Berkshire Country Day School Students Win National Latin Awards
STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Nineteen Upper School students from Berkshire Country Day School have been awarded certificates and medals for their high scores on the 2020 National Latin Exam, taken March 5, 2020. The NLE exam is sponsored both by the American Classical League and the National Junior Classical League.
For the Latin I National Exam, the following awards were earned by seventh graders:
Gold Cum Laude: Jacob Creelan, East Chatham, N.Y., and Gabrielle Mott, Lenox
Silver Maxima Cum Laude: Bryce Akroyd, Lenox
Magna Cum Laude: Alice Kwiatkowski, West Stockbridge, and Sophie Shaw, Great Barrington
Cum Laude: Sam Hautzig, East Chatham, N.Y., Kachina Lucido, Great Barrington, and Everett Mamousette, Craryville, N.Y.
Eighth-grade award winners were Allison Slater, East Chatham, N.Y., who earned Magna Cum Laude, and Nina Lamb, Canaan, N.Y., who earned Cum Laude.
For the Latin II National Exam, the following awards were earned by eighth-graders:
Gold Summa Cum Laude: Kate Metcalf, Ghent, N.Y., Zane Sylvester, Spencertown, N.Y., and Hanna Heaton Wellenstein, Pittsfield, Mass.
Silver Maxima Cum Laude: Leora Cook-Dubin, Pittsfield, and Brenna Loret de Mola, Hudson, N.Y.
Magna Cum Laude: Penelope Mitchell, Pittsfield and Richmond.
A Cum Laude award was earned by ninth-grader Eli Mamousette, Craryville, N.Y.
For the Latin III National Exam, the following awards were earned by ninth-graders:
Gold Summa Cum Laude; Rafi Karpowitz, Hudson, N.Y.; and Silver Cum Laude by Esme Mamousette, Craryville, N.Y.
BCD students study Latin from grades six through nine with teacher Eugénie Fawcett of Tyringham, Mass.
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