Archdiocese Honors O'Hara Senior Scholars Tuesday

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput will celebrate a mass Tuesday night at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia to honor Archdiocesan and private Catholic high school seniors for their academic excellence.

Kathleen Logan, a student from , is this year’s student speaker.

The students, who rank in the top 3 percent of their senior class, will be honored for their academic success and dedication to schoolwork. This year 169 students are included in this elite group, according to their cumulative ranks at the end of the first semester of their senior year. About 4,000 seniors will graduate from Archdiocesan high schools this year.

The following Cardinal O'Hara High School students are among the 2012 Archdiocese of Philadelphia Academic Scholars:

Lisa Aquino

Michelle Daly

Caitlin Amanda Davis

Fiona Egan

Jennifer Glace

Mallory Anne Hotz

Kathleen Regina Logan*

Nicole M. McAlee*

Kerry O’Sullivan

Robert T. Schuster

*Individuals with asterisks after their names are in the Neumann Scholars Program. Initiated in 1995, this scholarship program identifies academically talented eighth grade students through an independently administered competitive examination and provides four year scholarships to attend one of seventeen Archdiocesan high schools.

Congratulations to all those honored!