Fulton High School
High Honors
Freshmen: Kylie Kennedy, Amy Knight, Emily Knight, Rachel McDonnell, Samantha Raab, David Stage, and Kyle Wiebenga.
Sophomores: Amanda Briese, Brennan Leonard, Brianna Scobee, Denee’ Stone, and Julie Wiersema.
Juniors: Lydia Bilyeu, Bradley Dierks, Brandon Dierks, Sydney Dixon, Rikki Hoover, Gwenyth Naftzger, Lindsey Nicolaysen, Elaina Raab, Travis Ray, Rachel Senior, and Matthew Walters.
Seniors: Devin Borgman, Tessa Cole, Allison DeWeerdt, Kelsey Munck, Drew Nederhoff, David Olsen, Brandon Ray, Evan Regenwether, Darrell Reynolds, Sabrina Rock, Kimberly Rogis, Miranda Schafer, Alisha Tucker, Travis VanZuiden and Alex Wherry.
Honors
Freshmen: Michael Balk, Demi Borgman, MaKena Casey, Levi Clark, Nicole Crosthwaite, Isabelle Eissens, Nicholas Fish, Tim Green, Brittany Groharing, Brandi Hess, Rachael Hill, Jacob Houzenga, Emily Huebner, Claire Hugunin, Trevor Huizenga, Autumn Huling, Cody Johnson, Stephan Kenneavy, Brandon Knott, Kelsey Leffler, Austin Manon, Larissa Norem, Heather Ottens, Katie Porter, Logan Rascher, Todd Reynolds, Morgan Sanquist, Christopher Shaffer, Weslee Shuey, Kiana Sikkema, Morgan Snyder, Zoe Tiesman, Katherine Wayne, Haley Wiebenga, Emma Wiemken, Morgan Wierema, and Morgan Zaehringer.
Sophomores: Kayla Bauer, Ryan Beiermann, Austin Byers, Matthew Carbaugh, Rachel Cossman, Paige Cramer, Kelsey Dersham, Evan Eissens, Kristen Field, Kara Ford, Kaitlynn Grell, Holly Hansen, Ryan Hoogheem, Kari Huizenga, Amanda Iburg, Courtnee Kaecker, Tabitha Larson, Claire Leonard, Elizabeth Ottens, Thomas Ottens, Erik Renkes, Regan Renkes, Kimberlyn Stoecker, Cody Tiesman, Jamie Toureene, Blake VanDrew, Allison VanZuiden, Amy Wiersema, David Wiest, Jr., Ashley Wilkins, and Kyle Workman.
Juniors: Cory Balk, Jared Balk, Erica Bielema, Brittnie Brown, Kelsey Calsyn, Ryan Edfors, Courtney Gaul, Jeremy Gaul, Sterling Gehn, Nicole Hayenga, Lindsey Holcomb, Cody Houzenga, Hillary Huebner, Tyler Huebner, Michael Huling, Taylor Manon, Cole Rauch, Ryan Rose, Amber Ryder, Zachary Ryder, Elizabeth Sanquist, Paige Sanquist, Martin Schuette, Jerry Sikkema, Hilary Stratton, Jacqueline VanZuiden, Dakota Vock, Taylor Whitney, Kari Wiersema, Larissa Wilkins, Catie Wright, Logan Zaehringer, and Brian Zahnle.
Seniors: Tyler Beiermann, Brooke Brennecka, Ashley Bruggenwirth, Halie Butt, Ronald Carber, Jr., Shelby Carpenter, Andrew Cramer, Kyle Crosthwaite, Heather Echebarria, Nathan Fish, Michael Fulfs, Evan Hill, Kari Kuehl, Konnor Leffler, Trent Lizama, Amanda Martin, Breann Michaelsen, Sheridan Quick, Lindsey Renkes, Tyler Renkes, Brandon Schneider, Camryn Simmons, Tara Stubblefield, Brian Tegeler, Joseph Tomman, Alexis VanZuiden, Holly Vegter, Colin Waters, and Eric Wiersema.
