Honors Galore (and 3 Perfect Scores) on National Latin Exam

Andrew Bassilakis ’16 of Nashua, New Hampshire; Sowon Lee ’15 of Seoul, South Korea: and Marianne Lu ’19 of Beijing, China achieved perfect scores. Sowon also was recognized by the National Latin Exam Committee for receiving summa cum laude honors on the exam for four consecutive years.

 

Andrew and Sowon also received blue ribbons for nearly flawless work on the National Ancient Greek Exam. Ninety-three percent of Groton students who are taking Ancient Greek earned recognition for outstanding performance on that exam. Groton requires two years of Latin for students who enter in Second or Third Forms (eighth or ninth grades). Greek is not required.

 

Of the 204 Groton students who took the National Latin Exam, 63 earned summa cum laude, 63 maxima cum laude, 22 magna cum laude, and 20 cum laude.

 

Several other students received special recognition from the National Latin Exam Committee: Alaric Krapf ’15, for achieving summa cum laude on the National Latin Exam for five consecutive years; and Jared Belsky ’15, Layla Varkey ’15, and Katherine McCreery ’15, for earning summa cum laude honors four of the past five years.

 

In other Latin news, the Classical Association of the Middle West and South awarded Cynthia Cheng ’16 a scholarship for her excellent performance in the 2014-15 Advanced Latin Translation Contest.

 

And Andrew Bassilakis, Cynthia Cheng and George Klein ’16 recently represented Groton School in the 2015 Brookline Certamen, a regional competition in Brookline, Massachusetts, and brought home a prize for placing second.

Congratulations to all of Groton's young classicists, and to the teachers who inspire them.