Dec 17, 2007
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Volume 1, Issue 19
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The Viking Voice
Columbus Academy Newsletter
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Happy Holidays from Columbus Academy!
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 This will be the final Viking Voice of the
calendar year, so Happy Holidays from everyone here at Columbus Academy. The next Viking Voice will be sent out on
Monday, January 7, the day that classes resume following Winter Break. So good luck with mid-year exams this week,
safe travels if you are leaving town, and best wishes for a happy and healthy
new year. (Click on the photo to see a wonderful wintertime shot by Cindy Wilson!)
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Reflect, Focus and Dream
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 A big "thank you" to the almost 50 percent of
our parents who have participated in the Annual Fund, our school's most
important fundraising effort! For those
of you yet to give, we kindly request your participation. You should have recently received our
"Reflect, Focus and Dream" mailer and return envelope. Alongside our monetary goal of $1.2 million,
we want to reach 100 percent parent participation. Please click here to see why your participation is so important. You can give
securely online by clicking here. Thank you in advance. |
Holiday Luncheon at Athletic Club this Friday
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 The Columbus Academy Alumni Board will host the
Annual Holiday Luncheon this Friday at The Athletic Club of Columbus (136 East Broad Street). If you would like to join us as we present
the Distinguished Alumnus Award to Jeff McNealey '62 (click here for bio) and
the Alumni Service Award to Betsy David P'88, please contact Meredith Levine
'99 at levine@columbusacademy.org. If you RSVP by Wednesday, cost of the
luncheon is $30 per person. Tickets at
the door will be $35. You can also make
a donation to help offset the costs for the class of 2008 and former faculty to
attend. Festivities will begin at 11:30
a.m. with lunch served at noon.
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Paul Farmer chosen as Phil Currier Lecture Speaker for February 6, 2008
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 Paul Farmer, a true agent of change in global
healthcare, will be the guest speaker in Columbus Academy's
2008 Phil Currier Lecture Series on February 6.
Farmer emerged from a humble childhood of poverty to become a worldwide
expert in providing public health services to impoverished communities. His clinical treatments have become the
global model for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS initiatives around the world. He received the MacArthur Genius Grant in
1993 and has also received support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation and the Global Fund. He was made known to the world by the popular
bestseller "Mountains Beyond Mountains"
and a 2005 U.S. News & World Report article
(click here to read) that profiled him as one of "America's
Best Leaders." Farmer's speech, which
will be free and open to the public, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Academy's
Schoedinger Theatre. For more
information, contact US faculty member Kyle Tong at tong@columbusacademy.org.
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Dining Hall Advisory Committee results in many positive changes
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The recently formed Dining Hall Advisory
Committee has issued its first progress update.
Click here to read the committee's report. Please also click here to access a synopsis
of the "Healthy Changes" that have been made to the menus at our school.
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Help PACA support the arts by signing on for the Talent Show on Feb. 23
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 Mark your calendars for an evening of casual fun
and entertainment. The Parent/Faculty/Administration/Staff Talent Show
will be held at 7 p.m. on February 23, 2008.
All proceeds will benefit the visual and performing arts at CA. If
you can sing, dance, tell a joke, stand on your head or if you have another
hidden talent, let us know soon as space is limited. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the
door. Sponsorships, which include two tickets and reserved seating in the
first two rows, are available for $100. To schedule your act, purchase
tickets or sign up as a sponsor, please contact Eric Ransom at 402-8335 or Eric@EricRansom.com.
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Columbus Academy partners with 3N -- National Notification Network
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| As part of continuing efforts to enhance our
safety and security programs, The Columbus Academy has partnered with 3N -
National Notification Network to assist us in providing quick and precise
communication to the school community in an emergency situation. Later this week, parents should receive an
e-mail message from 3N welcoming you to their program and requesting various
contact information and associated priority settings. So that we can implement this program as soon
as possible, please provide 3N with your contact information as soon as you
receive their welcome message. In
addition to emergency events, this system will also be used to notify our
community in the event of an unscheduled school closing such as a snow or
extreme cold day. 3N is the leading
global provider of mass notification solutions to Global 2000 corporations,
government agencies, health system and educational institutions. The 3N system can notify recipients by all
standard communication methods including phone, e-mail, SMS text messaging,
instant messaging, fax, Blackberry and others.
