001All right, we're going to go ahead and get started. We're going to go ahead and get started. Come on, everybody. Good morning. Welcome to your senior breakfast and the 8th annual senior celebration. This morning, while we enjoy breakfast, we'll be celebrating the achievements of our of your class and with indivi announcing individual awards and scholarship winners. Let's start by celebrating some remarkable accomplishments from our senior class. First and foremost, maintaining perfect attendance throughout the senior year is no small feat. This year, we are proud to recognize four students who have not missed a single academic day for personal reasons. Congratulations. And if you want to come on up, Carson Etheertton, Logan Han, Bella Randazzo, and Emily [Applause] Zola. Hang on one second. Unbelievably, one of these four students has not missed a full day of
002school for their high school career for any personal reasons. Congratulations to Carson [Applause] Etheton. Come back out after you get an award. if you would go see Miss Packard in the gym for a quick picture, but then hustle back out because you never know, you might be one of the next recipients as well. You guys want to go ahead and go to Miss Packard? Next, we're going to honor our impact student of the year who has accumulated the most community service hours during their high school career, thus making a positive impact on their community. Congratulations to this year's recipient who has 453 hours of community service. Please come forward, Summer Harrington. [Applause] Next, we're going to go through some previously awarded scholarships. I'd like to acknowledge these seniors who have already received them. These awards
003are granted for various reasons including academic and athletic. Please stand when your name is called. And Mr. Dickerson, are we wanting them to go get pictures for this? They've already got their pictures. Okay. So, for this, just please stand. We'll acknowledge and then we'll move to the next student. First, Logan Oavdo. He's earned Children's of Veteran Scholarship $13,000 a year. Burger King National Scholarship for a TH000. Logan [Applause] Oavdo. So, let me announce the student and their scholarship. Okay. Thank you. Anthony Antonus, the Columbia Aggra Science Association scholarship for [Applause] $1,000. Sam Augustine, Culver Stockton College Pillar Scholarship for a,000. Trustees Scholarship 17,000. softball scholarship 7,000 a year. Matthew Barau Sioue Cougar Pride Scholarship $4,000 renewable for four years. Jessica Beerley Milikin University Long Vanderberg Scholar Program $5,000 a year and the Lady Taber Scholarship
004$2,500 a year. Jade Becker, Columbia Women's Club Scholarship, $1,500. Brook Bolson, SIOUE Cougar Pride Scholarship, $5,000, renewable for four years. Craig Range Foundation, $1,000. Megan Bowler, Palm Beach Atlantic University lead scholarship, $2,000, renewable for four years. Palm Beach Atlantic University President's Merit Scholarship, $18,000 a year. Addison Butler, Columbia Women's Club Scholarship, $1,000 renewable for four years. Columbia PTA scholarship, $500. Er Foundation Scholarship, $2,500. University Missouri Black and Gold Scholarship, Level One, $21,000. Renewable for four years. Missou Alumni Legacy Scholarship, $1,000. Anthony Ko, the Missouri S&T Trailblazer Scholarship, $2,000 a year. Reese Castelli, SIUE Scholarship, $10,000. Julie Chen, PTA scholarship, $500. Crown scholarship, $1,000. University of North Carolina, full tuition, $56,000 a [Applause] year. Summer Clancy, University of Illinois, full athletic scholarship, women's gymnastics, $50,000 a year. Kale Clark, SIUE Cougar Pride, $3,000 renewable for four
005years. Brody Curtis, University of Illinois Matthew Scholar, $2,000 renewable for four years. Tyler Darnell, Swick, top 20% scholarship, $6,500 a year. A Dennis, Indiana State University, Bailey College of Engineering and Technology, $3,000. [Applause] Allison Dively, University of Missouri Tiger Border County level one scholarship $21,000 renewable for four years. Sam Donald Bellerine University full athletic basketball scholarship $65,000 a year. Lily Ames Webster University GPA scholarship $18,000 renewable for four years. Webster's Illinois Border Scholarship $1,000 a year. Carson Etheton, SIOE Cougar Pride Scholarship, $4,000 renewable for four years. Paige Freeze, Danville Area Community College Athletic Scholarship, $3,600 a year. Connor Glover, Missouri State Provo Scholarship, $4,000. Out ofstate Waiver Scholarship, $8,000 renewable for four years. Jacob Hall, Southeastern Florida University Merit Scholarship, $15,000. golf scholarship, $13,000 a year. Summer Harrington, Colorado State University Green and Gold Merit
