La Entrada School in Menlo Park, the first of four local eighth-grade graduations this week, will hold its traditional “promotional exercise” on Wednesday, June 13, at 6 p.m. on the school’s blacktop.
The program features student speakers; short, recorded reflections by the eighth-graders; music; and award presentations. The eighth-graders will enter the assembly area to the sounds of “World” by Five for Fighting and will exit to “One Love” by Bob Marley.
Mary Ann Somerville, superintendent of the Las Lomitas School District, will welcome the students, their families and guests.
Again, this year, the featured speakers will be four graduating eighth- graders. They are Evan Amato, Su Lin Blodgett, Joe Wise and Colin Sutton, La Entrada student body president.
All eighth-graders wrote an essay in their English classes about some thing, person or place that inspired them. The speeches were narrowed to finalists, who gave their speeches to teachers who served as judges.
La Entrada Principal Dee Brummett will announce the student awards.
A representative of the Larry McCarty Foundation for Kids will present the Larry McCarty Inspirational Award to an eighth-grader, who was nominated by a peer and chosen by a committee of foundation and school representatives.
Lee Anderson, president of the Las Lomitas district school board, will award the diplomas.
A reception will be held immediately after the ceremony before the graduates celebrate at “Grad Night,” the party planned by their parents, in the school’s Jensen Hall.
La Entrada graduates
A-C Dalila Adofo, Evan Amato, Sergio Balcazar-Mendoza, Katherine Barrus, Juliette Berlin, Kristopher Bliss, Su Lin Blodgett, Clark Bonham, Adalyn Brian, Cedric Brossard, Caroline Bucksbaum, Lara Butler, James Buttram, Teresa Cain, Katie Castro, Jennifer Chan, Michael Chan, Michael Chu, Elena Cleary, Nicholas CuisinotD-G Troy Davis, D’Eric Deckard, Grant Dettmer, Matthew Diaz, Emily Dorst, Anastasios Douglas, Amy Du Bose, Maria Elicea, Lauren Espeseth, David Faris, Robert Faris, Victoria Fernandez, Shelby Fero, Galen Fliege, Prescott Foland, Thomas Forter, Siobhan Foster, Jonathan Friedman, Taylor Gananian, Spencer Gump
H-L Sean Higgins, Karin Hiltbrand, Megan Hinshaw, Jonathan Hoech, Rachel Jewell, Ryan Johnston, Arseny Kaluzhinsky, Koji Kameda, Cameron Kelley, Caitlin Kenney, Franklin Knowles, Stephanie Krutolow, Maximillian Lin, Svenja Lintz, David Lockwood
M-R Ian Macartney, MacKenzie Masten, Ausia Mataele, Louis McCabe, Reed McConnell, William McConnell, Zachary Metteauer, Sarah Mitchell, Shayan Modjtehedi, Hafiz Mohammad Hazani, Zoe Moyer, Kenta Muraoka, Takumi Nakagawa, Andrew Nixon, Clemence Parmentier, Emma Paye, Jackson Rafter, Samuel Ransohoff, Alexandra Richardson, Samuel Rupprecht
S-T Atzin Sanchez, Bailey Scott, Beatrice Segura, Thomas Selby, Summer Senna, Rod Shayesteh, Jake Smith, Julia Sommer, Noah Stid, Sophia Stid, Rebecca Strehlow, Colin Sutton, Miranda Tabuena, Forrest Thurston, Kirsten Tinyo, Adrian Torres-Flores, Sela Tupou, Stefan Turkowski, Theodore Tussing
V-Z Katrina Van Atta, Alec Van Stone, Jai Vaswani, Juliette Verstaen, Nikhil Viswanathan, Celia Walker, Victoria Walsh, Lachlynn Warner, James Wenzel, Robert Wickers, Joseph Wise, Leah Worthington, Margot Yecies, Alexander Youngberg, Conrad Yu, and Lupita Zamora
