2009-2010 Awards Summary | Dwight Today
Camerer Essay Winners Dr. Emil Camerer, Headmaster of The Dwight School for forty-two years (1885-1927), believed that every graduate of Dwight should be able to write well. Each year, essays are written by every student in grades 6-12 and are judged by the entire English Department. Essays in their entirety can be read on The Dwight School website (www.dwight.edu) under Publications. 6th Grade: Emily Eidler, ‘H2O-O-Oh No!’: How I Overcame My Fear of the Water 7th Grade: Cena Loffredo, A Dent in the Universe 8th Grade: Helena Bartel, Finding My Vocation 9th Grade: Imogen Jenkins, Insert Country Here 10th Grade: Connor Nicholas, Creatures of the Deep 11th Grade: Michael Petrycki, What I Learned
Shakespeare Monologue Winners Sponsored by the English-Speaking Union, an international charity founded to promote “international understanding and friendship through the use of the English language,” the National Shakespeare Competition challenges students to memorize and deliver a key speech from one of Shakespeare’s plays. Each student in grades 9-12 participate in the school-wide competition, and three finalists perform their speeches at a school-wise assembly. 9th Grade: James Rubin 10th Grade: Juliana Barrett 11th Grade: Daniel Maren* 12th Grade: Teo-Rapp-Olsson * School-wide winner and Second Place in the city-wide competition
Extended Essay Topics The Extended Essay is a wonderful opportunity for a student to expand a depth of knowledge in a given area and to demonstrate a high level of analytical and research skills. All students enrolled in the Diploma Program must complete the Essay, which is due in September of the senior year and may be based on a large number of possible IB subjects. Following is a list of the students who were deemed by the English Department to have written the strongest essays this year: Phoebe Happ, Is Traditional Female Genital Mutilation a Violation of Human Rights? William Ezor, How Has the Green Design Movement Impacted Architecture in New York City? Luke Goldstein, To What Extent Can Micro-finance Programs Be Expected to Advance Human Rights in the Developing World?
LaGuardia Essay Award Winners The LaGuardia Award for the best original history research paper is named after Dwight alumnus and former Mayor of New York, Fiorello LaGuardia, and is awarded to one student in each of grades 6-11. 6th Grade: Emily Eidler for The Flapper Rebellion 7th Grade: Samantha McEvoy for The Great James Madison 8th Grade: Sergei Klebnikov for Did Changes in Military Command Contribute to the Confederate Defeat? 9th Grade: Gabriel Frankel for U.S. Intervention in the Soviet-Afghan War 10th Grade: Sukrit Puri for World War I and the United States of America 11th Grade: Andrea Bell forWhy Was the Success of Ceausescu’s Decree 770 Limited?
Doris Post Speech Winners The Doris Post Oratory Competition is presented to the student in each of grades 6-10 whose speech was judged by our panel of faculty members and administrators to be the best in content and presentation. This yearly competition is named in honor of Doris Post, a great orator and teacher who was part of the Dwight family for nearly fifty years. 6th Grade: Marguerite Kuhn for Living with Dyslexia 7th Grade: David Haines for Living Life 8th Grade: Andrew Pauker for Pledge of Allegiance 9th Grade: Matt Arbess for I’m Not Lovin’ It 10th Grade: Kristin Tsutsui for Is Asian My Label?
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