Tamaqua High School hosts senior awards ceremony
Tamaqua Area High School recently held its annual senior awards ceremony. Recipients are as follows:
Arnold Delin Award: Sarah Hope, $500
Beta Sigma Phi Award: Jathan Krall, $300
Catherine and Junior Zehner Award: Alex Steigerwalt, Stephen Behun, Jack Tharp and Jathan Krall, $1,000 each
Charlie Rohart Memorial Scholarship: Lucas Betz, $250
Class of 1953 Wm. J. Rarick Memorial Scholarship: Anna Ringlaben and Amaris Means, $550 each
Edmonds Memorial Scholarship: Deliah Coggiano, $200
Edward J. Tite Memorial Scholarship: Gabrielle Blasko, $1,000
Frances K. Miller Scholarship Fund: Hunter Ruch, $500
Fraternal Order of Police Award: Alex Steigerwalt, $100
James D. Collins Memorial Scholarship: Danah Brozyno, $2,042.16
Janet M. Plasha Memorial Education Award: Alexis Jones, $1,000
Joanne and Raymond C. Kinder Educational Scholarship: Sarah Hope, $500
John P. Klimowitch Memorial Award: Stephen Behun, $150
Karen Mateyak Mathematics Award: Hunter Ruch, $1,000
Karen Mateyak Mathematics Tutoring Award: Stephen Behun, $1,000
Kimberly Mateyak Griffith Memorial Award: Jesse Gormley and Maddison Hazlett, $500 each
M & T Financial Bank Award: Matthew Welsh, $100
Marlin Hechler Memorial Award: Kenneth Naugle, $500
Matthew Roberts Memorial Scholarship: Wyatt Steigerwalt and Emma Koch, $500 each
McKayla Wall Award: Adam Bachert, Stephen Behun, Timothy Berg, Lucas Betz, Gabrielle Blasko, Kyrsten Derr, Ella Gimbel, Alex Steigerwalt, Grace Slane and Matthew Welsh, $500 each
Miller/Knowles Memorial Award: Stephen Behun, $200
Richard C. Zukovich Memorial Scholarship: Alexis Bowman, $500
Rotary Award: Jesse Gormley, $500
Tamaqua Education Association Award: Sarah Hope, Emily Kohlmeir, Jathan Krall and Alexis Buchala, $500 each
T.A.S.G.A. Student Government Scholarship: Alexis Bowman and Ryan Lusch, $500 each
Tamaqua Class of 1965 Award: Makayla Bartenope, $500
The Alice Konecny Memorial Scholarship: Jesse Gormley and Amelia McArdle, $2,000
The Benjamin Herring Memorial Scholarship: Sarah Hope, $5,000
The Cassidy Derr Memorial Scholarship: Maddison Hazlett, $250
The Edward Shafer Memorial Scholarship: Emily Kohlmeir, $200
The Fenstermacher Prize: Stephen Behun, $7,000
The Fisher Memorial Award: Amelia McArdle, $150; Maddison Hazlett, $100; and Alexis Jones, $75
The Frank Zlock Memorial Scholarship: Gavin Clouser, $500
The Fred Valent Memorial Scholarship: Isabella Napolitano, $500
The Hassan Scholarship: Alexis Bowman, $5,000
The Humbert Lendin Music Scholarship: Shaina Ristila, $3,000
The J.E. Morgan Foundation Scholarship: Stephen Behun and Hunter Ruch, $6,000 a year for four years each
The Joan Clarke Memorial Scholarship: Alexis Bowman, $1,000
The John Mettler Future Educators Scholarship: Sarah Hope, $500
The Kermit Gregory Award: Brian Heim, $100
The Russell P. Kropp, PHD Memorial Scholarship: Alexis Bowman, $2,000
The Schuylkill County Interscholastic Athletic Association Scholarship: Sarah Hope and Stephen Behun, $100 each
The Special Foreign Language Award in Spanish: Sarah Hope and Andrea Betz, $200 each
The Towle Family Scholarship: Livia Miller, $250
The Walter Ligenza Memorial Scholarship: Destini Denning, $100
The William and Florence Fegley and Family Award: Hunter Ruch, $5,000
The William Klingaman Award: Stephen Behun, $500
Theodore A. Giltner Memorial Award: Jathan Krall, $3,000
Theodore Leiser Memorial Scholarship: Wyatt Steigerwalt, $6,803.58
EMD Electronics Award: Hunter Ruch, Sarah Hope, Brianna Snyder, Kylie Skodacek and Alexis Bowman, $1,000 each
Joseph J. Isganitis Jr. Memorial Scholarship: Jesse Gormley, $500
Little Schuylkill Lions Club Awards: Gabby Blasko, Jack Tharp, Brianna Snyder, Hunter Ruch, Sarah Hope, Kyrsten Derr, Destini Denning, Alexis Buchala and Alexis Bowman, $50 each
Schuylkill County Medical Society Alliance Award: Ryan Lusch, $250
The Tamaqua Area High School Alumni Award: Layla Kunkel, $500
Herbert T. Reigel Skilled Trade Scholarship: Wyatt Steigerwalt, $500
The Caputo Memorial Scholarship: Stephen Behun, $1,000
The Robert Blue Memorial Award: Jack Tharp, $500
Naoma M Stanley Award: Shaina Ristila and Alexis Jones, $200 each
St. Luke’s Extraordinary Athlete Scholarship: Peter McGinley, $5,000
The Joe Plasko Memorial Award: Ryan Lusch and Makayla Bartenope, $75 each
The Business is in your DNA Scholarship: Gabby Blasko, $500
Ethel Williams Berner Scholarship: Jack Tharp, $1,000
Thomas Harz, Sr. Memorial Scholarship: Rebecca Rodgers, $1,000
West Penn Lions Club Award: Hunter Ruch, $500
The Stephen Behun III Memorial Scholarship: Gabe Erbe, $2,500
Valley Christian Award: Morgan Koch and Wyatt Steigerwalt, $250 each
Mark T. Boyle Memorial Scholarship: Allen Dunbar, $500
Class of 1962 Award: Graycee Kovalchick, $500
Coalcracker Wrestling Male/Female Basketball and Swimming Scholarship: Alexis Bowman, Michael Styka, Lilian McNutt and Jathan Krall, $500 each
Coalcracker Wrestling National Honor Society Member Scholarship: Jack Tharp and Emily Antonio, $250 each
Coalcracker Wrestling Senior Wrestler Scholarship: Gabe Erbe, $1,000; Allen Tracey, Stephen Keiffer and Alexis Jones, $500 each and Jasiah Volkerts, Amanda Chen and Alexa Oncay, $250 each
ROTC Scholarship: Timothy Berg, $132,000
The Tamaqua Area Cheerleading Scholarship: Morgan Koch Abigail Kistler, $200
Senator Rhoades Scholarship: Stephen Behun, $2,000
Pottsville Area School District Education Association Scholarship: Alex Steigerwalt, $100
Miller-Keystone Blood Center Scholarship: Makayla Bartenope, $300