In Review
SINGER FAMILY PRIZES Top Teachers
(Photo: Adam Fenster)During the academic year, graduating students are asked to nominate a teacher who had a profound impact on their lives before arriving at the University. From those nominations, four winners of the University’s Singer Family Prize for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching are chosen. Named in recognition of Paul Singer ’66, who initiated the prize, the awards are intended to acknowledge the role of devoted secondary school teachers in the intellectual development of their students and of society.
This year’s winners and their nominators were (left to right):
- James Chrisfield, a global history and social studies teacher at Liverpool (N.Y.) High School, nominated by senior Maya Dukmasova ’12, a Take Five Scholar from Liverpool;
- Carla Parkes, an Advanced Placement chemistry teacher at Niagara Falls (N.Y.) High School, nominated by senior Heather Carella ’12, a psychology and American Sign Language major from Niagara Falls;
- Barbara Rowes, an English honors teacher at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City, nominated by Jonathan Grima ’12, a neuroscience major from Elmont, N.Y.;
- Donald Rogers, a recently retired high school band director at Attica (N.Y.) Central Senior High School, nominated by Stephen Huber ’12, an economics major from Attica.
