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Fourteen students graduated from BCDS.

Berkshire Country Day School Celebrates Awards, Graduation

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LENOX, Mass. — Berkshire Country Day School, an independent school for students in preschool through ninth grade, celebrated an Awards and Graduation Ceremony on June 15.

Fourteen students graduated from BCD.
 

Members of the Class of 2016 are:

* William Hakan Blomquist, Hillsdale, N.Y.

* Nicolas Frederic Capala, Spencertown, N.Y.
 
* Samantha Veta Mavis Elliott, Pittsfield, Mass.
 
* Samuel Maher Ferrone, Spencertown, N.Y.
 
* Maxwell Bradshaw Kittredge, Dalton, Mass.

* Tibor Kane Lazar, Kinderhook, N.Y.

*  Rosemary Elizabeth Lindsay, Lakeville, Conn.

*  Finn Iverson Mathews, Lenox, Mass.

* Dorree Sainoi Ndooki, Great Barrington, Mass.

*  Jordan Pembroke Orloff, Ghent, N.Y.

* Hayley Madeline Syrett, Great Barrington, Mass.

*  Henry David Taylor, Lenox, Mass.

* Rufus Logan Fitzsimons Taylor, Lenox, Mass.
 
* Tobias Prothers Van Schaick, Pittsfield, Mass.

 

Awards

Blomquist received the Donald T. Oakes Citizenship Award

Ferrone received a G. James Fawcett English Prize, the Ramsbotham History Prize, the Philip Potter Classics Prize, the Adeline Cowhig Mathematics Prize, and the Butler Academic Prize for the achieving the highest GPA in the ninth grade.

Kittredge received a Theater Ensemble Prize and the Judge Citizenship Award

Lazar received the Excellence in Spanish Prize

Ndooki received a G. James Fawcett English Prize, and the Phillips Citizenship Award



Orloff received the Marilyn Orner Cromwell Art Prize

Henry Taylor received a Viv Murray Caputo Music Prize in Instrumental and Vocal

Rufus Taylor received the Thomson Science Prize

Van Schaick received the Madame Grad French Prize

Next year Blomquist will attend Berkshire School; Capala, Northfield Mount Hermon; Elliott, Miss Hall's School; Ferrone, Middlesex School; Kittredge, Lenox Memorial High School; Lazar, Mr. Mathews, Mr. Orloff, Ms. Syrett, and Mr. Van Schaick, Monument Mountain Regional High School; Lindsay, Millbrook School; Ndooki, Concord Academy; and Henry Taylor and Rufus Taylor, Milton Academy.
 

Awards were also presented to seventh and eighth grade students.

 

Grade 8

Emily Carmel, Pittsfield and Adams, Mass, the Eighth Grade Science Prize, and the newly formed Gail Heady Citizenship Award. Mrs. Heady, a beloved teacher, advisor, and colleague, retired this year after teaching at BCD for thirty-eight years. The prize will be awarded yearly to an eighth grade student who contributed to the quality of the school community, demonstrating integrity, citizenship, support for others, and an unwavering commitment to the values and culture at BCD.

Alex Currie, Dalton, Mass., a Viv Murray Caputo Music Prize in Instrumental

Fiona Ferrone, Spencertown, N.Y., a Viv Murray Caputo Music Prize in Vocal

Jack Glantz, Lenox and Pittsfield Mass., a Steffi Fletcher Creative Writing Prize

Wilder Harwood, East Chatham, N.Y., Excellence in History Prize

Ria Kedia, Pittsfield, Mass., a Steffi Fletcher Creative Writing Prize, the Ned Douglas Mathematics Prize, and the Eighth Grade Spanish Prize

Lanna Knoll, Great Barrington, Mass., the Marcia V. Jones Latin Prize, and the Anna Zaffanella French Prize

 

Grade 7

Cass Combs, New Marlboro, Mass., the United States History Prize

Shayna Kantor, Lenox, Mass., the Nancy Cowhig Growth in Mathematics Prize, and the Virginia I. Peterson Citizenship Award

Colby Lederman, Pittsfield, Mass., a Seventh Grade English Prize, and a Eugénie D. Fawcett Classics Prize

Jasmine Light, Pittsfield, Mass., the Dawn Masiero Graphics Art Prize

Julia Mammen, Housatonic, Mass., a Theater Ensemble Prize, and a Seventh Grade English Prize

Miriam Miller, Pittsfield, Mass., the Seventh Grade Growth in French Prize

Harrison Seeley, Richmond, Mass., the Seventh Grade Growth in Spanish Prize, and the Seventh Grade Science Prize


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Ghost Tour at Ventfort Hall

LENOX, Mass. — Join Robert Oakes, author of "Ghosts of the Berkshires," who will lead participants through the rooms and halls of Ventfort Hall sharing tales of its alleged hauntings.
 
The tour will take place at 8 pm on Saturday March 16.
 
Admission is $30 and minimum age to attend is age 12. Reservations are strongly recommended as tickets are limited. Walk-ins accommodated as space allows. For reservations visit https://gildedage.org/pages/calendar or call at 413-637-3206. All tickets are non-refundable and non-exchangeable. Payment is required to make a reservation for an event.
 
This is not an active investigation.
 
Robert Oakes is an author, teacher, storyteller, and singer/songwriter originally from northern New Jersey and currently residing in the Berkshires.. Since 2010 Robert has led the ghost tours at Edith Wharton's The Mount in Lenox, and has represented the museum and its ghosts on Syfy's Ghost Hunters, Jeff Belanger's New England Legends series on PBS, and The Apple Seed show on BYUradio. 
 
In 2020, Robert's debut book, "Ghosts of the Berkshires," was published by Arcadia Publishing and is on sale now in our gift shop. Robert's latest book, "Ghosts of Northwestern New Jersey," was released in September 2022.
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