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See Photos from Watertown High School Graduation 2015

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Watertown High School’s Class of 2015 celebrated completing their school career, and said good bye during Friday’s graduation ceremony. In front of packed stands at at Victory Field, 181 students received their diplomas. (See the list of graduates here). Valedictorian Molly Day noted that students spent more than 4,500 hours on campus during their four years at WHS. The school provided them with some perspectives that not every high schooler gets.

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Congratulations to the Watertown High School Class of 2015!

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Watertown High School welcomed its newest graduates on Friday at Victory Field. Congratulations to all the 181 members of the Class of 2015! Kashif Ahmad
Mark Nicholas Almasian
Maurice Mwayila Ambila
Olivia Alexander Ames
Araz Joseph Ashjian
Jody Annette Askaryan
Abdel-Halim Mazen Atiyyat
Jonathan Lopes Azevedo
Sam Babayan
Raffi Garo Badrikian
Asya Baghdasaryan
Erik Baghdasaryan
Andrea Gloria Barbato
Elizabeth Grace Bedig
Brendan Joseph Berkeley
David John Bielawski
Angelica Abigail Brutus
Anthony John Busconi
Taquina Cachimuel
Rachel Ann Campbell
Lisa Marie Carcerano
Jordan Arthur Carey
Emily Rose Carito
Angel Dejesus Carrion
Gemma Ruth Carroll
Pluksaa Mint Chueayoonan
Siran Cinar
Brandon Michael Clancy
Samuel Lev Cohen
Tessa Deneige Collins
Jeffrey Michael Comeau
Rebecca Marie Connors
Greylib Sophia Contreras
Gianna Cristina Coppola
Ghislaine MabelRose Coulter-de Wit
Caitlyn Marie D’Amico
Daniel John D’Amico
Molly Rose Day
Brian Richard DallaCosta
Rafael Nunes Carvalho De Souza
Steven Rafael Delgado
Daniel Haynes DeMatos
Alec Gregory Deyermenjian
Reem B Dia
Alexandra Elizabeth Doggett
Katherine Josephine Dolan
Matthew David Dolan
Demetri Andrew Dorceus
Keegan Brennan Duguay
Angel David Dume
Francesca Eden Egea
Andrew Tatios Eskici
Muhammad Fahad
Parsa Farhani-Monfared
Maya Hassan Farhat
Shayna Rose Farmelant
Austin Louis Farry
Christopher Sumners Fidler
Savannah Figueroa-Gomez
Isaac Richard Fitts-Sprague
Shannon Marie Foley
Samuel Aidan Ford
Kayla Evelyn Furbish
Eric William Furtado
Semiah Narece Gant
Quichea Deanne Gilbeau
Nicholas Richard Giordano
Kyle Abel Gonzalez
Jared Joseph Grillo
Sergio Alejandro Guzman
Isabelle Sara Gyulakian
Michael Hagopian
Nahum Demsash Hagos
Dana Terese Hammerle
Rebecca Cohen Hellman
Erin Caroline Hickey
Anahit Hovhannisyan
Abid Hussain
Arianna Lillie Johnson
Kayla Elizabeth Johnson
Andrew Joseph Jones
Yvef Jorge Almonte
Shayene Joseph
Melanie Julen Kahn
Sedra Katerji
Joseph Missak Keikian
Devon Breau Kelleher
Raffi Keshishyan
Irum Khan
Najmul Sahar Khan
Noreen Khan
Justin Kasozi Kibuuka
Gleb Kryvoberets
John Alexander Kupelian
Matthew David Laffey
Jessica Jiayu Lai
Michael Anthony Lanzo IV
Yianni Athanasios Laskaris
Kayla Nicole Lawlor
Jared Knox LeClair
Douglas Hansberry Leon
Serina Elizabeth Leonard
Crista Valantines Logakis
Emily Rose Loprete
Prosper Alexander Lubega
Madeline Rose Luciano
Palavi Mannan
Anna Margaryan
Jennifer Magdalena Marroquin
Alexander Martin Martinos
Andrew Christian Massarotti
Catherine Beatrice McCusker-Brown
James Riley McDonald
Cody Allen McMahon
Lucas John McNamara
Tamara Melkonyan
Kristina Nicole Mey
Bishal Mishra
Alain Mondesir
Jamilah Monroe
Sebastian Andres Morales Gutierrez
Meghan Aisleen Moran
Rachel Helen Morris
Jillian Rita Mungenast
Nathaniel Robin Munson-Palomba
Kaitlyn Joy Murphy
Matthew Henry Murphy
Tatiana Bour Nalbandian
Arthur Sena Navarro
Angella Ndibalekera
Tyler Sam Ngan
William Benjamin O’Brien
Sara Joan O’Connell
Anhar Habis Obyat
Nicholas Harry Ohannesian
Michael Alfonso Orellana
Samuel Armando Orellana
Mark Michael Pacious
John Thomas Pease
Emily Pena
Julia Taft Perry
Thomas Willard Perry
Naneh Mikhail Petrosyan
Marisa Louise Pettiglio
Clarissa Miranda Phillips
Evan Peter Raftes
Sarah Rahim
Mariana Angel Rocha Reed
Elest Rene Sylvain Reve
Rebecka Kimberly Marthina Riendeau
Jake Paul Roche
Madeline Sarah Rocklin-Waltch
Jessica Lynn Russo
Carlos Alberto Salaverria
Christopher Elias Saroufim
Molly Rose Smith
Gina Patricia Stanizzi
Christopher Ryan Starnes
Michael David Stewart
Aashma Sunuwar
Tercy Tamighang
Madeline Jo Teeven
Veronica Lagene Torres
Tinhinan Touri
Julia Lauren Thompson
Stephanie Uribe
Michaela Joy Vick
Charlotte Martha Vitti
Nina Susan Vosbigian
Catherine Nora-Anne Walsh
Jake William Walsh
Jeffrey Alexander Wertheim
Lorraine Hoi Ying Wu
Vanessa Yee
Arooj Zahid
Austin Michael Zaino
Ulises Zamora Zacarias
Nina Belle Zeytoonian
Terry Zhu
Orbell Simon Zirakian
Jo Ssebugwawo Zizinga

