April 28, 2008
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Volume 1, Issue 34
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The Viking Voice
Columbus Academy Newsletter
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"Guys and Dolls" to take stage this weekend
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 CA's Upper School Theater Program will perform "Guys and Dolls" this Thursday, Friday and Saturday (May 1-3) at 7:30 p.m. in Schoedinger Theatre. Tickets (click here for order form) are $5 (free
for Academy students, faculty and staff).
Click here to see a list of the complete cast and visit this week's
Around Academy gallery to see photos from last week's assembly teaser. And to read a preview of the show in the
Gahanna News, click here for this week's press clippings. Also, if you are interested in purchasing a
professional DVD of the performance ($30 or two for $50), please contact Susan Neal at susan_neal@columbusacademy.org.
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Viking Corner end-of-year sale set for this Friday
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 Viking
Corner's year-end sale is scheduled for this
Friday, May 2, from 7:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. in the athletics lobby. All youth novelty T-shirts will be priced at
$5 and all adult novelty T-shirts will sell for $10. There will also be many other great discounts
on products such as sweatshirts, sweatpants and spirit items. Don't
miss this great opportunity to stock up on CA gear for next school year!
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Spring concerts, Preview Party highlight galleries
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 In addition to this week's Around Academy gallery - which includes photos from the astronomy club's Star Party, the eighth-grade's Miracle
Worker exercise, a "Guys and Dolls"
teaser, Upper School Library murals by Maya
Little and Liz Nick,
seventh-grade Organ Day, the 28th
annual Antiques Show and this
morning's Senior Prank - be sure to
check out the Antiques Show Gala Preview Party photos, the Upper School spring concerts gallery (All That Jazz, Band Concert and Strings
Concert) as well as varsity track and field action by Cindy Wilson and Bob Lee. Coming next week will be images from the Senior
Art Show, Prom, second
grade Outdoor Week, and action shots from varsity and JV lacrosse
and JV baseball.
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Didn't win the class raffle for your child's original Masterwork?
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 Remember the school year with an original 2008 Masterwork (click here to see all of the Masterworks) created and interpreted together as a class with each
student adding their own individual creative touch. Masterworks
Photos and Notecard Sets are
available as thank you cards, holiday cards and gifts. Please click here for the order form
(deadline is May 9). Thank you for your
support of the 2008 Masterworks Collection, a student-created project! All profits benefit PACA and are given to the
school through student financial aid and
enrichment programs.
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Four Academy students earn perfect scores on 2008 National Latin Exam
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 Four CA students - Margaret Coons '10, Wesley
Lee '10, Nick Grewal '13 and Nina Gurevitz '13 - recorded perfect
scores on their respective levels of the 2008
National Latin Exam. For their
efforts on the Latin III Prose section, Coons and Lee received gold medals
signifying summa cum laude honors.
Grewal and Gurevitz accepted purple ribbons and Outstanding Achievement
Certificates for their unblemished marks on the Introduction to Latin
exam. Please click here for a complete
list of Academy students who achieved distinction for their performance on the
Latin Exam against over 134,500 students from all 50 states and 11 foreign
countries.
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Columbus Academy's Math Counts team places 11th in the state
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 At the state Middle School Math League Competition at Columbus
State Community
College earlier this month, the Columbus Academy
team of (left to right in photo) Denny
Gao '12, Drew Klopfer '12, Chris Nolan '13 and Andy Li '13 placed 11th in the state
out of 36 teams that qualified for the finals.
Individually, Nolan placed 22nd in the state, Klopfer 65th, Li 85th and
Gao 131st. The CA team was coached by Joan Young and Cindy Zive. |
CA parent helps 8th-graders study Helen Keller in unique, hands-on way
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 As all Academy eighth-graders began reading "The Miracle Worker" in their language
arts classes, CA parent Bernadette Van
Den Tillaart was called upon for her expertise in tactile communication
skills utilized by deaf-blind people.
Her April 17 presentation included students wearing blindfolds and
noise-cancelling headphones while their fellow classmates led them to
accomplish certain tasks. The students
then discussed their roles as guides and as a deaf-blind person and the
difficulties they encountered just trying to accomplish a menial task. Please click here to see quotes about the exercise from some of the students involved.
