Katherine Clayton, a Sleepy Hollow resident, was one of Dartmouth College’s four valedictorians, and Caterina Florissi, a Briarcliff Manor resident, was one of six salutatorians for the Class of 2018, who graduated in June of that year in Hanover, N.H.
Katherine, a government and French major, plans to compete in the ITU World Triathlon Championships in Australia this month, then complete a one-year research fellowship working in the government department at Dartmouth, followed by a PhD program in political science at Stanford University.
Caterina, a neuroscience major, plans to work for two years at DQ&A, allied with a California-based organization called Close Concerns, whose mission is to gather and share research about diabetes.