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Prepped and ready for the Upper SchoolAttention Upper School staff and faculty:
The Class of 2013 is ready for you.
On a bright D-Day, June 6, the eighth grade held its annual celebra-tion to commemorate the completion of Middle School and the students’ ascension to the Upper School. The cer-emony took place in the Fine Arts Center theater.
An amusing ride
Opening speaker Richard He (’13), in a smile-provoking speech, compared the MS experience to the amusement park Busch Gardens. “With our bright, blue-and-gold tickets we entered through the turnstile three years ago,” he said.
He juxtaposed the park’s rides with school activities, saying that the roller-coaster Apollo’s Chariot, with its “up, down, up, down” effect was eerily similar to homework.
But in conclusion, he stated, “This theme park has taught us and got us ready.”
Other speakers on the day included Patrick Lambert (’13), Priya Gupta (’13), Rachel Earnhardt (’13), and the team of Jennifer Kenyon (’13) and Caroline Woronoff (’13).
Interludes performed by students ranged from a Schubert piece played on piano by Joseph Cornett (’13), to songs like I Hope You Dance, sung by Elaine Lanze (’13), and Ordinary People, sung by Preston Bethea (’13), to readings of student-written poems.
In Times Gone By, written and read by Nicole Ackman (’13), she voiced a thought held in the minds of many of her fellow
students that day. “Now our futures and hopes lie in a new building,” she said.
The eighth-grade gift went to The Johnnetta Camile Overton Scholarship. Students sold candies and snacks throughout the year to raise the money.
“A wonderful experience”
After remarks from Head of the Middle School Marti Jenkins, the eighth-graders received certificates and were presented to the Upper School.
At the concluding lively reception in the cafeteria, students hugged and slapped
Summer Quest adds new training for its staffAnnual program’s attendance up in down year
Even with this economy, there are some signs of prosperity out there — like Cary Academy’s Summer Quest program.
SQ has seen a seven percent increase in the number of attendees from last year, from 2,412 happy campers to 2,577. To make room for this increase, the program upped its camp offerings, from 213 to 262.
With this growth, the CA campus has been a busy place this summer. From the fields to the classrooms, just about every foot of space has been taken up with camps such as Day Trip Adventures into the Great Outdoors, Mythbreakers, Classic Rock Guitar, Cuisines and Cultures of the World, Camp Millionaire, and Robotics with Lego Mindstorms.
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Campers creating a comic book.
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New training for staffTo assist the camp counselors and
manage the program, SQ relies on a staff of 15 paid staff, of which eight are CA graduates and two are current students. In addition, seven current CA students are volunteering.
This year SQ added new training for its staff, which included a general over-view of SQ policies and daily operations, training in American Red Cross First Aid, CPR and AED, and a diversity workshop conducted by Director of Diversity Shani Barrax-Moore.
“Since many of our staff will be working with many campers and families from outside of the CA community, we felt this diversity training was essential,” explained SQ’s Sheila Rademacher.
Also, the volunteers got a special lesson in teamwork through a “low ropes” workshop held at Bond Park in Cary.
Learning the “ropes”Jen Kenyon (’13), a first-year volunteer
enjoyed the day-long ropes course.“I loved getting to know my fellow
counselors,” said Kenyon, who is working many camps, including Whoosh, an adventure camp for girls. “During the course we learned about trust, teamwork, leadership, responsibility and communica-tion. As a counselor, this helped me
because it got me into a leadership mind set, and I was prepared for the responsibil-ity of being in charge of someone else.”
“The low ropes course was really fun,” added first-year worker Heather Warner (‘10). I didn’t really know anyone before the
ropes course day, so this
was
an easy way to get to know the other volunteers.”
Alex Velto (‘13), another first-year volunteer, had to navigate the course with a bum hand. “We had to get a rope from the middle of an area, and then all of us had to swing over and fit into two hoops. We had to work together to get the
rope — we ended up holding someone across to get it — and some of us couldn’t talk. Also, I was in a cast on my right hand, so we had to work around that. It taught us that everyone should have a voice, and that working around injuries and disabilities just takes some thought.”
“Treating everyone the same”
The diversity training also proved helpful.
Said Kenyon, “Since we focused on pointing out biases, I think it
showed us how much we each had to work to make sure we were treating everyone the same. Personally, the diversity training prepared me for all of the different types of kids that I am encounter-ing this summer.”
