On Thursday morning, June 7, 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 7 and others on May 25 at the Yearbook and Awards assembly. See video of all the awards below the list.
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Prizes and Awards 2017 – 2018 Presented on May 25 and June 7, 2018
GRADE 12 Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Clara Everett Norman L. Stone Award – Genevieve Speer Donald Ferguson Award – Nia Simmons and Lillian Tipton F. Allen Sherk Award – Donasia Gray John A. Wilkinson Award – Georgia Doolittle Michael J. Theobald Prize – Erin Knox and Mike Lazarre Gerald F. Stevens Memorial Scholarship – Lionel Louis and Jake Rizzuti Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship – Genevieve Speer
GRADE 11 Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Adwith Mukherjee George Blakeman Lovell Award – Douglas Guilford Andrew Rossetti Prize – JR Stauff Harvard Book Prize – Clare Chemery Kenyon College Presidential Book Prize – Melody Parker Smith Book Award – Naomi Tomlin Yale Book Award – Alexander Hughes Wellesley College Book Prize – Sofia Schroth-Douma Mount Holyoke Book Prize – Catherine Lasersohn Ellen Patterson Brown ’62 DPH Award – Madeleine Walker The University of Chicago Book Award – Benjamin Goldstein St. Lawrence University Book Award – Siraj Patwa William and Mary Leadership Award – Samuel Jenkins Princeton Alumni Association of Eastern Connecticut Book Award – Theodore Tellides George Washington University Book Award – Jack Dove
GRADE 10 Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Parker Connelly Stanley Daggett Award – Lizabeth Bamgboye
GRADE 9 Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Suraj Kalaria Stanley Daggett Award – Ranease Brown
GRADE 8 Lydia von Wettberg Award – Nati Tesfaye Simeon E. Baldwin Leadership Award – Tyler Eveland Kristin Ridinger Taurchini Award – Pearl Miller
GRADE 7 Lydia von Wettberg Award – Harini Thiruvengadam Simeon E. Baldwin Leadership Award – Mikiko Coakley
THE ARTS Paul W. Schueler Prize for the Visual Arts – Isabella Feder, Grade 12 Drama Award – Kayleigh Melillo, Grade 12 The Charles Ives Music Prize – Mark Xu, Grade 12 Choral Music Award – Kieran Anderson, Grade 12
THE CLASSICS Clare McNamee Latin Prize – Abigail Miller, Grade 12 Junior School Latin Prize – Haniya Farooq, Grade 8 Jeremiah Peck Greek Prize – William Rosenbluth, Grade 12
ENGLISH Major James Dudley Dewell Letter Writing Prize – Elliot Calderone, Grade 8 Baldwin Prize Essay, Middle School – Abigail Fossati, Grade 9 Baldwin Prize Essay, Senior School – Emily Ruan, Grade 12 John B. Smith Prize for Excellence in English in Grade 8 – Maisie Bilston Brown University Book Award – Maliya Ellis, Grade 11 Elizabeth Tate Prize for Excellence in English in Grade 11 – Emma DeNaples Elsie Church Award for English and Dramatics – Georgia Doolittle, Grade 12 Elizabeth Lewis Day Prize for Excellence in Imaginative Writing – Clayton Wackerman, Grade 12 Helen Hope Barton Prize for Excellence in English in Grade 12 – Emilia Cottignoli George Gillespie Prize for Excellence in Literary Scholarship – Madison Howard, Grade 12 The Susan E. Feinberg Prize for Excellence in Critical Thinking Through the Written Word – Jeffrey Gu, Grade 12 The Karen Lee Pritzker Prize for Creative Writing – Elijah Sabin, Grade 12
HISTORY Kenneth Hopkins Rood History Prize – Robert Lawler, Grade 8 Julia B. Thomas History Prize – Ella Zuse, Grade 9 DeLaney Kiphuth Prize in History – Noah Schmeisser, Grade 11 Gerald F. Stevens Award – Alexandra Blitzer, Grade 12
MATHEMATICS Edgar M. Babbitt Junior School Mathematics Prize – Ingrid Slattery, Grade 7 Edgar M. Babbitt Middle School Mathematics Prize – David Metrick, Grade 10 Edgar M. Babbitt Senior School Mathematics Prize – David Darrow, Grade 12 John M. Heath Mathematics Prize – Samantha Phelan, Grade 12
MODERN LANGUAGES Edward R. DeNoyon French Prize – Jonah Norwitt, Grade 12 Denise M. Katz French Prize – Olivier Kibbey, Grade 12 The Spanish Literature Prize – Alexandra Starovoitov, Grade 12 The Hispanic Letters Prize – Lucio Moscarini, Grade 12 The Chinese Letters Prize – Dylan Sloan, Grade 12 The Italian Letters Prize – Marion Conklin, Grade 12 Alliance Française of New Haven Book Award – Michelle Medina, Grade 12
SCIENCE Aracy Belcher Biology Prize – Evan Alfandre, Grade 9 Harold Shelton Kirby Science Prize – C. Burton Lyng-Olsen, Grade 10 Rensselaer Medal – Ethan Silver, Grade 11 Josiah Willard Gibbs Prize – Ajay Mitra, Grade 12 Fairfield University and Sikorsky Aircraft Excellence in Science and Math Award – Benjamin Goldstein, Grade 11
ATHLETICS Dorrance Award – John Blumenthal, Grade 12 The Hopkins Award – Genevieve Speer, Grade 12 Robert Wyant Memorial Award – Mitchell Delfini, Grade 12 Jerri Trulock DPH Sportsmanship Award – Jessica D’Errico, Grade 12 William DeGennaro Outstanding Male Athlete Award – Dylan Sloan, Grade 12 Outstanding Female Athlete Award – Anna Banks, Grade 12 Jordan William Sebastian Award – Erin Knox, Grade 12 Jordan William Sebastian Award – Spencer Lockhart, Grade 12 Walter Camp Award (Junior School) – Liam Spellacy, Grade 8 DPH Sportsmanship Award (Junior School) – Orly Baum, Grade 8
Hopkins is a private middle school and high school for grades 7-12. Located on a campus overlooking New Haven, CT, the School takes pride in its intellectually curious students as well as its dedicated faculty and staff.