UNDERCLASSMEN
AWARDS
Arts Awards
Academic Awards
DANCE Suzanne Renault Award: Phoebe Bloom
ENGLISH Brown University Award: Maggie Carangelo, Kate Sands
DRAMA Shakespeare Award: Olivia Winn Marian W. Edwards Award: Julia Sassi Suzan Zeder Award: Jessie Vissicchio Greenwich Arts Council Award: Lexie Seidel MUSIC Greenwich Academy Vocal Award: Zoe Morris, Sara Norton VISUAL Design Award: Kayley Leonard 3D Design Award: Alex Goldman Drawing Award: Ellie Dempsey New Media Award: Sammy Yorke Sally Noble Award: Jordan Ressa, Erika Rodriguez Visual Arts Award: Olivia Alchek
Beattie Kosh Award: Natalie Lee HISTORY Columbia University Research Paper Award: Sammy Yorke Wall Award: Lizzie Hurst William Phillips Award: Sarah Better MATHEMATICS Greenwich Academy Mathematics Award: Yuge Ji Leo J. Whelton Award: Kippy Ball Mathematics Faculty Award: Ally Sterling SCIENCE Outstanding First-Year Chemistry Student Award: Rebecca Dolan Upper School Physical Science Award: Michelle Basta, Nikki Kaufmann
Academic Achievement & Character Awards ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT Duke University Award: Lara Tang Princeton University Award: Rebecca Dolan Smith College Award: Caroline Dunn CHARACTER Community Service Award: Maxx Grossman Harvard Book Award: Lara Tang Katherine Zierleyn Award: Gallant Zhuangli Kostbar Award: Megan Collins Melissa Dee Holland Award: Julie Berenblum Whitmore Award: Maggie Schmidt Yale College Book Award: Tyla Taylor
Science Department Award: Christine Hessler GLOBAL SCHOLAR AWARD Future Global Leader Award: Eri Sumino WORLD LANGUAGES Alliance Française Award: Pam Petrick Arabic Language Award: Ally Sterling Chinese Language Award: Caroline Miao French Language Award: Julia Sassi Italian Language Award: Alicia Kiley Latin Award: Caroline Bloomer Multiple Languages Award: Kelly Bojic Spanish Language Award: Karen Lob Left to right: Sherry Tamalonis, Ellie Dempsey, Head of Upper School Tom Sullivan, Lara Tang, Head of School Molly King, Priscilla Morales, and Lizzie Hurst
CUM LAUDE
SOCIETY
“Excellence, Justice, Katherine McGirr Nix Honor.”—That is the ’03 is a GA alumna who motto of the Cum was also a member of Laude Society, the the Society. Since gradorganization dedicated uating from Princeton, to honoring scholastic she has spent the last achievement in second- six years teaching at ary schools. GA’s chapschools in New York ter of the society was City, Boston, Houston, founded in 1977, and and Washington, DC. at this spring’s annual Her message to the ceremony, the Upper Upper School girls was School celebrated the tied to her experience nine seniors who were as a teacher and GA inducted into the socistudent. She shared, ety, joining the eight “At GA, meaningful members who became praise and thoughtful part of the society in feedback are part their junior year. of the GA way.” She In keeping with GA didn’t, however, fully tradition, guest speaker appreciate this “gift”
until she took on her first teaching position as part of Teach for America at a public school in BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn. The only feedback she received in the 180 days she taught at that school was in a 10-minute meeting with the school’s assistant principal. She realized that her approach until then had been to table any feedback
and simply “hope for the best to continue and the mediocre to improve.” This first teaching experience completely changed her outlook and prompted her to actively seek feedback in subsequent roles. She has taken this a step further by staying involved with Teach for America as an advisor and in her current supportive and evaluative role
At GA, meaningful praise and thoughtful feedback are part of the GA way.” —Katherine McGirr Nix ’03
in the D.C. public school system. For the day’s honorees, the ceremony was a time for recognition and celebration. And Katherine’s message offered a reminder that, while we must laud our accomplishments, we must never overlook opportunities to better ourselves. GA
Back row, left to right: Jim Fout, Katherine McGirr Nix ’03, Susan Zhou, Isabel van Paasschen, Natalie Reynolds, Emma Olney, Caroline Powers, Lexi Henkel, Caitlin James, Priyanka Arora, Ashley Richards, Head of Upper School Tom Sullivan, Head of School Molly King Front row, left to right: Olivia Rovelli, Christine Hessler, Lauren Eames, Saskia Craddock, Avery Carmichael, Samantha Berenblum, Pam Schulman, Carly Risman
Board of Trustees 2013 - 2014 Rex R.K. Chung
Alexander E. Jackson
James R. Matthews
Linda D. O’Neill
Lauren Berkley Saunders ’92
Thomas Dunn
Samantha Jansson
Sonnet G. McKinnon
Barnett D. Osman
David I. Stemerman
Melissa LaBov Dweck ’89, Alumnae Board President
René M. Kern
Craig W. Packer
Priya G. Trauber
Molly H. King, Ex Officio
Barbara M. Morris, Parents Association President
Linda C. Reals
Victoria B. Waters
Eunice J. Burnett
Helen Cutting Fitzgerald ’75
Douglas R. Korn
Edward A. Mulé
Barbara M. Riley, Ex Officio
Wendell L. Willkie II
Susan Lehman Carmichael
Adam B. Frankel
Elizabeth Darst Leykum ’96
Anthony J. Noto
Heather Johnson Sargent ’92
Jeffrey A. Wolfson
J. Timothy Morris, Chairman Brett Barakett Carlos Brito
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