Exeter Students Place In National Spanish Exams

EXETER, NH — Several Exeter High School students demonstrated their knowledge of Spanish by placing high on the national Spanish examinations this year. Students from the school took the exam in Levels 2, 3 and 4, and earned a total of four gold, eight silver, and 11 bronze medals, and 38 honorable mentions, school officials say. Spanish teacher Jennifer Delorie said their skills make them marketable for future employment.

"Students from Exeter High School have a long history of high achievement on these exams, which speaks not only to our program at EHS, but also to the students' interest level and dedication to learning the language," said Delorie in a statement. "Becoming proficient in a foreign language is no easy task — it takes perseverance and hard work, so those who have accomplished this have achieved an extremely marketable skill."

This year more than 146,000 students nationwide took one of the Spanish exams, administered to grades six through 12 by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. At Exeter High School, teachers that helped their students prepare for the exam included Delorie, Kathy Bean, Kate LaPia and Nicole Vernon.

Exeter High School students that achieved the Gold Medal are junior Catherine Dixson and seniors Jenna Dube, Sarah Kunkemueller and Colin Moyer.

The Silver Medal recipients are sophomores Reed Holland and Meagan Rousseau, juniors Carol Diaz, Eva Hays and Caden Vitti, and seniors Ava Liponis and Max Perkins.

Earning the Bronze Awards are freshmen Jana Al-Hajjiri and Sean Cheng, sophomore Kirsten Sailer, juniors Luke Gould, Tess Hays and Olivia Wahl, and seniors Thomas Choquette, Elanor Fieldhouse, Erin Kelly, Owen Morrissey and Rhys Forster.

Honorable mentions for the exams are: freshmen Lindsay Burke, Malia Everett, Nicholas Golpavar, Emily LaPia, Sofia Morales and Juliana Woodard, sophomores Meghan Bartel, Sebastian Casey, Yousif Elaidi, Maille Hagen, Gracie Jordan, Eily MacRitchie, Aidan Powley, Bianca Rosa, Christina Snicer, Julia Sveen, Amelia Taggart, Ethan Van de Water, Olivia Wood and Sasha Zweig, juniors Soraia Barros, Tyler Burke, Josh Driscoll, John Forsyth, Riley Griem, Alexis LaPia, Mairead Morrissey, Anmol Padala, Samuel Quitkin, Hadley Raymond, Emilyn Reed, Kayla Rowell, Brian Weston and Trinity Young, and seniors Clara Delgado, Garrett Frattali, Serena Limberg and Jacob Winslow.