Agnes Irwin’s Samantha Pierce is Main Line Student of the Week (May 5-11)

 Agnes Irwin’s Samantha Pierce is Main Line Student of the Week (May 5-11)

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A senior at Agnes Irwin School, Samantha Pierce has received several accolades from Agnes Irwin, including the Dorothy Haviland Nelson Latin Prize, the Heather Thiermann Writing Prize and the University of Chicago Book Award. She is an editor of The Wick, the school’s student-run newspaper, and is a leader of the K-Pop dance group. A National Merit Semi-Finalist, she has a passion for history – she will be majoring in history at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall — and a knack for languages, including Latin, Korean and Spanish.

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