Blue Ridge High Students Excel In Language Program

Several students from Blue Ridge High School studying etymology earned national honors recently. 

The following Blue Ridge High School students were medalist winners in the 2012 National Classical Etymology Exam:  Marc Western, gold medalist; Elizabeth McAbee, silver medalist; and Darrin Anderson and Brady O’Boyle, bronze medalists.  The students took the test in December of 2012.  The students were coached by Latin teacher Jim Westcot.

This past fall all of Westcot’s classes studied etymology, a study of the roots and derivation of words as they have come into the English language. 

Several of those students went on to take the test, given online in December. The results of the test have just been published. 

Other participants included Cierra Houglum, Kyle Pchney, Asheton Casey, Chase Crist, Haleigh Dilleshaw, Ansley Gilreath, Natalie Lampinen, Kati Weaver, Alexander Williams and Dylan Wynn.