Miss Hall's School Graduates 48

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Miss Hall's graduated 48 students, including fifteen students from Berkshire County and nearby communities, Sunday, June 5, during Miss Hall's School's (MHS) 124th Commencement.
 
This year's in-person ceremony, the first in three years, took place under a large tent behind the Elizabeth Gatchell Klein Arts Center on the School's campus and was shared worldwide via Facebook Live.
 
Hosted by Miss Hall's Head of School Julia Heaton, the ceremony included remarks from Senior Class President Keely O'Gorman, of Lee; School President Cailyn Tetteh, of Rosenberg, Texas; School Vice President Truc Hoang, of Hanoi Vietnam, and Board of Trustees President Nancy Gustafson Ault, Miss Hall's Class of 1973.
 
This year's Commencement Address was delivered by Belinda Enoma, a New York-based data privacy and cybersecurity leader, a global empowerment speaker, and a parent of MHS Class of 2022 graduate Osayuki Enoma.
 
Among this year's graduates are the following local students: Emma Adelson, of Lee; Kathryn Barrett, of Sandisfield; Aurora Benson, of Pittsfield; Maggie Bullock, of North Bennington, Vt.; Symaira Elliott, of Pittsfield; Remi Engel, of Housatonic; Montgomery Erickson, of Bennington, Vt.; Sundara Hesse, of Ghent, N.Y.; Olivia Kick-Nalepa, of Dalton; Ruby McDonald, of Valatie, N.Y.; Hava Methe, of Lee; Keely O'Gorman, of Lee; Abigail Putnam, of East Otis; Samantha Taxter, of West Stockbridge; and Sienna Trask, of West Stockbridge.
 
The following awards were also bestowed on members of the Class of 2022:
 
Joseph F. Buerger Memorial School Spirit Cup: Emily Lombardi, of Litchfield, Conn.
Margaret Witherspoon Award: Cailyn Tetteh, of Rosenberg, Texas
Christine Fuller Holland '33 Service Prize: Truc Hoang, of Hanoi, Vietnam
Faculty Commendation Award: Samantha Dean, of Barre, Vt.
 
Meus Honor Stat Keys Awarded for MHS Core Competencies: 
Vision: Keely O'Gorman, of Lee
Voice: Emma Adelson, of Lee
Interpersonal Efficacy: Sophia Sandoval, of Methuen, Mass.
Gumption: Maggie Bullock, of North Bennington, Vt.
 
Sylvia "Rusty" Shethar Everdell '38 Prize: Emily Lombardi, of Litchfield, Conn.
Paul C. Cabot, Jr. History Prize: Ruby McDonald, of Valatie, N.Y.
Senior Prize in Engineering and Tech Innovation: Tuong Nguyen Dinh Cat, of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Iive Rouse Science Award: Liuyi Zheng, of Nanjing, China
James K. Ervin Mathematics Prize: Thuyen Pham, of Bien Hoa City, Vietnam
Horizons Prize: Emma Adelson, of Lee
English for Speakers of Other Langauges Award: An Ho, of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Mansfield E. Pickett Latin Prize: Symaira Elliott, of Pittsfield
Spanish Prize: Cailyn Tetteh, of Rosenberg, Texas
Monique Jalbert French Prize: Remi Engel, of Housatonic
Virginia Breene Wickwire '67 Reading Prize: Emily Gerstein, of New York, N.Y.
Doris E. Pitman English Prize: Rebecca Dontje, of Cranston, R.I.
Photography Award: Ziyu Zhou, of Shenyang, China 
Susanna McCreath Music Prize: An Ho, of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Angela Kalischer Theater Prize: Keely O'Gorman, of Lee
Ceramics Award: Kathryn Barrett, of Sandisfield
Elizabeth Gatchell Klein Studio Art Prize: Osayuki Enoma, of Chester, N.Y.
 
 
 
 

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BRPC Committee Mulls Input on State Housing Plan

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Regional Planning Commission's Regional Issues Committee brainstormed representation for the county in upcoming housing listening sessions.

"The administration is coming up with what they like to tout is their first housing plan that's been done for Massachusetts, and this is one of a number of various initiatives that they've done over the last several months," Executive Director Thomas Matuszko said.

"But it seems like they are intent upon doing something and taking comments from the different regions across the state and then turning that into policy so here is our chance to really speak up on that."

The Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities and members of the Housing Advisory Council will host multiple listening sessions around the Commonwealth to hear input on the Healey-Driscoll administration's five-year strategic statewide housing plan.

One will be held at Berkshire Community College on May 15 at 2 p.m.

One of Matuszko's biggest concerns is the overall age of the housing stock in Berkshire County.

"And that the various rehab programs that are out there are inadequate and they are too cumbersome to manipulate through," he explained.

"And so I think that there needs to be a greater emphasis not on new housing development only but housing retention and how we can do that in a meaningful way. It's going to be pretty important."

Non-commission member Andrew Groff, Williamstown's community developer director, added that the bureaucracies need to coordinate themselves and "stop creating well-intended policies like the new energy code that actually work against all of this other stuff."

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