October 31, 2008
Needing either a win or a tie to capture a league championship, the field hockey team wrapped up the title with a victory over Glendora last night.
October 29, 2008
French teacher Marilyn Shield is taking a leave of absence, Harry Salamandra said in a letter addressed to parents on Oct. 17.
October 27, 2008
Served their first loss in a league game this season, the Wolverines' football team was overpowered by Serra 24-7 n an away game last Friday night.
October 27, 2008
Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was announced Monday as the winner of the school-wide mock election that took place last week.
October 24, 2008
Jason Reitman ’95 will host a speaker series on Nov. 5 in Ahmanson Auditorium in front of an alumni and student audience.
October 20, 2008
In front of packed stands, the Wolverines football team crushed St. Bernard 37-0 to begin Del Rey League play last Friday.
October 13, 2008
In the final nonleague game of the season, the Wolverines football team triumphed over Chaminade, 28-13. With the win, the Wolverines have a record of 3-1-1.
October 10, 2008
Kevin Jennings, the founder of the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network, spoke to an upper school assembly Friday about his life as a homosexual, and the lack of equality in America.
October 8, 2008
A dozen athletes were elected to the Student-Athlete Advisory Council by all the student athletes.
October 7, 2008
Ending what had been an undefeated run through the first four games of the season, the Wolverines’ football team fell 17-10 to non-league opponent Alemany Oct. 3. The game was decided by a last-minute Alemany touchdown run.
October 1, 2008
Nick Pritzker ’12 and Nika Madyoon ’12 participated in national debate finals at Yale University. In earlier rounds, the two placed in the top 10 percent of competing junior varsity debaters. Pritzker and Madyoon made it to the double-octafinals.
October 1, 2008
A sophomore boy served an in-house suspension early last month after he posted instruction on how to crack the school’s server onto what the school called a "hacking website" over the summer, he said.
October 1, 2008
Back for their fourth and final week of tutoring at Beethoven Street Elementary School, a group of Harvard-Westlake ninth graders enter Barbara Sandler’s third grade classroom and sit at desks beside their respective pupils.
October 1, 2008
The intersection warning signs flash "Walk" and a pedestrian going home from work crosses the street. As he comes closer to the opposite sidewalk, he notices a cameraman pointing a camera toward the sky. The pedestrian fixes his eyes in the direction the camera is pointing. A casually dressed woman, employing no harness and "holding on to dear life" is clasped atop a pole.
October 1, 2008
The man who created the prize that inspired private space travel urged students Monday to make a career of doing what they love.
October 1, 2008
Upper school teachers have implemented a plethora of technological tools to supplement the curricula of individual courses, making use of electronic resources that have come to define the 21st century.
October 1, 2008
To ease the transition of new middle school students, ninth grade students have begun taking part in a school run big brother and sister program with the seventh grade. The program seeks to achieve many goals, including making new students feel more comfortable and not feel intimidated by older grades.
October 1, 2008
Seventh graders scrambled to the finish of relay races and discovered hidden Frisbee-tossing talents with their new classmates on Sunday, Sept. 7 after being placed into their respective Houses at the first ever seventh grade family picnic.
October 1, 2008
Former English teacher Dr. Alan Buster will substitute for English teacher Geraldine Harding for at least the rest of this week, while Harding recovers from an emergency appendectomy, said Head of School Harry Salamanadra. Harding was hospitalized at Cedars Sinai Medical Center late Thursday evening.
October 1, 2008
Due to student complaints and a prefect-led proposal, the deans have initiated a two week trial which started on Monday permitting students to eat in the lounge.
October 1, 2008
Chronicle adviser Kathleen Neumeyer’s press badge from the 1987 Academy Awards is featured in a display of press credentials from throughout history at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Neumeyer, who covered the Oscars that year as a reporter for United Press International, had seen a wall of various press badges when she visited the Newseum’s previous location in Arlington, Va., in 2001, and recognized a glaring absence.
October 1, 2008
Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, the Oct. 10 assembly speaker, has shared his experiences with upper school audiences twice before.
October 1, 2008
Most eighth graders will spend four nights and three days together at El Capitan Canyon campground for this year’s retreat, replacing the previous site at Pali Mountain Camp.
October 1, 2008
The Faculty Academic Committee asked departments to consider a modified break proposal after Head Prefects Brandon Levin ’09 and Tessa Wick ’09 presented their initial proposal for a second weekly break to the FAC on Sept. 9, FAC Chairman Kent Nealis said.
October 1, 2008
By Shayna Freisleben
The first school-wide Community Council event was hosted last Sunday in Venice Beach at the Abbot Kinney Festival Youth and Family Courtyard. The event, organized by Sara Fleischman ’09, was sponsored by Inside Out Community Arts, an organization that provides programs, performances and festivals for under-privileged children. The Abbot Kinney Festival is held annually on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice. The festival, however, is not community service-oriented.
October 1, 2008
The Tenth Muse, the middle school literary arts magazine, won a National Scholastic Press Association All-American ranking with four marks of distinction for concept, content, writing and editing and photography/art/graphics/typography.
October 1, 2008
President Thomas C. Hudnut spoke about the process and results of hard work, and Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts talked about the importance of art in student education at the first Parents’ Association meeting of the year last Tuesday.