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Highlights
• Summer grants for faculty development are being felt in every grade this year. Results include new physics equipment and training, a digital editing studio in visual arts, access to a vast online data base of full-text articles, and a wide variety of other technology and training opportunities.
• The daily e-bulletin is now the most commonly used way for parents to keep in touch with what’s going on at school.
• Participants at the third annual golf tournament, always held on Columbus Day, had a great timeinfineweatherandearnedabout $20,000fortheathleticsdepartment.
• Rebecca Harper, director of technology, received the St. Benedict Medal, honoring her fifteenth year on the faculty. St. Benedict Medals were also awarded at a special dinner to alumni parent Pete Hammond and trustee Bob Ward.
• Nine Priory students earned recognition in the National Merit Scholarship program, and 15 students received awards from The College Board for their achievement in Advanced Placement courses.
• National Honor Society and Model United Nations pooled forces this fall and raised $1,660 at the Family Picnic car wash; $750 will be used to help pay MUN’s conference participation costs, and the rest was or will be distributed to charity. The campus community again broke its record in collecting food and funds for local people in need over the holidays.
Haley Hafkenschiel made a double hit with two grandpas on the scene— Joseph Hafkenschiel, center, and Fred Hassett .
Hands-on experiments are the way to learn science at The Exploratorium, where Priory freshmen Ashley Kustu (left) and Alexis Smith and classmates spent most of aday. WPSteacher,PaulTrudelle,who has attended the San Francisco museum’s science inservice workshops for the past 12 years, won a (not-too-serious) “Iron Science Teacher” award last summer.
Grandparents Day—one of the nicest of the campus “special days”—was celebrated with more than 100 guests this past October. Following a morning reception and meeting with the headmaster, the guests met their grandchildren, headed for chapel, had family photos taken, and then were off to visit some classrooms. Then, grandparents and kids had lunch. Here, sixth grader Ian Brent and his grandmotherAnne gothroughthebuffetlinewith other grandparent guests.
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