Latin Club Accomplishments

Carroll ISD Latin Club students are celebrating their achievements this spring. Last month, 21 students participated in the Area C Texas Junior Classical League Convention. The event was held Saturday, Feb. 29, 2011 at Austin College in Sherman.

Here is a list of the academic contest winners:

• Colin Kantor – 1st in Classical Geography and Monuments Level III, 2nd in Roman History Level III
• Dakota Pekerti – 2nd in Mythology Level III and 4th in Mottoes, Quotes, and Abbreviations Level III
• John Havey – 2nd in Latin Oratory Level II
• Anjali Pullarkat – 2nd in Reading Comprehension Advanced Prose
• Kevin Xu – 2nd in Latin Derivatives Level I
• Patrick Liu – 4th in Latin Derivatives Level III and  5th in Latin Vocabulary Level III
• Stephanie Park – 4th in Greek Derivatives Level III and 7th in Latin Derivatives Level III
• Krishna Paranandi – 4th in Classical Geography and Monuments Level II
• Catie Hendrickson – 4th in Latin Literature Level III and 5th in Greek Life and Literature Level III
• Mitch Spradlin – 4th in Sight Recitation Level III and 8th in Decathlon
• Story Zanetti – 5th in Advanced Grammar Level III and 6th Greek History Level III
• Nicholas Booth – 5th in Decathlon Level II
• Megan Fulmer – 5th in Latin Literature Level III and 9th in Greek History
• Cindi Kepic – 6th in Roman Life Level III and 6th in Sight Recitation
• Cole Williams – 6th in Mottoes, Quotes, and Abbreviations Level II and 6th in Greek History Level II
• Regan Talley – 7th in Advanced Grammar Level II
• Sarah Stolze – 8th in Roman Life Level III and 9th in Advanced Grammar Level III
• Micaela Lumpkins – 10th in Roman History Level II
• Matt Santiago – 10th in Greek History Level III

The students also received 3rd place in vocal solo for John Harvey’s performance of “Panis Angelicus”, 4th in costume for Kat Camp and Matt Santiago’s “Jupiter and Io”, and 5th in oil and acrylic for Kat Camp’s painting of a lion-hearted Roman soldier.

Latin Club members also swept the top spots in the chess competition. Kevin Xu – won first place, Nick Booth won second place and Dakota Pekerti took home third place. The students all say that having chess inside the campus library has really helped them improve their game.

The Latin Club also attended Baylor Latin Day at Baylor University in Waco on Feb. 25, 2011. Two Carroll students (Micaela Lumpkins and Victoria Scigliano) tied for first in the Baylor Latin Day noun parsing bee.  Another student (Cindi Kepic) took third in the verb parsing bee.  All three students were awarded with books.

On a related note, five Latin Club students who applied to the University of Dallas Latin in Rome program have all been accepted. They will study Latin literature in Rome over 3 weeks in the summer and can potentially earn three upper level college credits from a private university with a well-respected Classics program.