006Scholarship, $12,500 a year. Logan Han, University of Missouri Black and Gold Scholarship, $21,500 renewable for four years. Brooke Hayes Columbia Women's Club scholarship $1,500. University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy academic and athletic scholarships $24,000 renewable for four years. Cameron Hrich Mville University Saint Scholar $14,000 renewable for four years. Acorn Equality Fund Scholarship $500 and Crown Scholarship 1,000. Ava Herd Licka Columbia Aggracience Association Scholarship $1,000. George Oberenegel Scholarship $1,750. Kenneth W. Stump Memorial Scholarship $1,500. Micah James Lewis and Clark Community College full scholarship $4,600 a year. Cameron Janick, George Orgaggel Scholarship, $750. Reese Gerard, Belmont University, Annual Academic Merit Scholarship, $19,000 for four years. Grace Klein, University of Kansas KU Excellence Scholarship, $16,000 a year. Riley Matthews Crawford Bryant Scholarship, $1,000. Mia McCanni Crown Scholarship, $2,500. Micah Minhardt, Columbia Aggracience Association Scholarship, $1,000. Sadie Mets Crown
007Scholarship, $1,000. Marley Poulture St. Louis University Scholarship $250. Noah Proctor, SIUE Cougar Pride Schol Scholarship, $4,000 renewable for four years. Joanna Ramy Webster University academic scholarship, $13,000 renewable for four years. Bellow Randazo Sioue Cougar Pride Scholarship $4,000 renewable for four years. Harley Rainbolt Blackburn College Golden Apple Scholarship $23,000 and the Blackorn Blackburn College Scholarship $10,000. Nathan Ry Missouri S&T Groundbreaker Scholarship $20,000 and the Columbia PTA scholarship $500. Emily Rose, SIO Cougar Pride Scholarship, $4,000, renewable for four years, and a women's club scholarship, $1,500. Ellie Shrub, S St. Louis University Scholarship, $37,000, renewable for five years. Jaden Smith, Missouri S&T Border County Scholarship, $18,000 a year. Trailblazer scholarship, $2,000 a year. Bin Snyder SIO Cougar Pride Scholarship, $4,000 renewable for four years. Isabella Snyder, Columbia Aggraise Association Scholarship, $1,200. George Oberenegel Scholarship 7 $1,750. Kenneth W.
008Stump Memorial Scholarship $1,000. Eller Tutran Mville University Saint Scholarship $14,000 renewable for four years. L Van Bruigan SIOE athletic scholarship for softball $12,500 a year and the Crown Scholarship $2,500. Hayes Van Bruigan and Crawford Bryant scholarship $2,500 and DARE recipient not DARE DS American Revolution sorry Reese Wolfful Eastern Illinois University athletic scholarship $12,000 a year instate tuition qualifier $4,000 renewable for four years Emily Zola University of Missouri Mark Twain level one scholarship $21,000 500 renewable for four years. All right, these will be new ones. I'll begin recognizing recipients of some new scholarships beginning with the Columbia Education Association presented by Mr. Sandstrom. When your name is announced, please come forward. Remember, when we're done, when you're done getting your certificate, please go see Miss Packard in the gym. The Columbia Education Association is awarding two
009$500 scholarships to Columbia High School seniors who will be furthering their education in the fall with the intent to major in education or at a trade school. These scholarships are being awarded to Harley Rainbolt and Anthony Ko. throughout this. Also, we have a couple gift cards and one other gift. I'll break in the break in right now with one of these. Joe Mala, you can go and take it back. The Columbia Kuana Scholarship, Miss Meyers will be presenting. This is a $1,000 scholarship awarded by the Columbia Kowanas to a deserving senior at Columbia High School. Congratulations to this year's recipient. And I think you just went in the other room. Anthony Ko. Oh, Miss Myers, you're going again, right? Oh, Columbia Kuan's Vicky Smith Key Club scholarship. And Miss Myers will be presenting again. This
010is a $1,000 scholarship awarded to a senior key club member at Columbia High School. Key Club is a service organization and members participate in a variety of community service projects throughout the school year. This year's recipient is Julie Chen. Julia [Applause] And Miss Myers is going to help by giving out the Music Boosters senior scholarship as well. The Columbia Music Boosters is awarding a $1,000 scholarship to an outstanding senior band or choir member who will be pursuing a music degree in college. This year's Columbia Music Booster Scholarship winner is Noah Parker. The music boosters are also awarding a Rurki marching band scholarship in the amount of $500 to a senior band member for their outstanding participation in the band program at CHS. Congratulations this year's recipient, Cameron [Applause] Hridge. Thanks for your help, Miss Myers.
