Ilion High School
Valedictorians and Salutatorians
Salute to Ilion High School Valedictorians and Salutatorians
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Year |
Valedictorian |
Salutatorian |
2013 |
Emily LaLonde |
Alexander Klosner |
2012 |
Bobbi Kristina Latray |
Tressa Burrello |
2011 |
Kathe Blydenburgh |
Rachel Gay |
2010 |
Rachel Stegemann |
Meghan Fogerty |
2009 |
Julie Hall |
Stephanie Lachacz |
2008 |
Angela Verenich |
Erin Sweeney |
2007 |
Keith Wilner |
Mary Morse |
2006 |
Rachel Bigelow |
Christopher Maley |
2005 |
Christina Kucerak |
Gail Murray |
2004 |
Alicia Korol |
Ashley Hoffman |
2003 |
Jerome Socolof |
Shannon Bradle |
2002 |
Janice Murray |
Matthew Skinner |
2001 |
Alison Haefele |
Andrew Zvirzdin |
2000 |
Sara Korol |
Kathryn Adams |
1999 |
Heidi Mergenthaler |
Theresa Murray |
1998 |
Jessica Steele |
Valerie Dye |
1997 |
Donna Thibault |
Kara Benson |
1996 |
Reneka Mergenthaler |
Miranda Dove |
1995 |
Erika Meyer |
Tricia Turley |
1994 |
Thomas Jennings |
Kim Mergenthaler |
1993 |
Kristen Lamphear |
Suzette Applegate |
1992 |
John Kowalczik |
Angela Scalise |
1991 |
Justin Stutz |
Matthew Stutz |
1990 |
Paul Hall |
Jodi Karla |
1989 |
Michelle Worden |
Elizabeth 'Betsy' Getman |
1988 |
Peter Wardle |
Mike Grainger |
1987 |
Donald Brien |
Christine DePaola |
1986 |
Griffith Green |
Elizabeth Tanner |
1985 |
Bethany Davis |
Eileen Kilty |
1984 |
Eric R. Ladd |
Kimberly A. Lynch |
1983 |
Frank Dudish |
Gina Coroniti |
1982 |
Carol Ptasznik |
Phyllis Hoffman |
1981 |
Cathleen Woods |
Susan Plunkett |
1980 |
Helen Panarites |
Anne Getman |
1979 |
Ed Trefzger |
Lorie Gage |
1978 |
Elissa Sanchez |
Laura Noll |
1977 |
Jack Eller |
Ross Getman |
1976 |
Cheryl Darling |
Marion Rooke |
1975 |
Richard Bohr |
Sandra Collins |
1974 |
Kathleen Morris |
Peggy Nile |
1973 |
Georgia Sternberg |
Christine Mey |
1972 |
Guy Snedeker |
Deborah Kubala |
1971 |
Alice Comins |
Katherine Rooke |
1970 |
Patrice Cacciatore |
Daniel O'Brien |
1969 |
Christine Monohan |
William Getman |
1968 |
Glenn Smith |
Caryl Chambers |
1967 |
Joyce Monteau |
Jim Strife |
1966 |
James Patrei |
Janet Keddell |
1965 |
Bill Cornell |
Kathleen Hoffman |
1964 |
George (Steve) Getman |
Carol Jean Klippel |
1963 |
Faye Edwards |
Laura Mason |
1962 |
Roger Fortuna |
Harold Shelley |
1961 |
Beth Coons |
Chris Thierfelder |
1960 |
Claire Gilbert |
Betty Alvis Girardeau |
1959 |
Peggy Wood Casale |
Lorita Keddell |
1958 |
Linda Edick |
Susan Fuller |
1957 |
James Barnes |
Lee Purple |
1956 |
Gwen Elmer |
NancyTooney |
1955 |
Joan Monz |
Don Young |
1954 |
Ruth McKelvie |
Sylvia Leistyna |
1953 |
Richard Hall |
Doreen Pelletier Murphy |
1952 |
Gwen Gienke |
William Young |
1951 |
Lester Short |
Tom Adams |
1950 |
Margaret Wagner |
Jane Russell Nile |
1949 |
Carl Peterson |
Shirley Swarthout Galle |
1948 |
Joseph Leistyna |
Louise Younglove Owens |
1947 |
Violetta Ann Newton |
Mary Lupinski |
1946 |
Fern Chismore |
Milton A. Haughton |
1945 |
Marion Ray |
Mary Horan |
1944 |
Joyce Chismore |
Jean Lyon |
1943 |
Shirley Pett Kuba |
Joan Hawes Leggett |
1942 |
Frank Soules |
Richard Van Wiggeren |
1941 |
Warren Schulz |
Allen Russell |
1940 |
Edwin Smith |
Leland Markley |
1939 |
Donald Watkin |
Dorothy Huyck |
1938 |
Virginia Allen |
Mary Panarites |
1937 |
John Powers |
Harold Hemstreet |
1936 |
Margaret Jane Andrus |
Jean McGowan |
1935 |
William Grimshaw |
Elizabeth Shaffer |
1934 |
Louise Plunkett |
Elisabeth Wasmer |
1933 |
Joyce Pierce Sanders |
Helen Lonis |
1932 |
Mary Haas |
Ronald Ward |
1931 |
John L. Brown |
Lydia Smith |
1930 |
Mary Wasmer |
Thomas Ringwood |
1929 |
Donald Loefler |
Florence Neale |
1928 |
Zona Kenny |
Dorothy Hailston |
1927 |
Frank Getman |
Robert Humphrey |
1926 |
Doris Jones |
Reginald G. Gaskill |
1925 |
Marie C. Kelly |
Frances E. Schafer |
1924 |
Mildred Rockerfeller |
Katherine Ingersoll |
1923 |
Dorothy White |
Elizabeth Beckwith |
1922 |
Almira Gilchrist |
Clara Wasmer |
1921 |
Mary Gilchrist |
Hilda Shaul |
1920 |
Burton Knapp |
