University Liggett School 7th-graders
achieve perfection on Latin exam

Among the honorees of this year's National Latin Exam, introductory level, were two rare perfect scores. They were achieved by seventh-grade twins Isabelle and Bennet Sakelaris of Grosse Pointe Farms, the children of Page Heenan and James Sakelaris, and grandchildren of Palmer Heenan, mayor of the Park.

In the past 20 years, only two other Liggett Middle School students earned perfect scores at the this level. This year marks the 33rd anniversary that the National Latin Exam has been administered; more than 138,000 high school, middle school, elementary, college, and home-schooled students entered the contest on 9 different levels in 14 countries. In the United States, 17,655 students took the introductory exam which has a total of 40 questions. Awards were given to students who answered 35 or more correctly. Only 4.5 percent of the students who took the exam earned perfect scores.



Other awardees at the Middle School level were:



• Certificate of Merit for getting 35 or 36 correct answers: August Bonacci of Grosse Pointe Farms, Carina Ghafari of Grosse Pointe Shores, Jane Ninivaggi of Grosse Pointe, Nicole Rosenberg of Clinton Township and Jeffrey Shell of Grosse Pointe Farms.


• Certificate for Outstanding Achievement for getting 37-39 correct answers: Prasanth Kotha of Grosse Pointe Woods, William Loner of Harper Woods, Charlotte Richardson of Grosse Pointe and Max Yoshida of Grosse Pointe Woods.


• On the Level One exam, Angelia Evangelista of Shelby Township earned a cum laude certificate for answering 29 questions correctly.



At the Upper School level, honors were as follows:

• Level I Silver Maxima Cum Laude: Elisha Sword of Highland Park


• Level II Silver Maxima Cum Laude: Elizabeth Drake of Harper Woods and Garrett Mallires of Grosse Pointe Park
• Level II Magna Cum Laude: Michael Meyering of Harper Woods and Andriana Evangelista of Shelby Township


• Level II Cum Laude: Alyssa Jurczak of Eastpointe, Matthew Ninivaggi of Grosse Pointe and Haley Smith of Huntington Woods

In the Level III Poetry category, Kinaya Smith of Detroit earned a Cum Laude certificate and in the Level IV Poetry category Medea Shanidze of Grosse Pointe Park earned Magna Cum Laude designation and Emily Ubik of Grosse Pointe Park earned a Cum Laude certificate.

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