Shades of Green - Stephen T. Badin High School

Kulifay earns Connelly Scholarship: Michael Kulifay,valedictorian of the senior class, earned the PatrickConnelly Leadership Scholarship, given annually to a Badinstudent who will attend Miami University and has been adifference-maker at BHS. The scholarship is awarded inhonor of the late Patrick Connelly ’73. Kulifay, middle, ispictured here with Pam Dinkel Connelly ’74, Pat’s widow;and Megan Connelly ’06, their daughter.High Honors to Juniors Major awards to juniors, membersof the Class of 2014, on Academic Awards Night went to thefollowing: Front row from left: Evan Gantenberg, who earnedthe St. Michael’s College Scholarship and Service book award;Claire Schuster, the University of Notre Dame book award forachievement, leadership and service; Amy Seither, the St. Michael’sCollege Scholarship and Service book award; and Holly Reed, theBrown University book award for excellence in English. At rear areLogan Kirsch, the University of Rochester Frederick Douglass andSusan B. Anthony Award for dedication to social and communityaction; Jacob Schweinefuss, the University of Rochester XeroxAward for innovation and information technology; and JacobMoran, the Bausch & Lomb award for science.16Pate Scholarship winner Austin Ray ’15 (center) was the inaugural recipient of the DanielFrancis Pate ’88 Scholarship, awarded to a current student showing enthusiasm for social studiesand civic responsibility. On hand for the presentation were members of the Pate family, includingPatti Pate Gray ’80, Danny’s sister; his mother, Barb Schuster Pate ’58; Karen Pate BrowningReed ‘84, his sister; and Badin faculty member Rick Pate ’03, his nephew. Danny Pate ‘88, asocial studies teacher in the Hamilton City School District, passed away in the summer of 2012.