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Thornton Powell III delivers his eighth-grade speech at Middle School closing.
TODAY AT 123 OTTaWA ave. North
Third Graders Excel at WordMasters Challenge Breck third graders were eighth in the nation in the most recent WordMasters, a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 150,000 students annually.
Cum Laude Society Inducts 17 New Members
Competing in the difficult Blue division, Will Walkley won individual highest honors for his score of 58, and high honors went to Ella Williamson, Anders Dean, Fiona Reilly, Sara
Breck’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society
Morneau, Joshua Goh and Joe Stutsman.
inducted the following new members
WordMasters is an exercise in critical thinking that encour-
at its annual dinner in April: Seniors
ages students to become familiar with interesting new words
David Alper, Kylee Grant, Caleb Kumar,
and then challenges them to use those words to complete
Katherine Schipper, Mikala Skelton,
analogies, expressing various kinds of logical relationships.
Joshua Stillman and Amy Yin; and j uniors Eileen Bayer, Claire Drysdale, Adria Duncan, Madison Ernst, Leslie son and Patricia Zhao.
Quiz Bowl Travels to Nationals
They joined the members of the Class of 2013 who had been
The Breck Quiz Bowl team competed in the national tour-
inducted as juniors: Daniel Bergerson, Greer Bingham,
nament over Memorial Day weekend in Atlanta. Seniors
Paige Dempsey, Sarah Koop, Joseph Kuhns, Eden Motto,
Nicholas Thyr, Caleb Kumar and Patrick Curoe and fresh-
Emma Quirk-Durben, Jessica Ryvlin and Nicholas Thyr.
man Daratu Gamada played well and had a great time.
Hayes, Julia Joern, Trevor Larsen, Jack Sheehy, Claire Simp-
Speaking at the dinner was Megan Cross Rogers ’01.
While the team missed out on the playoffs, Nicholas was the 24th-ranked individual player and the top ranked Minnesota player out of 1,270 participants.
Who Knew?
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attendance at this year’s Pancake BreckFest, a celebration of service learning at Breck