SEVEN HILLS
May 30, 2013
The Buzz
A Brief Word from Chris Garten
Coffee House 2013 celebrates Upper arts, artists
Over the last few weeks at Doherty, I’ve been watching the progress of Unit II’s economics unit. In this simulation, students earn “dollars” by completing agreed upon classroom tasks, tracking their progress on individual spreadsheets. At the end of the unit, they can redeem their accumulated earnings, in goods or services, provided at one of three “businesses” that their classmates have designed and executed. Each group has to create a business plan: maintaining an inventory, scheduling service clients, leasing space (in their own classrooms!), and paying for marketing and advertising. The spreadsheet keeps students focused on exemplary classroom behaviors in the closing days of the year; the project requires students to apply their mathematical skills to a business project. Pretty cool! Chris Garten Head of School
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We are very grateful to the many members of the Seven Hills community who have supported The Seven Hills Fund this year.
Seven Hills claim a $50,000 anonymous challenge gift! We’re hoping to secure an additional 75 gifts before June 30.
Nine Stingers headed to college
The Development Office has some great news to share! The anonymous donor for the Participation Challenge has graciously extended the deadline to the end of the fiscal year—June 30. So, if you haven’t made a gift this year, there is still time to help
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Nine Stingers headed to college teams
Congratulations to members of the Class of 2013 who committed to play sports in college: (at left) Rachel White, who will play volleyball for Hope College; Jasmine Cline-Bailey, who will play volleyball for Centre College; Ellen Coombe, who will play squash for Williams College; Carly Harten, who will swim for Hamilton College; John Larkin, who will play tennis for Swarthmore College; Henry Head, who will play soccer for Claremont McKenna College; Brandon Malofsky, who will play baseball for Worcester Polytechnic Institute; and (above at center, pictured with his parents) Pauley Gosiger, who will play golf for University of the South/Sewanee. ZoĂŤ Pochobradsky (above at right) signed last year as a junior to play soccer for Div. I Rice University.
More Coffee House 2013!
Coffee House 2013 featured an amazing range of visual art, a slide show of DAC artists, poetry by teacher Erich Schweikher (at right), and crowd-pleasing improvs by several Upper School actors. page 2
A look at what’s happening at Upper School
See page 5 for Middle School, page 7 for Lotspeich, and page 9 for Doherty
Congratulations, National Spanish Exam honorees
National French Contest 2012
Students shared poetry during a Poetry Slam, sponsored by Paper Noise, during lunch on the deck on May 17. Readers included ninth graders Nia Page (left) and Kate Coley.
Gold Medals (95th percentile or above)
Silver Medals (85th-94th percentile)
Bronze Medals (75th-84th percentile)
Level 2 Ben Chung (97) Kate Coley (95)
Level 1 Chas Gregory (85)
Level 2 Joanne Li (83) James Scheurer (76)
Level 3 Ellie Pasquale (99) Alayna Choo (96) Holly O´Neal (95) Level 4 Miguel Alemany—2nd in the State Andrew Ligeralde (99)—3rd in the State Roshni Bagli (98) Bilingual category Miguel Alemany—2nd in the Ohio Buckeye Chapter page 3
Level 2 Anqui Li (92) Brandi Bryson (89) Andrei Savu (89) Tziporah Serota (87)
Level 3 Adam Buford (81) George Karamanoukian (81) Nicole Malofsky (78)
Level 3 Arjun Dheenan (87) Stefan Antonsson (85)
Level 4 Zach Abraham (81)
Level 4 Marissa Steele (93)—2nd in the State Miguel Alemany (91) Caroline Linne (85)
Level 1 Jared Fisher Mike Nazzaro Steven Paul Claire Stewart
Honorable Mention (50th-74th percentile)
Jeff Welch Leigh Wilger Level 2 Anna Davis Stuart Edwards Elliot Glum Claire Piorkowski David Morad Level 3 Chris Shoemaker Clarke Waskowitz Tessa Woodall Level 4 Devin Garrett Tess Renusch
Outstanding Spring Concerts!
Congratulations to Upper and Middle Music Directors John Rising and Tina Groom, choral accompanist Lynne Miller, and their talented musicians!
For the latest Upper School news, check out the online student publication, Canvass, at http://7hillscanvass.org/. page 4
A look at what’s happening at Middle School In February several Middle Schoolers participated in the Mathematical Association of America’s (MAA) American Mathematics Competition (AMC) designed for high school students. Seventh grader Michael Barresi and eighth grader Matisse Peppet have both been awarded Certificates of Achievement for their scores of 90 or above on the AMC 10. This is the test that ninth and tenth graders take. Congratulations! Our thanks to Thomas Kilcoyne for sharing this great news about daughter eighth grader Rosie: “Since tennis ended in October, Rosie has been rowing six days a week with the CJRC (Cincinnati Junior Rowing Club), a high school rowing club, so she was allowed to start a year early. First-year rowers are novices, so up to two weekends ago, Rosie rowed novice eights and/or fours. Her boats included high school students up to a senior. All first-year rowers. Over four or five regattas, they were undefeated. “The weekend of May 18–19 was the Midwestern Championships hosted by the CJRC at East Fork Lake. Teams from all over—St. Louis, Minnesota, Chicago, Wisconsin, Detroit—400+ kids, 31 clubs, 27 cities, 10 states. Certain varsity boats could advance to the nationals June 7-10 in Tennessee. “Rosie beat out at least one high school rower to row on the Varsity Light Weight Eight in the Midwest. Rosie rowed seat five. Seats five, six, and seven are considered the engine, for the strongest rowers in the boat. They won their heat Saturday by a half boat length. They won Sunday by two-tenths of a second. They qualified for Nationals.” page 5
Top rankings on National French Contest
Level 1 (Eighth grade) Ohio and National ranking Andres Antonsson 1 perfect score Callie Jacks 2 Charlie Goldsmith 3 Rosie Kilcoyne 4 Emily McLennan 6 Wil Morriss 7 Elizabeth Bohinski 8 Alex Halonen 10 Grace Greenwald 10 Ohio ranking Harper Duncan 14 Vaibhav Vagal 12 Anjali Gupta 12 Level 01 (Seventh grade) Ohio and National ranking Alex Kreines 5, 13 Ohio ranking Garrett Reich 13 Curtis Sun 14
Hair Fair 2013!
