The top 10 students named at HVRHS

FALLS VILLAGE — The top 10 students of the class of 2019 at Housatonic Valley Regional High School gathered for a photo in the guidance office on Monday, June 3.

Here’s where they are going to college in the fall.

Marijke Stifler (salutatorian, Middlebury); Maddie Decker (University of Miami); Soren Clulow (salutatorian, Grinnell College); Victor Flores (Harvard University); Manuella Matsudaira (valedictorian, Rhode Island School of Design); Brierley Lloyd (undecided); Anna Coon (University of Miami); Miri Rinehart (Lewis and Clark College); MacKenzie Hunter (St. Michael’s College); Emma Sephton (University of Miami).

Graduations and promotion ceremonies this year in the Region School District will be held on the following dates. The last day of school in the Region One School District is Tuesday, June 18.

• Friday,  June 14

Salisbury Central School, 6 p.m.

Lee H. Kellogg (Falls Village),  7 p.m.

Kent Center School, 6 p.m.

• Monday, June 17

Sharon Center School, 6 p.m.

Cornwall Consolidated School, 5:30 p.m.

North Canaan Elementary School, 7 p.m.

• Tuesday, June 18

Housatonic Valley Regional High School (HVRHS), 6:30 p.m.

The graduation speakers this year at HVRHS are Mark Burdick and Karen Davenport, both of whom are retiring after decades as teachers in the agricultural education department. 

Manuella Matsudaira is the 2019 valedictorian. There are two salutatorians this year; they are Marijka Stiffler and Soren Clulow.