School Briefs

Published on May 16, 2008

Latin winners

ARHS students Tiffany Lee and Liam Hynes won gold medals, summa cum laude, for Latin V in the National Latin Exam, said Latin teacher Betsy Mathews. John Gao and David Goff won silver medals, maxima cum laude, and Ankur Sheel earned magna cum laude in the Latin V level.

Other results: Latin IV: Keri Lambert, maxima silver medal, cum laude; Karl Grette, cum laude.

Latin III: Nick Baskin, Emma Anderson, Margaret Holladay and Chloe Zimmerman, gold medal, summa cum laude; Daniel Lee, Rachel Bisiewicz, Spencer Diamond, William Hirschfeld and Eleanor Smith, silver medal, maxima cum laude; Michael Friedman, magna cum laude; Marianne Wald, Alyssa Kayser Hirsh, Anshul Dankher, Cameron Fay, Isaac Lavine, Vishal Shetty, Alex Lichtenstein, Andrew Plimpton, Mariah Servos, Daniel Hegner and Sonia Brown, cum laude.

Latin II: Aiden Dumont McCaffrey, gold medal, summa cum laude; Sarah Hutcheson, Laura Woodbridge, silver medal, maxima cum laude; Timothy Nagy, Dominic Myren, Sarah Lansky, Elisabeth Strayer and Jessie Harris, magna cum laude; Sara Sremac, Dina MorrisIan Adel, cum laude.

Latin I: Tara Avril Tucker, gold medal, summa cum laude; Emily Norman, magna cum laude; Jennifer Piela, Sophia Ryan, cum laude.

Amherst Regional Middle School results: Steven Kalt, gold medal, summa cum laude; Kathryn Kayser Hirsh, Helen Sharma, Ian Emerson and Tess Domb Sadof, silver medal, maxima cum laude; Shayna Goss, Nathaniel Johnson Lennon, Bess Hepner, Brendan Salvas, Noah Blier and Aaron Miller, magna cum laude; Rory Ziomek, Michal Goderez, Aidan Chesworth, Maya Berkman, Samuel Kamlarz, Ethan Kannel and James Traester, cum laude.

ARHS honor roll for class of 2010

Lucas Abdow, Adem Abrham, Eliza Aierstuck, Laura Aierstuck, Jeorid Aldrich, Taylor Aldrich, Sydney Allen, Sarah Alper, Niroshan Amarasiriwardena, Emma Anderson, Kristin Andres, Patrick Asselin, Katherine Atkinson, Austin Barnes, Morgan Bascomb, Nicholas Baskin, Alec Bergweiler, Rachel Bisiewicz, Rebecca Blatchly, Yamir Bonila Pedraza, Dean Bonneau, Michaela Booth, Samantha Boothroyd, Devon Boulanger, Benjamin Brassord, Andrea Breen, Benjamin Breger, Sonia Brown, Jonathan Brunelle and Molly Bryck. Also Laura Bustamante, Madeline Cann, Christian Chapeliquen, Susie Choi, Rebecca Clingman, Elena Cutting, Afra Danai, Ryan DeGroot, Camille Devoney, Anshul Dhankher, Spencer Diamond, Victoria Dunch, Liam Dunn, Zoe Elkin, Anthony Fabozzi, Cameron Fay, Kathryn Fay, Louise Fega, Samantha Floyd, Jessica Fortin, Michael Friedman, Zachary Gabor, Victoria Gaddy, Dan Ganz, Esther Garcia, Khalea Glasgow, Gabrielle Glynn Ferrarone, Emily Goldstein, Kate Goldstein, Lila Guidera de Groot and William Guild. Also Leah Haake, Shirin Hakim, Noah Harper, Jonathan Harris-Eisen, Vendela Haviland, Elinor Hayden, Daniel Hayes, Carter Hebb, Charles Hebb, Daniel Hegner, Shayna Henckel Miller, Imani Higginson, William Hirschfeld, William Hoffmann, Margaret Holladay, Sarah Hutcheson, Victoria Jackson, Michaela Kahn, Michael Kane, Charles Kannel, Alex Karpinski, Gordon Kaufman, Alyssa Kayser Hirsh, Carolyn Keedy, Jarred Kennedy-Loving, Jonathan Ketcham, Jenna Klaes, Sara Klugman, Kierstin Knightly and Billie Lada.

