Post Tagged with: "Class Of 2010"
Bald Is Beautiful When Helping Cancer Patients
If you knew Victoria Yeh at Verona High School, you knew her with long dark hair. No longer. On March 31, the University of Texas at Austin sophomore (and VHS 2010 grad) said goodbye to all that as part of a charity cut-a-thon for children with cancer when she participated in a head-shaving event hosted [...]
Wrong College? Transferring May Be Right
As high school seniors turn the corner to their spring semester, many are faced with the pressure of committing to a college. The stress of applying is over; now is the time where these students are seemingly under the wire to choose where the next four years of their lives will take place. But what [...]
Gallery Show To Benefit Arts Education
This weekend, you have a chance to help a kid become an artist. It doesn’t matter if you can’t draw, or if you repeatedly color outside the lines. And you don’t even have to travel outside Verona to do it. On Sunday, February 27, Hannah Brandt is kicking off an art show at Vintage Alley [...]
Tess Langan Finds The Unexpected In Senegal
Tess Langan was inspired to spend a year between high school and college by New York Times columnist Nick Kristof. So imagine her surprise when Kristof noted her third blog post from Senegal, where she has been sent by Global Citizen Year, in his Twitter feed. Langan, who graduated VHS with the class of 2010, [...]
What VHS 2010 Is Doing: Food & Hospitality
You can’t book a room in Kevin Clarke’s hotel today. It hasn’t been built yet. He hasn’t finished the courses he will need to learn how to manage it. Heck, he won’t even start them until next week. But sometime in the not too distant future, Clarke will be running a hotel and, chances are, [...]
What VHS 2010 Is Doing: Going International
Tess Langan wanted to go to Africa with her favorite journalist, but she wasn’t old enough. But now she’s going anyway, thanks to a gap-year program she learned about from him. On September 15, Langan, the daughter of MyVeronaNJ co-founder Julia Martin Langan, leaves for San Francisco, the first step in a journey that will [...]
What VHS 2010 Is Doing: Thinking International
Class of 2010 graduate Amy Janett had originally assumed she’d attend college in the Northeast. She was interested in a liberal arts college, and there are plenty within a few hours drive of Verona. She’d seen them firsthand two years prior when she’d tagged along on her brother Mark’s college-hunting trips. (He ended up at [...]
What VHS 2010 Is Doing: Nursing
Emily Fitzpatrick faced a lot of questions about her college plans. If you want to go into health care, she was asked, why aren’t you going to med school? Why do you want to do nursing instead? To Fitzpatrick, who graduated from Verona High School this past June with the Class of 2010, the answer [...]
Thank You, Project Graduation Sponsors
We’ve gotten this note from Jane Eliasof, who served on the Verona High School Class of 2010 Project Graduation Committee, along with Barbara Rosenstein, Debra Schenkel, Marcia Paisner, Coleen D’Alessandro, Donna Liquori and Stella Lukas. Project Graduation is an all-night, drug and alcohol-free celebration for graduating seniors; take a look at some of the photos [...]
What The Class Of 2010 Will Do Next
The 139 students of the Verona High School Class of 2010 are heading out to some 78 colleges, universities, community colleges and technical schools in the fall. They will be going into the military, volunteering abroad and walking straight into the working world. They will be studying in many different parts of the U.S., and [...]