The Millikin University community gathered for its annual Honors Convocation and Distinguished Faculty Lecture on Thursday, April 27, at Kirkland Fines Arts Center, to honor faculty, staff, and student accomplishments as the 2022-23 academic year came to a close. More than 90 awards were presented to Millikin students and faculty honored for their commitment to academic excellence. During the event, Jupiter Holcomb, of Manhattan, received the Dorothy Sellers Art Award.
Forty-eight students at Augustana College, in Rock Island, were inducted into the college’s Phi Beta Kappa Chapter on May 22. Congratulations to Emily Luming, of New Lenox.
Dean’s/President’s/Honors List
In recognition of outstanding academic achievement, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, released the college’s Dean’s List for spring. Congratulations to the following local students: Beecher – Olivia Ipema and Megan Jonkman; Grant Park – Matthew Huizenga; Manteno – Alec Miller; Monee – Alexandria Hofman; New Lenox – Nicholas Andersen, Joshua Bakke, Nicolas Gutierrez, and Caitlyn Parrish; and Peotone – Jared Oates.
Josephine Bernier, of New Lenox, was named to the spring University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s List.
Earning recognition on Missouri’s Drury University’s spring Dean’s List was John Tamburo, from New Lenox.
Abbey Short, of Monee, has been named to the Michigan’s Alma College winter Dean’s List.
Kankakee Community College announced students named to the President’s List for the spring term. Congratulations to the following students!
From Beecher: Ariel Caldwell Brown, Tabitha Gregory, Alaina Grutzius, Alyssa Hon, Azeezat Lawal, Saffron Loonam, Skyler Murdoch, and Marisa Peterson.
From Bourbonnais: Rocio Aguillon Navarete, Joseph Andre, Austin Bender, Sarah Berg, Leon Berry, Abigale Bertrand, Brooklyn Brian, Kindsay Bruce, Leeann Conner, Alex Conti, Gracie Corzine, Lauren Davis, Detric Dee, Kelly Duda, Karen Evett, Alexander Feth, Abner Garcia, Kately Garcia, Heather Gomez, Gretchen Gray, Taylor Hirt, Tyler Hopkins, Mya Jarrett, Jenetta Jeje, Mackenzie Jordan, Julia Knitter, Payton Kohl, Katie Kunz, Karlie LaGesse-Roach, Laci Lamatsch, Genevieve Lamie, Addison Langelett, Carter Levesque, Grant Longtin, Logan Mallard, Itzel Martinez, Monique Martinez, and Addison McCrary.
Also, Mason McCue, Laura Meents, Nicholas Meisberger, Alicia Mendez, Madison Meyers, Jonathan Meza, Zoie Milton, Karli Morgan, Meghan Morr, Braedyn Mulcahy, Grant Naese, Alexius Noble, Heather Novak, Bryce Nowman, Payton O’Connor, Ethan Patel, Maya Patel, Odin Perdomo, Jacob Pletsch, Christian Provost, Landon Provost, Gabriella Quiroz, Mya Ramdoo, Alexander Rodriguez, Jacob Salazar, Jisela Santos, Britini Servant-Broughton, Teagan Shear, Erik Slowik, Elizabeth Stevens, Grace Strahla, Sarah Tuttle, Karley Vahl, Meghan Vaughn, Lucas Verkler, Denise Wadley, Regan Warmoth, Ryan Wehrle, and Paul Williams.
From Bradley: Kailee Alvarado, Andrew Bretveld, Nathaniel Brown, Michelle Calderon, Gerald Daniels, Natalie Dobosz, Alaska Fleischman, Ashley Foltz, Jordan Fox, Taniya Grundy, Melissa Hannum, Isaac Hendrix, Steven Hood, Hanna Hustedt, Leah Johnson, Jolie Keith, Danyel Keller, Cody Metzger, Ogechukwu Onwuegbuchu, Leigh Randak, Madison Rogers, Jordan Smith, Jason Tanner, Meckinzey Thomas, Janessia Villagomez, Tess Wallace, Bradley Wendling, and Ashlynn Witthoft.
From Crete: Makayla Sangster.
From Frankfort: Kaitlyn Marks and Kira Slager.
From Grant Park: Samantha Bradley, Peyton Greenholt, Sydney Haut, Haleigh Lusinski, Shelby McKinstry, Chloe Miller, Jesus Rodriguez, Kailee Schoenborn, Ethan Stone, Paige Tavoletti, Brooke Veldhuizen, and Adeline Wackerlin.
