The graduation ceremonies continued across Clarkston as the Class of 2020 at Everest Collegiate High School officially wrapped up their high school career on June 28. Valedictorians Mary Beth Williams and Eduardo Dominguez spoke, then were followed by Integer Award recipients Colleen Walker and Fernando Caccia. There wasn’t a dry eye at the event after […]
Everest Collegiate High School graduated its 25-member Class of 2020, June 28.
Clarkston has been nationally recognized by LendEDU for having one of the highest proportions of residents that hold a bachelor’s degree. After analyzing data for over 25,000 American cities, each was ranked according to its percentage of college graduates relative to its current population. Specifically, Clarkston has 8,676 college graduates out of a population of 46,838, which is 18.52 percent. These […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor He’s a husband, father, educator, and superintendent. And on June 26, Shawn Ryan became a doctor. On that day, Ryan successfully defended his doctoral dissertation to a panel of Oakland University educators and Clarkston Community Schools’ Assistant Superintendent of Instructional Services Nancy Mahoney. The capstone project was entitled “The […]
Anthony Malinowski, of Clarkston, has been named to the Academic High Honor list (Dean’s List) for the Spring 2020 semester at Minnesota State University. To qualify for academic honors, undergraduate students must be enrolled for at least 12 credit hours for the semester. Among 4,290 students, a total of 1,485 students qualified for the High […]
Clarkston Community Schools, in partnership with Chartwells School Dining, is committed to providing free “Grab and Go” breakfast and lunch for all students throughout the summer. The district has been providing free breakfast and lunch for all students since March and has distributed 167,026 meals to date. In July and August, the full week’s meals […]
Sarah Lacey and Andrew Ross, both of Clarkston, have been named to the Cedarville University Dean’s Honor List for the Spring 2020 semester. This recognition requires students to maintain a 3.75 GPA for the semester while taking a minimum of 12 credit hours. Located in southwest Ohio, Cedarville University is an accredited, Christ-centered, Baptist institution. […]
The Chapter AW/Clarkston of PEO International has named Maggie Gipe, Clarkston High School Class of 2020, the winner of the PEO STAR Scholarship, a prestigious $2500 scholarship awarded to exceptional young senior women to attend an accredited postsecondary educational institution in the United States or Canada in the next academic year. PEO is a philanthropic […]
BY MATT MACKINDER Clarkston News Editor In an email last week to Clarkston Community Schools families, Superintendent Shawn Ryan said with all the uncertainty pertaining to the next school year the district will offer in-person school as well as the option to learn online. Three “learning zones” were outlined: in-person learning (students and teachers in school […]
The University of Alabama awarded some 6,326 degrees this spring. Among the graduates was Erin McNeil of Clarkston, who received a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts. *** Jaydon Septer of Clarkston was one of 523 students named to the Dean’s List at Heidelberg University for the Spring 2020 semester. Heidelberg University is […]