News of the School Summer 2014 Park Tudor School
Student honors TOP PT HONORS • Ravi Shah ’14 received the Frank Meek Memorial Award, the highest award Park Tudor can bestow on a student, at the Upper School end-of-year awards assembly on May 23. The award was established by friends of the late Lt. Frank Meek ’48 as an incentive to students to aspire to the highest degree of loyalty to Park Tudor School and the community. Ravi served as Student Council president. • Shelby Brown ’14 and Neale Moore ’14 were honored with The Hodges Awards, given annually to a male and female member of the senior class adjudged by the faculty to have significantly and wholeheartedly contributed to the life and spirit of Park Tudor throughout their years on campus. The award was established in 1974 by Fletcher Hodges Jr. (who was the archivist of Eli Lilly’s Stephen Foster collection in Foster Hall) and his wife Sarah Moore Hodges ’28, a noted children’s book author, to perpetuate the memory of Mr. Hodges’ parents. His father was a respected Indianapolis physician who served as the physician for Tudor Hall and his mother was a gym teacher at Tudor Hall. This year, Fletcher Jr. and Sarah Moore Hodges’ three sons came to Park Tudor to present the award: Arthur, who lives in Boston; Fletcher III, who lives in New York; and John, who resides in Washington, DC. • Dan Fu and Katelynn Kyker ’14 received the Virginia E. Smith Highest Academic Average award. NATIONAL MERIT AWARDS • Dan Fu ’14 and Amy Cohn ’14 were selected as recipients of $2,500 National Merit Scholarships. They are among about 8,000 National Merit Scholarship winners nationwide, chosen from more than 1.5 million high school students entered into the program based on their scores on the 2012 PSAT/NMSQT test. • Graduating seniors Victoria Longe and Samone Blair are recipients of $2,500 Na-
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Upper School Director Debbie Stuart Everett ’69 and Head of School Dr. Matthew Miller congratulate Ravi Shah ’14 as he receives the Frank Meek Memorial Award.
Shelby Brown ’14 and Neale Moore ’14 receive The Hodges Awards for contributing to the “life and spirit” of Park Tudor. The awards were presented by the Hodges brothers (left to right) John, Arthur and Fletcher III.
tional Achievement Scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. More than 160,000 students who took the PSAT/NMSQT competed for these scholarships; only about 700 received the awards. • Mia Zhao ’14 was awarded the National Merit Washington University in St. Louis Scholarship. INDIANA ACADEMIC ALL-STAR Dan Fu ’14 was named an Indiana Academic All-Star by the Indiana Association of Secondary School Principals. He was one of 40 Indiana high school seniors selected from 253 nominees. The students
Katelynn Kyker ’14 and Dan Fu ’14 receive the Virginia E. Smith Highest Academic Average Award.
were honored at an event at the Indiana Roof Ballroom on April 16. Fu selected Computer Science teacher Ryan Ritz as his most “influential educator.” MATH Eight Middle Schoolers represented Park Tudor at the MathCounts Chapter Competition this spring. Nicholas Conterno ’19 received the highest score for Park Tudor. Other team members were Tommy Gallagher ’19, Thaxter Shaw ’19, Vahin Vuppalanchi ’19, Victor Xiao ’18, Aidan Harris ’19, Alex Kim ’18 and Parker Laughner ’20. The team of Gallagher, Shaw, Xiao and Vuppalanchi placed 13th of 24 teams.