Gloucester Catholic High School conferred diplomas on 200 graduates at commencement ceremonies on Thursday, May 29.
Michael Barron of Washington Township and Alyse Scaffidi of Glassboro are the co-valedictorians for the GCHS Class of 2008.
Bishop Joseph Galante of the Camden Diocese was the main celebrant of the Baccalaureate Mass at the Church of Saint Agnes in Blackwood at 3:30 pm.
Msgr. James Curran, pastor of Saint Mary\’s Parish in Gloucester City, and Father James Durkin, a Gloucester City native and a member of the GCHS Golden Jubilarian Class of 1958, concelebrate. Commencement ceremonies followed the Mass.
Co-valedictorian Michael Barron is an Edward J. Bloustein New Jersey Distinguished Scholar. He has received scholarships to Villanova, Drexel and Rutgers Universities and will attend Lehigh University on scholarship to study engineering.
A member of Gloucester Catholic\’s Marian Chapter of the National Honor Society, he has also been active with the stage crew, Interact and Habitat for Humanity.
Michael is an instructor for altar servers and has taught Vacation Bible School in his parish.
Co-valedictorian Alyse Scaffidi is an Edward J. Bloustein New Jersey Distinguished Scholar.
Accepted to Northeastern, Saint John\’s and Temple Universities, as well as the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, she will attend Rutgers, School of Pharmacy on an academic scholarship.
Alyse is the president of the Marian Chapter of the National Honor Society and has represented Gloucester Catholic at the National Catholic Forensics Tournament.
She also represented GCHS at the KYW News Studies Program.
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