donnell, Olivia O’Donnell, Carrie O’Heron, George O’Malley, Meaghan O’Neill, Nathan Ocampo, Fernando Ojeda, Hannah Olenec, Lydia Olson, Lorenzo Orders, Ramiro Ordonez, Miko Ortega, Julian Ortiz, Alison Ostrowski, Allison Ozark, Jonah Ozer, Cara Paliakas, Philip Panopoulos, Heley Patel, Sneha Patel, Steven Pav, Martin Pavlik, Bowen Pearson, Destiny Pearson, Andrew Peev, and Jessica Pelletiere.
Salvatore Penachio, Robert Penna, Rose Peters, Matthew Petromilli, Eric Pfannkuche, Bradley Phillip, Michael Piccolo, Benjamin Pieczynski, Matthew Piento, Andrew Pierpaoli, Thomas Pigatto, Abigail Pinta, Magdalena Piwowarczyk, Bradley Pond, Melany Porcayo, Ciara Potter, Abbey Pouba, Erin Pouba, Trenton Powers, Ryan Prylinski, Jack Quigley, Mia Rago, Samuel Rahman, James Ramicone, Aliya Rangel, Jonah Reardon, Sarah Reardon, and Lisa Reedy.
John Reilly, Joie Reisch, Edgar Reyes Vera, Dana Reynolds, Grace Reynolds, Tate Riordan, Alexander Rivera, Ella Roberts, Marko Roberts, Margaret Robinson, Sean Robinson, Frank Rocco, Daniel Roche, Alyssa Rodriguez, Melissa Rodriguez, Amber Rojas, Siarra Rojas, Roland Rondez, Julia Rosales, Hailey Rosicky, Christina Rossetti, Duncan Rout, Stephen Rudofski, Alexis Ruffolo, Nathan Rusk, Alexis Russel, Camilla Russell, Joseph Rutkowski, and Sean Ryan.
Max Ryser, Alex Saacke, Eden Sage, Samantha Salerno, Sara Salvino, Reilly Sammon, Grace Sampson, Anjelina Sanchez, Angelo Sandoval, Luis Sandoval, Alejandra Santoyo, Valentina Saric, Reno Sarussi, Malia Sayad, Nathaniel Schaper, Lauren Schissler, Renata Schmidt, Andrew Schramka, Nicolas Schroeder, Tara Schwarz, Mary Schwerha, Maria Serembytska, Kyle Sexton, Jared Shadle, Hailey Shah, Bridget Shannon, Daniel Shapland, and Erin Sharkey.
Abigail Sheehan, Zachary Sheehan, Cole Shiflett, Samuel Shippee, Ethan Shockley, Brandt Siegfried, Aleksa Silinis, Alexis Simone, Samantha Slinkman, Sonia Slusarczyk, Alexandra Smith, Michael Smith, Tyrese Smith, Emily Snorewicz, Adam Solar, John Sommerfeld, Jade Soriano, Neyla Soriano, Sophia Sorrentino, Ian Speck, Robert Spencer, Haley Spolar, Christyna Spreck, Anthony Staiano, Katherine Stamatakos, Vytas Stankus, Maxwell Stapel-Kalat, and Dylan Stark.
Griffin Stark, William Stenner, Rachel Stern, Victoria Stotz, Charlotte Strazis, Megan Strnad, Kaysie Stuba, Aubrie Studwell, Grace Stuewe, Jack Suedbeck, Erin Sullivan, Hailee Svrlinga, Michael Swinehart, Luke Szczesniak, Kayla Szymanski, Jack Tabachka, Caroline Tabisz, Andrew Tarasuk, Sydney Taylor, Emma Tecktiel, Jack Temple, Gabriel Thayer, Stefan Theiss, Alexander Thiakos, Ryan Thomas, Megan Thomason, Jordan Thornton-Marshall, and Milica Tica.
Emma Tiemeyer, Matthew Tobin, Brooke Tomsik, Daniel Torres, Ricardo Torres, Gessica Torrisi, Lauren Trail, Sebastian Tramontana, Charlotte Trecartin, Demetrios Triantafel, Zoe Trujillo, Piper Turckes, Scott Turro, Katherine Underwood, Athena Valadez, Adrian Valdez, Lucas Valdez, Sarah Valeika, Aaron Valentino, Christian Van Tassel, David Van Wazer, Luke VanKoevering, Casey VanSpankeren, Natasha Vassek, Allison Vavra, Adelaide Vear, Matthew Vear, and Jazmin Venegas.
Jack Verdin, Philip Veta, Miranda Vickery, Alvaro Villalobos, Riley Vires, Amber Vitacca, Jeffrey Vitek, Griffin Vizgirda, Heather Vogt, Nicole Von Drasek, Grant Wackerman, Taylor Wagner, Brenden Walker, Bria Walker, Lillian Walker, Spencer Walker, Jack Wallen, Madeline Walsh, Tatyana Walton, Madison Wanless, Emma Watkins, Lucas Watts, Malcolm Weber, Pierce Weber, Sydney Weber, Matthew Weiler, Kyle Weinert, Alexander Weisshaar, and Daniel Wenstrup.
Anna Westegaard, Samuel Whalen, Avery White, Nicholas White, Makenzie Wiegel, Beth Wiksten, Linda Wilinski, Madeline Wilkins, Jenika Williams, Madelyn Williams, Megan Wilson, William Wilson, Justin Winslow, Isaac Wisthuff, Olivia Wittwer, William Wojcicki, Lily Wojcik, Nathaniel Wolcott, Dylan Wolf, Alexander Wolosewicz, Joshua Woolfington, Christina Wyckoff, Julia Yelnick, Dimitrios Yiannopoulos, Natasha Youssef, Maxim Zabrodsky, Samantha Zagara, Max Zator, and Kevin Zhu.

