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November 18, 2011 / Volume 3 / Number 6

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Kerry Jacobson

Jonathan Borden

UN Day Lyn Chin

Linden Li

Carlos Lao

Kim Lange

Mari Eisele

Sandra Lee

Kim Crawford

Karolina Pek

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Gabby Burke

Abby Pan

Juanita McGarrigle

Ann Hefte

Remy H. Park

Greg MacIntyre

APAC baseball Samuel Vierra

Jon Biros

Todd Parham and Steve Doleman

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Upcoming board meetingsMeeting #3: November 28, 2011, 6.30 p.m., Puxi campus

Meeting #4: December 12, 2011, 6.30 p.m., Kerry Center

Meeting #5: January 30, 2012, 6.30 p.m., Pudong Campus

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On the cover: SAS High School Wind Ensemble (Puxi) play the Shanghai Jazz Festival. Photo by Tom Horton.

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Puxi venue: New High School Building, First Floor Confer-ence Room A103, Puxi campus

Pudong venue: High School Library Garden Room, Pudong campus

Kerry Center: Jun He Law O!ces, 32 F No. 1515 Nanjing West Road, Shanghai 200040

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FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT

By Dr. Kerry Jacobson, Superintendent

Back in our rural Wisconsin town, between green #5 and the tee box for #6 on the local nine-hole golf course, a large pine tree has long provided the support for an immense bird’s nest high in its upper branches. For many years, a pair of American bald eagles has resided there along with their yearly hatch of o"spring. #ese eagles are a consistent source of conversation for the townsfolk. We watch often as the adult birds hunt in the $elds and $sh in the nearby pond for food to keep themselves and the young ones alive.

I was thinking about these birds a few days back at one of our strategic planning sessions. We had been talking about our new statement of SAS core values and the mission that guides the basics of our work with children. #e topic arose concerning

our pre-existing set of learning standards — our EAGLES. #ese expected outcomes have become part and parcel of what we strive to achieve with each SAS student. Our EAGLES state that SAS students will be:

EmpoweredAdaptableGlobal-mindedLiterateEthicalSkilled inquirers.

Many of you are very familiar with these outcomes. #e questions at our plan-ning session included: “What will happen with the EAGLES now that we have a new mission statement?” and “Will we have to change all of the documents and under-standings that have been guided by the EAGLES?”

After some re%ection and a review of both the EAGLES and the new mission and core values, the response from the group was unanimous: #e EAGLES are so closely aligned with our new statements that they will still be very much used to focus our educational e"orts now and in the future. #e overlap and consistency between documents of the past and present is amazing. Words and ideas such as lifelong learn-ing, compassion, integrity, embracing diversity, collaboration, and generosity punctu-ate all of these declarations. It is as others have said: SAS has always been a place that re%ects and teaches the core values to which we are currently committing. #e SAS spirit is still the same.

Returning to our bald eagles, in the 1960s, fewer than 450 nesting pairs lived in the “lower 48” states of the United States. Because of the precipitous decline in the eagle population, the US Fish and Wildlife Service placed the eagle on the Federal List of Endangered Wildlife. #rough the concerted e"orts of many, the eagle popu-lation grew encouragingly, and now there are approximately 10,000 pairs in those same states. In 2007, after a 40-year period of danger, the eagles were removed from the Endangered Wildlife list. #is reminds me of the more than 30-year closure of Shanghai American School.

So yes, EAGLES are %ying again. In North America, they are birds. Here in Shanghai, they soar in the learnings and attitudes of our thousands of students, sta", and community members. #e endangerment is no more, not as long as we remain committed to inspiring these outcomes in all of our SAS students.

We’ve watched many generations grow; eaglets very quickly, children not as rapidly but just as surely. In both cases, the $nal results can be majestic.

#e Eagle is produced by the SAS Communications O!ce, based on both the Puxi and Pudong campuses. It is typically published twice a month, although publications schedules may vary due to school holidays. Informa-tion in the magazine is primarily about SAS people and organizations. We encourage parents, students, teachers, and administrators to submit stories and photography. It is often helpful to contact the editors in advance to discuss content, length, and timing. Articles from non-SAS sources are published on a space available basis. All submissions will be edited for style, length, and tone. Articles and stories from the Eagle also appear on our Eagle Online website, at www.eagleonline.org.

The Eagle Production TeamManaging Editor: Liam SingletonGraphic Designers: Fred Jonsson and Cindy WangAdvertising Manager: Ji LiuExecutive Editor: Steven Lane

Production Schedule 2011–12Dec 9: Copy deadline Nov 24

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Pudong campus: Shanghai Executive Community, 1600 Ling Bai Lu, San Jia Gang, Pudong, Shanghai 201201. Tel: 6221-1445.

Puxi campus: 258 Jinfeng Lu, Huacao Town, Minghang District, Shanghai 201107. Tel: 6221-1445.

Email: [email protected]

A Century of Tradition

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By Jonathan Borden, High School Principal, Pudong campus

Why choose Shanghai American School?Families choose to send their sons and daughters to Shanghai American School for a variety of reasons — great academic reputation, world-class facilities, caring faculty . . . there are proba-bly as many di"erent reasons as we have students.

Why did you choose SAS?When we think of “school,” we normally think of aca-demics: the “stu" and skills”

that de$ne an educated person and prepare him or her for the years ahead in university, in the workplace, and in life. And aca-demics at SAS are terri$c, by any measure. We should celebrate that. However, SAS stands for much more than great academics. What else do we develop in our students beyond academics?

During the past year, SAS has been involved in a massive strategic planning e"ort, with over 150 parents, students, faculty, administrators, and Board members de$ning and developing a plan to drive SAS forward over the next $ve years. #e corner-stone of that e"ort has been a new set of core values and a new mission statement, approved last spring by the Board. #is new mission statement is quite unusual among international schools, yet truly sums up what we are all about and encapsulates quali-ties and characteristics that in many ways are more life-impact-ing than the excellent academics that we are rightly known for:

Shanghai American School inspires in all students: A lifelong passion for learning,A commitment to act with integrity and compassion, and#e courage to live their dreams.

Like most mission statements, this sounds impressive, but what does it mean in day-to-day, real life at SAS?

A lifelong passion for learning . . . Some educational philosophies and systems, over time, can im-pede the natural human instinct to learn. A number of national educational systems, for example, equate “reading books” with study and memorization (potentially sti%ing lifelong passion for reading); use instructional techniques that are based on memori-zation of static facts (a process at odds with natural inquiry and thinking); and impart skills and knowledge that are out of date and lacking credibility or relevance (which can have the e"ect of making students uninterested). We should remember that schooling is more than a ticket to $nancial success, but is a quest to satisfy our universal thirst to learn and experience new things.

At SAS, and other schools like us, we strive to always remember this — through teaching with an emphasis on col-

INSIDE SAS

laboration with others, placing importance on and encouraging creativity, and training students to develop and use immediately relevant communication skills. Our 1:1 laptop program, which is a native environment for many of our students, can be another way of engaging our students and helping them to naturally seek out new information and understanding. In any division of SAS, on any day, you can see many examples of students actively and excitedly engaged in learning, not only because there may be $nancial “success” in their future, but because they $nd that learning is fun and satis$es their own natural thirst to learn and grow.

A commitment to act with integrity and compassion . . .Certainly SAS students are given a wide range of opportunities to experience what it means to act in these ways. Not only are students encouraged to help one another and to show personal support, but our more formal service organizations o"er $rst-hand opportunities to do this. Whether it is helping a Nepalese family to build a new home on a Habitat for Humanity trip, collecting money for earthquake victims, or teaching English to our school guards and ayis, students learn the intrinsic rewards of helping others and making a di"erence — and making it a lifelong habit.

