FACULTY & STAFF NOTES

News and sightings from outside the classroom

Lakeside’s data systems and visualization specialist, Camila Calkins, has been in demand. In March, she was the featured expert in a Veracross webinar entitled “How Lakeside School Launched an Institutional Research Program.” In May, she led sessions on institutional research at the annual ATLIS + CIRIS Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In June, she joined a small cohort of specialists in the “Summer Fellows Lab” of the Center for Institutional Research in Independent Schools (CIRIS). Their focus: to “write the book” on best practices for schools looking to develop an institutional research program. • Ari Worthman, director of college counseling, has been appointed to two national leadership positions. He began a three-year term on the board of directors of the Coalition for College, a consortium of nearly 200 colleges committed to making college affordable and to creating an alternative application platform to the Common Application. He also began a four-year term on the National Merit Corporation Advisory Council, a group of two dozen secondary school leaders that reviews and makes recommendations to the National Merit Scholarship Program. • Director of Admissions and Financial aid Wellesley L. Wilson served on the Hawaiian Association of Independent Schools reaccreditation team for the Punahou School, a monthslong duty that involved a site visit in Honolulu, interviews, and a careful review of Punahou’s detailed 200-page self-study of the school’s academics, arts and athletics programs, enrollment, finance and operations, fundraising, community outreach, mission and governance, and safety, security, and wellness. • The Ugandan National Men’s Lacrosse Team — coached by Lakeside Upper School science teacher/boys lacrosse program head Michael Black defeated Kenya in the first-ever World La crosse African Qualifier, earning a spot among the 30 countries competing this summer in the 2023 World Lacrosse Men’s Championship in San Diego. longtime running program head and crosscountry coach, Sally Revere ’79, ed into the Washington State Cross Country Coaches Association (WSCCCA) Hall of Fame. According to the WSCCCA, hall of fame induct ees must possess the following: “Over 15 years coaching, significant team or individual perfor mances at the highest level, significant contributions to the sport outside of their specific team, major historical achievements.”

Camila Calkins