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Berkshire Country Day School Wins Classics Day Awards
02:44PM / Monday, January 28, 2019
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BCD's Latin students enjoyed participating in workshops and contests.

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Berkshire Country Day School's Upper School Latin students (grades seven and eight) joined the Pioneer Valley Classical Association annual Classics Day at Mount Holyoke College on Jan. 18.

BCD's Latin students enjoyed participating in workshops and contests with their peers (in grades seven through 12) from Academy Hill, Belchertown, Herberg Middle School, Lenox Memorial High, MacDuffie, Northampton High, Pittsfield High and Williston. The BCD students were accompanied by Latin teacher Eugénie Fawcett and English teacher James Fawcett.

BCD students received the following awards:

Art contest

Sculpture: First place, seventh-grader Juliana Mills (Pittsfield)

Mosaics: First place, seventh-graders Kate Metcalf (Ghent, N.Y.) and Hanna Wellenstein (Pittsfield); third place, eighth-graders Genevieve Syrett (Great Barrington) and Samantha Seeley (Pittsfield and Richmond)

Military: Second place, seventh-grader Teddy St. John (Pittsfield)

Costumes: Second place, eighth-graders Petra Orloff (East Chatham, N.Y.), Isaac Scribner (Great Barrington and Pittsfield), and Samantha Seeley, "The Three Fates"

Oral interpretation

Advanced Poetry: First place, eighth-grader Sam Creelan (East Chatham, N.Y.)

Intermediate Prose: Second place, eighth-grader Daniel Ciejek (Lee); third place, eighth-grader Isaac Scribner

Novice: Third place (tied), eighth-graders Kate Metcalf and Hanna Wellenstein

Certamen

Latin 1: First place (out of nine), eighth-graders Daniel Ciejek, Sam Creelan, Rafi Karpowitz (Hudson, N.Y.), and Eli Mamousette (Craryville, N.Y.)

Myth: Third place (out of nine), eighth-graders Lana Messinger (Chatham, N.Y., and Ghent, N.Y.), Petra Orloff, Samantha Seeley, and Genevieve Syrett

Novice: Second place (out of three), seventh-graders Penelope Mitchell (Pittsfield and Richmond), Allison Slater (East Chatham, N.Y.), Zane Sylvester (Spencertown, N.Y.), and Hanna Wellenstein

 

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