“As staff members, we were split up into three different smaller groups and asked to take different surveys to determine what we thought about a specific group of people,” explained Warner. “Most people, including me, were surprised by the results that we received because we didn’t realize how much influence our opinions have on
Students in grades 9-11 who did not go
on exchange trips this May/June did take a
journey into uncharted territory, however.
They participated in a new program called
Discovery Term.
Discovery Term served as an opportunity
for students to engage in a discovery-based
group learning experience as they investi-
gated areas outside of the regular
curriculum. These experiences offered
students opportunities for leadership,
collaboration and intellectual growth.
Students and faculty joined together in
groups, called Discovery Term Groups (DTG),
to formulate an essential question(s) that
they then pursued through focused
exploration and inquiry.
The DTGs were: Awareness of the
Differently-able; The Future is Green; Trails,
Waterways and Ecology in NC; Electronic
Eden: An Exploration of Scientific Utopias
and Dystopias; Experiencing Wilderness; If I
Ruled the World; Do Ethics Matter;
Illuminated Manuscripts; The Art & Science
of Sports Medicine; Screenwriting and Film
Analysis; and Tour De Triangle.
On June 5 the students and faculty held a
Discovery Term fair at which five DTGs
presented their work.
Discovery Term debuts
Some campers are learning piano this summer.
the way we view everyone around us. It opened my eyes up to the different children that I could be seeing over the summer.
“I learned to always be respectful and be open to every kind of camper. It is impor-tant to treat every camper the same and offer the same ideas to each individual camper. I also learned to keep my biases to myself and not let them get in the way of any of the campers’ ideas.”
“It taught us that everyone should have a voice, and that working around injuries and disabilities just takes some thought.”
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Class of 2000 Joe Reutter is director of sales for BSI, one of the largest geriatric medical supply companies in NC. He is engaged to Jenny Ruby, a law student, and will be married Oct. 10, 2009.
Class of 2002 Park McArthur’s master of fine arts thesis exhibition, I owe you the end of the world, opened at Pyramid Studios in Miami on May 2 and ran through June 6. The exhibition includes narrative drawings, texts on graph paper and video. Park’s work has been included in group shows around the US and in Berlin.
Class of 2003 Jhanalyn Blount received a second bachelor’s degree from UNC-Greensboro, majoring in international and global studies with a concentration in global affairs and international development. She spent the beginning of the spring semester in Botswana, Africa, on a study abroad program.
Erica Helfer is one of four new members of the Cary Academy board of directors. She is a 2007 graduate of Duke University. She teaches chemistry (first year and AP) at Raleigh Charter High School. On June 13 she married Simon Blank.
Lauren Parker finished her second year in a Ph.D. program in pharmacology at UNC and took her preliminary exams in the spring. Her research will involve investigating the role of GTPases in cancer.
Gray Still is traveling in Central America before attending St. George’s University School of Medicine as a first year medical student in the fall of 2009.
Casey Samulski is living in New York and writing for a number of different newspapers as a journalist.
Class of 2004 Asher Smith completed his first year of law school at UNC. In December 2009 he will be taking a three-week trip to Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
Yuriko Tamura completed her MS degree in bioengineering at Stanford this spring and is working for a medical device startup in San Francisco as a software engineer, switching to a full-time basis.
Alex Wilson has just completed his first year of law school at Duke, where he is pursuing a joint JD/LLM degree. He will be a summer
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associate at the law firm Williams Mullen in Raleigh for six weeks before going to Geneva for four weeks of summer school at the Duke Geneva Institute in Transnational Law.
Class of 2005 Sam Behrend graduated from Denison with a BS in math and a BA in computer science. In the fall he will be pursuing a graduate degree in math at UNC.
Michelle Cobley graduated with a bachelor of music from Berklee College of Music in Boston. She will be studying Celtic harp in Ireland during the 2009-2010 academic year.
Richard Feindel received his first EMMY award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for Outstanding Short Form Photography. He graduated from Emerson College with a BS in marketing communica-tions and is currently employed with Boston’s NBC Affiliate, WHDH-TV, as the pre-production coordinator and promotions photographer.
Emily Gordon graduated from NCSU in May with a degree in applied math and minors in French and physics. She has been accepted into an international dual degree program at the NCSU College of Management and will study in France for the fall of 2009.
Kate Hayes has taken a year-and-a-half off from school and been writing and working for an Internet start-up. She will be doing linguistics research this summer and returning to class full-time in the fall.