More than 100 performers lit up the Lyons Township High School fieldhouse in La Grange for a very special basketball halftime show at the start of the winter break.

Just 4 to 7 years old, a group of 105 aspiring pom squad members practiced all afternoon Dec. 20 in the Peppy Primary dance clinic. They learned a holiday dance routine from 40 members of pom squads at the high school and enjoyed pizza, a craft and games.

“It’s a great way for us to engage the community, said Marija Krosnjar, head coach of the program.

The girls’ performance was a definite crowd pleaser, Krosnjar said.

“They loved it! I really enjoyed that our student section is attentive during the performance,” she said. “They are very supportive.”

There will be 14 candidates running for the College of DuPage Board of Trustees in April including two incumbents, a former board member, a former state legislator and the father of a current board member.
The deadline for filing nominating petitions for the three six-year terms up for election April 7 was 5 p.m. Monday.
The Community College District 502 candidates include incumbents Kim Savage and Nancy Svoboda.
Former board member, David Carlin of Naperville, is also running.
Current board secretary Allison O’Donnell is the only incumbent whose seat is up to decide not to run.
O’Donnell said by phone said that her responsibilities are to her 1- and 3-year-old daughters, a full-time job, and a husband who still has two years left in the Army Reserve.
“I decided about two years ago,” she said, noting that being pregnant with her first daughter convinced her that balancing her responsibilities would be problem. “It’s just too much.”
Also running is Joseph Wozniak Sr., the father of board member Joseph Wozniak Jr., whose term is up in 2019.
There will be another familiar face in six-term Illinois legislator Sandy Pihos.
Pihos lost a re-election bid to her House seat in November.
Pihos is a former elementary and middle school teacher in Glen Ellyn and was also a guidance counselor.
She also served more than 10 years on the Glenbard 87 School District board.
“I’m looking for another opportunity to serve the public,” Pihos said when contacted by telephone.
Another candidate, newcomer Matt Gambs, is chairman of the board of Wintrust Bank and a volunteer board member of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce.
“I’m excited to jump in this race,” he said by phone.
Gambs said that he wanted to highlight what the college does best and stressed the school’s key roll in the community. “It’s so important,” he said. “It needs serious people looking out for it.”
Another candidate is Deanne Marie Mazzochi, a patent attorney from Elmhurst.
“From what I’ve seen over the last few months, there seems to be a lack of oversight on the current board,” she said, “and that’s what trustees should be doing.”
Other candidates are Claire Ball, Addison; Charles Bernstein, Wheaton; Frank Napolitano, Bolingbrook; Dan Bailey, Wheaton; Eric Bergman, Glen Ellyn; Roger Kempa, Wheaton; and Robert Buckley, Glen Ellyn.
A lottery will be held Dec. 29 to determine final ballot position.

