Recognizing excellence in the academic disciplines and in our community life together, EHS celebrated our outstanding students in the recent Academic and Senior Awards Assembly. As Department Chairs presented the excellence awards in each discipline and other School leaders presented the Spirit, Citizenship, Jess Borg, and Head of School awards to seniors, students, faculty and staff, parents, and guests applauded the winners' talent and hard work and the extraordinary School that challenged and nurtured them.
Congratulations to all the award winners!
Senior Awards
Spirit Award—Jackson Adams
Citizenship Award—Taft Mohair III
Head of School Awards—Marisol Hess and Thomas Hetherington
Jess Borg Award—David Duane (DJ) Skaggs, Jr.
School Awards
Award for Excellence in the Study of English—Taft Mohair III
Award for Excellence in the Study of History and Social Sciences— Neel Mogri
Award for Excellence in the Study of Mathematics and Computational Sciences—Katherine Wallace
Award for Excellence in the Study of Science—Shivam Albee
Award for Excellence in the Study of World Languages—Jocelyn Valencia
Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion —Colin Tobola
Award for Excellence in the Study of Arts
Theatre—Taft Mohair III
Dance—Abigail Horn
Music—Shivam Albee
Studio Arts—Sophia Ding
Media Arts—Sofia Kennedy
Publications—Simona Karnani
Award for Excellence in the Study of Wellness—Bryan Zhan
Award for Female Athlete of the Year—Claire Johnson
Award for Male Athlete of the Year—Reid Sasser
Athletic Director’s Award —Jacob Holzhauser and Palmer Popov
Humanitarian Award—Finley White
2026 National Merit Scholarship Program Finalists
Taylor Jones and Craig Ringwald have been named finalists in the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program. The nationwide pool of finalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state.
Marc F. Adler Faculty Award
The Adler Award is the School’s highest recognition for teaching, but the people who best explain why this year’s award recipient deserves it are the students and colleagues who have watched this teacher work in moments that never appear in a résumé or course catalog.
This teacher piloted the Astronomy course that is now a thriving elective. He rebuilt the calculus-based AP Physics program into one with sustained enrollment despite its rigor. He has contributed to professional astronomical research, presented at national conferences, and then brought that same intellectual curiosity back into the classroom.
But many people at EHS know him just as well for the quieter contributions. The willingness to volunteer for extra responsibilities. The readiness to step in and help colleagues when needed.
This year's Marc F. Adler award winner is Science Instructor and Advisory Program Chair Justin Hickey.