2016 Awards for Excellence in the Study of History
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New England Society in The City of Brooklyn 1991 - 2016 Awards for Excellence in The Study of History About the Society Teachers who give out our book prizes for excellence in history, and the Brooklyn high school seniors who win them, often ask us who we are and what we think we’re doing. Perhaps a short history will help provide an answer. The New England Society in the City of Brooklyn began, as did so many other American organizations, as a group of men who shared an immigrant ancestry. Like its twin across the East River (The New England Society in the City of New York), the Brooklyn Society looked to ancestors who had immigrated from New England to New Netherland (and later to New York) beginning in the seventeenth century. This immigration became numerous, and was not always welcomed by the people already in the city, who called some of the newcomers by the insulting Dutch word, Janke (“little Jan”), pronounced “Yankee.” The New England immigrant wave reached a peak in the nineteenth century, a little before 1858, when a fellow by the name of Rowland H. Macy, of the Macy family of Nantucket Island in Massachusetts, founded a retail dry-goods store in Manhattan. Macy may have been the best-known New England immigrant to the city, but he was not a member of the New England Society because it would not be solidly founded until the 1880s, a generation later. For about a century, the Society’s archives show that it was an archetypal Victorian speech and dinner society, providing for widows and orphans, celebrating the landing of the Pilgrims with an enormous banquet every year on December 21, and providing a contingent under a wonderfully ornate banner to march in civic parades. The Society, which never did get a building, still has a dinner every fall, and in the Twentieth Century it began to admit members not solely on the basis of New England ancestry but also on demonstrated “loyalty and devotion” to these northern regions. About a decade ago, the Society was even adventurous enough to invite women to join which swelled our rolls to about 100 members. In fact, the New England Society has always evolved at a somewhat stately pace, slow enough – not to put too fine a point on it – for history to keep up with. Toward the end of the twentieth century the Society accelerated its social service educational mission, and for decades now it has provided some half a dozen scholarship grants every year to help graduates of Brooklyn secondary schools go to New England colleges. It has also long offered its book prize for excellence in the study of history to a senior in each of the nearly 60 schools – public, private, denominational, and experimental – that offer high school diplomas in this fair city of Brooklyn (which legally became a borough a little over a century ago, but is no less a city for that); and we invite schools and school leaders to offer the prize to their best. Some of these, we hope, will receive our scholarship grants, and some, when they return from Bowdoin, or the University of Vermont, or Northeastern or Yale, may be interested in joining The New England Society in the City of Brooklyn and helping to fund their successors. – William R. Everdell Brooklyn Schools and Recipients of the Society's Award for Excellence in the Study of History 1991 - 2016 -- Abraham Lincoln High School, Ocean Parkway & West Avenue Stephen Zelkowicz '91 Brian Donnenfeld '92 Rostislav Zeltser '93, Columbia College Chad Itzkovich '94, University of Rochester Philip Stein '95, Boston University Jamshed Khan '96, Brooklyn College Dmitry Kagan, '97, Polytechnic University of New York Jessica Harte '98, Boston University Andrey Sapson '99, Boston University Eric Mendez '00, Yale University Marina Ingman '01, Brooklyn College Eleonora Germain '02, Fordham University Christopher Chum '03, Pace University Jamie Feldman '04, State University of New York at Albany Joseph Magidson '05, Brooklyn College Osama Abid '06, University of Toronto Christopher Toomer '09, Quinnipiac University John Shekeisha '11 Academy for Environmental Leadership, 400 Irving Avenue Daniliz Capellan '15, University o f Massachusetts at Boston Acorn Community High School, 561 Grand Avenue Shomari Messiah '12, Brooklyn College Adelphi Academy, 8515 Ridge Boulevard Michael D'Acunto '90, Cornell University Michelle Griffin '91 Peter Xanthos '92 Michaelangelo Bonanno '94, Long Island University Sadik Kohan '95 Ron Fennell '96, Rutgers University Erica Selkowe '97, Fordham University Christine Kassatly '98, Saint John's University David Henschke '99 Anthony Lozama '00, State University of New York at Binghamton Yevgeniya Tsybulskaya '01, Long Island University Slava Stolvitsky '02, New York University Elina Khasina '03 Kenneth