011Club members of the year. This year, clubs met monthly during home room. Club adviserss were asked to choose a club member of the year and a certificate will be presented to the selected student when their name is announced. So please come forward. Aces Brody Curtis, Best Buddies, Grant Royce, FFA. Ava [Applause] Herdlicker, math team. Brody [Applause] Curtis, Spanish club. Luciani Capayan [Applause] Cabba, Student Council. Addison [Applause] Butler and Keycl Club Julia [Applause] Chen. Thank you. Go ahead and get a picture with Miss Packard. We'll do another certificate. Kate [Applause] Adams. No idea what it's for. Senior Department Awards. I'm now pleased to present the department awards for exceptional academic achievement. These recipients were nominated for teach by the teachers within each department. Agra Science if Agra Science Isabella Snyder Business Education Summer [Applause] Clancy English
012Addison Butler [Applause] Family and Consumer Science. Kinsey [Applause] Dixs, Fine Arts. Luciani Capayan Cabba, German. Paige [Applause] Freeze, Industrial Technology. Carter [Applause] Gropy, Mathematics. Brody Curtis, Performing Arts Band. Logan [Applause] Han, Performing Arts Choir. Noah Parker, physical education. Brady Heminghouse and Brook Hayes. [Applause] Science. Josh [Applause] Drooie, social studies. Brody Curtis, Spanish. Logan Han and technology. Brady Heminghouse. Congratulations. Let's go ahead and get a picture with Miss Packard. For the next gift card, Gabby Noah. [Applause] the US Marine Corps Distinguished Scholar Award. We're honored to recognize two remarkable students who embody the highest standards of citizenship. As inspiring role models, they exhibit courage, grace, confidence, and exceptional leadership. Congratulations to Summer Harrington and Xander Now. [Applause] Again, that was for the US Marine Corps Distinguished Scholar Award. Congratulations. Columbia 21st Century Lions Scholarship. The Columbia
01321st Century Lions Club offers a $1,000 scholarship to a CHS senior who plans to pursue a degree or certificate from a techn technical trade school or community college. Congratulations to our two winners, Jade Becker and Kennedy Miller. Jake Jim Hile Career and Tech Ed Scholarship. This is a $500 scholarship for a graduating senior who's taking career and technical education classes. This year's recipient is Jade Becker. I tried to catch her. We'll get her when she comes back. The Scooters Coffee Scholarship. Mr. Schwarz is presenting. This is a $500 scholarship awarded to a high school senior who is employed by Scooters Coffee franchise and plans to further their education after high school. Congratulations to Midi Mistler. [Applause] the Columbia Volunteer Fire Department Scholarship. This is a local scholarship that is awarded each year to seniors planning
014to further their education in the fall. Each scholarship award is for $750. Community service is a major factor in the selection process as well. Please come to the front to accept your award when I call your name. I have four names if we can hold our applause to the end. Brook Bolson, Addison Butler, Summer Harrington, and Emily [Applause] Rose. Jade didn't hear. She was walking out, but she won the $500 scholarship, the Jim Hy career and teched scholarship. [Applause] the Matilda and Edward Door Scholarship. I would like to introduce Miss Jill Bastion and Miss Lorie Rkin who are with us today to present the Matilda and Edward Door Scholarship. Miss Bastion, if you would like to come to the podium to share the history of the scholarship with our seniors and announce the recipients. Good
015morning. As he said, my name is Jill Bastion. I'm a vice president and trust officer for First Bank, who serves as a trustee of the Matilda and Edward Dar Me Memorial Scholarship Trust. Gan Dear was a lifelong resident of Colombia. He was an only child who never married or had any children. He was an aerospace engineer at Boeing and was a 1954 graduate of CHS. Gan directed First Bank that upon his death, the Matilda and Edward Dare Memorial Scholarship was to be established to benefit the graduates of Columbia High School in honor of his parents, Matilda and Edward. Gan passed away in late 2022 and after settling his estate, the Matilda and Edward Dare Memorial Scholarship was established. This generous trust will provide scholarships to graduates of CHS for many, many years to come. With
