LENOX, Mass. — Lenox Memorial High School has named Genevieve Collins as valedictorian and Alice Culver the salutatorian of the class of 2024. 

 

Graduation ceremonies will be held on Sunday, June 9, at 1 p.m. at Tanglewood. 

 

Collins, daughter of Edward and Deanna Collins of Lenox, is a member of National Honor Society and National Art Honor Society. She is a captain of the Lenox track and field and cross-country teams, as well as a peer mentor.

 

She has spent 12 years singing for the choir at St. Ann's Church in Lenox, and has sung in the All-State chorus in 2022 and 2023. Last summer, she partook in the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and the prior year sang at Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. 

 

Collins has received the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents Academic Excellence Award and the Harvard Book Award.

 

In the fall, Collins will be attending Brown University, where she will study music.

 

Culver, daughter of Jennifer and Edward Culver of Lenox, is a National Honor Society officer and a member of the National Art Honor Society. She is a peer mentor and a captain of the cross-country, Nordic skiing, and track teams. She is a National Merit Commended student, and received the Seal of Biliteracy for French. She received the Dartmouth Book Award, as well as academic awards in mathematics, biology and English. This spring, she organized a drive at the high school for goods to donate to the Elizabeth Freeman Center.

 

She is a two-time Western Mass two-mile champion (2023, 2024), one-mile champion (2022) and a Western Mass cross-country champion (2023). She earned MVP honors for Berkshire County for the 2023 cross-country season. She is the school record-holder in the two-mile.

 

Culver will be attending Williams College, where she plans to study statistics and compete on the college's cross-country and track teams.