Contests for School Board seats are shaping up in two La Grange elementary districts and Lyons Township High School District 204 on the April 7 ballot.

In Lyons Township High School District 204, five candidates are seeking four four-year terms, following the filing deadline Monday. Newcomers Jessica McLean of La Grange and Anthony Przeklasa of Indian Head Park are challenging incumbents John Polacek of Indian Head Park, Phil Palmer of Western Springs and Barbara Rosinsky of La Grange.

School Board President Heather Alderman, elected in 2007, did not file for reelection. Polacek is seeking his seventh term and Palmer is running for his second term. Rosinsky was appointed in July to fill the unexpired term of Mark Pera, who moved from the district.

In La Grange Elementary District 102, five candidates are seeking four four-year terms. Incumbents Joyce Fitch, elected in 2007, and Matthew Scotty, seeking his second term, are facing challenges from newcomers Jason Kowalczyk, Brian Anderson and Amanda Jandris.

Fitch has chosen to run as an independent after she was not slated in November by the Delegate Assembly, a nonpartisan community group, which recruits, interviews and endorses candidates. The group also did not endorse Board President Dave May, elected in 2003, and May and Dawn Aubert chose not to file for reelection.

The Delegate Assembly endorsed Scotty, Kowalczyk, Anderson and Jandris.

In LaGrange Park-Brookfield District 95, four candidates are vying for three seats. Incumbents Lynn Waterloo, seeking her fourth term, and John LaBarbera, running for his first full term, are facing challenges from newcomers Karen Winslow and Brian Pencak. Incumbent Chris Blackburn chose not to seek reelection.

In La Grange Elementary District 105, incumbents Janice Reagan and Larry Prystalski are unopposed in their bids for a second term, as is Virginia Kogen, who is seeking her first full term. She was appointed to the board in 2011 to fill a vacancy and was elected to a two-year term in 2013.

In LaGrange Highlands Elementary District 106, Board President Robert Hiatt, seeking his second term, and newcomer Jennifer Fessett-Gusentine have filed for three seats on the board. Amy Jo Wittenberg and Reta Strecker didn’t file for reelection.

In Westchester Elementary District 92 ½, there is no contest for four board seats sought by incumbent Carolyn Wilhight and newcomers Bryan Voegle, Molly Zuiroz and Otis Randle.

Board President Claire Thompson and members Melora Christopher and Kari Christiansen chose not to seek reelection.

Holiday magic was in the air at Highlands Middle School with a healthy dose of seasonal fun and games before the long awaited winter break.

Magician Tim Hannig kicked off the festivities in La Grange Highlands with card tricks, jokes and rope illusions. Similar to the shell game, Hannig performed a sleight-of hand-trick with cups that had sixth-graders Josh Henley and Sophia Morgan bracing for a splash of cold water in the face.

Just when the students were sure the remaining cup was filled with cold water, long strings of confetti flew out, leaving Josh and Sophia laughing with relief. The trick also provided the perfect segue for Hannig’s three tips to prevent bullying.

As bystanders many times, students need to stand up for others, he said, holding up one finger. If someone is being picked on, he or she should walk away, he said, moving two fingers like legs. Holding up three fingers, he urged kids to talk to an adult, moving his hand like a mouth.

Students weren’t the only ones pulled to the center of the gym. Principal Mike Papierski assisted in a rope trick. Hannig tapped sixth-grade social studies teacher Kristen Rusthoven to tear pink and black paper into strips and crumple them up. Moments later, he presented her with a lovely paper hat without a wrinkle.

Hannig then recruited a quartet of unsuspecting teachers. Their purpose became clear only after he passed out hats of a policeman, sailor, construction worker and Native American chief, and the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” began to blare.

The award for best costumes would have gone to eighth-grade health teacher Matt Yena and vocal music teacher Tammy O’Reilly. They took over as Santa and Mrs. Claus to emcee the afternoon’s remaining events starring students.

The assembly featured performances by the school’s Show Choir, Highlands Dance Team, cheerleaders and dozens of students in fast-paced contests. Foreign language students serenaded their classmates in French and Spanish.

As their names flashed on a large screen, students dashed down from the bleachers for such competitions as the balloon stomp, musical chairs and passing a wreath down a line and back without using hands, elbows or arms.

