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Indian Hill Journal
May 19, 2010
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Bee student
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Scholarship winners
Seventh grader Nicolas Montag has qualified to represent The Summit Middle School and participate at the upcoming Ohio National Geographic Bee, sponsored by JP Morgan Chase, at The Ohio State University. Montag is from Indian Hill.
Four Cincinnati Country Day students were recently named winners in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Corporation competition. They are, from left, Fletcher Pease of Indian Hill, Allison Lazarus of Hyde Park, Xanni Brown of Indian Hill and Sebastian Koochaki of Loveland.
HONOR ROLLS Indian Hill Middle School
The following students have earned honors for the third quarter of 2009-2010.
Sixth Grade
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The right chemistry
Three Seven Hills School chemistry students have earned top honors in recent competitions. From left Haleigh Monaco of Clifton placed third out of 70 top chemistry students on the second-year Oesper exam, winning a cash award; Peppar Cyr of East Walnut Hills, along with Monaco, scored high enough on the qualifying exam of the Chemistry Olympiad to be invited to the second tier of competition; and Suhel Singh of Indian Hill placed fourth out of 80 top area chemistry students competing in the first-year Ralph E. Oesper Chemistry Examinations of the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society.
SCHOOL NOTES Scholarship
Amanda Espaldon, daughter of Maria and Honesto Espaldon, has accepted an Honor Award from Xavier University. She will graduate from Indian Hill High School where she is active in choir, wheelchair tennis and Spanish club.
Gold Key winners
Three Cincinnati Country Day School sen-
iors have been awarded Gold Keys in the 2010 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Xanni Brown of Indian Hill, who will be attending Harvard University in the fall, won in the category of Humor. Allison Lazarus of Brown Hyde Park/Terrace Park, who will be attending Yale University in the
Teachers accepted to Posen seminar Two Seven Hills School teachers were recently accepted to the Posen Foundation Seminar. Eighth-grade English teacher Linda Maupin of Indian Hill and history teacher Judith NeidleinDial of Greenhills were accepted to the first seminar on integrating Jewish Studies topics into middleand high-school classrooms. Maupin and Neidlein-Dial spent the weekend of April 17 in New York at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, analyzing primary
source material, discussing the validity and implementation of pedagogical strategies and reveling in the intellectually stimulating collaboration with like-minded passionate educators. Next year, elements of this experience will be part of a cross-curricular collaboration between the two departments on the nature of power, its misuse historically during World War II and its abuse in William Golding’s novel, “Lord of the Flies.”
fall, won for her poetry and has been a past Scholastic winner. Cody Pomeranz of Indian Hill is the first student from CCDS to submit to the new category Persuasive Writing. His piece focused on the long-standing crisis in the Middle East.
Pomeranz
Straight A Honor Roll – Otto Ackermann, Christian Allen, Katherine Anning, Trisha Atluri, Alec Bayliff, Peter Bosworth, Meredith Breda, Claire Brown, Katie Burdette, Essam Chaudhry, Lauren Collette, Durham Colohan, Anna Defendiefer, Jane DiGennaro, Madeleine Entine, Mary Fries, Gabrielle Goeke, Lucia Grandison, Connor Hjelm, Rhiannon Horton, Victoria Jay, Hannah Kaplan, Brad Lewis, Julia Majchszak, Maren McKenna, Natalie More, Rohit Musti, Danny Mutasim, Elena Myers, Matthew Neumann, Bridget Pavlick, Avery Pearson, Isobel Riant, Azl Saeed, Kishan Sheth, Adam Sichel, Caroline Skaggs, Claire Stewart, Kara Tauer, Ryan Wilkins, Kathryn Yamaguchi and Joshua Young. A/B Honor Roll – Nicolas Abouchedid, Holyn Alf, Teja Atluri, Christopher Austin, Noah Bayliff, Nathan Beck, Jake Bonner, John Bosworth, James Chantilas, R J Dein, Mary Dorger, Jake Feitlinger, Michelle Feng, Abby Fovel, Georgie Fovel, Nick Gehrich, Jeremy Gibson, Reid Golnik, Grant Gottdiner, Rob Green, Andrew Hall, Emily Hallahan, Tanner Helms, Jake Innis, Armin Jalilvand, Clayton James, Grace Johnson, Kara Johnson, Rachel Jung, Lena Karram, Ben Korengel, Molly Kubicki, Devin Landstra, Julian Lee, Anna Marie Logan, Chuck Long, Casey McClay, Matthew Meyer, Michael Nazzaro, Logan Nelson, Hunter Pittman, Jamie Ponticos, Priya Rajan, Allie Satterfield, Emily Satterfield, Maggie Seiler, Lucy Slattery, Megan Sneider, Zachary Sorscher, Elizabeth Spatz, Drake Steffen, Elise Sum, Claire Taghiof, Zen Taylor, Kyle Thompson-Taylor, Bobby Tull, Jacob Ward, Sam Wegryn, Caroline West, Katie Wittenbrook and Natalie Woodward.