The courage to live their dreams. . .#is phrase has probably caused more discussion, excitement, and consternation in our new mission statement than any other. Undoubtedly, this can mean di"erent things to di"erent people — teachers, parents, and students. It looks di"erent to an eight-year-old than it does to an 18-year-old. For a young child, “living their dreams” might be studying something they have always wanted to learn about, whether it be penguins or earth-quakes or brain surgery. Young children’s “dreams” are appro-priately short-term and focus more on temporary interests. For an older student, however, it is about learning to live his or her own life. All young people, in order to be successful adults, must at some time break away from families and parents and strike out on their own. #is process, however, is not just about being independent, but about following their dream. And this is the critical question: Do they follow the dream of their parents and grandparents for them to be a doctor or lawyer? Or the dream of their teachers for them to be writers or scientists? No. Accord-ing to our mission statement, we want our students to have the courage to follow their own dreams.

So what is our role as loving parents and caring teachers? Should we simply abandon them to follow their own adoles-cent whims and unrealistic plans? No, not at all. Certainly our role is to guide, to advise, and to encourage, but most of all to empower them to make wise decisions, to learn from inevitable mistakes, to try out di"erent interests, and thus equip them to responsibly follow their dreams and be the people they have a passion to be.

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UN DAY CENTENNIALCELEBRATIONS

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Colorful %ags and dolls created by elementary students adorned the hallway. Beautifully decorated and painted canvases (fash-ioned by parent volunteers), covered with Centennial wishes hung aesthetically from wooden trees borrowed from the art de-partment. Hand-stapled UN Day passports were given out, along with questionnaires that required students to visit each booth to learn a little about the country, and in the process receive a prize. And tokens of appreciation, purchased in Shanghai’s wholesale markets, were presented to students. All this, certainly, did not happen overnight.

It took $ve parent volunteers to plan, organize, and work to-gether with other parents, teachers, administrators, and support services sta" to get all 37 countries into one gym in the Pudong

high school for UN day celebrations. An American mom helped to stamp passports for Vietnam and Sri Lanka, Korean parents helped with the token tables, a Chinese parent helped out in the #ai booth, a Lithuanian parent and her Kenyan friend ran the Kenyan table — need I say more? #ese are only some of the examples of how dedicated the parent volunteers were in helping to stamp the seal of success on this event.

#e $rst group of students rolled in at about 8:45 a.m. and from that point on parent volunteers were kept busy stamping UN Day passports and answering questions thrown at them. Flag stickers were given away to the students that visited the most booths, while others had balloons, pens, bags, travel brochures, pins, stick-on tattoos, and more. Students also received tokens of appreciation for completing questionnaires, while middle and high school students had a choice of Kinder chocolates from our corporate sponsors, or a token gift.

By lunchtime, and quite true to tradition, everything that was fun had something to do with food. Introduced this year was the international food potluck lunch for all parent volunteers, and it proved to be a great success. Country representatives show-cased their culinary skills, and the lunch spread was amazing, considering parent volunteers had to also work on their booth’s displays. Incredibly they found time to produce food that could put M on the Bund to shame! Many new friendships were forged over a great variety of sumptuous delicacies during that lunch-hour, whilst providing a much needed break for the hardworking parents. Lunch ended with Ferrero Rocher chocolates given to all parent volunteers, compliments of the Italian sponsors.

As the event concluded, behind closed gym doors and through private ballots cast by all participating countries, the Chilean booth was voted the “Booth #at Best Represented Its Country.” Chilean parent Ludmila Vazquez Ginesta was present-ed with a bottle of sparkling Spanish wine (donated by a parent) for her amazing single-handed e"ort.

What an amazing day it had been. Our journey was ex-hilarating, exhausting, exciting, even frustrating at times, but it was never for lack of fun, for we had promised each other that whatever happened, we must never forget the laughter.

In the end, I still wonder if the students had a good experi-ence while they visited the beautifully decorated booths. Did they have fun learning something new about a neighboring country? Did they play ddakji at the Korean table? Did they see Coach George’s Olympic quest at the Greek booth? Did they learn more about the bindi at the Indian booth? I hope they did because this is ultimately the objective of the event. To learn a little something about the people we meet almost daily in school, and know that despite our di"erences, we really are all the same inside. #is is what the UN Day is all about.

#e day would not have been possible without the support of parent volunteers, teachers, the administrators, support services and students, and so, on behalf of my wonderful team mates and co-organizers, Rosy Giardini, Josie Basile, Mary Garvey, and Regina Dolon, we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

PHOTO BY LYN CHIN

By Lyn Chin, UN Day Committee Member, Pudong campus

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On October 24, SAS celebrated United Nations Day (UN Day). Students collected some great information about coun-tries from all over the world, including Chile, India, Korea, China, and lots more!

To celebrate this special event, students could choose to dress up in clothes that represented their nations. It was so much fun to see the beautiful and traditional out!ts, such as the Korean hanbok, and the Chinese dragon suit.

Students went to the high school gymnasium to learn about many di"erent nations. Everybody obtained a passport and a questionnaire to show what he or she learned. After learning about a country, the student would be rewarded with a stamp on her passport, and when a questionnaire was com-pleted, the student would be awarded a red balloon.

#ere were many booths showing various customs and national symbols of that country. Some fun facts that students learned included:

In Korea, people wear hanboks, which are dresses made of many vibrant colors, such as red and blue.Chile is home to the driest desert in the world, the Atacama. In the USA, the Big Apple is a nickname for New York — there are many stories of why it has this nick-name, but it still remains a mystery. Sri Lanka was formerly known as Ceylon.Indonesia’s currency is the rupiah. Singapore’s national $ower is the orchid. #e world’s largest coral reef, located in Australia, is the Great Barrier Reef.

Parents also gave presentations and did a phenomenal job in teaching us. We learned a lot!

SAS celebrates UN Day to recognize and appreciate the many cultures represented in our student population. In addi-tion, it gives parents a chance to share with the students what makes their country special. It is a cool and fun way for the students to learn about the world, and an occasion to celebrate our international community. #is has been a tradition in SAS for many years. As the kids left the gym, there were big smiles on their faces!

“I’m glad that we have UN Day because it reminds us how lucky we are to have such a diverse student population,” noted elementary academic support teacher Mr. MacIntyre. “#is makes our school quite unique.”

United Nations Day, the day we respect and remember the people who helped and sacrificed themselves for peace.

We should think that all the nations' traditions are important for us to celebrate.

UN DAY

By Linden Li, Grade 5, Pudong campus

— Yoo Chan Shin

— Joon Soo Park

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When the doors !nally opened, it was as if the whole world had been stu"ed in to the high school gymnasium. Out of the 196 countries in the world, 37 were packed in (almost 20% of the world’s total — that’s a lot considering how massive our world is, and how small our gym is!).

UN Day is a day when countries come together to cel-ebrate diversity. #is special day was declared on October 24, 1947. #e purpose of the United Nations is to bring all nations of the world together to work for peace and development, based on the principles of justice, human dignity, and the well-being of all people. In 1971 it became an international holiday. SAS participates in this celebration because it is an international school. #e day provides an opportunity to showcase where you’re from and to !nd out interesting facts about where others are from. UN Day o"ers a chance for students to take a glimpse of all the di"erent countries in the world.

Mr. MacIntyre, elementary academic support teacher, said, “#ere are 50 di"erent countries represented at SAS. #is day helps us celebrate and learn about di"erent cultures. #e tradition is very important in UN Day.”

Did you know, UN Day is actually part of UN Week, which runs from 20 to 26 October? Another fun fact is that only 192 countries in the world participate in UN.

On the day, each person received a passport and a sheet of paper with questions. When a person answered all the questions, they won a prize. #e questions required you to go to the booths to !nd the answers. People ran from stall to stall, their hands full of souvenirs from the booths. All of them checked their paper, repeating the questions to themselves.

“#e crowd was like a swarm of bees, hungry to get to the stalls!” Lauren Palmer from 5DN said.

#e gymnasium was buzzing with energy! Booths were everywhere, forming a big circle. #ey all had giant, colorful $ags standing behind each desk where information about the country was spread out. But the best part was not the booths. #e best part was that everybody left the gymnasium with a smile knowing that next year it could only get better!