From Kankakee: Blair Alderson, Emily Blanchette, Katelyn Borschnack, Albert Boudreau, Anthony Boudreau, Xavier Boudreau, Avery Chandler, Keegan Cogswell, Alyssa Copeland, Patricia Cossie, Keith Cross, Paige DePatis, Donald Devine, Meredith Drake, Lavern Eldridge, Delanie Fay, Sophia Gall, Dario Garcia, Ava Gardner, Jacob Godin, Jacob Grant, Juan Guzman, Lacethia Harris, Leah Harris, Abigail Haut, Dominique Hayes, Courtney Held, Rachel Johnson, Gwendolyn Jones, Justin Jones, Courtney Keen, Heather Keene, and Mitchell Krizan.
In addition, Elise Kukuck, Reese Kuwitzky, Myllena Lima De Sousa, Jada Mabins, Tyler Macak, Dante Marin, Elizabeth Martinez, Nicole Mauritzen, Aisha Maxwell, Krystal Medina, Maryely Medina, Dylan Mill, Maria Molina, Macey Moore, Quiana Morris, Connor O’Malley, Guadalupe Orozco, Yisek Perez Varela, Michael Perley, Gavin Phillips, Amber Porter, Millia Riley, Amy Saurer, Lily Schultz, Tameeka Sexton, Maria Shelton, Isabelle Spiese, Suzanna Stipp, Kamryn Trammell, Lauren Uftring, Ryan Uftring, Liliana Velazquez, McShun Walls, Rachel White, Denica Williamson, Leah Wilson, Samuel Yohnka and Katie Young.
From Manteno: Amanda Boeschel, Brandon Breazeale, Sataria Calhoun, Savannah Chose, Tyson Creek, Steven Doig, Makayla Drew, Gavin Eck, Allison Fraser, Danielle Georgelos, Adeline Graffeo, Michael Heaney, Danielle Horan, Edward Horath, Drew Hosselton, Sophia Iaconi, Hailey Johns, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, Emily LeBeau, Gabrielle Leer, Emma Masterson, Claire Meegan, Gabriella Monterastelli, Diana Motel, Lauren Murray, Jack Palicki, Jeremy Roach, Mia Robbins, Chadwick Rutter, Rayna Schulteis, Sidney Stauffenberg, and Carter Watkins.
From Monee: Adetolashe Akande and Kristina Simpson.
From New Lenox: Deidre Dalton and McKayla Kuznieski.
From Peotone: Jennah Anker, Adriana Cabrera, Melanie Chaloupka, Kalie Pusateri, and Ashley Veltman.
The following students have been named to the Honors List at Kankakee Community College for the spring term. Congratulations to the following students!
From Bourbonnais: Nikolas Acevedo, Nicholas Andrews, Kylan Baron, Gianna Basile, Reece Baxter, Christin Bohanon, Austin Botica, Jade Bouquin, Gabrielle Bradley, Hailey Brady, Hailey Brooks, Reygan Carlile, Cerrena Coiley, Justino Cortez, Gabrielle Curbow, Drew Devore, Megyn Drury, Mya Eason, Bobbie Falkner, Mary Foy, Payton Graham, Hailey Greenfield, Matthew Guiney, Ashley Hill-Rice, Cassidy Holderman, Zachary Jenkins, Gary Johnson, La Naeja Johnson, Jamisyn Johnston, Kevin Kestel, Taylor Kietzman, Joseph Lamb, Angela Leathers, and Gabriella Longtin.
Also, Braedan MacDonald, Yareni Martinez, Britany Martinez Santillan, Jamaiya McGee, Mary Memenga, Elizabeth Minard, Yasmine Mohammad, Nickolas Mullett, Nicolas Murukas, Sydney O’Dell, Kylie Orvis, Riley Patterson, Ethan Peterson, Maiya Pontious, Mallory Randles, Kristina Rattin, Izabella Rauch, Dionna Sanders, Madison Schmidt, Madeline Shold, Eduardo Silva, Daniel Sorich, Grace Stark, Anthony Sykes, Katelyn Testa, Skyler Tieri, Christopher Traylor, Tessa VanNatta, Aaliyah Vargas, Stacie Wade, Gevon Wesley, and Chance Zimmerman.
