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Aranda, Cuerdo, Castro are GES’ top 3 graduates
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Posted on Jun 04 2008
Garapan Elementary School held its 6th grade graduation ceremony on Tuesday, with 110 students moving on to junior high school.
Harold Aranda, 12, was named the class Valedictorian, while Jonavelle Cuerdo, 12, was conferred the Salutatorian award.
Aranda, the son of Merwina and Roland Aranda, was also given the Presidential, ‘A’ Honor Roll and Perfect Attendance awards. He is an active participant in school activities such as the Spelling Bee and Mathcounts.
Cuerdo, the daughter of Zeny and Marco Cuerdo, was also given the Principal’s Award and was ranked first on the school’s Top Ten list. She received other awards, including the ‘A’ Honor Roll, Presidential, Mallard, Top 10, And Perfect Attendance.
One of the school’s highest honor, the Mallard Award, meant to symbolize the school’s mascot, was given to Paula R. Castro, the daughter of Cherrie and Lee Castro.
Both Cuerdo and Aranda will be attending Hopwood Junior High School next school year. Castro will be attending Mount Carmel School.
This year’s graduation theme was “Taking another step towards a successful future,” taken from a quote by Dorothy Jebehn.
The graduating class chose an R. Kelly hit, “World’s Greatest” as their theme song, which they sang during the ceremony.
“The kids were a good group all year, they were a nice group of kids,” said GES vice principal Dale Roberts. “I hope that they are able to continue their growth with whatever school they will attend next year, and that we miss them very much already.”
“They were technically advanced with doing their PowerPoint presentations, they were very, very savvy,” he added.
The top 10 students were Aranda, Cuerdo, Regina Tatiano, Paula Castro, Rachelle Manlapaz, Paul Minor, Jasseline Seman, Kevin Jiro Matsuyama, Hannah Comora, Christine Tadeo, and Mary Ann Waing.
The graduating class had an after-party celebration at the Pacific Islands Club.
