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Academic Letter Awards

Oak Lawn Community High School awarded Academic Letter Awards to seniors who maintained at least a 3.75 GPA for both semesters of the 2013-14 school year.  Seniors who earned the award for the first time received a chenille embroidered honors patch while students who achieved the honor again were presented with gold bars for their patches.

First time recipients included Calvin Demski, Riley Faille, Bailey Kean, Emily Kozlowski, Kurt Kuzur, David Le, Emily Mathis, Lauren Misner, Victoria Morales, Shannon Murphy, Mai Quad, Ibrahim Samra, Riley Spreadbury, Magdalena Stachnik, Andrew Waterstraat, and Agnes Zabawa.

Second year honorees included Randel Bracken, Elisabeth Childers, Michael Felton, Shannon Kolbe, Gabrielle Lenihan, Kelsey Luckett, Kennedy Moore, and Derek Schapiro.

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Third year honorees included Stiljan Agolli, Steven Boetscher, Matthew Dunne, Jamie Fionda, Melissa Greiman, Vincenzo Gudino, Yara Ismail, Taylor Lindemann, Gabriel Lira, Lauren Montesano, Kathleen Plutz, Megan Pripusich, Pedro Rangel, and Matthew Zwolinski.

Students earning the honor for the fourth consecutive year included Mohammad Abuosbie, Jacob Allen, Natalia Bak, Melissa Barragan, Stephanie Barragan, Musaab Bashir, Stephanie Brito-Miranda, Julia Bugaj, Jeffrey Burzinski, Nicholas Chovancek, Martin Cisneros, Clarissa Dean, Natalia Gawelda, Bushra Hamad, Jordan Hepburn, Haley Hiljus, Tara Hill, Morgan Jozsa, Daniel Kalinin, Kamile Lazauskaite, Amanda Leone, Rebecca Mackowiak, Maynard Dane Madriaga, Kathleen Mancillas, Kristen OConnor, David Oliver, Andrea Pacetti, Megan Pacetti, Kayla Reichert, John Saldivar, Emily Salomone, Adam Smith, Jason Snyder, Mitchell Swatek, Nayfah Thnaibat, Kelsey Townsend, Shelby Trybula, Isabel Valle, and Kamila Zaremba.

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