National Latin Exam & Latin Honor Society

Congratulations to the students who took the 2020 National Latin Exam (NLE). Upper School Latin teacher Katie Swinford said students, who took the exams in the spring of 2020, were recently recognized this fall because school closed due to quarantine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Swinford, who added that the mission of NLE is to promote and support the learning and teaching of the Latin language, said awards were given to the following students:

National Latin Exam 2020:

9th grade

Nora Donovan – level I gold medal summa cum laude

Alex Krol – level I gold medal summa cum laude

Gabrielle Walker – level I gold medal summa cum laude

Margaret Tenney – level I gold medal summa cum laude

Frances Schlueter – level I gold medal summa cum laude

Oliver Szabo – level I gold medal summa cum laude

Kailyn Brown – level I silver medal maxima cum laude

John Corbett – level I silver medal maxima cum laude

Arjun Gupta – level I silver medal maxima cum laude

Susie Stahl – level I silver medal maxima cum laude

Leo Weller – level I silver medal maxima cum laude

Lidya Tesfaya – level I cum laude

10th grade

Elias Buttress – level II gold medal summa cum laude

Erin Finn – level II gold medal summa cum laude

Beau Goldstein – level II silver medal maxima cum laude

George Mentrup – level II silver medal maxima cum laude

Maya Parikh – level II gold medal summa cum laude

Julia Tamai – level II silver medal maxima cum laude

11th grade (nota bene: Jenny Hu and Ella Jo Piersma took level IV)

Sarah Croog – level III gold medal summa cum laude

Jack Fechter – level III magna cum laude

Suhani Gupta – level III silver medal maxima cum laude

Grayson Halonen – level III silver medal maxima cum laude

Jenny Hu – level IV gold medal summa cum laude

Riley Jones – level III magna cum laude

Robby Ligeralde – level III gold medal summa cum laude

Ella Jo Piersma – level IV gold medal summa cum laude

Aditi Purushothaman – level III magna cum laude

Naina Purushothaman – level III gold medal summa cum laude

12th grade

Alex Frohn – level IV magna cum laude

Daniel Goldfeder – level IV silver medal maxima cum laude

Robert Jeon – level IV magna cum laude

Laxmi Namboodiri – level IV silver medal maxima cum laude

Reva Namboodiri – level IV cum laude

2020 graduates

Alex Grass – level V gold medal summa cum laude, won the Maureen O’Donnell Book Award for four gold medals on the NLE 

Madeleine Magruder – level III magna cum laude

Matt Wabler – level V silver medal maxima cum laude

Kevin Wang – level V gold medal summa cum laude, won his SECOND Maureen O’Donnell Book Award for FIVE gold medals on the NLE