VIN'S PEOPLE: Manatee High School Alumni Association to salute new class at Bradenton CC
Congrats to 2023’s Manatee High Outstanding Alumni and Outstanding Class (1987) being inducted Thursday at the Bradenton Country Club.
Honorees are Angelina “Angel” Colonneso (1986), Community Achievement: Manatee County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller; Jacki Dezelski (1989), Professional Achievement: president-CEO Manatee Chamber of Commerce; Linda Boone (1974), Service & Support to MHS and MHS Alumni Association: retired educator and Sugar ‘Cane director also served in multiple leadership roles; Harry "Hank" Rennagel (1957), Military/Academic Achievement: West Point, decorated Vietnam veteran, retired colonel and distinguished chemistry professor; Robert Martini (2002), Heroic Achievement: Sarasota County Beach Lifeguard Lieutenant/EMT honored for lifesaving several times; Joey Wingate (1958), Military Achievement: 30 years USMC, decorated Vietnam veteran.
· That’s 22 years of wedded bliss for Sharon and Harold Byrd.
· And 13 for Lienna and Damon May.
· Well done to Southeast’s A’Rhiya Bundrage, a scholarship recipient at the Steve L. Lewis Awards Program by the Kappa Alpha Psi Sarasota Florida Alumni Chapter, and Kalie Martin, an AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) student and Launching Leaders in the Arts Scholarship awardee from the National League of American Pen Women.
· Big ups to Anna Maria Oyster Bar boss and community leader John Horne, a new Bartow High Hall of Famer.
· Pam Bellamy is 39. Again.
· So is Schuyler Counihan.
· Savannah Francis, too.
· And John Karl.
· Props to the girls on the Manatee County All-Stars Traditional weightlifting team – 101: Kim Amy Phung (Manatee); 110: Sarah Griffin (Parrish); 119: Brooke Consentino (Saint Stephen’s); 129: Maddie Palso (Southeast); 139: Emily Dowd (SS); 154: Payton Mangay-Aram (Braden River); 169: Elyse Skoumal (SS); 183: Lucy Milner (BR); 199: Valle Fescemeyer (Bayshore); Unlimited: Madelyn Wilson (P).
And the Olympic weightlifting team all-stars – 101: Angeline Cao (S); 129: Maddie Vassallo (Lakewood Ranch); 154: La-Juria Thomas (S); 169: Lauren Jolly (Bradenton Christian); 183: Alexis Rissler (LR); 199: Mia White (M); Unlimited: Annesley Flint (SS).
Their coaches are Manatee’s Rich Lansky, Saint Stephen’s Erik Schultz and Southeast’s Brian McKnight.
· Bravo to the Hernando de Soto Society’s new Queen Alli Cruz, Hernando de Soto Scott Monroe, Princess Kaylah Gunst, Captain Erik Marshall and Padre Lee Barnes.
· And the 14th annual Lucky Ducky Race for Pace is Saturday at Caddy’s Bradenton, 801 Riverside Drive E. Want to adopt a duck and help the Pace Center for Girls Manatee continue changing young women’s lives in our community? Visit duckrace.com/manatee
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This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: VIN MANNIX: Manatee High School Alumni Association to honor new class
