MIDDLEBURY
language schools commencement
middlebury, vermont friday, august 16 , 2024
MIDDLEBURY LANGUAGE SCHOOLS
Commencement Exercises and Conferring of Degrees
Established 1915
PROCESSIONAL
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND INVOCATION
Mark Orten Dean of Spiritual and Religious Life Chaplain of the College
Jesse Bruchac Director, School of Abenaki
OPENING
Laurie L. Patton President
MUSICAL SELECTION
Sento Nel Core by Alessandro Scarlatti Markus Clark, Italian School ’24
WELCOME
Timothy W. Page Acting Dean of Language Schools
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
Edward Wong
CONFERRING OF MASTER OF ARTS DEGREES
CONFERRING OF DOCTOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES DEGREES
CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREE
Edward Wong
MUSICAL SELECTION
Gamaliel Painter’s Cane
Ekaterina Kotcherguina, German for Singers Program
Please sing along (page 18)!
CLOSING
Timothy W. Page
RECESSIONAL
PERFORMER
Kevin Parizo, piano
THE FRIEDA DERDEYN BAMBAS PRIZE IN FRENCH LITERARY STUDIES
Acadia Marie Broussard
Emily Elizabeth Ryan
CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
ARABIC
Salman Elamir Amir of California
CHINESE
Fang Bian of New Jersey
Gavin Cleveland Immer of New York
Catherine Kao of California
Tiffany C. Lei of New York
Chiahua Lee Wu of Texas
Ying Zhang of Tennessee
FRENCH
Acadia Marie Broussard of Illinois
Collette Nell Campbell of Georgia
Micah Lee Costello of Georgia
Sadie Anne Crockett of North Carolina
Anna C. Curtis of New York
Annika Christina Dalemar of Pennsylvania
Irma Veronica Donley of Louisiana
Paula Grieb of Massachusetts
Andrew Bowie Hagan of Georgia
Isabelle Horne Holway of Virginia
Laine Talley Johnson of Missouri
Gaiell L. Kercy of Maryland
Theodore Hoefer Leaman of South Carolina
Emily Lunger of New Jersey
Brennan Marczewski of District of Columbia
Margaret Rose Morra of Rhode Island
Deven Srinivas Mukkamala of Michigan
Silvia Isabel Munguia of California
Andrea Lai Nguyen of California
Nathaniel David Powles of Pennsylvania
Mary E. Reilly of New York
Emily Elizabeth Ryan of New York
Isaiah Scott Seibert of Indiana
Mallory D. Shimada of California
Quincy Dewayne Taylor of Washington
Christina M. Towse of New York
Bryan Luong Tran of New York
Alana Susan Wielgosz of New York
GERMAN
Brianna Janel Banks of New Jersey
Traci Dolan-Priestley of West Virginia
Alexandra Celenaire O’Rourke of Wisconsin
Elise Thora Volkmann of New York
HEBREW*
Imri Amsalem of Israel
Taly Ashkenazi of Connecticut
Noa Betesh of New York
Yuval Bier of Maryland
Nirit Bracha of California
Refael Sason Chaiken of New York
Bosmat Dovas of Israel
Talia Frochsad of Israel
Maya Gafni-Mor of Arizona
Sharon Hadari of Israel
Roni Amar Halpern of New York
David Kandel of Israel
Roy Kfir of Israel
Roni Lahav of South Africa
Gal Levy of New Jersey
Dorit Peled of Israel
* Includes students who received their degrees on March 1, 2024 and those who are receiving their degrees today.
Sara Rancman of Ohio
Dana Billha Rubin Abahel of Illinois
Sharon J. Schoenfeld of New York
Dana Shacham of Maryland
Yael Shai of New Jersey
Sagit Shaked of Israel
Agere Shira Bezie of Maryland
Dar Tavivian of New York
Liat Yehuda of California
Shir Zamir of Pennsylvania
ITALIAN
Amanda Catherine Clark of New Hampshire
Markus Anthony Clark of North Carolina
Alexander Jeffrey Danielson of Pennsylvania
Claire Anastasia Kenny of New Jersey
Richard Robert Thomas of Florida
Peter Thomas Winnard Jr. of Maryland
JAPANESE
Satoko Boettcher of Ohio
William Jakob Katauskas of Colorado
Katsumi Spangler of Japan
Ryan Ozeki Yin of Massachusetts
RUSSIAN*
Dominika Dzierzynski of Massachusetts
Nikki Rose Lohr of New York
Peter Moore of Japan
Kirsten G. Tarves of Canada
Spencer Roderick Woods of Washington
* Includes students who received their degrees on March 1, 2024 and those who are receiving their degrees today.
SPANISH
Chloe Elizabeth Baker of California
Mauricio Barriga of Ecuador
Natasha Kate Causton of Vermont
Michael Garrick Chiponis of New York
Jamie DiVito of Pennsylvania
Camilo Andres Fiore of New York
Aaron Christopher Forbes of Louisiana
Jenny Lona of New York
Jaime Adrián López López of Hawaii
Jorge Edwin Lopez-Moya of Pennsylvania
Rachel R. Martinez of Illinois
Megumi Muro of California
Mary Katherine Caroline Prehn of Texas
Edward Christophe Romeyn of Connecticut
Daniel Scott Shabasson of New York
Keenia Shinagawa of Arizona
Michael Joseph Shippie of Massachusetts
Carolina Rose Skinner of Colorado
Ben Rosewell Snuffer of Connecticut
Elle Joe Swenson of Colorado
Margaret Grace Van Wylen of Michigan
Sarah Elizabeth White of Ohio
Shayla Monique Williams of North Carolina
Alexander Wurl of Massachusetts
CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES
THE BETTY ASHBURY JONES MA ’86 SCHOOL OF FRENCH
Mohammed Redha Hetraf of Massachusetts
First Language: French Second Language: Arabic
Amanda Ashleigh Nadeau Guillot of New Hampshire
First Language: French Second Language: Spanish
THE SCHOOL OF HEBREW
Gila Talasazan Azrad of California
First Language: Hebrew Second Language: Spanish
Ketty Granite of Canada
First Language: Hebrew Second Language: Spanish
THE ITALIAN SCHOOL
Paola Quadrini of Italy
First Language: Italian Second Language: German
Rosario Giovanni Scalia of Italy
First Language: Italian Second Language: French
THE SCHOOL OF SPANISH
Tracy R. Crews of New Hampshire
First Language: Spanish Second Language: French
HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENT
EDWARD WONG
Edward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times and writes on American foreign policy and its impact, and the foreign policies of other nations. For 25 years, he has reported for the Times, including 13 years as a correspondent and bureau chief from China and Iraq. He has traveled to nearly 100 countries, and has filed dispatches from a cruise in North Korea, a walk through the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan, and the final trans-Atlantic flight of the Concorde. His awards include the Livingston Prize for his war correspondence from Iraq, and numerous awards for his reporting on China and for sportswriting. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, a visiting professor at Princeton University and UC Berkeley, and was a recent fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington and at the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School. Edward has a BA in English literature from the University of Virginia, and joint master’s degrees in journalism and international studies from UC Berkeley. He studied Mandarin Chinese at the Beijing Language and Culture University, Taiwan University, and at Middlebury Language Schools. Edward is the author of At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China, his recent book of memoir and reportage on modern China and the Chinese diaspora.