Braden Hoagland, a senior at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, and Young-Ghee Hong, a senior at Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries, were named finalists in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program.
Paul VI Catholic High School’s graduation is June 3.
Bishop O’Connell High School’s graduation is May 31.
Most students who graduated from Virginia’s public colleges and universities last year left not only with a degree but also with a financial burden: an average student loan debt of about $30,000.
Matt Becht’s high school years were impacted most by volunteering and playing a sport he’s loved since childhood.
Elizabeth Brown hopes to apply her math prowess to solve problems for the greater good.
For this year’s graduation issue, the Catholic Herald gathered the four diocesan high school mascots for a photo shoot at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington.
Well-rounded senior Kevin McNerney will join the Fighting Irish this fall.
When it came time to write his college entrance essay, Paul VI Catholic High School senior James Dunbar was like most college-bound students — at a loss for words. That was until one night after he returned home from playing the Paul VI Panther mascot during a particularly exciting high school football game.
If you saw “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” at Seton School in Manassas, you saw senior Rosie Hall as Alice, the youngest of the brides. Hall might trade in her bridal veil for a religious habit.
