Manchester Announces Val & Sal

July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.

By Staff Report-

NORTH MANCHESTER – Audriana Fuentes and Adam Hanback have been named valedictorian and salutatorian respectively for the Class of 2014 at Manchester Junior-Senior High School.  
Fuentes has a grade point average of 3.9623 and Adam Hanback has a 3.9600 grade point average after seven semesters.
Fuentes has earned Academic Excellence and Highest Honor Roll honors with the Multicultural Leadership Award and President’s Award for Educational Excellence. She was also awarded a Richard G. Lugar Minority Scholarship and was a finalist for the Lilly Scholarship for the Community Foundation of Wabash County.  
Athletically, she played tennis and earned the Scholar Athlete Award.
In other extracurricular activities, Fuentes has participated in Science Olympiad, Key Club, theater and choir.  She was elected to the National Honor Society and was vice president of Key Club. She also has served in community and church youth group activities. She has also danced and taken piano lessons as well as performed with handbells at the Manchester Church of the Brethren.
After high school graduation with an Academic Honors Diploma, Fuentes plans to attend Manchester University to major in education in order to pursue a career as a teacher.
She is the daughter of Susan Finney and Carlos Fuentes and the granddaughter of Ron and Harriet Finney.
Hanback has earned Academic Excellence and Highest Honor Roll all four years. Active in FFA, he has served as the FFA Chapter president this year and has earned a Hoosier State FFA degree, FFA Star in agriscience, the FFA Outstanding Member Award and the Josie Heckaman Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding FFA Achievement. He has also been awarded the ADM Next Generation Agriculture Leaders Scholarship and a Purdue University Trustees Scholarship and was a 2014 Lilly Scholarship finalist for the Community Foundation of Wabash County.
In other school activities, Hanback has served as the vice president of the National Honor Society, was a team leader for Science Olympiad, member of Spanish Club, the Student Tech Support Squad and a student representative on the iLearn 1:1 Steering Committee. He has been a teacher aide and theater lighting technician.
In community activities, Hanback has been the vice chairman of the Crossroads Bank Junior Board of Directors and has participated in several FFA community activities such as Harvest Festival and the Wabash County 4H Fair week.
After graduating with an Academic Honors Diploma, he will attend Purdue University to study computer information and technology. He plans to major in cyber security and pursue a career in this field. Eventually, he would like to become a cyber investigator and work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
He is the son of Mike and Nancy Hanback and the grandson of Miriam Hanback.

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NORTH MANCHESTER – Audriana Fuentes and Adam Hanback have been named valedictorian and salutatorian respectively for the Class of 2014 at Manchester Junior-Senior High School.  
Fuentes has a grade point average of 3.9623 and Adam Hanback has a 3.9600 grade point average after seven semesters.
Fuentes has earned Academic Excellence and Highest Honor Roll honors with the Multicultural Leadership Award and President’s Award for Educational Excellence. She was also awarded a Richard G. Lugar Minority Scholarship and was a finalist for the Lilly Scholarship for the Community Foundation of Wabash County.  
Athletically, she played tennis and earned the Scholar Athlete Award.
In other extracurricular activities, Fuentes has participated in Science Olympiad, Key Club, theater and choir.  She was elected to the National Honor Society and was vice president of Key Club. She also has served in community and church youth group activities. She has also danced and taken piano lessons as well as performed with handbells at the Manchester Church of the Brethren.
After high school graduation with an Academic Honors Diploma, Fuentes plans to attend Manchester University to major in education in order to pursue a career as a teacher.
She is the daughter of Susan Finney and Carlos Fuentes and the granddaughter of Ron and Harriet Finney.
Hanback has earned Academic Excellence and Highest Honor Roll all four years. Active in FFA, he has served as the FFA Chapter president this year and has earned a Hoosier State FFA degree, FFA Star in agriscience, the FFA Outstanding Member Award and the Josie Heckaman Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding FFA Achievement. He has also been awarded the ADM Next Generation Agriculture Leaders Scholarship and a Purdue University Trustees Scholarship and was a 2014 Lilly Scholarship finalist for the Community Foundation of Wabash County.
In other school activities, Hanback has served as the vice president of the National Honor Society, was a team leader for Science Olympiad, member of Spanish Club, the Student Tech Support Squad and a student representative on the iLearn 1:1 Steering Committee. He has been a teacher aide and theater lighting technician.
In community activities, Hanback has been the vice chairman of the Crossroads Bank Junior Board of Directors and has participated in several FFA community activities such as Harvest Festival and the Wabash County 4H Fair week.
After graduating with an Academic Honors Diploma, he will attend Purdue University to study computer information and technology. He plans to major in cyber security and pursue a career in this field. Eventually, he would like to become a cyber investigator and work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
He is the son of Mike and Nancy Hanback and the grandson of Miriam Hanback.

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