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PHOENIX END OF THE YEAR REPORT FROM THE SCHOOLSAcademic, ServiceAwards at Poly PrepPoly Prep Country Day School held itsannual academic awards assembly in May.Some of the winners were: Kicnard Quinones, eighth grade, winning the Spanish Bprize; Andrew Kunz, eighth grade, with theLatin B prize; and Sarah Brooks, junior,the three year Latin award. Caleb Epstein,senior, won two prizes, the Bausch andLomb Award given to an outstandingscience student, and the Senior Mathematics Prize. Chris McGibbon, senior, won theAdvanced Placement French Award as wellas the Senior French Award.Poly Prep also announced that AlfredDoyle of the school%u2019s art department wasawarded a fellowship as a participant in thehonors seminar for the advancement of arteducation at the Rhode Island School of Design this summer.The school held its third annual Math-athon on May 17. Entrants from the fifth,sixth and seventh grades, nominated bymath teachers from 15 schools, came to theschool to take the Math-a-thon examination.First place winner in the 5th grade wasJohn De Matteo of P.S. 186. Second prizewas won by Jeffrey Chen of P.S. 104.Poly Prep students John Veson and Arman Rouster tied for first place in the sixthgrade (only two prizes are given out pergrade). In the seventh grade, Mike Shor ofI.S. 72 in Staten Island won first place;Fred Lansigan of Poly Prep cam e in second.Junior Anne Walsh was elected presidentof the school%u2019s student government with66% of the vote. She is the first female tolead the organization. Earlier in her schoolcareer, she was the first fem ale on the soccer team and the first to win the MyronRuckstull Sportsmanship Award. She isvery active in school activities, and is lettered in soccer, basketball and track. WalshRound-Up of News From Brooklyn FriendsPoly Prep downtown area students CalebEpstein and Anne Walsh.has also competed in the Empire StateGames, and last summer was a finalist inthe Heptathalon, a seven-sport event.Thirteen Poly Prep Country Day Schoolstudents won their school%u2019s 1985-86 Community Service Award. Poly Prep studentsmust do a certain amount of volunteer service in their community to graduate, andthe winners did outstanding work. Theyare: Bruce Lish, David Siegfeld, JeffreyWelger, Rena to Stabile, Melissa Davidson,Armin Tehrany, Bobbt Kantu, MatthewBracco, Jesse Lombardi, Neeta Kantu,GabrieUe Roventini, Joanne Held and AlideGrinins.Poly Prep Country Day School was theonly school in the northeastern UnitedStates to win The Silver Crown Award fromthe Columbia Scholastic Press Associationfor its 1965 yearbook, %u201cThe Polyglot.%u201d Thehonor is the highest award the associationgives to high school and college yearbooks.Robert Pass %u201885, the editor-in-chief, is a student in Boston University%u2019s six yearMedical Program. Dale Verlinger wasfaculty advisor to the 1985 Poly Prep yearbook. %u2014J.C.Students at Brooklyn Friends School werehljsv this y ear S irtw n of tho 31 seniors vnnscholarships in the 1906 Regents ScholarshipCompetition; these were the high scorers onthe College Board%u2019s Scholastic AptitudeTest. The scholarship pays $250 for up tofive years of study at any college or university in New York State. The winners are:Bradley Albert, Anne Thomasson, RachelFishman, Paul Guerzon, Josh Grinker, EricSills, Michael Anderson, Jam es Hirst, lianaKrevit, Jessica Black, Dmitry Oleynikov,Alex Sinelnikov, Doug Kyle, Susan Price,Sam Rosenthal, and Adrian Collazo.All Friends seniors will be moving on tohigher education, many of them suchschools as Bates, Bowdoin, Grinnell, Haverford, Macalester, Bard, Cornell, HobartWilliam-Smith, Fredonia, New Paultz, NewYork University, Parsons School of Design,Bennington, Boston University, ConnecticutCollege, Hampshire, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Middlebury, Pepperdine, University of Missouri and University of North Carolina at Greenboro.Upper school students have been hittingthe books%u2014but not all of them at BFS.Eleventh grader Adam Salacuse studied Introductory Italian at Long Island University%u2019s Brooklyn Campus, and AllegraLucier, a senior, took a course in PoliticalScience. Other students took classes at thePolytechnic Institute.But Friends%u2019 students have been doingmore than studying. At the end of May, theUpper School performed