UN, standing for United Nations, is an organization which aims for cooperation in international law, international security, economics, human rights, and most of all, achievement of world peace.

UN DAY

By Carlos Lao, Grade 5, Pudong campus

— Justin Shao

PHOTOS BY LYN CHIN

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ALUMNI

By Kim Lange, Assistant to the Board of Directors

#e $nal line of the SAS mission statement declares that our school will inspire in all students “the courage to live their dreams.” SAS alumnus Austin Hu is certainly the embodiment of this statement. Owner and head chef at renowned Shanghai restaurant Madison, Hu knows $rsthand the challenges that can come from carving out an unexpected career and life path.

Hu was born in the United States and as a small child also lived in Australia and Taiwan before moving with his family to Shanghai. Upon arrival as an eight-year-old in 1987, he enrolled at SAS and stayed through seventh grade. While Hu enjoyed nearly all of his classes, he gravitated towards the sciences. He was also a “big bookworm” and read his way through most of the SAS library (due both to his voraciousness and to the fact that the collection then was still fairly small).

During Hu’s SAS tenure in the early 1990s, the school was $rst located on the grounds of the US Consulate and then moved to the campus of Shanghai’s #3 Girls’ Middle School on Jiangsu Lu. Although it was a time of limited extracurricular ac-tivities, he and his classmates did participate in school plays and musical performances. His involvement with basketball provides an especially fond memory.

“We had nothing in the way of an organized basketball team, so one of the teachers just grouped a bunch of us together and we played our hearts out,” he recalled. #eir $rst real game was against the city’s only other international school at the time: Shanghai Japanese School. Hu recalls the entire SAS student

body staying after school to watch the game, as well as a few girls “cheering” on the team with faux pom-poms that his mother crafted out of small bushes. “It was the $rst time I had been on a team representing a school,” he said. “We had a blast playing and got the chance to get a little closer to the Japanese students.”

#is opportunity to forge friendships and understanding with people from other cultures is what Hu views as the greatest bene$t from attending SAS, one that has a"ected his entire cu-linary career. Sharing lunches and spending nights with friends from so many countries allowed him to partake in a selection of cuisines for the $rst time. “I remember distinctly eating my very $rst cheese sou&é at my friends Adrien and Amelie Lan's house,” he fondly recalls. “#e %avors and textures were a revela-tion.” During this time he also had his $rst taste of kimchi and realized that a “perfect lunch” could be created by simply laying out good bread, cold cuts, and cheeses. Hu carried this impor-tance of cultural understanding with him into the kitchens in which he worked, where he was constantly called on to interact with, and later manage, people from di"erent parts of the world.

After completing high school in Japan, Hu graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania with degrees in Econom-ics and East Asian Studies. His initial plan was to work in the United States for a few years and then head back to Asia to live an expat life similar to the one he grew up in. But this was not to be. Six months into his job running an antiques business in New York, he realized the international business path was not for him.

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touches to the dish.

PHOTOS PROVIDED BY AUSTIN HU

Instead he pursued his passion for cooking and enrolled in the French Culinary Institute in New York. Hu, it seemed, was never too old to learn something new.

And what did his parents make of this drastic change? “#ey have always been supportive of me in my choices, but this was di!cult for them to understand at $rst,” he says. “I had come out of a pretty good college with some rather lofty goals, and I ended up being a line cook in New York.” During his nine years there, Hu worked at four di"erent establishments, including Gramercy Tavern, one of the city’s most celebrated and popular restaurants.

Although the idea of their son attending graduate school continued to be on their minds, Hu’s parents abandoned that idea about four years ago. “I was visiting Shanghai and o"ered to cook them and their friends a real meal, seven courses from start to $nish,” Hu recalls. “#ey saw the process, the menu writing, the sourcing, how I started three days before the meal with butchering and stock making, and all the work that actually went into preparing a $ne dining meal.” #is was a signi$cant moment for Hu, and for his parents.

Not only did this period demonstrate to his parents where Hu’s true talent and passion lay, it also paved the way for his moving back to Shanghai. #is city of possibilities proved a fertile ground for fostering his dream of establishing his own restaurant. Madison opened its doors in May 2010 and has been doing excellent business ever since. Hu takes pride in using

truly local ingredients to make global cuisine. If a dish calls for an item that is outside of the local growing season, he prefers to take it o" the menu and replace it with one utilizing ingredients that are fresh and in season.

When asked if he would ever have imagined his current life while he was at SAS, Hu responds, “Not at all.” He points to a variety of factors such as the lack of perceived glamour associated with cooking back then, his focus on other possible careers, and, of course, the fact that he was still quite young. Not to mention the concept of Western dining in Shanghai was new and rather limited at that time.

All the hours Hu has invested in Madison are paying o". “I feel lucky to love what I do for a living — I know not everyone can say that,” he says. “It’s tiring, and physically and mentally draining, but the feeling of self-satisfaction at the end of a good day is pretty hard to beat.”

Hu’s courage to live his dream is now evident to everyone, particularly his parents. “I like to think that I have done them proud,” he concludes. “Besides, how many other people have someone to literally make whatever they feel like eating when-ever they want?!”

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Dancing with the Stars meets Jacaranda . . .SAS has a long standing association with the Jacaranda school in Malawi. Can you imagine what Jacaranda could do with $500,000? !is dream is only weeks away and you can help make it reality. All you have to do is vote.American actress and talk show host Ricki Lake and her partner Derek Hough will donate all their winnings from Dancing with the Stars to the Jacaranda School if they win. But to win, they need our votes.

To vote, go to http://vote.abc.go.com/shows/dancing-with-the-stars/vote.

Online voting is open from noon to 8 p.m. every Tuesday, for the next four weeks. Please share this with your friends as every vote counts and moves Jacaranda closer to winning this amazing gift. By voting, you support the education of the chil-dren at the Jacaranda School.

Enjoy this video of Ricki speaking about Jacaranda on The Ellen Degeneres Show.

http://ellen.warnerbros.com/2011/10/ricki_lakes_big_dona-tion_1006.phpREMEMBER: Vote every Tuesday for the next 4 weeks between noon and 8:00 p.m.

Movember fundraiser for Men’s Health and Prostate Cancer Research

Oscar Wilde once wrote, “One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”Here at SAS, most men are, alas, not works of art. However, for the month of Movem-ber, they can at least wear a work of art.

Movember is a fundraiser event (emphasis on ”fun”) wherein male faculty and staff members spend the 30 days of November growing, trimming, and fashioning their mustaches — ones like they’ve never sported before (and in all likelihood, ones that family and colleagues hope never to see again!)

Teachers, students, staff, and parents support their efforts by donating money. The staff member with the winning mustache is the one who receives the most cash votes. And remember, all money goes to the Men’s Health cam-paign, and prostate cancer research, so I’m sure organizers will turn a blind eye to multiple voting!

Look out for fliers around campus to learn more about this extraordinary fundraiser event. Vote boxes will appear be-sides photos of these mustachioed masterpieces, so place your money on the ‘tash you deem worthy of the cash.

By Ben Regan and Michael Sheehan

ILLUSTRATIONS BY HANNAH KIM

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#e SAS Centennial Cookbook has arrived! #e Eagle wanted to e$nd out a bit more so we sat down with the two masterminds be-hind the project: SAS parents Audrey Okamoto and Teresa Kuo.

How did you come up with the idea of putting together an SAS cookbook? Audrey: It seemed like a worthwhile project to take on: it couldbe a fundraiser for the school and the timing seemed perfectgiven it’s the centennial year for SAS. What a great way to com-memorate our 100th year.

What makes this di!erent from other cookbooks out there?Audrey: Besides the fact that this is the SAS Centennial Cookbook,featuring 100 recipes, this cookbook was produced by people wholove food, love to cook, and use cookbooks themselves.Teresa: We put a lot of thought into this project. We wantedsomething that would serve the community so it’s very user friendly: a hardcover cookbook to last a long time; printed onhigh-quality paper that’s easy to write on; and, a spiral-boundformat so that the book opens %at. Many of us have ayis so it was simportant that we published a bilingual cookbook. Besides theusual index and table of contents, we also included a conver-sion section (metric to imperial) and a substitution section. #esubstitution section is great because it can sometimes be di!cultto $nd the right ingredients in China.

