PARSIPPANY — On Wednesday, June 8, Parsippany High School recognized the Class of 2016 scholarship recipients at the Annual Senior Awards Ceremony, held this year in the school auditorium. Also acknowledged were the “PHS Top 25 Students.” Over 200 awards an scholarships were presented to the Graduating Senior Class.
The scholarship and awards were presented to Stephen Adkins – Outstanding Physical Education Student of the Year; Akhil Anand – Photo; Ansari Sarah – Parsippany-Troy Hills Parent/Teacher Student Association, Parents of the Gifted & Talented, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Student Council Awards and Parsippany Republican Club Scholarship, The Valori Family Scholarship Fund, Photo, Kiwanis and Jackie Scura “Chance for Success” Scholarship; Justina Avent – Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Voice in Writing; Yatindra Awasthi – National Merit Finalists; Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016; Naomi Bagat, High Note Awards; Erik Bakstad – Dr. Vincent Aniello Peer Buddy Scholarship and George Bohr; Daniel Bamert – Parsippany-Troy Hills Parent/Teacher Student Association and Rockaway Meadow School; Anil Bhatnagar – National Merit Finalists and Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016; Nicholas Bucciarelli – Par-Troy Little League East Scholarship; Sujay Busarajan – Board of Education Laision, Student Council Awards, The Valori Family Scholarship Fund; Luca Cacciottolo – Red Hawk Award; Kathryn Campbell – The Michael R. Codella MVP Trophy – Red Hawk Award; Amanda Chen – Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016; Anne Cheng – National Merit Finalists, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, North Chinese Association, Greater Parsippany Kiwanis Club, Saludatorian;Gregory Coll – Emil Johnson; Brianna Cooper – Dr. Vincent Aniello Peer Buddy Scholarship, Parsippany-Troy Hills Parent/Teacher Student Association, Socolowski, Student Council Awards, George Johnson; Solomon Crawford and Red Hawk Award; Allison Davanzo – Woman’s Club of Parsippany Scholarship, Dr. Vincent Aniello Peer Buddy Scholarship, Parsippany-Troy Hills Parent/Teacher Student Association, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Student Council Awards, Sons of Italy, Social Studies, Writing, Ceramics, Central Middle School Faculty Scholarship, The Dr. Frank A. Calabria Memorial Scholarship and Parsippany Parsippany-Troy Hills Rotary Scholarship; Juliana De Intinis – Painting, Student Council Awards and Red Hawk Award; Ashley De Mare – Dr. Vincent Aniello Peer Buddy Scholarship, Sons of Italy, Visual Design; Maurizia De Palma – Woman’s Club of Parsippany Scholarship, Band; Zully Delgado – Woman’s Club of Parsippany Scholarship; Declan Devens – Woman’s Club of Parsippany Scholarship, Chemistry, Parsippany-Troy Hills Parent/Teacher Student Association, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Excellence in Math, Par-Troy Little League East Scholarship, Blue Collar Workers of Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJSIAA, The Michael R. Codella MVP Trophy, Red Hawk Award and US Army; Ariana DiFilippo – Parsippany-Troy Hills Parent/Teacher Student Association, MCPCA, Student Council Awards, Sons of Italy, Red Hawk Award; Nicholas Ebel – Red Hawk Award; Lyla Evans – Drama High Note Awards; Jordan Farrar – Band; Jacob Feldman – Theater Achievement; Nigel Feliz – Hebberd’s Heroes, U.S. Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award, Red Hawk Award; Gabriella Ferguson – Environmental; Liliana Ferrara – Parsippany-Troy Hills Parent/Teacher Student Association Faculty, Sons of Italy, Republican, Montville Unico Scholarship.
