LENOX, Mass. — Lenox Memorial High School has named Sai Sanjana Meesala as valedictorian and Chloe Parsenios as salutatorian for the graduating class of 2026. 

 

Both students will speak at graduation exercises being held Sunday, June 14, at 1 p.m. at Tanglewood. 

 

Meesala is the daughter of Muralidhar Meesala and Kalyan Madhuri Venna. During her time at Lenox Memorial, she served as president of the National Honor Society, captain and lead programmer of the robotics team, and organizer of an intergenerational book club with residents of Kimball Farms.

 

Outside of school, Meesala enjoys music and has taught Carnatic (Indian classical) music to children in her community. She was selected for the Western Massachusetts District Music Festival all four years of high school, and for the Massachusetts All-State Music Festival in her senior year. She also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Beaver Works Summer Institute, where she worked on autonomous drone technology.

 

Meesala will attend Harvard University in the fall, where she plans to study neuroscience and explore its applications in neurotechnology.

 

Parsenios lives in Lenox with her parents, Nicholas and Leslie. She has attended the Lenox Public Schools since kindergarten. She has received various academic awards, including the Cornell University Book Award, and is a member of the National Honor Society, the National Art Honor Society, and several other clubs.

 

She was a varsity player and co-captain of both the soccer and basketball teams and actively helped coach in the towns youth sports programs.

 

Parsenios will attend the University of Connecticut's honors program to study political science.