URSULINE DISTINCTIONS
An Exciting Fellowship We are thrilled to congratulate Kayla Bowles ’21 who was selected as the first Encantos Fellow in spring 2020. She’s recognized for her writing talent, dedication and future potential. The Fellowship is a year-long mentorship, training, and stipend for emerging writers, artists and content developers to Photo courtesy of launch a career in the family Business Wire. entertainment industry. Kayla’s passion for writing, art and filmmaking will thrive with the guidance of accomplished industry executives and we look forward to her future creative projects.
Service Recognized Congratulations to Abigail D’Angelo ‘22 who is a recipient of the 2021 St. Vincent’s Hospital Youth Award. Abigail lives out the Ursuline motto of Serviam through her participation in food drives as well as teaching horseback riding to people who are visually impaired.
Champions of Vocabulary
In August 2020, we proudly received the banner and trophy touting our place as Vocabulary Bowl champions of all Division II High Schools in North America. And in May 2021, we defended our title! Division II is made up of schools with 500–999 students. This year, 1.3 million students from 43,520 schools across North America participated in the Vocabulary Bowl. Between October 1, 2020 and April 30, 2021 Ursuline students mastered a total of 95,980 words. This is an achievement earned by every student at Ursuline, led by our English Dept faculty in all English classes.
64
