The O’Neal Quarterly •
O’Neal receives its re-accreditation for SAIS and AdvancedED/SACS.
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14 eighth and ninth grade students travel to Bourgoin -Jallieu, France for a short home stay/ study abroad.
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Upper School Spanish Teacher Michael Norman travels with four O’Neal students for five days to Nicaragua for a service/adventure trip where they visit two schools to help with painting and the installation of a library. In addition, students experience the culture including impromptu volleyball and soccer games with the locals on the beach.
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O’Neal Summer Fun kicks off its camps with record enrollment numbers and a new “Falcon Explorers” component to the traditional Falcon Day Camp for younger campers.
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Lower School students and teachers celebrate the retirement of Lower School Director Linda Roberts and Third Grade Teacher Maggie Nicoll with special dedications of a flower garden and bird house at McMurray Hall.
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O’Neal holds its 40th commencement ceremony with 32 members of the class of 2016. $3.2M in scholarships is awarded in total. William Schirmer is the class valedictorian and Eric Subin ‘04, an attorney at Subin & Subin Associates, NY is the commencement speaker.
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The Ravens score consecutive wins to keep the Simmons Cup in Middle School house competition.
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Third grade students perform the musical “An American Dream”.
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O’Neal students dedicate the annual literary magazine, “The Blackbird’s Eye” to Middle School English Teacher Kristie Wolferman. Students dedicate the yearbook, “The Talon”, to Upper School History Teacher Woody Wilder.
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Senior Sarah Colthart, signs with the Hood College Blazers for basketball. O’Neal honors Sal and Teeda Nuzzo at the annual scholarship reception for their provision of the Nuzzo Family Foundation Scholarship to a rising freshman for 16 years.
SUMMER 2016 •
Sam Henry receives the Helen Pringle Holmberg Scholarship and Peter Lovett, from New Century Middle School, receives the Hannah Marie Bradshaw Scholarship.
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O’Neal inducts 15 sophomores and juniors into the National Honor Society.
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The Middle School Science Olympiad Team places in the top 25% of the 226 participating teams at the state Science Olympiad competition. Three team members bring home a combination of seven medals.
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O’Neal celebrates Earth Day. All Middle School students make s’mores with homemade solar ovens and 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students host an Earth Day Extravaganza for their parents and students in the lower grades.
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O’Neal celebrates the Month of the Military Child (April) as guest speaker, Chaplain (MAJ) David Curlin talks to all divisions in separate assemblies on the importance of virtues and living a good life.