Competitors strapped a box with a slit filled with tiny bells to their backs for the highly energetic jingle bell shake. The winner was the first to get rid of all of his or her bells.

Much more subtle movement and finesse were needed to win the gingerbread man event. A cookie was placed on each student’s forehead. The first one to coax the cookie into his or her mouth without using hands would be the winner.

After numerous false starts, students learned only the tiniest facial movements would advance their cause. But patience paid off, and several winners were declared.

“That’s pretty good,” Yena said, offering his congratulations. “The teachers played this game earlier and no one even won.”

Weeks before semester final exams, five Nazareth Academy freshmen passed an unexpected test of their integrity with an A+.

On a half day off from classes in LaGrange Park, the five planned to stop for pizza in La Grange about 1:30 p.m. Nov. 20, when something on the ground caught their eye.

“We were just walking down the sidewalk when we saw $300 laying on the ground,” remembered Thomas Sandt of La Grange. “Then we found the receipt next to it.”

Sandt and friends Jack Gloor and Tommy Moody, both from Western Springs laughed as they said they thought about splitting up what they had found outside the Chase Bank branch at 14 S. La Grange Road.

“There was no way we could keep it. It’s somebody’s money,” Sandt said quickly. “We texted our parents about what to do next, and we went to the police station.”

The group stopped for pizza at DiNico’s before turning in the money.

“We used our own money for that,” Sandt said.

With the bank receipt, police were able to contact a La Grange woman who had made a withdrawal and dropped her cash, said Deputy Chief Renee Strasser.

“We felt very good about it,” Sandt said.

The woman wanted to thank the boys personally at the police station Dec. 22, but her scheduled changed unexpectedly. She gave movie tickets and chocolate to Sandt, Gloor and Moody as well as two others not able to be there, Mike Rotolo of Western Springs and William Pacella of Burr Ridge.

Police Chief Mike Holub presented the boys with certificates acknowledging their good deed and integrity.

La Grange to get new upscale rental complex

The north face of La Grange will change dramatically with the go-ahead Nov. 10 for Uptown La Grange, a 254-unit luxury rental complex at Ogden Avenue and La Grange Road.

After nearly a year of negotiations and revisions, the deal moved forward with the offer of Opus Develop Co., LLC to pay $300,000 toward installation of a traffic signal at Ogden and Locust avenues. The site of the former Rich Port YMCA has remained vacant since 2006.

The board voted 4-2 in favor of the project with Trustees Mark Kuchler and Jim Palermo expressing concerns about increased traffic and the development’s higher density than is normally permitted.

Supporters said the development will tap into the rental market for affluent young professionals and empty nesters, who will shop and dine in La Grange.

The L-shaped, six-story building of brick, stone and wood is designed with studio and one- to three-bedroom units wrapping around a parking structure in the center. Additional parking is on the ground level open to area residents using Gordon Park to the east.

The development also includes a 9,000-square-foot separate commercial building to be completed once the residential complex is finished.

Three large storms cause major flooding

Three major summer storms unleashed misery on La Grange, leaving chest-high floodwater and kayaks floating down some streets with blocks of ruined basements.

High intensity rainstorms June 24 and 30 and Aug. 22 created massive flooding in various parts of town. Especially hard hit was the low-lying neighborhood around Spring Avenue and 50th Street. It was deluged by overland flooding surging from the southwest through the La Grange Country Club.

The extensive damage prompted the Village Board to reshuffle priorities and authorize a number of expenditures for studies and sewer pipe cleaning to determine next steps.

Potential relief projects for $14.2 million include building a $1 million floodwall along Brainard Avenue and a $12.5 million storm sewer beneath 50th Street. Additional storage capacity also is under study.

To help finance the effort, the board has authorized a referendum proposal on the April 7 ballot to hike the sales tax by .75 percent. Other funding sources include raising utility and telecommunications tax rates, increasing the sewer rate, fund transfers and using additional bonding capacity.

Four La Grange Schools earn Blue Ribbon status

Four elementary schools in La Grange were named in October to the select group of National Blue Ribbon Schools in 2014.

Among the 12 elementary schools chosen in Illinois were Spring Avenue and Seventh Avenue schools in La Grange-Countryside Elementary District 105 and Ogden Avenue School in La Grange Elementary District 102.