Who was involved with the project?Teresa: #e idea of publishing an SAS Centennial Cookbook came from Audrey and she approached me last fall about helping out. Audrey contacted community organizations for sponsor-ships and dealt with the printers. I proofed and edited thesubmissions. But the production of this book involved the entireSAS community of teachers, parents, students, and alumni. We really wanted to unite the two campuses with this — onecookbook, one school, and SAS’s cultural diversity re%ected in the submissions.

How did you involve the community?Teresa: We solicited both Puxi and Pudong campuses for recipesubmissions. All the cover and interior artwork comes from SAS second to $fth grade students. And we approached friends and family members to pitch in with translations.

Where will the proceeds go?Audrey: A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the W.I.L.L. Foundation, a nonpro$t organization aimed at sup-porting marginalized children. W.I.L.L. provides children with a loving environment and an educational program designed tonurture and develop their learning desires. #e remaining saleswill be donated to SAS for a cause that bene$ts the school.

What was most rewarding about being part of this project?Teresa: Watching it come together, from Audrey asking the ques-tion, “Why don’t we have a cookbook?” to seeing the $nal prod-uct arrive from the printer. #e result was close to, if not better than we envisioned it. It’s very rewarding because I’ve never doneanything like this before. You can make a di"erence with just a spark of an idea.

Which recipe is your favorite?Audrey: Teresa and I both agree on this one. It’s a bit of an “Eas-ter Egg.” You’ll have to $nd it. Hint: it doesn’t involve cooking.

!e SAS Centennial Cookbook is available at both the Pudong and Puxi Eagle Shops. Pick up your copy today!

Teresa and Audrey show off the new SAS centennial cookbook.

PHOTO PROVIDED BY TERESA KUO

By Mari Eisele, PTSA Winter Bazaar Coordinator

Winter Bazaar#ursday, December 1, 201110:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.Pool hallway

Please join us at the SAS Pudong campus for our annual Winter Bazaar. #ere will be over 30 vendors o"ering a variety of items, including jewelry, home decorations, wrap-ping paper, toys, and a lot more. Get a jump start on your holiday shopping!

#e Winter Bazaar directly follows the PTSA GeneralMeeting. Do not miss this opportunity to purchase gifts early and avoid the holiday rush!For further details, please visit the PTSA blog athttp://teachers.saschina.org/pudongptsa.

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Intel Corporation, LA Prime, , New Horizon, Double Tree by Hilton, PetIn, HealthTown Veterinary Hospital, Aston Hawai, Waikiki Beach Hotel, Country Holidays Travel, Real Travel Shanghai, Puxi PTSA, NFL, Bellvilles Fashion Co. Ltd, Winners' Circle Learning Center, Belle Vogue, #e Peninsula, Shanghai, Baseball Stars United, TianMa Country Club, Mandarin Hill, Massage Club, Alpha Dental, ParkwayHealth, Silport Oak Valley Golf Academy, Hyatt on the Bund, Peace Hotel, 81West Hair Salon, , Johnny Moo, Salon de Paris, Nar Café, Broadway Center @ Shanghai, Children’s Technology Workshop, Hu & Hu, ICBC Bank, Asian Tigers, Fusion Management, Greenwave, Blue Frog, Smiling Pharmacy, Pizza Hut, Eurest, Clover Restaurant, UBC Co"ee, Monk and Burrito Shack, #ai Table, World Health Store,

, Mei Fei, LongDe Resort, Jenny’s Flower Shop, Jonas Emil, Indian Masala, Sweet Ever After, and Teresa Liu.

PHOTOS BY ANDREW MARKS AND ISABELLE SANDFELDER

PTSA

#e PTSA supports many activities and groups: ES Passport Check Club, ES class parties, ES class t-shirts, parent network-ing events (ES, MS, and HS), Parent Information Fair, First Friends Committee, Parent Teacher Social, High School Prom and Winter Ball, MS CISSA tournament snack bags, MS open gym, MS end of year parties and Goof Olympics, 5th grade transition ceremony and 5th grade graduation gift, 8th grade transition ceremony and 8th grade graduation gift, HS gradu-ation celebrations and HS graduation gift, Varsity team travel bags for all varsity sports, music, and drama participants, sup-port of three students for Shanghai Sunrise, support of school community service e"orts, support of the “the arts” at SAS, and HS scholarships.

PTSA Subcommittee Chairs:Chairperson: Karen ChowFair Finance: Jennie DanielsFacilities: Marilyn SimPublicity: Sandra LeeVendors: Naomi Liu and Hanna TanCorporate Sponsorship: Paul HsuTickets: Ritsuko Koh, Wendy Nellis, and Wendy WangRa&es: Judy ZhangGames: Margaret Keefe and Margaret BoudreauFood: Paula Hsu, Simmi Singh, Lynnette Hsu, and Christine KohEntertainment: York-Chi Harder and Isabelle SandfelderBake Sale: Diane PippengerUsed Books Sale: Donna Oppelt and Weina DingPumpkin Patch: Leslie Yang

Centennial International Fair Committee

The Puxi PTSA gratefully acknowledges the su

Platinum

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As a parent and volunteer, I look back at our October 29 Inter-national Fair and am amazed at how everything and everyonecame together to create an incredible and fun day. Amazing in its planning and amazing in how it helps our students and commu-nity long after the fair.

Until I volunteered, I never realized how much it takes to make this day happen. #ousands of people walked through the gates that Saturday to enjoy good food, shopping, games, ra&es,entertainment, and more. Yet did you know it took hundreds of people to make it happen?

Pre-fair work began in May 2010, with more than a dozen PTSA subcommittees, led by Karen Chow, International Fairchairperson. #e weeks leading up to the fair involved parents spending endless hours planning and getting corporate sponsors, ra&e prizes and donations, whilst SAS sta" like Jian Mei Geng, Victor Zheng, Tommy Wang, Amy Ding, Cindy Wang, and MC Andy Marks, plus all the hard working ayis, security guards, and ground crews — all played their part in its success. On top of this were the coordination and participation of hundreds of stu-dents who entertained us with music, dance, and games, and theSAS parents and sta" who came forward to volunteer their time on the day — the teamwork involved was truly amazing!

#e Yang/Chen family generously donated all the pumpkinsfor the Pumpkin Patch to support the middle school and a char-ity, #e Giving Tree. #e new activity brought a truly autumnal feeling to the day. #e enthusiasm of middle school teacher Andy Lewis was matched only by the students and teachers who raised RMB 7,789 for the Giving Tree Program by buying pumpkins. All of the proceeds of the high school manned games, Booster Grill, and Elementary School Bake Sale go back to the respective clubs and groups, and half of the drink sale proceeds%ow back to the senior class.

#anks to the pro$t of more than RMB 300,000 from thefair, the PTSA can continue helping in many ways.

Looking back on the day, we are thankful it did not rain:As all the veteran organizers, teachers, and parents know, it has never rained at International Fair. Our record holds. #ank you everyone for making our 2011 Centennial International Fair so great and setting up our school for an amazing year ahead!

PTSA

THE CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL FAIR

e support of our corporate sponsors.

A RICH PAST

A PROMISINGFUTURE

Gold Silver Bronze

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SCHOOLWIDE

By Kim Crawford, PTSA MYG Nite Coordinator, Pudong campus

Fantastic costumes, dancing, dodge ball, a haunted house, and delicious treats were all on o!er at the “Halloween Extravaganza,” an event hosted by the Pudong middle school, as partof the Halloween parades and celebrations across both campuses.

"e afternoon was part of a longstanding middle school tradition, known as the MYGNite (GYM spelled backwards). Several times each year, middle school students get to hang out after school for friendship, camaraderie, and fun. On Friday, October 28, over 300 cos-tumed students enjoyed the festivities.

