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Amy Petersen is the valedictorian for the class of 1997 at Triton High School, and Patricia Yarian is the salutatorian.
Petersen is an Indiana Academic Honors Diploma recipient and a Presidential Academic Fitness Award winner. Vice president of the National Honor Society, she is also active in Future Business Leaders of America, Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Science Club. She is a member of the Warsaw Wesleyan Church youth group.
She is a graduate of the Kosciusko Youth Leadership Academy and has helped broadcast the Triton News during her junior and senior years. An Arion award winner in choir, Petersen has performed as a Trojan Singer and in musicals at Triton. She was selected an area blue-ribbon scholar by the South Bend Tribune.
A varsity athlete in volleyball and softball, she was selected Academic All-State in volleyball.
Petersen plans to attend Indiana Wesleyan University. She is the daughter of Marvin and Mary Petersen, Etna Green.
Yarian is an Indiana Academic Honors Diploma recipient and a Presidential Academic Fitness Award winner. Treasurer of FBLA and Future Homemakers of America, she is also active in National Honor Society and Science Club. She assists with the Triton News broadcasts.
Yarian was chosen as a Hoosier Girls State delegate her junior year and served as Triton's Hugh O'Brian Youth representative as a sophomore. She is a graduate of KYLA and has been active in Triton's quiz bowl and spell bowl teams.
She was a member of the varsity volleyball and basketball teams.
Yarian plans to major in accounting at Indiana University-South Bend. She is the daughter of Ed and Jane Yarian and Kathy and Darrell Wilson, all of Etna Green.
Both students will be speakers at Triton's commencement ceremony, which is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday in the high school gym. Baccalaureate begins at 6 p.m.