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See Who Made the Watertown High School Honor Roll

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The following students made the third quarter honor roll at Watertown High School. Ninth Grade

High Honors
Alexander Abrahamyan
Lelean Aljaja
Amelia Allison
Madiha Begum
Joseph Chau
Nicholas Cordeiro
Caroline Costa
Robert Danielian
Hadi Farhat
Bryan Ferreira
Claire Gabel
Anna Gellerman
Natali Gevorgyan
Siobhan Greene
Salvador Guevara
Melanie Halibian
David Inacio
Didar Jajan
Emily Koufos
Amanda Lewis
Spencer McClellan
Anahid Ohanyan
Jeremy Ornstein
Sarah Pardo
Lauren Petrillo
Elizabeth Powderly
Kian Rice
Mariam Roda
Sergio Salas
Destiny Santalucia
Ana Scott
Rubina Simikyan
Dora Tejada
Kaitlin Tracy
Honors
Hakeem Alhady
Mosab Amleh
Sarah Benites
Gabriella Cacia
Liz Cam
Timothy Camelio
Gabriel Cimino
Julia Cottone
Nelziclea Da Silva
Daniel Fabrizio
David Frabrizio
Alexander Feltner Harrison
Meghan Foley
Julio Fulcar
Jacquelyn Furbish
Valentina Gaete Hurtado
Owen Gallagher
Elder Guevara
Miles Hohmann
Jonna Kennedy
Elizabeth Knell
Christopher Koufos
Katherine Lawn
Jaime MacDonald
Zachery Mazzie-Smith
Diego Moscoso
Jeanie Ngan
Taylor Nygren
Stella Papadopoulos
Catherine Papayannopoulos
Tia Pellegrini
Stellios Pistoftzian
Ayah Rahim
Darlyn Ramirez
Wenston Rodriguez
Molly Ryan
Christine Saroufim
Tigran Shahnazaryan
Brianna Sullivan
Timothy Tat
Isabella Vitti
Albert Yildirim

