"Graduation '09"
5/18/2009
Commencement exercises for the St. Thomas More School Class of 2009 were held this past Saturday, May 16th, at 1 o'clock in Our Lady's Chapel on the school campus. 47 members of the Senior Class were presented with their high school diplomas. The Graduation speaker was Donald "Dee" Rowe. Rowe was the head coach of the UCONN Huskies from 1969-1977 and currently serves as a Special Advisor for Athletics at UCONN. He urged the students to "have a passion for life, and make everyday a full day." Prior to the graduation ceremony, a Baccalaureate Mass was held in Our Lady's Chapel.
Valedictorian for the Senior Class was Tae Ho Lee of Korea. Wenjie Zhong, who is from China, was the Salutatorian.
For further information on the event, please contact Director of Alumni Relations MaryLou Gannotti by telephone at 859-1900 ext. 149, or by e-mail at mgannotti@stmct.org.
The following is a complete list of graduates:
- James S. Abraham, Jr.
- Kevin Scott Beardsley
- Thomas Emilio Capraro, III
- George Frederick Chandler III
- Shang-Wei Chen
- Wei-Chia Cehn
- Seog Cho
- Scott Robert Delaney
- Irving Fayman
- Nicholas M. Fournier
- Mark Dominic Deluke Gomez
- Alvin Gregory Hageman, IV
- Kojin Hoshiba
- Devlin Thomas Holihan Mann
- Yong Shik Hwang*
- Alejandro Iberri Zatarain
- Daniel Kevin Jackson
- Daniel Gordon Jennings
- Dong Gyun Jo
- Il Mun Jung
- Jun Jie Kang
- Ji Song Kim
- Sung Tae Kim
- George Kipiani
- Thomas Crawford Kooris
- Kuan-Chun Lai
- Ho Chan Lee
- Jae Jun Lee
- Sang-Jun Lee*
- Tae Ho Lee*
- Po-Cheng Lin*
- James B. Lomma
- Jonathan Clifton Louis*
- John Leo Lyons
- Remy Maxime Menard
- Bryan Thomas Philippon
- Nicholas William Price
- Justin Ryan Rankowitz
- Ji-Ho Rhew
- Alexander George Mavrides Rodgers
- Trevor-Christian Alexander Sandlin
- Jamie Durant Sanger*
- Mo Sun
- Zeming Teng*
- Farhan Uddin
- Chi-Yang Wu
- Wenjie Zhong*
*denotes membership in National Honor Society