Highlights
S TUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS
Forty-nine students attained national recogni-
tion for excellent performance on the 2008
National Spanish Examinations.
SG students earned a total of six gold, 18 silver
and 25 bronze placements.
Gold award winners were Grace Owen-Stively
’10, Macgill Davis ’10, Matthew Archer ’11, Vincent
Bohlen ’10, Caroline Miller ’11 and Jelani Oldum-
Lansiquot ’09.
The exams are the largest of their kind in the
United States, and more than 106,000 participated
in 2008.
The students were taught by Spanish Depart-
ment Chair Mafalda Nula and teachers Catherine
’89 Rodero, Miriam Gorriaran and Anthony Perry.
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W Spanish writing awards were given in assembly
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R on March 7 to Barbara Bogacheva ’08 who came in
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O second place in Rhode Island in the advanced
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category; Jelani Odlum-Lansiquot ’09, who took
first place in the intermediate category; Callie
Elmer wins highly
McBreen ’09, Sam Redway ’09, Ollie Scholle ’08,
Eliza Richardz ’09 and Peter Hahn ’08, who
received an “Excellent Award” in the advanced
sought-after scholarship category, and McCrea Davison ’09, Linnea Bostrom
’09, Scott Chanelli ’09 and Sophia Noel ’09, who
Selena Elmer ’08 was awarded the prestigious received honorable mentions.
Morehead-Cain Scholarship this spring from the
University of North Carolina, which brings with it a Thirty-nine students from the NADA club (Not
four-year undergraduate scholarship to the Univer- Advocating Substance Abuse) taught in the DARE
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. program at Gaudet Middle School and All Saints
Elmer, a school prefect and standout student Academy in the first two weeks of April. Trained by
and athlete, was a dedicated leader and student Dr. Cheryl Jenkins, Director of Counseling and
advocate for the environment throughout her career Health Education, NADA club members taught four
at St. George’s. activities in the fifth-grade classrooms while Middle-
She was one of only 35 in the country to be town police officer and DARE teacher Josh Mello
awarded the Morehead-Cain Scholarship who is not looked on. Fifth graders learned the ingredients in
a resident of North Carolina. smoke from the “Big Cigarette,” calculated how much
According to the program, 64 finalists from it costs to smoke a pack a day for a year, examined
North Carolina were joined by 44 out-of-state final- decisions that lead them down a path toward trust or
ists and three British finalists for interviews with the mistrust, and practiced different ways of saying “no”
Central Selection Committee in Chapel Hill in through participating in skits. Students from St.
March. Seventy students were offered Morehead- George’s concluded the lesson by stating reasons why
Cain Scholarships. they do not drink, smoke or use drugs, and gave SG
pencils to the fifth graders as parting gifts.
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