The Current Summer 2015

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ISSUE 5 / SUMMER 2015

Happy Summer!

Summer with Little Ones Page 3

Seniors’ Post-High School Plans Page 8

Engage the mind, enliven the spirit.

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Summer on Campus

By Paul Carlson

Although the school year has ended, our campus is still a very active place. Many staff members do take some time off, but in general we are almost all here most of the summer. Rudolf Steiner College uses our campus for many of their summer classes. And our Facilities crew kicks it into high gear to make essential repairs and maintain our beautiful buildings and grounds. Active as our campus is, when school is not in session, we do experience a certain quiet that is not apparent when the teachers and students are all here. The deer notice the new quiet right away and come to campus to eat mulberries soon after the last day of school.

We hope that your days also allow you to feel that certain quiet that is unique to summer, that your break is invigorating and restful, and we look forward to seeing you in the fall.

From the Board President

By David Herbert

The Board of Trustees is actively engaged with the rest of the SWS community in several important areas, including developing a strategic plan for the school, a part of which will be a vision of what we hope our facilities will evolve into to best support the pedagogical needs of our students and faculty. Other key topics are student safety and finances. We welcome guests at our meetings, which are held at 6:30pm on the fourth Thursday of most months (check the calendar to be sure) in the high school. Feel free to join us!

Contents Early Childhood Farm-to-Table News and Information Lower School Life Seniors’ Plans Fine Art Teacher Catch the Waves High School Happenings Friends of SWS Alumni News Beneath The Current Cover Image: Dani Roth Photography

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EARLY CHILDHOOD

Summer with Little Ones

By Lauren Hickman

Waldorf early childhood programs provide a schedule with a healthy balance between being “on task” (circle time, story time, etc), and free, unstructured activities that give opportunities for the child to develop critical thinking skills and to foster the imagination.

Find a summer schedule that works for your family. When the child knows what to expect, it helps prevent melt-downs and challenging behavior.

Parents can expect a few rocky days after the familiar schedule of school, and children will test boundaries until a new routine is in place. You might have housework, cooking, and chores completed in the morning, leaving afternoons free for outings. Bedtimes might be slightly later in the summer because it is hard to sleep when the sun is shining.

Activities -- Paint trees and fences with foam paintbrushes and a bucket of water -- Make fairy gardens with a piece of bark as a base, found treasures and flowers from nature and a little clay to hold the decorations -- Tie-dye t-shirts or socks -- Pick berries and make a cobbler or jam -- Lay on a blanket in your backyard or sleep outside during the meteor showers in August -- Make beach art from seaweed and driftwood -- Write your names in the sand with your toes -- Have a tea party -- Go to the thrift store and create a “dress up” box -- Let your child make a fort in the back yard, or even pitch a tent and camp out overnight -- Go to the library -- Visit a grandparent or elderly relative -- Have a potluck -- Trade babysitting with your close friends so you can go out with your partner

Places -- Catch the light rail line at Sunrise near Highway 50, take it to the end of the line in downtown Sacramento, walk under the freeway, and spend the day at the California State Railroad Museum -- Effie Yeaw Nature Center at Ancil Hoffman Park. This is an excellent resource, they have events all summer -- A wonderful place to camp near the coast is the Bullfrog Pond Campground near Guerneville -- Take a picnic to the giant redwoods in Calaveras county, southeast of Sacramento -- The Folsom Aquatic Center is a winner -- A great day trip for picnics, swimming, kayaking, or hiking is Jenkinson Lake just east of Placerville -- The Children’s Museum in Rancho Cordova has many activities for children of all ages

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Farm to Tales of Garden Waves Our Farmer Steve is busy on the farm growing and harvesting our yummy vegetables. We thought you would enjoy this poem about zucchini.

Attack of the Squash People

By Marge Piercy And thus the people every year

Beg on the highway: please

in the valley of humid July

take my zucchini, I have a crippled

did sacrifice themselves

mother at home with heartburn.

to the long green phallic god and eat and eat and eat.

