May 27, 2009
Twenty-nine awards were given out Tuesday, May 26 in the annual upper school awards ceremony.
May 27, 2009
Approximately 35 students and two faculty chaperones helped students at Broadway Elementary school paint a mural on May 16.
May 27, 2009
Romina D’Alessandro ’10 and Jake Gutman ’10 were selected by Film Festival faculty advisers to direct the 2010 Harvard-Westlake Film Festival.
May 27, 2009
Connor Donahue ’12 and Andrew Green ’12 made a record donation to an organization which provides soldiers stationed overseas with free phone calls home.
May 27, 2009
E. Randol Schoenberg ’84 has donated some color film footage of the 1940 Westlake graduation to the school archives.
May 27, 2009
The Foreign Language Awards assembly was held on Tuesday, May 19 to honor students who have excelled in advanced foreign language courses.
May 27, 2009
KABC named Marissa Lepor ’12 a "Cool Kid" for co-founding "Kids Stand on Tiptoes" and co-organizing The Bash of All Bashes for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
May 27, 2009
Melissa Gertler ’11 published her book "The Champion of Valens" using Authorhouse, a self-publishing company.
May 27, 2009
Seven students will participate in a concert June 10 at the Roxy benefiting the Painted Turtle Camp, which works to provide resources for kids with illnesses.
May 27, 2009
Absence records are now available online through HWonline, Head of Attendance Gabriel Preciado announced in a school-wide e-mail.
May 27, 2009
Nineteen upper school students sang in a concert in Rugby Theater on May 22 for Imagine LA, a non-profit organization that helps homeless children.
May 27, 2009
The Prefect Council’s plan to provide a moon bounce for "beach day" at break on April 29 hit a liability roadblock preventing students from partaking of the bouncing fun.
May 27, 2009
Assistant Director of Alumni Relations Eli Goldsmith is leaving Harvard-Westlake to attend graduate school at Harvard, sparking a host of position swaps in the Admission and Advancement offices, Chief Advancement Officer Ed Hu said. Goldsmith will enroll in the fall at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for a one-year program in Education Policy and Management.
May 27, 2009
The editors-in-chief for next year’s Vox Populi staff were announced May 8 by yearbook adviser Jen Bladen.
May 27, 2009
The Blank Playwrights Festival will feature two sophomore-written one act plays at the Stella Adler Theatre in June.
May 27, 2009
The mood seemed aquatic at this year’s Senior Father-Son luncheon.
May 27, 2009
Three teachers will travel to Israel during winter break next year to visit Harvard-Westlake’s new sister school, Ironi Dallet, a public high school in north Tel Aviv.
May 27, 2009
The school may allow students to use electronic books as an alternative for paper text books next year.
May 27, 2009
Students gathered on the middle school field for an aerial photo of the new campus on May 21. Students and faculty stood in the formation of the letters "H-W."
May 27, 2009
As Jeff Wattenhoffer, a proctor for the AP English Language exam, strolled around the room keeping watch over the nearly 200 students finishing the test in Chalmers Lounge, one student whispered, "We’ve been in here forever; can’t we leave?" Wattenhoffer replied, "We’ve been here just as long as you have," and walked away.
May 27, 2009
These students will spend nine months of their junior year in Italy, France, Spain and China with the School Year Abroad program. SYA selectes 60 American students to study abroad.
May 27, 2009
The Geological Society of America elected geology teacher Wendy Van Norden into its fellowship on May 3.
May 27, 2009
Environmental activist Ann Bradley explained the importance of voluntary-simplicity to students during break on April 29 in honor of the culmination of Earth Month.
May 27, 2009
Joe Girton ’10, Claire Kao ’10, Alex Leichenger ’11 and Michelle Yousefzadeh ’10 were elected the secretariat for the Model United Nations club for next year.
May 27, 2009
Paulina Shahery ’09 participated in March of the Living, the largest Jewish educational program for teens in the world, from April 19 to May 3.
May 27, 2009
Fourteen students are joining the upper school student body next fall. Thirteen are incoming sophomores and one is an incoming junior, Associate Director of Admission David Bergquist said.
May 26, 2009
The Vox Populi staff is posting corrections to errors in this year's yearbook on their online blog at hwvoxpopuli.blogspot.com.
May 26, 2009
Bel Canto and the Wolverine Chorus received three awards each at the Heritage Festival in Fullerton on Saturday, May 23.
May 18, 2009
Josh Oreman ’09, who will give the valedictory at graduation June 5, will represent the United States at the International Physics Olympiad in Merida, Mexico.
Physics teacher John Feulner was notified today that Oreman, who won a Gold Medal in last year's Olympiad, was chosen as one of five to represent the United States.
May 11, 2009
Julia Cambre ’10 and Olivia van Iderstine ’10 will lead the yearbook next year.