George Knandel |
1919 |
Alfred Taylor |
Ethel Thomas |
1918 |
Marion Redway |
Grace Jones |
1917 |
Gertrude Burns |
Lillian Burch |
1916 |
Jessie Remington |
Jean Reese |
1915 |
Bessie M. Davis |
Ruth Lavinia Murtaugh |
1914 |
Fred Reese |
Mary Carney |
1913 |
Irving Henry McElhose |
Beatrice Blanche Monsel |
1912 |
Helen Annie Hall |
Lyle Kirkland Bushnell |
1911 |
Florence E. Merville |
Roy W. Chandler |
1910 |
Helen Russell |
Pauline Turnbull |
1909 |
Westley Ingersoll |
Fred King |
1908 |
Elsie Johnson (Presley) - (name corrected 3/1/2015) |
Bessie Jarvis (Cross) |
1907 |
Miles Yates |
Carrie Turnbull |
1906 |
Woodbern Remington |
Henry Swift |
1905 |
Ona K. Ringwood |
Leon T. King |
1904 |
Jessie E. Hartford |
Erma Crim |
1903 |
Enid B. Remington |
Fred W. Smith |
1902 |
Grace L. Avery |
Leon G. Ross |
1901 |
Cora A. Taylor |
Mabel E. Tucker |
1900 |
Marjorie Van Deusen |
Marguerite B. Armstrong and Marjorie Squire |
1899 |
A. May Couchman |
Emma E. Chismore |
1898 |
H. Kirkland Smith |
Edna M. Shaw |
1897 |
Leroy F. Shinaman |
Maude H. Burch |
1896 |
Helen R. McCann |
Jessie Skinner Wright |
1895 |
Cora M. Greene |
Genevieve L. Ryan |
1894 |
Estella A. Leach |
Herbert Gough |
1893 |
Adelbert Douglass |
Julia C. Sloan |
1892 |
Marie A. Wilfert |
Nellie L. Quaife |
1891 |
Kate B. Osterhout |
Mary A. Lawton |
1890 |
Helen M. Wright Bacon |
Kate Joerissen |
1889 |
Elizabeth Lewis Haynes |
Willis H. Loomis |
1888 |
Herbert H. Myers |
W. W. Benton, Jr. |
1887 |
Adela VanGumster |
Alfred Brooks Steele |
1886 |
Harry G. Folts |
Willis A. Newth |
1885 |
Lincoln C. Ackler |
Frank S. Hoefler |
1884 |
Clara Angell Russell |
William W. Kirley |
1883 |
Nellie Rulison Parker |
Walter Baker |
1882 |
Genevieve Ostrander Porter |
Fred. B. Sheppard |
1881 |
Charles Comstock Brill |
Frank D. Russell |
1880 |
Nellie Angell Seamans * |
I. Clark Seamans * |
1879 |
Maude Cutler Brockway |
Russell E. Sheperd |
1878 |
Carrie L. Richardson |
Seward Hakes |
1876 |
Ida Eaton Bugbee |
Parker Lewis |
1874 |
Margaret Hotaling Scriber |
Emma Wilson Bennett |
1873 |
Lisette Jones Sherman |
Cornelia Seamans * |
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Two honors have been awarded to members of the graduating class since the establishment of the academic department, those of valedictorian and salutatorian. At first, these were awarded by vote of the class. Later they were awarded by the faculty based on scholarship as determined from the records, the person having the highest general standing being made valedictorian and the one having the next highest standing being made salutatorian.
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Thank you to Joe Collea, Kathleen Carney Donahue and Mike Disotelle for help in researching this topic so that the names for the plaque were inclusive and accurate.
* Notes - 1873 Salutatorian's Full name was Mary Cornelia Seamans. The spelling of her name was corrected from Corneilia to Cornelia. The 1880 Valedictorian's name is showing her full married name. Nellie Angell married Isaac Clark Seamans, Salutatorian of 1880. The I. Clark Seamans Syracuse University Scholarship was endowed in his memory.
Note - The 1908 Valedictorian name was changed from Anna Carney (which was based on a 50th reunion newspaper photograph) to Elsie Johnson
Date page was modified October 23, 2021 - see Ilion Citizen June 25, 1908
Note - The 1921 Salutatorian last name was changed from Shawl to Shaul - October 27, 2021
Note - The 1906 Valedictorian's first name was changed from Woodburn to Woodbern - March 16, 2022
Note - The 1888 Valedictorian's last name was change from Myres to Myers - March 21, 2022
Note - The 1879 Salutatorian's last name was change from Shepard to Sheperd - March 27, 2022
Note - The 1942 Salutatorian's last name was change from Van Wiggeran to Van Wiggeren - November 15, 2023
Thank you to Joe Collea, Kathleen Carney Donahue and Mike Disotelle for help in researching this topic so that the names for the plaque were inclusive and accurate.