April 7, 2008
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Volume 1, Issue 31
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The Viking Voice
Columbus Academy Newsletter
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Following the Monarch butterflies to Mexico
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 A group of travelers from Columbus
Academy spent eight days over Spring
Break in Mexico,
the winter sanctuary of the Monarch butterfly.
The CA contingent included Amanda
Wilson '08, Tyler Kohman '14, Alex Li '16, Jacob Dach '17, Jacob Taub '17,
Michalea Lai '18, Director of
Technology Sean Cullinan and LS
Science Teacher Dianne Griffin, as
well as friends and family. Trip
highlights included: playing soccer, Uno, jumping rope and making Monarch God's
eyes and origami with the students of Anganguao; watching the butterflies at El
Rosario and Sierra Chincua, the butterfly sanctuaries; exploring San Juan
Parangricutiro, a town covered by lava during the Paricutín eruption; shopping
the open air market at Pátzcuaro; climbing the pyramids at Teotihuacan; walking
around the Zocalo in Mexico City; and learning about Mexican culture in the
Anthropological Museum in Mexico City.
To see Sean Cullinan's photos from the trip, please click here.
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CA senior class explores the Windy City
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 The class of 2008 traveled to Chicago for the annual senior trip the week
before spring break. Students were
accompanied by senior advisors David
Block, Stefan Farrenkopf, Pat Hogan, Doris Korda and Tim Morford
'79. "The weather was favorable, the
travelers were good-natured, and a splendid time was had by all," said Morford,
the senior class dean. "After a six-hour
coach ride and a quick lunch at the Navy Pier, our first destination in the Windy City
was an outdoor ice rink in Millennium
Park, where we went
skating in the sunshine surrounded by skyscrapers and sculpture (including
Cloudgate, a huge reflective egg). We
went to a Chicago
blues club that evening for dinner and some great live blues. The next morning we separated into two groups
and visited the Chicago Board of Trade and the Federal Reserve Bank, and then we
reunited for a trip to the Shedd Aquarium. We went to the Lincoln Park Zoo and
Conservatory that afternoon and then to Chinatown
for dinner. That evening, all agreed,
was the highlight of the trip: an evening of comedy at Second City Comedy Club.
Thursday morning we visited the Art
Institute of Chicago, including a special tour of the Hopper and Homer
exhibitions, and then went to Geno's pizza for lunch. The afternoon included a variety of options,
including shopping on the Magnificent Mile and in the Clark & Belmont area,
and taking in a view of the city and Lake Michigan
from the top of the Hancock tower. We
finished our day with a dinner of tapas at Cafe Baba Reeba and a night at the
theater to see the hit musical Wicked." Click here for David Block's pictures in this week's Around Academy gallery, which also includes the MS assembly on Ethics of
Speech with Artie Isaac '78, grant presentations at the PACA meeting and Bill
Boaz's magic show for kindergartners!
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Coming Next Week
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Spring Break Trip to China
Baseball and Track Updates
OJCL Convention Results
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Special guest visiting Columbus Academy next Monday and Tuesday
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 Tina
Lassiter, associate director of art programs and acquisitions
at Children's National Medical Center
in Washington, D.C., will visit CA's Upper and Middle
Schools on April 14-15. Committed to
using the arts to heal, evoke change, stimulate thinking and transform the
lives of others, Lassiter will address Monday's US assembly and then have lunch with
select US students and clubs. She will
then host a mother-daughter workshop for grades
5-6 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. On Tuesday,
Lassiter will speak at the MS assembly
and host another mother-daughter workshop for grades 7-8, also from 3:30-5:30 in the dining hall. To sign up for either workshop, please
contact Director of Diversity Deidre
Hamlar at deidre_hamlar@columbusacademy.org
or MS Connections Coordinator Michelle
Platt at michelle_platt@columbusacademy.org. Click here for Tina Lassiter's bio.
