Guidance
2011 Academic Awards
May 12, 2011
The Yale Book Award - Margaret Stephenson
The Saint Michael's College Book - Catherine
Calhoun
The Harvard Book Award - Katherine Callaway
The Rachel Carson Book Award - Kelly Hyland
The Bryn Mawr Book Award - Erin Ibarra.
The American Legion 2011 Youth Academic Achievement
Award - Aislin DeFilippo, Casy Stelitano and Caroline
Walker.
The Society of Women Engineers - Rose Doerfler, Shannon
Haberman and Delia Scoville.The New Kensington Civic
Theatre - Holleran Award - Alexa Rene
Kabazie
The 2011 Comcast Student Achievement Award - Juliana
Schneider.
Tribune Review Certificates of Honor - Allison Walker,
Claire Gleason, Tierney McDonnell
The Tribune Review gold medal winners - Juliana
Schneider and Caroline Walker.
The Westinghouse Science Honors Institute - Maureen
Deken
The University of Rochester Award - Michelle
Callaway
The Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award - Erin
Ibarra
The Carson Scholars Fund - Emily Boltey, Erin Deasy,
Jasmine Gross, Erin Ibarra, Jackie Klunk, Christine Pilewski and
Lauren Tedrick.
National Honor Society Scholar Award - Rose
Doerfler
The SILVER certificate for the President's Award:
• Olivia Brinker
• Noor Butt
• Julie Coyne
• Kerry Dolan
• Hailey Farrell
• Meghan Fogarty
• Claire Gleason
• Katelyn Holtz
• Merina Jedlicka
• Kimberly Kelly
• Emily Kennedy
• Alexandra Layton
• Olivia Massaro
• Julia McCarthy
• Katy Mullins
• Carly Pina
• Caitlin Profozich
• Alexis Restori
• Audra Rhodes
• Susan Ricchuito
• Haley Salera
• Rebecca Seeger
• Natalie Stinson
• Veronica Vento
• Allison Viverette
• Stephanie Walker
The President's Award for Educational Excellence - Gold
Certificate:
• Nicolette Blackwell
• Mackenzie Bluedorn
• Kayla Browning
• Samantha Bursic
• Kelsey Burton
• Courtney Dailey
• Aislin DeFilippo
• Rose Doerfler
• Mary Claire Doyle
• Angelica Escobar
• Louisa Fitzgerald
• Katherine Garrity
• Elizabeth Hamlett
• Jessica Hardin
• Haley Hopper
• Alexa Kabazie
• Haylie Kang
• Cara Kennedy
• Claire Lasky
• Hanna Lauff
• Seo Ram Lee
• Lauren Lemieux
• Flannery Loughran
• Aubrey Luttrell
• Abby Maddigan
• Mayra Manchego
• Abigail Marchione
• Cayla Meinert
• Devan Mercurio
• Rebecca Nagy
• Catherine O'Malley
• Jill Petnuch
• Antonia Piccoli
• Megan Piel
• Katherine Pilewski
• Julia Pizzutti
• Marissa Polk
• Natalie Polk
• Emma Ross
• Mary Schiff
• Lindsay Schricker
• Emily Spirk
• Casy Stelitano
• Allyson Strahler
• Kelley Stretavski
• Grace Thomasmeyer
• Caroline Walker
• Eleanora White
• Katherine Wister
• Anelise Zamarripa-Zoucha
The Saint Timothy Award - Alora Cinicola, Mary
Claire Doyle Caroline Walker
The Rotary Club of Pittsburgh - Juliana
Schneider.
The 2011 WPIAL Scholar/Athlete Award - Louisa
Fitzgerald.
