Saxony graduates 56 students

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Saxony Lutheran senior class speaker Savannah Spencer and her dad spoke often about the “order of life” on their many car rides to school each morning. The first of several milestones was “graduate high school.”
Spencer, along with her Saxony classmates, were able to put a checkmark next to that bullet point. A total of 56 Crusader seniors participated in the annual graduation ceremony at the Gerhard Birk Gymnasium on Sunday, May 15.
“We have been waiting for this day our entire lives,” Spencer said. “In our minds this point marks the beginning of the rest of our lives. However, after reaching this milestone. I would argue that there is a previous step that my dad left out. That would be actually going to high school.”
Spencer noted that the memories made at Saxony Lutheran will live with the class forever.
“We have experienced many highs and lows,” she said. “We endured a global pandemic that shut down the entire world, and many others. These challenges not only helped us grow as individuals, but grew us closer as a class. There have been many lows, there have been many more highs. Who could forget when the boys’ basketball team beat Notre Dame for the first time ever on homecoming?”
Saxony Lutheran Principal Mark Ruark would also argue that many of those high points came in the classroom. The average composite ACT score for the 2022 class is 23, which is three points higher than the national average. A total of 70 percent of the class earned 511 college credits, with the average student coming out of Saxony with 13 credits already to their name. Out of that same percentage of the class, 29 percent will graduate with a full semester worth of college credit under their belt. That total is the highest at Saxony in the last five years.

The total amount of scholarship dollars accepted by the class of 2022 was $1,279,644, which comes out as an average of nearly $32,000 per student, which is one of the highest in school history.
With that impressive amount of scholarship earnings and test scores, it made sense that Saxony had 45 students graduate with honors in the cum laude system. Summa Cum Laude graduates (3.75-4.0 GPA) were Jarrett Baker, Noah Bockelman, Leah Bronenkant, Anna Buerck, Isabella Deckerd, Wade Eggemeyer, Madelyn Harris, Owen Johnson, Austin Kirn, Zachary Lewis, Wilson Lodge, Rylea Lohmann, Hiren Parekh, Kaylee Proffer, Logan Pruitt, Mary Richey, Elise Roth, Ty Seabaugh, Savannah Spencer, Anna Thomason, Emma Voelker, Cord Word, Alexander Zieba.
Magna Cum Lude graduates (3.50-3.74) were Luke Besand, Audrey Daniel, Audrey Dreyer. Bryanna Hale, David Hamm, Jacob Johnson, Mason Mayhew, Brynn Sprengel, Savanna Sprengel, Maris Woodruff.
Cum Laude graduates (3.25-3.49) were Chloe Bollinger, Ava Brown, Jackson Haertling, Kaden Meyer, Lydia Miesner, Bianca School, Alex Siebel, Colin Tarry, McKenna Webb.
Distinguished graduates (3.00-3.24) were Lauren Barnes, William Eldridge, Jesse Rauh.
Throughout their the four years of high school, Saxony Lutheran Administrative Assistant and Media Coordinator Dawn Ozark noted in her commencement speech that the Class of 2022 has grown as individuals and are ready to go out into the world. She described throughout her speech what it means to be a Crusader and live the “Saxony Way.”
“We are not ready to walk these halls without your smiling faces,” Ozark said. “However, we are ready for you to rock the next chapter of your life and see the mark you have left on Saxony for years to come. This is not the end, but the start of something new. Remember once you are a Crusader, you are always a Crusader.”