The Boardman Civic Association handed-out seven college scholarships, and presented a Lifetime Achievement Award Mr. and Mrs. Edison Lugibihl during its annual Academic Achievement Banquet held at the Georgetown last week. Featured speaker at the event was Dr. Justin Mistovich.
      Scholarships were presented to Jordan Snipes (Youngstown Christian), Luke Carrabia (Boardman High School), Victoria Valko (Boardman High School), Marie Shorokey (Boardman High School), Jonathan Ouimet (Boardman High School), and Mario Ricciardi (Cardinal Mooney High School).
      “Dr. Mistovich did a fabulous job encapsulating life’s important aspects and presenting inspiring words to the scholars that were in attendance,” said Meg Harris, BCA president.
      Mr. and Mrs. Lugibihl have lived in Boardman for more than 60 years, and are longtime members of Boardman United Methodist Church. Mr. Lugibihl retired as an educator in Nov., 1992, after a more than four decade career with Boardman Local Schools, where he served as a teacher and middle school principal.
      121 high school seniors were recognized for maintaining scholastic averages of 3.2 or better.
      99 students from Boardman High School were recognized, including Jamil Abdo, Mackenzie Allen, Brooke Bailey, Melanie Banko, Megan Banks, Gino Beato, Lee Billock, Ireland Blume, Isabel Bonhomme, Nancy Boulos, T’Amor Bowman, Luke Carabbia, Deanna Cassidy, Andrew Cessna, Brittany Chamberlain, Alexandra Chismar, Benjamin Clark, Frances Clause, Caroline Constantinovich, Dominique Cox, Breanna Deblois, Stephanie DeMain, Donald Dempsey, Rocci DeNiro, David Durthic, Michael Despetorich, Kacey Dickey, Dominic DiLullo, Alexis Downie, Cailin Downie, Renee Dubiel, Jessica Cox, Brian Fryda, Zachary Fryda, Hayley Gianfrancesco, Sarah Gonda, Hannah Grimes, Santino Guerrieri, Nathanial Harris, Brooke Harsh, Paige Headlee, Brian Hirschl, Kristen Huck, Konstantinos Kasamias, Charis Kasler, Douglas Kephart, Kelly Kratofil, Haley Landers, Scott Lendak, Julia Lewis, Amanda Lipke, Daniel Liptak, Jordan Long, Vincent Mancini, Anastasios Mihalopoulos, Corey Miles, Amanda Moss, Kaye Moyer, Trustan Myers, Kristina Nguyen, Maggie Nguyen, Michael Notar, Megan O’Neil, Matthew O’Nesti, Blaise Obritz, Jonathan Quimet, Michael Palagano, Arjun Pandya, Jessica Parillo, Robert Parkhurst, Ariana Pasqual, Alexa Pasquale, Hannah Pavelko, Jenna Pavlansky, Tyler Poulakos, Carly Redmond, Brandon Rigelsky, Gabrielle Rossi, Athena Russo, Samantha Sakmar, Juan Santiago, Kacie Santilli, Richard Santucci, Jessuica Schweinsberg, Marie Shorokey, Aaron Skeens, Zachary Smotzer, Anna Sracic, Matthew Stark, Kelsie Stutz, Kayleigh Sweeney, Nicholas Tancabel, Hannah Titus, Victoria Valko, Haleigh Vallas, Efrain Velez and Jacob Wagner.
      20 students from Cardinal Mooney HS were recognized, including Carly Berlon, Mary Buchenic, Jake Clarke, Christian Dama, Dante DeChellis, Samantha Ellis, Kacey Ellswroth, Kenneth Emch, Brooke Fonderlin, James Haddad, David Hughes, Trent Humphreys, Emily Kiraly, Brian Knotten, Christian Lowery, Timothy Pallotta, Vincent Pecchia, Mario Ricciardi and Vincent Vostatek.
      Recognized from Youngstown Christian School were Payton Schnabl and Jordan Snipes.
      The invocation and benediction were given by Kathi McNabb-Welsh. Serving as master of ceremonies was Mark Luke.
      Mr. and Mrs. Lugibihl were introduced to the Civic Association by Luke, who cited the Lugibihl’s history of service to Boardman Township and its public school system.
      Mrs. Lugibihl was employed as a secretary for former West Blvd. Elementary School Principal Dave Hatcher, and also to Supt. Irvin J. Nisonger. She retired in 1992. Mrs. Lugibihl has served as treasurer of Boardman United Methodist Church since 2004.
      Mr. Lugibihl is a recipient of the Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow award, a Boardman School Hall of Fame inductee, and served as treasurer of the two-year effort to build a new auditorium at Boardman High School under the banner of Auditorium 2000. He is a 40-year-member of the Phi Delta Kappa educational fraternity.
      In 1957, he helped to organize the Boardman Local Schools Employees Credit Union, serving as treasurer, while is wife served as manager. In 1992, the credit union merged with the Associated School Employees Credit Union where Mr. Lugibihl currently serves as treasurer.
      He was an assistant coach under Head Coach Jerry Thorpe for the 1960 Boardman High School football team that posted an unbeaten, 9-0, record.
      Mr. and Mrs. Lugibihl are the parents of three children, all graduates of Boardman High School, sons Jay and Tad, and daughter Gay. They have nine grandchildren.