48 The Queens Courier • kids & education • JUNE 25, 2015 for breaking news visit www.queenscourier.com Valedictorians of the Class of 2015 compiled by Joon-Yun Park and Llewyn Shin Savannah Algu, Queens Village Flushing Christian School 99% average Attending Townsend Harris High School s kids & education Timothy Ly, Brooklyn The Lowell School Attending The Lowell High School Elizabeth Hertler, Maspeth Notre Dame Catholic Academy, Ridgewood 97.6% average Attending Archbishop Molloy High School Ewa Gerlak, Ridgewood Archbishop Molloy High School, Briarwood 102.12% average Attending SUNY Binghamton on an Excellence Scholarship Sarah Pinhasov, Rego Park Forest Hills Ezra Academy 95% average Attending Baruch College Sarah Estevez, Bayside St. Agnes Academic High School, College Point Attending Molloy College Joerenz B. Bolina, Woodside St. John’s Preparatory School, Astoria Attending St. John’s University Gabriella Colangelo, New Hyde Park The Mary Louis Academy, Cambria Heights 4.75 GPA Attending St. John’s University Talia Edelman, West Hempstead Yeshiva University High School for Girls Destiny Kennedy, Corona Corona Learning Tree Multi-Cultural 89% average Attending St. Francis Preparatory School Karolina Niepokoj, Middle Village Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Academy, Forest Hills 99% average Attending The Mary Louis Academy Marykate Hennessey, Rockaway Beach St. Camillus Catholic Academy Attending The Mary Louis Academy Ekaterina Skorniakova and Matthew Perez, Woodside St. Sebastian School, Woodside 99.2% and 98.4% averages, respectively Skorniakova attending Convent of the Sacred Heart Perez attending Regis High School Dominik Makocki, Maspeth Christ the King Regional High School 102.2% average Attending Macualay Honors College GRADUATES These eighth-graders at Sacred Heart School in Bayside earned 17 scholarships to Catholic high schools totaling more than $600,000. They were also accepted into numerous public academic and performing high schools. Pictured above are (first row, left to right) Ryan Messer, Kelly Donlevy, Jacqueline Torres, Nicholas Parfait, Sharon Chen, Nicholas Pindulic and Natalie Kim; and (second row, left to right) Lucas Gunkel, Ryan Yavinsky, Sydney Witkowski, Cormac Cullinane, Macayle Fuchs, Michael Casey and Nicholas Knoblauch. Bayside’s P.S. 46 celebrated their Class of 2015 on June 19 in their annual graduation ceremony, with friends and family packing into the elementary school’s auditorium for the event. Principal Stamo Karalazarides reflected on the growth she has seen in her students in their first years of pursuing and education. “What is remarkable is how each and everyone of you has learned so much in six years,” said Karalazarides, who began her time in office after the retirement of former principal Marsha Goldberg this year. “Each of you have a strong educational foundation that will last you a lifetime.”
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