"e highlight of the event was a haunted house created by high school Habitat for Humanity and Fringe members. Students were guided by #ashlight through a terrifying hotel with scary surprises around every corner. "e Habitat and Fringe goal of entertaining students, while raising awareness of their group’s activities, was certainly achieved.

"e Eagle Ambassadors (middle school students who have applied and been elected by the class to help out at events, give tours, and plan student assemblies) organized this year’s Halloween Extravaganza. "ey worked with Mr. Ryan Kulikowski to put together a variety of activities that would appeal to all middle school students. A theme of zombies and vampires set the tone for the afternoon. Parents sent in hundreds of treats, including realistic-look-ing white rats made of marshmallow! DJ Oscar provided an energetic dance setting, and the afternoon ended with a middle school favorite:zombies vs. vampires dodge ball.

"anks to all who helped to make this event a success.

PHOTOS BY CINDY EASTON, FREDRIK JÖNK SSON,AND STEPHEN CAROZZA

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FEATURE

!e Shanghai American School High School Wind Ensemble (Puxi) was honored to play the opening performance at the 2011 Shanghai Jazz Festival held in the “In !eater” stage at the Expo Garden Park, on September 15. !e band was o"ered this choice time and area because of the stellar performance of the SAS Jazz Band the year before.

Eighty talented high school band students were accompanied by chaperones Alan Chan and Tom Horton, and parent chap-erones Mr. and Mrs. Hwang. Support services event coordina-tor Tommy Wang, plus his support crew, traveled to the Expo Garden Park for the sound check and performance. !e band had a 7:00 a.m. pick up time, meeting at the festival an hour later, followed by a 9:00 a.m. sound check. !e sound crew was most attentive, meeting the band's every need and ensuring the sound was fantastic on this international stage.

!e Wind Ensemble played a one-hour set at 12:30 p.m. to an enthusiastic audience, which included many parents who came to watch the performance. I spoke to the crowds in both English and Chinese (much to the amusement of my students). !e mu-sic chosen was all-American and displayed a wide range of genres, from rock, pop, and swing, to an American march. One of the highlights of the performance was the piece, “Big Band Spectacu-lar,” which featured big band jazz from the 40s.

Performers from bands 1 and 2 combined on that day with true Eagle spirit. Fantastic solos were played by Geon Ah Shin, Patrick Wu, Jane Yoon, and Matthew Lock. Mrs. !am, mother of Alston, said, “It was really great!”

A Brazilian musician and producer, Tinho Perreira, sought me out later in the day. He told me, “I heard this great music coming from the theater and I wondered what band in Shanghai

sounds like that. I climbed the stairs to see who it was and then I saw you with students. I couldn’t believe it was students and not adults!”

PHOTOS BY TOM HORTON

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FEATURE

On October 18, three students from SAS high school, Puxi campus, along with choir director Karolina Pek, traveled to the beautiful city of London to attend the 2011 AMIS Jazz Festival at the American School of London (ASL). SAS was represented at the festival for the #rst time by students Austin Rice, Helen Hong, and Elsie Ling. !e trio participated in the vocal jazz en-semble with 12 other students from international schools around the world. In addition, they worked with members of the jazz band that consisted of 27 other talented musicians.

During the #ve-day stay, the students toured famous land-marks, including Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery, Buck-ingham Palace, and Westminster Abbey. !ey also took in the musical “Wicked.” But at other times they were hard at work.

After three days of intense rehearsal, they worked on their music and concluded the experience with two live performances. !e #rst was a casual and laidback night at a local pizza parlor, where families and teachers gathered to enjoy a relaxing night of jazz combos (four musicians per vocal jazz combo) performed by the students. It was a real highlight to hear small groups in an intimate setting. On the #nal night, ASL hosted a formal concert featuring a vocal ensemble and the jazz band. Highlights of the evening included singing “He beeped when he should have bopped” and “Chili con carne.”

!e students did a magni#cent job in their individual solos and also as a group. A number of friendships were built, and at the end of the week, saying goodbye to London was the only downside of the trip. We met many great people and we left great friends.

AMIS stands for the Association of Music in International Schools. !is organization hosts the world’s highest caliber of

music festivals for international schools. In order to be admit-ted, an audition tape must be sent to England. Students are then selected by an audition panel, the competition being #erce as students are competing with students from all over the globe. To be selected is a top honor.

Top: Austin Rice, Helen Hong, and Elsie Ling at the famous Abbey Road crossing. Above: Karolina Pek and the trio.

PHOTOS PROVIDED BY KAROLINA PEK

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The Giving TreeWill you help bring joy and encouragement to a child this holiday season? Again this year, SAS is helping children at migrant schools. Most of these children live in single room homes with no heating, and only have access to community showers. Parents are working as farmers, or garbage collectors in our city, and live on a monthly income of about RMB 2,000.

Please !ll your bag with a toy, pair of shoes, school supplies, warm jacket, 1-3 miscellaneous items, and a note.

"ank you for your help!

ACTIVITIES

Select a child by signing up during elementary parent–teacher conferences. Please return bag to SAS by December 1.Coordinated by the SAS Eagle Leaders.Contact Ms. Stevenson or Mr. Hanlin-ES.Phone: SAS at 6221-1445www.givingtreechina.org

A big “thank you” to all the students, parents, and teachers who generously supported the recent Shang-hai American School Puxi campus annual book fairs.

Almost one hundred parents volunteered to help during the book fairs by setting up the book displays, assisting students with their purchases, and #nally packing up afterwards. Without their price-less assistance, the fairs would not be possible.

!e International Book Fair was a great time for SAS families to stock up on gifts for your children, or for birthday and holiday presents. !e fairs are a library service to our school community; these special events are self-funded, with no school monies used. “Pro#ts” from this year’s book fairs are used to fund the next school year’s book fair, and to help pay for activities, such as the visiting author program.

A very special thank you to PTSA Book Fair coordinators, who worked tirelessly recruiting volunteers and regularly helping out throughout this special event. Also thanks to committee chair Sandra Lee, and Fanghua Jiang from the Puxi campus middle school. PHOTO BY BEATRICE WU

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Inside SAS - continued

As the adults in their lives we only have about 18 years to mold them, but eventually, they need to $y like Eagles and to “follow their dreams” wher-ever they may lead, even if this takes them down a di"erent path than the one we would have chosen.

We return to the ques-tion of why you chose to send

your child to SAS. !ere may be many reasons, but one thing that everyone should understand is that at SAS we are not training our students to be the compliant or unthinking workers of tomorrow. We encourage critical thinking, and the robust questioning of all evidence and sources. !ese are skills considered essential to higher education, and life in general. Mostly, we are not pointing them in one life direction, but pointing out to them multiple directions, helping them to realize their own talents and strengths and interests, and saying “the entire world of possibilities is there for you: so dream – and live.”

As parents and teachers of this amazing group of young people, may we overcome our own tendency to want them to live our dreams, and insist that they seek and live their own dreams.

Winter Clothing DriveNovember 14 to December 9

The Pudong campus will be collecting your “gently” used winter clothing, blankets, and shoes along with your “gently” used toys.

Bring your items and place them in the collection boxes located throughout the school. The collection will be given to The Renewal Center. This amazing center is a place for bottle collectors, trash collectors, and the down and out to get a hot shower, a change of clothes, and if they want, training in more marketable skills.

They are looking for some support, both monetary and volunteering. The person who runs the center is Jimmy McWhinney. He is available to give presentations/lectures about his work as well. It is an awesome program that reaches the people in Shanghai who often get overlooked. Through the Renewal Center many lives have been changed dramatically for the best. You can reach Jimmy directly at [email protected].

ACTIVITIES

!e week of October 23, Puxi middle school students and teachers could be seen wearing outrageous clothing. It was Spirit Week, and everybody got involved.

