Phil Cooper, Huddleston Elementary; David Wooddy, McIntosh High; Joyce Gruschow, Peachtree City Elementary; Phil Edge, Robert J. Burch Elementary; Ed McKeogh, Braelinn Elementary; Loretta Johnson, Fayetteville Elementary; Laverne Starr, Starr's Mill High; Gary Nestlehutt, Whitewater High; and Patricia Carabajal, Bennett's Mill Middle were named Fayette County's School Bus Drivers of the Year.
Fayette County bus drivers Mark Ballard, Lynette Bowles, Tara Bradshaw, Angela Broome, Jerry Carpenter, Danette Corcoran, Mary Catherine Domaleski, Tammy Dorsey, Bob Greenway, and Krystyna Koutsounadis honored for perfect attendance.
William Hamryka has been named the top high school boy's soccer player for Gwinnett County.
Yasmeen Simone Latore of McDonough graduated cum laude from Mary Baldwin College.
Ryann Khalil, Centennial High School; Tara Cooper, Nirav Ilango, and Samuel Weinbach, Chattahoochee High School; Sevda Arjomand and Rachel Kim, Johns Creek High School; Christian Kirkup, Milton High School; Veronica Sondervan and Sibley Lyndgaard, North Springs Charter High School; Dhaumya Shah, Northview High School; and Jeffrey Hooks, Ethan Mann and Luka Marinkovic, Riverwood International Charter School were named National Merit Scholars.
Brocha Bernhard, Pamela Hudson and Andreea Ghenti, Atlanta; Amanda Berstler and Jared Jones, McDonough; Ronald Calle, Lawrenceville; David Corn, Kennesaw; Meljin Cox, Madison; Katherine Hollingsworth, Roswell; and Jimmy Holloway, Gainesville made dean's list at Georgia Southwestern State University.
Phyllis McElroy of Decatur graduated from Lasell College.
Daniel Palumbo of Suwanee and Bronson Tunstall of Atlanta graduated from Bowdoin College.
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