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Drama
Teachers
Congratulations to all the recipients of the "Outstanding Heart Award". Demonstrating the importance of relationships and how teachers touch the lives of children everyday!!
Matt Fusco
Laura Ferris
Tom Painting
Larry DeBellis
Jeff Roberts
Dolly Parker
Marybeth Mueller
Tina Scahill
Pat Albring
Ellen Lamb
Marc Della Gloria
Lisa Kasdin
Maria Mendicino
Christina Peters
Clarence Lewis
Rochester Theater Hall of Fame
Adele M. Fico
Athletics
Robert Watkins, Rochester City Athletic Conference Champion in the Shot put. Place 4th overall in indoor State in the Shot Put. He was undefeated in the RCAC in the Shot Put this year. He is also the School of the Arts record Holder in the Shot Put.
Zoe Christopher is the first student in RCSD history to be awarded a Division I scholarship in the sport of Rowing.
Zoe Christopher has been named Scholar Athlete of the week by WHEC Channel 10 News. She has excelled in the sport of rowing as well in the classroom. This year she was named Youth Rower of the Year by Cross Currents Rowing Club.
Instrumental Music
School of the Arts Wins Seven Awards at
National Heritage Music Festival Competition
Matt Sieber-Ford was selected
as the lead tenor sax player in the
All County Jazz Band
SOTA Stars
The one and only,
Ms. Adele Fico,
has been inducted to the Women’s Hall of Fame!
She was awarded the
Women’s Hall of Fame Lives and Legacy Award
for her contributions to Arts and Entertainment. The ceremony is part of the MamaPalooza Festival 2009, which is a world-wide festival that honors women.
Theatre Technology
Visual Arts
Academics
Senior, Zoe Johnson has been recognized as a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Competition.
Anjalene Whittier was awarded an internship, this Summer, in Washington, D.C. with the Library of Congress
Dance
Senior dance major Magdaliz Feliz has won the 2009 Monroe County Young Citizen of the year Award.
Vocal Music
Creative Writing
Congratulations to Hanna Amireh, one of 6 national winners in the 2010 Nicholas Virgilio Memorial Haiku Comp. There were 1,575 entries in this year’s competition.
Taisha Marrero, was selected to win first place in the 6-8 grade age category in the ELS & Writers & Books There’s No Place Like Home Poetry Contest.
Please congratulate the following SOTA students who won the Friends of the Rochester Public Library Sokol Writing awards this year.
Mary Rice (1st place, fiction )
Angela Rollins (3rd place, fiction)
Taylor Rugg (2nd place, poetry)