Seniors Enjoy Year-End Traditions: Breakfast, Awards Day and Senior Serenade

The 2022-2023 school year culminated with long-held traditions including the Senior Breakfast, Awards Day, and the Senior Serenade, in which students across campus honored our graduates as they processed across campus to exit through the Cagle Gate one final time.

Once again, the Awards Day ceremony was held in the Irsay Family Sports Center for Health and Wellness, which allowed our entire Upper School and all of the invited parents to view the event together in-person.

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Memorial Award: Awarded to Aidan Klineman, this is the highest honor Park Tudor can bestow on a student, for the highest degree of loyalty to Park Tudor and the community.

Award: Given annually to a male and female member of the senior class who have significantly and wholeheartedly contributed to the life and spirit of Park Tudor throughout their years on campus, this year’s awards have gone to Elizabeth Rogers and Lucas Bassi

Virginia Smith Highest Academic Award: Anna Fisher, Lucas Bassi, Katherine Hur, Kelsey Clouse, Aidan Klineman, Zarrar Khan and Abigail Langer.

Eighth-Grade and Fifth-Grade Classes Celebrated

The Park Tudor eighth-grade class was celebrated during a ceremony on Friday, May 19, and the fifth-grade class marked their move to the Middle School on Thursday, May 25. We can’t wait to see what the future holds for the classes of 2027 and 2030!

Twenty-Six Students Inducted into Cum Laude Society

On Friday, April 28, 12 members of the class of 2023 and 14 members of the class of 2024 were inducted into the Park Tudor Chapter of the Cum Laude Society. These students join eight members of the class of 2023 who were inducted last year as juniors. There are 376 Cum Laude chapters nationwide; Park Tudor is one of four schools in Indiana with a chapter.

Each spring Park Tudor faculty members who are members of the Cum Laude Society meet to elect the new members of Cum Laude. Membership in the Cum Laude Society is limited by its national bylaws to no more than 20% of the senior class. Juniors may be inducted, but this is limited to those students who have received only grades of A for all semester grades at Park Tudor through the end of the fall semester of their junior year.

Class of 2023

New Inductees

Alexandra Barker

Joshua Bumpus

Alyssa Effland

Kate McDonald

Daniel Mukhin

Nikita Mukhin

Shums Parkar

Sia Patel

Anthony Peng

Weston Rapp

Elizabeth Rogers

John Sturman

CUM LAUDE SOCIETY

Class of 2023

Inducted as Juniors

Lucas Bassi

Kelsey Clouse

Ashwin Durvasula

Anna Fisher

Katherine Hur

Zarrar Khan

Aidan Klineman

Abigail Langer

Class of 2024 New Inductees

Cecilia Andreae

Alexander Boeckmann

Aditi Dey

Anastasia Ebersole

Sela Larman

Alex Lu

Jathan Pai

Will Russell

William Schmidt

Caitlin VanWinkle

Hanna Warren

Claire Webster

Kate Weigand

Kaden Xu

Retiring Faculty and Dennis

Bisgaard Celebrated at Luncheon

At a luncheon at the end of the school year, Park Tudor recognized and honored faculty and staff retiring this year:

Kathy Campbell Avram, Art Teacher: Kathy retired in January after teaching for 34 years at Park Tudor. We are very grateful for Kathy’s dedication to her students over the years and all that she has done for the arts and our school community. She served on Park Tudor’s Professional Development Committee; enjoyed developing many art trips and experiences for students; initiated Photography as an area of study and created many unique cross-curricular, collaborative projects. Prior to joining Park Tudor, Kathy taught for two years in public school and also worked as an art director for an ad agency. Kathy served on the board of the Scholastics Art Awards of Central Indiana and is currently serving as director of a non-profit organization that supports the arts.

Steve Curry, Middle School Administrative Assistant: Steve is retiring after 20 years at Park Tudor. Before joining Park Tudor, Steve taught fifth grade for 23 years for Greater Clark School Systems. He brought all of his skills and experience as an educator to the role of Middle School Administrative Assistant, where he made it a point to know all of the students well and managed to keep everyone on time and on task. In addition to his role as administrative assistant, Steve also coached the Middle School girls basketball team and served as a chaperone on many trips, most recently to Iceland.

Sharon Riddle, Upper School Administrative Assistant: Before working at Park Tudor, Sharon worked as an administrative assistant at the Chicago Board of Trade for 10 years. She attended Indiana University and Robert Morris College in Chicago. During her 29 years at Park Tudor, Sharon served as the “right hand” to several Upper School Directors, and was always a friendly face to greet everyone who came through the Upper School. She somehow managed to keep track of the Upper School students’ comings-and-goings, and assisted with a variety of Upper School events including the annual Awards Day ceremony and Commencement.

Colleagues also honored outgoing Interim Head of School, Dennis Bisgaard, for his many contributions to our school community this year.

“High School Musical Jr.” Brings Down the House

In April, enthusiastic audiences were treated to three terrific performances of “High School Musical Jr.” by our Middle School students. Congratulations to all of the cast and crew on a great show.

Lower School Patriot Run Returns

On Monday, April 24, PT fourth- and fifth-graders completed the annual Patriot Run. Students trained in Health and Wellness classes to prepare for the 2-mile run. Parents and students in JK-grade 3 cheered on the runners. Congratulations to Owen Bedel on his first-place finish.