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WEEK of June 11, 2007 |
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Announcements and Achievements Brooklyn Friends School students have garnered numerous awards and honors this spring, in recognition of their accomplishments in academics, the arts, and community service. Graduating senior Lizzie Kuntz has received a $2,500 National Achievement Scholarship (one of only 700 awarded nationally) to study at Harvard College as a member of the Class of 2011. The daughter of Alice Beal and William Kuntz, Lizzie lives in Cobble Hill and has attended Brooklyn Friends School since 6th grade.
Junior Trish O’Meara (photo at right) was selected to participate in the New England Young Writers Conference at Bread Loaf, held each May at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf mountain campus. The annual conference brings together high school students and professional writers who share their work in a community for whom writing is one of life's outstanding joys. Brittany Fuller was recognized by Brooklyn/Staten Island Blood Services with a $250 scholarship for organizing the annual blood drive at Brooklyn Friends in April. Along with her peers in the junior class, Brittany spearheaded the blood drive, and 35 pints were collected, many from upper school students. Jacob Karr, a sophomore, received a gold medal and summa cum laude certificate as a top scorer in the National Latin Exam, and 22 other BFS students received recognition for their high scores in the exam. In the Upper School, junior Jackson Watts received a silver medal and maxima cum laude award, while freshman Julius Chen merited cum laude distinction. Among our 8th grade Latin students, Conor Heins, Daniel Hurwitz and Giancarlo Milea won silver medals with maxima cum laude distinction, Ariel Eisenstadt was a magna cum laude honoree, and Miriam Gentile, Olivia Jacobs and Miranda von Salis received cum laude awards. In 7th grade, 13 students were honored: Rebecca Grenham, Jacob Ginsberg, Daniel Epelbaum, Claudia Tanney, Zachary Hicks, and Lisa Frost received outstanding achievement certificates and ribbons for their high scores in the Introductory Latin Exam, and Madeline Rocco, Kamali Houston, Peter Mackie, Sonja Sepkowitz, Jack Lazar, Shani Paul, and Alan Hagins were honored with achievement certificates. Congratulations to all the Latin students, and their teachers—Ted Chase, Michael Nill, Marie-Christine Perry, and Steven Wortman. Sophomore Daniel Ambe II gave a solo vocal performance at the Young Artists Alumni-Winner Series at Merkin Concert Hall on April 28. Several faculty members attended the concert and heard Daniel, a tenor, sing “Misa Cirolla” by Ariel Ramirez.
Eighth grader Joshua Krieble received a national gold medal award in the Scholastic Writing Awards and will be honored at a two-day celebration on June 14 and 15, culminating in an awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall. Four of Joshua’s fellow eighth graders were recognized in the Scholastic Writing Award’s New York regional competition for their outstanding writing: Nina Ryser (gold key), Anna Intraub (gold key), Conor Heins (silver key) and Sophia Rokhlin (honorable mention). Congratulations to all the students who submitted their work to this nationally-renowned competition, and to their English teachers, Sidney Bridges and Hope Blosser. (Photo: Scholastic Writing Awards winners, from left, Anna Intraub, Sophia Rohklin, Joshua Krieble, Nina Ryser and Conor Heins.)
Chineke Njideka (photo at right), an eighth grade student, received the Young Leaders Award from A Better Chance, the preeminent national resource for recruiting, identifying and developing leaders among young people of color. This award is granted to select middle school scholars who demonstrate academic excellence as well as leadership in the community. Seventeen BFS students were honored for their academic performance and promise in the annual academic talent search sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY). The honored students are Chineke Njideka (gr. 8); Daniel Epelbaum, Sam Kastner and Jordan Sucher (gr. 7), Madeleine Aase-Remedios, Niko Bushell, Luke Cree, Rachel Kahtan, and Jacob MacDonald (gr. 6); Ariel Colen-Landy, Adam Ginsberg, Max Gustafson, Elinor Hills, Mira Liu-Sarkar, Michael Moore, and Raphael Norman-Tenazas (gr. 5); Daniel Kodsi (gr. 3). The students earned recognition at CTY’s Award Ceremonies held at SUNY Stony Brook and also are eligible to participate in CTY’s summer programs and distance education courses. Of the 50,000 students who participate in the talent search, about 12% score high enough on rigorous above-grade-level tests to earn state honors. Our second grade students (photo below) learned what it means to be a philanthropist this year through the Penny Harvest Roundtable. School groups that raise more than $1,500 through the Common Cents Penny Harvest drive in the fall (BFS collected $1,750) have the opportunity to designate $1,000 of the money they raised to a nonprofit service organization in New York City. After careful consideration and a roundtable discussion, Class 2A chose the CHIPS Soup Kitchen on Fourth Avenue to receive a grant of $500; they visited and toured the facility in early May and learned that their contribution will provide at least 250 hot, nutritious meals to the guests at CHIPS. Class 2B decided to give their $500 to the Food Bank for New York City. Representatives from the organization visited the students at the end of April to talk about the work of the Food Bank and to present the students with Certificates of Appreciation for their efforts.
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