They’re coming, they’re on us, the long striped gourds, the silky babies, the hairy adolescents, the lumpy vast adults

them in other people’s gardens, in baby buggies at churchdoors.

Shot, smuggling zucchini into mailboxes, a federal offense.

like the trunks of green elephants.

With a suave reptilian glitter

Recite fifty zucchini recipes!

you bask among your raspy

Zucchini tempura; creamed soup; sauté with olive oil and cumin, tomatoes, onion; frittata; casserole of lamb; baked topped with cheese; marinated; stuffed; stewed; driven through the heart like a stake.

Get rid of old friends: they too have gardens and full trunks.

Look for newcomers: befriend them in the post office, unload on them and run. Stop tourists in the street. Take truckloads to Boston. Give to your Red Cross.

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Sneak out before dawn to drop

fronds sudden and huge as alligators. You give and give too much, like summer days limp with heat, thunderstorms bursting their bags on our heads, as we salt and freeze and pickle for the too little to come.

Table Summer Zucchini Roast

By Wendy Sigerson I like to have a zucchini plant in my garden every summer because zucchini is easy to grow, forgiving of less than ideal conditions, full of vigor, and so bountiful!

There are many ways to eat zucchini, both raw and cooked. Grated, it adds moisture and depth to muffins and quick breads. It is a key ingredient in minestrone and ratatouille. Young zucchini, cut into sticks, add color and snap to a platter of crudites.

Ingredients 2 zucchini 1 yellow onion 2 red or green peppers 1 eggplant 3 or 4 or more garlic cloves, chopped 2 to 3 tablespoons olive oil scant tablespoon balsamic vinegar salt red pepper flakes

Directions Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a rimmed baking pan with parchment paper.

Cut the vegetables into chunks, about the size of a walnut. If the pieces are too small, they’ll burn. You can put the vegetables in a big mixing bowl, or just throw them on the lined pan. Mix in the rest of the ingredients. Use about two to three tablespoons of olive oil, and maybe a tablespoon of vinegar. Just use enough to add some shine. If you use too much, the mixture will be soggy. Add salt to taste, and a tiny amount of red pepper flakes, about 1/4 teaspoon, more if you like it hot.

Spread this out on your baking sheet in one layer. Put it in the oven for half an hour.

Take it out, stir, and put it back in for fifteen more minutes. The sugar in these sweet vegetables will caramelize and turn this into a dish that is hard to resist.

Many thanks to Wendy Sigerson, SWS alum parent. This recipe is from a summer camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains where Wendy is the head cook for 250 kids and adults. Wendy also feeds our HS actors during tech week and she also runs the Waves Cafe, the best basketball snack shack food in the country.

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News and Information The Black & White Ball Auction and Dinner Was Sensational!

By Mary Wilhelm, Director of Development It was truly a magical masquerade as party-goers donned elaborate costumes and mixed and mingled with new and old friends. Guests were welcomed with live music by a quartet featuring two of our own incredibly talented faculty, Jacob Hosler and Nathan Sutter.

Every aspect of the Lyon’s Gate outdoor and indoor venue was transformed with Black & White decorations infused with both whimsy and elegance. The delicious dinner was followed by a sumptuous dessert auction with bidding heating up into the hundreds for many of the tasty treats. As the excitement of the live auction caught fire in the room, the spirit of giving was ignited and the event ended with the night grossing one hundred thirty thousand dollars.

Auctioneer Dave Bender from CBS News Sacramento enjoyed our crowd so much he has signed on for next year’s auction. After the last item was auction off, several of the guests kept the party hopping and kicked-up their heels and danced under the stars to music mastered by internationally known DJ Mark de Clive-Lowe.

Yes, it was quite a party and a very beneficial fundraiser for SWS! If you missed this year’s exciting fundraiser, make plans to join in the fun next year when the theme for the Black & White Ball will be: ‘Casino Royale.’

