UHS’ Annual Academic Monogram Program
The nineteenth annual Academic Monogram Awards Ceremony will be held on October 25 at 7:00 p.m. Students are invited based upon their academic achievements within the 2009-2010 school year. The event will commemorate those students, as well as the teachers that have made their success possible.
The Academic Monogram program includes students receiving their monogram letter, recognition of the top five students in each class, student speeches and a keynote speaker. Three students from each class are permitted to speak about a staff member that has helped them to gain academic excellence. Every student invited is also urged to invite a teacher they would like to recognize. The keynote speaker for this year’s event is the Community Connections Coordinator at Urbana Middle School, Barbara Linder.
At last year’s ceremony the top five students received a book, as well. Junior Taskin Sehitoglu was one of these students. “The book I got last year from Dr. Taylor I read over the summer and really enjoyed,” he says.
Justin Lopez organizes Academic Monogram. He says the event is an important one for students. “It is an opportunity to thank these individuals, a chance for the school to recognize student success, and a way for students to acknowledge and support the achievements of their peers,” says Lopez.
Lopez is not the only one who supports the event. Last year, D’mario Turner attended Academic Monogram the first year he was eligible, as a sophomore, and will be attending this year’s ceremony as a junior. Turner says “it’s a night to commemorate the students that achieved academic excellence in the previous year.”
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