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6A 2016 Here is a list of 2016 graduates of Newport Central Catholic High School. Sydney Marie Adamson, Brian Patrick Anderson, Erik Thomas Anderson, Blake Anthony Baioni, Scott Anthony Barrett, Jillian Rose Barth, Logan Joseph Baxter, Chaise Daniel Blanchet, Kyle Michael A llen Bleser, Chad A. Brewer, Joseph Michael Broering, Peter McMillian Brothers, Katelynn Nicole Bryant, David A ustin Buechel, Konner Lee Carmack, Dominic Alberto Ciafardini, Hannah Elizabeth Cox, Ethan C. Craig, Ansley McKenna Davenport (Salutatorian). Peyton A.

Davis, Mariah Kaye Drohan, Brandon Everett Duesing, Briana Renee Embry, Thomas Michael Faust, Morgan Elizabeth Feldmann, Amber Lee Greis, Olivia Joy Gross, Hannah Louise Hammond, Ryan Mic hael Hans, Jenna Marie Hansman, Ethan James Hardt, Johnathon Robert Harris, Rachel Marie Hatfield, Alexandra Rose Heck, Sarah Marie Herman, Bryson Vincent Hightchew, Kristian Lawrence olloway, Cameron Daniel Hoover, aroline Isabel Huseman. alter Donald Johnson, Samuel homas Kaelin, Benjamin Thomas Kaufman, Alexa Joan Kehoe, Erin risten Kemper, Alexis Megan Klaserner, Luke Thomas Kues, Maleek Antonio Lawrence, Makayla Jade Lawrence, Mikayla Leopold, Andrew Samuel Liles, Noah Matthew Liles, John Christopher Ludwig, Corey Taylor Martin, Morgan Kenneth Martinez Valedictorian), Kennedy Shae McDermott, Griffin Michael McHugh, Robert C. Meyer, Peyton James Murphy, Mic helle Murrin, Joseph Charles Niehaus, Parker Alan Osburg, Zachary Michael Osburg, Collin Dale Owens, Katherine Ann Parnell, Trevor William Rawe, Joshua Daniel Reaves, Christopher Michael Romito, Amanda Ruwe, Josh Nicholas Schneider, Madelyn Janae Schweinzger, Brooke Danielle Secrist, Brooke Sepate, Donnelly Marie Simmins, Jacob Aaron Smith, adison R. Stoelting, Robert W. Stoelting, Zachary Thomas Swope, Kobe Robert Tallon, Brayden Michael Templeton, Jolene Victoria Tipton, Dana Catherine Tucker, Jonathan David wehues, Ty Bailey Vance, Benjamin onald Weyer, Kameron Randall Wint er, Matthew Gregory Wood, Owen ichael Workman.

NEWPORT CENTRAL CATHOLIC GRADUATES Northern Kentucky excavation of first co-ed, racially integrated chool has resumed this summer in collaboration with in- ernational scholar Dr. Peggy Brunache. Brunache has been awarded a prestigious Ford Founda- ion Postdoctoral Foundation fellowship to help advance the roject. In May 2015, NKU faculty and students began the first- ver excavation of the Parker Academy site, located in New Richmond, Ohio. The artifacts unearthed and documents uncovered are eventually destined for a permanent exhibit at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati.

am delighted to be able return to Northern Kentucky University to help continue and advance this import ant Brunache said. Academy was a beacon of light in a dark time in A merican history, and it is important to bring its lessons to light once runache is an international expert in historical archeology and slavery and a senior collaborator on the Parker Academy project. Last September, she supervised a ig at the site and led educational events at KU and the Freedom Cent er regarding the international significance of the roject. She is an instructor at the University of Dundee in cotland. In the coming year Brunache will supervise excava- ions at the site; oversee the archival work of connecting historical documents to the artifacts unearthed; and work with experts at the Freedom Center to build the permanent exhibit.

