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Trust your team! Kylie Hepper gets a lift from her teammates during Middle School leadership and team- work training.
FALL ‘96 AT A GLANCE
AUGUST
Orientations for new students and faculty • Parents’ Barbecue • School Begins • Parents first-day coffee • First Chapel features students and flags from 19 nations • Middle School Swim Party • Used text sale earns $1,800 • Volleyball team awarded Team Academic trophy
SEPTEMBER
Field Day sports and games • Recycling Days begin • Clubs sign-ups (awhopping30-seearticle,page )•AnnualFundAppreciation Dinner •FamilyPicnic•Studentbodyelections•BoogieDown Jugglers • First five-school dance • Parents Back to School Night •
Class spirit competitions begin (Seniors victorious) • Middle School leadership and teamwork training • Soccer, volleyball, cross country, flag football begin • Habitat for Humanity projects begin • Archbishop’s visit • Confirmation studies begin • National Honor Society banquet • Reps chosen for Anna Eshoo’s Student Advisory Board • College rep visits begin
OCTOBER
Malibu Fun Night • Class elections • Magazine drive brings in $4,200 • Blessing of Pets (St. Francis’s day) • Class retreats • READAK study training • Family Tennis Clinic • Spirit & Homecoming Week • Human pyramid contest • Middle School dance • All-School 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament at Residence Halls • Stanford admissions officer talks with parents and hosts faculty seminar • National Honor Society Dinner • Class get-togethers for parents or families • Middle School Fun Night • Five-school dance • Limbo contest • Ramiro Arredondo named San Jose Mercury News’s Athlete of the Week • Science Star Party • All Saints Day Mass • Halloween Dance Costume Contest
NOVEMBER
Parent-Teacher-Student conferences • Ten students earn National Merit or Advanced Placement honors • Chubby bunny (marshmallow-eating) contest • Fall Sports Awards (two league championship teams) • Seventh grade science students at Exploratorium • Mock elections (Clinton victorious) • Middle School class officers takes over campus candy bar sales • Parent networking meetings • French students see French play • Open House attendance keeps going up • Apple-bobbing contest • Thanksgiving celebration in Chapel
The Priory’s Visiting Scholar living and teaching on campus this spring is Mike McGough, editorial page editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and contributing writer to Commonweal, New Republic, Nation and the New York Times. He is writing a book on freedom of expression.