Salesianum Students Honored with German Awards

Six garner honors, 12 receive honorable mention

Six Salesianum students were recognized on Saturday, April 16, 2005 for their outstanding performance on the 2005 National German Contest.

Five of them, seniors John Capasso and Thomas Mele, junior Kyle Davis (Level 4), sophomore Addison Maier (Level 3) and freshman Steven Foltz(Level 2) were finalists for a summer study to Germany for scoring above the ninetieth percentile nationally on their levels.

Mele received one of the prestigious Steuben Society prizes, Maier received a cash prize from the Delaware Saengerbund and Foltz received a Concordia Trust cash prize as well. Junior Scott Becker (Level 3) was the sixth award recipient from Salesianum.

Awards were presented by the Philadelphia Vicinity and Delaware Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German, at a ceremony held in Philadelphia at the German Society of Pennsylvania. The contest is administered each January, and this year over 23,000 students participated nationwide.

Twelve more received certificates of merit and book prizes for their excellent performance. They were seniors Sean Donovan and William Carr (Level 4), juniors Stephen Marks, William Cammarota, and Jacob Ladewig (Level 3), and sophomores Shawn Heiss, David McNeeley, Matthew Viereck, Jeffrey Markle, Patrick Brown, Erik Lichtner and Timothy Mueller (Level 2).

Salesianum School educates and develops the whole person based on the spirituality of St. Francis de Sales whose philosophy can be summarized in "Live Jesus."