Graduation 2001: Hillview Middle School Graduation 2001: Hillview Middle School (June 13, 2001)

Eighth-graders at Hillview Middle School will graduate from their school and the Menlo Park City School District on Friday, June 15, during ceremonies that start at 5 p.m. on the school's blacktop.

For many Hillview families, graduation was almost a double-header. Their older students will graduate from Menlo-Atherton High School Thursday afternoon while their eighth-graders were originally scheduled to graduate from Hillview later on Thursday. Changing the Hillview date to Friday provided a happy solution for students and parents.

The ceremony begins with music by the Hillview Graduation Orchestra, directed by music specialist Bob Crabb.

Keeping with a Hillview tradition, all eighth-graders wrote, memorized and presented a speech on the theme, "A Life Lesson." The students, who will be the speakers at graduation, will be chosen early this week after the finalists give their speeches during an assembly.

This year, the students have asked teacher Phil Eaton, a member of the school's resource team, to be the featured adult speaker at graduation.

The Jeff Sorrells Memorial Scholarship will be awarded by the Morris Sorrells family of Atherton for the 15th year in honor of their son, who attended Hillview. The $1,500 scholarship will be used four years from now when this year's recipient graduates from high school.

Principal Mike Moore will give a talk and present the graduating class to the eighth-grade core teachers, who will award diplomas to their students. The core teachers are: Mark Schack, Lesley Martin, Susie Jayasanker, Carolyn Malquist, Daria Finstad, Mike Rogers and Margaret Appenheimer. Assisting them will be Lynn Eisner, student activities director.

After the ceremony, the graduates will celebrate in Hillview's recently completed multi-use building at a party, planned by their parents on a surprise theme. Hillview School's candidates for graduation are:

Greg Ackerman, Nick Anderson, Devon Arscott, David Bar-Gadda, Rachel Barclay, Hadley Barnard, Amie Baron, Lauren Bauccio, Scott Bauer, Ali Belich, Rebecca Beltramo, Sara Bennett, Eric Berman, Ryan Blake, Whitney Bliss, Byron Blum, Teddy Boeddiker, Michael Borcich, Jason Bostian, Roshanda Brown, Lisa Burgelin, Jason Burks
Christina Calderon, Jeffrey Chavolla, Jessica Chen, Jacqueline Ching, Natalie Chladek, Julia Choe, Joshua Citron, Spencer Collom, Heather Colquhoun, Julia Comita, Jennifer Connet, Martin Cooper, Mikael Corne, Julia Crager, Ryan Crawford, Michael Cutter
Christopher Dallmar, Chris Darby, Devon Davey, Aaron Davis, Clinton Deforest, Scott Delly, Patrick Desmond, Mark Donig, Joanna Draeger, Elizabeth Drescher, Joshua Drouin, , Cameron Eder, Laura Eiselstein, Jason Eldridge, Nicole Engelhardt, Aimee Escobar
Pardis Farhadian, Neil Ferrari, Carson Finkle, Alexandra Fisher, Kelly Fisher, Benjamin Fitch, Erik Fowle, Paul Frankle, Laura Furney-Howe, Melitta Garagozzo, Chantal Garduno-Israde, Whitney Genevro, Natasha Gerber, Meghan Gieber, Vanessa Gonzalez, Stephan Goupille, Addison "A. J." Gross, Elizabeth Gruber, Richard Guzzo
Kelly Hansen, Kelly Hardy, Jennifer Hess, Cassandra Heuckroth, Laura Hobson, Amanda Hughes, , Alexander Illyes, Lisa Jacobs, Elena Jimenez, Luis Jimenez, Isabel Jimeno, Patrick Johnson, Bryan Jorgenson, Michael Jorgenson
David Kalin, Steffen Kammerer, Michael Kares, Daniel Karis, Danielle Kielty, Kerry Kilduff, Jacob Koshland, , Waisele Latukefu, Daryl Lau, Miles Lawson, Justin Lazar, Rachael Lazar, Huy Le, Ashleigh Leathers, Brittany Leonard, Sarah Lewis, Spencer Little, Adriano Lo Grasso
Nathan Majors, Sesika Malimali, Samantha Martinez, Mery Martinez-Ponce, Gia Matzinger, Nathan Mazonson, David McCavitt, K.C. McColloch, Kirstin McGhee, Kaitlin McGill, Ross McIntire, Jennifer McKubre, David Miller, Joshua Moffett, Martin Mokry, Najm Mustafa
Alexandra Naylor, Sam Ng, Emily O'Brien, Kate O'Brien, Kelly Ota, , Jana Parker, Carrie Peck, Eric Peterson, Lindsay Peterson, Michael Peterson, Justin Pirzadeh, John Power
Cameron Rehlaender, Elizabeth Reiter, Eric Rhine, Tyler Rich, Tye Ripma, Laura Roberts, Abigail Robinson, Spencer Rohn, Brandon Rolle, Matthew Rooney, Kelly Roth, Marie-Anais Roussel, Lynn Rudolph, Dwight Rundle, Zack Russell, Romana Ryals
John Salem, Andrew Sanchez, Tanive Sanchez, Shaun Sauer, Benjamin Schack, Juliet Schiebold, Samantha Schlisserman, Jessica Scott, Michael Sedlacek, Martin Sheehan-Stross, Glenn Shelton, Mark Sheridan, Darian Shirazi, Chelsea Simpson, Hillary Sinnott, Alyra Slocum, Bryan Smith, Elyse Smith, Maria Smyrniotis, Araceli Solache, Christina Somporn, Benjamin Steele, Brandon Sterling, Brady Stern, Grant Stevenson
Victoria Tanoury, Ryan Terribilini, Matthew Thomas, Gilbert Thomson, Katherine Tippets, Max Torres, Kyle Trammell, Rebecca Truong, Sebastian Turner, Kenneth Ushman, Bryan Vaars, Joseph Vaka, Victor Valencia, Jennifer Vazquez, Viliami Vea
Ellen Von Wiegand, Jacob Wachtel, Corey Walter, Grant Watters, Seth Weil, Rebecca Weiss, Jonathan Whiteaker, Chris Williams, Christine Williams, Randall Wilson, Blake Woodard, Kelly Wright, Marissa Zappas, Katie Zeiser, Maria Zelaya, Alice Zhukhovitskiy