News of the School Summer 2016 Park Tudor School
23 Students Inducted into the Cum Laude Society
The Park Tudor Chapter of the Cum Laude Society welcomed 18 members of the class
of 2016, and five members of the class of 2017 during an assembly on Friday, April 29. Membership in the Cum Laude Society is limited by its national bylaws to no more than 20% of the senior class. Juniors may be inducted, but this is limited to those few students who have received only grades of A for all semester grades at Park Tudor through the end of the fall semester of their junior year. New members of the Cum Laude Society are: Lizzie Polak Class of 2016: Samantha Rogers Elise Edgar Mark Rook Jack Enkema John Stewart Rachel Hardacker John Stout Julia Hoffman Anish Thyagarajan Nathaniel Hopf-Nelson Christman Johnson Class of 2017: Margaret Johnston Adam Gottwald William Lacy Alex Honigford Amanda Li Alexander Schiffer Joseph Lybik Christopher Skalnik Anne McCarter Cameron Sumner Pavani Peri
Seniors Angela Li and Margaret Kosten are also members of the Cum Laude Society, having been elected into the society last year as juniors.
Top Park Tudor Honors Robert Crossin ’16 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 20. The award was established by friends of the lat Lt. Frank Meek, class of 1948, an incentive to students to aspire to the highest degree of loyalty to Park Tudor. Christman Johnson ’16 and Pavani Peri ’16 were honored with The Fletcher, Rebecca and Margaret Hodges Awards, given annually to a male and female member of the senior class voted by the faculty to have significantly and wholeheartedly contributed to the life and spirit of Park Tudor throughout their years on campus. Margaret Kosten ’16 and Angela Li ’16 were honored with the Virginia E. Smith Highest Academic Award.
Search for New Head of School is Underway Park Tudor is undertaking an extensive
national search with the aim of having a full-time Head of School in place for the 2017-2018 school year. Meanwhile, Peter Kraft will continue as Interim Head of School and will aid in the transition of the new Head of School. Eleven members of the school community have been appointed to serve on the Head of School Search Committee to bring a diverse mix of perspectives to the search process and to represent the interests of the entire Park Tudor community. They are: • Sue Mahony (Search Committee Chair, Board member and parent) • Tom Grein (Incoming Board President and past parent) • Nikhil Gunale ’96 (Board member and alumnus) • Suzie Fehsenfeld (Board member and past parent) • Brenda Harrington (Board member and past parent) • Bo Elder (Incoming Board of Trustees Chair and past parent) • Christine Camferdam (PTPA Co-President) • Judge John Tinder (Independent advisor)
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