St. Mary Junior High School, Dixon
Highest Honors
Eighth grade: Christina Long and Mary Alice Oswalt.
Seventh grade: Abigayle Ammon, Andrew Burke, Connor Knack, Haley Simpson, Jenna Stevens, and Anne Vits.
Sixth grade: Clay Jungerman, Shannon Lahey, Emily Long, Max Oswalt and Stefanie Simpson.
High Honors
Eighth grade: Graye Freeman.
Seventh grade: Shayne Allen, Brandon Burke, Quincy Coomes, Ken Ellorando, and Rachel Heiderscheit.
Sixth grade: Christina Peterson.
Honors
Eighth grade: Brooke Bailey, Seth Brauman, Shayla Brown, Michael Ely, Kayla Faley, Addison Huizenga, Ariel Rice, and Catherine Weinzierl.
Seventh grade: Quinn Harrison, Madalyn Klein, Noah Leffelman, Alexis Warren, and Christopher Wilson.
Sixth grade: Erin Allen, Makayla Murphy, Olivia Walter, Hunter Webb.
Forreston Junior High School
High Honors
Sixth grade: Mitchell Bratina, Naeva Groenewold, Kaitlin Korf, Anna Krecklow, Taylor Livingston, Kathryn Person, Logan Rogers, Zoe Siegmeier, Josiah Snider, Braxton Stamm, and Courtney Wolf.
Seventh grade: Max Barkalow, Aidan Carr, Marcus Edler, MacKenzie Heinz, and Hannah Hunziker.
Eighth grade: Megan Gronewold, Lauren Jacobs, Abbey Osterloo, and Caleb Snider.
Honors
Sixth grade: Linnea Davids, Nolan Edler, Bryce Flick, Kasey Groen, Austin Groshans, Matthew Carlson, Jamie Cullor, Jeremy Jacobs, Maddison Kirchner, Erik Kivisto, Madalynn Mershon, Aaron Metz, Dalton Richardson, Cassidy Schultz, Matthew Wiederkehr, and Nicholas Wilson.
Seventh grade: Jessica Anderson, Jacob Cunningham, Mikayla Dirksen, Emily Edler, Patricia Eilders, Emily Fisher, Ethan Groom, Hailey Ingram, Kylie Joens, Wyatt Kerchner, Courtney Lima, Samantha Lima, Daniel Ludwig, Emily Mateika, Jacob Norris, Emma Nowicki, Josie Pasch, Kaleb Reining, Katelyn Schurr, Jacob Stukenberg, Nathan Stukenberg, John Tilstra, Lindsey Wardlow, Joshua Wiederkehr, Rebekah Wilken, and August Windsor.
Eighth grade: Elizabeth Ascher, Calvin Barbee, Bridget Barry, Ben Baumann, Beau Bunders, Nicole Cornelius, Travis Cunningham, Maggie Curry, Jonah Drake, Heidi Duitsman, Larissa Gruendler, Kali Janicke, Ashlyn Keister, Cassidy Langill, Teagan Manus, Hanna Metzger, Nicholas Myers, Tyler Newcomer, Ben Stake, Katherine Strautz, Marissa Vesey, Ross Williams, and Brock Wolf.
Forreston High School
High Honors
Freshmen: Grant Ebbesmeyer, Morgan Heinz, Bayley Kirchner, and Allie Person.
Sophomores: Jessica Duitsman, Michael Heizler, and Noelina Rissman.
Juniors: Erin Ebbesmeyer, Jessica Good, Seth Gronewold, and Michael Osterloo.
Seniors: Stephanie Conkey, Haley Hunziker, Renita Krusey, Lindy Langill, Alex Ludwig, Courtney Rinehart, Jackie Runkle, Jessica Sander, Jennifer Sharron, Chelsea Vails, Stacey Voss, Brittany Whitson, and Becca Wienand.
Honors
Freshmen: Jessi Brooks, Brett Carlson, Sydney Groen, Nicholas Ludwig, Samantha Ludwig, Rachel Nelson, Christina Ridens, and Antonio Romero.
