April 14, 2008
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Volume 1, Issue 32
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The Viking Voice
Columbus Academy Newsletter
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Junior class experiences Challenge Day
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 Last Tuesday, the entire junior class was
engaged in a day-long program in the Barton Room. Challenge Day was an idea initiated by Anna
Askari, who first learned about it on "The Oprah Winfrey Show. Receiving help from classmates Ben Mozenter,
Alannah Linkhorn and Shawn Ali, along with several faculty and staff members
over a seven-month period, Askari was able to bring this program to Academy in
order to help her class develop better relationships and to promote a more
supportive and open school environment.
By all accounts, the event had a profound impact on all of those
involved. To see photos of Friday's
Challenge Day wrap-up, see this week's Around Academy gallery. The gallery also
includes images from last Thursday's Lower
School assembly featuring LS Head Dan Vorenberg kissing a pig, the
first grade music concert and LS faculty members dressed for Prom!
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CA travelers make Spring Break trip to China
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 During Spring Break last month, a group of Upper School
travelers continued Columbus Academy's ties to East Asia with a 10-day trip to China. The group, led by Chinese language instructor
Jeannine Subisak, spent time
visiting students in the Hefei School District as well as touring some of the
country's most famous sites, including the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, the
Forbidden City and the terra-cotta Soldier
Museum. Click here to see Dr. Subisak's photos from the trip and also here to read blogs posted by CA students during the trip.
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Senior Night for track & field team set for Tuesday
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 The varsity track
and field team will celebrate Senior
Night during tomorrow's (April 15) home meet, which is scheduled to begin
at 5:00 p.m. The rain date will be
Thursday's home meet, also set for 5:00 p.m.
Click here to read a varsity track and field update by Coach Bob Kirk '67. Photos from last Thursday's home
meet for the Middle School squad
will be included in next week's Viking Voice.
Also, Academy senior Will Petrie
was the subject of last week's high school sports column by Larry Larson (see it in this week's press clippings). Petrie will also be
featured on Larson's radio show at 1:26 p.m. on Saturday and 10:40 a.m. Sunday on
WTVN AM 610. And click here for photos
of last week's Middle School baseball, lacrosse and boys tennis competitions!
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Coming Next Week
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LS Conference Signups
MS Track & Field Photos
Viking Baseball Update
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Nine juniors represent Academy at Women of Achievement Luncheon
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 CA juniors Ali
Dillon, Rebecca Engle, Lauren Falkenberg, Sydney Fisher, Krupa
Harishankar, Chyna Johnson, Ali Mozenter, Aatifa Shareef and Audrey
Young attended the 2008 YWCA Women of Achievement Luncheon last Wednesday. At the event, Harishankar was selected to
represent Columbus Academy in the Bright
Futures program, which offers unique mentoring and leadership development
experiences to high school juniors from Franklin County
high schools. Click here to see Christy Bening's photo from the event.
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Latin students bring home numerous honors from OJCL Convention
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Latin
students from Columbus
Academy performed well at
the 2008 Ohio Junior Classical League state convention on March 7-9. In the arts category, freshman Elizabeth Vaziri took first place in
oil/acrylic while eighth-grader Clarissa
Leickly took top honors in posters.
Eighth-grader Sandhya Ramaswamy
captured second place in both English Oratory (novice level) and Grammar
1. To see the complete list of CA place-winners, please click here.
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LATE START DAY: Classes will begin at 9:30 a.m. this Wednesday
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| Please do not forget that this Wednesday is a
Late Start day, meaning classes will not begin until 9:30 a.m. due to a faculty
and staff professional development session.
Lower School students can go to the CASE room
beginning at 7:30 a.m. while Middle School students can go to the MS
Library. Both rooms will have adult supervision. Upper School
students should find a quiet place to study or read.
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Last chance to order gift cards through Scrip
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Scrip orders are due this Wednesday, April
16. This is your last chance to stock up
on gift cards for Mother's Day,
graduation, Father's Day, and summer birthdays. Use the new
Golfsmith $25 certificate for all those golf and tennis gifts! 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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Masterworks raffle tickets distributed to all families in grades PreK-5
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 Lower
Schoolers and fifth-grade
students should have received their packet of raffle tickets and a letter with an illustration of their
masterpiece to share with their parents at the end of last week. Each packet has 13 tickets. Parents
may purchase all or a portion of the tickets, if desired. They are
priced at $10 a piece, six for $50 or 13 for $100. If you have multiple
children at Academy, any combination of these tickets across your children's
grades earns you the discount. Extra ticket packets may be obtained from
the LS Office or at the Antiques Show Gala Preview Party on
April 25, where the winners will be drawn. And, YES - raffle
tickets are available to all art-lovers at these two venues! Questions? Contact Marj
Anzalone (marjanzalone@insight.rr.com)
or Liz Burns (estewartburns@aol.com). Also, please click here for a letter explaining the reason for the raffle of the Masterworks from Cynthia Ziegler (LS Head Mother), Jeff Jeffers (LS Head Father) and LS
Head Dan Vorenberg.
