University Liggett School students collect honors

University Liggett School student Madison Jerome of Grosse Pointe Woods is the 2009-10 recipient of the Nicole Marie Shammas Memorial Scholarship at University Liggett School. She will enter sixth grade in the fall.

She joins Nicole Rosenberg, Natalie Caramagno and Sarah Edmonds, whose Shammas Scholarships have been renewed for the upcoming school year.

Recipients of the $1,000 scholarship must show academic promise and an interest in the arts. The scholarship is part of Liggett’s endowment program and is made possible by a gift from the Shammas family of Grosse Pointe Woods and other friends of Nicole Shammas, who died while a student at Liggett’s Middle School.

Elsewhere at ULS, several Spanish language students attained national recognition for excellent performance on the 2009 National Spanish Examinations.

Liggett students earned a total of 12 gold, 10 silver and eight bronze medals along with 29 honorable mentions. Ninth grader Janine Puleo earned the highest Level 2 score in the state for a gold medal. The test is administered to students in grades six through 12 and is sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Upper School students who earned awards are:

Gold: Patrick Thomas, Katarina Goitz, Zoe Hu, James Palmer, Hiram Faircloth, Benjamin Gellman, Morgan Ellis, Abigale Belcrest, Kirsten Lee, Michael McLaughlin and Claire Peracchio.

Silver: Nia Nottage, Jessie Lucero, Anne Sullivan, Thomas Graves, Mary Grech, Janaya Gripper, Meghan Caraway and Lauren Giorgio.

Bronze: Emily Broder, Dominique Garrison, Megha Patel, Andrew Milenius, Catherine Vatsis, Kelly Usakoski and Kyle Keith.

Honorable mention: Atiba Cabbil, Matthew Schwendeman, Robert Hammond, Jordan Truesdale, Madeline Mair, William Marx, Elyse Lancaster, Emily Johnson, Eric Streebing, Kelton Verble, Rosemary O’Meara, Christopher Stroh, Sophie Mair, Savannah Smith, Jacob Hodges, Caleb Ninivaggi, Mariah Patrick, David McIntyre, Annalisa Provenzano, Emmanuelle Baker, Raven Fisher and Nicole Homfeld.

Middle School students who earned honors are:

Silver: Armaity Minwally and Manisha Ravi.

Bronze: Beth Ottosen.

Honorable mention: Connor Borrego, Clarissa Dixon, Drew Jerome, Hannah Mason, Jaco Mazza, Cristina Milenius and Alec Petitpren.

“Attaining a medal or honorable mention for any student on the National Spanish Examinations is very prestigious,” said Kevin Cessna-Buscemi, national director of the exams, “because the exams are the largest of their kind in the United States with well over 115,000 students participating in 2009.”

Students were taught by Georgina Milenius, Lauree Emery and Autumn DeGroot.

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