Sophomores: Samantha Bazarek, Samantha Bender, Hannah Curry, Haley DeVries, Shane Farris, Keynon Janicke, Candace Keller, Jacob Kerkhoff, Katie Paul, Sarah Paul, Cory Polsean, Nikayla Rager, Megan Richter, Mikaela Rinehart, Christopher Sander, Jesse Schubert, Katelyn Voss, and Mikayla Wrasse.
Juniors: Kirsten Bergin, Laura Bickford, Brooke Biehl, Kyle Janicke, Holly Kortemeier, and Justin Ruter.
Seniors: Mevludije Aliu, Abbi Boettner, Becky Colloton, David Gors, Kayleigh Gustafson, Kaylie Keister, Austin LeClere, Karissa Ludwig, Jessica McKenzie, Ethan Nelson, Whitney Pingel, Marissa Plock, Ryan Schumacher, Alayna Schurr, Sami Shelton, Janessa Vanderheyden, and Kourtney Yurs.
Unity Christian School, Fulton
Highest Honors
Seventh grade: Serene Hamad and Nolan Willoughby.
Eighth grade: David Davelaar and Sam Meinema.
Freshmen: Jessica DeBerg, Carolyn Hopkins, Andrew Ven Huizen, Erin Wessels, and Collin Willoughby.
Sophomores: Jillian Bajema, Hannah Dykstra, Jordan Hirl and Jonathan Rasmussen.
Juniors: Hannah Archer, Tyler Cahoy, Heather Hintz, Rebecca Meinema, Austin Oderwald, Rachel Rasmussen, Eli Skipper, Jake Smith, Josh Warren, Jared Wessels, and Callie Willoughby.
Seniors: Alyssa Dalrymple, Kyle Davis, Zach Dyke, Matt Johnson, Cathy Mo, Sherry Nelson, and Wendy Van Pelt.
High Honors
Eighth grade: Natalie Bussie and Sean Hansen.
Freshman: Devin Holesinger.
Sophomores: Seth Hansen and Cindy Trent.
Juniors: Sam He.
Seniors: Myra Archer and Ryan Medenblik.
Honors
Eighth grade: Ally Cox.
Freshmen: Vanessa Frederick, Nia Ivory, Melanie Johnson and Troy Pierce.
Sophomores: Jake Readdy.
Juniors: JohnRyan Bajema, Leesha Bussie, Brian Meinsma, Brandon Rock and Kayle Tomman.
Seniors: Matthew DeBerg.
Southwestern Assemblies of God University
WAXAHACHIE, Texas – Kelsey De Schepper of Sterling was named to the spring dean’s list at Southwestern Assemblies of God University.
Educators of Beauty
STERLING – Kaci Handley of Dixon, Callie Bush of Morrison, and Sinda Figueroa of Sterling recently graduated from Educators of Beauty.
Iowa State University
AMES, Iowa – Students graduating June 8 from Iowa State University include:
Sterling: Jonathan Happ, Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, integrated studio arts; Kimberly Topp, Master of Arts degree, art and design; and Nicholas Weir, Bachelor of Science degree. hotel, restaurant, and institution management.
Morrison: James Vandermyde, Bachelor of Science degree, chemical engineering.
Chadwick: Roxanna Skaggs, Bachelor of Science degree, hotel, restaurant, and institution management.
Walnut: Mark Bogner, Master of Science degree, agronomy.
Northwestern College
ORANGE CITY, Iowa – Angela Wiersema of Chadwick was named to the spring dean’s list at Northwestern College.
Sterling-Rock Falls Elks Scholarships
STERLING – Sterling Rock Falls Elks Lodge 1218 recently awarded Morgan McCaslin of Sterling and Aubree Dahler and Celine Hartman of Rock Falls the 2010 Most Valuable Student scholarships.
North Central College
NAPERVILLE – Ellyn Gilmore of Compton was awarded the Outstanding Major in Finance Award May 18 during Honors Day at North Central College.