St. Cletus School was one of seven parochial schools recognized in Illinois, where 22 schools were singled out for outstanding student academic achievement and a host of contributing factors.

Representatives from each school were honored at a ceremony Nov.10 and 11 in Washington, D.C. by the U.S. Department of Education. Just 336 of the nation’s top schools received the 2014 honor after a rigorous application process.

The award is based on a school’s math and English scores being in the top 15 percent, according to each state’s standardized tests.

A fifth La Grange school, St. Francis Xavier School, won the coveted award in 2013.

New Veterans Memorial opens in LaGrange Park

More than 600 visitors packed Memorial Park in LaGrange Park Sept. 20 to dedicate the new Veterans Memorial saluting members of the Armed Forces past, present and to come.

A fundraising campaign collected about $114,000 for the project, launched two years ago to honor veterans in various branches of military service. Their names are inscribed on bricks in a curved half wall and surrounding plaza.

Nazareth Academy junior Daniel D’Onofrio of Clarendon Hills submitting the winning design for a bas relief, or raised sculpture, in the memorial’s wall, which rises from one end to the other.

Speakers at the dedication noted it was fitting that some of the limestone pieces for the project didn’t arrive in time for the ceremony. It symbolized the wall as a never-ending tribute, which will never be completely finished, because names of new veterans will be added each year.

Town stunned, saddened by tragic death of local executive

Friends and neighbors of Steven LaVoie rallied around his family after he was shot July 31 in his Loop office by a friend and employee who then turned the gun on himself.

The town became a sea of red as supporters tied red ribbons around parkway trees. Red was LaVoie’s favorite color. He remained for weeks in critical but stable condition at Northwestern University Hospital in Chicago, after he was shot in the head and stomach.

Family and friends were encouraged as LaVoie’s condition improved and he was moved Sept. 9 to continue recovering at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. But about a month later, he succumbed to his injuries Oct. 13.

LaVoie, 55, founded ArrowStream, a technology company, 14 years ago. He is survived by his wife, Jody, and three daughters. Family and friends celebrated his life with moving tributes Oct. 18 at the First Presbyterian Church of La Grange.

The Technology Center of DuPage, which helps DuPage area high school students explore a career interest while equipping them for postsecondary education and a career, will hold an open house from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Jan. 21.

The center is the advanced, elective career and technical education campus for 24 high schools in DuPage County and Lyons Township, offering both high school and college credit.

Visitors may see any or all of the center’s 21 program areas. There also will be an optional, 30-minute career presentation at 7 p.m. for parents and students. A panel of Chicago area manufacturers will sort fact from fiction and offer a view of the opportunities open to qualified young people. Featured companies include Arrow Gear in Downers Grove), Bison Gear in St. Charles, DuPage Machine Products in Bloomingdale, and Fidelity Tool & Mold in Batavia. Seating for this presentation is limited.

Visit www.tcdupage.org or call 630-691-7572 for more information.

Lyons Township High School students likely are taking courses preparing them for jobs that don’t yet exist, and a new club has emerged to make sure tomorrow’s innovators don’t miss a single cutting-edge opportunity.

Girls in Engineering, Math and Science began hosting events and outings this year after organizing in the spring. The club’s focus is  to build a community of girls interested in pursuing careers related to science or engineering, but programs are open to everyone.

The group sponsored Mr. Freeze’s Cryogenics Liquid Nitrogen Show in October, which drew more than 300 students from LT and surrounding elementary and middle schools.

“That was our first event. We were very excited with the outcome,” said adviser Callie Pogge, who teaches biology and physical science at the south campus in Western Springs.

In addition to getting students of all ages excited about science, club organizers considered the show a great first step as an outreach to future scientists not yet at LT.

“We’re trying to reach out to middle schools in the area, to create mentoring kinds of relationships,” said La Grange senior Madeline Bernstein.

“One of the other girls and I went to Park Junior High and gave a talk to the girls there about science, why we love science, what we did to get to where we are now and what opportunities we’ll have,” Bernstein said.

Bernstein said she and other club members are pursuing opportunities to visit girls at other area middle schools and schedule interactive labs and science activities.

