The National Latin Vocabulary Exam draws participants from schools across the United States and internationally each year, testing command of the Latin lexicon that underlies so much of the English language and the Western literary tradition. This year Emerson Latin students were examined alongside competitors from Boston Latin, Milton High, Roxbury Latin, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, and Aula Escola Europea, among others. The following is the record of awards earned by students at Emerson Latin.
- William Kim
- Kelly Sung
- Kyungyoon Suh
- Aileen Ryu
- Jian Hong
- Grace Jeon
- Esther Lee
- Thomas Oh
- Jimmy Lee
- Jaye Cho
- Elena Lee
- Sung Won Cho
- Jeongwon Han
William Kim’s distinction warrants a word apart. To place first among all competitors worldwide — across hundreds of schools and thousands of students — is the kind of result that does not arrive by accident. It is the yield of sustained, patient work: the slow accumulation of a language until it becomes, in some measure, one’s own. We are proud of all who competed this year, and prouder still that the formation they received here prepared them to stand alongside the best in the world — and, in one case, to surpass them.