She will also develop outreach and preservation efforts to help pave the way for the site to be placed on the ational Register of Historic Places. This is the first time NKU as received support from the Ford Foundation, an initiative of The National Academies of ciences, Engineering and Medicine. Just 20 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows hips are awarded each year. are thankful that the Ford Foundation recognizes the significance of this project and the expertise that Peggy said Dr. Sharyn Jones, hair of Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy Department.

hope to exp and the international nature of the work, while also trengthening the connections to the Last year work on the pro- ect focused upon retrieving artifacts from the site and rganizing the historical papers on loan from the Parker Family Archive. hat work continues, but the focus will now move toward putting a human face on the Parker Academy by using those artifacts and documents to tell the stories of specific individuals who lived and worked there. Brunache will help shape those efforts. more we find, the ore special and unique we realize this place really said Dr. Brian Hackett, direct or of Public History Program.

want to collect these stories and make them NKU faculty and students are also using 21st century torytelling techniques to showcase their work on the project through an Instagram account, Dig, as well as a blog: parkera- cademy.wordpress.com. THANKS TO AMANDA NAGELEISEN NKU students excavate in and along the foundation of the dorm in May 2016 at Parker Academy in New Richmond Ohio, the first co-ed, integrated school in Ohio. Behind them, a second group works to screen the ediments and collect artifacts from the buckets of dirt. NKU to keep uncovering first integrated school Brunache HIGHLAND HEIGHTS For the next five weeks, Northern Kentucky University will be home to more than 360 of top high school students. igh school seniors selected or cholar Program will live in Residential Village in Highland Heights.

Scholars will attend classes and seminars daily in Griffin Hall and other academic build- i ngs. Evenings and weekends ill be time for students to at- end special events. Planned trips include visits to Cincinnati Zoo, Newport Aquarium, Cincinnati Reds baseball, and Nat ional Underground Railroad reedom Center in Cincinnati. We are proud to again host the Scholars said NKU President Geoffrey S. Mearns.

pro- ram helps Kentucky accom- lish its goals by creating trong leaders and a skilled workforce right here in the commonwealth, a goal our university They will have access to the Campus Recreation Center and otruba Student Union. Service learning opportunities will be offered including volunteering for Hoxworth Blood Center and Special Olympics. living and learning on campus, the students will receive the full college experi- nce but they will also be im- ersed in the said r. Kimberly Clayton-Code, program liaison and professor of gifted and talented education in College of Education and Human Services. The Scholar Pro- ram was created in 1983 to help reate the next generation of ivic and economic leaders and showcase the educational and career opportunities offered across Kentucky.

It is offered ree of charge to outstanding igh school seniors. rominent Governor Scholar Program alumni include U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie and Trey Grayson, president of Northern entucky Chamber of Comm erce and former Kentucky ecretary of State. More than 1,000 students participate in the Scholar Program on three Kentucky college campuses.

NKU hosted scholars in 2004, a nd will now host them through 2018. FILE PHOTO Kentucky Scholar Program students will find study spaces like this inside Northern Kentucky Griffin Hall during a five-week tay in the summer of 2016 on the Highlands Heights campus. Top high school scholars spend summer at NKU FORT THOMAS Jason Paul is studying to be an engi- eer while a student at Highl ands High School where he designed hisown working miniature airplane. Paul will take one of four new engineering classes offered at the Fort Thomas school when classes begin Aug. 11.

The University of Cincinnati is offering Paul and other students dual credit for taking a new Engineering II course. tudents will design their own reations on computers and hen build them in a school TEM lab. aul said he enjoys tinkering and building miniature ars, planes or metal designs in his basement at home. If I think of an idea just sit down and draw he said. Fort Thomas Independent chools has been expanding STEM (science, technology, ngineering and mathematics) classes at Highlands Middle chool and the high school, said Ron Rosel, engineering echnology teacher.

Pathways to associate deg rees, certificate programs and college are all built into the STEM curriculum, Rosel aid. obotics and dual credit Engineering II aretwo new classes aimed at juniors and seniors, Rosel said. Students taking dual credit engineering will have a chance to design using Inventor, a mechanical design and 3-D CAD program, and be able to use a new 3-D printer. Highlands will later add a ew advanced manufacturing lass as an alternative to tak- i ng robotics, he said. osel remade a pair of ex- i sting computer-aided design CAD) courses into a princi- plesof engineering technol- gy course and a fundamentals of engineering class.

A bout 20 to 25 students will take each STEM class. Highlands adds college credit engineering class Chris Mayhew CHRIS COMMUNITY RECORDER Highlands High School junior ason Paul uses a caliper to make a precise measurement of a worn-out oscillating sander wheel his team was preparing to make a 3-D printer during an ngineering class. CHOOLS CHOOLS A LEXANDRIA RECORDER Editor: Nancy Daly, 578-1059.