Lina Ghosh '17, Kacey Gill '16, and Catherine Areklett '17 have earned national recognition in the 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Lina is the recipient of an American Voices Medal in the category of Personal Essay/Memoir for her piece titled "Those Words You Never Said to Me." Kacey earned a Gold Medal in Personal Essay/Memoir for "Lady Sings the Blues," and Catherine won a Silver Medal for her Critical Essay "The Scarlet Letter and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Feminist Side." Lina was mentored by Upper School English teacher Beth Armstrong, and Kacey and Catherine worked on their essays with the support of HB's Osborne Writing Center Director Scott Parsons.
Nearly 320,000 works of art and writing by students in grades 7-12 were submitted to Scholastic for consideration this year. Receiving a national medal places these three students within the top one percent of all submissions.
Students receiving Gold Medals and American Visions and Voices Medals are invited -- along with their teachers -- to a national celebration June 1-3 in New York City, with the National Ceremony taking place at Carnegie Hall on June 2.
Since 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have recognized teenagers from around the country. Lina, Kacey, and Catherine join a legacy of celebrated authors and artists including Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford, Lena Dunham, and the recipient of this year's Alumni Achievement Award, noted filmmaker Ken Burns.
