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'Most Likely to' ... Attend Hogwarts?
Before graduating, the Class of 2011 bestows a bevy of "most likely to" awards, including predictions as to who would marry for money and who would attend Harry Potter's school.
Graduation season is also awards season. Students are recognized for all kinds of achievements: for volunteering, for academic excellence, for athletic prowess.
Add to those, at Geneva High School, the fun “most likely to” honors bestowed by the senior class on fellow students, and distributed, with appropriate gift of course, at the annual Senior Breakfast.
For the Class of 2011, Kiley Pawlak and Brad Bernhard were deemed most like to be president, for example. Each received an American flag.
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These graduates decided Dori Rogers—daughter of GHS grad and Principal Tom Rogers—was most likely to live in Geneva forever. She, along with classmate Danny Lulek, her male counterpart for the award, received Geneva bags and water bottles.
Soccer standouts Demi Miller and Brady Wahl were voted most likely to be a Soccer Mom and Dad, while Rachel Zacchea and Jack Schrilla are headed to the ranks of millionaires, in their classmates’ opinions. The two received some fake money to send them on their way. Fake money also was handed to Liz Hudon and Charles Cable, declared to be most likely to marry for money. Melissa Barber and Brad Bernhard won’t be wedding for cash; they received chocolate kisses for being high school sweethearts.
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No strangers to the GHS stage, Anne Olson and Trevor Morgan were deemed most likely to be on Broadway, receiving inflatable microphones as their prize. (NOTE: In the interests of disclosure, Anne Olson is the writer’s daughter—and her oldest sister won the same award in 2006.) And Allison Saunders and Brett Hevron, in the view of their classmates, also are headed to stardom, on reality television shows. Their prize? Star sunglasses.
Posters of boy wizard Harry Potter went to Sadie Dainko and Will Stith, voted most likely to attend Hogwarts, while Kari Kosog, Phil Banion and Bryan Strah all received tasty Swedish fish candies, for being most likely to live in another country.
The class of 2011 decided Blair Dunbar and Collin Waldoch most likely to win a Noble Peace Prize. And—no surprise here, given that both were medal winners in the 2010 Youth Olympic Games—Kevin McDowell and Kelly Whitley were voted most likely to be a professional athlete.
Perhaps, in 2031, the Class of 2011 will gather at the 20th reunion and see just how on-the-(fake)-money these awards are.
