The Belfry Graduation Issue - Norfolk Academy

Elizabeth Pecsok
Awarded by the Tunstall Student Council, the Bernice Bradshaw
Lovitt Citizenship Award recognizes the senior girl who has
exhibited most consistently and to the highest degree the qualities
of good citizenship within the school community. Elizabeth Pecsok
received the award.
Val Lewis was the recipient of this year’s Edith Pratt Masterson
Honor Award, selected by vote of the Honor Council and given to
the senior who best exemplifies the Jeffersonian ideals of honor.
The Alexander G. Kiehl Award, bestowed upon the student who
most nearly exemplifies the outstanding characteristics of Alex
Kiehl’s life, a superior degree of devotion and commitment to the
unselfish pursuit of excellence in academics and in athletics, went to
Jack Stiffler.
The Country Day School for Girls Award honors the senior girl
who exemplifies a superior degree of devotion and commitment
to the unselfish pursuit of excellence in academics and athletics.
Elizabeth Pecsok received the award this year.
Mary Rives Dougherty received the Sally Taliaferro Driver
Award, given annually by members of the Class of 1961 in memory
of Sally Taliaferro Driver to a senior girl who, throughout her
career at Norfolk Academy, has consistently and without public
Val Lewis
Jack Stiffler
recognition, exhibited school spirit, loyalty, friendliness, kindness,
liveliness, and enthusiasm.
The Charles Forsyth Wirth Award, given in memory of Charles
Wirth to a senior boy who, throughout his career at NorfolkAcademy,
has consistently exhibited honor, loyalty, friendliness, kindness,
liveliness, enthusiasm, and has conducted himself as a gentleman,
was presented to Yohance Whitaker.
Jon Caughey received the Thomas Cornick Rixey Award, given
annually by the members of the Class of 1980 in memory of Tom
Rixey to a senior boy who, throughout his career at NorfolkAcademy,
has consistently exhibited a high degree of good sportsmanship,
loyalty, friendliness, kindness, and determination.
Mary Rives Dougherty
Yohance Whitaker
Haley Bauser received the David Ari Leavitt Award, given to the
junior or senior who has pursued some artistic, literary, intellectual,
or public-spirited endeavor with an exceptional degree of originality
and humanitarian concern.
Chandler Archbell won the Thomas McEntee Martin Award, in
recognition of initiative, originality, and creative ability.
The Class of 1952 Award, presented to the senior named by a
panel of outside judges to be the outstanding speaker of the senior
class, went to Andrew Balitsky.
The Royce E. Jones Award was awarded in memory of Royce
Jones, Director of Athletics, teacher, and football coach from
1961-1979, to Marquis Evans, the senior athlete whose spirit of
Jon Caughey
Haley Bauser
determination, commitment to high standards, sense of humor,
and positive self-image exemplify excellence within the school
community.
The DeShannon Artemis Taylor Award, given to a member of the
senior class who, like D.A. Taylor, has exhibited with enthusiasm
and dedication a true love for both learning and athletic competition,
went to Stephanie Katsias.
The John Connor Community Service Award, given to an Upper
School student who has contributed unselfishly to the Norfolk
Academy community and the greater Hampton Roads area, went to
Amy Yeh.
The Kathleen Murray Gibson Award, given to a Tunstall senior
Marquis Evans
Stephanie Katsias
who has made outstanding contributions to student publications at
Norfolk Academy, was presented to McCall Huston.
Amy Yeh
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