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
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
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
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 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.
September 3, 2008
Starting this year, Chinese will be offered to seventh graders. Though the class used to be offered to ninth graders, middle school teacher, Bin Bin Wei will be teaching nearly 40 seventh graders this fall in three separate classes.
May 28, 2008
Sue Kallok, Chair of the Middle School Library and Technology Department, has been elected to replace art teacher Robin Miller as the new Dean of Faculty at the Middle School.
May 28, 2008
As the rest of her eighth grade classmates finish up the school year and make plans to see each other again in the fall, Michelle Vaisman ‘12 will be cleaning out her locker and getting ready to go to college, skipping all of her high school years.
May 28, 2008
Rachelle Song ’10 made it to the top seven finalists for a Japanese karaoke competition run by the Cheng and Tsui Company.
May 28, 2008
The Middle School Modernization Project Team plans to knock down the music building and Seeley G. Mudd Library at the beginning of June.
May 28, 2008
Middle school English teacher Chris Rutherford is mad for tacos.
March 19, 2008
The head and senior prefects went to the middle school to prepare the ninth grade class for their upcoming election which will determine the class of 2011’s prefects.
November 15, 2007
Seventh grade representatives were elected after two runoffs.
November 7, 2007
A new Sacred Space about Hinduism, organized and created by Rabbi Emily Feigenson, will be opening next Monday on the middle school campus.
November 7, 2007
Middle School debaters met with British debaters at the Vance de Laguna Room on October 25 to debate one serious topic and one light topic. Freshmen Ben Sprung-Keyser, Jacob Sonnenberg and Chris Holthouse hosted the three students from Latymer School in London in their homes after meeting them when they traveled to London after winning a competition in Los Angeles.
November 7, 2007
Keeping with a tradition that started in 1983 at Westlake School, twenty eighth graders visited Mar Vista Head Start to fulfill their community service requirement.
November 7, 2007
Student performers and technicians collaborate for the
Nov. 15-18 production “The Curse of Ravensdurn.”
November 7, 2007
The Kids First! Film Festival awarded Xochi second place in the middle school category on Oct. 7 for her work on the short film “The Good, the Bag and the Ugly.”
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