Berkshire Country Day School Announces Classics Day Awards

LENO/STOCKBRIDGE, MA (01/20/2016)(readMedia)-- Berkshire Country Day School's Upper School Latin students (Grades 7-9) joined the Pioneer Valley Classical Association annual Classics Day, attended by 339 students, at Mount Holyoke College on January 15, 2016. BCD's Latin students, in grades seven, eight, and nine, enjoyed participating in workshops and contests with their peers from Academy Hill, Amherst, Lenox, MacDuffie, Reid, Pittsfield, Taconic, and Williston. The BCD students were accompanied by teachers Eugénie and James Fawcett. BCD students received the following awards.

ART CONTEST

Sculpture: – Third Place: seventh grader Stella Metcalf (Ghent, NY)

Paintings and Drawings: – First Place: eighth grader Lanna Knoll (Great Barrington)

Mosaics: First Place: eighth grader Fiona Ferrone (Spencertown, NY); Third Place: seventh grader Max Beckwith (Pittsfield);

Military: – Second Place: ninth grader Tibor Lazar (Kinderhook, NY)

Models: - First Place: eighth grader Isis Hoag (Canaan, CT)

COSTUME CONTEST

First Place: eighth grader Lanna Knoll (Great Barrington) as Athena

Third Place: eighth grader Fiona Ferrone (Spencertown, NY) as Nike

ORAL INTERPRETATION:

Advanced Prose – First Place: ninth grader Sam Ferrone (Spencertown, NY)

Advanced Poetry – First Place: eighth grader Fiona Ferrone (Spencertown, NY); Third Place eighth grader Ria Kedia (Pittsfield)

Novice Poetry – Second Place: seventh grader Beck Mathews (Lenox); Third Place: eighth grader Nina Renkert (Norfolk, CT)

CERTAMEN:

Latin 2 – First Place: BCD team of ninth graders Nico Capala and Sam Ferrone (Spencertown, NY), Finn Mathews (Lenox); and Toby Van Schaick (Pittsfield)

Latin 1 – Second Place: BCD team of eighth graders Alex Currie and Ria Kedia (Pittsfield) and seventh graders Beck Mathews (Lenox) and Harrison Seeley (Richmond)

Myth – First Place: BCD Brown team of ninth graders Tibor Lazar (Kinderhook, NY) and Finn Mathews (Lenox), eighth grader Fiona Ferrone (Spencertown, NY), and seventh grader Colby Lederman (Pittsfield); Second Place BCD Beige team comprised of ninth graders Sam Ferrone (Spencertown, NY) and Toby Van Schaick (Pittsfield), eighth grader Wilder Harwood (East Chatham, NY), and seventh grader Max Beckwith (Pittsfield)

ABOUT BERKSHIRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

Berkshire Country Day School, established in 1946, is an independent school for students in Preschool through Grade 9. BCD exists to inspire the individual promise of every student, so that each may become an exemplary citizen of the world. For more information, visit berkshirecountryday.org.