the 1981 Broadwayshow, %u201cA Day in Hollywood/A Day in theUkraine,%u201d by Dick Vosburgh and FrankLazarus. The show was directed by BFSteacher Phil Bratnober.Included in the cast for %u201cNight,%u201d theMarx Brothers%u2019 half of the play, were CaryBurton, Dana Krevit, Adrian Collazo, JohnDoty, Jenny DeQuattro and Julie HopeCarter.The %u201cDay%u201d section featured singers anddancers Genevieve Connor, Vera Beatty, liana Krevit, Benjy Schlansky, KatrinaMatos, Lisa Henry, Jennifer Long, SusanPrice, and Peggy Crown.On May 15, BFS held its third annual dayof concern. This year%u2019s theme was Healthand Fitness. The day began with guidedmeditation, then students attended suchworkshops as Yoga, Shiatsu, Body Imaging,Bio-Feedback, Acupuncture, Stress Management, Smoking Cessation, MentalHealth, Anorexia and Bulemia, and a student panel on Vegetarianism. They alsoparticipated in aerobics and Tai Chi, andviewed a film on the dangers of streetdrugs. To keep fit they also held a runacross the Brooklyn Bridge, and the %u201cBFSChallenge,%u201d a sports event which includedrope climbing, shuttle relays, and highjumping.Academics were rewarded with severalBFS Upper and Middle School students winning awards in the 1986 American ClassicalLeague%u2019s National Latin Exam. Some 28BFS students took the exam on May 13, administered that week to 63,000 studentsnation-wide.On May 1, Latin teacher Martin Moorepresented the following students withawards. Those who won the Silver MaximaCum Laude award are: Hubert Baylon,sixth grade; Jon Birkrant, seventh grade;Benjamin Versh, ninth grade; and John Doty, tenth grade. Those who won Cum Laudeawards are: Jennifer Eriksen, eleventhgrade; Thomas Calaman, tenth grade;Michael Nye, eighth grade; and Adrian Collazo, twelfth grade.arroll StreetSchooln 4if!v V ViWC ollege Preparatory: Preschool through 12th grade%u2022One Hundred Years of ExcellenceW e offer students the opportunity to achieve excellencein academ ics, athletics and the arts. Special featuresinclude travel and study abroad, accelerated and advancedplacement courses and an individualized curriculum.The school consists of three separate buildings locatedin the flourishing Park Slope community. It is easilyaccessible by #2, #3, D and RR trains and many bus lines.Private transportation is also available.Tours are given regularly; for an appointment call:Dolores Toolan, Djwer &Elementary Admissions(preschool-4th grade)(7 1 8 ) 6 3 8 1 7 0 3701 Carroll Street Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215Arlene Symons, Middle &Upper Admissions(5th%u201412th grade)(7 1 8 ) 7 8 9 -6 0 6 0181 Lincoln Place Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217BROOKLYNFRIENDSANNOUNCES THE ADDITION OF ANAFTERNOON PROGRAM FORTHREE-YEAR-OLDSDue to an overwhelming response to our three and four-year-old program, Brooklyn Friends Schoolhas added another class for three-year-olds. This class will meet Monday through Friday from 12:30PM. to 3:00 PM. with a teacher and assistant teacher. For further information, please call:Karen Luks, Director, Brooklyn Friends Pre-School, (718) 852-1029.BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL(E st 1867)375 Pearl StreetBrooklyn, New York 11201THE PHOENIXFor The BestCoverage ofEducation andSchools inBrownstoneBrooklyn.Every w eek, 52w eeks a year, theaw ard-w inningPhoenix staff is onthe job to bring youall the new s of thebusy D ow ntow nB 'ooklyn brow nstoneneighborhoods.The Phoenix w as theN um ber O ne w eeklynew spaper in NewYork S tate in 1985.O ur reporting oneducation is just oneof the reasons why.Get The Phoenix/4a IliiArArl rl/iK4 4aW W I I I V I W M . %u00bb Wyour mailbox everyweek. Use thecoupon on Page TwoYouth SkillsProgram ASummer ProgramJuly 1, 1986-August 15, 198b Daily 9 am-2:30 pmOpenings Still Availablefor youth interested in learning stringinstruments, (violin, cello, viola).Youth are selected based on their ability to dem onstrate their interest an d /o r skill level.Program free to qualifying youth, 8-14Non-refundable registration fee required with applicationFor info please call:James Keaton or Frances Flanberry(718)636-3503C . T U r t D b A A A 1\\/ A A /4WUWUUI IWU IV/ * IIU I I IV/V/I IIA U l IUG et O ur A w ard-W inning C overageO f B row nstone Brooklyn EveryW eek, Delivered to Y our M ailbox.Page 22, THE PH O EN IX, June 19, 1986