Emotional Ceremony Delivers 158 Argents Into The World

Tuesday, June 13, 2000 Page: 3

Bishop Hoban High School in Wilkes-Barre said goodbye to 158 new graduates,
including 33 from the Mountaintop area, on May 29 at the school’s 29th annual
commencement ceremony.

After an invocation by Joseph Dubinski, director of religious formation,
salutatorian Mark David Zelinka of Nuangola welcomed parents, family and
friends to the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts. He reminded his
classmates to live the values taught by teachers and parents, who are the
people who have made students who they are, and to practice the faith
developed by their Hoban experience.
Sister Ellen Maroney, dean of students, and Anne A. Thomas, dean of
academic studies, announced awards, among them 153 scholarships worth more
than $3.2 million.

After Monsignor David L. Tressler, Hoban principal, announced the Class of

diplomas.

The senior members of the Seasonal Singers then performed the class song,
“Friends,” by Michael W. Smith.

In her farewell address, valedictorian Corissa Callahan of Ashley noted,
“True success involves living life to the fullest, and money should never be
the sole focus of that happiness.”

She urged her class to set goals, strive for them and achieve them.

In an emotional moment, senior class president Tiffany Rose Maculloch then
delivered a presentation thanking Tressler for being an ideal role model for
students.

“We leave Bishop Hoban High School better persons for having known you and
for having you as our principal,” Maculloch said.

Robin Koval of Fairview Township also spoke highly of Tressler and the rest
of the Hoban staff.

“We all appreciate Monsignor and the faculty for all they have done for
us,” she said, noting, “It was a beautiful and inspiring ceremony.”

Dougherty and Tressler then offered closing remarks, and the Rev. Thomas J.
O’Malley, president of the Bishop Hoban board of pastors, delivered
benediction. Robert Piasecki led the assembly in singing the alma mater, and
the new graduates exited the Kirby to the strains of “March Triomphale.”