Receives Advanced Latin Book Award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South
Performing Arts Department drama major Danny Washelesky won the Advanced Latin Book Award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Washelesky played Clitandre in the department's November production of The Misanthrope and the Marshal in its February/March production of Elephant's Graveyard. He is also directing student theater group All Student Theatre's spring show, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and his play Hell-Burnt was selected for the 2016 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival.
The Advanced College Latin Exam is open to students in their third year of college Latin and beyond, no matter how many years of high school Latin they may have previously had. The top five students in the Advanced College Exam each received a certificate and a $250 cash prize. An additional ten outstanding contestants, including Washelesky, received a book prize relevant to classical antiquity.
