2008
GRADuATIoNWEEKEND
On Academics
At the Lawn Ceremony,
Jonathan Hendrickson
shared his thoughts on
academics at Brooks.
D
usty Richard teaches a two-
year math course.
He stresses the importance
of maintaining what he calls a
toolbox: a concise list of the for-
mulas and definitions students
must learn and memorize. Lan-
guage classes have a similar
dynamic. Those little grammar
Year-End Awards
exercises . . . were stepping-
stones to more important
Awards for academic, athletic and artistic excellence
things: the ability to speak, read
and write in French with ease. In
were presented at the Lawn Ceremony and Prize Day
the same way that French and
calculus are about more than
The George A. Tirone Prize The Parkman Prize in Drama
grammar rules and formulas, a
Awarded by Mrs. Rudolph Muto, in Given in memory of Terry Parkman to
Brooks education is about much
memory of her father, to a middle a student who has worked long and
more than acquiring knowl-
school student or students who show hard backstage with no thought of any
edge.
unusual promise in the visual arts reward
Seoyeun Choi Nicholas Gordon Letwin
Brooks has given each of us
Amanda Joan McNamara
the tools to succeed. If we only
The Knowlton Drama Prize
achieve personal success, how-
The Russell S. Morse Prize Given in memory of Warren Knowlton ever, Brooks will have failed.
Awarded to an upper school student ’67 and awarded to a member of the
Personal success alone is just like
who has made distinguished contribu- Brooks community who has shown
having a toolbox full of every
tions to the visual arts at Brooks those qualities of loyalty and devotion
Stefanie Anna Muto-Graves to drama and versatility and enthusi-
mathematical formula. It is im-
asm in work before and behind the
pressive, but useless if not ap-
The Buhl Photography Prize scenes that were typified by Warren
plied to something larger.
Nicholas Gordon Letwin Knowlton
With the gift of education
Jonathan Paul Hendrickson
comes an obligation to make a
The Music Prize
difference in something larger
Awarded in recognition of dedicated, The Edmund Samuel Carr Prize in
long-term study of an instrument or Beginning Latin
than ourselves. We have been
voice that has resulted in the highest Phillip Anthony Booth Jr.
given the tools to give ourselves
level of musical performance in the anything that the world has to
graduating class The Edmund Samuel Carr Prize in
offer. Instead, let us take on the
Jonathan Paul Hendrickson Beginning Greek
challenge to give ourselves and
Alysa Ursula James
our skills to the world.
20 Brooks Bulletin
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