And visit this week's Around Academy gallery to see photos from the event.
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Middle School's Jack White Meet this Wednesday during Wacky Week
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 If you were on campus today, you probably
noticed some students wearing unusual outfits.
That is because today is Mismatch Day, which kicks off Wacky Week in the Middle School. Tomorrow, all Middle Schoolers are
allowed-encouraged even-to wear all one color for Monochromatic Day. On Wednesday, gray and maroon will be the
colors of choice for Viking Day, in honor of the annual Jack White Track Meet that will take place from 8:15 a.m. until
noon. Sports jerseys will be popular for
Thursday's Team Day, followed by a general Dress Down event on Friday. If a student chooses not to participate in
any particular day of Wacky Week, then they must be in proper school dress
code. For more information, please
contact Tina Cantrell in the MS
office at 614-509-2264 or tina_cantrell@columbusacademy.org.
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New Parent Education Seminars scheduled for this Wednesday, Friday
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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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Check out the new additions to the 2008 Summer Experience program
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 Please do not forget to check out the new
additions to the Summer Experience 2008
program. Open up a world of new cultural
experiences with the language programs in Japanese,
Chinese, Spanish and French. Play soccer with the coaches and players of
the Columbus Crew! Learn design and culinary skill in Project Runway and Chef's Apprentice. Click here for a look at the new brochure and make sure you do not miss out this
summer! Also, please note that Captivating Cupcakes is listed in the
LS portion of the brochure, but it is a yummy Middle School program. If you have any questions about Summer Experience,
please call Alyssa King at
614-509-2529.
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Register now for your Lower School parent-teacher conferences
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Lower School spring parent-teacher
conferences are just around the corner. Classroom teachers and specialist teachers
will be conferencing on Thursday, May 15,
and Friday, May 16. To schedule a conference with your child's classroom
teacher, please go to the Columbus Academy intranet (http://intranet.columbusacademy.org/)
and click on "Parent
Conferences - LS" on the left side.
The Lower School parent conference scheduler will
remain open until 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday,
May 7. For complete instructions on using the conference scheduler, please click here. Specialists will be available for five-minute
conferences in the Lower School Library on Thursday evening and all day
Friday. We encourage you to meet with specialists before, between or after your
classroom conferences. The
specialists will be available on Thursday, May 15, from 3:30-5:00 p.m. and
5:45-7:00 p.m. On Friday, May 16,
specialists will be available from 8:00-11:00 a.m. and noon-3:00 p.m. If you have any questions regarding the
parent conference scheduler or parent conferences in general, please contact Michelle Saling at 337-4302.
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| School calendar and Dining Hall lunch menu for the upcoming week |
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Tue.,
Apr. 29-A
Lunch: sloppy
joe sandwiches
1:55-3:10
p.m. US
Talent Show (Schoedinger Theatre)
Wed.,
Apr. 30-B
8:00 a.m. PACA
Grant Committee Meeting
8:15
a.m.-noon MS Jack White Track Meet (Marsh Field)
Lunch: pizza,
salad buffet
12:45 p.m.
US Musical Dress Rehearsal for MS (Schoedinger Theatre)
5:00-6:30 p.m. PACA Parent Education Seminar (Trustees' Room)
Thu.,
May 1-C
10:30 a.m.
US Presidential Installation (Schoedinger Theatre)
Lunch: breaded
baked chicken legs, au gratin potatoes
7:30 p.m. US
Musical "Guys and Dolls" (Schoedinger Theatre)
Fri.,
May 2-D
7:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Viking Corner End-of-Year Sale (Athletics Lobby)
8:15-9:45 a.m. PACA Parent Education Seminar (Trustees' Room)
Lunch: tacos,
refried beans, Spanish rice
7:30 p.m. US Musical
"Guys and Dolls" (Schoedinger Theatre)
Sat.,
May 3
SAT Reasoning (juniors) and Subject Tests (juniors/sophomores/freshmen)
7:30 p.m. US
Musical "Guys and Dolls" (Schoedinger Theatre)
Mon.,
May 5-E
AP Exams (5th-9th and 12th-16th)
Lunch: Italian
subs
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