Twenty-four Paideia seniors have been selected for National Merit, National Achievement semi-finals and commendations. They are Jonah Epstein, Avery Yang, John Lindsey Hill, Meron Ferketa, Aidan Brooks, Mason Cary, Gabriel Eisen, William Feldman, Leah Gilbert-Odem, Eliot Harrison, Reed Haury, Ellery Koelker-Wolfe, Margaret Meller, Ava Mohiuddin, Emma Pettit, Kathryn Radulavacki, Ginny Renjilian, Arianna Sanson, Rebecca Schapiro, Rose Shue, Jonathan Steinberg, Zachary Tolchin, Helen Samuel and Christopher Patton.
Bryan Berthold, senior vice president for corporate real estate at SunTrust Banks Inc., recently was named the Corporate Real Estate Executive of the Year for the Atlanta chapter of CoreNet Global
A total of nine students from Fayette's high schools passed district-level auditions for All State Jazz. They are Andrew Dallas, alto saxophone, Whitewater High; Steven Lukehart, trumpet and piano, McIntosh High; Quincy Chapman, tenor saxophone, Sandy Creek High; Michael Campbell, bass, McIntosh High; Sangwoo Shim, tenor saxophone, McIntosh High; Parker Olson, drum set, McIntosh High; Joey Ciancia, trumpet, McIntosh High; Matthew Spindler, trombone, Sandy Creek High; and Timothy Boddle, drum set, Sandy Creek High.
Christopher Banks, Hashim Rainey, William Holliday and Katherine Colville, all of Atlanta, and Emily Chambers of Smyrna, Nathan Harries of Alpharetta and Archer McFall of Marietta have received the Dean's Award at Colgate University.
Kiira Poux of Atlanta, Danielle Kraimer of Marietta and Alyssa Rutt of Roswell recently received their degrees at the University of Kansas.
Stephanie Riascos of Woodstock recently was named the winner of an iPad mini from Kennesaw State University's College of Continuing and Professional Education.
Kevin Slaton of Suwanee recently graduated from Randolph-Macon Academy in Front Royal, Virginia.
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School has named Beveraly Moody employee of the year.
University of Georgia graduate and Atlanta native Caroline Edwards has been selected as the winner of the 2014 BookLogix/AJC Decatur Book Festival Writers Contest. Edwards's story, Master of Storms, will be published by Alpharetta publisher BookLogix.
Caymen Chandler Buchanan, 18, of Atlanta, has earned the highest award the Boy Scouts of America, the rank of Eagle Scout.
Trevor Kauffmann, Eliza Macdonald, Tyler Whitehead and Zachary Gillan of the Atlanta area recently graduated from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa.
Atlanta natives Silva Canaj, Cody Michael Bennett and Morgan Kathleen Luger recently received doctor of pharmacy degrees from Auburn University's James I. Harrison School of Pharmacy.
Anne Taylor of Mableton recently won the district-level competition of the Toastmasters International Speech Contest.
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