From the Editor
As the school year winds down and graduation approaches, the class of 2016 looks ahead to next fall; seniors showed their college pride on April 29th, just two days before they had to make their official college decisions.
Some of the grade’s academic leaders will be storming the halls of Ivy League and other elite institutions. Valedictorian Issy Bysiewicz will be attending Yale University, Lily Kirby will be attending Brown University, Cleo Kyriakides will be attending Cornell University, and Claira Janover will be attending Harvard College. Marshall Borrus will be attending Williams College, while Matt Sachs is heading to either Cornell University or Georgetown University.
Graduates will be spreading far and wide, with many attending schools thousands of miles away. Remi Steinhardt will be attending St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas, while Rachel Krug will head to the University of Arizona and Tristyn Wooster will be playing lacrosse at Arizona State University. Raissi Bysiewicz will head down to New Orleans to attend Tulane University. Justine Hooks will be going to the University of Southern California and Shradha Shrestha will attend San Diego State University. Quochelle Small will be going to Seattle University.
In addition to Wooster’s commitment to play lacrosse at Arizona, there will be many other graduates playing varsity sports in college.
From the BHS swimming and diving team, Paige MacNeil will be swimming for Wagner College, Cassandra Collins will be swimming and diving at Babson College, Erika Maercklein will be swimming at CCSU, and Caitlin Daley will be swimming at Wheaton College.
Anneliese Troidle will run cross country and track for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Jessie O’Connor will play soccer at Nova Southeastern University, and Kendall Simmons will play lacrosse at SCSU. Noah Degoursey will play lacrosse at Keene State College, Kory King will play basketball at Salve Regina, Jake Jacobson will play basketball at Springfield college, and Matt Sachs may play tennis at Georgetown. Tess Paluzzi will be on the dance team at the University of Cincinnati. Many other athletes intend to play club sports or try out for the varsity teams once they get to school.
On the musical side of things, Kim Klarman will be studying music therapy and Shannon Finn will be studying contemporary vocal performance at Berklee College of Music in Boston while Marissa Smoker heads to Point Park University in Pittsburgh to study musical theater. Travis Johnson will be studying theater at SCSU, and Chris Altavilla will be studying musical education at Temple University.
Schools with big draws for this year’s graduates include UConn, UNH, Quinnipiac, SCSU, ECSU, and CCSU. Popular cities include Boston, New York, Providence, and Washington, D.C- and, of course, Storrs. Many students plan to major in fields like psychology, business, political science, art, biology, engineering, and nursing.
Additionally, many students are planning to join the workforce, enlist in the military, or attend technical schools. Wherever they go, we know the class of 2016 will be successful!
