Congratulations to the Class of 2011
Posted 08/22/2011 10:04AM

Friends Academy congratulates the Class of 2011

87 students receive their diplomas at 125th Commencement

LOCUST VALLEY – With family and friends gathered, Friends Academy celebrated its 125th Commencement on Saturday, June 11. Eighty-seven members of the Class of 2011 received their diplomas from Head of School Bill Morris, Upper School Principal Deborah Schoman and Board of Trustees Co-President Tom Hawkins ‘78. Graduation speeches were presented by Amanda Lamothe of East Islip, who will attend Dartmouth College and Edward McNelis of Garden City, who will attend Cornell University in the fall. Middle School Social Studies teacher Philip Cicciari delivered the faculty address. Members of the Class of 2011 wore white ribbons to remember classmate Brian Hom, who passed away earlier this year.

The following is a list of the 2011 graduates from Friends Academy and the colleges they will attend:

SINAN ARKONAC
New York University

MICHELLE BABICZ
Haverford College

STEPHANIE BATISTA
University of Wisconsin, Madison

NICOLE BECKER
Barnard College

DANIEL BEN-DAVID
University of Richmond

ANGAD BINDRA
Boston College

JUSTIN BROWN
Cornell University

 

EMILY BROWNING

Bucknell University

 

MATTHEW BROXMEYER

University of Miami

 

CHRISTOPHER CAMPBELL

Colgate University

 

NIKITA CHABRA

University of Miami

 

ERIC CHEN

University of Miami

 

ISABELLA CHEN

Princeton University

 

HOLLY CONSTANTS

Bryn Mawr College

 

THOMAS COSTA

Tulane University

 

JACQUELINE CRON

Drexel University

 

JONATHAN DeFRANCESCH

Bucknell University

 

FRANK DELLAFERA

Wesleyan University

 

MICHAEL DeMATTEIS

Roger Williams University

 

CORREY DENIHAN

Northeastern University

 

GRACE DIXON

Wake Forest University

 

CONNOR DOOLEY

Georgetown University

 

DREW FRIEDMAN

University of Miami

 

AUGUSTA GAHAN

Dartmouth College

 

THOMAS GAMBINO

University of Vermont

 

KIRA GARRY

Yale University

 

NICHOLAS GAVIN

Hamilton College

 

DIANA GHERLONE

Elon University

 

KYLE GRADY

Bentley University

 

JESSICA GRANGER

Randolph-Macon University

 

SARAH GROSS

Princeton University

 

SAMUEL HARRINGTON

Miami University, Oxford

 

SAMUEL HAWKINS

University of Vermont

 

TRAVIS HEFELE

SUNY College at Cortland

 

COLIN HEFFRON

Dartmouth College

 

BROOKE HENN

Bucknell University

 

BRIAN HOM

Wesleyan University

 

BRYAN JUDGE

Stony Brook University

 

 

TARA JUDGE

University of Mary Washington

 

NANCY KARCHES

Georgetown University

 

LAUREN KEEGAN

Barnard College

 

KAYLI KEMPERLE

Bentley University

 

ALISON KENNEDY

Northfield Mount Hermon Foundations Program/US Naval Academy

 

SALAAR KHAN

Brown University

 

CORINNE KOHAN

McGill University

 

LAUREN KOLODNY

University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

ALISHA KUMAR

Cornell University

 

AMANDA LAMOTHE

Dartmouth College

 

EVAN LANDAU

Dartmouth College

 

ALYSSA LAVIN

Haverford College

 

REONI MAPP

Boston College

 

RYAN MARSH

Clark University

 

DEREK MARUCA

Drexel University

 

JENNIFER MASSA

Lafayette College

 

JENNIFER MAYROCK

Barnard College

 

EDWARD McNELIS

Cornell University

 

JESSIE McNIEL

Washington University in St. Louis

 

GABRIELLE McPHAUL-GUERRIER

Williams College

 

JACQUELYN NAKAMURA

Yale University

 

LYNDA NEGRON

Harvard University

 

KATE NEISLOSS

Colgate University

 

MACKENZIE NORRIS

Tulane University

 

GRAHAM PANCER

New York University

 

PATRICK POZZI

Lafayette College

 

BROOKE RAHMANAN

Barnard College

 

TAYLOR ROSS

Tulane University

 

CHELSEA RUBIN

Parsons The New School for Design

 

ANTHONY RUSSO

Duke University

 

ALEXANDER RYAN

Bucknell University

 

BAILEY SALTZ

Franklin and Marshall College

 

KATHERINE SANDS

University of Richmond

 

JESSICA SAWICKI

Colgate University

 

DANA SCHLENGER

Washington University in St. Louis

 

 

 

PETER SCHIALABBA

Bucknell University

 

RAJAN SHARMA

New York University

 

RYAN SHERLOCK

The George Washington University

 

STEPHEN SHIN

Binghamton University

 

MATTHEW SLOTNICK

Duke University

 

JENNA TROTTA

Drexel University

 

ELIZABETH VITIELLO

College of Charleston

 

MARIA WADE

Dartmouth College

 

JONATHAN WAGNER

St. Lawrence University

 

MEREDITH WAGNER

Tufts University

 

TREVOR WILLIAMS

Loyola College

 

JORDAN WOLDENBERG

Duke University

 

RYAN YARAGHI

New York University

 

DAVID ZAMBRATTO

Tulane University