Seventh Grade
Straight A Honor Roll – Katherine Arnold, Claudia Ayala, Sophie Bell, Camille Bode, Michael Bortz, Ben Brown, Sabrina Bulas, Sophie Calvin, Lara Chammas, Prashanth Donepudi, Chris Duncan, Kathleen Farrell, Michael Folz, Kelli Gerlinger, Daniel Harder, Alexandra Hart, Madison Hecht, Ashton Irvine, Rebekah Kim, Mazie Krehbiel, Sarah Krott, Riley Lange, Anna Leibel, Will Lightcap, Samuel Markiewitz, Grace McCormick, Ivana Mowry-Mora, Josh Obermeyer, Mackenzie Owen, Natalie Pavlick, Caitlin Powell, Nadia Rahman, Colin Rajczak, Anna Renfro, Kate Robinson, William Ruppert, David Ruttenberg, Troy Schwab, Sara Schwanekamp, Vaughan Shanley, Arjun Sheth, Madeline Siedling, Paige Siegert, Alex Skidmore, Grace Stimson, Mark Toler, Mitchell Trout, Rita Vagh, Monica Valentini and Andrea Wright.
A/B Honor Roll – Claire Barker, Marlee Bathalter, Anish Bhati, Priya Blair, Reese Bollinger, Alexandra Boster, Anna Braverman, Brenden Brewer, Katy Brown, Gibson Bullock, Josh Burgher, Nicole Callirgos, Mary Carroll, Wells Coalfleet, Philip Collins, Carissa Contra, Luke Deimer, Andrew Denoyer, Kevin Dirr, Mikayla Germain, Gabi Gibson, Nathaniel Gibson, Ben Green, Mitchell Hardy, Emily Hellman, Katarina Knehans, Nicholas Kohl, Julia Kokenge, Jake Korengel, Kara Korengel, Anu Kovilam, Chase Kuhlman, Gabrielle La Barbera, Taylor Lance, Julia Lenhof, Mary Lenhof, Jason Littman, Seth Lobo, Tommy Logeman, Jay Lucien, Mackenzie McMillan, Chris Metz, Kyle NeCamp, Liam O’Donnell, Jessica Osher, Phoebe Paniccia, Abigail Pitner, Laura Proffitt, Evan Pugh, Brooks Renfro, Nate Ringer, Jack Robertson, Lauren Sahlfeld, Samantha Sanders, Robert Schaefer, Austin Schneider, George Schneider, Julia Sewell, Shira Shturman, Abigail Singer, Ivana Spasic, Charles Stephens, Anneke Stern, Sammy Szames, Jeffrey Tang, Marie Taylor, David Tripathy, Lauren Vanatsky, Sam Vester, Trip Waltman, Cooper Winans and Emily Zurek.
Eighth Grade
Straight A Honor Roll – Emma Ackermann, Sarah Bailey, Annie Banks, Megan Bierer, Michelle Chu, Will Dowling, John Duong, Lauren Epcke, Quinn Falter, Hannah Fereshtehkhou, Geoffrey Ferguson, Corinne Florentino, Paige Gloster, Steven Gu, Ryan Helms, Maria Hooker, Jack Hooton, Elena Horton, Julie Keighley, Sarah King, Emma Kinsel, Josh Leibel, Jordan Lenchitz, Edward Lim, Joe Majchszak, Blake Pittman, Logan Powers, Devon Reich, Zenab Saeed, Ambika Singh, Jillian Skale, Delaney Smith, Nick Stern, Caroline Swain, Lindsay Tracy, Michael Whitman, Connie Yin, Vivian Zheng, Corey Zhu, Anna Zuo and Harrison Zwolshen. A/B Honor Roll – Mohammed Ajwah, James Amato, Max Anthenelli, Jessica Arington, Shay Bahner, Maddi Bennett, Noah Brackenbury, Gibran Chaudhry, Trevor Cohen, Liza David, John Ernst, Richard Feng, Abbey Froehlich, Charlotte Golnik, Caroline Greiwe, Kelly Grogan, Madeline Grossi, Lydia Grote, Allison Hermes, Samantha King, Caroline Kirk, Victoria Klee, Connor Klinedinst, Sam Knowles, Karl Koster, Sheena Kothari, Brandon Kuy, Elle Lance, Emma Lowe, Danielle Matthews, Rosie McCormick, Maggie McGraw, Madeline McIntyre, Ellie Mees, Mary Ann Miller, Logan Moreira, Jack Muller, Will Muller, Katherine Murphy, Saeed Nassef, Ellen Neumann, Michaela Phillips, Tyler Quible, Jake Rhoad, Drew Rice, Claire Schweikert, Sam Smith, Ben Sorscher, Summer Staff, Ellie Stokley, Christopher Thompson-Taylor, Meriel Vigran, Johanna Wagner, Cassie Wegryn, Nicholas West and Alison Yeager.
From left, Seven Hills School teachers Judith Neidlein-Dial and Linda Maupin were recently accepted to the first Posen Foundation Seminar on integrating Jewish Studies topics into middle and high school classrooms. PROVIDED