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May 8, 2007
FOURTEEN STUDENTS TO BE INDUCTED INTO CUM LAUDE SOCIETY Fourteen Moorestown Friends School (MFS) students will be inducted into the Cum Laude Society, a national honor society for independent schools, at a dinner and ceremony at MFS on May 10, beginning at 6 p.m. in the school’s Dining Hall/Commons. The fourteen inductees include seniors Courtney Brown of Voorhees, Jennielle Jobson of Winslow, Danielle Lynn of Cinnaminson, Kyle Nocho of Voorhees, Tara Thomas of Hainesport, Sarah Van Cleve of Lumberton, and Nadia N. Washlick of Mount Laurel. Juniors selected for the honor are Kira Adams of Willingboro, Emily Jones of Mount Holly, Shaina Karasin of Moorestown, Julie Martin of Riverton, Andrea Onorato of Voorhees, Richard Rinaldi of Shamong, and Eric Teitelbaum of Cinnaminson. Named to the Cum Laude Society last year were current seniors David Bankes of Mount Holly, Andrew Bernard of Merchantville, Sanjay Bhatt of Medford, Anthony Cordisco of Moorestown, Laurien Gilbert of Mount Laurel, Alexander Levy of Voorhees and David Sheffield of Mount Laurel. 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 will be honored at a May 10 dinner where they will hear from keynote speaker and Moorestown resident Julian Austin, MFS Class of 1991. Austin has an M.S. in biology from Rutgers University and a B.A. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University. He has worked as a staff scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, and is near completion of medical school at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Austin came to Moorestown Friends School in 9th grade, from Veterans Middle School in Camden, as part of what was then called the Camden-Moorestown Friends Community Scholars Program (now called the Camden Scholars Program). He was an outstanding all-around scholar-athlete during his four years at MFS.
A member of the Cum Laude Society, he took the most demanding courses available, accelerating in languages and math. He was a student leader, serving as treasurer of his class and treasurer of the Martin Luther King Club. He played clarinet and bass clarinet in the Instrumental Ensemble. Austin played baseball and soccer at MFS, but his main sport was basketball. He was a four-year varsity player on that team, and one of the highest scorers in MFS basketball history, scoring his 1,000th point early in his senior season.
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