Yale College Class Day Student Prizes 2009

Published: May 24, 2009

New Haven, Conn. — The following prizes were awarded at Yale College Class Day on May 24.

THE ROBERT E. LEWIS PRIZE is given to seniors who best demonstrate the highest ideals of athletics and intramural competition.
Diana Calla
Maria Cohn
Bridget Noetzel

THE WILLIAM NEELY MALLORY AWARD is given to the senior man who, on the field of play and in his life at Yale, best represents the highest ideals of American sportsmanship and Yale tradition.
Michael McLeod
Alex Righi

THE NELLIE PRATT ELLIOT AWARD is given to a senior woman who, on the field of play and in her life at Yale, best represents the highest ideals of American sportsmanship and Yale tradition.
Christina Person

THE DAVID EVERETT CHANTLER AWARD is presented to graduating members of the Senior Class who best exemplify qualities of courage, strength of character, and high moral purpose.
Jarrad Aquirre
Paula Chatterjee
Casey Gerald
Ellen Ray

THE ROOSEVELT L. THOMPSON PRIZE is awarded to members of the Senior Class for commitment to and capacity for public service.  The recipients are outstanding for dedication to public service — service to “the team, the college, the community,” as Thompson expressed it himself.  Like Thompson, they exemplify great human warmth, commitment to fairness, compassion for all people, and the promise of moral leadership in the public sphere.
Phoebe Clarke
Emily Asaro Morell
Christine Nguyen
Stuart Symington

THE JAMES ANDREW HAAS PRIZE awarded annually to “that member of the Senior Class in Yale College whose breadth of intellectual achievement, strength of character, and fundamental humanity shall be adjudged by the faculty to have provided leadership for his or her fellow students, inspiring in them a love of learning and concern for others.”
Emily Asaro Morell

THE WARREN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE is awarded to the senior majoring in the humanities who ranks highest in scholarship.
Matthew Dean Evans

THE NAKANISHI PRIZE is awarded to two graduating seniors who, while maintaining high academic achievement, have provided exemplary leadership in enhancing race and/or ethnic relations at Yale College.
Cecilia Ong
Jonathan Jimenez

THE ARTHUR TWINING HADLEY PRIZE is awarded annually to the senior in Yale College majoring in the social sciences who ranks highest in scholarship.
Emily Duncan Schofield

THE RUSSELL HENRY CHITTENDEN PRIZE is awarded annually to that senior in Yale College majoring in the natural sciences or in mathematics who ranks highest in scholarship.
Tina Ho

THE LOUIS SUDLER PRIZE is awarded to graduating seniors for excellence in the performing or creative arts.
Lauren Tyler Libaw
Robert Tucker Rae-Grant

THE WREXHAM PRIZE is awarded for the best senior essay in the field of the humanities.
Spencer Michael Gray

THE WREXHAM PRIZE is awarded for the best senior essay or other substantial piece of writing in the field of the social sciences.
Mikkel Kruger Krenchel

THE ALPHEUS HENRY SNOW PRIZE is awarded to that “senior who, through the combination of intellectual achievement, character, and personality, shall be adjudged by the faculty to have done the most for Yale by inspiring in his or her classmates an admiration and love for the best traditions of high scholarship.”
Jarrad Mattieu Aguirre

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