Ethan Thayumanavan was named to the fall semester dean’s list at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Thayumanavan is enrolled in the university’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Jean-Pierre G. Torras has been selected for membership in the chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honorary society at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.
Torras is a member of the class of 2020 and is majoring in physics and mathematics. Torras attended Deerfield Academy.
Cadet Avery Orr has been named to the fall semester president’s list at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay.
Calandra Damouras is part of the Crane Opera Ensemble Production of ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York. The ensemble will present the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, “The Pirates of Penzance” on April 20 and 21. Damouras will play Edith.
Charles Beall, class of 2019, was named to the winter 2017-2018 honors list at Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut.
Local residents inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at the University of Massachusetts include:
Amherst: ReikoSono
Belchertown: Helen Austin, Brittany Bird
Easthampton: Taylor Blow, Shinji Kawamitsu
Granby: Robert Lydon
Hatfield: Anna Fox
Haydenville: Brianna Southwick
Montague: Zachary Wright
Northampton: Kevin Henderson
Pelham: Victoria Johnson
South Hadley: Giulia Giovanelli
Sunderland: Hengyi Liu
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