This fabulous fundraiser wouldn’t happen for our school without the dedicated volunteers who generously share their time, talent, knowledge, and creativity to make it happen. Every hand that plays a part in the auction brings value to our school. As the last fundraiser of the year, the auction has direct impact on our school’s ability to remain on budget.

The auction is more than a fundraiser; it is a unique event where our community and friends come together in support of the school that provides our children with the wonderful Waldorf education we all hold dear.

How can you support the auction? Volunteer. Donate Items. Be a Sponsor. Attend. Bring your Friends. Planning for next year’s auction will kick-off in October, and more information on how to get involved will be sent in the August mailing.

Alums* Old and New, We Like to Hear from You! No matter where you live, as Sacramento Waldorf School alums, you have a home here. We invite you to maintain your connection to our community -- share your accomplishments and life milestones, join us for alumni events, and stay in touch with the growth and development of the school by receiving our weekly Announcements, bimonthly newsletter The Current, and occasional other mailings throughout the year.

Our alums are an important part of our community and have many talents and interests to share with our students and school. Join us for the Harvest Faire, the spring musical, or arrange a tour to see how the campus has changed since you walked the paths as a student here.

Follow the latest and greatest from SWS on Facebook (www.facebook.com/sacwaldorf) or Twitter (@sacwaldorf). Send your contact information and an update on you to alumni@sacwaldorf.org -we’d love to celebrate you in the alumni updates section of our next issue of The Current and make sure you are receiving our mailings!

*We say “alums” for brevity, but we mean all former students and their parents.

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LOWER SCHOOL LIFE

Summer Program News

By Peter Schoen Frances Hopkins and I are excited about this year’s SWS summer program which begins Monday, June 22, and ends Friday, July 31. We have a dynamic and experienced group of lead teachers and counselors with us this year. They are full of creative ideas for crafts, art, and games. We also have a certified lifeguard on staff which will allow us to wade and cool off in the beautiful American River on some hot central valley afternoons.

We are booking weekly presentations for the children’s entertainment and education and, as usual, will be working with Farmer Steve throughout the summer at our splendid farm. We will also have access to the movement room during some of the summer for games and challenges.

This year our themes run for two weeks which will allow returning children to deepen the work they began in the first week. Our themes are “Crafty Colors,” ”Food, Farm, and Fun” and “Drama In the Summer.” Our program serves children who are entering kindergarten through 6th grade and is open to the wider community. We bring Waldorf-inspired and developmentally appropriate activities to our three different groups. We also have volunteers from our middle school who join us as counselors in training.

So far we still have some room during most weeks. If you’d like to join us, enroll today!

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Class of 2015 Post-High-School Plans The class of 2015 earned $1,015,591.00 in merit scholarships this year.

Bravo to each graduate for choosing a path that is the best individual fit!

Kendra Barlly – Attending University of Nevada, Reno to study Criminal Justice and work while in college.

