Middlebury Awards

[Benjamin Rifkin]

The Middlebury Russian School is pleased to announce the winners of
awards for best scores in listening, reading, writing, grammar and
speaking from the Summer 2001 program.

Congratulations to the students and to the Russian teachers who
helped prepare them for such success at Middlebury this past summer.

- Ben Rifkin


First Year
Highest listening comprehension score:  Salem Pearce, University of
Texas-Austin
Highest reading comprehension score:  Diana Aleman, Yale University
Highest writing score:  Mathilde Mesavage, Rollins College (professor
of French)
Highest grammar score:  Kenneth Keyes, University of Texas-Austin
Highest oral proficiency rating and best overall progress:  David
Dubinsky, Brown University

Level 1.5
Highest listening comprehension score:  Alan Golding, DHL Worldwide Express
Highest reading comprehension score: Kazuko Ogawa, World Bank
Highest oral proficiency rating:  name withheld by request of winner
Highest grammar and writing scores and best overall progress:  Blair
Cochran, Swarthmore College

Second Year
Highest listening comprehension scores: Colleen Duffy, Smith College;
and Kevin Murphy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Highest reading comprehension score:  name withheld by request of winner
Highest grammar score:  Meredith Hinkley, Michigan State University
Best progress in writing:  Michael Baumann, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Best progress in oral proficiency:  Mun-Hat Chan, Middlebury College

Third Year
Highest listening comprehension score:  George Junbluth, University
of Wisconsin-Madison
Highest reading comprehension scores:  Alisa Bibb, St. Lawrence
Universtiy; Paul Domjan, University of Texas-Austin / Oxford
University; Carrie Helmold, Cornell College; Ian Isles, University of
Missouri; Bettina Scholz, Wellesley College; and Maureen Morton,
University of Kansas.
Best progress in oral proficiency:  Theresa Becker, Reed College
Best overall progress:  Sapna Dessai, Wesleyan College

Fourth Year
Highest listening comprehension scores:  Rosemary Esber, Obninsk
School of English (teacher); and name withheld by request of winner
Highest reading comprehension score:  Timothy Schlak, Wittenberg College
Best progress in oral proficiency:  Lora Tarimo, Middlebury College
Best progress in writing:  name withheld by request of winner
Best overall progress:   Selinda Geyer, St. Agnes College; and
Matthew Williams, Holy Trinity Seminary


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Benjamin Rifkin

Professor of Slavic Languages, Slavic Dept., UW-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706 USA
voice: 608/262-1623; fax: 608/265-2814
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic/rifkin/

Director of the Russian School
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT  05753
voice:  802/443-5533; fax: 802/443-5394
http://www.middlebury.edu/~ls/Russian/

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