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Pingry School National Latin Exam Honors

In a press release from Pingry School, we learn of National Latin Exam Honors:

     One-hundred-nineteen Pingry students have won awards in the 2012 National Latin Exam, which promotes the study of Latin and encourages students to experience a sense of accomplishment.  Of the 148,000 students from all 50 states and 13 foreign countries who took the exam, 235 of them are students in Grades 7 to 12 at The Pingry School.

Grade 7 Awards: Ribbons and Certificates

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Joshua Baum (Short Hills, NJ), Derek Huang (Short Hills, NJ), Ellen Li (Short Hills, NJ), Nancy Lu (Bridgewater, NJ), Gregory Naratil (Warren, NJ), Adam Present (Maplewood, NJ), Kartikeya Sharma (Short Hills, NJ), Jack Smith (Far Hills, NJ), Jacob Weiss (Livingston, NJ), Benjamin Zhou (New Providence, NJ)

Grade 7 Awards: Certificates

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Simone Allison (Maplewood, NJ), Hadyn Anidjar (Summit, NJ), Raj Bagaria (Belle Mead, NJ), Jahnai Binns (Somerset, NJ), Madeleine Casey (Basking Ridge, NJ), John Graves (Short Hills, NJ), Daniel Hutt (Scotch Plains, NJ), Amy Kaplan (Westfield, NJ), Zachary Keller (Summit, NJ), Eliza Kielty (Morristown, NJ), Jennifer Korn (Basking Ridge, NJ), Luc Lampietti (Mendham, NJ), Natalie Lifson (Watchung, NJ), John Lucciola (Chatham, NJ), Diego Marroquin (Millington, NJ), Julia Masch (Warren, NJ), Jake Mayer (Scotch Plains, NJ), Claire O’Mara (Gillette, NJ), Gabrielle Obregon (Bridgewater, NJ), James Parker (Bernardsville, NJ), Joseph Possumato (Frenchtown, NJ), Julia Robinson (Summit, NJ), Matthew San Miguel (Madison, NJ), Grace Schreiber (Chester, NJ), Anish Seth (Berkeley Heights, NJ), Madeleine Shilts (Flemington, NJ), Mackinley Taylor (Lebanon, NJ), Helena Thomas (Easton, PA), James Topor (Madison, NJ), Katherine Trejo (Newark, NJ), Christopher Varvaro (Warren, NJ), Brett Zanelli (Summit, NJ), Jeffrey Zucker (Short Hills, NJ)

Grade 8 Awards: Silver Medals and Maxima Cum Laude Certificates

Jackson Artis (Plainfield, NJ), Chase Capanna (Short Hills, NJ), Margaret Cassidy (Bridgewater, NJ), Justin Chae (Summit, NJ), Sophia Cortazzo (Warren, NJ), Sawyer Freeman (Stirling, NJ), Samuel Kececi (Mendham, NJ), Kylie Kirschner (Chester, NJ), Winfred Li (Bedminster, NJ), Avni Memani (Livingston, NJ), Nwamaka Nnaeto (Morristown, NJ), Jacob Robinson (Summit, NJ), Mariel Sander (Oldwick, NJ), Caroline Terens (Scotch Plains, NJ), Charles Zhu (Warren, NJ)      

Grade 8 Awards: Magna Cum Laude Certificates

Keileh Atulomah (Califon, NJ), James Barker (Short Hills, NJ)l, Kiran Chokshi (Short Hills, NJ), Christopher Dugan (Summit, NJ), Daria Fradkin (Middlesex, NJ), Alina Jan (Warren, NJ), Brendan Kelly (Summit, NJ), Reshmi Kotla (Short Hills, NJ), Benjamin Shepard (Westfield, NJ), Bryce Weisholtz (Scotch Plains, NJ) , Lara Welch (Summit, NJ), Rachel Wu (Short Hills, NJ)

Grade 8 Awards: Cum Laude Certificates

Kathryn Abbott (Basking Ridge, NJ), Jonathan Algoo (Green Brook, NJ), Holly Butrico (Warren, NJ), Shuvam Chakraborty (Edison, NJ), Kevin Chow (Morristown, NJ), Serina Chugani (Livingston, NJ), Maxwell Cummings (New Vernon, NJ), Yash Jaggi (Warren, NJ), Vinayak Kannan (Basking Ridge, NJ), Kathryn Marino (Warren, NJ), Olivia Sartorius (Summit, NJ), Madeline Temares (Warren, NJ), Thomas Zusi (Summit, NJ)

Upper School Awards: Gold Medals and Summa Cum Laude Certificates

Rachel Davis (Millington, NJ), James Gross (Bernardsville, NJ), Tammy Gu (Green Brook, NJ),Briana Johnson (Somerville, NJ), Sharanya Pulapura (Bridgewater, NJ), Neil Steiner (Short Hills, NJ)

Upper School Awards: Silver Medals and Maxima Cum Laude Certificates

Mahmoud Aliamer (Newark, NJ), Kimberly Chen (Metuchen, NJ), Josh Chin (Neshanic Station, NJ), Benjamin Haltmaier (Short Hills, NJ), Derek Hong (Morristown, NJ), Gregory Koziol (Summit, NJ), Elizabeth Kraeutler (Convent Station, NJ), Edward Leithead (Chatham, NJ), Maya Moten (Somerset, NJ), Tomas San Miguel (Madison, NJ), Nicole Scavone (Belle Mead, NJ), Emery Sorvino (New Vernon, NJ), Steven Sun (Raritan, NJ), Andrew Supron (Bernardsville, NJ), Anthony Wang (Warren, NJ), Tiffany Yu (Warren, NJ)                                                                               

Upper School Awards: Magna Cum Laude Certificates

Samuel Gelman (Randolph, NJ), Mariel Kennedy (Watchung, NJ), Douglas Ober (Watchung, NJ), David Rockoff (Far Hills, NJ), Julia Tarantino (Summit, NJ)

Upper School Awards: Cum Laude Certificates

Jonathan Butler (Summit, NJ), Stephanie Carr (Chatham, NJ), Sean Carver (Morristown, NJ), Matthew Composto (Mendham, NJ), Charlie Duryee (Whitehouse Station, NJ), Amanda Hulse (Summit, NJ), William Johnson (Short Hills, NJ), Isabel Kim (Warren, NJ), Christina Ou (Berkeley Heights, NJ)

About The Pingry School:

The Pingry School is recognized throughout the United States for its academic excellence, Honor Code, arts, athletics, and universal concern among faculty for each student in the school. The school’s mission is to foster in students a lifelong commitment to intellectual exploration, individual growth, and social responsibility, while preparing them to be global citizens and leaders of the 21st century. It does this by providing an unparalleled intellectual experience for its students while guiding their development as people of honor and character. Pingry, a K-12 coeducational, independent country day school, was founded in 1861 in Elizabeth, New Jersey by Dr. John F. Pingry and is spread over two campuses: K-5 in Short Hills and Grades 6-12 in Martinsville. The diverse student body is composed of approximately 1,060 students from 106 communities and 14 counties across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. For more information visit the school’s web site, www.pingry.org.

 

 

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