Prize Day 2017

On Thursday morning, June 8, Hopkins held it’s annual Prize Day celebration under the big tent on Pratt Field. The Hopkins community gathered for the last time this school year as students from all grades were awarded prizes for their achievements.

Please see the list of prize winners below, some of which were awarded on June 8 and others on May 26 at the Yearbook and Awards assembly.

Please browse photos below. Videos will be available shortly.

Prize Day Photos

Photos by Judy Sirota Rosenthal

GRADE 12
Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Aaron Kogan
Norman L. Stone Award – Sanaea Bhagwagar
Donald Ferguson Award – Dana Baxter and Christine Eberts
F. Allen Sherk Award – Caroline Simon
John A. Wilkinson Award – Thomas James Bordeaux, Jr.
Michael J. Theobald Prize – Anne Nields
The Gerald F. Stevens Memorial Scholarship – Panayotis Basimakopoulos
Comcast Foundation Scholarship – Nathaniel Nguyen
Links, Incorporated Book Prize – Toella Pliakas

GRADE 11
Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Samantha Dies
George Blakeman Lovell Award – Andrew Roberge
Andrew Rossetti Prize – Andrew Treat
Harvard Book Prize – Mark Xu
Kenyon College Presidential Book Prize – Kyle Burton
Smith Book Award – Helena Lyng-Olsen
Yale Book Award – Kiarra Lavache
Wellesley College Book Prize – Georgia Doolittle
Mount Holyoke Book Prize – Grace El-Fishawy
Ellen Patterson Brown ’62 Award – Unique Parker
The University of Chicago Book Award – Elijah Sabin
St. Lawrence University Book Award – Joshua Goldstein
William and Mary Leadership Award – Donasia Gray
Princeton Alumni Association of Eastern Connecticut Book Award – Siddhartha Lewis-Hayre

GRADE 10
Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Maliya Ellis
Stanley Daggett Award – Owen Sherman

GRADE 9
Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Kyle Shin
Stanley Daggett Award – Kaitlin Forman

GRADE 8
Lydia von Wettberg Award – Brooke Lane
Simeon E. Baldwin Leadership Award – Sophie Sonnenfeld
Kristin Ridinger Taurchini Award – Milan Yorke

GRADE 7
Lydia von Wettberg Award – Juan Lopez
Simeon E. Baldwin Leadership Award – Robert Lawler

THE ARTS
Paul W. Schueler Prize for the Visual Arts – Martin Tipton, Grade 12
Drama Award – Holden Turner, Grade 12
The Charles Ives Music Prize – Paul Stelben, Grade 12
Choral Music Award – Timothy Halvorsen, Grade 12

THE CLASSICS
Clare McNamee Latin Prize – Chloé Glass, Grade 12
Junior School Latin Prize – Abigail Fossati, Grade 8
Jeremiah Peck Greek Prize – Maxwell Reiferson, Grade 11

ENGLISH
Major James Dudley Dewell Letter Writing Prize – Emma Cahill, Grade 8
Baldwin Prize Essay, Middle School – Anna Zimolo, Grade 9
Baldwin Prize Essay, Senior School – Helena Lyng-Olsen, Grade 11
John B. Smith Prize for Excellence in English in Grade 8 – Prairie Resch
Brown University Book Award – Alexandra (Sasha) Starovoitov, Grade 11
Elizabeth Tate Prize for Excellence in English in Grade 11 – Clara Everett
Elsie Church Award for English and Dramatics – Zane Meyer, Grade 12
Elizabeth Lewis Day Prize for Excellence in Imaginative Writing – Anne Nields, Grade 12
Helen Hope Barton Prize for Excellence in English in Grade 12 – Hannah Melchinger
George Gillespie Prize for Excellence in Literary Scholarship – Clara Merrill, Grade 12
The Susan E. Feinberg Prize for Excellence in Critical Thinking Through the Written Word – Chris Sherk, Grade 11
The Karen Lee Pritzker Prize for Creative Writing – Julia Silbert, Grade 11

HISTORY
Kenneth Hopkins Rood History Prize – Hannah Szabo, Grade 8
Julia B. Thomas History Prize – Connor Hartigan, Grade 10
DeLaney Kiphuth Prize in History – William Rosenbluth, Grade 11
Gerald F. Stevens Award – Hunter Congdon and Toella Pliakas, Grade 12

MATHEMATICS
Edgar M. Babbitt Junior School Mathematics Prize – William McCormack, Grade 8
Edgar M. Babbitt Middle School Mathematics Prize – Parker Connelly, Grade 9
Edgar M. Babbitt Senior School Mathematics Prize – William Hartog, Grade 12
John M. Heath Mathematics Prize – Aaron Baxter, Grade 12

MODERN LANGUAGES
Edward R. DeNoyon French Prize – Aaron Kogan, Grade 12
Denise M. Katz French Prize – Aline Ko, Grade 12
The Spanish Literature Prize – Madeleine Cahn, Grade 12
The Hispanic Letters Prize – Andrew Baxter, Grade 12
The Chinese Letters Prize – David Bian, Grade 12
The Italian Letters Prize – Samantha Steinberg, Grade 12
Alliance Française of New Haven Book Award – Eliot Carlson, Grade 10

SCIENCE
Aracy Belcher Biology Prize – Audrey Millar, Grade 9
Harold Shelton Kirby Science Prize – Adwith Mukherjee, Grade 10
Rensselaer Medal – Joshua Ip, Grade 11
Josiah Willard Gibbs Prize – Gwyneth Maloy, Grade 12
Fairfield University and Sikorsky Aircraft Excellence in Science and Math Award – Alexander Kane, Grade 11

COMMUNITY SERVICE
The Prudential Spirit of Community Award – Sarah Traynor, Grade 12

ATHLETICS
Dorrance Award – Douglas Wardlaw, Grade 12
The Hopkins Award – Alexandra McCraven, Grade 12
Robert Wyant Memorial Award – Panayotis Basimakopoulos, Grade 12
Jerri Trulock DPH Sportsmanship Award – Gwyneth Maloy, Grade 12
William DeGennaro Outstanding Male Athlete Award – Jake Moscarelli, Grade 12
Outstanding Female Athlete Award – Erin Earley, Grade 12
John A. Doughan Award – Lydia McGrath, Grade 12
Walter Camp Award (Junior School) – Jason Chung, Grade 8
DPH Sportsmanship Award (Junior School) – Ella Zuse, Grade 8