Also Carey Lang, Sarah Lansky, Isaac Levine, Duy Le, Daniel Lee, Gavin Lee, Alexander Lichtenstein, Shi Yuan Liu, Lydia Dietrich, Allegra MacWilliams, Emma Markham, Caitlin Maroney, John McCutcheon, Catherine Morse, Williston Mortenson, Surya Murty, Matthew Musante, Gavin Nachbar, Walker Nambu, Jessica Napier, Sophea Nhong, Aaron Noble, Emily Norman, David Nunnelly, Yanna Ok, Luis Ortiz, Tayler Parker, Antonina Paus-Weiler, Nicolas Perreault, Naimah Petigny, Mai Pham Nguyen, Scott Phillips and Theresa Piela. Also Andrew Plimpton, Luke Plummer, Paul Quackenbush, Jennifer Rogers, Kurt Russavage, Surya Rya, Jocelyn Ryan-Small, Rebecca Sailer, Jeremy Salwen, Daniel Schrader, Lena Sclove, Mariah Servos, Ryan Severin, Jamie Sharken, Vishal Shetty, Emily Simon, Eleanor Smith, Lucas Smith, Olivia Smulyan, Hyeon Song, Joanna Tan, Hannah Tessler, Stefane Torras, Jackson Ulrich, Jordan Underwood, Quitze Valenzuela Stookey, Emma van Emmerik, Hannah Varner, Marianne Wald, Alexander Wallace, Joanna Wan, Elena Watson, Daniel Werner, Megan White, Laura Woodbridge, Hilary Woodworth, BingJing Zheng, BingQian Zheng, Chloe Zimmerman, Kaia Zimmerman and Kevin Ziomek.

Local musicians

Fifteen area musicians will perform with the Springfield Symphony Youth Orchestras at the Season Finale Concert at Springfield Symphony Hall May 18 at 3 p.m. They include: Luke Abdow, Kristin Andres, Nick Baskin, Kyra Birklein, Solomon Goldstein-Rose, Asa Julien, Hope Leary, Gayin Lee, Kailina Mastroianni, Richard Nguyen, Anna Perkins, Kylie Prutisto-Chang, Mariah Servos, Ellie Williamson and Emma Zyskowski.

Marsha Hassett and Jonathan Lam, the orchestras' conductors, will lead the Springfield Youth Sinfonia and Springfield Youth Orchestra in Ippolitov-Ivanov's "Procession of the Sardar"; Vivaldi's "Violin Concerto in A Minor "; Bizet's "L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2:" Dvor￡k's "Slavonic Dance No. 1, 8 and 9" Bruch;'s "Violin Concerto in G Minor"; and Tchaikovsky's "Fifth Symphony." Concerto competition winners Harrison Adams, a violinist from Florence, and Emlyn Van Eps, a violinist from Deerfield, will be soloists for the Vivaldi and Bruch pieces.

Tickets may be purchased by calling 413-733-2291 or at the concert.

AFD graduation

The Amherst Fire Department held its 13th graduation ceremony last week for the 251 fourth-graders from Amherst, Leverett, Pelham and Shutesbury that completed the SAFE (Student Awareness of Fire Education) program.

Applications accepted

The Amherst High School Laboratory Preschool is accepting applications for the September 2008 school year and limited part-week openings for the remainder of this year. This full-day preschool serves as the learning site for the Amherst High School Child Study classes. Children must be 3 years old to attend. The preschool is open from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, visit the ARHS Web site at wwwarps.org. or call the preschool at 362-1751.

Calendar

* The Crocker Farm ice cream social will be held May 16 at 6 p.m. Tickets are $2.

* The annual ARHS Theater Company Student Written Play Festival will be held May 16 and 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students and senior citizens.

* The Regional Middle School Band 7 and 8 will perform May 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the ARMS auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public.

* The Leverett staff appreciation lunch will be held May 21 at 1:30 p.m. For information or to volunteer to set up, serve or clean up, call 549-3640.

* A potluck retirement party for Fort River Principal Russell Vernon-Jones will be held May 22 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the school playground. To help with set up and clean up, call Catherine Sanderson at 256-4977.

* June 6 is the deadline to register for the second annual Mark's Meadow read-a-thon to benefit the school library. Forms are available at the school.