Class of 2017 Celebrated At Senior Awards Banquet
The class of 2017 celebrated their academic, athletic and artistic achievements during the Senior Awards Banquet dinner hosted the night of May 15. The ceremony, held at the Palm Beach Gardens Marriott, celebrated the diverse accomplishments of the senior class. Head of School Bob Goldberg welcomed students and their families to the evening before turning the program over to department heads to bestow awards upon their exemplary students.
Among the awards were:
Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award - Jordan Mendelsohn
Cindy Hughes Scholarship - Madeline Horowitz
Walter A. Wright Award - Chiara Micchelli
Helen Shick Award - Jack Mahon
Phyllis Wissner Outstanding Scholar Award - Michael Grayson Kahle
The Dr. Robert F. Busse Award - Kole Rosin
Julian Reynold Career Athlete Award - Christian Cropp
Richard F. Ridgway Award - Brittany Silvester
Ranking Scholar Award - Jacob Lazar
President’s Education Awards - Christian Cropp, Jonah Goldberg, Rainey Johnson, Grayson Kahle, Arianna LaBarbiera, Jakob Lazar, Chiara Micchelli, Geoffrey Moody, Kole Rosin, Brittany Silvester, William Smithy, Alex Weinstein, Zuyi Zhao
Additional awards were given to standout seniors within each academic and arts division. Head of Upper School Fletcher Carr gave closing remarks to conclude the ceremony. Carr said that awards, like the ones given throughout the course of the evening, do not appear out of thin air.
“They are the product of remarkable individual efforts supported by the enduring and intertwined frameworks of school, family, and friends, as well as a host of other support systems that have lifted not just the students recognized today — but all of you in this class — in moving, individually and collectively, ever nearer to the incredibly varied and utterly worthy goals to which each of you aspire. Ultimately, an institution is only as good as its people. To that, then, I say to all of you, well done - and thank you all for giving so much of yourselves to this institution over the course of your years here - you have made a difference,” Carr said.
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