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New Canaan High School 2nd Quarter Honor Roll

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The following lists of honors and high honors students from New Canaan High School is supplied by the district. The high honors lists are first, sorted by grade. Congratulations to all. Grade 12 High Honors

Joelle Anselmo    
Myles Baliotti    
Kelly Barker    
Erin Bean    
Caitlin Blair    
Kevin Brunner    
Emily Bryant    
Lauren Canet    
Andie Carroll    
Matthew Chalon    
Caroline Cioffi    
William Comyns    
Matthew Cosco    
Lucy Coutts    
Oliver Crookenden    
Grace Cross    
Luke Crowley    
Chase Crum    
Katherine Cutler    
Reid Dahill    
Alexandra De Ghenghi    
Taylor DeVito    
Emily Dowdle    
Jessica Driver    
Julianne Dunn    
Jessica Eccleston    
Gray Farley    
Griffin Fill    
Olivia Flaherty-Lovy    
Eileen Flynn    
Maxwell Fonss    
Spencer Frye    
Emily Gaeta    
Cem Geray    
Elizabeth Greer    
Bridget Haley    
Charlotte Hamilton    
Morgan Hibbert    
Edward Holahan    
Kendall Holland    
Turner Ives    
Katherine Jahns    
Delaney Kliavkoff    
Meghan Kloud    
Dylan Koproski    
Tyler Kortekaas    
Sachi Krishna    
Ryan Kurtzman    
Ryan Levene    
Benjamin Levin    
Diego Lezcano Garcia    
Tyler Liffmann    
Gabriela Limone    
Maximilian Lindeis    
Jennifer Loomis    
Daniel Lu    
Edward Manges    
Theresa Marciano    
Solomeya Marynovych    
Caroline Mayock    
John McCarthy    
Christina McGough    
Matthew McLallen    
Grant Mellinger    
Katharine Miller    
Tucker Morley    
Emily Murphy    
Ellen Nelson    
Luke Nolan    
Jack O’Hare    
Aditya Ogale    
Ann Pakhayev    
Lance Phillips    
Shane Pickering    
Max Plum    
William Rechtermann    
Kathleen Reeves    
Candelaria Reyes    
George Richardson    
Jonathan Richardson    
Jacob Ritz    
Stephen Rivas    
Katelyn Robertson    
VeNae Rosdahl    
Claire Ross    
Kiera Russo    
Luke Rwambuya    
Bridget Salmini    
Benjamin Sarda    
Caroline Schuh    
Dylan Shane    
Christian Sibbett    
Nathan Sibbett    
Michelle Siegel    
Halle Simms    
John Slattery    
Campbell Slazyk    
Summer Sloane    
Alexis Smith    
Celia Sokolowski    
Erin Spiess    
Julen Sprackling    
Chloe Stanley    
Chloe Stein    
Madeleine Sturcke    
Alessandro Sulpizi    
Julia Tamburro    
Natasha Tchir    
Elizabeth Tedford    
Gwynneth Tenney    
Elaina Tiller    
Katherine Unger    
Nicole Vanderlee    
Nathiya Vasantha Kumaran    
Gwenan Walker    
Timothy Walsh    
Julia Weitz    
Colin Welch    
Conor West    
Emma Wheeler   

