Lower Dauphin Seniors Receive Accolades

Lower Dauphin High School presented 125 awards and scholarships to graduating seniors of the Class of 2021 in a ceremony on May 26.

Department Awards and their recipients were the following: Art - Nicole Baker; Business Education - Katherine Weigle; Computer Science - Mason Wahlers; English - Timothy Koons; Family and Consumer Science - Josalyn Byers; Foreign Language - Matheus Neves; Health and Physical Education - Brooke Hofsass and Matthew Piermattei; Mathematics - Katherine Foley; Music - Tristan McQuiddy; Science - Miran Rezhan; Social Studies - Miran Rezhan; Technology Education - Madison Zerbe; Distinguished Honor Roll - Miran Rezhan; and William E. Habbyshaw Memorial Award - Miran Rezhan.

Activity Awards included: American Association of Teachers of French - Matheus Neves; American Association of Teachers of German - Mason Wahlers; American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese - Angelina Smith; Band - Timothy Koons; Choir - Caiden Covell; Falcon PRIDE - Anthony Hannan; Fall Play - Angelina Smith; History Honor Society - Elijah Sells; Nanette Willis Singer Award - Sofia Feeney; National Art Honor Society - Bridget Wappman; National Latin Honor Society - Jackson Bruce; Orchestra - Kate Little; Principal's Leadership - Abby Lauer; Principal's Scholastic Achievement Award - Nathan Helmer; Science National Honor Society - Luke Wren; Spring Musical Cast - Sophia Ditty and Dale Sanders; Spring Musical Pit Crew - Daniel Kreiss; Spring Musical Stage Crew - Jacob Pegher; Superintendent and School Board - Sophia Ditty; Tri-M Music Honor Society - Jacob Pegher; and Yearbook - Emma Walt.

Athletic Awards were: E. Jerry Brooks Academic Excellence Award - Kayla Pedersen, Katherine Weigle and Luke Wren; Fackler-Hower Sportsmanship - Zachary Bixler and Bridget Wappman; John Travers Award - Lauren Hunter, finalist, and Luke Wren, nominee; and Lower Dauphin Outstanding Athlete Award - Joshua Gardner and Kayla Pedersen.

Community awards included: Adam W. Sellers Memorial Award - Annabel Mauger; Americans for the Competitive Enterprise System (ACES) Foundation Fund - Aidan Mende; Arlene Huss Award - Coryn Buck; Bob Evans Memorial Scholarship - Linda Arredondo Sandoval; Bradley Miller Civic Engagement Award - Kasey Eldridge and Morgan Roth; Brownstone Masonic Lodge 666 Hershey - Katherine Foley; Casey Koons Memorial Scholarship - Abigail Lennox and James Taylor; Central Pennsylvania Symphony Scholarship - Katherine Foley; Courtney L. Pollock Memorial Scholarship Fund - Sierra Slentz, education, and Bella Fry, math/science; Dr. Judith T. Witmer Scholarship - Gabriella Dixon; East Hanover Lions Club/Jonas J. Walmer Service Scholarship - Ethan Peterson; Econ Wealth Scholarship - Mason Dillon; Educators of Lower Dauphin - Maya Bayhart, Coryn Buck and Jenna Spencer; Fox Family Scholarships - Caiden Covell and Katherine Foley; Fuzzy Few Organization - Kennedy Cannon, Dale Sanders, Sierra Slentz and Haley Smith; The Hall Foundation Merit Scholarship - Nicole Baker and Timothy Koons.

Also, Harrisburg Kiwanis Club/Edith Langford Class Scholarship Award - Anthony Hannan; Herbert A. Schaffner/Rotary Club of Hummelstown - Casey Ahern, Coryn Buck, Anthony Hannan and Marissa Vandernick; Hershey VFW Post 3502 - Abigaile English and Grace Walter; Hummelstown American Legion Americanism Award - Jason Carver; Hummelstown American Legion Auxiliary/Americanism Award - Maya Hoover; Hummelstown American Legion Scholarship - Kaden Kirchhoefer and Mason Wahlers; Hummelstown American Legion Scholarship (Auxiliary) - Sophia Ditty and Kayla Pedersen; Hummelstown American Legion Post 265 and its Ladies Auxiliary - Linda Arredondo Sandoval and Calvin Carver (U.S. Army Reserve); Hummelstown Area Historical Society - Mason Dillon, Avery Price and Katherine Weigle; Hummelstown Women's Club - Bridget Wappman; Joseph Schan Memorial Award - Julia Zewe; Kristy Koons Memorial Scholarship - Jenna Spencer; Lower Dauphin Alumni Association Scholarship - The Falcon Alumni Trust - Luke Wren; Lower Dauphin Class of 1965 Award - Aidan Mende; Lower Dauphin Class of 1978 Award - Deyanery Rodriguez; Manada Conservancy Environmental Achievement - Nicole Baker; Mark French Scholarship - Josalyn Byers; Meghan M. Johnson Memorial Scholarship Fund - Tristan McQuiddy and Bridget Wappman; Michael J. Santanna Jr. Turnaround Achievement Award - Alexis Deter; National Merit Scholar Commended - Matthew Michalowski; PA Senator John DiSanto Good Citizenship Award - Julian Loraschi and Catherine Walter; Paul E. & Sara Evelyn Deimler Award - Anthony Hannan; and The Pinnacle Health Auxiliary Earnest R. McDowell Health Career Scholarship - Kasey Eldridge.

Accolades and scholarships also included Reece Kelley Foundation Scholarship - Natalie Bennett, Daniel Kreiss and Katherine Weigle; Reece Kelley Foundation Trade and Technical Scholarship - Aidan Mende; Robert M. Nisley Memorial Scholarship of the Hummelstown Arts Festival - Bridget Wappman; Roberta L. Houpt Scholarship - Ava Bell; Romaine Heisey Deimler Award - Timothy Koons; Roy Brightbill Memorial Award - Alexis Stockton; Stock & Leader School Law Scholarship - Valentina Scottodicarlo; Strites' Orchard Business Scholarship in Memory of Mary Jane Strite - Brianna Risser; Tami Swartz Musser Memorial Scholarship - Mason Dillon; Tom Buskey Award - Jenna Spencer; U.S. Marine Corps Scholastic Excellence - Kyla Knauber; U.S. Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete - Alexandra Cassel and Caleb Gibbs; U.S. Marine Corps Semper Fidelis Award for Musical Excellence - Alaina Riley; and Woodmen of the World - Bella Fry.

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