016me today is Jean's goddaughter, Lori Been, and her husband, Jerry. We will be awarding one four-year scholarship for 50% of the recipients tuition and 13 one-time scholarship awards. These awards total over $125,000. First, our four-year recipient is Nathan Rain. Nathan will receive $16,758 for four years totaling $67,32. Congratulations, [Applause] Nathan. Next, our one-time scholarship awards in alphabetical order. Samantha Austinine, [Applause] $5,000. Brooke Bolson, $6,461.25. Megan Bullyard, $5,000. [Applause] Sullivan Bernaldi, [Applause] $3,575. Logan Bosch, [Applause] $7,200. Julia Chen, $8,000. [Applause] Allison Dively, $5,000. Summer Harrington, $12,000. Logan Han, [Applause] $1,950. Brooke Hayes, $7,200. Cameron Hellfrick, $12,000. Reese Gerard, $1,950. And Satie Mets, $12,000. Congratulations to all of you. [Applause] Joel Reid. or a certificate. Next, we'll move into our seal of biiteracy program. Students have the opportunity to be recognized by the state of Illinois for
017earning proficiency in English and one additional language as part of the biiteracy program. Two honors available. The commenation toward biiteracy and the seal of biiteracy. These two honors require test scores in both English and a second language. We are currently awaiting some Apple results for a few students. However, those students who have already earned accommodation toward biiteracy for Spanish are. And if you would just come up, I have a few names. So, if you'd hold till the end, please. Logan Oavdo, Logan Bosch, Andrew Collier, Lucas Degrroot, Allison Dively, Sylvia Gardner, Cameron Helfridge, Mia Mccani, Allison Meisy, Kayn O'Brien, Addison Quante, Ali, Ellie Shrub, Jaden Smith, and Hayden Ty. Oh, please come forward. Sorry. Please come forward. Cameron, you were called also. Come on up, guys. This is for accommodation. I didn't call you. Thank you.
018All right, these students are being awarded the top honor of seal of biiteracy for Spanish. Again, please hold your applause. But yes, students, go ahead and come on up. These again these students cilabiteracy for Spanish Samantha Austinine Addison Butler Luciani Capayen Cabba Summer Clancy Delaney Fitzgerald Connor Glover Summer Harrington Logan Han Broo Hayes Gabriel James Reese Gerard Grace Klene Midi Mistler Noah Parker Bella Randazzo Emily Rose and L Van Bruzigan [Applause] Thank you. And now we'll move to German. These students have earned accommodation toward biiteracy for German. Liliana Ames, Carson Cofflash, and Jack Reutder. [Applause] And one student is being awarded the top honor of the seal of bi literacy for German. Congratulations to Paige Freeze. [Applause] We have a few German students out there. German students, if you'd mind hanging on. Our next recognition
019recognition will be presented to the new inductees of Delta Epsilon Fi, the German National Honor Society. The following students have completed at least three semesters of German with a 3.3 gradepoint average in German and have an overall grade point average of three on a four-point scale. Please come forward when I call your name. Kale Clark, Liliana Ames, Paige Freeze, Carson Coff, Nathan Ry, and Jack [Applause] Reutder. Congratulations for a gift card. Summer Harrington. [Applause] Monroe County Licensed Beverage Association Scholarship. The Monroe County Licensed Beverage Association awards a $1,000 scholarship to one student from each high school in Monroe County. Selection criteria includes ACT, SAT scores, essay, school and community involvement, and grade point average. Congratulations to this year's recipient, Emily [Applause] Rose. Robert Holden Memorial Scholarship. Bob Holden was born and raised in Columbia and
