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demonstration teams were Gregg Carrier, Michelle Egan, Jamie Hutt, and Laura Larimer (tenth grade); Chris Adamson (eleventh grade) and Carrie Beeton, Leslie Cannon and Larry Tushman (twelfth grade).
“Not only team members, but all Wakefield students present, and their teachers, Mrs. Welch and Kay Larrieu, should be congratulated for producing such a smoothly run event,” said interim headmistress Pamela Lynn.
When Wakefield School hosted a Latin certamen recently, some of the Wakefield students participating not only got to practice their Latin skills, but also “learned by doing” how to host an event for 150 people.
Matt Durbin, ’93, Latin II student and Wakefield Junior Classical League scribus (secretary) said that last year, when he was involved only in competition, he saw only one side of the event. This year as JCL officer, he “saw how much work was put into it, I didn’t realize how much until I saw how it was put together.”
Durbin’s duties included writing and duplicating question sheets for the final rounds of competition (in which Wakefield teams did not compete), assisting teams to draw for their final rounds, and “lots of little things.”
All Wakefield Latin students helped the classical department faculty, Kay Larrieu and Marilyn Welch, to run the second annual event. From supplying cookies, to greeting guests, to running messages, everyone had a special job, the teachers said.
When asked the benefits of the Wakefield JCL’s hosting a certamen, Durbin said, “It extends relationships with other schools; we are in turn invited to other [schools]. Here we have beginners’ certamen with easier questions . . . [that] gets students started if they are going on to other contests. ”
“On a more personal level,” he says, “Latin has really helped me in grammatical structure. The first year, I learned so much English through Latin; Latin prefixes have improved my vocabulary, and the language has a pattern which helps to interchange.”
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