October 21, 2009
Girls’ volleyball took sole possession of first place in the Mission League with a three set sweep over rival Flintridge Sacred Heart on October 20.
October 21, 2009
Lauren Seo ’10 and Jamie Kim ’10 won Honorable Mention in the Ryan White Awards for their story titled "Pressed for Time," in the November 2008 Chronicle.
October 21, 2009
The Crisis and Support Team program has been dissolved as of this summer. The decision was made after discussions between Assistant to Head of Upper School Michelle Bracken, Rabbi Emily Feigenson, school psychologist Dr. Sheila Siegel and Chaplain Father J. Young, all of whom are past CaST coordinators.
October 21, 2009
H-W Green plans to hold its first meeting of the year next week, H-W Green Chair for the Upper School and math teacher Kent Palmer said.
October 21, 2009
After the absence of one last year, a Gay-Straight Alliance has been brought back to the Upper School campus this year.
October 21, 2009
Harvard-Westlake requires all students to carry health care insurance, regardless of financial circumstances or preference.
October 21, 2009
Students will step forward for a cause on Sunday, Oct. 25th in the annual AIDS Walk in West Hollywood.
October 21, 2009
Harvard Westlake’s 2010 Film Festival held a contest to design the icon that will to be used to represent the festival.
October 21, 2009
The ongoing national debate over health insurance reform made its way onto campus this month, with students in history and Spanish classes discussing the complex, often divisive issue.
October 21, 2009
Approximately 40 parents attended an Annual Giving volunteer training dinner in the lobby of the Bing Auditorium on Thursday, Oct. 8.
October 21, 2009
Advanced Photography I classes traveled to the Robert Frank exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Oct. 5 to take photos for a class project.
October 21, 2009
Located on the side of a small hill across from Seaver is the house where the headmaster of Harvard School used to live. The house has since been converted into the business and financial aid offices, where personnel deal with issues such as employee health insurance on a daily basis.
October 21, 2009
Brendan Kutler ’10 received the school’s nomination for the Morehead-Cain scholarship; Hana Al-Henaid ’10 and Christine Byun ’10 received the nominations for the Jefferson scholarship, while Austin Park ’10, Ilica Mahajan ’10, Ava Kofman ’10, Jacob Witten ’10 and Al-Henaid are the school’s nominees for the Robertson scholarship.
October 21, 2009
Two weeks ago, former history teacher David Coombs returned to the Middle School to teach two classes.
October 20, 2009
Meg Norton prepares for senior year.
October 19, 2009
KIIS FM, Star 98.7, KROQ and Jack FM are familiar names to music loving students who listen to the radio. If a group of middle school students continue in the direction they are moving, the name In-House Radio could join that group.
October 19, 2009
The beginning of the end came for all seniors when they stepped onto Ted Slavin Field at Ring Ceremony on Sept. 13.
October 19, 2009
This year’s Fanatic Fest featured a dodgeball battle beween the varsity football and varsity water polo teams, and an ‘80s Day that had students dancing to cult classic "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins in the quad.
October 19, 2009
Fishing trip leads to discovery of new species.
October 16, 2009
The science teacher spoke at College of the Canyons Friday night.
October 16, 2009
"What should you do when a school shooting occurs on campus?"
October 16, 2009
Ian Cinnamon ’10 has helped create an iPhone application that gives users virtual tours of colleges.
October 16, 2009
Hella Epic, a skateboard charity, gave out skateboards at the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica on Sept 20.
October 16, 2009
Construction has begun on a $750,000 renovation of Franklin Field in Encino, where the school has a long-term lease to play its baseball games.
October 16, 2009
Marko Fezjo ’15 and Ethan Gruman ’15 are designing personalized computer games.
October 16, 2009
A Sudanese refugee and a documentarian will speak during Genocide Awareness Week next month.
October 16, 2009
The varsity girls’ volleyball team sold pink shirts and baked goods on Wednesday, Oct. 7 and Thursday, Oct. 8 to raise for the Dig Pink event.
October 16, 2009
A new visual arts class for seventh graders was added to the curriculum this year.
October 16, 2009
A team of Harvard-Westlake students helped surpass a world record by breaking ground on 24 houses in two minutes at the Habitat for Humanity "The American Dream" 5K Walk on Saturday Oct. 10. The event was documented by the Guinness Book of World Records.
October 16, 2009
Forty-two seniors qualified as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists based on their PSAT/NMSQT scores, placing Harvard-Westlake second among independent schools in California, according to information from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
October 16, 2009
"I wiggled my fingers and toes to make sure I wasn’t paralyzed," Wesley Friedman ’12 recalled. "I was told not to move. To put it nicely, I was alright, but it hurt."
October 16, 2009
Students set up booths around the quad to attract students to sign up for different causes.
October 16, 2009
Four students will represent the United States at international debate tournaments in Korea and Qatar.
October 15, 2009
Nearly 20 percent of the upper school student body was absent on Friday, Oct. 9. Some were absent because of recruiting trips or other commitments, but a significant number of the students called in sick with the flu.
October 11, 2009
In the first video of our new Talk of the Town series, The Chronicle asked students and faculty for their opinions on the 1999 Columbine School shooting reenactment video that was shown during sophomore class meeting on Friday, Oct. 2, the last day of Fanatic Fest.
October 10, 2009
Jordan Freisleben blogs about visiting her sister six weeks into her freshman year at Emory and discovering how much both have changed.
October 5, 2009
Students dressed in red for Friday's Fanatic Fest Assembly, the last event in a week of school spirit festivities.
October 4, 2009
Fans stormed the field as the Wolverines defeated local
football powerhouse Alemany 24-20 at Homecoming Saturday night.