CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — St. Nicholas Parish honored its 2018 graduate and presented him with an icon June 24. Peter Swanney graduated summa cum laude from Royal Oak High School, located in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Swanney was a member of the National Honor Society and Phi Beta Kappa; he also played violin in the school orchestra. At St. Nicholas, Swanney has been an altar server for many years and plays violin with the Beskidy Folk Ensemble at the Carpatho-Rusyn Society of Michigan’s annual potluck. In the fall, he will study engineering at the University of Detroit.

Caption: Father Joseph Repko presents parishioner and high school graduate Peter Swanney with an diptych of the Mother of God and Jesus Christ.  (Photo: Nikolaj Nagrant)

As published in Horizons, July 22, 2018.

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