On November 8, 2003 Berkshire Country Day School Latin and Greek students attended the Pioneer Valley Classical Association's Classics Day at Belchertown High School in Belchertown, MA, according to an announcement by Robert R. Peterson, Head of School. Students were offered the opportunity to learn more about the world of the Romans and Greeks by participating in many different contests and activities. The students attended workshops and entered many contests, with B.C.D.S. winners listed:
In Latin, for the Oral Interpretation Contest, novice level, seventh graders Wilson Baer, Camille Coppola, Charlotte Crane, and Emily Ury tied for first place. The judge elected not to award second or third place prizes due to the excellent performance of these seventh graders. For the intermediate level, eight graders Dan Kleederman and Corey Silberstein tied for first place, and Caroline Ellis won second place. For the Advanced Prose level, tenth grader Liana Katz won first place, and ninth grader Andrew Crane won second place. In the Advanced Poetry level, twelfth grader Jamie Kraut won first place. In Greek, tenth grader Amanda Yasinski won first place.
In the Catapult Contest-Marshmallow Division, seventh graders Ben Grossman Ponemon, Robin Hackett, and Joe Mangiardi came in third place with their catapult, "Agricola".
For the Costume Contest-Middle School Division, seventh graders Jessica Langman and Rosie Taylor won third place for their costumes as Calypso and Hermes.
In the Myth Certamen, seventh graders Wilson Baer, Buddy Ferris, Ben Tobin and eighth grader Todd Volkman won second place.
For the Art Contest0Mosaics, eight graders Caroline Ellis, Margaret Esposito and Carina Kaufman won first place; and eight graders Sam Campoli and Dan Kleederman won third place. In the Model Division, seventh grader Carline Barry won second place; and seventh graders Emily Ury, Olivia Weinstein and eighth grader Liz Ury, won third place. For Sculptures, seventh graders Camille Breslin and Sarah Steadman won first place. In the Miscellaneous Division, eighth grader Maizy Broderick-Searpa won third place.
Feature presenter, Odds Bodkin, a graduate of Duke University, entertained students with his music-filled storytelling. Mr. Bodkin has taught storytelling and imagination for seven years at Antioch New England Graduate School while pursuing a full-time career as a children's author and musical storyteller. He is renowned for his epic tellings of The Odyssey and The Rage of Hercules, which has earned him a national reputation, in Billboard's words, as "a modern-day Orpheus."
Beginning in sixth grade, students at BCD enroll in Latin with teachers Eugenie Fawcett, Elizabeth Baer, and Marcia Jones. Mrs. Baer is also the Greek instructor, a subject that can be taken in ninth grader.
Berkshire County Day School is an independent school for pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, with 335 students from Berkshire, Columbia, Hampshire and Rensselaer counties. Its Brook Farm Campus, for students through eight grade, is located one mile south of Tanglewood's Main Entrance. Its Winthrop Campus, for students in grade nine through twelve, is located one mile north of Tanglewood's Main Entrance at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute summer home.
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Letter: Is the Select Board Listening to Dalton Voters?
Letter to the Editor
To the Editor:
A reasonable expectation by the people of a community is that their Select Board rises above personal preference and represents the collective interests of the community. On Tuesday night [Nov. 12], what occurred is reason for concern that might not be true in Dalton.
This all began when a Select Board member submitted his resignation effective Oct. 1 to the Town Clerk. Wishing to fill the vacated Select Board seat, in good faith I followed the state law, prepared a petition, and collected the required 200-plus signatures of which the Town Clerk certified 223. The Town Manager, who already had a copy of the Select Board member's resignation, was notified of the certified petitions the following day. All required steps had been completed.
Or had they? At the Oct. 9 Select Board meeting when Board members discussed the submitted petition, there was no mention about how they were informed of the petition or that they had not seen the resignation letter. Then a month later at the Nov. 12 Select Board meeting we learn that providing the resignation letter and certified petitions to the Town Manager was insufficient. However, by informing the Town Manager back in October the Select Board had been informed. Thus, the contentions raised at the Nov. 12 meeting by John Boyle seem like a thinly veiled attempt to delay a decision until the end of January deadline to have a special election has passed.
If this is happening with the Special Election, can we realistically hope that the present Board will listen to the call by residents to halt the rapid increases in spending and our taxes that have been occurring the last few years and pass a level-funded budget for next year, or to not harness the taxpayers in town with the majority of the cost for a new police station? I am sure these issues are of concern to many in town. However, to make a change many people need to speak up.
Please reach out to a Select Board member and let them know you are concerned and want the Special Election issue addressed and finalized at their Nov. 25 meeting.
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