Grade 11 High Honors

Riana Afshar    
Alexander Arnone    
Maria Estelle Asker    
Samuel Augustine    
Alexis Axon    
Claire Batchelor    
Ryan Benevento    
Audrey Bloom    
Olivia Bognon    
Catherine Brown    
Claire Brunner    
Alexandra Budnick    
Alexandra Bussan    
Brian Campe    
Alexandra Carlson    
Isabelle Carpenter    
Christopher Carratu    
Charlotte Casey    
Jane Charlton    
Alexander Chen    
Tara Chugh    
Dean Ciancio    
Naomi Cimino    
David Cochran    
Bartholomew Codd    
Patrick Colwell    
Paige Cowser    
Helen Culpepper    
Elise Curren    
James Cutler    
Nicholas Daddona    
Leila Dann    
William Dantini    
Adrian Davis    
Griffen Dayton    
Emilio De la Vega    
Lauren Deligtisch    
Elizabeth DeMarino    
Vivian Ding    
Heather Doherty    
Elizabeth Dolan    
Benjamin Dooley    
Katherine Dunn    
Sophie Duplock    
Kristina Dyrvik    
Robert Evans    
Mia Fedeli    
Ryan Ferraro    
Kaitlyn Fico    
Aaron Fishman    
Taylor Frame    
Andrew Gallois    
Lauren Gilbert    
Paula Graham    
Liam Griffiths    
Alexander Grillo    
Drew Guida    
Amanda Hall    
Alexandra Harte    
Peter Heron    
Elizabeth Hirai    
Nicholas Hoge    
Steven Hoge    
Margaret Holahan    
Nash Hooper    
Sofia Ippolito    
Andrew Jameson    
Peter Jardim    
Theodore Kammerer    
Alyssa Khoo    
Maximilian Kolb    
Jaden Konspore    
Cella Kove    
Michelle LaBadie    
Alyssa Lee    
Allison Leopold    
Weston Link    
Katherine Lisecky    
Natalie Lopez    
Ryan Lytle    
Timothy Manzella    
Thomas Marshall    
Peter Mason    
Ryan McAleer    
Dylan McDonald    
Kearney McKiernan    
Alexandra Mehos    
Anna Thérѐse Mehra    
Andrew Mihailoff    
George Moore    
John Moore    
Theodore Nelson    
Teresa Oliveira    
Bennett Ong    
Sophia Palamenti    
Alessio Pantaleo    
Martina Pincione    
Henry Pohle    
Morgan Porter    
Sophie Potter    
Olivia Prazenka Moor    
Kristen Raffaele    
John Renda    
Megan Rigione    
Skyler Risom    
Thomas Roscoe    
Karoline Sauan Gregorian    
Luciana Savini    
Riley Seelert    
Lily Shive    
Theodore Sihpol    
Sophia Smith    
Eva Spangler    
Charlotte St. Raymond    
Finneas Stanley    
Georgia Stewart    
Tyler Sung    
Hannah Suthons    
Thomas Suthons    
Walker Swindell    
George Sykes    
Isha Teredesai    
Benjamin Thorsheim    
Caroline Tuffy   
Emma Turner    
Ishan Tyagi    
Emma Uzgiris    
Colin Vetterli    
Pablo Villa    
Meredith Waldron    
Thomas Welch    
Sarah Wells    
Justin Wietfeldt    
Eric Wills    
Sophia Yee   

Grade 10 High Honors

Chloe Adams    
Saimanish Akavaramu    
Alexis Angermueller    
Harrison Appelt    
Julia Bazata    
Caroline Beecher    
Evan Beiles    
William Besgen    
Gabriella Bisesi    
Charles Borthwick    
William Bozzella    
Gavin Bramwit    
Lila Brennan    
Caroline Brooks    
Reid Brown    
Carissa Bruno    
Blaine Burke    
Nicolas Butler    
Emma Caione    
Ryan Caione    
Christopher Canet    
Henry Cannon    
Christian Carson    
Annabelle Catlin    
Alexandra Cioffi    
Benjamin Clay    
Wesley Cloud    
Lydon Cooney    
Ryan Corbett    
Daisy Crystal    
Morgan Daniel    
Sarah DiCosmo    
Demetria Dresser    
John Eccleston    
Carter Ellis    
Isabella Fernandez    
Samantha Finn    
Marina Forni    
Sadie Frame    
William Galvan    
Charlotte Gelhaus    
Eren Geray    
Emma Gibbens    
Riley Gibbons    
Alexandra Gillespie   
Ava Gjertsen    
Benjamin Graham    
Andrea Gravereaux    
Lillian Gray    
Madison Grenauer    
Meghan Griffiths    
Elyssa Grogan    
William Haddad    
Maddie Haley    
Lindsay Hall    
Addison Hanrattie    
McKenna Harden    
Oliver Harris    
Ethan Jones    
Sophia Karimnejad    
Neya Krishnan    
Dhiraj Kuttichirayil    
Garrett Ladley    
Julia Lamoreaux    
Eleanor Lapin    
Dylan Lee    
Mark Levin    
Olivia Li    
Olivia Licata    
Henry Lindberg    
Christopher Luchette    
Ellie Luciano    
Megan Lydon    
Maren Lysenko    
Alexa Madrid    
Benjamin Marshall    
Holly McGoldrick    
Quinn McKiernan    
Joseph McLaughlin    
Colin Mennitt    
Matilde Miranda    
Emily Moore    
Hannah Moore    
Denis Mulcahy    
Cameron Murphy    
John Murphy    
Molly Murphy    
Natasha Navarro Gundersen    
Yasmin Navarro Gundersen    
Maxwell Nurzia    
Courtney O’Connell    
Valerie O’Neill    
Luca Palamenti    
Matthew Panella    
Rebecca Panella    
John Plum    
Lily Plum    
Elizabeth Powell    
Liam Power    
Oliver Power    
Winston Prescott    
Daniel Price    
George Radoslavov    
Clayton Reehl    
Vivian Reeves    
Chloe Reidy    
Ian Rocha    
Sophia Rosano    
Oliver Russell    
Ashley Ruth    
Sophie Salmini    
Yukta Sant    
Sadie Schoonmaker    
Emma Schuh    
Caroline Sibbett    
Imogen Smith    
Elle Sneddon    
Kyle Sneddon    
Henry Sokolowski    
Kendall Somma    
Elizabeth St.

