Berkshire Country Day School Hosts Graduation and Awards Ceremony

LENOX, MA (06/13/2013)(readMedia)-- Berkshire Country Day School, an independent school for students in preschool through ninth grade, celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2013 at an Awards & Graduation Ceremony held Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Graduates of the Class of 2013 are:

• Margaret Butler, Pittsfield, MA

• Elise Ghitman, Ashley Falls, MA

• Harper Glantz, Pittsfield and Richmond, MA

• Samuel Kittredge, Dalton, MA

• Emma Lezberg, Pittsfield, MA

• Jacob Lezberg, Pittsfield, MA

• Ian Price, Craryville, NY

• Rebecca van der Meulen, New Lebanon, NY

Ninth grade awards were presented to:

Elise Ghitman for the Madame Grad French Prize.

Harper Glantz for a Marilyn Orner Cromwell Art Prize and the Excellence in Spanish Prize.

Sam Kittredge for a Philip Potter Classics Prize, an Adeline Cowhig Mathematics Prize, and the Judge Citizenship Award.

Emma Lezberg for the G. James Fawcett English Prize, a Philip Potter Classics Prize, and the Butler Academic Prize.

Jacob Lezberg for the Ramsbotham History Prize, an Adeline Cowhig Mathematics Prize, and the Thomson Science Prize.

Rebecca van der Meulen for a Marilyn Orner Cromwell Art Prize, the Digital Filmmaking Prize, and the Phillips Citizenship Award.

Awards were also presented to students in seventh or eighth grade:

Nicolas Adams, Canaan, NY, a Nancy Cowhig Growth in Mathematics Prize.

Viggo Blomquist, Chatham and Hudson, NY, the Gulick Citizenship Award.

Ryan Brown, Lenox, a Nancy Cowhig Growth in Mathematics Prize.

Lukeus Gore, Lenox, the Virginia I. Peterson Citizenship Prize.

Will Harris-Braun, East Chatham, NY, the Eighth Grade Science Prize.

Donovan Lally, Great Barrington, the Viv Murray Caputo Music Prize for composition.

Alexander Lederman, Pittsfield, a Eugénie D. Fawcett Classics Prize, and the Seventh Grade Growth in French Prize.

Julian Lindenmaier, Stockbridge, a Seventh Grade Science Prize.

Theodore Michaels, Richmond, a Ned Douglas Mathematics Prize.

Jackson Rich, Pittsfield, the Anna Zaffanella French Prize.

Maya Sakharov, Alford, a Seventh Grade English Prize.

Cameron Sweener, Lenox, the Theater Ensemble Prize, and the Marcia V. Jones Latin Prize.

Evan Sylbert, Monterey, a Seventh Grade Science Prize.

Stephen Taglieri, Pittsfield, a Seventh Grade Science Prize.

Sophie Usow, Lenox, the Dawn Masiero Graphics Prize.

Emily Yeager, Lenox, the Steffi Fletcher Creative Writing Prize, the Excellence in History Prize, and a Ned Douglas Mathematics Prize.

Benjamin Zoeller, New Lebanon, NY, a Seventh Grade English Prize, the United States History Prize, and a Eugénie D. Fawcett Classics 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.