Press release from Dick Lugar, U.S. Senator for Indiana

U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar has nominated candidates for the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland; U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York; U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado; and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York.

The nominees were selected by Lugar’s Academy Merit Selection Committees, which he has used for the nominating process each year that he has been a senator.  The nonpartisan boards meet each November and December in Indianapolis to review applicants.  For the 9^th year, Lugar hosted Dick Lugar Academy Days, in Fort Wayne, New Albany and Indianapolis, for high school students interested in learning more about military service.

The nominees now await admission to their respective academies for the class of 2015, entering in July 2011. 

“It is exciting to nominate these outstanding young Hoosiers to our nation’s service academies,” said Lugar, who volunteered for the Navy after completing his Rhodes Scholarship studies at Oxford University in England. Lugar served from 1957-60 as an intelligence briefer for Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh Burke. “I also am grateful to the selection committees for their service.”

The nominees are listed by county, name, high school and academy/academies to which they have been nominated.

Allen County:  Lindsay James Crawford, Homestead High School, United States Air Force Academy and United States Naval Academy

Boone County:  David Shelby Roaten, Sheridan High School/Wabash College, United States Naval Academy;  Thomas Edward Wheeler III, Zionsville Community High School, United States Military Academy at West Point

Carroll County:  Sean-Paige Samuel Best, Delphi Community High School, United States Merchant Marine Academy

Clark County:  Kyle Andrew Babiak, William W. Borden Jr./Sr. High School, United States Merchant Marine Academy; John William Durrett, Jeffersonville High School, United States Military Academy at West Point

Dearborn County:  Ryan Lee Hobbie, East Central High School, United States Military Academy at West Point; Alexander Ross Humphrey, Lawrenceburg High School, United States Military Academy at West Point and United States Naval Academy

Delaware County:  John Connor McGee, Burris Laboratory School, United States Air Force Academy; David Scott Neff, Jr., Yorktown High School, United States Air Force Academy and United States Military Academy at West Point

Elkhart County:  Michael Wayne Richline, Concord Community High School, United States Naval Academy

Floyd County:  Steven Edward Schultze, Floyd Central High School, United States Military Academy at West Point

Hamilton County:  Katherine Marie Allemeier, Westfield High School, United States Naval Academy; Gabriela Baez, Hamilton Heights High School, United States Air Force Academy and United States Naval Academy; John Alexander Stuy, Carmel High School, United States Naval Academy

Hancock County:  Lucas Christopher Ruff, Greenfield-Central High School, United States Air Force Academy and United States Military Academy at West Point

Hendricks County:  Colten Hilton Erickson, Danville Community High School, United States Merchant Marine Academy

Jackson County:  Victoria Anne Ollo, Brownstown Central High School, United States Military Academy at West Point

Johnson County:  Matthew Curtis Beaman, Greenwood Community High School, United States Merchant Marine Academy

Lake County:  Tetsuo Jordan Toyama, Munster High School/Marion Military Institute, United States Air Force Academy and United States Merchant Marine Academy

Lawrence County:  Preston Anthony Banker, Bedford North Lawrence High School, United States Merchant Marine Academy

Marion County:  Robert Andrew Carmer, Covenant Christian High School, United States Air Force Academy; Maxxamillion Alexander Hamm, Cathedral High School, United States Merchant Marine Academy; James Frederick Hill, Bishop Chatard High School, United States Military Academy at West Point; Michael Joseph Holland, Bishop Chatard High School/Purdue University, United States Naval Academy; Alexander Jamil Huff, North Central High School, United States Military Academy at West Point; James Eric McMechan, Park Tudor High School, United States Military Academy at West Point; Douglas Sprowl, George Washington High School/United States Military Academy Prep School, United States Military Academy at West Point; Graham C. Ucchino, Lawrence Central High School, United States Merchant Marine Academy

Marshall County:  Andrea Rochelle Canacci, The Culver Academies, United States Merchant Marine Academy

Parke County:  Kristofer David Nickle, Rockville Jr.-Sr. High School, United States Military Academy at West Point

Porter County:  Jeanne Marie Nolan, Valparaiso High School, United States Military Academy at West Point

Ripley County:  Collin Philip Koury, Batesville High School, United States Naval Academy; Stephanie Denise Scoggins, Shawe Memorial Jr.-Sr. High School, United States Merchant Marine Academy

St. Joseph County:  Cody Christopher Strange, John Glenn High School, United States Military Academy at West Point

Tippecanoe County:  Frank Joseph Roetker, Lafayette Jefferson High School, United States Air Force Academy