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MHS Head of School Julia Heaton speaks at from the Quad, behind the Main Building at MHS, at the 2020 virtual graduation ceremony on May 31.

Miss Hall's School Graduates 60 Students

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Sixty students, including sixteen from Berkshire County and nearby communities, graduated on Sunday, May 31, during Miss Hall’s School's 2020 graduation.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the program this year was held online, with students and their families from around the globe joining via Zoom. The event, which was also live-streamed, included remarks from Board of Trustees President Nancy Gustafson Ault, MHS Class of 1973; Head of School Julia Heaton; Senior Class President Ria Kedia of Pittsfield; and School President Ayla Wallace of York, Pa. Actress Jayne Atkinson, selected by the class as its speaker, sent special words of wisdom to the seniors.

Among the Class of 2020 graduates are the following local students: Ella Biancolo of Pittsfield; Emily Carmel of Pittsfield; Hannah Chrzanowski of Dalton; Maya Creamer, of Pittsfield; Angela Guachione of Pittsfield; Meredith Hall of Adams; Olivia Irion of Washington; Ria Kedia of Pittsfield; Lanna Knoll of Great Barrington; Emma Kotelnicki of Dalton; Isabelle Lapierre of Dalton; Soleil Laurin of Pittsfield; Jenna Maces of Pittsfield; Téa Mazzeo of Pittsfield; Kathryn Sirois of Stockbridge; and Charlotte Smith of New Marlborough.

The following awards were also bestowed on members of the Class of 2020:

• Joseph F. Buerger Memorial School Spirit Cup: Emily Carmel of Pittsfield

• Margaret Witherspoon Award: Ayla Wallace of York, Pa.

• Christine Fuller Holland ’33 Service Prize: Bingqi Wang of Jinan, Shandong, China

• Faculty Commendation Award: Jingtong Zhang of Luoyang, China

• Meus Honor Stat Keys Awarded for MHS Core Competencies:

     Vision: Zhongyin Zhang, of Guangzhou, China

     Voice: Ria Kedia of Pittsfield

     Interpersonal Efficacy: Khanh Nguyen of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

     Gumption:Jacqueline Mosley of Washington, D.C.

•Ÿ Sylvia "Rusty" Shethar Everdell ’38 Prize: Angela Guachione of Pittsfield

• Andrea Becker ’79 Prize: Jiho Shin, Class of 2021, of Seongnam, South Korea

• Paul C. Cabot Jr. History Prize: Lomesia Allen of Plainfield, N.J.

• Senior Prize in Engineering and Tech Innovation: Linh Chi Tran of Hanoi, Vietnam

• Iive Rouse Science Award: Isabelle Lapierre, of Dalton

Ÿ• James K. Ervin Mathematics Prize: Ria Kedia of Pittsfield

• Horizons Prize: Bingqi Wang of Jinan, Shandong, China

• Spanish Prize: Isabelle Lapierre of Dalton

• Mansfield E. Pickett Latin Prize: Ria Kedia of Pittsfield

Ÿ• Monique Jalbert French Prize: Emily Carmel of Pittsfield

• Virginia Breene Wickwire ’67 Reading Prize: Yuka Nakano of Tokyo, Japan

• Doris E. Pitman English Prize: Zhongyin Zhang of Guangzhou, China

• Photography Award: Xuanxuan Song of Tianjin, China

• Susanna McCreath Music Prize: Ria Kedia of Pittsfield; Khanh Nguyen of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and Riagain Wiley of Riverdale, N.Y.

• Angela Kalischer Theater Prize: Emily Carmel of Pittsfield and Erica Morales-Armstrong of Harlem, N.Y.

•Ÿ Ceramics Award: Soleil Laurin of Pittsfield

• Elizabeth Gatchell Klein Studio Art Prize: Napasorn Visuthiwat of Pathumthani, Thailand.


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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.

Robert E.W. Collins
Dalton, Mass.

 

 

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