Berkshire Country Day School Graduation and Awards

LENOX, MA (06/12/2014)(readMedia)-- Berkshire Country Day School, an independent school for students in preschool through ninth grade, celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2014 at an Awards & Graduation Ceremony held Wednesday, June 11, 2014.

Graduates of the Class of 2014 are:

• Henry Dolan, Chatham, NY

• Kendall Pollart, Great Barrington

• Andrea Velez, Lee

Mr. Dolan received the Butler Academic Prize, the G. James Fawcett English Prize, the Rambotham History Prize, the Discere Expl?r?re Est (Learning is Discovery, the school's motto) Latin Prize, and the Judge Citizenship Award.

Ms. Pollart received a Marilyn Orner Cromwell Art Prize, the Adeline Cowhig Mathematics Prize, the Madame Grad French Prize, and the Phillips Citizenship Prize.

Ms. Velez received a Marilyn Orner Cromwell Art Prize, the Thomson Science Prize, and the Donald T. Oakes Citizenship Award.

Awards were also presented to seventh and eighth grade students:

Grade 8:

Bella Currie, Pittsfield, the Viv Murray Caputo Music Prize.

Alex Lederman, Pittsfield, Ned Douglas Mathematics Prize, Anna Zaffanella French Prize, and Eighth Grade Science Prize.

Julian Lindenmaier, Stockbridge, the Steffi Fletcher English Prize and Eighth Grade Spanish Prize.

Michelle Lipson, Great Barrington, a Marcia V. Jones Latin Prize.

Ruby Merritt, Lenox, a Marcia V. Jones Latin Prize.

Stephen Taglieri, Pittsfield, Excellence in History Prize, and the Gulick Citizenship Award.

Grade 7:

Samantha Elliott, Pittsfield, a Seventh Grade English Prize.

Sam Ferrone, Spencertown, NY, a Seventh Grade English Prize and a Eugénie D. Fawcett Classics Prize.

Max Kittredge, Dalton, Seventh Grade Growth in French Prize.

Finn Mathews, Lenox, United States History Prize and a Eugénie D. Fawcett Classics Prize.

Charley Rusk, Ghent, NY, Theater Ensemble Prize and Virginia I. Peterson Citizenship Award.

Taylor Slonaker, Canaan, CT, Seventh Grade Science Prize.

Hayley Syrett, South Egremont, Seventh Grade Growth in Spanish Prize.

Rufus Taylor, Lenox, Nancy Cowhig Growth in Mathematics Prize.

ABOUT BERKSHIRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

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.