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May 22, 2009 | 04:11 PM
Juliano receives Collegiate Communications Award
Stephen Juliano, a 2006 graduate of Earl L. Vandermeulen High School, Port Jefferson was recently awarded two communications awards. Juliano, who recently completed his junior year at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown Pa. and is a communications major with a concentration in television broadcast, was inducted into the Society of Collegiate Journalists.
Juliano's parents Bob and Kelly and his sister Victoria were in attendance at the April 19 awards banquet held at Elizabethtown College, where he also received special recognition for being a member of the Department Chair Advisory Committee of Communication Majors.
Juliano is a resident assistant and assists his fellow students by supporting their individual goals by fostering good residential communities. He works part time at the Campus Admissions Department, gives tours to perspective students, and works as an usher and security at the campus theater. In addition Juliano works as a ride operator at Hershey Park and was recently honored with an "Employee of the Month" award at Hershey Park and will soon be filming and appearing in a commercial for the amusement park. Juliano will be interning in the fall at either the local NBC affiliate or PBS affiliate in Lancaster County, Pa.
Vernola promoted to Eagle Scout
Nick Vernola of Scout Troop 204 in Port Jefferson recently earned his promotion to Eagle Scout and was presented with his badge after completing a project to build an 8- by 10-foot ramp at Bayles Boat Shop in Harborfront Park. The ramp allows handicap accessibility as well as a way to get boats into and out of the shop. The scout organized a fundraiser to buy materials and made all the necessary arrangements for concrete and lumber, etc. He even cleared a 6-foot snowdrift in time for the concrete truck to deliver at the right place. He finished the work with the help of scouts from his troop. The balance of the funds raised will be donated to the Bayles Boat Shop. Eight boys from Scout Troop 204 sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church of Port Jefferson have become Eagle Scouts, five of them under the leadership of Jim Bell and Capt. Steve Cluett.
Voorhis graduates from Champlain College
Eric Voorhis of Port Jefferson was among more than 424 students from Champlain College who received undergraduate degrees from Champlain College President David F. Finney during the college's 131st Commencement Exercises held May 9, in Burlington, Vt. Voorhis received a degree in professional writing.
Top scorers in Latin Language Competition
This spring, students from Port Jefferson Middle School and Earl L. Vandermeulen High School tested their Latin skills against foreign language students from 12 other Nassau and Suffolk county schools in a Latin Certamen at Stony Brook University. The eighth-graders acquired a first-place win on level one, while ninth-graders on level two secured a second-place win.
A Certamen is a fast-paced Latin contest testing students' knowledge of Latin grammar, vocabulary, word derivations, Roman life, history, mythology and literature. Each team (a maximum of four members) competes in the first two rounds. The teams with the highest cumulative scores advance to a final round to determine the winners. Students compete on the level of Latin in which they are enrolled.
Congratulations to the level-one team members who secured a first-place win: Ja-Hon Wang, alternates: James Drueckhammer, Jonathan Chun, Dennis Walsh, Todd Lewis Jr., Constantine Spentzos.
Congratulations to the students on the level-two team who secured a second-place win: Ben Neiman, alternate: Michael McCarthy, Karin Holvik, Isabella Sanders, Isabelle Stark.
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