HEBRON — Hebron Academy Head of School John King and Hebron Cum Laude Chapter Secretary John Curtis have announced the 2013 Cum Laude Society inductees. The Cum Laude Society recognizes academic achievement in secondary schools for the purpose of promoting excellence, justice and honor, according to its mission statement.
Hebron Academy’s Cum Laude chapter was chartered in 1927 and is one of only five participating Maine secondary schools. Each chapter may elect as student members not more than 20 percent of the graduating class who have demonstrated academic excellence in the college preparatory curriculum, choosing up to 10 percent of the allotted number at the end of students’ junior year or early in the senior year, and the remainder near the end of the senior year. Elected students are honored in a special spring ceremony and dinner held yearly in May.
A faculty member is also recognized as Cum Laude. This year Ms. Cynthia Reedy, Language Department chair and veteran Hebron faculty member of more than two decades, was elected.
Congratulations to this year’s class:
Seniors: Haley Bisson, Lewiston; Lilly Bourget, Hebron; Hannah Hearn, Auburn; Josh Hews, Poland; Abby Kinens, Houlton; Taylor Teixeira, Lewiston; Logan Taylor, Skowhegan; Kexin “Coco” Wang, Ningbo, China; and Jian Zhou, Beijing, China.
Juniors: Olivier Frenette, Sainte Brigitte de Laval, Quebec; Lillian Gharios, Jordan; Qianchung “Victoria” Guo, Beijing, China; Janelle Tardif, Auburn; Zhuoyang “Rinka” Wang, Shanghai, China; and Xinyuan “Vivan” Xie, Beijing, China.
Current members of the Cum Laude Society elected last year as juniors (now seniors) include: Brad Geismar, Minot; Sydney Randall, New Gloucester; and Kexiang Xu, Hangzhou, China.
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