Best & Brightest
• Dr. Lauren B. Katz graduated May 19, 2007 from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, and entered a family medicine residency in July at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. Katz is the daughter of Jeffrey and Debra Katz of Hickory, N.C., and is married to Twan Pham from Palatine.
She is a 1999 graduate of Naperville North High School and earned her bachelor's degree in kinesiology in 2003 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. While in medical school, Katz served as Student Ambassador and family medicine interest group service chair and in the American Cancer Society's Special Friends. She received the SIU School of Medicine Alumni scholarship in 2006 and honors in pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, internal medicine and neurology clerkships.
• Stephen Greiman, son of Steve and Kay Greiman of Barrington, was awarded a Rising Scholar Scholarship for the 2007-08 academic year from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. The scholarship is funded by the Robert Campbell Foundation. Greiman is a Barrington High School graduate.
• Eugene Park, a graduate of Palatine High School, was awarded an international Engineering Scholarship from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The award includes a $1,000 scholarship, help with round trip airfare to any study destination worldwide, and $3,000 per semester for one or two semesters abroad.
Park is a freshman majoring materials science and engineering at the U of I.
• Coralie Jackman, a 2007 graduate of Palatine High School, was awarded an International Engineering Scholarship from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The award includes a $1,000 scholarship, help with round trip airfare to any study destination worldwide, and $3,000 per semester for one or two semesters abroad. Jackman is majoring in aerospace engineering.
• Brianne R. Sadowski, daughter of Don and Susan Sadowski of Inverness, accepted membership in The National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Sadowski was honored during an Induction Convocation this fall on the campus of Illinois State University in Normal.
Sadowski is a 2005 graduate of Fremd High School.
• John Heller, a graduate of Fremd High School, Palatine, was awarded an International Engineering Scholarship to study chemical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The award includes a $1,000 scholarship, help with round trip airfare to any study destination worldwide, and $3,000 per semester for one or two semesters abroad.
• Erik Babcock, a graduate of Fremd High School, was awarded an International Engineering Scholarship from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The award includes a $1,000 scholarship, help with round trip airfare to any study destination worldwide, and $3,000 per semester for one or two semesters abroad.
Babcock is majoring in aerospace engineering in Urbana-Champaign.
• Alex Lee, a graduate of William Fremd High School, has been awarded an International Engineering Scholarship from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The award includes a $1,000 scholarship, help with round trip airfare to any study destination worldwide, and $3,000 per semester for one or two semesters abroad. Lee is studying general engineering at Illinois.
• Dominican University in River Forest named the following residents of Palatine to the Honor's list for the spring 2007 semester: Matthew Jakobsze, a graduate of William Fremd High School majoring in psychology; Katarzyna Macioch, a graduate of Palatine High School; Ryan Sylverne, a graduate of Palatine High School majoring in history; and Amy Whitcomb, a graduate of Carmel High School majoring in psychology.
To qualify for the Honor's List, students must achieve a semester grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.00 scale.
• Ryan J. Ostrander of Barrington has been admitted to the three-year bachelor of business administration program at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. During his freshman year at the University of Michigan, Ostrander, a 2006 graduate of Barrington High School, earned a 3.9 GPA and was awarded University Honors.
• Eric R. Albrecht from Barrington, a student at Barrington High School, was selected for membership in the National Society of High School Scholars. The Society recognizes the top scholars in the nation and invites only those students who have achieved superior academic excellence.
• Daniel Rhodes, a 2005 graduate of Barrington High School, was named to the College of Arts and Sciences' Spring 2007 Dean's List at Indiana University, Bloomington. To qualify he earned at least a 3.70 grade-point average.
• William F. Cornelius of Palatine received a bachelor's degree May 5, 2007 from Kansas State University in Manhattan.
• Kevin Francis Boysen, son of Greg and Nancy Boysen of Palatine, was inducted into the Sigma Alpha Lambda Leadership and Honors Organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Kristen Ann Hunter of Palatine accepted membership in the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and was honored at an induction convocation last fall on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington. Membership is by invitation only, based on grade point average and class standing. Hunter received a GPA of 3.95 on a 4.0 scale for the 2006-07 academic year.
• Rob Browy son of Bob and Nadine Browy of Deer Park, is the recipient of the Eastern Illinois University Excellence in Fine Arts Scholarship Award. Browy, a freshman majoring in theater at EIU in Charleston, is a 2007 graduate of Lake Zurich High School.
• Megan Kunzweiler, daughter of David and Joellen Kunzweiler of Palatine, received a bachelor's degree with a major in German from Northwestern University's Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Kunzweiler, a graduate of Palatine High School, will work at Goldman Sachs in New York.