Alexandra Harte

NCHS Students Weigh In on Proposed Ban on Thin Plastic Bags

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New Canaan High School students last week voiced support for a widely discussed proposed ordinance that would prevent local retailers from using thin plastic bags. 

Though the NCHS Student Coalition typically sticks to tasks such as “planning Homecoming and our annual prom, we recently decided to come off the sidelines and begin discussing this,” the group’s president, senior Chase Pellegrini de Paur, told members of the town’s legislative body during a public hearing Feb. 6. 

“And while I can’t speak for every student at the high school, I can speak to my own experience in the Coalition talking about this,” Pellegrini de Paur said during the Town Council Bylaws and Ordinances Committee meeting, held at Town Hall. “Because when we began discussing this issue, I thought we would have a passionate debate with fiery arguments on both sides. But instead, there was this attitude of eerily quiet confusion. It wasn’t that students didn’t care about the issue, but rather that they were confused by the opposition to an ordinance like this.

Dr. Bryan Luizzi

District Unsure How To Spend $500,000 in Cafeteria Funds Recovered Through Insurance

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District officials say they don’t yet know how they’ll use funds recovered through insurance following the theft of nearly $500,000 from school cafeterias over a period of five years. 

Asked about plans during a budget hearing last week, the superintendent of schools said the money should remain in a fund where it is now while the criminal justice system processes the cases of two former district employees accused of stealing it. “Once that is resolved and decided and moved away, I think you and I should sit and talk have that conversation,” Dr. Bryan Luizzi told First Selectman Kevin Moynihan during the Jan. 24 Board of Selectmen meeting, held at Town Hall. 

Moynihan asked whether the funds could be used to convert school kitchens to natural gas. South School, Saxe Middle School and New Canaan High School now are hooked up, following the first part of a phased implementation plan overseen by Eversource. Luizzi answered that doing so “certainly seems like an appropriate use.”

“I think that as a result of all that has occurred maybe an under-investment through the years has happened in those areas, so I think reinvesting in those areas like that and doing some other things for the benefit of kids and families in those areas would be well received by everybody,” he said.

Board of Education

District To Pursue Refurbishment of NCHS Planetarium

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Though it’s not part of his $4.1 million capital request for next fiscal year, the superintendent of schools said last week that the district is planning in the future to ask for money to refurbish the planetarium at New Canaan High School. The projector at the planetarium is original, and whenever it needs work, the district needs to fly in the repair person to get it done, Dr. Bryan Luizzi told members of the Board of Education at their Jan. 7 meeting. “It is the same person has been working on it for a long time and it’s time for an upgrade,” Luizzi said at the meeting, held in the Wagner Room at NCHS. “The possibilities in that space have really exponentially changed based on changes in technology.

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‘It Has Started To Fail’: $2.2 Million South School Roof Replacement Drives Board of Ed’s Capital Budget Request 

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The estimated $2.2 million replacement of the roof at South School is driving the superintendent of schools’ overall $4.1 million capital request for next fiscal year. 

The project had been scheduled three years ago, yet the Board of Finance at the time asked whether the district could defer it, “so we did,” according to the Dr. Bryan Luizzi. “We really feel you cannot defer it any more,” he told members of the Board of Education during their regular meeting Monday night, in the Wagner Room at New Canaan High School. “We are spending a lot of time with rain problems after storms and water incursion is an issue. And so we need to keep up with it, or other problems happen and we want to avoid those.”

The comments came as Luizzi proposed an approximately $92 million operating budget for fiscal year 2020, a 2.55 percent increase over current spending. The Board of Ed is to vote on the proposed budgets next week, at which point it goes to municipal bodies for discussion and approval, with a final vote in April. 

The South School roof replacement should be able to get done in a single summer starting when school lets out, Luizzi said.