Newark High School Monitor/Greeter Tom Wilson wondered why he was asked by Administrative Secretary Lynn Jeremenko June 6th to leave his post at the front desk in the foyer and go into the auditorium where the early morning awards assembly was being held.
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Once there, he was shocked to hear the words: “C’mon down Mr. Wilson, We’ve been waiting for you” from NHS English teacher and yearbook advisor Katie Ganter who was in front of the room filled to the brim with NHS students and staff.
After Ganter, stunned, walked down the aisle to the front of the auditorium, Ganter announced that the 2024 Arcadian yearbook had been dedicated to him and seniors began cheering.
Totally surprised, Wilson then listened as the 2024 Arcadian Editors, Grace DeVelder and Brooklyn Graham, read the dedication to him that was printed in the yearbook and then presented him with a copy of the book along with some flowers.
Later Wilson said he was totally surprised and honored at the same time to think the yearbook staff, in conjunction with the Class of 2024 had selected him to be the one they wanted the yearbook dedicated to.
“I thanked the kids and said I will miss them after they graduate,” he recalled later. “I was totally surprised and honored.”
A 2008 NHS graduate, Wilson, who has worked at NHS since February 2021, worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) at Thompson Hospital Continuing Care Center in Canandaigua before coming to work at the Newark Central School District. Prior to that he was a CNA at the DeMay Living Center in Newark.
He and his wife Kymberli, who live in Newark, have four children: Khloe, Gavin, Bella and Thomas III.