Results of the 2012-13 Competition
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Results of the 2012-13 Maurine Dallas Watkins Sight Translation Contests were announced at the national convention of Eta Sigma Phi (the Classics honor society for college and university students), held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at Wake Forest University, April 5-7. Five of the 18 prizes awarded this year went to St. Olaf College students.
Grace B. Koch, a second-year Classics and Ancient Studies major from Evanston, Illinois, received three individual prizes: first prize in Intermediate Classical Greek, third prize in Koine Greek, and third prize in Advanced Latin. Last year she won third prize in Intermediate Latin. Chance E. Bonar, a second-year Classics, Ancient Studies, and Religion major from Farmington, Minnesota, received second prize in Intermediate Greek. Kaitlin A. Coats, a senior Latin, Medieval Studies, and English major from Edmonds, Washington, received second prize in Advanced Latin Prose Composition.
The other winners are from Hillsdale College (4 prizes), Wake Forest University (2 prizes), Washington University (2 prizes), Kenyon College (1 prize), Hunter College (1 prize), the University of Cincinnati (1 prize), the College of the Holy Cross (1 prize), and Arizona State University (1 prize).
Students must be enrolled in an ancient Greek or Latin course at the intermediate or advanced level to be eligible to compete in one or more of these categories: Classical Greek (Intermediate or Advanced Level), Koine Greek, Latin (Intermediate or Advanced Level), Latin Prose Composition (Advanced Level). After students take the written exams at St. Olaf in February, their papers are mailed to a national distribution center and sent out from there to be evaluated anonymously by judges at universities elsewhere in the country. The winners receive monetary awards as well as national recognition.
In the Maurine Dallas Watkins Contests, St. Olaf College has the best record of any school in the United States, with at least one winner every year since 1980.
St. Olaf Winners in the Maurine Dallas Watkins Contests, 1980-
1979-80
Kristin E. Kessler ’81: 1st prize, Latin Prose Composition
1980-81
Kristin E. Kessler ’81: 1st prize, Advanced Latin
Christopher C. Smith ’82: 1st prize, Latin Prose Composition; 1st prize, Intermediate Latin; 3rd prize, Advanced Classical Greek
David P. Lenz ’82: 3rd prize, Intermediate Classical Greek
1981-82
Christopher C. Smith ’82: 1st prize, Latin Prose Composition; 1st prize, Advanced Classical Greek
1982-83
Margaret A. Emond ’85: 1st prize, Latin Prose Composition
1983-84
Daniel H. Dalthorp [’86 – transferred]: 3rd prize, Intermediate Classical Greek
Martha E. McNey ’85: 2nd prize, Intermediate Latin
1984-85
Margaret A. Emond Kirkegaard ’85: 1st prize, Latin Prose Composition
1985-86
Cathryn M. Hemken ’88: 3rd prize, Intermediate Classical Greek
1986-87
Jason L. Norton ’87: 2nd prize, Advanced Classical Greek
John H. Reinschmidt ’87: 2nd prize, Intermediate Classical Greek
Lisa A. Paulson ’88: 1st prize, Koine Greek
Andrew S. Leahy ’89: 2nd prize, Intermediate Latin; 1st prize, Latin Prose Composition
1987-88
Jon S. Bruss ’89: 1st prize, Koine Greek; Honorable Mention, Intermediate Classical Greek
Beth D. Ecker ’88: 2nd prize, Intermediate Classical Greek; 3rd prize, Koine Greek
Paul A. Offhaus ’90: 2nd prize, Koine Greek
1988-89
Jon S. Bruss ’89: 2nd prize, Advanced Classical Greek; 2nd prize, Intermediate Latin
Andrew S. Leahy ’89: 3rd prize, Advanced Latin
Jeffrey D. Westberg ’91: 1st prize, Koine Greek
1989-90
Jeffrey D. Westberg ’91: 1st prize, Advanced Classical Greek
Gwendolyn L. Compton ’92: 1st prize, Intermediate Classical Greek; 1st prize, Koine Greek
Sharon K. Hill ’93: 3rd prize, Latin Prose Composition
1990-91
Gwendolyn L. Compton ’92: 2nd prize, Advanced Latin; 2nd prize, Advanced Classical Greek
Sharon K. Hill ’93: 3rd prize, Latin Prose Composition
1991-92
ALL CONTEST RESULTS WERE LOST IN THE U.S. MAIL!
