Page 4 - Priorities #26 2004-April

Spring at a Glance
Eighth graders Kaori Ogawa (wielding the hose), Whitney Greswold, Alyssa Chung and Lindsay Barnett seem to be washing each other as much as the cars they captured on the way to the Father-Student Mass, Brunch and Basketball event. The students were “applying their talents” for charity, part of a Lenten challenge to make a small amount of money grow for a good cause. Headmaster Tim Molak explains it in his letter, page 3.
TeammembersofthePrioryModelUnitedNationsteam, Michael Mellenthin and Myles Lam won an award for their work representing Algeria in the World Health Organization at a MUN conference held atUniversityofCalifornia,BerkeleyfromMarch12to14. Intheinset photo, the whole Priory team gathers on Sproul Plaza with Sather Gate in the background. They are (from first row left) Myles, Ciarra Villaflor Tanakatsubo, Alicia Kriewall, (second row) Scott Bader, Nick Coombs,DanWenger, (thirdrow)Ms.HelenO’Hara(advisor), Michael, Laura Hahnsbeen, Andrew Smith, Susan Lyon, Sharaf Rizvi, and Igor Golden (faculty chaperone). The Priory represented China at Harvard and Georgetown earlier in the year.
The great 1950s Peter Sellers movie, The Mouse That Roared, was as funny as ever when WPS’s 43-member cast of sixth through twelfth graders presented it on stage on March 4, 5 and 6. The tiny duchy
of Grand Fenwick invades New York with bows and arrows, fully expecting to lose and capture something more important than glory— foreign aid. But things go seriously awry when they accidentally come into possession of a nuclear bomb and the worst happens—they win. The wide range of characters gave students’ imaginations plenty of
scope and the audience plenty of laughs. To the left, Gar Waterman holds the colors while Diego Moncada, Maxim Sirenko and
Ned Cameron attack. In the inset photo, Count Mountjoy (Travis Maahs) exudes
his best sneer. It was a last performance for seniors Gar and Travis, as well as for fellow seniors Jerry Shih, James Eanaman
and Kevin Stasun. Director and drama teacher, John Sugden, got a well-
deserved bouquet.
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