Local Students Receive Honors

WINTHROP RESIDENTS EARN ACADEMIC HONORS

Sister Barbara Rogers, Headmistress of Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, honored Winthrop residents Ally Montgomery and Emma Montgomery with Gold Distinction for a first semester grade average of A or A- with no grade below B+.

 

coulter earns academic award at colgate

Sophia Coulter, a member of the Colgate University Class of 2020, has earned the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence. Coulter is a graduate of Singapore American School, from Winthrop. Coulter’s current major is neuroscience.

Students who receive a term grade point average of 3.3 or higher while completing at least three courses earn the fall 2017 Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence.

Colgate University is a highly selective residential liberal arts institution distinguished by its commitment to global engagement, student-faculty research, off-campus study, sustainable practices, and utilizing technology to enhance the teaching and learning experience.

Colgate offers 55 majors to a diverse student body of approximately 2,900 undergraduate students, and supports 25 Division I athletic teams. Since 1819, the university’s campus in rural central New York has been renowned for its beauty and for the important role it plays in the student experience.

 

ON THE BILL AT DEAN COLLEGE

The School of the Arts at Dean College recently performed Curtains.

Elizabeth Carsley of Winthrop had a principal role in the production.

Set in 1950s Boston, Curtains is a musical mystery comedy based on the original book and concept by Peter Stone. This musical is a send-up of backstage murder mystery plots and follows the fallout when Jessica Cranshaw, the extremely untalented star of Robbin’ Hood of the Old West, is murdered during her opening night curtain call. It is up to musical theatre fan, police detective Lt. Frank Cioffi, to solve the murder and save the show.

New York Times critic Ben Brantley called “Lt. Frank Cioffi the best damn musical theatre character since Mama Rose in Gypsy.”

Curtains – Book by Rupert Holmes, Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb, Original Book and Concept by Peter Stone.

Founded in 1865, Dean College is a private, residential college located in Franklin Massachusetts, 45 minutes from Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island. Dean College offers baccalaureate degrees, associate degree programs.

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