• Alicia L. Cressey of Barrington Hills, a student in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, was named to the Dean's List for the 2006-07 spring quarter for attaining a grade point average of at least 3.70 on a 4.00 scale.
• Annie Schattner, daughter of Fred and Jacquie Schattner of Palatine, was named to the Spring 2007 Dean's List at Illinois State University, Normal. She graduated cum laude in May 2007 with a bachelor's degree in secondary mathematics education. Schatter is a 2003 graduate of Palatine High School.
• Lindsay Brown of Inverness, an Accounting major at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, was named to the Dean's list for Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 semesters. Brown also completed a 10-week winter internship with Price Waterhouse Coopers in Chicago and has accepted an accounting staff position with the firm pending her graduation in May 2008.
• Prashant Jayaraman, a graduate of Barrington High School who is now attending the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is a recipient of a 26th District General Assembly Scholarship for the 2007-08 school year. Illinois law provides for each state legislator to award eight one-year scholarships to any state-supported university. Winners are selected by an independent committee based on a combination of their academic potential including grade point average and ACT scores, leadership activities and community involvement, and an individual's financial need in relation to the other applicants. The applicants were also required to write an essay explaining how they would benefit from the scholarship.
• Lisa Steltenpohl from North Barrington graduated May 12 from Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music with a bachelor of music degree. She studied with Roberto Diaz, Curtis president and former principal viola of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and renowned violist Misha Amory. Curtis students receive merit-based full-tuition scholarships, and Steltenpohl held the Florence R. Laden Memorial Fellowship. She entered the Juilliard School in the fall of 2007 to pursue a master's degree.
During the 2006-07 season, she performed with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and served as principal viola of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. At Curtis, she was principal viola of the Haddonfield Symphony for three years. She also performed with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Chicago Youth Orchestra and Encore Chamber Orchestra and served as principal of the Aspen Concert Orchestra and Aspen Sinfonia.
Steltenpohl began her musical studies on viola when she was 11 and made her recital debut in 1999 at the People's Music School in Chicago. She has appeared as a soloist with the Waukegan Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra. In the summer of 2006, Steltenpohl was a fellow at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. She has attended Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, Encore School for Strings and Interlochen Arts Camp.
The recipient of a number of prizes and honors, she won first prize in the 2001 Division II Chicago Viola Society Competition and second prize in the 2000 competition, as well as awards from the Evanston Music Club, Barrington Area Arts Council and the Musician's Club of Women.
• Lauren Elizabeth Gorecki, daughter of Paul R. and Nancy K. Gorecki from Barrington, graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. with a bachelor of arts degree in 2007. Gorecki majored in Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literature.
• Lindsay Bentivegna, daughter of William and Carol Bentivegna of Palatine, made the Dean's List and the Honor Roll in her second term of study at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich. She is a graduate of Indiana University and Palatine High School.
• Susan M. Anton of South Barrington received her juris doctor degree at the end of the spring semester from Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
• Bardia Fard of South Barrington received a juris doctor degree at the end of the spring semester from Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
• Elliot Kist, son of Frederick and Jay Ann Kist of Inverness, is attending Carthage College, Kenosha, Wis., after transferring from Harper College. He received the Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship, Carthage Presidential Scholarship, George & Hazel Osborn Endowed Scholarship, and publication in the 2007 edition of "The Harper Anthology." He was also was named to the Fall 2006-07 Dean's List for achieving a grade point average of 3.5 or above.
• Scott Anderson, son of Jeff and Ellen Anderson of Barrington, was awarded the Uz and Elizabeth McMurtrie Merit Award and the Fred and Della Spencer Scholarship from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in Bloomington. The awards are given annually to promising students in the Kelley School of Business who demonstrate exceptional academic achievement.
• Ryan Christopher Grodzki, son of Kevin and Marcella Grodzki of Barrington, has enrolled as a Patrick Henry Scholar at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. Patrick Henry Scholarship recipients are recognized for demonstrated leadership in their secondary schools and communities and for strong academic achievement in a competitive college preparatory curriculum. Grodzki is a graduate of Barrington High School.
• Jacqueleen Hale of Palatine, a graduate of Willows Academy in Des Plaines, graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in English from Lake Forest College.
• Brian Rosenberg son of Jamee Moroney and Rich Rosenberg of Palatine, graduated summa cum laude in May 2007 with a degree in political science and a minor in sociology from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Rosenberg was named to the Dean's List every semester and also received departmental honors in political science. The Fremd High School graduate is a member of the Golden Key Society, Phi Sigma Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa.
• Kelly Lardner of Barrington graduated magna cum laude in 2007 from Lake Forest College with a bachelor's degree in art history and education. She was awarded the Senior Prize in Education. Lardner was elected into Phi Beta Kappa for superior academic achievement and Kappa Delta Pi, the undergraduate honorary society for education.