Prize Day at Hopkins

Applause filled the air over and over again, as many Hopkins students became the recipients of special prizes...
Applause filled the air over and over again, as many Hopkins students became the recipients of special prizes. The day before Graduation Day also known as Prize Day, is one that all look forward to, in the anticipation of seeing their friends, and perhaps themselves, become deserving winners.

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GRADE 12
Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Adam Jacoby
Norman L. Stone Award – Christopher Gallant
Donald Ferguson Award – Katherine Wallace-Hodel, Nathaniel Nagy
F. Allen Sherk Award – Taylor Verderame
John A. Wilkinson Award – Darius Bittle-Dockery
Michael J. Theobald Prize – Katherine Lupo
Youth of the Year (The New Haven Register) – David Cleary

GRADE 11
Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Charles (Max) Walden
George Blakeman Lovell Award – Samuel Schreiber
Andrew Rossetti Prize – Jared Kozal
Harvard Book Prize – Ariel Fein
Kenyon Book Award – Nicole DaCosta
Smith Book Award – Miriam Hinds
Yale Book Award – Marie Louise Frevert
Mount Holyoke Book Award – Danielle Bitterman
Wellesley Book Award – Jane Baldwin

GRADE 10
Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Julian Gewirtz
Stanley Daggett Award – Christopher Pagliarella

GRADE 9
Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Kathryn Carlow
Stanley Daggett Award – Nathaniel Zelinsky

GRADE 8
Lydia von Wettberg Award – Ryan Duffy
Simeon E. Baldwin Leadership Award – Casey Graetz

GRADE 7
Lydia von Wettberg Award – Evan Goetsch
Simeon E. Baldwin Leadership Award – Caroline Ferguson



THE ARTS
Paul W. Schueler Art Prize – Mario Guevara, Grade 12
Performing Arts Award – Brian Mayer, Grade 12; Timothy Fasano, Grade 12
Charles Ives Instrumental Music Prize – Emilio Borghesan, Grade 12
Choral Music Award – Aleksandra Romano, Grade 12; Daniel Fainstein, Grade 12

THE CLASSICS
Clare McNamee Latin Prize – Charles (Max) Walden, Grade 11
Junior School Latin Prize – Michael Gold, Grade 8
Jeremiah Peck Greek Prize – David Cleary, Grade 12

ENGLISH
Major James Dudley Dewell Letter Writing Prize – Madeline Kern, Grade 8
Baldwin Prize Essay, Middle School – Caleb Pershan, Grade 10
Baldwin Prize Essay, Senior School – Lucien Harlow Dion, Grade 12
John B. Smith Prize for Excellence in English in Grade 8 – Elizabeth Granata
Brown University Book Award – Matthew Mandelkern, Grade 11
Elizabeth Tate Prize for Excellence in English in Grade 11 – Aviva Shen
Elsie Church Award for English and Dramatics – Timothy Fasano, Grade 12
Elizabeth Lewis Day Prize for Excellence in Imaginative Writing – Laura Marris, Grade 12
George Gillespie Prize for Excellence in Literary Scholarship – Miriam Marek, Grade 12
Helen Hope Barton Prize for Excellence in English in Grade 12 – Lucas Kelly-Clyne

MODERN LANGUAGES
Edward R. DeNoyon French Prize – Madeleine Goldstein, Grade 12
Denise M. Katz French Prize – Geoffrey Giller, Grade 12
The Spanish Prize – Kristin Carlson, Grade 12
The Hispanic Letters Prize – Miriam Chotiner-Gardner, Grade 12
Hallie Coffin-Gould, Grade 12
The Chinese Letters Prize – Julian Baird Gewirtz, Grade 10
The Italian Letters Prize – Carla Maffeo, Grade 12

HISTORY
Kenneth Hopkins Rood History Prize – Bryan Pannill, Grade 8
Julia B. Thomas History Prize – Julian Baird Gewirtz, Grade 10
DeLaney Kiphuth Prize in History – Aviva Shen, Grade 11
Gerald F. Stevens Award – Andrew Stanco, Grade 12

MATHEMATICS
Edgar M. Babbitt Junior School Mathematics Prize – Patrick Hulin, Grade 8
Edgar M. Babbitt Middle School Mathematics Prize – Kyle Alpern, Grade 10
Edgar M. Babbitt Senior School Mathematics Prize – Samuel Perez, Grade 12
John M. Heath Mathematics Prize – Miriam Chotiner-Gardner, Grade 12

SCIENCE
Harold Shelton Kirby Science Prize – Stasey Vishnevetsky, Grade 10
Rensselaer Medal – Baris Sevinc, Grade 11
Aracy Belcher Biology Prize – Luke Lamar, Grade 9
Josiah Willard Gibbs Prize – Jonathan Beller, Grade 12

ATHLETICS
Dorrance Award – David Cleary, Grade 12
The Hopkins Award – Katherine Lupo, Grade 12
Robert Wyant Memorial Award – Timothy Howland, Grade 12
Jerri Trulock DPH Sportsmanship Award – Taylor Verderame, Grade 12
William DeGennaro Outstanding Male Athlete Award – Darius Bittle-Dockery, Grade 12
Outstanding Female Athlete Award – Frances De Lavis, Grade 12
Walter Camp Award – Ryan D’Souza, Grade 8
DPH Sportsmanship Award (Junior School) – Casey Graetz, Grade 8
Three Sport Award: Zoe Black, Adam Blythe, Nicole Bucala, Frances De Lavis, Tim Howland, Amanda Kesselman, Sarah Lamb, Evan Miller Michaelson, Patrick O’Toole, Danielle Okai, Zachary Prusoff, LaBarron (Chris) Stewart, Daniel Stone, Taylor Verderame, Janday Wilson
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