BEYOND the BOOKS
M odel U N
’Wick’s ‘Best Delegates’ Honored
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wo Brunswick Upper
North American Invitational Model
Schoolers were honored
UN organized by Georgetown.
with Best Delegate awards
Interest in Brunswick Model UN
The boys represented Canada
at a Model United Nations
conference at Georgetown University earlier this year.
up for the Cornell event while six
boys this age. “The fun part about it is once they
in a crisis committee called NATO
attended the Georgetown University
start getting into it,” Berrier said,
Summit.
conference.
“they actually go and talk to each
The Brunswick Model UN Club
Anson Mersereau ’14, president
problems not often considered by
has been picking up — 12 boys signed
Mikel Berrier, a Brunswick French
participated in two Model UN confer-
teacher and the group’s faculty
of the Brunswick Model UN Club,
ences this year, one at Georgetown
advisor, said students not only build
and George Goodfriend ’15 were both
and the other earlier this spring at
thinking and social skills, but they
given the nod for their work at the
Cornell University.
are also asked to think about global
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other outside of committee session. “The whole weekend turns into a game of diplomacy,” he said.
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01 A nson Mersereau ’14 (left) and
George Goodfriend ’15 02 L eft to right: Faculty advisor Mikel
Berrier, Jack Kulesh ’17, Anson Mersereau ’14, George Goodfriend ’15, Jack Stefanou ’17, Ashim Vaish ’14, and Keshav Raghavan ’17
03 G eorge Goodfriend ’15 (third from left)
and Anson Mersereau ’14 (fourth from left) 04 Ashim Vaish ’14 05 K eshav Raghavan ’17 (left foreground)
participates in a session.
06 J ack Stefanou ’17 (left) confers with
Ashim Vaish ’14 07 A nson Mersereau ’14 (left) and
George Goodfriend ’15 represented Canada. w w w . br u n s w i c ksch ool . org
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