Spirit Week is an event when everyone is asked to dressup di"erently on each day of the week. !ere was pajama day, shades day, hats day, twins’ day, pink day, and last but not least, Halloween! All of this led up to the middle school dance, and the Centennial International Fair on Saturday.

On Monday, there was no need to wake up early to dress up! Students in pajama bottoms and t-shirts walked around all day, alongside teachers in bathrobes, and friends in baggy paja-mas. Bleary-eyed students shu%ed into school, without getting in trouble for doing so. Everyone laughed about the strange or funny-looking pajamas, and had a lot of fun.

Tuesday was shades and hats day. Funky hats and head ornaments were seen around school, along with sunglasses of all di"erent shapes and sizes. !ere were baseball caps and kooky fake shades, and even pin-up mini hats. It was a great excuse for wearing a hat indoors.

!ere were so many twins on Wednesday; it was as if every-

one had grown a clone overnight. Friends dressed up together, wearing identical clothing, or same themed clothing. Near identical pairs of students and teachers could be seen walking together in the hallways, acting just like real twins would.

!e 6 Gold Team already had a tradition of wearing pink each !ursday, so to go along with this tradition, the whole middle school adopted this idea for Spirit Week. Many students wore articles of pink, ranging from sneakers to hair bands and t-shirts.

!e biggest event that everyone had been waiting for was the Halloween celebrations on Friday. Students dressed up in all kinds of costumes, from blood-sucking vampires to shadowy Grim Reapers. Rock stars, pirates, goths, wizards, and witches terrorized the hallways, while disguised teachers brought order to the classrooms. Everyone had a good time, laughing with friends throughout the day.

Spirit Week was a great time to let loose and have fun. We all enjoyed showing our SAS spirit by dressing up proudly for our school.

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WHOKILLEDDr.DIABOLICAL?Nov 17th at 7:oopmNov 18th at 3:30pm and 7:00pmMiddle School Black Box Theatre B122Tickets 30rmb each... limited seating

Written by Randall P. Girdner

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Conferences are held for a variety of reasons … to buy, to sell,to educate people on new advances in their professions. Doc-tors, dentists, teachers, and numerous other professions all go to conventions where they can take workshops and learn how toimprove themselves.

So why can’t villains? Randall P. Girdner’s “Who Killed Dr. Diabolical?” is a play exploring exactly that. It’s a convention for a secret society of villains who get together and have work-shops to present their latest inventions, weapons, or even tactics.Workshops like: “How to get the heroes to listen to your eyes,”“Breaking and crushing men 101,” or even “How to throw carsat your archnemesis” will be presented.

!e villains all gather at the Ramada Hotel and start the conference, until Dr. Diabolical is horribly murdered! Who could have done this dastardly deed? Which one of the many villains could have turned against themselves and killed one of their own?

With 21 of the 24 characters in the play being evil anddastardly criminals, it would seem that the convention would end in chaos with everyone attacking each other. But there are rules that the evil villains must follow to be members, an evil

code of honor. Special heroes such as General Superior, Night Hunter, and his trusted sidekick Buckeye are archnemeses to the evil characters. And it’s all up to Ma#a Dan to keep control of the convention before it dissolves into chaos.

!e play has been in rehearsal for #ve weeks and the cast are busy preparing for the three performances. !e play has students from grades 7 and 8 but primarily features students from the 6thgrade. !ey love the funny, quirky humor that these villains dis-play and are looking forward to being able to present the play tothe playwright Randall P. Girdner, a former SAS teacher, when he comes to watch the show.

Randall wrote this to allow all actors to share more equal re-sponsibility, as a common problem with plays featuring younger children is the discrepancy between major and minor roles. Sharing the stage makes it both easier on the actors, and ensures more kids get the chance to shine.

Try to catch performances on !ursday November 17 at7:00 p.m., or Friday November 18 at 3:30 p.m., and also againat 7:00 p.m. Ticket prices are RMB 30, and can be purchased through the Middle School O&ce or Mrs. McGarrigle in the new Puxi Middle School Black Box !eatre (BBT).

CRIME

Santa’s workshop is coming to town!December 6–9, 8:30 a.m.–2:45 p.m.

First floor hallway beside the pool, Pudong campus

of touring Shanghai, they are welcome to join in the fun. If you are worried that you may be working the same day your child comes in for shopping, we can arrange a coffee break for you so that there is no peek-ing! If your child suggests that you should stay home and not help, then you definitely should come!

The following areas need your help: 1. Assist the younger grades with their shopping

2. Wrapping gifts3. Re-stocking and arranging tables.

4. Cashier

If you do not know where you would like to work, no problem! We can place you where you are needed. Please contact Chris Lomason at 1391 695 2544 or email her at [email protected] to sign yourself

up for this fun way to get into the Christmas spirit.

What is Santa’s workshop? Santa’s workshop is a holiday store that provides a fun way for students to purchase gifts for their entire family, friends, ayis, drivers, and even the family pet. And the price is right — no gift costs more than RMB 50. All gifts come home wrapped, tagged, and ready to be placed under the tree.

The elementary students will be scheduled to shop with their class on December 6 and 7 at time chosen by their teacher. Middle school and high school students may shop on any of the days according to their time available in their schedules. Open shopping for teachers, staff, and parents will be on December 8 and 9.

How can you help?Please consider volunteering your time for a full day. If you cannot help a full day, please offer what time you can to help. If you have visi-tors who need a break from the fast pace ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH KIM

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“Christopher Li pushed the boundaries of his medium and discovered a tool when he decided to twist layers of the cardboard while holding one end of the strip in his teeth. In doing so, he was able to make 'rope' from corrugated cardboard. The painted strip of pink on the edge of the bridge is an unexpected detail that symbolizes Chris' ability to surprise others and change an ordinary day into a fun one.” — Ann Hefte

“This project is unique because we transformed buildings in Shanghai into contemporary art. This is unlike other art classes because we did not follow the traditional method of sculpting or simply sketching and painting on an easel. This created a different experience compared to other art classes I have had in the past.” — Jake Keller.

“My sculpture was inspired by the Shanghai Grand Theatre, and I chose aluminum cans as my medium. I built a core made out of cardboard and placed uneven pieces of cans on the cardboard, creating a squamous texture. During the "play" process of this project, I tried out many things with cans, but found that nothing really worked … I barely managed to finish.”— Kendrick Tan.

It’s not your Shanghai, it’s ours. !e contemporary sculpture exhibit in the Puxi PAC was inspired by famous Shanghai landmarks, but you will see that the buildings have been trans-formed. !ey tell our stories now.

While it was the shapes, textures, and scale of the original landmarks that drew students to their architecture-inspired pieces, it was the personal story the students wanted to express that drove their sculptures’ #nal designs. “My sculpture is about things in our memory that we can’t recover, so I wanted my sculpture to have a sense of a piece missing,” explained Karrina Xie.

Students used play as their process to push the boundar-ies of a single medium. !ey experimented with how to create new shapes and textures to make things like cardboard, plastic, or Styrofoam do unusual things. Some students were quite liberated by the play experience while others took some time to learn how to tap into their right side of their brains and let go of the pressure to “do it right.”

“I’ve always been very interested in modern art, so trying

it for the #rst time was de#nitely a great experience,” said Kenrick Tan, grade 7. “In Sculpt Shanghai, we didn’t build a replica of our building using recycled materials, instead we were inspired by our building and made whatever we wanted with our material, as long as it somehow related to the building. !is gave us more freedom in the project, emphasizing the contemporary’ in contemporary art.”

Students learned to listen to their own creative voices, tell a story without words, and trust their hands. Empowered to take risks and make their own decisions, these artists created work that is truly their own vision.

“!e project allowed me to look at art di"erently, and made me enjoy art even more than before,” continued Kendrick. “We could only use one medium, so we had to push the properties of that medium. !is was a project all of us spent a lot of time and e"ort on, and was one of my favorite art projects ever.”

Shanghai has her story, and now you know a piece of ours. You can see photos of our artists at play and their #nal works at http://iwebpx.saschina.org/annhefte/.

