Best & Brightest
• Tristan Theissing, daughter of Brett Theissing of Gurnee, was named to the dean's list for 2007 spring term at North Central College, Naperville, for maintaining a grade-point average of 3.6 for the term.
• Nicole Bodin Whiting of Lindenhurst received a bachelor of arts degree in music at the end of the spring 2007 semester from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha.
• The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in Whitewater, Wis., has named the following students to the spring dean's list for the 2006-07 school year. To be eligible for honors, students must have a 3.4 semester grade point average with a minimum of 12 semester credits and no grades lower than a "C":
Antioch: Angelica M. Simonini.
Grayslake: Kelsey Lallensack, Lisa Meyer and Nicole Sarver.
Gurnee: Danyelle Jenkins.
Hawthorn Woods: Cori Kirshner.
Lake Villa: Ryan Boesch and Morgan Gwaltney.
Lake Zurich: Courtney Kropf and Kathryn Saffold.
Libertyville: Elizabeth Kiesewetter, Peter Mazzetta and William Stranberg.
Lindenhurst: Nicholas C. Johnson.
Wauconda: Laura M. Valkman.
• Illinois State University in Normal recognized the following students for their scholarship by including them in the spring 2007 dean's list. To be named, students must achieve grade-point averages that placed them in the top 10 percent of their respective colleges.
Antioch: Jennifer Lauren Buhrmester, Kelsey Marie Dent, Gina Michelle Kalisz, Korin Nikole Knutson, Samantha Jo Meyer and Matthew Clayton Vogel.
Beach Park: Kristin Elizabeth Krueger, Haley Elizabeth Rose and Melissa Dawn Warren.
Fox Lake: Lauren Rachelle Miller.
Grayslake: Eileen Marie Bader, Rhys Geoffrey Baker, Kathryn Ann Billings, Michael Thomas Bundalo, Ryan M. Connolly, Mary A. Geers, Patrick John Glanz, Sarah Ann Hastings and Kristin Marie Sherrick.
Gurnee: Robert Charles Caselli, Jenna Lee Durbin, Alyssa Marie Gustafson, NIchole Elizabeth Kussmann, Adriane Marie Robinson, Allison Marie Semmerling, Bradley James Shaffer, Anne Margaret Tebbetts, Brittany M. Thompson and Alissa Marie Veenstra.
Johnsburg: Sarah Christen Foley.
Lake Villa: Lauren J. Boardman, Danielle Lauren Davis and Lawrence Kenneth Kozial.
Lakemoor: Robert Joseph Tomei.
Lindenhurst: Stefanie Anne Craig, Aaron Lev Gold, Sean Courtney Hackney, Stephanie Mairead McCulley, Matthew Scott Murawski, Heidi Catherine Nader and Mary Marie Renschen.
Round Lake: Marcin Jaszczuk and Chris Adam Mistrata.
Round Lake Beach: Heather Lee Handwerker, Jennifer Ann Hanley and Kirk Lawrence Ogryzek.
Waukegan: Irene Aguilar, Tisha M. Arnold, Amanda Marie August and Kaitlin Mary Bickham.