First, SUNY Oswego senior Brittany Vetter competed with top accounting and finance students across the country to win a berth in Beta Alpha Psi’s Project Run With It competition.
Then her team triumphed, bringing another honor — and a $1,000 prize — to the award-winning Oswego chapter.
It was a perfect day for a picnic.
Students at the Charles E. Riley Elementary School celebrated the start of a new school year with a Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support picnic hosted by the home and school association.
Flint was hired in 1977 at Minetto Elementary to teach first grade. During her tenure in Oswego she has taught first and second grade; looping with her students some of those years. The remainder of her years has been spent teaching Kindergarten. She also participates in Professional Development workshops and classes on a regular basis and is a member of the Web-Development Team that maintains the StudyZone on Oswego.org through the Learning Technology Grant.
Bright red t-shirts emblazoned with “Behavior is Right†were donned by the faculty of the Minetto Elementary School as students arrived on opening day.
Positive behavior is a major concern for students throughout the Oswego City School District and the Minetto faculty decided to celebrate with a game show theme.
Bruce Leone was presented his high school diploma by Superintendent of Schools Bill Crist (left) and Summer School Administrator Sean Fahey (right) and they were joined by the graduate’s mother Dorrie Goewey and father Bruce Leone. Leone along with several other Oswego High School students completed academic requirements during the summer. Other students who earned their high school diploma were Aaron Brasher, Hector Cirino, Christopher Emond, Stephanie Ketcham, Brandon Legates, Chelsea Taylor, Dillon White and Alex Stein.
Johanna Domingues is a high school exchange student from Cavalaise, France. Ms. Domingues will study this school year at G. Ray Bodley High School in Fulton.
Oswego received over 10,500 freshman applications, up 38.8 percent since 2005. This means the college has been more selective with admissions, accepting 47 percent this year compared to 56 percent four years ago.
To finish up, students went to the cafeteria to try some sweet, fresh pears that were picked by the Whitcomb family and generously donated by Eugene Hafner.
Another school year has officially commenced.
Wednesday, September 9 nearly 4,200 Oswego City School District students returned to the classroom.
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