10th Grade
High Honors
Evamarie Alessandroni
Catherine Bedig
Daniel Carito
Julia Dunoyer
Michael Guyumdzhyan
Leslie Kay
Jenna McMahon
Shannon Murphy
Jillian Russo
Alex Smith
Joseph Tardif
Janaki Thangaraj
Sella Varnum
Olivia Venezia
Honors
Sajda Abbas
Mahdi Alhady
Brian Amedio
Faryal Amin
Genrikh Askaryan
Maria Athanasopoulos
Robert Belli
Larissa Bittencourt
Lauren Burns
Anthony Cardarelli
Samuel Carton
Alexan Cinar
Christina D’Agostino
Sofia DiPace
Maskim Doe
Aurora Fidler
Nicole Frisoli
Colin Gardiner
Sarah Greim
Artem Grigoryan
Ian Groh
Sara Gyulakian
Helene Hoxha
Isaac Huff
Sabir Hussain
Kaysa Jinan
Nareg Kalaydjian
Rosdom Kaligian
Yasir Khan
Stefanos Kiorpes
Eli Krieger
Lance Kuo
Catherine LeBlanc
Tatum Lee
Benjamin Lowry
Thayna Marcos
Hovig Margosian
Karina McAdam
Parsa Medhati
Ryan O’Reilly
Marina Osipova
James Piccirilli
Vasiliki Pistoftzian
Talene Pogharian
Max Potseluev
Ruby Rosenwasser
Lori Shrinian

11th Grade
High Honors
Tyler Gardiner
Julia Harrington
Jeremy Holt
Sabiha Khalid
Sarah Lampasona
Erika Libertini
Austin Lin
Joanna Lopez Ordonez
Lillian Pennington
Christopher Rohlicek
Honors
Valeria Aedo
Kareem Alhady
Olivia Almeida
Danila Alyokhin
Jaime Amedio
Mark Amirbekyan
Michaela Antonellis
Nelli Balian
Tawhid Bibi
Dominika Bondaryk
Jeremy Breen
Thomas Brennan
Matthew Busconi
Niko Carvajal-Janke
Ryan Clancy
Lola Dement Myers
Grace Duguay
Barry Dunn
Karl Elbakian
Sofia Farhadi
Kyle Foley
Karina Franca
Sara Fulton
Jaslyn Gomez-Jobson
Michael Gorman
Briana Guillory
Sasha Helfner
Jason Hughes
Abboud Kaouk
Allyson Kazanjian
Robert Kennedy
Christa Knell
Ruth Komukyeya
Nicole Lanzo
Farid Mawanda
Ally McCall
Hannah McCall
Daniel McCurley
Steven Mey
Riyan Moore
Molly Munger
Nathan Nibiye
Cristopher Patvakanian
Sean Peschier
Kira Peterson
Katelyn Rourke
Arshdeep Singh
Samantha Smith
Layza Souza
Leah Sutherland
Samantha Tat
Katherine Tolman
Yesayi Tolmoyan
Jason Wilkins
Grigor Yeghishyan

12th Grade
High Honors
Kashif Ahmad
Tessa Collins
Jeffrey Comeau
Ghislaine Coulter-de Wit
Molly Day
Alec Deyermanjian
Keegan Duguay
Austin Farry
Christopher Fidler
Shannon Foley
Samuel Ford
Nicholas Girodano
Michael Hagopian
Dana Hammerle
Rebecca Hellman
Yvef Jorge Almonte
Melanie Kahn
Noreen Khan
John Kupelian
Kayla Lawlor
Crista Logakis
Nathaniel Munson-Palomba
Nicholas Ohannesian
Rebecka Riendeau
Jake Roche
Gina Stanizzi
Aashma Sunuwar
Tinhinan Touri
Honors
Olivia Ames
Jody Askaryan
Jonathan Azevedo
Brendan Berkeley
Taquina Cachimuel
Rachel Campbell
Lisa Carcerano
Emily Carito
Gemma Carroll
Pluksaa Chueayoonan
Siran Cinar
Samuel Cohen
Gianna Coppola
Alexandra Doggett
Matthew Dolan
Demetri Dorceus
Shayna Farmelant
Isaac Fitts-Sprague
Kayla Furbish
Eric Furtado
Jared Grillo
Erin Hickey
Abid Hussain
Kayla Johnson
Jessica Lai
Bishal Mishra
Jamilah Monroe
Jillian Mungenast
Kaitlyn Murphy
Matthew Murphy
Thomas Perry
Clarissa Phillips
Julia Thompson
Charlotte Vitti
Arooj Zahid

