UTICA FREE ACADEMY
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Over the years, Utica Free Academy has had many students who served in these rolls.
The following are those individuals, from 1925 through 1987, who have been given this honor.
Valedictorian is an academic title typically conferred upon the highest ranked student among those being graduated from an educational institution. The term is an anglicized derivation of the Latin vale dicere ("to say farewell"), historically rooted in the valedictorian's traditional role as the final speaker at the graduation ceremony. The valedictory address generally is considered a final farewell to classmates, before they disperse as a collective group in order to pursue their individual paths after being graduated
The title of Salutatorian is given to the second-highest graduate of the entire graduating class of an educational institution. This honor is traditionally based on grades but consideration is also often given to other factors such as extracurricular activities. The title comes from the salutatorian's traditional role as the first speaker at the graduation ceremony, delivering the salutatory address.
Valedictorian Salutatorian Valedictorian Salutatorian
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
Mary Miccucci
Dorothy Morgan
Harriet Ruesswig
Paul Irwin
Ruth Cruikshank
John Moses
William W. Wright
Lorena L. Start
Karl M. Schmidt, Jr
Rose Berkowitz
Jane Dettinger
Henry J. Ehresman
Doris Williams
Helen F. North
Priscilla Slimm
Landon Thomas
Nicholas Markason
Naomi Ornest
Dorothy Ritchie Stuart
Alice Williams
Sherman F. Grossman
Norma Daley
Marilyn E. Jacox Ph.D
Patricia A. Brennan Hanna
Helen Hagel
Joan Francis Olinski
F.X. Matt, II
Ellen Sitrin
Laurance A. Savett
Donna Magendanz Guarino
Eleanor I. Gerrish
Althea Gay Goss
Stephen M Gersten
Judith Lewis
Carol Newton Husted
Shirley Frank
Edith Cunningham
Edwin Esmay
Margaret Handy
Sylvia Bedzofsky
Harold Bengloff
Hazel S. Clare
H. Frederich Wendt
Clarence S. Margach
Hyman Wallach
Frances Whyland Rendell
Filomena Anelli
Arthur Wallach
Edward Wm. Heiderich
Helen A. Dawson
Jennings
Verna M. Flickinger Nelson
Anne Worden
Dorothy Collins
Beverly R. Sitrin
Harvey Alan
Martin Katah
Barbara A. Schneider
Joyce Soloman Mettleman
Thomas Cook
James Earl Potter
Arthur A. Coppotelli
Craig Hanyan
Beverly E. Rosenberg
Carolyn Hawks
Diris F. Warmuth
Elaine Marica Smith
Jon Carl Magendanz
Johanna Scholl
Sandra Jean Kenyon
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
Jane Judith Grausz
Helen R. Laine
Henry Abelove
Sheldon Schwarz
Judith Barbara Reiser
John D. Pierson
J. Sanford Schwarz
Marilyn Rosen
Deborah Reiser
Ellen Tumposky
Jeffrey L. Hymes
James Lee Davis
Nancy L. Roberts
Matthew J. Mierzwa, Jr.
Gordon S. Manning
Sar Shalom Strong
Scott A. Wood
David E. Baum
Daniel L. Goodman
Susan K. Noonan
Carol T. Seubert
Nathan Bernard Mitkoff
Victor S. Reiner
Margaretta M. Novak
Amy J. Abelove
Jennifer Dowdall
Frank Novak
Brian Powell
Sharon S. Serafin
Bettye A. Grossman
Susan Wernert
Terrance Adlhock
Randolf Wm. Becker
Myron Melnyk
Beverly Brody
Alexander Jackiw
John S. Henke
Cynt Kavonksorian
Aydrey Waterbury
Sally Lesniak
Lee Simmerman
Philip W. Sours
Sandra Seubert
Anastasi Rizwaniuk
Diane A. Seubert
Gregory M. Amico
Victor J. Wroblewski
Shelia A. Walsh
Catherine Anderson
Tricia Allen
Joanne Giles
Kevin G. Kall
Mark Blanchfield
Dennis Heretz
Elizabeth Powell
Kristen Joseph
UTICA FREE ACADEMY
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