Northern Illinois University
DeKALB – Area students who received leadership awards April 22 at Northern Illinois University include Tara Kavanaugh of Dixon, Senior Leadership Award; James Buikema of Fulton, Who’s Who; and Lola Duran of Sterling, Leadership Academy, Sophomore Leadership Award, and Institutional Waiver.
University of Illinois
URBANA – Steven Apple of Amboy recently was awarded an international engineering scholarship from the University of Illinois.
Black Hawk College
MOLINE – Kimberly Martens of Morrison and Anita Schryver of Rock Falls joined the Eta Kappa chapter of Phi Theta Kappa honor society this spring at Black Hawk College’s Quad-Cities campus.
Eastland High School, Lanark
Highest Honors
Seniors: Olivia Barr, Francesca Huggins, Britney Kieselhorst, Karoline Kniss, Shawn Livingston, Jenna Mathew, and Keng Thippayachat.
Juniors: Calvin Cassens, Ezekiel Hartman, and Katelyn Hasken.
Sophomores: Kayla Barnes, Kelsi Kirtley, Chase Wilhelms, Kathryn Woessner.
Freshmen: Blake Gordon, Matt Keppen, Katherine Murphy, and Austin Sargent.
High Honors
Seniors: Greta Augsburger, Blair Bates, Devin Bausman, Jacob Cruse, Sidney Kane, Joshua Kellermann, Brittney Lemieux, Candice Nepean, Leigh Tipton, Danielle Truckenmiller, Zachary Truckenmiller, and Brittany Young.
Juniors: Katelyn Albertson, Annabelle Borota, Mack Byers, Logan Feltmeyer, Kerby Kniss, Ashley Larak, Lonn Lillge, Morgan Moll, Brittny Olson, Taylor Ruter, Jenna Simpson, Briana Sligar, Samantha Sturtz, Dylan Vidinich, and Adam Young.
Sophomores: Abbey Grisham, Connie Hammer, Katelyn Janssen, Megan Miller, Kyndra Nielsen, Cody Polizzi, Austin Steen, Drake Walker, and Wally Wirchnianski.
Freshmen: Adam Blair, Cayn Boeke, Costello Davies, Jacob Dickman, Casey Fritz, Austin Hansen, Kimberly Johnson, Bryce Shaner and Petyon Sturtevant.
Honors
Senors: Trevor Bookman, Megan Bunyer, Shelby Corey, Kyle Faust, Drew Giedd, Ingrid Hare, Stephanie Lee, Andrew Ludwig, Scott Olson, Karissa Pierce, Justin Santacruz, Austin Schriner, Austin Shellhause, and Chelsea Wasylyk.
Juniors: Kaitlyn Bissell, Courtney Blari, Colton Brooks, Brand Dunlap, Kevin Glastetter Jr., Billi Jo Hammer, Dakota Kaufman, Sean Kelley, Cameron Kruse, Katrya Lessman, Hope Linker, Collin Macomber, Cherub Philip, Joshua Reynolds, Katelyn Reynolds, Arar Runyan, Dan Schoeninger, Paxton Strouse, Jordan Weaver, and Kara Weber.
Sophomores: Joshua Albertson, Jon Derrer, Amber Duitsman, Jessica Freidag, Marilyn Hammer, Marissa Harris, Brady Hazelbower, Taylor Heeren, Madalyn Hicks, Samantha Kane, Ashley O’Connor, Faith Stoner, Jacey Strohecker, Richard Strohecker, Alexandria Todd, Lauren Wasylyk, and Brad Young.
Freshmen: Seth Blair, Nicole Fahey, Delaine Giedd, Cordell Guentner, Ty Hartman, Katrina Hatheway, Bailey Lauder, Brandee Maltry, Haley Miller, Tyler Mueller, Kailyne Palmer, Madison Parker, Rachel Riley, Hannah Shellhause, Levi Shellhause, Michael Shores, Trisha Sims, Carli Snider, Austin Spoerl, Devin Steen, Carl Sundquist, and Monica Walters.