Posted: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:00 am
At a glance
GRADUATION -
11 a.m., Saturday, June 9, Upper Social Hall, St. Mary's Catholic Church, 501 N.W. 25th St., Corvallis. Leonardo Defillipis, actor and director with St. Luke Productions in Beaverton, will present the keynote speech.
GRADUATES -
Maria Hommes and Vanessa Oberlin (daughters of Anne and Norman Hommes and Gregg and Corinne Oberlin, respectively)
CLASS FACTS -
Both students have been homeschooled since kindergarten and participated in St. Mary's Mother of Grace Homeschool Group. They are active at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Corvallis.
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Graduates
Maria Hommes
Maria is graduating a year early and has supplemented the Mother of Divine Grace curriculum with a class at Corvallis High School and at Archbishop Sheen Academy. She enjoys theatre, dancing, singing, historic re-enactments and babysitting. She and Vanessa are both part of the AAA theater group. Her favorite part of the year is the Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire. Maria will be attending Western Oregon University, majoring in early and elementary education in the honors program. She received a presidential scholarship.
Vanessa Oberlin
Vanessa has taken a wide variety of classes ranging from theology to shorthand, Japanese to theater. She has been in a number of community plays and still considers theater her first love, although her service project with Los Embajaderos was a highlight of one summer. After a trip to Rome, she worked closely with her family in bringing gelato to Corvallis and starting Francesco's. Vanessa is working at a sushi bar and is undecided on her plans for next fall.