Coram Deo Academy Ceremonies Attended by Over 1,500

Coram Deo Academy conducts annual end of the school year awards assemblies and graduation exercises at each of its schools. With Mrs. Charlotte Campbell presiding and Rodney Marshall giving a brief address, the Flower Mound Lower School presented completion awards to students in K-4 and medals to students in grades five and six with cumulative year-end average in the A range. Five hundred students, mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers attended the Carrollton School Assembly where students received the same awards. Additionally Mr. Joseph Fox, School Director presented each mother of an enrolled student with a long stemmed red rose in appreciation for outstanding support at home. The Flower Mound Upper School presented Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude and Summa Cum Laude to a high percentage of its two hundred thirty students. High School students also competed throughout the school year for recognition as outstanding athletes, artists and distinguished students. Megan Duran and Hannah Spalding and Josh Hicks and Kevin Minuch received Outstanding Athlete awards while Hannah Chupp, poet, Abigail Marshall, visual artist and B. J. Schaefer, classical guitarist each received the prized Artes Elegantes award. Caleb McKinnon, Natalie Price and Bryan Wakefield received the Academy’s highest annual honor in the form of the Distinguished Student Award. Twenty seniors walked the platform as they culminated their high school education. Dr. Ryan Brown, Professor of Social Psychology, University, presented the Commencement Address to the six hundred that gathered while School Director Bill Rector presented diplomas. Valedictorian Lindsey Sobolik and Salutatorian Natalie Price exhorted the assembly. The senior class presented an original painting by Dianne Walker-Gladney, CDA studio artist also well known for gallery presentations of her own works throughout the central south. For a list of award recipients and for a slide show of the Class of 2005 [click here].