Congratulations to Lewis McQueen who was named Dux of Yarram Secondary College for 2014. The award was announced at the annual awards day on December 17th. Duxes for all year levels were also announced, with Year 7-Karli Irvine Nagle, Year 8- Hayley Hands, Year 9-andrew Neilson, Year 10-Rory Mullan and Year 11 Laura Bland. Other major award winners were Wyatt Kilgower and Peter Johnson receiving the prestigious Bird Family Trust Scholarships for Tertiary Education and Kristen Sellings and Kaitlin Woolford receiving the ADF Long Tan Leadership Awards. Other awards were as follows
SPORTS AWARDS Junior Boy Liam Farley, Junior Girl Ruby Land, Senior Girl Chelsea Smith, Senior Boy Rowan Missen
CROSS COUNTRY Kelvin Wilson Memorial Award Chelsea Smith
YSC CLAY TARGET SHOOTING AWARD – Beretta Australia Daimon Vicino & Georgie Oddy
AWARDS OF DISTINCTION
TRISHA PAULKA MEMORIAL BURSARY YEAR 11 Samantha Holt
YARRAM COURTHOUSE GALLERY YEAR 10 ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD Emma Gash
YARRAM COURTHOUSE GALLERY YEAR 11 ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD Brandii Baird
CIVICS & CITIZENSHIP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Wyatt Kilgower
MERVYN RAY MEMORIAL AWARD Jessica Mattern
PRICE-WIGHT FAMILY BURSARY Cameron Whiteoak
FEDERATION UNIVERSITY YR 11 ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Laura Bland
GRAEME EGAN SCIENCE BURSARY Caitlen Buys
TARRA TARAS PERFORMING ARTS AWARD Wyatt Kilgower
WELLINGTON SHIRE COMMUNITY ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD Wyatt Kilgower
CALTEX BEST ALL ROUNDER AWARD Patrick Petterson
YARRAM APEX CLUB CITIZENSHIP AWARD – BOY Wyatt Kilgower
YARRAM APEX CLUB CITIZENSHIP AWARD – GIRL Emma Foat
LIONS CLUB AWARD – GIRL Ella Mallett
LIONS CLUB AWARD – BOY Luke McKean
DAVID JOHNSTON YOUTH INITIATIVE AWARD Braydn Wilson
DAVID IND MEMORIAL AWARD Shannon Ray
YOUNG LANDCARE AWARD – Yarram Yarram Catchments Network Teilor Woolford
TARRA LODGE YEAR 9 LEADERSHIP AWARD Nickolas Tschugguel
TARRA LODGE YEAR 10 LEADERSHIP AWARD Rachel Sellings
School captains Wyatt Kilgower and Emma Foat announced Jack Mitchell and Laura Bland and their successors for 2015.