Daniel Newgarden 2020-21 NJCL President
Salvete Omnes! My name is Daniel Newgarden and I am the 2020-2021 NJCL President. I am glad that you have take the important and exciting step of engaging with NJCL and the wider JCL community. Since you're exploring a community so near and dear to my heart, I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you about JCL and what it means to me. I first got involved with JCL in the 9th grade (though I had played certamen through the Illinois Certamen League in the seventh and eighth grades) and I can still remember how surreal it was walking into the Itasca Westin and being surrounded by hundreds of students who loved classics as much as I do. That experience — being surrounded by a caring community of students committed to the study of the ancient world — is something that's stayed with me. It's guided my journey through JCL, from the school, to the state, to the national level. I hope you can find as much value in it as I did, especially as we were able to meet virtually this year and in-person next year at Louisiana State University!
Summit Country Day School
-Irene Calderon, OJCL
*These pictures were taken before the pandemic.