Berkshire Country Day School Hosts Graduation & Awards Ceremony

LENOX, MA (06/17/2012)(readMedia)-- Berkshire Country Day School, an independent school for students in preschool through ninth grade, celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2012 at an Awards & Graduation Ceremony held Friday, June 15, 2012. Graduates of the Class of 2012 are:

• Ahad Al-Henaidi, Lenox, MA

• Michael Basile, Richmond, MA

• Martha Beaven Ghent, NY

• Ginger Ciaburri, Hinsdale, MA

• Jack Dolan, Chatham, NY

• James Gittzus, Canaan, NY

• Isabelle Raposo, Valatie, NY

• Samantha Slate, Hudson, NY

• Tyler Sonsini, Great Barrington, MA

• Estevan Velez, Lee, MA

Martha Beaven received the Ramsbotham History Prize and the Adeline Cowhig Mathematics Prize.

Ginger Ciaburri received the Viv Murray Caputo Vocal Music Prize, a Madame Grad French Prize, and the Thomson Science Prize.

James Gittzus received a Madame Grad French Prize.

Isabella Raposo received a Digital Filmmaking Prize, the G. James Fawcett English Prize, the Philip Potter Classics Prize, and the Butler Academic Prize for achieving the highest year-end grade point average in her class.

Samantha Slate received the Marilyn Orner Cromwell Art Prize and the Phillips Citizenship Prize.

Estevan Velez received the Judge Citizenship Prize.

Awards were also presented to seventh and eighth grade students:

Margaret Butler, Pittsfield, and Frank Piasecki, Housatonic and Great Barrington, a Theater Ensemble Prize.

Elise Ghitman, Ashley Falls, the Marcia V. Jones Latin Prize.

Harper Glantz, Pittsfield and Lenox, the Steffi Fletcher Creative Writing Prize.

Sam Kittredge, Windsor, the Viv Murray Caputo Instrumental Music Prize, a Ned Douglas Mathematics Prize, and the Anna Zaffanella French Prize.

Elizabeth Hinds, Great Barrington, a Digital Filmmaking Prize.

Ruth King, Hillsdale, NY, a Seventh Grade Science Prize.

Emma Lezberg, Pittsfield, the Excellence in History Prize, a Ned Douglas Mathematics Prize, and an Excellence in Spanish Prize.

Jacob Lezberg, Pittsfield, an Excellence in Spanish Prize, and the Eighth Grade Science Prize.

Teddy Michaels, Richmond, the United States History Prize, and a Eugénie D. Fawcett Classics Prize.

Kendall Pollart, Great Barrington, a Seventh Grade Growth in French Prize.

Cameron Sweener, Lenox, the Nancy Cowhig Growth in Mathematics Prize, and the Virginia I. Peterson Citizenship Award,

Rebecca van der Meulen, New Lebanon, NY, the Gulick Citizenship Award.

Emily Yeager, Lenox, a Seventh Grade English Prize, a Eugénie D. Fawcett Classic Prize and a Seventh Grade Science Prize.

Hanna Yurfest, Richmond, a Seventh Grade English Prize, and a Seventh Grade Growth in French 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