Thirteen girls from the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula are among the 38 members of the St. Margaret’s School Class of 2006 who were graduated on Saturday, June 3.

Fully 100% of this year’s class plans to go directly to college. The graduates will be attending some of the nation’s top colleges, including the Ivy League’s Brown University and more than 30 other schools in Virginia and 15 additional states that include Massachusetts, Indiana and Florida.

Local graduates include: Megan Lloyd Burton (Longwood University), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Burton of Montross; Dariya Caron (Mary Baldwin College), daughter of Ms. Kateryna Caron of King George; Rebecca Plater Dickinson (Virginia Tech), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Dickinson III of Loretto; Victoria Alexandra Grant (J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Grant, Jr., of Tappahannock; Sydney Nicole Harris (Brown University), daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ira Harris of Tappahannock; and Teresa Erin Martin (Randolph-Macon Woman’s College), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Timmothy Martin of Callao.

Other local graduates are: Alexandra Lynn Newman (Dickinson College), daughter of Dr. and Mrs. David Newman of Lancaster; Sarah Griggs Reilly (Longwood University), daughter of Ms. Robin Reilly of Bruington; Allison Virginia Ryan (James Madison University), daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William Ryan of Tappahannock; Julianna Chenoweth Sader (Davis and Elkins College), daughter of Mr. Alan Sader and Ms. Ann Chenoweth of St. Stephen’s Church; Kathryn Ball Saunders (University of Kansas), daughter of Ms. Sue Ball of Tappahannock and Mr. Frank Saunders of Mechanicsville; Hope Elizabeth Scott (Hampton University), granddaughter of the Rev. and Mrs. William E. Scott, Jr., of West Point; and Katherine Yoshimura Turnage (Lynchburg College), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Turnage of Hague.

The graduating boarding students include Caroline Britt Arnold of Fredericksburg (Guilford College); Sadé Denise Bowen of Washington, DC (Northeastern University); Jacqueline Esther Brunk of Jackson Hole, WY (Abilene Christian College); Kara Fitzgerald Casey of Vienna (Winthrop University); Allyson Marlene Childress of Kuwait (University of Mary Washington); Allison Elizabeth Davis of Chestertown, MD (McDaniel College); Melissa Agnes Farara of Tortola, British Virgin Islands (Mary Baldwin College); Sally Currier Giles of Lynchburg (Samford University); Lauren Rachael Guiffré of Fairfax Station (VCU School of the Arts); Laura Anne Hubbell of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (Tallahassee Community College); Yiou Jiao of Hong Kong (University of Texas, Austin); Molly Elizabeth Jones of Tabor City, NC (Meredith College); and Kayce Alexandra Kutch of Dallas, TX (Marymount Manhattan College).

Other graduating boarding students are Ashley Elizabeth Leake of Marietta, GA (Temple University); Sojin Lee of Seoul, Korea (Johnson and Wales University); Taylor Moore McEwen of Upper Marlboro, MD (Spelman College); Drenika Renee Mosby of Washington, DC (Winston-Salem State University); Oluwatosin Omotade of Elmont, NY (Meredith College); Laura Grayson Overman of New Bern, NC (Savannah College of Art and Design); Abbey Noelle Potter of Bealeton (University of Mary Washington); Kristan Marché Price of Forestville, MD (Presbyterian College); Emily Rawlings Reynolds of Owingsville, KY (Centre College); Katherine Alexandra Sednew of McLean (Indiana University, Bloomington); Brooke Marie Shafer of Fredericksburg (Randolph-Macon Woman’s College); and Hsin-Yu Tsai of Taiwan (Pennsylvania State University).

St. Margaret’s Board of Governors member Fay Lohr, chief executive officer of the Central Virginia Food Bank, and a 1962 graduate of the school, gave the commencement address. Caroline L. Baldwin, an SMS alumna who serves as vice-chair of the school’s Board of Governors, joined Head of School Margaret R. Broad in conferring the diplomas.