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MFS News May 8, 2009 FOURTEEN STUDENTS INDUCTED INTO CUM LAUDE SOCIETY
Fourteen Moorestown Friends School (MFS) students were inducted into the Cum Laude Society, a national honor society for academically challenging independent schools, at a ceremony at the school on May 7. The inductees include seniors Kelly Barna, Orysia Bezpalko, Janak Bhatt, Sarah Connell, Russell Hensley, Hayden Moskowitz and Katie Stutz. Juniors selected for the honor are Alison Barton, Alissa Beckett, Monica Chelius, Phillip Dorsey, Keyanah Freeland, Jacob Montgomery and Heather Moore. Named to the Cum Laude Society last year were current seniors Aubrie Campbell, Sophia Demuynck, Hannah Levy, Rebecca Salowe, Nina Samuel, and Hannah Spielberg. Students are selected for membership based on their cumulative record of academic excellence in all subject areas. No more than 20 percent of a school’s senior class may be selected, with no more than 10 percent chosen during their junior year. Moorestown Friends School received its Cum Laude charter in 1962. The students were honored at a May 7 dinner where they heard from keynote speaker Dr. Steven A. Benner, who graduated from MFS in 1972. Benner is the founder of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution and the Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology. He and his organizations are considered contenders to win the Archon X Prize, a competition designed to reward the scientists to first achieve rapid sequencing of the human genome. When he was in the Upper School at MFS, Benner became the first student inducted into the Cum Laude Society as a junior. He was a mainstay of the debating team, President of the Student Council and a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program.
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