“Middle school is definitely the time when it’s cool not to care about school,” she said. “So if somebody likes math and science, it’s a critical time to find that balance between being accepted by your peers and wanting to pursue your interests.”

Pogge said club members, too, are pursuing mentoring relationships with women working in various fields.

“There’s a new chapter of Graduate Women in Science, and they want to possibly mentor our girls,” she said. “They are women in their 20s and 30s, and we want to set up a night to get together.”

Bernstein said she was prompted to start the club as a sophomore when she noticed girls in her science and engineering classes being more reserved than she expected.

“They seemed less willing to speak up and actively participate in class,” she said. “I was thinking about why that was and could it be changed.”

Bernstein said she attended a lecture series and met another high school student heading a group for girls interested in pursuing science and math. So Bernstein began the process to start a club at LT, running into some difficulty because it could be construed as exclusive.

“There was a lot of interest among students, and a lot of teachers showed nothing but support for what we wanted to do,” she said. “We welcome everyone, but what we do is mostly geared toward encouraging girls.”

GEMS partnered with the Cyborg Eagles, a local Robotics FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) team, to host a workshop in December on using Creo software to create items using 3D printers.

Pogge said the club members hope to offer a variety of events and activities during the second semester, including programs centered on math topics or careers.

From 10 to 20 students show up at meetings to hear speakers or attend field trips, and about 90 are on an email list to attend events when their schedule permits, she said.

Freshman Nora Dunleavy from Western Springs said she joined with her twin sister, Kelly, to hear about opportunities for women in math.

“At the first meeting, we skyped with a marine biologist from Florida,” Dunleavy said. “Then we went on a field trip identifying trees. It was about 10 degrees, so we lasted 10 minutes and then it was time for hot chocolate.”

Bernstein said possible upcoming field trips include a tour of the University of Chicago chemistry lab, a cadaver lab tour and a program at Argonne National Laboratory near Darien.

“The whole idea is just to create a community where girls interested in science and math can come and pursue those interests and build connections,” she said.

The following students achieved the dean’s list at Belmont University for the fall 2014 semester. Eligibility is based on a minimum course load of 12 hours and a quality grade point average of 3.5 with no grade below a C.
From Burr Ridge: Deanna Crouchelli
From Willowbrook: Amanda Koronkiewicz
From Darien: Jessica Andree
From La Grange: Annabelle Campanelli and Jacqueline Zeisloft
From Oak Brook: Alexandra Lioutas

The following students were named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wis. Dean’s list honors are accorded to Carthage students who achieve a 3.5 grade-point average while carrying at least 14 credit hours during a semester.
From Burr Ridge: Kathryn McAuliffe, Allison Sarwark
From Darien: Katherine Kalomas, Stephanie Zack
From Hinsdale: Samuel Burnett
From Western Springs: Tegan Moore, Carly Strass

Augustana College announced the following students were named to the dean’s list. Students who have earned this academic honor have maintained a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher on a four-point scale for courses taken during the term.
From Burr Ridge: Andrea McNally, a junior majoring in applied mathematics
From Countryside: Phoebe Strell, a first-year undecided major
From Darien: Patrick Conniff, a sophomore majoring in French and economics; Michael Grzetic, a senior majoring in biology; Danielius Jurgutis, a senior majoring in accounting; Michael McCallion, a junior majoring in biology, Natalie Tomerlin, a junior majoring in communication sciences and disorders and communication studies; and Nathan Walloch, a sophomore undecided major.
From Hinsdale: Alicia Strtak, a senior majoring in biology and neuroscience.
From La Grange: Sarah Dyke, a senior majoring in communication sciences and disorders; Emily McGloin, a senior majoring in commucation sciences and disorders; Emily Pavlik, a senior majoring in biology and geography; and Indre Virsinskaite, a first-year undecided major
From LaGrange Park: Emily McGloin, a senior majoring in communication sciences and disorders; Nadia Panasky, a sophomore majoring in psychology and communication studies; and Christina Sauer, a sophomore undecided major.
From Western Springs: Alex Dudzik, a senior majoring in business administration-management; and Haylee O’Donnell, a sophomore majoring in elementary education.
From Willowbrook: Olivia LaPlante, a first-year undecided major; and Jake Rancic, a sophomore undecided major.

Kaitlin Miller of Hinsdale received a bachelor of arts degree from Tufts University in Massachusetts in May 2014.

