The Lincoln-Way High School board recently honored the valedictorian and salutatorian of the Class of 2000.
The valedictorian is Justin Sadhu of Frankfort Square, who posted a grade point average of 5.225.
Sadhu, the son of Matthew and Annamma Sadhu of Frankfort Square, is involved in several school activities, including the National Honor Society, Mathletes and Pi Sigma Pi, the history honor society. He also is captain of the Scholastic Bowl team and president of Mu Alpha Theta, the mathematics honor society.
Outside of school, he sings in his church choir and writes poetry.
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He also won the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Scholastic Achievement, placed third in the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ Voice of Democracy contest, and maintained perfect attendance.
Sadhu, who plans to become a doctor, has not yet decided on a college. He has applied to the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Pittsburgh, Boston University and Harvard University.
Sebastian Neumayer, whose grade point average is 5.089, is the salutatorian.
Sebastian is the son of Gary and Deborah Neumayer of New Lenox. His student activities include the varsity swim team, Mathletes, Tech Club and Mu Alpha Theta.
Like Sadhu, Neumayer has a perfect attendance record. His out-of-school interests include model rocketry, coin collecting and calculator programming.
He also set four varsity swim records, placed 14th in number theory at the Mu Alpha Theta national convention, and placed second in the SICA Science Festival.
Neumayer, who plans to major in electrical engineering, has applied to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.