Berkshire Country Day School Students Win National Latin Awards

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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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North Adams Regional Reopens With Ribbon-Cutting Celebration

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

BHS President and CEO Darlene Rodowicz welcomes the gathering to the celebration of the hospital's reopening 10 years to the day it closed. 
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The joyful celebration on Thursday at North Adams Regional Hospital was a far cry from the scene 10 years ago when protests and tears marked the facility's closing
 
Hospital officials, local leaders, medical staff, residents and elected officials gathered under a tent on the campus to mark the efforts over the past decade to restore NARH and cut the ribbon officially reopening the 136-year-old medical center. 
 
"This hospital under previous ownership closed its doors. It was a day that was full of tears, anger and fear in the Northern Berkshire community about where and how residents would be able to receive what should be a fundamental right for everyone — access to health care," said Darlene Rodowicz, president and CEO of Berkshire Health Systems. 
 
"Today the historic opportunity to enhance the health and wellness of Northern Berkshire community is here. And we've been waiting for this moment for 10 years. It is the key to keeping in line with our strategic plan which is to increase access and support coordinated county wide system of care." 
 
Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, under the BHS umbrella, purchased the campus and affiliated systems when Northern Berkshire Healthcare declared bankruptcy and closed on March 28, 2014. NBH had been beset by falling admissions, reductions in Medicare and Medicaid payments, and investments that had gone sour leaving it more than $30 million in debt. 
 
BMC was able to reopen the ER as an emergency satellite facility and slowly restored and enhanced medical services including outpatient surgery, imaging, dialysis, pharmacy and physician services. 
 
But it would take a slight tweak in the U.S. Health and Human Services' regulations — thank to U.S. Rep. Richie Neal — to bring back inpatient beds and resurrect North Adams Regional Hospital 
 
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