Anna Bey – Attending Savannah College of Art and Design. Also accepted to: Fisher College, Bay State College, and Johnson and Wales University Khang Bui – Attending University of the Pacific Bryce Conley – Attending California Maritime Academy (CSU Cal Maritime) to study Global Studies and Maritime Affairs Mary De Aquino – Attending UC Santa Cruz. Also Accepted to: UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, Kenyon College, Centre College, and College of William and Mary Eva De Nardi – This summer, will be traveling through Europe and will be attending an art school called Krabbesholm Hojskole for the rest of the year in Denmark. Accepted to: UC San Diego and New York University Hannah Donnelly – Attending National Holistic Institute in San Francisco to study Sports Massage Therapy Natalie Drake-Mauer – Attending Brooks Institute to study Visual Journalism Bianca Estensen – Volunteering in Nicaragua for a month, working until January and attending Mount Holyoke College for spring term. Also accepted to St. Mary’s College of CA Thejas Gulati – Attending UC San Diego. Also accepted to: Vanderbilt University, University of Chicago, UC Los Angeles, New York University, Cal Lutheran University, and Hofstra University Arielle Harvey – Attending the University of Puget Sound. Also accepted to: University of San Francisco, St. Mary’s College of CA, Lewis & Clark College, and Evergreen State College Alex Hiatt – Attending Cabrillo College for the next two years before transferring to UC Santa Cruz. Accepted to: Humboldt State University and San Francisco State University Ajuney Hora – Attending Folsom Lake College and then transferring to a four year university. Accepted to: UC Berkeley and UC Irvine Clare Keddy – Attending Lewis & Clark College and will probably be majoring in Biology or Biochemistry. Also accepted to: UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo), and St. Olaf College Ashley Lieberman – Working for one year followed by college Cindy Lin – Attending Parsons School for Design in New York. Also accepted to: Pratt Institute and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Elias Nutting – Attending Santa Barbara City College Szu-Wei (Jasmine) Pan – Attending Lewis & Clark College. Also accepted to: UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, Willamette University, Whitman College, Mills College, Whittier College, and Hiram College Kahlil Ram – Gap year and web design class over the summer. Next year I will work before going to college.

McKensie Rummel – Attending Richmond The American International University in London. Also accepted to: University of Portland, University of San Francisco, Lewis & Clark College,and Occidental College Lorene Sousa – Attending UC Santa Cruz Jordyn Stewart – Attending University of Colorado, Boulder/Denver. Also accepted to the University of Oregon Aidan Sullivan – Attending San Francisco State University, unless UC Santa Cruz takes me off the waitlist. Also accepted to: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Humboldt State University Ian Tiller-Mohr – Taking a gap year to work followed by college Kayla Tracy – Attending Butte College followed by a transfer to CSU Chico Nina West – Attending Kenyon College. Also accepted to: Connecticut College, and Kalamazoo College Emily Wyatt – Attending Sierra College and studying Natural Science Ceraphina Zhao – Attending UC Irvine. Also accepted to: UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, Hofstra University, Whittier College, University of Puget Sound, Dominican University of CA, Occidental College, University of San Diego, Willamette University, Lewis & Clark College, Chapman University, and University of the Pacific 8 8

Sherry Hirssig

High School Fine Art Teacher

By Beth Ghiorso

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herry was one of the first people I met when I began teaching at SWS. She remains as warm, welcoming, and energetic as she was in that first meeting. Over the years we have shared a mutual love for art, not only in appreciating it, but in creating it as well. Recently a student was frustrated in his attempts to create a drawing for my literature class. “What’s the point?” he said. “This is a literature class, why should I have to do art?” So I posed a form of this question to Sherry—first, should everyone create art, and secondly, can anyone learn the skills required?

“Absolutely and absolutely,” she answered. “I would say anyone can learn how to sculpt, to paint, or to draw. We ask our students to experience art, to take it in through the hands, so that when it comes time to look at the work of the masters, that work has meaning for them. This gives students a better understanding of the experience of the masters in creating great works of art. It is powerful to realize that you can create something, a painting, a sculpture, out of an idea. It generates a feeling in the student, I can do anything.”

Sherry’s love and engagement in art was fostered by her mother. Sherry’s mom was very active in the Toledo arts world, specifically in clay sculpture. She was a member of the Toledo Potter’s Guild and won a prestigious award. Sherry recalls regular outings to the Toledo Museum of Art and participating in a variety of art classes. Her love of art, sculpture, and clay work continues as she guides students throgh creating their own art, through what can sometimes seem like tricky terrain.

And would we ask the same question about writing?

“It is a skill set that can be practiced and learned, and yet, as adults, we crave all sorts of art forms, theater, music, fine arts. All of those arts are a recognition of the profound effect beauty has on us.”

