Dec 10, 2007
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Volume 1, Issue 18
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The Viking Voice
Columbus Academy Newsletter
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CA featured on front page of today's Dispatch
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 The Columbus
Academy is prominently
featured in a front-page story in today's Columbus Dispatch. The article about finding the best high
school in central Ohio
highlights CA as the preferred choice for a prospective family and
resulted from the reporter's visit to our Admissions Open House on December 2. Also in this
week's news, Academy junior Layne Averill (pictured left) is named Field
Hockey Player of the Year by Suburban News Publications, senior basketball
standout Alex Marchetti is profiled and the AquaVikes' swimming season is
previewed. To see all of this week's press clips, click here. And for a list of postseason honors for all of
the Vikings' fall varsity sports teams, click here. (Team awards are not listed but if anything
else is missing, please email Bob Lee at bob_lee@columbusacademy.org so
the list can be updated.)
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Interior Threat Lockdown Drill on Tuesday
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In an ongoing effort to make our campus as safe
as possible, Columbus
Academy will hold an Interior Threat Lockdown Drill at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday,
December 11. This drill will help
prepare our faculty, staff and students in the event that a disruptive force is
inside one of the school buildings or there is a situation within one of the
school buildings that would involve more than normal discipline to resolve the
situation. In addition to familiarizing
everyone with the proper procedures during such an incident, the drill will
also serve as another test of the recently installed campus-wide emergency
communication system. A similar lockdown
drill for an exterior threat was successfully staged last spring. Current state law requires at least one
lockdown drill per school year. All
exterior campus doors will be locked during the Lockdown. If you arrive at school between 8:30-9:30 a.m.,
please take your student to the front door of Academy Hall and you will be met
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Kindergartners "fly" to China in this week's Around Academy gallery
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 Students in all four of Columbus
Academy's kindergarten classes packed
their bags last week for a special "trip" to China. The kindergartners, who had been practicing
their Chinese language skills throughout the week, showed their passports,
presented their boarding passes and then enjoyed their snacks during a picturesque
flight to the most populous country in the world. Also included in this week's gallery are photos
from third-grade drama exercises, the PACA Winter Breakfast and the sendoff for
Israeli exchange student Matan Getz. Click here to view the photo gallery.
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Columbus Area Diversity Meeting to be held at CA on December 14
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| Everyone who is interested in supporting
diversity, multicultural education and inclusion in area independent schools is
invited to attend the Columbus Area Diversity Meeting on Friday, December 14,
in the Trustees' Room at Academy Hall. The
focus of the gathering, which will be facilitated by CA Diversity Director
Deidre Hamlar and CSG Middle School Director Sylvia Rodriguez, will be on planning
to support outreach to attract diverse teacher candidates to local independent
schools. The meeting is scheduled for
4:00 p.m. with light refreshments beginning at 3:30 p.m. For more information, please click here.
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Confirmations for Spring Break trip to Mexico needed by Friday
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If you are planning on taking the Spring Break
trip to Mexico
with Dianne Griffin (LS science teacher) and Sean Cullinan (director of
technology) to see the Monarch butterfly's winter habitat, please have your
checks to Mrs. Griffin by this Friday, December 14. The trip includes touring Mexico City,
visiting the students of Angangueo, seeing the Volcano of Paricutin (included
on many versions of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World), touring the
colonial town of Morelia and see the Pyramids of Teotihuacan. For more information, contact Griffin at
griffin@columbusacademy.org.
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Little Dribblers performing at halftime of girls basketball game on Saturday
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| Columbus Academy's Little Dribblers,
a group of 65 third-graders, will perform at halftime of the Vikings' varsity
girls basketball game this Saturday, Dec. 15.
The home game against Newark Catholic is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. The freshman girls team will also play the
Green Wave beginning at 1:00 p.m.
