St. Margaret’s Upper School honored its seniors and juniors and their pursuit of excellence in academics, community and athletics in the Upper School Awards Ceremony this week in Hurlbut Theater, which include the Upper School’s annual Cum Laude Society induction.

 

The Upper School faculty awarded academic prizes from distinguished colleges and universities, academic department awards of distinction, and special senior awards that were presented to students in the Class of 2024.

 

St. Margaret’s also inducted 13 seniors and 11 juniors into the Cum Laude Society, an international organization which recognizes and celebrates academic achievement. The Tartan inductees join 12 current seniors inducted as juniors last year.

 

The Cum Laude Society limits membership to 20 percent of a school’s senior class, with only 10 percent eligible for induction as juniors. In addition to academic achievement, students must demonstrate good character, honor and integrity. The new inductees join more than 400 St. Margaret’s students who have been inducted since 1986.

 

Congratulations to all the Tartans who were recognized!

 

The complete list of honorees for the Cum Laude Society as well as the senior and junior awards is as follows:

 

Grade 12 inductees: Gabriella Eifrig, Caswell Friedman, Marisol Guillena, Riley Harrison, Nathaniel Kim, Sophia Kistler, Nathaniel Minton, Christopher Ramos, Maya Reddy, Ciara Robertson, Abigail Sun, Malia Todd, Weijia Zhao.

 

Grade 11 inductees: Greta Blau, Ian Ekvall, Ella Grove, Qingchun He, Charlotte Jiang, Michalis Karmis, Madison Lewis, Gael Martinez, Andrew Rusli, Justin Tam, Jessica Zhu.

 

The Founder’s Award: Rishabh Mallela

Salutatorian Award: Rain Xie 

The Father Ernest D. Sillers Award: Alexander Kim

The Board of Trustees’ Award: Marisol Guillena

St. Margaret’s Award: Tai Guo

PTF Service Award: Elise Peffer

Faculty Achievement Award: Leo Kitaen

Faculty Plate: Wisnel Shook

Principal’s Cup: Christopher Ramos

Latin: Riley Harrison
Chinese: Leo Kitaen
Spanish: Nixie Pedraza
Computer Science: Ava Meeks
History and Social Science: Nate Minton
English: Sammy Kushner
Math: Rishabh Mallela
Science: Tai Guo
Performing Arts: Jack Justus
Visual Arts: Kate D’Amaro

The Harvard Book Award: Andrew Rusli

The University of Pennsylvania Book Award: Ian Ekvall

The Princeton Book Award: Greta Blau

The Saint Lawrence University Book Award: Alexa Edwards

The Smith College Book Award: Katie Meggers

The Yale Book Award: Daniel Lyons

Dominic Ondryas Memorial Award: America Reyes-Mendoza

 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal: Mike He

 

CIF Scholar Athletes: Max Ruff and Gabby Eifrig

Jon Balak Award: Everett Capelle and Elise Peffer

Athletes of the Year: Reed Wainwright, Austin Hicks and Gabby Eifrig