Wooster School honors five
Five students from Ridgefield who attend Wooster School in Danbury have been recognized for their performance in national foreign language exams.
Kathryn Madaloni ’16, received a bronze medal in Spanish. Charles Snow ’19, received outstanding achievement in Latin. Sabrina Blanton-Rich ’17, received summa cum laude in Latin, Oliver Brown ’17, received magna cum laude in Latin, and Justin Hahn ’17, received maxima cum laude in Latin.
Students who participated in these exams were recognized during a recent assembly.
Superior jazz commended
Corinne Kingdollar of Ridgefield High School and her jazz ensemble from the Regional Center for the Arts in Trumbull competed in the Music in the Parks competition in Holyoke, Mass., on May 11. The competition involved 15 ensembles, of which seven were jazz.
Regional Center for the Arts jazz ensembles took first, second and third place in the jazz ensemble competition and the first place ensemble also won the “over all superior” title over all 15 competitors. Ms. Kingdollar was one of two lead singers in the winning ensemble.
Phi Beta Kappa for Keating
Shannon Keating, a member of the class of 2013 at Connecticut College in New London, was inducted into the college chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, May 18. Ms. Keating is a 2010 graduate of Ridgefield High School and is the daughter of William Keating of Ridgefield.
Phi Beta Kappa is the national honor society of undergraduate higher education. Admission to the society is based on exemplary academic scholarship over four years of college; members are in the top 10% of their graduating classes.
Ms. Keating was also awarded the Film Studies Theory/Criticism Prize, given to a senior film studies major for outstanding achievement in writing film studies theory, history or criticism.
Two win Barberi awards
Seniors Erin Ceconi and Cleo Papadopoulos will received grants from the Nick Barberi Scholarship fund, established by Mr. Barberi’s wife, Berenice Barberi, upon the death of her husband earlier this year.
Nick Barberi taught art at East Ridge Middle School for many years and was a source of inspiration.
Next year, Ms. Ceconi will study art at Pratt University, Mr. Barberi’s alma mater, and Ms. Papadopoulos will be studying television production at NYU’s Tisch School of Arts.
Nelson inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Ridgefielder Erik Nelson was one of 75 Wake Forest University students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in an April 2 ceremony. Phi Beta Kappa celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.
Gutman in Beta Gamma Sigma
Emily Gutman of Ridgefield was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society during ceremonies conducted by the School of Business Administration at the University of Vermont in Burlington earlier this spring.
Beadon is inducted into Phi Kappa Phi
Christopher Beadon of Ridgefield was recently initiated into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Mr. Beadon is pursuing a degree in marketing at Plymouth State University.
Beadon is inducted into Phi Kappa Phi
Christopher Beadon of Ridgefield was recently initiated into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Mr. Beadon is pursuing a degree in marketing at Plymouth State University.
Collegiate scholar
Clara T. Howley of Ridgefield has accepted membership in the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She is a 2012 graduate of Ridgefield High School and a member of the Class of 2016 at Lehigh University. She is the daughter of Melanie and Jim Howley.
The society is the nation’s only interdisciplinary honors organization for first-year and second-year college students. Membership is by invitation only.
Providence honor societies
Two Ridgefielders were recently inducted into the Providence (R.I.) College chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the national honor society for economics: Tomothy Bruns, Class of 2013, who is pursuing a degree in business, and Michael Wasenius, Class of 2014, quantitative economics.
Cai is U.S. Scholar semifinalist
Stanley Cai, a graduating senior at Ridgefield High School, has been named one of approximately 550 semifinalists in the 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program.
The announcement came from the U.S. Department of Education’s Presidential Scholars Office last week. Only 10 students are selected from each state as semifinalists, five males and five females from Connecticut.
Commendation for Bishop
Dezmond Bishop, a freshman at Connecticut College in New London, was awarded the Freshman Julia Wells Bower Prize, for distinction in mathematics offered by an anonymous donor in honor of Julia Wells Bower, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics. Bishop, a 2012 graduate of Ridgefield High School, is the son of Gretchen and Thomas Bishop of Ridgefield.
Dean’s lists
Keene (N.H.) State College reports three Ridgefielders are on the dean’s list for the spring semester 2013: Jack Ryan Anderson, Emily C. Kenney and Laura Theresa Richards.
Bryan Mazzola, the son of Steven and Lori Mazzola of Ridgefield, has been named to the dean’s list at Randolph-Macon Academy’s Front Royal, Va., for the third quarter of the 2012-13 school year.
John Ethan Wilson of Ridgefiled, has been named to the dean’s list at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, in Charleston, for the spring semester. Mr. Wilson is working toward a degree in physics.
Chloe Slawson has been named to the spring dean’s list at Champlain College, Burlington, Vt. She is the daughter of Maureen and Ned Slawson and is majoring in psychology.
Two Ridgefielders at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., have earned dean’s list status for the winter term: Colleen Moore, and Joseph Scalzo. Both are members of the Class of 2013.