


Saint Patrick Holds 18th Academic Awards Ceremony May 3, 2007 Saint Patrick High School honored its top students at the 18th Annual Academic Awards Ceremony on the evening of May 2, 2007. Students who met one or more of the following criteria were invited to the ceremony: students receiving an Academic Merit Award, students who made the “A” Honor Roll two or more quarters so far this year, seniors who rank in the top twenty five of their graduating class; and juniors, sophomores, and freshman who rank in the top twenty in their respective class. A total of 151 students were honored at the ceremony. Several students were recognized for individual academic achievements. Academic Merit Award winners included: Edward Burns ’07 – Art, Frank Cost ’07 – Business, Jeremy Schultz ’08 – Computer Science, Stephen Litewski ’07 – English, Gregory Platt ’07 – Foreign Language, Robert Czupryna ’07 – Mathematics, Daniel Bowery ’07 – Religion, John Gurnig ’07 – Science, Paul Cade ’07 – Social Studies, and Robert Stanczuk ’07 – Music. The Saint Patrick Science Department awarded 10 individual academic awards. Winners were: Bausch and Lomb Award - Piotr Szymanski ’09, Illinois Science Teachers’ Association Award – Kyle Kraujalis ’09, Illinois Association of Chemistry Teachers Award – Michael Cunningham ’08, National Honor Society Merit Award – John Gurnig ’07, Newton Award – Tim Lyons ’07, Lavoisier Award – Bogdan Ivan ’08, Darwin Award – Mark Wojdyla ’09, Joule Award – Erik Peterson ’10, Science Department Service Award – Justin Elder ’09, Bert Welker Award for Excellence in Biology – Nicholas Hyland ’08. A complete listing of the 151 honorees appears below: Seniors: Esteban Betancourt, Daniel Bowery, Saul Bueno, Edward Burns, Paul Cade, Frank Costa, Robert Czupryna, August DelMonaco Jr., Marcin Dzadz, Andres Eloisa, Joseph Fagiano, Anthony Falasz, Thomas Giza, Brian Glynn, John Gurnig, Joseph Joost, Kevin Kaucher, Michael Kempke, Jeffery Kosovich, Christopher Lehr, Stephen Litewski, Timothy Lyons, Sam Maniscalco, James McKay, Michael Mockler, Bryan Mordan, John Moriarty, Eric Morris, Michael Morun, Nathan Munguia, Kevin Nitsche, Gregory Platt, James Porretta, Michael Potter, Peter Puczkowskyj, James Ridgeway, Richard Schak, Brendan Skelton, Robert Stanczuk, Stanley Swat, Kevin Tisza, Alex Wegrzyn, Jeffrey Winter Juniors: Matthew Bunyon, David Campbell, David Carta, John Catalano, Michael Cunningham, Michael Draniczarek, Jonathan Erickson, Joseph Gebhart, Eric Hetland, Michael Hogen, Nicholas Hyland, Bogdan Ivan, Scott Krier, Filippo Meli, David Mielcarek, Luis Navarro, Joseph Niepsuj, Austin O’Brien, Matthew Olker, Timothy Platt, John Pontikis, Baldemar Salgado, Andres Sanchez, Jeremy Schultz, Angel Sida, Albert Tentler. Sophomores: Konrad Andrejczuk, Victor Barcenas, Steven Bieszczat, Giancarlo Bonifazi, Michael Byrnes, Sam Chwarzynski, Joseph Clemente, Daniel Dziubinski, Justin Elder, David Gottstein, Steven Jedrasek, Timothy Kaminski, Konrad Koczwara, Kyle Kraujalis, Daniel Kunath, Michael Labek, Patrick Lee, Joseph Macchione, Daniel McCarthy, Erik Mencarini, Marcin Michniowski, John O’Brien, Luis Paneque, Brendan Powers, Stephen Rategan, Josef Rau Joseph Scaletta, Piotr Szymanski, Scott Thiel, Austin Travers, Nicholas Trulis, Joel Vasallo, Adrian Villalpand, Patrick Whalen, Mark Wojdyla, Armaan Yazdani, Thomas Zachar Freshmen: Oliver Aispuro, Luis Aldama, John Bailey, Victor Balundis, Vincent Banda, Derick Carlson, Rachata Chantarasombat, Andrew Ciepiela, Robert Cole, Matthew Forrest, Matthew Garcia, Frank Goetz, Christopher Gonzalez, Ryan Heidkamp, Brian Kacheris, Ioannhs Kaprales, Michael Kratochvil, Donald Lappe, James Leyden, Anthony Liutkus, Kevin Lodwich, Mark Martin, Austin McClure, Michael McGovern, Daniel Mueller, Sean Nokes, Brendan Oates, Michael O'Hara, Timothy Ortman, Erik Peterson, Isidor Ramos, Ryan Rosetti, Nicholas Schoenbeck, Francis Sinfuego, Edward Stypka, Ryan Tadych, Jeremy Tirado, Christopher Troxell, Cory Turek, James Ulczak, Mark Verrilli, Joseph Wasz, Justin Wollenschlager, Alexander Zalewski, Daniel Zumba