Commencement 2024 award winners

Congratulations to the Class of 2024! Here are the major award winners recognized at Baccalaureate and Commencement: 

Valedictorian: To the student with the highest academic achievements in the class, who delivers a speech at Commencement. 

Thomas Shelton 

Headmaster’s Award: To the student who has demonstrated general excellence, citizenship and participation. 

Thomas Shelton 

Student Citizenship Award: To the student who has demonstrated by his unselfishness, integrity, courage, and spirit the highest type of school citizenship. 

Dylan Furbay 

Carroll Mercer Marbury Award: To the student who has spirit of fearlessness, tenacity of purpose. 

Yanni Tiimob 

Alexander Aikens ’67 Award: To the student who has exemplary leadership in the areas of diversity and multiculturalism. 

Kendall Skeete Ridley 

William Harrison Triplett Award: To the Landon senior who not only has made significant contributions to the sports program, but who also has distinguished himself by displaying superior qualities of team dedication, respect for opponents, and regard for the spirit of the game. 

Nathan Furgeson 

Malcolm Coates Student Activities Award: To the student with constructive participation in non-athletic activities. 

James Shelton 

Ellie Johnson Award: To the student who has demonstrated creativity, innovation, ingenuity, or artistic merit. 

Juan Manuel Ramirez-Prada 

Patrick Tanner ’96 Community Service Award: To the student who has demonstrated outstanding commitment, personal involvement, and leadership in community service. 

Cooper Gleason 

ROTC Scholarship Award: To the students who have demonstrated a love for service in many areas, including to our country. Five seniors will be participating in Army ROTC during their college years and have earned scholarships. 

Cooper Gleason, Griffin Lugar, and William Stallmer  

Not pictured: Nicolas Alway-Rosa and Jack Lapham 

Cary Maguire ’46 Ethics Scholar Award: To the students who have demonstrated the highest standards of ethical integrity through his expressions of honesty and respect, and his active cultivation of the virtues of perseverance, teamwork, honor, and fair play. 

Kevin Miller and Hugh Neill 

Stephen J. Smith ’01 Spirit Award: To the student who through his devotion to his fellow students, his unselfish behavior, his self-effacing sense of humor, his enthusiasm for Landon, and his ability to build bridges between those differing viewpoints and perspectives who best personifies the unique bond that unites all Landon students and alumni. 

Jay Adams 

Mary Lee and Paul Banfield Award: To a member of the Landon faculty who has made a significant contribution to the life of the School. 

Ricky Sears ’99 

Alice F. Cosimano Award: To a member of the Landon administration or staff who has made a significant contribution to the life of the School. 

Jun Choi 

 

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