As our conversation ended, Sherry reminded me of her favorite quotation from Rudolf Steiner about art: “Art is the lifeblood of the soul.” In the context of our school, the meaning is clear – although they might not appreciate it at the time, art gives students deeper understanding of the literature, history, science, and even mathematics, that they study.

For us, the value of the arts is clear. But had I really given due diligence to that student’s question?

“Well,” Sherry continued, “we can talk about how creating art cultivates patience, observation, proportion; that it appeals to different modes of learning so many things. It is another form of expression.”

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Catch The Waves Booster News The Sacramento Waldorf School Athletic Booster Club is comprised of dedicated parents, guardians, alumni, coaches, teachers, school administrators, and community members. The Booster Club supports ALL teams and student-athletes at SWS. Our goals and objectives are to: Help maintain and improve the athletic facilities at SWS; Support and recognize the efforts of our teams and athletes; Provide additional opportunities to our teams and athletes not funded by SWS; and to facilitate an on-going dialogue with the community, increasing awareness of SWS athletic events.

Thank you to Michael LeVangie and Martha DeAquino for serving as Booster Club Chair and Secretary this past school year, and thank you to Billy Stimson, the Booster Club Treasurer, for his work this year and continuing to serve the Booster Club in 2015/2016.

This was a great year for SWS Athletics with league championships in Women’s Cross Country and Combined Ski and many exciting post season

appearances by our athletes. The Booster Club and our school community held many successful events in support of our student athletes -- the Pancake Breakfast and Pasta Night get-together fundraisers, our ‘Go Blue’ events, our monthly Mountain Mike’s pizza fundraisers, purchasing the sports control board table, and getting a new sports logo out to our school community.

With the end of another school year the Booster Club looks forward to another fantastic year in Waves Athletics. Over the summer, as Wave Athletes prepare for their fall seasons, you will undoubtedly see them around campus and town.

Reach out, say hello, and wish them well with a strong yell: “Go Waves!”

The Booster Club is also seeking additional parent participation and leadership for the 2015/2016 school year to continue its forward momentum.

The Booster Club is looking for a Booster Club Chairperson and Secretary for the next school year.

If you are interested in supporting the athletic program at Sacramento Waldorf, want to meet and work with a great team of people, like to watch games and see the physical progress of our athletic teams, consider joining the SWS Booster Club.

The Booster Club meets monthly and the first meeting for 2015/2016 is Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 5:54pm in the SWS Library. At this meeting new officers will be elected. We welcome everyone to the Booster Club meetings, whether you are interested in learning and participating as a member or finding a leadership role. If you have any questions or would like to join the Booster Club, please contact Pollyanna LeVangie at pollyannalevangie@hotmail.com Have a fantastic active summer and – GO WAVES!

HIGH SCHOOL HAPPENINGS

10 Years of German/American Exchange and Friendship!

Back in 2004, Brigitte Hohlweck-Schneider, an English teacher at the Waldorf school in Ravensburg, Germany, took a gamble and made the self-funded trek across the ocean with one goal: establishing a sister school and cultural exchange partnership with the Sacramento Waldorf School. She knew no one here at SWS but quickly made contact with Susannah Martin, our high school German teacher who was then in her very first year. The two became fast friends and international colleagues and immediately started making plans, plans that proved to be extremely successful. The following year, 2005, the first exchange between the two schools took place. Charlotte Arthur (class of 2009), SWS teacher Jody Arthur’s daughter, exchanged with Brigitte’s own daughter, Alexandra. Under the guidance of Brigitte and Susannah those two young women paved the proverbial way for ten years of happy exchanges.

Fast forward to today. More than thirty of our students have participated in threemonth exchanges to Ravensburg. Students live with host families, attend school, learn about life in Germany, travel, and immerse themselves in the German culture, changing their lives in so many amazing ways. This year, Larissa Lief and Harry Taylor (both class of 2016) have exchange partners and next year Dylan Reisig and Amethyst Nutting (class of 2017) will. Our exchange program to Ravensburg attracts strong and highly motivated students to the high school and benefits everyone. We are truly blessed and fortunate to have this bridge of German/American cross-cultural understanding and friendship, and we look forward to celebrating 20 years and more!