020graduated from Columbia High School in 1965. Due to financial challenges, he was unable to complete college and instead worked various jobs before enlisting in the military. He was deployed to Vietnam where he gave his life on May 7th, 19 1968, just eight days before his 23rd birthday. In honor of Mr. Holden and other CHS alumni who have served our country, four $500 scholarships are being awarded to CHS seniors pursuing further education at a college, university, or technical school. This year's recipients are, please come forward, Brook Bolson, Ella FY, Jack Reutder, and Emily Rose. American Legion as well. The American Legion. Yep. Okay. Okay. And the Columbia American Legion Post 581 and Ladies Auxiliary Unit 581 scholarship. Again, Miss D'vorge presenting. The Columbia American Legion is awarding five $500 scholarships to graduating seniors who are children
021of GR or grandchildren of veterans and planning to attend a two-year or four-year college, university, or technical school. This year's five winners are, please come forward, Logan Bosch, Addison Butler, Allison Dively, Megan Ballard, and Cameron Hrich. [Applause] We'll do a couple gift cards. Carson Etheton [Applause] L. Van Bruigan. [Applause] Next we have the Crawford Bryant Foundation Scholarship presenting presented by Tara Lure and Scotty Bryant. This is a $10,000 scholarship being awarded to a graduating senior from Columbia High School who has a minimum 3.25 GPA and plans to further their education at a two-year trade school or a 4-year university in construction related field. Congratulations to Sullie [Applause] Benaldi and the Zimmer family scholarship presented by Jim Merr. Mayor Well, uh, good morning everyone. Um, first off, congrats to everyone on their, uh, you know, accompl
022accomplishments, uh, so far. You all should be proud. And, uh, the other thing, I've seen a lot of, uh, future Missou Tigers out there. So, go Tigers. Was a, uh, former Tiger myself in a, uh, previous time. So, um, my name is JD Mayer and I work as an estate planner, uh, on the family office side of Archford Capital Strategies in Swansea, Illinois. Uh, what I appreciate and love, uh, most about the role that I serve at Archford is working with clients uh, that are similar that are similar to Mr. Edgar Zimmer and being able to facilitate and assist people and their desire to give back to the community. Uh my father uh Jim Mayer, founder and CEO of Archford, had the distinct honor of working with Mr. Zimmer, a retired attorney from Waterlue beginning
023in 1997 before many of you were born and I was only one year of age. Uh I do however remember going with my dad in the early 2000s and visiting Mr. Zimmer and can tell he was such a big believer in the power of education. It is on Mr. Zimmer's behalf that I'm here this morning to present the Zimmer Scholar Award. This award is designed to honor individuals who give back to both the school and the community of Monroe County. Uh Mr. Zimmer would be delighted by the accomplishments of this year's recipients, Brooke Bolson, Cameron Hell, and Logan Bosch. They were each awesome. Congratulations. Congratulations. Couple more gift cards. Kaden Glover, not here. Sorry, Kaden. Riley [Applause] Matthews, Bin Snyder, [Applause] and Braden [Applause] Hubler. And there's a TV. So, let's see. Jack FY. [Applause]
024Yeah. Okay, we'll be wrapping up here in a second. It's my great pleasure to announce that as of this senior breakfast, the class of 2025 has been awarded in scholarships for just the first year. You heard earlier renewable or good for four years. This is just year one. So, it's more than what I'm announcing, but in year one, your class has received 884,000 in scholarships for college or trade school. This also does not include any scholarships that you earn moving forward. Congratulations to all of our students on these outstanding achievements. On behalf of the administration, faculty, and staff, we're incredibly proud of you. We wish you the very best in all your future endeavors. Thank you for all the families that joined us online this morning. We're now ending the live stream so our graduates
025can complete the checkout process. We'll be back at 10:15 for our senior signing and hope you can join in from home or work. Thank you. [Applause]