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Academy brother-sister duo performing in Cleveland on Saturday
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 First-year Academy students Collin Sims '09
(cello) and his sister Kelsey Sims '13 (violin) will be performing in Cleveland
this Saturday at the Cleveland State University Waetjen Auditorium as members
of the Contemporary Youth Orchestra, which is the only youth orchestra in the
nation devoted to performing music from the 20th century
forward. In addition to two world
premieres (Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 and Respighi's "Pines of Rome"),
Saturday evening's program will feature standard classical works as well as
contemporary and jazz works. The
orchestra will take this program on tour in February and will host a spring
performance with a leading rock artist.
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Upper School and Middle School exams to be held December 17-20
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Mid-year exams for Grades 7-12 will be held from
December 17-20. Please
click here for
a note from US Interim Head Gary Williams explaining the Upper School exam schedule. Grades for the first semester will be mailed
home the week of January 7. For more
information, please contact Jennifer Lange in the US office at 509-2281 or jennifer_lange@columbusacademy.org. Middle School seventh- and eighth-grade exams
will also be given December 17-20.
December 21 is scheduled for make-up exams only. To see a complete Middle School exam schedule and times for
student pickup on those days, please click here.
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Middle School Open House for Grades 5-6 moved to January 9
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| The Middle School Open House for Grades 5-6 that
had been scheduled for January 8 has been moved to Wednesday, January 9. The Open House for Grades 7-8 will be on
Thursday, January 10, as originally scheduled.
Columbus Academy parents are invited during these
school days to take part in the Middle School experience with their children. For more information, please contact Sheila
Love in the MS office at 509-2264 or sheila_love@columbusacademy.org.
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LS Parents: CASE will be open after school on Thursday, December 20
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| Attention all Lower School parents, please read a
letter from LS Head Dan Vorenberg regarding the upcoming holiday season by
clicking here. Also, for those with children in the after-school
program, CASE will be open after school on Thursday, December 20, the final day
of school before Winter Break. For more information, please contact Michelle
Saling in the LS office at 509-2258 or saling@columbusacademy.org.
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News from the Parents' Association of Columbus Academy (PACA)
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| Scrip orders are ready for pick-up at the
reception desk in Academy Hall this week anytime between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30
p.m. Thank you to all who participated... The
Fourth Annual PACA Cookie Day is scheduled for the beginning of the school day on Friday, December 14, in the Athletics Lobby. Volunteers are needed to bake 6-8 dozen
cookies and then to sort and distribute them to faculty and staff. Anyone interested in helping with this
faculty recognition event, please contact Leanne Keith at LKEITH1@insight.rr.com... Mark your
calendar now for Saturday night, February 23, for the PACA-sponsored
Faculty/Parent/Administration/Staff Talent Show - sure to be a highlight of the
year! If you can sing, dance, do comedy,
magic, are a musician or have some other hidden talent, we want you! Contact Eric@EricRansom.com
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| School calendar and Dining Hall lunch menu for the upcoming week |
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Tue.,
Dec. 11 -C
Lunch: cream chicken over biscuits
5:20 p.m. Faith Mission
Wed.,
Dec. 12-D
Lunch: sweet & sour chicken with vegetarian egg rolls
12:45 p.m.
Cross Divisional Child Study Team Meeting (Trustees' Room)
2 p.m. LS
Leadership Team Meeting (Trustees' Room)
6 p.m.
MOSAIC Meeting (Huntington Room)
Thu.,
Dec. 13-E
10:30 a.m. Junior Speeches (Nicole Humphrey, Nathan Chan, Matt Cartabuke)
Lunch: beef
taco bar
Fri.,
Dec. 14-F
8 a.m. Marketing Commitee Meeting (Trustees' Room)
8 a.m. Fourth Annual PACA Cookie Day (Athletics Lobby)
Lunch: baked fish fillet with hushpuppies
4 p.m. Columbus Area Diversity
Meeting (Trustees' Room)
Mon.,
Dec. 17-A
MS & US Exams Begin
Lunch:
baked chicken with mashed potatoes
4:30 p.m. After-School Activities presentation "ZAGAZOO" (Theater Lobby)
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