Our thanks to the students and teachers who participated in Hair Fair 2013, benefiting Locks of Love and Pantene Beautiful Lengths: Emily McLennan, Kelly Pan, Abby Smith, Mary Grace Ramsay, Juliana Yip-Ono, Piper Spooner, Leanna Yuan, continued next page
Hair Fair 2013
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Ellie Pasquale, Abigail Clark, Danielle Toms, Delaney Ragusa, Emily Waskowitz, Tziporah Serota, Amisha Mittal, Annabel Stanley, Nora Donovan, Danielle Necessary, Carri Haskins, Kristina O’Connor, and Theresa Keller. The volunteers had their long hair cut to donate to Locks of Love, an organization that creates hair prosthetics for financially-disadvantaged children who suffer from longterm medical hair loss, and to Pantene Beautiful Lengths, which provided free, real-hair wigs for women with cancer. The very successful event is organized each year by teacher Theresa Keller. Our thanks to volunteer stylists Michelle Beamer and Team from Identity Salons.
Middle School musicians shine at Instrumental, Choral Spring Concerts!
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A look at what’s happening at Lotspeich
Kindergarten teacher Karen Martin said, “One of my favorite activities is the unit on Greek Gods and Goddesses. Children at this age are very interested in the pop culture superheroes. It is fascinating to present to them the ‘original’ superheroes. The unit focuses on the Olympian gods and goddesses with stories, pictures, art projects and many activities that involve all the senses (even tasting a variety of olives in honor of Athena’s gift of the olive tree!). All aspects of the kindergarten curriculum are integrated into this unit: language arts, geography, history, science, and math. The unit culminates with the children dressing up as deities, walking in a procession and presenting their information to their school colleagues, faculty and staff, and sharing their excitement and knowledge during a feast shared with their parents.”
On the annual Japan and China Day, second graders performed songs and folktales from Japan and China, one entitled Momatoro, Peach Boy, and the other called The Bright Pearl. Earlier in the day, students participated in an origami workshop with the help of parent volunteers. This, along with the Japan and China Webquest project presentations, culminates second grade’s study of the two countries. page 7
It was a great hands-on learning experience for the fifth graders, when they traveled to Dearborn, MI, to Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. This is the 74th year for the Lotspeich trip to Dearborn!
The fifth grade musical, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears, A West African Folktale, was a total delight and showcased the students’ talents in the arts. They sang, acted, danced, and played Orff instruments. Each animal group designed its own choreography—all before a backdrop of beautiful artwork by students in all grades. Congratulations to the fifth graders and their teachers! page 8
A look at what’s happening at Doherty
The fourth graders visited the Wright Dunbar Interpretive Center in Dayton. They had to scavenger hunt through the center museum where they learned about the personal histories of Paul Dunbar and the Wright Family. Looking at the displays in the bicycle shop helped the students understand how the Wright brothers conceived the idea of building a flying machine. A visit to the Wright family home site concluded with a walk through the historic neighborhood. The students were also excited to see the replica of the Wright flyer and asked the rangers many questions.
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The fifth graders spent an informative morning at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. The students visited the Stephen Marcs exhibit entitled, ”Passage on the Underground Railroad.” Through this creatively-presented exhibit and a cooperative learning activity, they got an insight into the places and people of the Underground Railroad, especially those in Ohio.
Students in the After the Bell Enrichment Program’s Robotics class tested their robotics and presented demonstrations for parents. The class was taught by U.C. Professor Dr. Mike Richardson. The students’ robots had two sensors that guided them on the course. Dr. Richardson said, “It is harder to program a robot with only two sensors.” The students also installed the program on their robots. In the future, Dr. Richardson plans to teach a robot programing class as well as a robot building class. Regina Daily’s math students created a fun and challenging Estimation Carnival for all students. Third graders enjoyed a wonderful trip to Findlay Market and the Urban Garden where they had the opportunity to lend a hand in the garden as part of their community service.
Beginnings students enjoy the new ECO Garden and release of butterflies.
Sarah Roberts’ second and third graders performed two plays, The Emperor’s New Hair and The Tale of the Unhoppy Bunny, for their classmates and parents to rave reviews. Congratulations!
Pre-Kindergarten Mini Pig 2013!
Just a glimpse of the fun in P.E. on Doherty’s annual Olympic Day
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