71 North Penn Latin Students Earn Awards For Excellence

LANSDALE, PA — A total of 71 North Penn students were honored recently for exceptional performances on the 2018 National Latin Exam.

Students in grades 10 through 12 took the exam. Of the 95 who took it, 71 earned some kind of distinction, while 34 earned Silver or Gold Summa Cum Laude honors.

"Our academicians did a...smashing job on this annual intellectual smorgasbord of cumulative classical cognition," Latin teacher Jonathan Rockey said in a statement. "I am gratified by the solid performance and genuine, perceivable effort of the entire Latin cohort, with particular recognition to NPSD middle school Latin colleagues at Penndale, Pennfield and Pennbrook. The Latin Legion is very much alive and doing great things."

The honored students are included below:

CUM LAUDE
Latin IV Poetry: Luke Fogel (‘19), Alexis Nguyen (‘19), Eric Sarbacker (‘19)
Latin III Prose: Aiden Guo (‘21), Lauren Oh (‘20), Thomas Pett (‘20), Karly Buchanan (‘20), Samuel Lee (‘20), Amy Scholl (‘20), Joseph Popp (‘20)
Latin III: Kaiyuan Zhu (‘20), Sushrita Haripriya (‘20), Jessica Mitchell (‘20), Grayden Griffiths (‘20)Latin II: Chelsea Lu (‘20), Shammi Begum (‘20), Cynthia Sheehy (‘20)

MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Latin IV Poetry: Jurni Jackson (‘19), Lorelei Horrell (‘19), Michael Ammendola (‘19), Olivia Pironti (‘19), Joshua Maier (‘19), James Murphy (‘19), Scott Schwartz (‘19), Elisha Yi (‘19), Grace Lee (‘19), Anna Lee (‘19)
Latin III Prose: Jack Keller (‘20), Jessica Zhao (‘20), Ryan Stewart (‘20), Jeremy Davidson (‘20), Ryan Lee (‘20), Brandi Marlin (‘20), Tyler Blank (‘20)
Latin III: Daniel Sibel (‘18)
Latin II: Rehnuma Rahman (‘20)

SILVER MAXIMA CUM LAUDE, Silver Medal
Latin V: Jacob Hillman (‘19) Latin IV Poetry: Andrew Ramirez (‘19), Emily Wiley (‘19), Isaac Lambert (‘19), Puja Samant (‘19)
Latin IV Poetry: Andrew Ramirez (‘19), Emily Wiley (‘19), Isaac Lambert (‘19), Puja Samant (‘19)
Latin III Prose: Lea Miles (‘20), Rachel Ahlmark (‘20), Hannah Sweeney (‘20), Tony Xu (‘20), Adam Luby (‘20), Kyle Procopio (‘20), Kendall Kohout (‘20), Abigail Broadhead (‘20), Abigail Boquist (‘20), Piero Barrantes (‘20)
Latin II: Kellie Dwyer (‘20), Nabila Yasmin (‘20)

GOLD SUMMA CUM LAUDE, Gold Medal
Latin V: Benjamin Ahlmark (‘18), Tristan Misko (‘18), Erin Spross (‘18), Anoop Bhat (‘18), William Marshall (‘18)
Latin IV Poetry: John Pham (‘19), Yeokyeong Kim (‘19), Evan Jones (‘19), Emily Liu (‘20), Lucas Morley (‘19)
Latin III Prose: Ethan Baker (‘20), Zacharia Bridgers (‘20), Yajun Li (‘19), Vianne Chang (‘20), Adam Greenberg (‘20), Abigail Parrotte (‘20)
Latin II: Casey Yin (‘21)

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