1992-93
Lousene M. Hoppe ’94: 2nd prize, Advanced Classical Greek
Sharon K. Hill ’93: 3rd prize, Latin Prose Composition
1993-94
Todd D. Janke ’94: 1st prize, Advanced Classical Greek
Terrina D. Anderson ’96: 1st prize, Koine Greek
Gregory D. Lyng ’96: 2nd prize, Koine Greek
Stephen M. Loomis ’97: 1st prize, Intermediate Latin
Catherine E. Kusske ’97: 2nd prize, Intermediate Latin; 3rd prize, Latin Prose Composition
1994-95
Everett W. Meadors ’95: 2nd prize, Advanced Classical Greek; 3rd prize, Latin Prose Composition
1995-96
Timothy A. Schwecke ’98: 2nd prize, Intermediate Classical Greek
Andrea J. Ursprung ’96: 1st prize, Koine Greek
Mary K. Seeger ’98: 2nd prize, Koine Greek
Shawn D. Stafford ’96: 3rd prize, Koine Greek
1996-97
Catherine E. Kusske ’97: 2nd prize, Advanced Classical Greek
Jeremiah J. Harrelson ’99: 1st prize, Koine Greek
Melissa E. Brand ’00: 3rd prize, Intermediate Latin; 2nd prize, Latin Prose Composition
1997-98
Paul P. Moran ’00: 2nd prize, Intermediate Classical Greek; 3rd prize, Koine Greek
Kristel A. Kiesel ’01: 2nd prize, Intermediate Latin; 3rd prize, Latin Prose Composition
1998-99
Jeremiah J. Harrelson ’99: 2nd prize, Advanced Latin
Paul P. Moran ’00: 2nd prize, Advanced Classical Greek; 3rd prize, Intermediate Latin
Matthew C. Steenberg ’01: 1st prize, Intermediate Classical Greek; 1st prize, Koine Greek
Kristel A. Kiesel ’01: 2nd prize, Latin Prose Composition
Christopher I. Brav ’02: Honorable Mention, Intermediate Latin
1999-00
Anders O. Hendrickson ’00: 1st prize, Latin Prose Composition; 3rd prize, Advanced Latin; 3rd prize, Advanced Classical Greek
Paul P. Moran ’00: Honorable Mention, Advanced Latin
Kristina L. Alton ’02: 2nd prize, Intermediate Latin
2000-01
Matthew C. Steenberg ’01: 2nd prize, Advanced Classical Greek
Joseph D. Amos ’03: 2nd prize, Koine Greek
Jennifer L. Brown ’01: Honorable Mention, Latin Prose Composition
Marquis S. Berrey ’03: Honorable Mention, Intermediate Classical Greek
2001-02
Sarah L. Beaver ’04: 1st prize, Koine Greek
Hilary J. C. Lehmann ’05: 3rd prize, Intermediate Classical Greek
2002-03
Marquis S. Berrey ’03: 2nd prize, Advanced Classical Greek
Keeley Esterhay ’06: 1st prize, Intermediate Latin; 2nd prize, Latin Prose Composition
Kathleen R. Burt ’04: Honorable Mention, Latin Prose Composition
2003-04
Julia L. Kelto ’04: 2nd prize, Advanced Classical Greek
Christopher A. Schifani ’05: 2nd prize, Latin Prose Composition
Kathleen E. Ess ’05: Honorable Mention, Koine Greek
2004-05
A. Kirstine Wynn ’06: 2nd prize, Latin Prose Composition
Jennifer S. Starkey ’07: 2nd prize, Advanced Latin
Elizabeth A. Beerman ’07: 2nd prize, Koine Greek
Alaina K. Burkard ’08: Honorable Mention, Intermediate Latin
2005-06
Jennifer S. Starkey ’07: 1st prize, Advanced Latin
2006-07
Elizabeth A. Beerman ’07: 1st prize, Advanced Latin
Jennifer S. Starkey ’07: 2nd prize, Advanced Classical Greek; 3rd prize, Advanced Latin
Thomas K. Halvorsen ’10: 2nd prize, Latin Prose Composition
2007-08
Thomas K. Halvorsen ’10: 1st prize, Latin Prose Composition; 1st prize, Advanced Latin
Lisa V. York ’11: 2nd prize, Latin Prose Composition
Martin P. Shedd ’11: 2nd prize, Intermediate Latin
Kevin J. Moore ’08: Honorable Mention, Intermediate Classical Greek
2008-09
Hilary J. Bouxsein ’09: 2nd prize, Advanced Classical Greek; 2nd prize, Koine Greek
2009-10
Emily Marie Sandquist ’13: 1st prize, Intermediate Latin
Jennifer N. Easler ’10: Honorable Mention, Latin Prose Composition
Jennifer A. Stanull ’11: Honorable Mention, Intermediate Latin
2010-11
Emily Marie Sandquist ’13: 3rd prize, Advanced Latin
2011-12
Emily Marie Sandquist ’13: 1st prize, Advanced Latin
Grace B. Koch ’15: 3rd prize, Intermediate Latin