Cord ceremony celebrates achievement

Sixty-eight Skaneateles High School seniors recently received special cords that they will wear at graduation this year. Fifty-three of those students had a 90 GPA or higher and fifteen had a GPA of 95 or higher.
 
The 90 and 95 GPA recognition system is new this year and was board-approved in December 2015. This expands what was once recognition of the Top 20, and celebrates all students who worked hard to achieve an average of 90 or above. As a result, there are more students receiving honors/cords:  68 at 90 and above … with 15 of those at 95 and above. 
 
They will wear cords at graduation that distinguish them as graduating with “Honors” or “Honors with Distinction.”
 
At a gathering in the auditorium, students were called individually and were given their honors cords.  Principal Gregory Santoro praised the students for their hard work, dedication and accomplishments. They are listed below. The students with stars will receive "honors with distinction."

 
Aberi, Jacqueline
Adams, Karl
Amory, Melissa
Baldwin, Alexandra *
Bille, Evan
Brewer, Emily
Callahan, Devin *
Canty, Margaret
Ciaccio, Stephen
Cliff, Noah
Clymer, Samuel
Congel, Cecilia
Corona, Marysa *
Daley, Jordan
Danaher, Kevin
Davenport, Glyn
Diamond, Hanna
Dower, Gabrielle
Du Bois, Elyse
Duggan, Samuel *
Dunn, Griffin
Eddy, Reece
Elliott, Michael *
Ellison, Katelyn
Gage, Olivia
Goetzmann, Michael
Goodchild, Lauren
Goodrich, Abby
Grasso, Dominic *
Green, Tate
Hagen, Thomas
Herbst, Benedette
Hinchman, Andrew
Kerr, Maryn *
Knupp, Peter
Kraetz, Kelsey
La France, Aimee *
Leslie, Robert
Leverich, Aubrey
Logan, Hannah
Lynn, Aubreah
Malcolm, Finan
McCarron, Mariah
Mecomber, Jonathon
Mills, Carley
Niebuhr, Christopher
Norris, Emily
O'Connell, Daniel *
Pajak, Cole
Palmer, Shawn
Parker, Laurel
Pietropaoli Jr., Marc
Pinckney, Madison *
Pirro, Emily
Prendergast, Juliana *
Proudfoot, Oliver *
Purdy, Allison
Ramsgard, Rex
Russell, Benjamin *
Sherman, Elaina *
Sherman, Lucas
Smith, Samuel
Van Leer, Jillian
Van Slyke, Jack
Viego, Anthony
Viego, Vincent *
Weldon, Ethan
Wetmore, Amanda