By Ann Hefte, Art t

“Ihn Kyung's sculpture, inspired by the Jin Mao Tower, is entitled Pathway to Achievement. Ihn used the tremendous scale of her piece, the concentric squares, and painted maze pattern to represent the rigorous stages necessary to reaching her dreams. The colorful polka dots at the summit illustrate the celebratory feeling she will experience when she finally achieves her goals.” — Ann Hefte.

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PHOTOPARADE

Photo Parade is a regular feature that presents images from students and other members of the SAS

and a short introduction (no more than 200 words) explaining the context and selection of the images.

CO2: This photo was taken underwater in a pool in Phuket, Thailand.

using a remote.

Crossing: While I was sitting in the front seat of a car crossing the George Washington Bridge from New York, the sun began to set. This SOOC photo was actually taken through the glass of the car.

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By Remy H. Park, Grade 11, Pudong campus

Outside of Shanghai, the locations of New York City, New Jersey, and !ai-land are my homes away from home. In the summer, the contrast between suburban and natural New Jersey, and the exciting, busy lifestyle and city lights of New York is fantastic. Our home is right around the boundary between New York and New Jersey, in Fort Lee, on one end of the George Washington Bridge. Summer is the perfect balance of city night skylines and backyard sunsets.

!ailand in the winter is hardly winter at all with warm weather, constant sunshine, a myriad of fruits, and the clear blue ocean. !e culture is vibrant, colorful and eye-catching — opportunities for many interesting photographs. In !ailand, it is not necessary to go sightseeing or touring to see something beautiful and di"erent.

!ese photographs are reminders of my homes away from home and all the beauty that they possess.

Background image: Bergen County Sunset: This photo was taken from the balcony of my parents' room in our home in New Jersey, and is a straight out of the camera (SOOC) shot.

PHOTOS AND CAPTIONS BY REMY H. PARK

Stars: This photo was taken after coming home from my sister's birthday party. It may be a bit strange because it's headless, but I really like stars!

Double Take: This photo was the result of a happy accident. After playing with long exposure on my camera, I hadn't changed the settings back to normal and ended up with this photo, which I left unaltered. This was taken from on top of one of the larg-est mountains just outside of Bangkok, Thailand.

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ACTIVITIES

By Greg MacIntyre, Elementary Academic Support teacher, Pudong campus

Congratulations to our SAS Pudong Eagles tennis team for displaying wonderful tennis at the SISAC Tennis Championships, held on October 15 at British International School Shanghai (BISS). Several schools participated in the event, including: SAS Pudong, SAS Puxi, Concordia International School Shanghai, SMIC (a local Chinese international school in Pudong), as well as entries from Hangzhou and Suzhou.

1st place winners from SAS Pudong were:Boys singles – Kevin Ma (grade 11)Boys doubles – Je" Lai (grade 12) and Kenneth Zhou (grade 11)Girls doubles – Christina Wu (grade 12) and Ti"any Wu (grade 9)

2nd Place winner:Girls singles – Dana Tung (grade 9)

As an added bonus, the SAS Pudong tennis team attended the Shanghai Rolex Masters Tennis Championships, held on October 8 at the Qi Zhong Tennis Center, Minhang district. Players and coaches had a chance to watch several world-class tennis players practicing and playing their early round matches in singles and doubles. For many of our players it was the #rst time to watch professional tennis live. It was a great experience for the entire team!

Well done Pudong Eagles!Above: Cristina Wu serves during the SISAC Tennis Championship. Below: The team show off their trophies.

PHOTOS PROVIDED BY GREG MACINTYRE

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ACTIVITIES

In the championship game of APAC’s fall baseball classic, with Puxi Eagles down 1-0 in the top of the second inning to peren-nial APAC champs the Dragons of Hong Kong International School (HKIS), Brady Kielgas came to the plate. !e slow grounder to second and the unusual hop the ball would take just before it was bobbled by HKIS’s second basemen gave Kielgas just enough time to beat out the errant throw. !e throw to #rst base, however, hit the All-APAC catcher square in the mouth. Running over to the #rst baseline while Kielgas slowly came to his knees, I could see him holding something in his right hand. As I reached him he held out his hand, and I opened mine to re-ceive half his front tooth. Blood rounded the corner of his mouth and headed for his chin. Kielgas looked up at me and said, “!ere is no way you’re taking me out of this game, Coach.”

Despite the blood and sweat spilled, the Puxi Eagles went on to lose the championship game 15-7 at ISB. It was a bitter-sweet ending to our perfectly imperfect season. Just three weeks prior to the APAC tournament, the Puxi Eagles #nished a disap-pointing 0-4 in the China Cup, losing two of the four games in the last inning, each on the last at bat. !e team then met in a dimly lit corner of ISB’s Hawkins baseball #eld and re-a&rmed their goal of the season: to win APAC.

!e APAC baseball tournament began with the Puxi Eagles meeting their cross-town rivals, the Pudong Eagles. It was the #fth meeting of the two teams. Puxi had won the previous three games in dramatic fashion, with the most recent game lasting three hours and going ten frames. !is APAC game was to be no di"erent. Pudong fought o" a three-run de#cit in the sixth to tie the game, and in the bottom of the seventh Brady Kielgas batted in the winning run with a single up the middle. !e Puxi Eagles would then go on to beat the local Beijing team 10-5, take back the “golden helmet” from ISB in game three, and defeat a young Brent team in the quarter#nal match up. A talented Canadian

Academy (CA) team awaited Puxi in the semi#nals. With the entire team focused and in sync, the Puxi Eagles jumped out to a six run lead in the #rst and did not stop hitting the rest of the game, defeating CA 13-1 to play HKIS for the championship.

!roughout the tournament, seniors Patrick Li, Daniel Osaki, and Daniel Alter led the Puxi Eagles. Li was a force at the plate, hitting for power and clearing the bases whenever he got the opportunity. In center#eld he was a vacuum tracking down nearly every $y ball that came his way. Osaki, a four-year varsity player, was just as impressive at the plate, consistently crushing the ball to left #eld. In the championship game against HKIS he became one of only four players to hit a home run in the tourna-ment. Daniel Alter, who transferred to Puxi two years ago from ISB and had played at HKIS, led the Puxi Eagles at the plate, in the #eld, and on the mound. Alter batted well over .400, was $awless in the #eld, and was one of the most dominant pitchers of the tournament.

In the championship game both teams hit the ball well, but HKIS made fewer mistakes in the #eld. Puxi continued to battle, never taking themselves out the game emotionally, but in the end HKIS won their second APAC baseball title in a row. Although disappointed, the Puxi team went back to that same corner they had met in at the end of China Cup and were able to re$ect on all they had accomplished personally and as a team during the 2011-2012 season.

!e next day at the airport I went to see Kielgas after his all-night ordeal with doctors and dental surgeons in a Beijing hospital. Several stitches in place, and one cracked and three chipped teeth later, Kielgas smiled to show me the work they had done. !e front tooth that had been broken in half by a baseball had been bonded and was now three quarters of a tooth. As I was about to say something reassuring, Kielgas just shrugged his shoulders and said, “Close enough, Coach.”

PHOTO BY JENNIFER KIELGAS

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SCHOOLWIDE

!is past Halloween weekend, the Aqua Eagles traveled to Bei-jing for the 4th annual ISB/SAS Swimvitational meet. !e only thing haunting about this meet was how fast our swimmers were after just two months of competition. !e Aqua Eagle school wide swim team captured the Top Traveling Team Trophy and 1st Runner Up Trophy.

Out of our 65 swimmers, 44 had personal bests (PBs) in at least one of the four strokes they swam, and 11 swimmers had three PBs. Amazingly, Pudong’s Kelly Chik, Ben Tucker, and Lucas Wang, and Puxi’s Narumi Shuazawa, all achieved PBs in all four of their individual events.