G. Summers-Lewis '04, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Leonid Pinskiy '06, Brooklyn College Waqas Ahmad '07, Fordham University Victoria Crown '08 Michael Senders '09, Bernard M. Baruch College Rohit Pal '10, State University of New York at Binghamton Brad Noel-Baptiste '11, Adelphi University Michelle Tashlitsky '14, Seton Hall University Jeremy Dan '15, Rutgers University Carmelo Oszustowicz '16, New York City College of Technology Automotive High School, 50 Bedford Avenue Ernie Wilson '95, Columbia Community College Borace Bradshaw '98 Gillian Thompson '99 Vaughn Edwards '00 Dale Pilgrim '01 Gary Phillip '02, Monroe College Ricardo Duran '03 Bedford Academy High School, 1119 Bedford Avenue Darien Doig Acuna '09, Harvard College Berkeley Carroll School, 716 Carroll Street Matthew Strozier '91, Wesleyan University Sarah Brennan '92 Susanna Mynarczyk '93 Sam David '94, Columbia College Jackie Lu '95, Brown University David Sullivan '96, Amherst College Noah Callahan Bever '97, New York University Steven Sullivan '99, Princeton University Geoffrey Schotter '00, Cornell University Bishop Ford Central High School, 500 19th Street Simone Holmes '93, The College of Insurance Janel Gugliotta '94, Pace University Robert Swenson '95, Fordham University Efrain Marrero '96, Saint John's University Devon Sebro '97, Fordham University Alexandre Pierrot '98, State University of New York at Binghamton Susan Varga '03, New York University Rebecca Maldonado '04, Saint John’s University Bishop Kearney High School, 60th Street at Bay Parkway Jo-Allison Moseley '91, Duke University Nancy Condon '97, James Madison University Bridget Kluger '04, College of the Holy Cross Natalie Barszcz '05, Stevens Institute of Technology Catherine Garwin '06, College of the Holy Cross Brianne Carroll '08, Borough of Manhattan Community College Brídget Dalton '09, Fordham University Michelle Edwards '10, State University of New York at Binghamton Amanda Martuarno '12 Melissa Calandra '14, Brooklyn College Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, 357 Clermont Avenue Michael Martinez '91,TuskegeeInstitute Marie Normil '92, New York University Nicholas Henry '93 Anthony Wheeler '94, College of Wooster Natasha Nelson '95 Tamecca Chester '96, Pennsylvania State University Kingborn Guerrier '97, Borough of Manhattan Community College William Dudley '98 Danielle Fields '99, Colgate University Stephanie Ramos '00 Christopher Lee Torres '01 Christopher Millet '03, State University of New York at Binghamton Allen Alexis '04, State University of New York at Geneseo Ivor Joseph '05, City College of New York Noel DeFreitas '06, Colby College Patricia Garcia '07, Pennsylvania State University Justin Lopez '08, Saint Francis College Rodrigue Benjamin '09, York College Andrew Johnson '10 Marina Kay '12, Fordham University Jean Cabral '13, State University of New York at Albany James Bolis '14, Saint John’s University Brandon Clairvil '15, New York University Stephon Jones II '16 Boys and Girls High School, 1700 Fulton Street Kim Busby '91 Bevon Thompson '92, Georgetown University Ryan Hutchinson '93 Taheera ElAmin '94, Dartmouth College Salena Judge '95, Dartmouth College Fatima Davis '96, Howard University Nicola Simpson '97, Pace University SueAnn Foster '98, Cornell University Tracy Altifois '01 Brooklyn Collegiate: A College Board School, 2021 Bergen Street Ahadur Rahman '11, State University of New York at Stony Brook Jade Clark Rivers '12, Daemon College Latoya Paul '13, State University of New York at Albany Brooklyn Secondary School for Collaborative Studies, 610 Henry Street Thomas Velez '09 Brooklyn High School for Law & Technology, 1396 Broadway Bianca Rivera '13, Hofstra University Brooklyn High School of the Arts, 345 Dean Street Morell Cutler '09 Brooklyn Friends School, 375 Pearl Street Angela Coultman '90, Wesleyan University Sheila Maldonado '91, Brown University Asia Slowe '92, University of Pennsylvania Pyotr Samuylov '93, Vassar College Noah Norberg McClain '94 Kenneth Knies '95 Dmitry Samuylov '96 Reggie Griffin '97, Tulane University Dianna Ryskina '98, Saint Lawrence University Kenny Rodriguez '99, Cornell University Virginia Lamb '00, American University Vanessa Wrann '01, Bryant College Gideon Unkeless '02, Wesleyan University Sasha Blamberg '03, Georgetown University Rush Perez '05, George Washington University Brooklyn Generation School, 6565 Flatlands Avenue Raysa Sosa '13, State University of New York at Geneseo Brooklyn International High School, 49 Flatbush Avenue Extension Jun Liu '09, Borough of Manhattan Community College Jie Bin Liu '10, Colby College Andres Peguero '12, Trinity College Shibin Hvang/Huong '13, Syracuse University Dikyi Wangmo '14, Skidmore College Lin Ye '15, Hunter College Wilfried Assongloa '16, College of the Holy Cross Brooklyn Lab School,