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This Year’s Class of Cum Laude Twenty-five members of the Class of 2014 have officially been inducted into the school’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society. The group is the secondary-school equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Nancy Roseman, president of Gettysburg College, was the invited speaker at the Cum Laude Convocation in March.
The new members are:
Merrall Echezarreta, Loxahatchee, Florida Margarita Fedorova, Penza, Russia Robin Fisher, Bethesda, Maryland Jack Flanagan, Delmar, New York Vincent Hsu, Taipei, Taiwan Steven Jo, Seoul, Korea
Andrew Kim, Seoul, Korea David Lee, Seoul, Korea
Elizabeth Long, Washington, D.C.
Duy Mai, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Rose Pennington, State College, Pennsylvania Anna Qin, Shanghai, China
Charlotte Rhoad, Charleston, South Carolina James Riford, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania Gun Ho Ro, Daegu, Korea
Rachel Rosa, Hockessin, Delaware
Katie San Filippo, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania Josh Setliff, Richmond, Virginia
Jordan Shihadeh, Leesburg, Virginia
Elizabeth Stern-Green, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania Keegan Sullivan, Overland, Park, Kansas Delaney Taylor, Berryville, Virginia
Christopher Thomas, Austin, Texas Philip Yang, Shenzhen, China
Tommy Zhou, Shanghai, China
Mercersburg’s
Winter OlympicTeam Rebecca Lowe ’99 (right) was one of five studio hosts for NBC’s broadcasts of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Lowe, who has worked for the BBC, ESPN UK, and Setanta Sports, teamed with Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Dan Patrick, and Lester Holt as hosts for NBC’s Olympic coverage. She was joined as a member of the international press corps in Sochi by The Wall Street Journal’s Pia Catton ’92, who covered perhaps the Winter Games’ marquee event—figure skating—in her second Olympic assignment.