Top overall in their age groups and taking home shiny tro-phies were Royce Shey (Puxi) 1st in 8 and Under Boys, Winston Chan (Puxi) 1st in 11-12 Boys, Jens Bollensen (Pudong) 1st, Charles Yang 1st (tied) in 13-14 Boys, Hali Huang (Puxi) 2nd in 8 and Under Boys, Tina Wang (Puxi) 2nd in 9-10 Girls, and Jun Sung Tak (Puxi) 2nd in 11-12 Boys.

Other top performing Aqua Eagles placing in the top ten in there age group were Puxi girls, (youngest to oldest) Madison Yeung, Isabelle Lee, Linda Li, and Roseanne Chao. For Pudong it was Yoon Jin Lim, Lena Zhou, and Anna Serbent.

Top performers for the Pudong boys were Eric Wang, William Wang, and Yuhan Liu. Puxi boys were Leonard Lee, and David Xue.

And it is worth noting that Royce Shey and Winston Chan had perfect scores, placing #rst in every event they entered!

!e trip held all the elements of great cameraderie we have come to expect from our two-campus schoolwide swim team: Swimmers, coaches, and parents united as #ne ambassadors of Shanghai American School. I extend a big thanks to George

Carpouzis, Aquatics Director Pudong campus, for organizing the Pudong traveling team along with coaches Johnny and Suann. You and the team were amazing at the airport where there was the nine-hour delay due to fog! And a big thanks to our Puxi traveling coaches Boyko and Jin for their #ne assistance at the meet. Also a sincere thank you is extended to the 40-plus travel-ing parents and families for their support and assistance in our travels and at the meet.

Drop by the Aquatics Centers to see our prize trophies — Pudong has the crystal Top Traveling Team Trophy and Puxi has the golden 1st Runner Up Trophy on display.

Next up: Taipei American School Citi Invitational November 19-20, Singapore Santa Claus Meet November 26-27, and Rocket Science Shanghai Long Course Invitational December 3-4.

CA; ISB; SFS; SASPD; SASPX; WAB

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PHOTO PROVIDED BY JON BIROS

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By Todd Parham, Activities Director, Pudong campus

Upcoming High School ActivitiesNovember 16-20 APAC Season One Performing Arts Festivals- APAC dancers travel to SFS- APAC choir at SAS PX- APAC orchestra at CA

November 18-20 Tri-Cities Basketball Cup at AISG Varsity boys and girls basketball teams - schedule TBA

November 22 SISAC Basketball Games- Away games: DI B/G at DCS; boys at 4:30 p.m.; girls 5:45 p.m.- Home games vs. DCS: DII girls, DIII B/G at 4:30 p.m. start all games

November 28 SISAC Basketball Games- Away games: DI B/G at SCIS; PD girls 4:30 p.m. boys 5:45 p.m. - Home games vs. SCIS PD: DIII boys and girls 4:30 p.m. start, both games

Nov. 30-Dec. 2 ACAMIS Golf Tournament at SIS- Varsity golfers travel to Shekou International School Tournament hosted at Mission Hills Golf Club

November 30 SISAC Basketball Games- Home games vs. BISS PD: DI B/G, HS gym, 4:30 p.m.

December 2 SISAC Basketball Games- Away games at CISS: DI B/G, DII B/G, DIII Boys Games start times - TBA

Dec. 3 SISAC Table Tennis Championships at SSIS Shanghai - Varsity table tennis players - schedule TBD

Upcoming Middle School Activities

November 19 CISSA Season End Soccer TournamentCI boys and girls at DCS; CII boys at SAS PX; CII girls at SAS PD; Junior boys at BISS PX; Junior girls at CISS

December 3 CISSA Table Tennis at LAS/SASPX- Schedule TBD

Upcoming Elementary School Activities

December 2 Session Two ES ASA Packets go home to parents- ALL packets due no later than Friday December 9 to the Activities O&ce.

Please check out our new activities blog http://teachers.saschina.org/pdactivities/

1st Season Sports Awards !e following students were recognized at the ceremony on Friday, November 11.

Upcoming EventsNovember 17–19 APAC Fine Arts Choir at SASPX; Orchestra at CA; Dance at SFSNovember 19 APAC Choir Concert, 7:00 p.m. at PAC, SASPX

November 18–21 Taipei American School Swim Invitational

November 17–21 IB TAPS !eatre Festival, in Hong Kong

November 25–28 Singapore Santa Claus Swim Invitational

December 2 Fine Arts Winter Concerts

December 4 SISAC Golf Championships at Silport Golf Course

Coaches'Choice

Daryl Kim

Joanna Xue

Wei Lin Tu Ye

Anders Cheng

Tiffany Chan

Jennifer Gu

Femke Laauwen

Daniel Osaki

Austin Rice

Brendan Peake

Manasi Menon

Diego Glascock

Aberdeen LaPlume

Max Yasunaga

Yi Ping Lin

Allen Zhu

Jenny Chen

John He

Leon ZhangWendy Siu

Team

Varsity boys' volleyball

Varsity girls' volleyball

JV1 boys' volleyball

JV2 boys' volleyball

JV1 girls' volleyball



Varsity boys' baseball

JV boys' baseball

Varsity boys' rugby

Varsity girls' rugby

JV boys' rugby

JV girls' rugby

Varsity boys' tennis

Varsity girls' tennis

JV boys' tennis

JV girls' tennis

Boys' cross country

Girls' cross country

MIP

Daniel Lai

Simone Leung

Jeff Lee

Dustin Liu

Hailey Tebbutt

Alicia Zhang

Adrienne Hoe

Jun Park

Shaun Tai

Benjamin Wong

Kiana Miller

Huntington Wu

Madeline Nave

Jerry Liang

Joy Wang

Jonathan Chen

Xin Shui Zhang

N/A

Soo MIn Lee

MVP

Tom Claassen

Sharika Kaul

Connor Yeh

Josh Lu

Karen Chang

Vivian Lee

Julia Yoon

Daniel Alter

Johnson Ko

Nicholas Glascock

Jessica LuDorthy Chow

Stephen Smith

Medha Menon

George Jian

Julie Sand

Louis Liu

Natalie Lau

Peter Xing

Connie Liu

ACTIVITIES

Good luck to everyone ... Way to go Eagles!

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Schoolwide

November18 “Who Killed Dr. Diabolical?” 3:30 p.m and 7:00 p.m., MS Black Box !eatre, Puxi (limited seating)

19 APAC choir concert, PAC28 SAS board meeting, 6:30 p.m., Pudong8

December10 “Air, A Holiday Dance Concert,” 4:00 p.m. at PAC

16 Students dismissal 11:30 a.m. (start of winter holiday)

Pudong

November15-19 QMUN Qatar15-19 THIMUN Singapore16-20 Season One Performing Arts21 TEDxYouth

December1 Winter concert1 PTSA general meeting at 9:00am2 MYG night 3:00 p.m.2-6 NSDC annual conference1 PTSA Winter bazaar, 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

5-9 PTSA Santa’s workshop8 Middle school treat day8 MS counselors' co"ee8 AMSA math contest #3, 12:55-1:30 p.m.

13-14 MS concert

Puxi

November16-21 APAC Season One Fine Arts17-19 APAC Fine Arts (choir at SASPX; orchestra at CA; dance at SFS)

18 Grade 10 dance21 IB and AP parent information night22 ES passport re-check24-27 !anksgiving basketball at Brent30 Report cards sent home30 ES parent co"ee, 9:00 a.m.30 PTSA general meeting, 10:00 a.m., LMC

December1 ASMA math contest #32 ES winter concert, 9:00 a.m., PAC2 Grade 2 fundraiser movie night, 3:00-5:00 p.m., LMC

2 HS music concert, 5:00 p.m.7 HS principal’s co"ee, 10:00-12:00 a.m., LMC

8 Grade 6 and 7 music concert, 5:30 p.m., PAC

9 MS social/dance, 6:00-8:00 p.m. 13 Grade 8 music concert, 5:30 p.m., PAC

14 MS principal's co"ee 10:00 a.m., PAC

14 ES passport check15 ES passport re-check16 ES Christmas assembly, 9:00 a.m., gym

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