2008 Commencement Awards
Writing and Programming
Extemporaneous Essay Contest — Philip Johnston
Essay topic: “The Benefit of the Doubt”
The GFA Scholarship — Joshua Michalek
Essay topic: “What Should Be the Response of Fundamental Christians to
Social, Religious and Political Initiatives about Global Warming”
Computer Science Programming Contest — Jordan Jueckstock
Art and Photography
Two-Dimensional: Oil
Cassia Leidigh — Adam
Three-Dimensional: Ceramics
Sam Gerdt — Hope
Graphic Design: Digital
Jared Stanley — The Process
Photography
Jared Stanley — Fly
Music and Speech
Brass — Peter Bailey (horn)
Variations on Haydn’s Theme, Yitzhak Graziani
Men’s Voice — Ye Young Daniel Lee (baritone)
“Nemico della patria?!” from Andrea Chénier, Umberto Giordano
Piano — John Hudson
Sonata No. 5 in F Minor, Op. 72 from Finalé — Allegro con fuoco, York Bowen
Strings — Samuel Arnold (violin)
Toccata-Scherzo, Albert Glinsky
Women’s Voice — Jennifer Olinger (soprano)
“Caro Nome” from Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi
Woodwinds — Catherine Jones (flute)
“Pan and the Shepherds” from La Flûte de Pan, Op. 15, Jules Mouquet
Dramatic Reading — Taryn Habegger
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Duo Acting — Shiloh Hudson and Taryn Habegger
Two, Ron Elisha
Original Oratory — Daniel Nickerson
“Joy”
Poetry — Joseph Fant
“Lee as Seen through the Eyes of His Aide-de-Camp”, Stephen Vincent Benet
Accompanists: Amberley Cox, Jennifer Renner, Timothy Renner