Charlotte and Alexandra

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Friends of SWS New This Summer at Rudolf Steiner College The college has announced news about their education programs. They are making changes to the Year One Summer Teacher Education Program: offering a wide variety of professional development workshops and conferences; featuring Waldorf remedial education in their Extra Lesson Education Support Conference in August; and offering a free, weekly “Lunch & Learn” conversation series in July. They have created a new website to help you navigate and learn about these new developments: rudolfsteinercollege/events.

In addition, Rudolf Steiner College has embarked on a new partnership with MERISTEM, a postsecondary transition program for young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other developmental differences. The first MERISTEM students will be on campus September, 2015.

The Simpsons Love Waldorf Education from Inform, AWSNA Community Newsletter

As you may have heard by now, The Simpsons featured Waldorf Education on their Season 26 finale, which aired on May 17. Here’s the story: After a scathing math competition defeat, tech bigwigs take pity on Springfield Elementary and outfit the school with all the latest technology. But Principal Skinner’s ineptitude leads to a server farm crash. This is when Lisa comes up with an idea that will save the school: “Learning while Doing.” Springfield Elementary becomes a Waldorf school!

From there the students learn by doing in tongue-in-cheek fashion, like calculating the cubic feet of styrofoam to add to the Sloppy Joe mix, pouring pints of beer in fractions, wearing required sun hats, and singing songs of acceptance, love, and diversity. In the end, their new Waldorf Education helps them win the mathlete rematch by transforming an M into nine nonoverlapping triangles. We were delighted with the level of in-depth knowledge The Simpsons writers clearly possessed about pedagogy and stereotypes associated with Waldorf Education, which made this fun caricature both lighthearted and flattering. As a thank you, and a responding shout-out of sorts, our schools have been paying tribute to The Simpsons. A collection of handmade hats is being created to send to The Simpsons writers. Students from the Waldorf School of Philadelphia are creating beeswax figures of The Simpsons characters for The Simpsons execs.

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Alumni News My name is Rose Hickman and I graduated from Sacramento Waldorf High School in 2003. I recently completed a Masters degree in Public Policy at Oregon State University and was awarded a US Fulbright Fellowship to travel to Mexico City for a nine-month research project on microfinance at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Microfinance is a development strategy that provides small loans to low-income entreprenuers so that they can start a small business and increase their household income. As part of my Fulbright Fellowship, I am working with a team of academics to research how low-income women who live in rural Mexico access business training workshops as part of their microfinance loan Tabor Martinsen, programs.

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I consider myself very fortunate to have been granted the opportunity to live and study outside of the U.S. Mexico City is a beautiful, warm and challenging place to live, and beyond the obvious fulfillment that I derive from my academic research, I feel that my time here in Mexico has and will continue to shape my life in important ways. Being in a different country has challenged me in ways that have ultimately made me stronger - to speak up even when I feel shy or embarrassed, to do things on my own and to comfort myself in times of loneliness, and to remain flexible because things never go as planned.

The challenges are present, and the rewards have been great. I have made new friends here who have welcomed me into their lives without hesitation, whisking me away to family dinners, all night dance parties, open air markets, Christmas celebrations, and of course, to the library when we need to get work done. They ask me questions about life in the U.S., and answer my questions about life in Mexico, and this process of sharing play, work, ideas and dreams has helped me to remain grounded in this new place. Again, Mexico City is beautiful, rich with history and architecture and art and food (oh, the food!), but it has been my relationships with the people that I’ve met here that have been the greatest gift.

