Loomis Endowed Academic Award in Latin
Results of the 2011 Loomis Latin Contest
On Monday, May 9, 2011, the St. Olaf College Department of Classics held its 11th annual competition for the Loomis Endowed Academic Award in Latin. Names of the winners were announced on Saturday, May 14, at the spring picnic of Delta Chi, St. Olaf's chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, the national Classics honor society.
In the Loomis Latin Contest first prize ($300) went to Emily Marie Sandquist, a sophomore Classics majors from Singapore. She won 3rd prize in this competition last year. She also received 1st prize in Intermediate Latin (last year) and 3rd prize in Advanced Latin (this year) in the national Maureen Dallas Watkins Contests. In this year's St. Olaf Latin play she had the role of a ballerina. Currently the clerk for the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS), headquartered at St. Olaf, she will serve as the departmental Latin tutor next year.
Second prize ($200) went to Martin P. Shedd, a senior from Ashburnham, Massachusetts, majoring in Classics and Music. He won 3rd prize in the Loomis Latin Contest in 2009. In 2008 he won 2nd prize in Intermediate Latin in the Maureen Dallas Watkins Contests. Last year he served as the vice-president of Delta Chi, and in 2008 he attended the national convention of Eta Sigma Phi in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has acted and sung in two St. Olaf Latin plays (2008 and 2011). This year he received an award from CAMWS for Outstanding Accomplishment in Classical Studies. Recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he will begin graduate school in Classics at Indiana University Bloomington this fall.
Third prize ($100) went to Adam D. Berndt, a sophomore Classics major from Fargo, North Dakota. He has acted in the last two St. Olaf Latin plays (2009 and 2011). Next year he will serve as the back-up departmental Latin and Greek tutor.
This year the students who entered the Loomis Latin contest had to translate at sight a passage from Augustine's De civitate Dei 15.27. The exam had a 1-hour time limit.
The Academic Award in Latin was endowed by Kenneth and Kathleen Loomis and their son Stephen Loomis, a 1997 St. Olaf graduate who majored in Latin and Mathematics.
Results of Loomis Latin Contest, 2001-2010
May 9, 2001:
1st prize: Jennifer L. Brown '01, Classics major, from Danville, Virginia
2nd prize: Kristina (Nina) L. Alton '02, Classics and English major, from Red Wing, Minnesota
April 26, 2002:
1st prize: Lauren V. Christensen '05, Art History and Asian Studies major, from Minneapolis, MN
2nd prize: Marquis S. Berrey '03, Classics major, from Galesburg, IL
3rd prize: David R. Schiedler '04, Classics and German major with Historical Perspectives concentration, from Fountain, CO
April 28, 2003:
1st prize: Christopher A. Schifani '05, Classics major, from Albuquerque, NM
2nd prize: Marquis S. Berrey '03, Classics major, from Galesburg, IL
3rd prize: Katharine A. Monson '04, Classics and Religion major, from Beresford, SD
Honorable Mention: Keeley Esterhay '06, Classics and Spanish major, from Englewood, CO
May 5, 2004:
1st prize: Jennifer S. Starkey '07, Classics major, from Laramie, WY
2nd prize: Lauren E. Gioe '06, Classics and Asian Studies major with a Media Studies concentration, from Bartlett, IL
3rd prize: David R. Schiedler '04, Classics and German major with a Historical Perspectives concentration, from Waco, TX, and Stephanie E. Walker '05, Classics and English major, from Sheridan, WY
April 25, 2005:
1st prize: Jennifer S. Starkey '07, Classics major, from Laramie, WY
2nd prize: Christopher A. Schifani '06, Classics major, from Albuquerque, NM
3rd prize: Elizabeth A. Beerman '07, Classics major, from Clive, IA
May 16, 2006:
1st prize: Jennifer S. Starkey '07, Classics major, from Laramie, WY
2nd prize: Elizabeth A. Beerman '07, Classics major, from Clive, IA
3rd prize: A. Kirstine Wynn '06, Classics and Music major from Bellingham, WA
May 12, 2007:
1st prize: Jennifer S. Starkey '07, Classics major, from Laramie, WY
2nd prize: Elizabeth A. Beerman '07, Classics major, from Clive, IA
3rd prize (tie): Hilary J. Bouxsein '09, Classics and Philosophy major, from Evanston, IL, and Thomas K. Halvorsen '10, Classics major, from Edina, MN
May 12, 2008:
1st prize: Thomas K. Halvorsen '10, Classics major with a Linguistic Studies concentration, from Edina, MN
2nd prize: Sarah M. Adamson '09, Classics major, from Rochester, MN
3rd prize: Hilary J. Bouxsein '09, Classics and Philosophy major, from Evanston, IL
Honorable mention: Alaina K. Burkard '08, Classics and Biology major, from Portland, OR
May 4, 2009:
1st prize: Thomas K. Halvorsen '10, Classics major with a Linguistic Studies concentration, from Edina, MN
2nd prize (tie): Hilary J. Bouxsein '09, Classics and Philosophy major, from Evanston, IL and Jennifer N. Easler '10, Classics, Medieval Studies, and English major, from Fredricksburg, VA
3rd prize: Martin P. Shedd '11, Classics and Music major, from Ashburnham, MA
May 10, 2010:
1st prize: Thomas K. Halvorsen '10, Classics major with a Linguistic Studies concentration, from Edina, MN
2nd prize: Jennifer N. Easler '10, Classics, Medieval Studies, and English major, from Fredricksburg, VA
3rd prize: Emily Marie Sandquist '13, Classics major, from Singapore
4th prize: David T. Estle '10, Classics major, from Tybee Island, GA
