December 7, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 31 Ridgewood High school reports 115 National AP Scholars by John Koster Ridgewood High School had 115 students named as some level of AP Scholar and two Ridgewood High School students, Ji Ho Koo and Juan P. Llinas, have qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by achieving graders of 4 or higher on eight or more Advanced Placement examinations. About 18 percent of the 1.9 million students who took the AP examinations in May qualified for a related award. The Ridgewood winners in all categories include 16 juniors, who still have time to take additional tests and possibly increase their standing. The AP Scholar with Distinction Award went to 32 Ridgewood students who earned an average grade of 3.5 on all AP exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on three or more exams. These students were Kimiya Alsop, Gregory Babunovic, Christina Bicks, Cynthia Campo, Kwang Hyuk Cho, Caitlin Daniels, Claire Dennis, Austin Don, Benjamin Fishbein, Matthew Granski, Conor Grant, Christopher Hu, Woohyun Hwang, Yeon Hwang, Marco Iaconviello, Yuki Kawahara, Mark Kendrcik, Jae Hong Kim, Tae Hyun Kim, Ji Ho Koo, Juan Llinas, Sean Mattson, Christopher Mullen, Carolinee Perry, Kayla Polcari, Jinah Rhee, Phoebe Salsman-Cohen, Rockwell Schwartz, Matthew Sherrell, Christine Shigeta, Ian Wellington, and Jason Wong. Another 30 Ridgewood students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award with and average grade of at least 3.25 and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of the exams. These students were Cara Beirne, Timothy Branton, Robert Byrne, Gregory Caputo, Cara Dimino, Stephen Etna, Brenna Fischer, Kyle Gibson, Matthew Hurley, Jae Hyun Hwang, Jun Young Kim, Julia Lang, Gabrielle Lenhard, Douglas Leung, Grayson Llerandi, Sarah Lunenfeld, Nikki Mehran, Christian Pajusi, Yu Ri Park, Haley Press, Jonathan Riemer, Sophia Rosenfeld, Riki Saito, Michelle Savuto, Stephanie Sonnick, Katarina Spungen, Nicole Umina, Lan Wang, Haley Wodenshek, and Kelsey Zwyhun. The AP Scholar Award went to another 53 students for completing three or more AP exams with grades of 3 or higher. AP Scholars include Keegan Abdoo, Hannah Benenson, Kimberly Buesser, Daniel Butensky, Hyun Ah Byon, Christopher Chersi, Timothy Cheung, Daniel Choe, Jasmine Choi, Chongsuh Chun, Yoon Kyung Chun, Kathryn Citti, Michael Coniglio, Sara Daly, Caroline Davidson. Camille Davis, Elizabeth Deplautt, Sarah Devita, Rebecca Diamond, Oriana Diaz, Daniel Etna, Ashley Fine, Michael Freed, Emily Geiger, Colin Haleby, Bennett Hampilos, Julia Honoroff, Benedict Iturralde, Eunyung Kim, Griffin Kurzius, Nicolette Maggiolo, Clare Mcdowell, Bohyun Moon, Andrew Motzer, Kevin Muldoon, Bianca Palacio, Francis Paleno, Chae Wan Park, Tara Porfido, Neil Sareen, Whitney Schwalm, Sarah Sherrell, Jing Su, Heesun Suh, Connor Walsh, Christine Wamsley, Nicholas Weisberger, Tyler Welence, Hannah Yang, Neshat Yazdani, Chun Yeung Yim, Philip Yoon, and Erica Zeno. Scholars succeed The Ridgewood High School Upper Level Latin academic team recently attended its first competition of the season at Montclair State University. The team enjoyed Dr. Ellen Bakalian’s lecture about Theseus’ portrayal in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and in other medieval works. Dr. Prudence Jones then presented an investigation of the ‘real’ Cleopatra. Afterward, the team competed with 17 regional schools in Latin grammar, Roman life and Greco-Roman mythology. Ridgewood took second place, with first place going to Ridge High School and third place to Delbarton. Pictured with their medals and gift book are Alison Graham, Akari Armatas, Francesca Felder, Elizabeth Mattson, Megan Felder, Zoe Blecher-Cohen, and Vidushi Sharma.