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Please note the US Band and Choir Concert has been moved to April 22
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 The Upper
School Band and Choir Concert originally scheduled for April 30 has been
moved to Tuesday, April 22, to avoid
conflict with the May 1-3 Upper
School musical Guys and
Dolls. The Band and Choir Concert will
be held at 7:00 p.m. on April 22 in Schoedinger Theatre. Guys
and Dolls, meanwhile, will be staged May
1-3 at 7:30 p.m. in Schoedinger Theatre.
Tickets for the US
musical are $5 (free for Academy students, faculty and staff). Click here for the Guys and Dolls ticket order form.
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Varsity lacrosse and boys tennis teams off to impressive starts
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 The CA varsity
lacrosse team started its 2008 campaign in impressive fashion with a 17-1
victory over Westerville Central last Tuesday.
The Vikes hope to continue their dominance this evening at Dublin
Scioto. The JV squad begins its season with a 5:30 p.m. match followed by the
varsity at 7:15. The middle school lacrosse team, meanwhile,
hosts Wellington
today at 5:00 p.m. for its season opener.
Following a 4-1 win at Watterson, a 5-0 shutout of Lexington and a 3-2 thriller over Cincinnati
Sycamore, the varsity boys tennis
squad is showing its pedigree. The
Vikings have another big week on tap with a Wednesday contest at Upper Arlington and a weekend home slate consisting of Kings High School
on Friday, St. Xavier on Saturday morning and University School
in the afternoon. The JV squad is 1-1 so far and hosts Hamilton Township
tomorrow and Upper Arlington on Wednesday, while
the middle school team debuts
Tuesday against Ridgeview at Pickerington
Central High
School. To
read season previews of the boys tennis and girls lacrosse programs, click here for this week's press clippings.
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Business office will be unavailable this week due to training
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office of The Columbus Academy is transitioning to a new accounting
software system. Because of this
software migration, between the hours of 8:00
a.m. and 4:00 p.m. from April 8-11, the business office staff will be in
training for the new software. During
this training, the business office will
not be available to respond to inquiries related to student accounts or to
other school financial matters. "We
apologize for any inconvenience this may cause" said CA Chief Financial Officer
Maggie Koerner, "and look forward to
being better able to serve our school community once this software transition
is completed."
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Columbus Academy's Star Party rescheduled for this Friday, April 11
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 Don't forget that the Star Party has been
rescheduled for this Friday, April 11. All
students in grades 1-8 and their
families are encouraged to attend. Festivities will start at 6:30 p.m. at
the south end of the Marsh Field track.
This is a great time to learn from experts how to find celestial
objects, how to use telescopes, binoculars and other equipment, and learn the
beauty and wonder of the sky at night.
For more information, please contact LS science teacher Dianne Griffin at griffin@columbusacademy.org.
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Volunteers at Saturday's LS Fair collecting donations for clothing drive
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 The much-anticipated Lower School Fair, to be held from 1-4 p.m. this Saturday,
April 12, in the athletics wing, will feature "outta sight games, crafts
and concessions" centered around this year's Mission Space theme. Enter
the raffle to win an astronaut ice cream
party for your child's class! If you
have any questions or would like to volunteer, please contact Cathy Hile at 740-965-4646 or cdhile@hotmail.com. Also, start your spring cleaning earlier this
year! Student volunteers at the LS Fair
will accept donations for the Annual
Clothing Drive next fall. Just drop
off your donations at the LS entrance
between 12:30-4:30 p.m. on Saturday.
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Nominations for PACA positions due next Monday, April 14
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| An unforgettable party for the senior class, Dan Vorenburg playing banjo at the
Talent Show, new soccer goals, new library books from the Book Fair, a warm
welcome for a new family, the Antique
Show Gala, insightful parent education forums, Academy clothing from the Viking Corner, the Charlie David Dinner, clothes for the needy, class parties,
laughing kids at a fun Lower School Fair,
and thanking the faculty with dozens of cookies... All of this and more are the
result of wonderfully dedicated Academy parents organizing and supporting PACA
events. Let your voice be heard and nominate yourself and other parents for
PACA positions. You will help our
kids, have fun and get a closer look at how the school is run. Please send your nominations or
questions to kbrown@sbcadvertising.com by
Monday, April 14. You can also talk to the nominating co-chairs:
Sara Browning (LS parents) at sarabrowning2001@yahoo.com, Peggy Sutton (MS parents) at peggy_sutton@columbusacademy.org and Beth Fisher (US parents) at bfisher@columbus.rr.com. Click here for a list of available position on the PACA Board.