I remember my 5th grade classroom at the Waldorf School of San Diego, how my teacher had stenciled “Know Thyself” above the door, words that were inscribed at the Temple of Delphi in ancient Greece. This phrase has many interpretations, but I always took it to mean that self-awareness is one of the most basic and important sources of human knowledge. I have never been sure that I could “know myself,” as if I inhabit a certain set of immutable characteristics that are constant. Who I am, “myself,” is always changing. I am not the same person I was when I graduated from Sac Waldorf all those years ago, or when I moved to Seattle to my first “real” apartment, or when I entered Graduate School, or when I first arrived in Mexico. But I am certain that each of these transitions has served as a reminder, beckoning me to look within, stripping away all of the familiarity that we accumulate in everyday life. Mexico City is my current Temple of Delphi, and I am very grateful to have been welcomed through its doors.

Rose Hickman http://rosehickman.com/

We received an email from alum parent Christine Holmstrom earlier this year with news of her son Phillipe Holmstrom (SWS Class of ’09). She writes: …In 2013, he graduated from Prescott College in AZ with a BA in Environmental Studies, Marine Studies and Adventure Education. He has been WWOOFER (worker with World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) in Hawai’i and Colorado and is currently serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Vulankhulu, a small rural village in Eastern Province, Zambia. He is with the LIFE (Linking Income, Food and Environment) project and will complete his two-year term of service in May 2016. Friends and classmates can follow his adventures on my blog: https://peacecorpsmomzambia.wordpress.com/

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2015 SWS Summer Program June 22-July 31 Your child will revel in the unique and nature-based environment of our campus.

Camp activities include age-appropriate crafts, games, drama, art, hikes, and outdoor play.

Offering 6 One-week Sessions Program hours are 8am-2pm $200/week Full-Day program until 6pm $300/week Rising KG to Rising 6th Grade

2015-2016 Parent-Child Program September 12 Orientation (required for all enrolled parents) Session I: September 14-November 20 (10 weeks) Session II: November 30-February 12 (9 weeks) Session III: February 22-June 4 (13 weeks)

Non-mobile infant fees

Mobile infant/toddler fees

Session I: $190 Session II: $170 Session III: $240

Session I: $330 Session II: $300 Session III: $430

Classes and ages schedule Tuesday 9am-11am 8-15 months (mobile infants) Tuesday 11:30am-12:30pm 3-7 months (non-mobile infants) Wednesday 9am-11am 16-23 months Thursday 9am-11am 24+ months (new twos) Friday 9am-11:30am 34+ months (turning three)

For Information and Registration www.sacwaldorf.org 916-961-3900

For Information and Registration www.sacwaldorf.org 916-961-3900

Beneath The Current The Current is a publication reflecting the school-life of the Sacramento Waldorf School in Fair Oaks, California and is produced by: PUBLISHER Mary Wilhelm, Director of Development and SWS Parent EDITOR/EDITORIAL CALENDAR Ellie Lief, Development Assistant and SWS Parent PHOTOGRAPHY & IMAGE SUPERVISION Dani Roth, SWS Parent and BOT Member CONTENT LAYOUT Wendy Gittleman, LS Assistant and SWS Alum Parent CONTENT CONTRIBUTORS Administrator’s Welcome Paul Carlson, SWS Administrator and SWS Parent From the Board President David Herbert, SWS Parent Early Childhood Lauren Hickman, Rosebud Preschool Teacher and SWS Alum Parent Farm-to-Table SWS Farmer Steve Payne and Guest Chef Wendy Sigerson

News and Information Mary Wilhelm, SWS Director of Development and SWS Parent Lower School Life “Summer Program News” Peter Schoen, SWS Teacher and Parent “Class of 2015 Post-High School Plans” Janis Walters, SWS HS Counselor and SWS Parent “Sherry Hirssig High School Fine Art Teacher” Beth Ghiorso, SWS Teacher and Parent Catch the Waves Michael LeVangie, SWS Parent High School Happenings Susannah Martin, SWS Teacher and Parent Alumni News Rose Hickman, SWS Alum; Christine Holmstrom, SWS Alum Parent Our thanks to Erin Pace Molina Design for original design and layout