Hays High seniors earning Advanced Placement honors include (front, left to right) Patricia Swanson (Scholar With Honor), Chaney Turney (Scholar With Distinction), Brooke Noble (Scholar With Honor); (back, left to right) Nathan Webber (Scholar With Honor) and AP Scholars Will Poeppelmeyer, Hope Hoffmeyer, Eric Leija, Emily Ybarbo; (far back, left to right) Principal David Pierce, Academic Dean Teri Eubank, Lead Counselor Kathy Arendt. Fifteen recently-graduated seniors also received recognition as AP scholars, two as Scholar With Honor and six as Scholar With Distinction. (Photos by Jim Cullen)
Lehman High School Principal Don Ruisinger (front, left) proudly poses with his current Lehman seniors earning Advanced Placement honors. They include Scholars With Honors (front, center) Tarale Murry and (front, right) Amanda Markert; (back, left to right) AP Scholars Chris Eubanks, David Negrete and Cameron Harris. Six members of the Class of 2010 were also recognized, including one Scholar With Distinction, one Scholar With Honors and four AP Scholars.
STAFF REPORTS
Forty-one local students have been recognized by the College Board for their 2009-2010 test scores in Advanced Placement classes. Thirteen of that group are current Hays or Lehman High School seniors who achieved the recognition as juniors.
Of this year’s seniors, Hays High School’s Chaney Turney received the highest honor, AP Scholar With Distinction, granted to students who receive an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. Turney, as with all students recognized for their work as juniors, continues with additional AP classes this school year, making her eligible for higher recognition as a senior.
Five of this year’s seniors, three from Hays and a pair from Lehman, earned AP Scholar With Honor recognition. Hays High’s Brooke Noble, Patricia Swanson and Nathan Webber and Lehman High’s Tarale Murry and Amanda Markert took that honor, granted to students receiving an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.
The remaining seniors, all recognized as AP Scholars, include Hays High’s Will Poeppelmeyer, Hope Hoffmeyer, Eric Leija, Emily Ybarbo and Lehman High’s Chris Eubank, Cameron Harris and David Negrete. The AP Scholar honors go to students who receive 3 or higher on three or more AP exams.
From the recently graduated Class of 2010, seven students received AP Scholar With Distinction honors, that group including Hays High School’s Sara Cervantes, Denise Garcia, Shane Miller, Michael Trahan, Ian Westlyn-Mogab, Kristen Whittington and Lehman High School’s Meera Day.
A pair of 2010 graduates, Hays High School’s Claire Bellamy and Lehman High School’s Annajaidie Salinas, received AP Scholar With Honor recognition.
Nineteen more 2010 graduates received AP Scholar honors. The Hays High School honorees list included Iesha Baranovicht, Gage Berry, Amber Hamblin, Aaron Harper, Jarrod Hehr, Keeley Hooker, Roderick Hunt, Samuel Jackson, Jordanna Musser, Stefan Sanchez, Jessica Scott, Sarah Staub, Abbie Thames, Brad Weber and Lauren Wisener. Lehman High AP Scholars from the Class of 2010 included Trevor Leffert, Chase McCabe, William Reid and Sigifredo Santana.