Also receiving scholarship and awards were Joshua Finchler – Par-Troy Little League East Scholarship; Autum Foley – Physical Education; Yang Fu – National Merit Finalists; Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016 and Civics; Anthony Gerardo – Parsippany-Troy Hills Parent/Teacher Student Association, Red Hawk Award; Marisa Giordano – Sons of Italy and Parsippany Area Chamber of Commerce; Thomas Goetschkes – VFW, ESS; Zachary Granet – Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Sons of Italy; Ashley Grieco – Sons of Italy; Erika Gripp – Parsippany Education Foundation, Par-Troy Little League East Scholarship; Samantha Gurth – Behnke, Dr. Vincent Aniello Peer Buddy Scholarship; Sijaad Haidary – Cerbo; Nicole Herrera -John Cap, Red Hawk Award; Michelle Herrera – Red Hawk Award; Nicole Hill – The Maddy Loftus Memorial Scholarship, Choral, Morris County Scholar Athlete; Jonathan Ho – National Merit Finalists; Ryan Homler – Excellence in Journalism, Par-Troy Little League East Scholarship; Kati Hsu – National Merit Finalists, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Robert Sabella Memorial Award, Spanish, Northvail School Alumni Scholarship and Red Hawk Award; Craig Hunt – Eddie Jackson, Band; Marine-Ayan Ibrahim Aibo – Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Excellence in Math, Robert Sabella Memorial Award, Civics, Valedictorian; Danielle Jae – Parsippany-Troy Hills Parent/Teacher Student Association; Kevin Jones – PBA; Farhan Kazi -Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016 and Civics; Brianna Kelley – Parsippany-Troy Hills Senior Citizens Scholarship; Emaan Khawaja – Fine Arts Award; James Kinzer – Parsippany-Troy Hills Parent/Teacher Student Association; Jonathan Klausner – Red Hawk Award; Nikita Kolotov – College Fair; Stefanie Konboz – Dr. Vincent Aniello Peer Buddy Scholarship, Student Council Awards Awards, Italian; Teddy Koniarz – College Fair; Julia Krevis – Red Hawk Award; Dev Lad – Band; Sienna Lafuente – Choral; Catherine Lanigan – Knollwood-Melvin Roth Memorial Scholarship, Wegmans Scholarship Program, U.S. Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award, Red Hawk Award, Army, Dr. Vincent Aniello Peer Buddy Scholarship; Nathalia Lie – Elks, National Merit Finalists, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016 and Lake Hiawatha School Alumni Scholarship; Xue Ting Lin – Band; Lawrence Lin – National Merit Finalists, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016; Angelica Link – Red Hawk Award; Suhayl Maqsudi – Dr. Vincent Aniello Peer Buddy Scholarship; Richard Martin – Red Hawk Award; Daniel McAndrew – George Bohr; Marcus Ng’Oche – High Note Awards; Melissa Novotny – Blue Collar Workers of Parsippany-Troy Hills; Thomas Nowicki – Parsippany-Troy Hills Parent/Teacher Student Association, Troy Hills, Par-Troy Little League East Scholarship, NJAC Sch/Ath, Red Hawk Award; Christine Padula – Mt. Tabor, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Band; Nehali Patel – English, Student Faculty; Shivam Patel – Student Council Awards Awards; Steven Patracuolla – Sons of Italy, Morris Ctounty Scholar/Ath, Red Hawk Award; Jessica Phillips – Woman’s Club of Parsippany Scholarship, ADK; Aimee Picinich – Red Hawk Award; Kennedy Pivnick – National Merit Finalists;Thomas Pogoda – Woman’s Club of Parsippany Scholarship, Par-Troy Little League East Scholarship, Vidalaya, Inc., Scholarship; Steven Quigley – Visual Design; Jyotsna Ramaswamy – National Merit Finalists, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Civics O’Harra; Alexander Rodriguez – Ladas; Jahmil Roland – High Note Awards; Allyson Schlosser – Parsippany-Troy Hills Parent/Teacher Student Association, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Student Council Awards Awards; ShopRite; NJAC Sch/Ath; Red Hawk Award; Cassandra Seifert – Red Hawk Award; Astha Singhal – National Merit Finalists, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, T. Roosevelt; Jessica Slevin – Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Band; Daniella Spillert – Soccer and Red Hawk Award; Tayler Teta – Hebberd’s Heroes; Janaki Vekaria – Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Excellence in Math; Indian Assocation; Jailene Veloz – Totem; Radha Vyas – National Merit Finalists, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016; Jenna Walstedt – Student Council Awards; Michael Wang – National Merit Finalist, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Math, Student Math Team; Megan Wang – National Merit Finalists; Woman’s Club of Parsippany Scholarship; Biology; Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016; Civics; Fine Arts; French and Kaplan; Alexander Wang – Physics, Top 25 Students of the Class of 2016, Project Graduation Slogan and Artwork; Mariah Wetmore – Ceramics; Abraham Wu – Band; Gloria Wu – Band; Samantha Zarro – Red Hawk Award and Brayan Zuniga – Martino.
