BCD Announces Classics Day Winners

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On November 8, 2003 Berkshire Country Day School Latin and Greek students attended the Pioneer Valley Classical Association's Classics Day at Belchertown High School in Belchertown, MA, according to an announcement by Robert R. Peterson, Head of School. Students were offered the opportunity to learn more about the world of the Romans and Greeks by participating in many different contests and activities. The students attended workshops and entered many contests, with B.C.D.S. winners listed: In Latin, for the Oral Interpretation Contest, novice level, seventh graders Wilson Baer, Camille Coppola, Charlotte Crane, and Emily Ury tied for first place. The judge elected not to award second or third place prizes due to the excellent performance of these seventh graders. For the intermediate level, eight graders Dan Kleederman and Corey Silberstein tied for first place, and Caroline Ellis won second place. For the Advanced Prose level, tenth grader Liana Katz won first place, and ninth grader Andrew Crane won second place. In the Advanced Poetry level, twelfth grader Jamie Kraut won first place. In Greek, tenth grader Amanda Yasinski won first place. In the Catapult Contest-Marshmallow Division, seventh graders Ben Grossman Ponemon, Robin Hackett, and Joe Mangiardi came in third place with their catapult, "Agricola". For the Costume Contest-Middle School Division, seventh graders Jessica Langman and Rosie Taylor won third place for their costumes as Calypso and Hermes. In the Myth Certamen, seventh graders Wilson Baer, Buddy Ferris, Ben Tobin and eighth grader Todd Volkman won second place. For the Art Contest0Mosaics, eight graders Caroline Ellis, Margaret Esposito and Carina Kaufman won first place; and eight graders Sam Campoli and Dan Kleederman won third place. In the Model Division, seventh grader Carline Barry won second place; and seventh graders Emily Ury, Olivia Weinstein and eighth grader Liz Ury, won third place. For Sculptures, seventh graders Camille Breslin and Sarah Steadman won first place. In the Miscellaneous Division, eighth grader Maizy Broderick-Searpa won third place. Feature presenter, Odds Bodkin, a graduate of Duke University, entertained students with his music-filled storytelling. Mr. Bodkin has taught storytelling and imagination for seven years at Antioch New England Graduate School while pursuing a full-time career as a children's author and musical storyteller. He is renowned for his epic tellings of The Odyssey and The Rage of Hercules, which has earned him a national reputation, in Billboard's words, as "a modern-day Orpheus." Beginning in sixth grade, students at BCD enroll in Latin with teachers Eugenie Fawcett, Elizabeth Baer, and Marcia Jones. Mrs. Baer is also the Greek instructor, a subject that can be taken in ninth grader. Berkshire County Day School is an independent school for pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, with 335 students from Berkshire, Columbia, Hampshire and Rensselaer counties. Its Brook Farm Campus, for students through eight grade, is located one mile south of Tanglewood's Main Entrance. Its Winthrop Campus, for students in grade nine through twelve, is located one mile north of Tanglewood's Main Entrance at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute summer home.
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Lanesborough Fifth-Graders Win Snowplow Name Contest

LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — One of the snowplows for Highway District 1 has a new name: "The Blizzard Boss."
 
The name comes from teacher Gina Wagner's fifth-grade class at Lanesborough Elementary School. 
 
The state Department of Transportation announced the winners of the fourth annual "Name A Snowplow" contest on Monday. 
 
The department received entries from public elementary and middle school classrooms across the commonwealth to name the 12 MassDOT snowplows that will be in service during the 2025/2026 winter season. 
 
The purpose of the contest is to celebrate the snow and ice season and to recognize the hard work and dedication shown by public works employees and contractors during winter operations. 
 
"Thank you to all of the students who participated. Your creativity allows us to highlight to all, the importance of the work performed by our workforce," said  interim MassDOT Secretary Phil Eng.  
 
"Our workforce takes pride as they clear snow and ice, keeping our roads safe during adverse weather events for all that need to travel. ?To our contest winners and participants, know that you have added some fun to the serious take of operating plows. ?I'm proud of the skill and dedication from our crews and thank the public of the shared responsibility to slow down, give plows space and put safety first every time there is a winter weather event."
 
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