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2008 Columbus Academy Antiques Show Auction is now open!
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 Now is your chance to bid on all of the great
items in this year's Columbus
Academy Antiques Show online auction. The money raised from this auction helps to
fund need-based financial aid and enrichment programs for the students of The
Columbus Academy. From antiques and
artworks to golf outings and sports memorabilia to special events and travel
(and much, much more), anyone can bid on
these items, so tell your friends and have them check it out. Click here to see all of the fun and unique auction items!
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Special guest visiting the Lower School on Friday, April 18
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| Cindy
Morehart, a Reynoldsburg
teacher who spent a year hiking the Appalachian Trail, will visit Columbus Academy's
Lower School this Friday. The Appalachian Trail stretches over 14 different states
and passes through more than 60 federal, state and local parks and
forests. Morehart will discuss her
travels with students in grades K-2
from 8:15-9:05 a.m. on Friday, and she will meet with grades 3-4 from 9:10-10:00.
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Upper School Jazz Band hosting dinner performance this Friday
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 All
That Jazz, the Upper School Jazz Band dinner concert, is this
Friday, April 18, at 7 p.m. in the Dining Hall.
This year's theme is Jazz in
Hollywood and will feature several tunes you have heard in theaters! Admission is $5 at the door, but please RSVP
to instrumental music instructor Jessica Sneeringer at jessica_sneeringer@columbusacademy.org
so the proper amount of food can be ordered.
We hope to see you for a night of family fun.
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US musical "Guys and Dolls" to be staged at 7:30 p.m. on May 1-3
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 CA's Upper School Theater Program will perform "Guys and Dolls" on 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). Playing the lead roles will be (clockwise
from top left in photo) Emily Downes '10 as
Sarah Brown, Ishan Kanwar '09 as Sky
Masterson, Max Kelsten '08 as Nathan
Detroit and Kristie Hart '08 (left
photo) and Abbie Howard '09 (right) as
Miss Adelaide. More information,
including the rest of the cast, will be included in upcoming issues of the
Viking Voice. Click here for the "Guys and Dolls" ticket order form.
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Nominations for PACA positions are due by the end of today
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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 the end of today, 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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Kudos to pair of Columbus Academy faculty members
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 Two Academy faculty members recently had good
news to share. Middle School art teacher
Scott Neal has been asked to serve on
the advisory committee for the Kelton House
Museum, a Victorian
architecture unit built in 1852 that CA seventh-graders have been touring for
over 30 years. The advisory committee
meets quarterly and provides advice and networking to the museum on topics
ranging from historic preservation to earned income generation. Also, Academy's instrumental music instructor
Jessica Sneeringer recently
conducted the Central Ohio Brass Band
to a second-place finish at the North American Brass Band Championships on
March 29. Competing against bands from New England, Illinois, Georgia and Florida, Sneeringer's group narrowly missed
repeating as champions by just 3.2 points out of a possible 300.
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| School calendar and Dining Hall lunch menu for the upcoming week |
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Tue.,
Apr. 15-C
8:00 a.m. Seventh
Grade Parent Coffee (Dining Hall)
8:30 a.m.
Antiques Show Meeting (Trustees' Room)
Lunch: Italian
subs
3:30 p.m.
Tina Lassiter Workshop (Westwater Room)
Wed.,
Apr. 16-D
7:40 a.m.
Faculty and Staff Professional Development
9:30 a.m.
LATE START
Lunch: baked
penne pasta, salad buffet
Thu.,
Apr. 17-E
Ohio Math
League for Grade 5 (in class)
Seventh Grade
Trip to Cleveland
(17th-18th)
8:00 a.m.
Fifth Grade Parent Coffee (Dining Hall)
8:30 a.m.
Class Collections Committee Meeting (Huntington Room)
9:00 a.m.
Administrative Staff Meeting (Trustees' Room)
10:30 a.m.
Junior Speeches (James Miller, Brian Black, Austin Bening)
Lunch: grilled
cheese sandwiches, tomato soup
4:00 p.m.
Board of Trustees Meeting (Trustees' Room)
6:00 p.m.
Former Trustee Reception (Westwater Room)
Fri.,
Apr. 18-F
8:00 a.m. Sixth Grade Parent Coffee (Dining Hall)
8:00-9:30
a.m. Marketing Committee Meeting (Trustees' Room)
Lunch: turkey
corn dogs, LS - mini-turkey corn dogs
7:00 p.m. All
That Jazz Concert (Dining Hall)
Mon.,
Apr. 21-A
Lunch: hamburger or veggie burger deluxe
7:00 p.m.
Senior Art Show Opening (Theatre Lobby)
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