Ben Stang receives award of $1,000 for best electrical, plumbing and heating student from Kevin Lynn of Linde, a gas industry pipe and fittings company. STAFF PHOTO/PAT FARNELLI
BY PAT FARNELLI
Susquehanna County Career and Technology Center graduated a ***record*** class of 115 Thursday night, but the students got more than just diplomas.
More than $17,000 in awards
were handed out to the top students acrosss eight vocational areas.
And Benjamin Stang, top electrical, plumbing and heating student who would also get his high school diploma from Elk
Lake Saturday, even got a job to go with a $1,000 prize.
“This is a serious job offer,” Kevin Lynn of the Linde Corporation said as he handed Stang his business card as well as a check.
Lynn said it was the first time the Linde Corporation – which serves the Marcellus natural gas industry in the manufacture and installation of pipes and fittings – had given out a check to an SCCTC student.
JERRI TRAVER
Jerri Traver received the outstanding SCCTC student award.
Numerous students were awarded tools of the trade, and the lobby tables were piled high with gifts designated for graduates, from tool kits and levels to cosmetology products and business or trade school
scholarships.
Christine Cokely, the only business education major among the SCCTC grads, and a state competition qualifier in Accounting II at the Future Business Leaders of America competition in Hershey, received numerous awards, which presenter Daniel McGrath said
TIMOTHY JENSEN
Rather than a valedictory speech, Timothy Jensen, automotive technology program graduate and president of the school’s Skills USA team, addressed his fellow grads.
“I have nothing but positive
things to say. It was a great experience, both the Skills USA
competition and the SCCTC program in general,” Jensen said.
He noted that his respect for SCCTC director Alice Davis and the other faculty grew greatly during his senior year.
He especially thanked Kevin Noldy, describing him as “the best teacher I ever had, who takes time with all students, and is respected by the whole class.”
All of the faculty who presented awards remarked on the size and quality of the graduating class, and said they would be missed.
“One of the presenters, Jeremie Cannella, choked back tears while handing out an award from Mederi Clinicals for an outstanding aesthetician graduate.
Cannella and a co-presenter, partners in the skincare
products company, were both graduates of SCCTC’s cosmetology program 16 years ago, and thanked Davis for life-changing instruction and inspiration.
Graduates were as follows:
Automotive technology: Karl Adams, Ryan Allen, Benjamin Burridge, Jarrett Coleman, Timothy Fassett, Joshua Fry, Thomas Gall Jr., Isaiah Graham, Richard Himko, Matthew Hundahl, David Jensen, Travis Kellogg, Joseph Rogers, Daniel Smith, Dylan VanSickle, Barry Cole Wheaton and Michael Zehrer.
Business education: Christie Cokely.
Diversified occupations Brandon Brewer and Ryan Depew.
Carpentry and cabinetmaking:
Storm Anderson, Jacob Bliss, Casey Corter, Johnny Cron, Derek Diskin, Cody Fassett, Ryan Gongliewski, Josh Kiefer, Corey
Kleiner; Timothy Mangin, Timothy Slocum, Dylan Villeneuve, Ryan Visavati and Earl Youngs.
Electrical, plumbing and heating: Daniel Adams, Larry Bean, Brittany Birtch, Dylan Ellis, Devin Fiorentino, Nathan
Hibbard, Casey Kelley, Bryan Ketcham, Devin Price, Edward Raines, Brandon Rosler, Anthony Sorak, Benjamin Stang and Tyler Wright.
Cosmetology: Rebecca Baker, Stephanie Black, Fallon Bush, Venessa Caffarello, Brittany Carter, Ashley Clifford, Malinda Conklin, Mercedes Darrow, Krista Davis, Lisa Dean, Megan Dempsey, Shannon Dock, Michelle Drogan, Sabrina Ely, Andra Evancavich, Brittany Filer, Nikki Finkenbinder, Emily Gacha, Ivala Gilman, Crystal Greene, Amber Hack, Lorianne Holbrook, Crystal Jonas, Stephanie Krukowski, Takowa
May, Amy Melan, Kelsey Mills, Annamae Mitchell, Leonna Noble, David Ogonosky, Basia Polak, Veronica Powers, Dawn Quinn, Shanna Rinkus, Brittany Ross, Amanda Roth, Heather Taramelli, April Trible, Terry Yanora, Melissa Zawisky and Jennifer Zech.
Food management: Matthew Arnold, Amanda Atkinson, Brandon Barnes, Tyler Bergman, Chrystal Betcher, Robert Gorton, Adam McLaud, Alysia Race, Kurt Steele and Elizabeth Walter.
Health care technology: Carol Corter, Mikayla Douglas, Alexis Fiske, Stacey Hibbard, Gina Ice, Alesha Kegelman, Mara Kerr, Caitlin Miller, Ashley Raines, Cassandra Sekely, Christine
Solsman, Jerri Traver, Stephanie Walsh, Kirsten Warfle and Kevin Zamorski.
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