Nicole Reidy of Darien was inducted into the Gamma Chi Chapter of Delta Epsilon Sigma in the Sancta Alberta Chapel at Lewis University. To be inducted, students must have completed at least 50 percent of the credit requirements for their baccalaureate degrees with a distinction of performance, which, if continued, would make them eligible for graduation cum laude. Junior and senior students must have at least a 3.5 GPA, as well as received three DES faculty nominations in order to be nominated for membership to the Gamma Chi Chapter of Delta Epsilon Sigma.

Joshua Kukec of Darien was recently initiated into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines, Elmhurst College. Membership is by invitation and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors, having at least 72 semester hours, are eligible for membership.

Kristen Rosemeyer of La Grange graduated from the University of Dayton with a bachelor of arts degree in psychology on Dec. 20.

Kristen Wuerl of Indian Head Park is a member of the Luther College 2014-15 Aurora music ensemble. She is a 2014 graduate of Lyons Township High School.

Stephanie Diebel of Western Springs is a member of the Luther College 2014-15 Symphony Orchestra music ensemble. She is majoring in music and art at Luther. Diebel is a 2011 graduate of Lyons Township High School.

Christine O’Brien of Western Springs is a member of the Luther College 2014-15 Nordic Choir music ensemble. She is majoring in music and English education and is a 2011 graduate of Lyons Township High School.

The University of Illinois has proposed a tuition freeze for in-state students this year, marking the first time in more than two decades that the cost would not increase at the state’s flagship public school, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

If approved by trustees next week, in-state freshmen would see no tuition hike for the first time since 1993-94 and the rate would remain unchanged for four years under the state’s guaranteed tuition law.

New students would pay the same tuition as this year: $12,036 at the Urbana-Champaign campus, $10,584 at the Chicago campus and $9,405 in Springfield. The total cost more than doubles, however, after adding mandatory student fees and housing.

“Student affordability is a top priority and we are committed to ensuring that costs are not a barrier to the lifelong opportunities that are provided by an education at the University of Illinois,” President Robert Easter said in a statement.

Read the full story in the Chicago Tribune.

La Grange area school superintendents don’t anticipate canceling classes Wednesday due to extreme cold, though the final decision may not be made until 4:30 a.m.

Superintendent Warren Shillingburg of La Grange Elementary District 102 said a variety of factors are discussed during a 4:30 a.m. phone call among Lyons Township area superintendents when harsh weather conditions are forecast.

The decision hinges on the safety of students and staff, Shillingburg said. Superintendents consider the predicted temperature and wind chill, as well as any problems reported by bus companies.

“As of now, we are not considering closing, mostly because the daytime temperatures are not predicted to be so unbearable,” he said. “We also have to weigh the issue of what parents will do with their children when they both work full-time jobs. Are we putting students more at risk if they have to be home alone?”

Superintendent Glenn Schlichting of La Grange-Countryside Elementary District 105 said the superintendents also consider whether extreme temperatures or snow will pose a danger to students walking to school or waiting for a bus.

“We will open our buildings early so students do not have to wait outside,” Schlichting said.

“We don’t anticipate canceling school at all this week,” he said. “We are monitoring forecasts and will be getting assurances from our bus company that buses will run as scheduled.”

Superintendent Brian Barnhart said classes likely will go on as scheduled Wednesday in Western Springs Elementary District 101.

In addition to temperature, wind chill, driving conditions and bus issues, the district keeps a close eye on boilers and building heating systems, Barnhart said.

In a letter to parents in the fall, Barnhart noted that sustained wind chill temperatures approaching 20 degrees below zero again will be a key factor in any decision to cancel classes.

Nazareth Academy in La Grange Park isn’t likely to close school Wednesday, despite the greater distance many students travel to attend class, said Principal Deborah Tracy. Students come from as far as 25 miles away in Cook and DuPage counties.

“At this point it is not our intention to be closed tomorrow,” Tracy said. “As always, we will monitor the weather situation throughout the evening.”

Factors entering the decision to remain open include whether buses will arrive on time and have heat, the day’s high and low temperatures and how the cold will affect cars in the school parking lot starting at the end of the school day.

“It is certainly not an exact science, so we always leave individual decisions up to parents,” Tracy said.