4/28/2021
Natalie Hawkins, left, valedictorian and Gabriele Martinelli the salutatorian of the Class of 2021.
BLACKSTONE – A turbulent senior year has ended in success for Blackstone-Millville Regional High School’s top students, who will lead their class during graduation ceremonies in June.
Natalie Hawkins and Gabriele Martinelli have been named the valedictorian and salutatorian of the Class of 2021. Both students are members of the National Honor Society who invested their time during high school in AP classes, extracurricular activities and band.
Hawkins, the daughter of Lauren Hawkins of Milford, Mass., and Daniel Hawkins of Blackstone, is an aspiring artist who plans to attend the Rhode Island School of Design in the fall. She told The Breeze she enjoys drawing portraits and storyboard characters and hopes to pursue illustration. Last spring, she created a picture honoring health care workers that was sent to employees at Mass General Hospital.
Howard High School junior Peter Banyas and Glenelg High School junior Dhruvi Mirani are running for the Howard County student school board member position.
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DHS students earn coveted Texas Music Scholars Award
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Ten talented members of Denison High School’s award-winning band have been named Texas Music Scholars, one of the state’s most prestigious awards that recognizes students who are musically and academically gifted, as well as actively involved in their school and community.
Denison’s 2021 esteemed Texas Music Scholars are: David Ariza – 11th grade French Horn, Kayden Bryant – 12th grade Trumpet, Gavin Dunaway – 10th grade Trumpet, Axton Grams – 11th grade Trumpet, Sean Hively, 10th grade Euphonium, Rose Brown – 11th grade Percussion, John Dornstadter – 11th grade Alto Saxophone, Michael Golston – 9th grade Bb Clarinet, Madison Griffis – 9th grade Tenor Trombone, and Luke Sparlin – 11th grade Trumpet.
Teen is 1st Black valedictorian in her school s 152-year history
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Onovu Otitigbe-Dangerfield is the first Black student to be named valedictorian at Albany High School in New York s 152-year history. Onovu will graduate in June with a 4.0 GPA.
This 17-year-old is the first Black valedictorian in her New York high school s 152-year history.
Onovu Otitigbe-Dangerfield will graduate in June from Albany High School with a 4.0 GPA. It s overwhelming and really surreal to me, especially hearing from Black girls from other schools that it inspired and motivated them, reaching out to me [saying] it was so nice to see one of us in there, Onovu told Good Morning America. It s not really a win for just me, it s a win for my community. I feel a responsibility now. I m not only representing myself. I m representing a group of people.