RE Log - Spring 2020

Student Good Fellows Bowden fellows share summer research with peers The 2019 Dan Leslie Bowden Fellows in the Humanities shared the results of their summer work in an impressive and wide-ranging presentation to the student body and faculty at the Lewis Family Auditorium on Oct. 15, 2019. Olivia Byrd ’20 and Mia Williamson ’20 conducted a series of interviews in Lockerbie, Scotland, for their project, forming the foundation of a documentary on the local response to the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103. Jolie Dreiling ’20 explored the human components of marketing at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Diego Duckenfield- Lopez ’20 traveled from Louisiana to Tennessee with a New York Times journalist, studying and documenting the legacies of Jim Crow, the civil rights movement and social justice. Becca Fisher ’20 interviewed dancers and cho- reographed a dance program based on those interviews as a means of exploring the communicative nature of dance and the role of dancers’ personalities in the art. Mia Landman ’20 traveled to Paris for interviews and research on the com- plexities of anti-semitism in contemporary France. Kate Menninger ’20 reflected on the reciprocal relationship between art and humanity while studying ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design. Sofia Mora ’20 created a photo essay, “The Spirit of Puerto Rico,” documenting the endurance of people on that island in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Charith Reddy ’20 travelled the farthest afield, to India, to continue his charitable work with vision programs for children and consider the impact of eyesight on the human experience. Zoe San Martin ’20 captured the human elements of the Cuban immigrant experi- ence in Miami and shared her findings in a documentary, “Bridging the Gap.” To support the Dan Leslie Bowden Endowment in the Humanities, contact Vicki Carbonell Williamson ’88 at vwilliamson@ransomeverglades.org . News Senior Recognition Ten National Merit Finalists at RE Ten Ransom Everglades seniors were named finalists in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program, putting them in the top one percent of students who took the 2018 PSAT. Finalists Zachary Buttrick ’20, Joseph Gross ’20, Sophie Leibowitz ’20, Natalia Lopez ’20, Ashley Nguyen ’20, Timothy Sucher ’20, Isaac Szomstein ’20, Benjamin Thorpe ’20, Dylan Tie-Shue ’20 and Anthony Wolfe ’20 have been invited to continue in the competition for National Merit Scholarships. The finalists were notified of the honor by Head of the Upper School Patricia Sasser in February 2020. Each has the chance to compete for the 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $31 million that will be awarded this spring. All of the school’s semifinalists were named final- ists. RE also had 21 National Merit Commended Students. The commended students finished in the top three percent of all PSAT test takers. RE’s commended students: Sebastian Artze ’20, Julien Bacon ’20, Phoebe Beber-Frankel ’20, Milanne Berg ’20, David Civantos ’20, Aston Craft ’20, Rachel DeAngulo ’20, Jolie Dreiling ’20, Tomas Esber ’20, Daniel Goldstein ’20, Joshua Hertz ’20, Huiyi Lin ’20, Kate Menninger ’20, Lucas Miner ’20, Sofia Mora ’20, Nicholas Namias ’20, Claudia Pinilla ’20, Jake Quanstrom ’20, Charith Reddy ’20, Perry Samimy ’20 and Dori Schurr ’20. 38 Ransom Everglades LOG SPRING 2020