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Make your Scrip orders now through Wednesday, April 16
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Scrip is here just in time for all those spring
and summer holidays (Mother's Day,
graduation, Father's Day, summer birthdays, etc.). And get ready for the golf links and the
tennis courts with the new Golfsmith $25
certificate! Click here to download the order form. Also, please continue to
reload your Kroger cards that you have purchased through our Scrip program
because PACA continues to receive a percentage.
If you have any questions, please contact Sue Pickering at sue@pickering1.com
or Lynne Souba at Lsouba@sbcglobal.net.
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New Parent Education Seminars scheduled for April 30 and May 2
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 Due to increased interest and positive response from
the parent community regarding the first two Parent Education Seminars earlier this year, a third seminar has
been planned for April 30 and May 2 in the Trustees' Room. The seminar, "How Great Schools Work: The Parent/School Partnership," is
presented by Patrick Bassett, who is
president of the National Association of Independent Schools. Designed for current and/or prospective
parents, it addresses choices in schools (public vs. private), how independent
schools work, what great schools have in common, what kids need from adults,
what schools need from parents and what parents need from schools. The first session will be held from 5:00-6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30,
while the second will be from 8:15-9:45
a.m. on Friday, May 2.
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Please consider becoming an individual sponsor of the Antiques Show
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 There is still time to become an individual
sponsor of the 2008 Antiques Show. As an
individual sponsor, you are invited to the Sponsors Reception held from 6-7
p.m. before the Gala Preview Party. Here
you will be able to preview the wares of our antique dealers, browse our
auctions and the class collection raffle, sample the wonderful food featured by
some of Columbus' outstanding chefs and restaurants, enjoy the big band sounds
of the Park Avenue Jazz Ensemble, as well as take part in a complimentary wine
tasting provided by Sher Bliss Wine & Chocolate Shop. The Sponsors Reception and Gala Preview Party
will be held Friday, April 25, from 6-10 p.m.
All proceeds from individual sponsorships support need-based financial
aid and academic enrichment for our students.
Please contact Amy Bechtel at jbechtel@columbus.rr.com
with any questions. Also, please see request for volunteers below!
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Click here for complete April and May lunch menus.
Tue.,
Apr. 8-D
8:00 a.m.
PACA Grants Committee Meeting (Trustees' Room)
Lunch: creamed
chicken over biscuits, green beans, carrots, winter blend
Wed.,
Apr. 9-E
Lunch: lasagna,
garlic bread, salad buffet
Thu.,
Apr. 10-F
8:00 a.m.-noon, Admissions
Testing - Gr. 5-12 (Admissions Office)
8:00 a.m.
Executive Committee Meeting (Headmaster's Office)
8:30 a.m.
Class Collections Committee Meeting (Huntington Room)
10:30 a.m.
Junior Speeches (Andrew Nash, Chelsea Dipman, James Miller)
Lunch: taco
bar - toppings include: tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, sour cream, salsa, taco
sauce
Fri.,
Apr. 11-A
Lunch: fish sandwiches, LS - fish sticks, macaroni and cheese
6:30 p.m. Star Party (Marsh Field Track)
7:30 p.m. MS
Dance with CSG and Wellington at Wellington
Sat.,
Apr. 12
OMEA MS Solo and Ensemble (Pickerington Central HS)
ACT
(juniors)
1:00-4:00
p.m., Lower School Fair (gyms and Barton Room)
Mon.,
Apr. 14-B
Lunch: baked chicken strips, scalloped potatoes
3:30 p.m.
Tina Lassiter Workshop (Westwater Room)
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