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Byram Hills High School Inducts Nearly 90 Seniors into World Language Honor Society

November 10, 2021 by The Inside Press

Eighty-seven Byram Hills High School seniors have been inducted into the World Language Honor Society, an achievement that reflects their hard work and dedication to the study of French, Italian or Spanish.

In a virtual ceremony Thursday night, World Languages Chairperson Melissa Stahl congratulated the students and encouraged them to continue their language studies. To become a member of the honor society, students must have an A or A+ final average for three consecutive years. Ms. Stahl expressed her hope that the students “continue as lifelong learners to pursue a meaningful relationship with other languages and cultures.” 

 Brandon Lutz, a 2010 Byram Hills graduate, delivered the keynote address, lauding the value of learning world languages. Mr. Lutz took AP Spanish at Byram Hills and became fluent in French, Dutch and German at The University of Texas at Austin. He praised the inductees for this “absolutely amazing achievement. Pursuing foreign language is immensely challenging and reaching this level shows not just grit, but highlights you all as ambassadors of a more globally minded world,” he said. 

After the address, each inductee’s name was read aloud.

The students inducted for French are:

Sydney Charron

Elizabeth Deeks

Rebecca Frieden

Jacob Geyman

Nowell Gibson

Abigail Krupa

Lucy Kwittken

Nora Lowe

Julia Lucchino

Eleana Morse

John Ndocaj

Nicolas Paslar Bunemar

Ella Pilchik

Emily Pizzorusso

Tanya Postian

Gina Schiliro

Georgia Schwartz

Arianna Tabankin

Sebastian Vasquez

Priscilla Zhang

The students inducted are Italian are:

Luke Abbruzzese

Olivia Addeo

Lily Auster

Zoe Banko

Nicolas Bisgaier

John Blackmar

Irene Byrnes

Amelia Chung

Sofia Cobos

Gabriella Colabello

Brooke Goldin

Samantha Grech

Alicia Huang

Alexandra Ioffe

Jessica Kahn

Hannah Rippy

Michael Rocco

Olivia Tedesco

The students inducted for Spanish are:

Alex Araki-Kurdyla

Derek Araki-Kurdyla

Morgan Aronsky

Lily Auster*

Edith Bachmann

Olivia Barry

Alex Berkman

Sophia Berland

Ryan Bernstein

Nicolas Bisgaier*

Evan Boekel

Joseph Brown

Elizabeth Corelli

Talia Deutsch

Ross Eagle

Danielle Eder

Reese Ertel

Chloe Fang

Danielle Freiberg

Samantha Glusky

Arielle Goldman

Benjamin Goldman

Eliza Goldman

Jake Goldman

Hallie Gordon

Sara Grgurovic

Dylan Haber

Olivia Hazan

Ariana Jones

Jamie Kaplan

Owen Kenny

Owen Kirkwood

Kate Levy

Sydney Levy

Alyssa Margolin

Matthew Marinozzi

Charly Melo

Jillian Nichols

Nicolas Paslar Bunemar*

Bennett Rakower

Max Rosh

Lucy Ross

Maximus Santos

Dylan Schimel

Brady Schlosser

Katerina Schmidt

Chloe Siegle

Arianna Tabankin*

Alexandra Weiss

Hayden Weiss

Lila Zacks

Jane Zeltner

Robert Ziff

*Second language inductees

Filed Under: Happenings Tagged With: Byram Hills, World Language Honor Society

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