Three Lafayette High Grads Recognized at Missouri University

Four Rockwood School District graduates from the class of 2008 have been selected for Mizzou ’39, a prestigious program at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO, that recognizes 39 of the most outstanding seniors for their academic achievement, leadership and service to the campus and community, according to a Rockwood announcement. 

Mizzou students Ryan Bueckendorf, Cole Donelson and Julie Ronzio of Lafayette High School in Wildwood, and Hannah Schillinger of Rockwood Summit High School in Fenton, are four of the 39 students selected for the Mizzou '39 class of 2012.

This year marks the eighth annual Mizzou ’39 class, chosen during the month of February in spirit of the service in which Mizzou was founded in the same month in 1839. In addition to their induction, each honoree selected one faculty or staff member to be recognized for the impact he or she has made on the lives of Mizzou students. 

The honorees were revealed to the public for the first time during a special ceremony on Feb. 5 on the Francis Quadrangle on the university’s campus.  The recognition continued on Feb. 11 when they were also honored during half time of the men’s basketball game and invited to an awards banquet with their mentors and families.

Bueckendorf is majoring in English and secondary education, Donelson is majoring in management and strategic communication, and Ronzio and Schillinger are majoring in elementary education.