Laura Huff graduated from UNC with a degree in chemistry and a minor in Chinese. She recently received the Hypercube Award for outstanding academic achievement in chemistry. In the fall Laura will begin her Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign as a William Noyes Scholar, which includes an annual stipend and full tuition.
Kevin Kline graduated from Elon University and is working in Winston-Salem for WXII 12 News.
Marissa Lee graduated with high honors from Swarthmore College with a BA in biology and a minor in religion. She will be working in the Department of Biology at Indiana University this summer conducting research on biological invasions.
Travis May graduated from Harvard, where he majored in economics and minored in mathematics. He will be attending Stanford in the fall, after an internship at a startup in San Francisco this summer.
Andrea Milne graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College with a double major in history and political science. She is working as a research associate at Rho, Inc. in Chapel Hill.
Haley Nix graduated from Yale and will be attending Yale Law School in the fall.
Eric Smith graduated from NCSU with a BS in applied mathematics. He will be attending the Advanced Analytics graduate program at NCSU.
Class of 2006 Elizabeth Heller spent the spring semester studying abroad in Beijing.
Shannon Mentock was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at UNC. She is a junior majoring in nutrition and French.
Joelle Portzer is a rising 4th year at the University of Virginia, where she is a double major in Arabic and Chinese. She spent a term in Jordan last year and will be in China studying this summer. Joelle continues to be part of NROTC at UVA and will be commis-sioned next spring before graduation.
Class of 2007 Lauren Kahn was awarded a grant to travel to Guatemala with Duke Engage. The 15 students on the program will serve as social entrepre-neurial consultants for businesses and non-profits in southern Guatemala. In the fall she will be studying abroad with NYU Madrid.
Jamie Liles began her college career at Elon University but has since transferred to NCSU. She made the Dean’s List all four semesters and is currently a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Cary Academy Class Agent Listing
Class of 2000 Darcy Downs, [email protected] • Ann Gulley Katsiak, [email protected] • Kathleen Foley-Mason, [email protected]
Class of 2001 Rose Brown Doyle, [email protected] •
Courtney Singer, [email protected]
Class of 2002 Meagan Singer, [email protected]
Class of 2003 Ashley Parks, [email protected]
Class of 2004 Nikki Schessel, [email protected]
Class of 2005 Kelly King, [email protected] • Alyse Finkel, [email protected]
Class of 2006 Lianne Gonsalves, [email protected]
Class of 2007 Sam Fuchs, [email protected] • Sarah Helfer, [email protected] • Morgan Smith, [email protected]
Class of 2008 Jackie Lee, [email protected] •
Elizabeth Atkins, [email protected]
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New faculty arriveJuly 27
Faculty returnAug. 3
MS Meet the Team NightAug. 6
First Day of SchoolAug. 12
US Meet the TeacherAug. 20
New Parent SocialAug. 22
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hands. Parents herded their children and their classmates into groups for posed pictures. The atmosphere was one of congratulations on completing an important three years.
Kalee Calhoun (‘13) has been at CA for each of those three years and is continuing on to the US. Taking a moment between bites of food, she contemplated on her journey through the Middle School.
“I’ll remember the lasting friendships that helped me through,” she said. “The teachers were phenomenal and so support-ive, and so was the staff; they knew all our names. Everyone made it a wonderful experience.”
Rising ninth-grader Preston Bethea (’13)
was one of the many student performers for the day. He took
to the stage for a solo rendition of
Ordinary People.
Emma Morgan has been accepted into Glasgow University’s assistantship program. Next year she will spend seven months in Orleans-Tours, France, as an English teacher’s assistant in a French high school.
Kelsey Nix has transferred to the University of Virginia for the fall of 2009.
Nilesh Wani is a sophomore at UNC, where he has made the Dean’s List for the past two semesters. He has recently been accepted into the Kenan Flagler School of Business.
Class of 2008 Stuart Gordon is one of just 25 freshmen at NCSU to be awarded a Caldwell Scholarship. The Caldwell is a leadership development scholarship program and the only university-wide merit award for first-year students at NCSU.
Corey Lerch is a freshman at Penn and is co-president of a bboy (break dancing) crew.
Jordan Winn is a freshman at UNC-Wilmington, where she was accepted into the NRHH (National Residence Hall Honorary), which recognizes the top one percent of student leaders in the residence halls.
Alumni notes (continued from page 3 )
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