At the Annual Awards Night ceremony Songa Rugangazi was
presented the Mount Michael Benedictine Award from Head of School Dr. David
Peters. Songa was selected by the faculty through secret ballot as the student
who best represents the ideals of Mount Michael Benedictine.
Songa is the son of Ben and Mary Rugangazi of Rwanda. He has
been accepted to numerous schools for next fall including George Washington
University, Purdue University, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the University of Wisconsin at
Madison. Songa has decided to attend Purdue University where he will major in
industrial engineering.
Other notable awards announced at the ceremony were Thomas
Feichtinger with the Key Staffer award for Journalism, Rowan Gruber and Scott
Townsend with the Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Award, Andy Johannes with the
Exchange Club Sophomore of the Year award, Joe Kucirek for Boy’s State, and the
Saint Benedict Award for Ministry to Sean Kruger and Lucas Buehler.