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School Committee Member Wants System for Electives at WHS More Fair

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Getting into elective classes at Watertown High School can be challenging, and some freshmen do not get any of their choices, but one School Committee member wants to change that. 

During a discussion of the Watertown High School handbook, School Committee member Julie McMahon said students can list their top five choices for elective classes, but some unlucky WHS students don’t get any of their classes. She who has a freshman at the high school. “Electives are the things that children are attracted to,” McMahon said. “They may be interested in video, but it might be filled.” The “luck of the draw” freshman year has a snowballing effect later, she said.

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What Should be Watertown High Schools’ New Mascot?

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Watertown High School students will soon choose a new mascot, and perhaps even a new nickname. 

For years the WHS teams have been called the Red Raiders or just Raiders, but since around 2007 the school has not had a mascot or logo on its uniforms and other places. Before that the school used a cartoon-like image of an American Indian. “There hasn’t been a mascot since I got here,” said Superintendent Jean Fitzgerald. “There is a ‘W’ on any clothing I have. The kids miss having a mascot.”

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Watertown High School Senior Earns College Scholarship

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Watertown High School senior Eric Furtado got a financial boost for college from a local bank. To support members investing in their education, and in honor of former staff and volunteers, MIT Federal Credit Union awarded $1,000 Memorial Scholarships to accomplished students at their recent 75th Anniversary Celebration, held in conjunction with the Annual Business Meeting on April 21, 2015, according to the announcement from the bank. Recipients were selected based on essay content, grades, financial need and extracurricular & community activities. “We take pride in supporting a variety of communities at MIT, including young people investing in their education,” said MITFCU President/CEO Brian Ducharme. “In its ninth year it continues to be an honor to learn of these students’ accomplishments and present them with their awards at our Annual Meeting.”

One of the Memorial Scholarship recipients is Eric Furtado from Watertown.

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Group Seeks to Make Watertown High School Safe for Transgender Students

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A group of Watertown High School students has requested that the School Committee add a school district policy for transgender and nonconforming students to make these students feel safe to attend the town’s schools. 

Transgender students do not feel comfortable at Watertown High School, said members of the Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) at WHS. “A lot of it was the school culture,” said GSA President and WHS junior Jeremy Holt. “When we decided to put this in place the school culture was not open and accepting (of transgender and nonconforming students).” As part of the new policy, they seek some changes to improve the atmosphere at the school. Some changes include creating gender-neutral bathrooms and locker rooms, teachers using the pronoun preferred by the student when addressing the student, and not telling parents what their preferred sexual identity until the student is comfortable telling them. “The three main goals of the policy are to reduce stigmatization of transgender and gender nonconforming students, maintaining the privacy of all students and fostering cultural competence and professional development for school staff,” WHS junior and GSA member Kira Peterson told the School Committee on Monday night.

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Watertown Students Host SPEAK Week at High School

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The following article was written by Watertown High School junior Crist Patvakanian:

It’s that time of the year again! SPEAK Week, organized by the Watertown Youth Coalition Peer Leaders and funded by the Watertown Community Foundation, took place from March 9th to March 13th at the Watertown High School. For those of you who are unfamiliar, SPEAK Week, which stands for Sharing Personal Experiences and Knowledge, is a week where speakers and activities take place in WHS to help educate students about healthy decision-making, substance abuse, bullying, and suicide prevention. SPEAK Week also allows the diverse clubs of the school to promote their own interesting and useful messages during lunch periods. This year’s clubs that participated include the Watertown Youth Coalition, the Feminist Coalition, the Armenian Club, the GSA, the Animal Rights Club, the Environmental Club, and the International Club.