The 100 students whose names follow are eighth-graders at Great Neck South Middle School and are recipients of Board of Education Certificates of Commendation for contributing to the quality of life at their school.
The students, in alphabetical order, are:
Francesco Alfano, Spencer Auslander, Stephanny Avshalomov, Natali Avshalomov, Aram Baghdassarian, Nicholas Belitsis, Kyle Berlinsky, Emma Blancher, Rachel Brenner, Ximei Cao, Nicolas Castelli, Sarina Chan, Ethan Cheung, Angie Cordoba, Danielle Del Ponte, Pavninder Deol, Caterina DePaulis, Ajay Dheeraj, Elisabeth Dimitratos, Jack Doremus, Eli Dusman, Allison Erlich, Nicole Farishian, Shannon Fong, Hannah Gal, Jorey Garcia, Kelly Gonzalez, Emma Gutierrez, Jacqueline Haimovici, Shaminta Hamidian, Isabella Harnick, Noah Harouche, Yiqing He, Brandon Hernandez, Lynn Hlaing, Elliot Horowitz, Jillian Horowitz, Maximillian Hsiao, Kevin Hui, Christyn Hung, Chul Soon Hwang, Joo Eun Kang, Florije Kastrati, Miriam Kazais, Alexis Knee, Matthew Ko, Sungmin Ko, Ashley Koo, Danielle Kraes, Nicole Kuzler, Brooke Labonski, Kathryn Lam, Allan Lee, Dorothy Liu, Evan Lo, Olivia Lundelius, Isabella Malfi, Matthew Martinucci, Ninci Mathew, Macy Meng, Alexander Menoscal, Eric Menoscal, Danielle Miller, Jacob Neiderman, Benjamin Newman, Jordana Ovadia, Natalie Patrey, Caleb Ponce, Alexis Pramberger, Joshua Putter, Haley Raphael, Lauren Reiss, William Ren, Alisha Riggs, Alexandra Ryan, Harry Schildkraut, Bradley Sheen, Andrew Shin, Elizabeth Smith, Erica Sosman, Christine Suh, Mathew Thenor-Louis, Stefan Thomas, Jada Thorne, Eric Trachtenberg, Dylan Valic, Nathan Vallejo, Monique Vavro, Jessica Vissichelli, Chad Vitiello, Marianna Vukosa, Ying Shuo Wang, Benjamin Weber, LiYun Xu, Melody Yang, David Yuan, Alex Yuan, Jaysen Zhang, William Zheng, and Josephine Zheng.
The student honorees were joined by (see accompanying photo) Great Neck Board of Education members (President Barbara Berkowitz, Vice President Lawrence Gross, and Trustee Susan Healy) and school administrators (Superintendent Thomas Dolan, Assistant Superintendent-Secondary Stephen Lando, principal James Welsch, assistant principals Gina Cartolano and Gerald Cozine, Dean Karla Krupala, and guidance department head Ryan Nadherny).
