First-year students Anna Kertser and Michaela Cautela honored their high school
teachers with the Gideon Hawley Teacher Recognition Award on Thursday at the Founders Day
convocation.
Kertser, a graduate of Fair Lawn (N.J.) High School named William Oliver, a chemistry
teacher who “took his students to a higher level of understanding by using visual
aids, music (and) radical reactions … to explain chemistry.”
Cautela, a graduate of Rhinebeck (N.Y.) High School presented to award to Vincent
Nugent, her English teacher.