Senior Art Awards:
Jessica Hardin
Elizabeth Koziell
Sarah Poremba
Susan Ricchuito
Laura Sedlak
Emily Spirk
Alenna Yobbi
Senior English Department Awards:
Highest Average over 4 years - Jessica
Hardin
Sister Sylvanus Writing Award - Jessica
Hardin
University of Pittsburgh College Public Forum
Debater - Emma Ross
Highest Average in French over four years: Rose
Doerfler
Highest average in Chinese over 3 years: Carly
Harris
National Latin Exam Winners:
Latin I:
Silver Maxima Cum Laude - Elizabeth Martinson, Abigail
Annear, Brittany Niro, Juliana Fellowes, Christine Parrish
Magna Cum Laude - Stephanie Franciscus, Victoria
Albacete, Abigail Oravetz, Lana Marucci, Shoko Kanemato Kiera
Kunkle, Danielle Harrington, Sophia Means, Allyson Ayoob
Cum Laude - Emily Zirpoli, Shannon Edgar, Sarah
Laird, Margaret Laird, Alexandra Bauer
Latin II:
Silver Maxima Cum Laude - Sarah Fisher, Jessica Slain,
Katherine Girdhar, Ashley Foley
Cum Laude - Leah Smith, Erin Higgins
Latin III:
Gold Summa Cum Laude - Erin Ibarra
Silver Maxima Cum Laude - Shannon Haberman,
Michelle Callaway
Magna Cum Laude - Kalen Valentine, Giulia
Watkins, Madison Sarnowski
Cum Laude - Angelina Ciocco, Alexandra
Delazio
Latin IV:
Gold Summa Cum Laude - Margaret Stephenson, Emily
Perego
Silver Maxima Cum Laude - Jessica Hardin
Highest Academic Average for FOUR years of
Latin - Jess Hardin
Certificate of Highest Achievement in the FOUR years
Italian Program - Casey Stelitano
National Spanish Exam Winners:
Level I:
HONOR: Katie Dawson, Maria DeIuliis, Jesse Durso, Maria
Foglia, Halie Fuller, Monye Holiday, Polina Langer, Katherine
Mastandrea, Kaitlyn Piel, Nannette Pina, Jamilah Younger
BRONCE: Abby Annear, Sarah Blank, Emily Carney,
Haley Cozad, Maria Monberg
PLATO: Marissa Rainey, Wynonna Rinkacs
Level II:
HONOR: Rachel Butler, Anna DeRosa, Verity
Forsythe, Renee MacCamy, Emily Serkes, Kalyn Sigg, Kielah Turner,
Allison Walker, Bri Whalen
BRONCE: Danielle Harrington, Sarah Pace, Madison
Sarnowski, Mary Thomasmeyer
Level III:
HONOR: Kristin Arbutina, Maureen Deken, Lyndis
Kenny-Howell, Abigail Lesko, Julie Mueller, Maura Perri, Jeimy
Sanchez-Ruiz, Rachel Schall, Lauren Spence, Miriam Wipf
BRONCE: Kailey Joyce, Kelsey Kennedy, Nicoletta
LePore, Emily Papak, Caroline Poirier,
PLATO: Megan Wasson
ORO: Delia Scoville
Highest average in Spanish over 4 years -
Katherine Pilewski
Music Award:
The Magnum Opus Award - Brittany David and Susan
Ricchuito.
Science Department Awards:
Achievements at PJAS by Oakland Catholic High School:
Katie Callaway
Kelly Hyland
Christine Pilewski
Katherine Pilewski
Angela Santucci
Megan Wasson
National Merit Scholarship
Letters of Commendation for the 2010-2011 -
Mackenzie Bluedorn and Katherine Pilewski
National Merit Scholarship Finalist
The Merit Scholarship Finalist Standing - Rose
Doerfler and Jessica Hardin
Perfect Attendance Senior year - Aislin
DeFilippo and Mary Price.
The Thomas J. M. Freyvogel Award - Aislin
DeFilippo.
The Oakland Catholic Award - Jessica
Hardin.
The Principal's Award - Caroline Walker.
The President's Award - Mary Claire Doyle.
Salutatorian for the Class of 2011 - Katherine
Pilewski
Valedictorian for the Class of 2011 - Rose
Doerfler.