From Bradley: Leslye Armatys, Sarah Balke, Jailyn Chavez, Andrew Chmielewski, Brandon Corona, Malachai Daniel, Litty Dummer, Adrian Duncan, Brittany Edwards, Tiffany Engelland, Shaylin Fann, Matthew Gerber, Mary Henderson, Connor Hinkleman, Jarod Howard, Brice Ingram, Miranda Kara, Madison Kent, Chloe Krause, Alezander Lopez, Benjamin Paraday, Paityn Peters, Samantha Porras, Jamie Porter, Marc Robertson, Alexandra Romero, Madison Scalise, Tariq Singh, Jenna Soucie, Sophia Steelman-Teach, Neil Swafford, and Michael Tripodi.
From Crete: Zachory Millsap.
From Frankfort: Julie Anco, Connor Janik, and Steven Newton.
From Grant Park: Owen Bramer, Alexandria Langlois, Makaela LoSchiavo, Delaney Malkowski, Hannah Norgard, Christoph Persch, Wesley Schneider, and Lillian Segert.
From Kankakee: Antonio Acosta, Erika Almanza-Perez, Crystal Andrade, Brandon Archer, Jimmy Avalos, Vanessa Baeza, Guadalupe Batana Martinez, Ally Bilderback, Robert Billings, Jana Bonvallet, Emma Brosseau, Edujaer Calderon Gayton, Mariel Camargo, Michel Campos, Emily Campos Camargo, Bryan Cintora Zavala, Alejandra Cornejo, Bryan Cross, Chloe Cunnington, Danielle Diaz, Kyla Dombrowski, Tessa Donnelly, Sophia D’Onofrio, Destiny Emling, Sophie Enns, Jesus Espinoza, Timothy Evett, Colin Furrow, Gerardo Galvez, Aidan Gray, David Gutierrez, Christian Guzman, Jairus Harris, Jerika Harris, Laron Hawkins, Donnisha Henry, Humberto Hernandez, Jacqueline Hernandez, Santiago Hernandez, Kate-Lynn Hodges, Ryleigh Hop, Madelyn Howard, Bascom Jackson, Lazarick Jarrett, and Mark Johnson.
Plus, Hailey King, Priya Knox, Nathan Lagesse, Logan Lunsford, Curtis McKay, Kaylee Mitchell, Donna Mitchell-Morrow, Brennan Morris, Coty Morrison, Tyjha Morrow, Molly Moss, LeAnn Nanos, Madilyn Neese, Caroline Noe, Trezure Norals, Malik Norsworthy, Courtnie Patterson, Emily Pena, Adilene Pereda, Brianna Pioth, Allen Pizano, Dominic Rice, Vincent Rice, Bianca Rodriguez, Sierra Russell, Jesus Salazar, Betsey Sanchez Morales, Felicity Schroer, Jessica Scott, Matthew Shelton, Carter Smith, Tiffany Stevenson, Ellie Stoltz, Esperanza Terrell, Alec Toronjo, Marisol Varela, Luis Vasquez, Leaha Voss, and Brisa Zermeno.
From Manteno: Janessa Beaver, Lily Bona, Alexander Carmack, Shelby Cole, Lauren Daviera, Jessica DeMark, Emma Dombrowski, Monica Filson, Xavier Gaddini, Autumn Hambrick, Joshua Imig, Lauren Johnson, Roy Johnson, Bryanna Martin, Wyatt McManus, Gavin Mulholland, Brandon Norred, Clara Nugent, Madison Ortman, Riley Pieritz, Rebecca Pijus, Korteney Prather, Sarah Quick, Wayne Rybak, Brooke Savoie, Lucas Schmidt, Clara Selm, Makailey Shaykin, Caden Snyder, Emma Talamonti, and Davis Testerman.
Graduations
Elizabeth Anne Kozak, of Manhattan, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies from Lee University in Tennessee, during the 187th commencement exercises on May 6.
Augustana College recognized 624 participants at the college’s 163rd commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 27, with CNN Hero Nelly Cheboi ’16 delivering the commencement address. Congratulations to the following local students.
From Manhattan: Josephine Torres, Psychology.
From Monee: Holly Chesney, Environmental Studies and Sociology, Anthropology and Social Welfare.
From New Lenox: Jeremy Brown, Accounting and Business Administration – Finance; Kara Lotz, Chemistry and Spanish for Professionals; Emily Luming, Communication Science and Disorders and Spanish for Professionals; Jessa Simon, Theatre Generalist; and Sarah Walton, Multimedia Journalism Mass Communication, Communication Studies and Theatre Performance.