Graduates will be honored at the annual Senior Awards Night on Tuesday when a host of honors, awards, scholarships and departmental recognitions will be announced, and there will be many. Lists of those will be included in a booklet graduates and their families can keep, highlighting the accomplishments of the class of 2015.
At the top of the class will be twin brothers — Will James, who will be class valedictorian and Tom James, who will be salutatorian — but academic honors are plentiful among the members of this class.
Among those members, there will be 43 leaving with Highest Honors, while another 14 finish with High Honors and 16 with Honors, based on their grade point averages.
Sixty-eight will receive Diplomas with Honors.
Principal Tom York praised the members of the class of 2015 as consistent in their performance.
“This class has been an exceptional group of kids in academics, citizenship and caring for other people,” York said. “A lot of other districts deal with a lot of bullying issues. We don’t have a lot of that. The influence for that is the influence of our upperclass students. They are accepting of people who are different. I have never been around a group of kids as accepting of others. This is a real good group of kids.”
One member of the class, Darby Glaab, will receive an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy and Jordan Rubin-McGregor will be recognized as a U.S. Presidential Scholar.
Two members of the class — Devra Katz Levy and Jordan Rubin-McGregor — are National Merit Scholarship Finalists while two others are Commended Students in the program. Those two are Ian Andrew Berg and Joseph Louis Bretz.
Heading a lengthy list of athletic awards being presented at Tuesday’s awards night will be the State of Ohio First Team Associated Press Division 3 award being given to Robert Maurice Thomas.
Thomas is one of another set of twins in this year’s graduating class, which is unique because it includes five sets of twins, with two of those sets adding an even more unusual twist.
While Will and Tom James will be class speakers, Maurice and McKenzie Thomas both signed letters of intent to play football at Miami University this fall and twin sisters, Sarah and Rebecca Lockhart, will head to Indiana University-East and play tennis together.
Two other pairs of twins will receive diplomas Thursday — Austin and Trenton Hall and Mariah and Megan Schmidt.
York said members of the class of 2015 are busy individuals involved in a vast array of activities and he will miss them. He said for their last day of school last Tuesday, many wore T-shirts from the colleges they plan to attend.
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