You will control how the system should contact you. For more information, please contact Director
of Facilities and Grounds Doug Bennett at 509-2262 or doug_bennett@columbusacademy.org.
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Academy's Interior Threat Lockdown Drill considered a success
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 Columbus Academy held an Interior
Threat Lockdown Drill last Tuesday that members of the Gahanna Police
Department called "one of the best lockdown drills we've seen." The officers also commented that the campus
seemed like a ghost town, as desired, and that "everyone seemed to know their
roles." The drill helped the school's
administration and staff understand what still needs to be improved in the
event that a disruptive force is inside one of the school buildings. A similar lockdown drill for an exterior
threat was successfully staged last spring.
Columbus Academy currently exceeds the state law
requiring at least one lockdown drill per school year.
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Lower and Middle School activities featured in this week's photo gallery
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 The Lower School Strings performance on December
6, sixth-graders sledding on December 7, Middle School activities period on
December 11, the third grade's Planetary Fair and Little Dribblers practice on
December 12, and last Friday's PACA Cookie Day and the fourth grade's El
Mercado (Spanish Market Day) are featured in this week's Around Academy photo gallery. Click here to see a complete
listing of recent Columbus
Academy photo galleries.
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Evan Barnes '03 wins inaugural Senior CLASS Award for men's soccer
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 Evan Barnes, a 2003 graduate of The Columbus
Academy who recently spoke to Upper Schoolers during Career Exploration Day,
was selected on Friday as the men's soccer recipient of the 2007 Senior CLASS
Award, which is an acronym for Celebrating
Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School and honors the attributes of
senior student-athletes in four areas: classroom, community, character and
competition. Barnes, who was recently
named third team Academic All-America and was a finalist for a prestigious
Rhodes Scholarship, is an honors systems engineering major with a 3.88 overall
GPA. To read more, check out this week's press clippings and click here to read the story on Navy's website.
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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, 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 8:00 a.m. and 4:30
p.m. Thank you to all who participated... The next PACA meeting will be at 8 a.m. on
January 10 in the Trustees' Room.
Special guest speaker will be Kevin Kelley P'07 '08 '11 '16, president
of the CA Board of Trustees. All parents
are invited to attend. |
Please note correction to Fall 2007 issue of Academy Magazine
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 We sincerely apologize for an error on Page 21
of the Fall 2007 issue of Academy Magazine, which should have arrived in your
home mailboxes recently. The class year
for William L. Case should have been listed as '36, not '58. The accompanying photo, as well, should have
been this one of William Lyman Case Jr., not the printed one of William Lyman
Case III. We are truly sorry for any
confusion this error may have caused.
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| School calendar and Dining Hall lunch menu for the upcoming week |
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Tue.,
Dec. 18 -B
Lunch: sloppy
joes on multigrain bread
Wed.,
Dec. 19-C
Lunch: pizza with whole grain crust
Thu.,
Dec. 20-D
Lunch: spaghetti and meatballs
2-3 p.m. LS
Holiday Gathering (Jones Gym)
Winter
Break begins at end of day
Fri.,
Dec. 21
Make-up Exams Only - NO SCHOOL
Lunch: cook's
choice
11:30 a.m.
Alumni Holiday Luncheon (Athletic Club of Columbus)
Dec.
22-Jan. 6
Winter Break - NO SCHOOL
Mon.,
Jan. 7-E
8 a.m. Classes Resume
9 a.m.
Administrative Staff Meeting (Trustees' Room)
Lunch: Italian
subs
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