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faculty update
World Languages Chairperson Dr. Rachel Carlson and DEI CoModerator Jenna Gomez are taking part in NJAIS’s Institute for Female Leaders in Education that promotes personal and professional growth for current and aspiring female school leaders. With facilitation by veteran school leaders, consultants, and other women in leadership, participants navigate a five-part series of topics that challenge women on a path to leadership roles in schools. The Journal of the American Revolution recently published the second article by history teacher Kevin Conn, this one on famous (or infamous) New Jersey Loyalist James Moody. The Journal also published the interview they did with Kevin concerning the article on their podcast, Dispatches. In January 2020, the Journal published his article on the Lenape in Pontiac’s War. Assistant Headmaster for Academic Affairs Josh Hartle again will serve as Table Leader (TL) for the AP Calculus Reading (grading). For the second year in a row, this will be performed remotely. As a TL, he will complete training on the scoring guidelines and then mentor and monitor up to 15 Readers’ progress in training and grading to ensure their alignment with the scoring guidelines. He will also score (continued on page 24)
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Delbarton Forensics Achieves at Tournament of Champions
The Tournament of Champions (TOC) is one of the most challenging and prestigious championships in the country, a national high school speech and debate tournament held annually each April at the University of Kentucky. During the 2020-2021 school year, all high school speech and debate competitions took place virtually, including the TOC. In order to participate in the TOC, participants must earn qualifying bids by reaching late playoff rounds at national invitationals during the regular season. This April, our Delbarton TOC competitors earned 11 silver and gold bids, with Alex Sun ’22 and Eric Moldoveanu ’22 and Connor Teehan ’21 and Will
Li ’21 qualifying to the gold division and Lex Banker ’22 and Matt Sebastian ’22, and Alex Calder ’24 and Jack Grbic ’24 qualifying to silver. Our top result was the duo of Banker and Sebastian finishing with a 5-2 preliminary round record, and the pair finished in elimination rounds in double octo-finals (17th out 296 teams) in the silver division. Forensics Society Assistant Director Noah Mengisteab, who assists Forensics Society Director Mary Gormley, reports, “It’s the first time in eight years that Delbarton had a team reach elimination rounds at the Tournament of Champions in either division.”
