Berkshire Country Day School Graduation & Awards Ceremony

LENOX/STOCKBRIDGE, MA (06/13/2019) (readMedia)-- Berkshire Country Day School, an independent school for students in preschool through ninth grade, celebrated its seventh and eighth graders at a Graduation and Awards Ceremony held Wednesday, June 12, 2019.

Certificates for completing the course of study through eighth grade were presented to Gavin Akroyd, Lenox; Jack Ballinger, Richmond; Daniel Ciejek, Lee; Sam Creelan, East Chatham, NY; Gus Geremia and Genevieve Syrett, Egremont; Miles Goldfarb and Rafi Karpowitz, Hudson, NY; Sophia Grace and Norah Smith, Sheffield; Olivia Jurado and Phoenix Lucido, Great Barrington; Eli Mamousette and Esme Mamousette, Craryville, NY; Lana Messinger, Chatham and Spencertown, NY; Lilah O'Neil, Stockbridge; Petra Orloff, Ghent, NY; Isaac Scribner, Pittsfield and Great Barrington; and Samantha Seeley, Pittsfield and Richmond.

In addition, eighth graders were recognized for academic accomplishments.

Sam Creelan, a Viv Murray Caputo Music Prize, the Excellence in History Prize, and a Marcia V. Jones Latin Prize

Rafi Karpowitz, a Viv Murray Caputo Music Prize, the Anna Zaffanella French Prize, and the Eighth Grade Science Prize

Esme Mamousette, the Marilyn Orner Cromwell Art Prize and a Steffi Fletcher Creative Writing Prize

Lana Messinger, a Steffi Fletcher Creative Writing Prize, and the Eighth Grade Spanish Prize

Petra Orloff, a Marcia V. Jones Latin Prize, and the Ned Douglas Mathematics Prize

Samantha Seeley, a Marcia V. Jones Latin Prize

Seventh graders were also recognized for academic accomplishments.

Leora Cook-Dubin, Pittsfield, the United States History Prize

Kate Metcalf, Ghent, NY, a Seventh Grade English Prize and the Seventh Grade Growth in French Prize

Juliana Mills, Pittsfield, the Nancy Cowhig Growth in Mathematics Prize

Penelope Mitchell, Pittsfield and Richmond, a Seventh Grade English Prize

Zane Sylvester, Spencertown, NY, the Seventh Grade Growth in Spanish Prize, and the Seventh Grade Science Prize

Hanna Heaton Wellenstein, Pittsfield, the Eugénie D. Fawcett Classics Prize

In addition academic accomplishments, the following students received Citizenship awards:

Gavin Akroyd, Lenox, grade eight: the Gulick Citizenship Award

Phoenix Lucido, Great Barrington, grade eight: the Gail Heady Citizenship Award

Teddy St. John, Pittsfield, grade seven: the Virginia I. Peterson Citizenship Award

About Berkshire Country Day School: Intentional. Independent. Inspired.

Berkshire Country Day School, an independent school for students in preschool through ninth grade, exists to inspire the individual promise of every student so that each may become an exemplary citizen of the world. More information about BCD can be found at berkshirecountryday.org