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East Catholic Graduates 176 in School's 47th Commencement Ceremony

The Catholic high school held its commencement ceremony Thursday evening at the Cathedral of St. Joseph's in Hartford.

Ask just about any of the 176 seniors who received their high school diplomas from East Catholic Thursday evening as part of the school’s forty-seventh commencement ceremony what they would miss most about their time spent at the catholic high school and their answers would have been about the same: the sense of family and belonging that comes with being a part of the East Catholic community.

“It’s a very close knit community,” said Joe Wik, the president of the school’s senior class who plans on attending Fairfield University in the fall. “You feel very welcome when you come here.”

The graduation ceremony was held Thursday evening at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford; Manchester had 38 students graduate from East Catholic in 2011.

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Diplomas were presented to the graduating class by the Most Reverend Christie Macaluso, auxiliary bishop and vicar general of the Archdiocese of Hartford, and the Baccalaureate address was delivered by Dr. Erin Bakanas, a 1979 graduate of East Catholic who has gone on to a renowned medical career.

“I’ve made so many memories here,” said Andrew Kim, who serves as the school’s student body president and plans on attending the University of Connecticut in the fall. “Every single moment that I’ve spent here, I cherish it so much.”

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Here is the complete list of Thursday’s graduates in alphabetical order:

Josef Abele, Alexander Agnelli, Zarrin Ahmed, Jennifer Appel, Nicholas Artikes, Rebecca Bacewicz, Hongyang Bai, Dante Balassone, Aaron Balfour, Alexandrea Banks, Amanda Baum, Ryan Beaupre, Anthony Behr, Olivia Bis, Julie Boglisch, Jocelyn Bolduc, Brice Boutot, Leah Branchesi, Brianna Breen, Stephanie Brew, Jordan Bridges, Emily Briggs, Chris Brodeur, Rohan Brown, John Brownell, John Bugnacki, Courtney Bujese, Jonathan Burr, Samuel Butler, Alaska Butterfield, Jenna Caetano, Jordan Caiola, Maria Canela, Christian Carpenter, Rene Casasanta, Mary Francis Casey, Amanda Charette, Samantha Chaves, Kyle Cholawa, Sean Coughlin, Joseph Crispino, Khai Dang, Elizabeth Deffley, Daniel DeFilippo, Nicholas Dellaripa, Lauren DeMartino, Erin DeMay, Dominic DePellegrini, Gabrielle Deschamps, Sarah DeWolf, Monica Diaz, Alyson DiCiancia, Daniel DiFiore, Kelly Dionne, Kelly DiStefano, Henry Downes, John Driscoll, Carl Duesler.

Corey Edsall, Nicole Fiorey, Tommy Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth Flannery, Maranda Fleet, Nicholas Fleming, Jaclyn Flores, Alexander Fontaine, Allyson Fournier, Kathryn Fowler, Eva Fulco, Michelle Gaffney, Nicole Gawlik, Joseph Geryk, Stephen Gluhosky, Bless Gomes, Mariah Gonzalez, Mark Gonzalez, Zachary Gonzalez, Kayla Green, Timothy Greika, Alyssa Grenier, Andrew Hastings, Holly Havens, Tara Higgins, Tanekwah Hinds, Casey Horan, Eric Johnson, Nicole Kaminski, Samantha Kaseta, Julia Khalil, Sarah Kielbania, Andrew Kim, Shannon Klock, Nana Koduah, Luc Lagace, Evan Landry, Cassandra Lavoie, Nathan Le, Alex Lee, Sheila Lehmann, Ashley Leonard, Michael Lepore.

Julie Maloney, Jenna Malyszko, Richard Mannarino, Samantha Marshall, Michael McMahon, Edmund Molleur, Patricia Moree, Tre Morrison, Kelly Murphy, Michelle Napolitano, Ashley Naucapoma, Sarah Neff, Jared Nelson, Stephanie Nickerson, Victoria Nicoletta, Keith Nielsen, Theresa Oei, Connor O'Leary, Joseph O'Neill, Loren Pachesa, Tucker Panciera, Daniel Parisi, Olivia Patrizzi, Nicole Pulito, Savannah Quental, Joseph Reilly, Alexander Richard, Shelby Rimetz, William Riordan, Dahiana Rivera, Derek Roberge, Emily Rock, Taryn Roy, Samantha Russo, Alexander Sahi, Christopher Salvatore, Ava Sawicka, Kaitlin Scanlon, Michael Scanlon, Eric Schaller, Hanna Schuschke, Jillian Scott, Monica Seguro, Kelvin Sims, Jason Smith, Kelsey Sobestanovich, Aaron Soucy, Zachary Spicer, Patrick Sullivan, Matthew Sullivan, Rebecca Talamini, Nicholas Tallo, Edward Tash, Victoria Taylor, Stephanie Ternullo, Connor Tredway, Erica Trenholm, Sara Truszkowski, Alexa Vernadakis, Michael Villano, Erik ViVenzio, Dylan Waitkus, Carolyn Wallace, Justin Warshavsky, Maria Weber, Erika Weisenburger, Joseph Wetherell, Joseph Wik, Jasmine Williams, Zachary Wirtalla, Agatha Wojciechowska, Yixin Wu, Kaikai Xu, Giuliana Zaccardelli, Zhen Zhou.


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