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The Viking Voice
Online Newsletter
Fall Sports Issue
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Get To Know...
Patricia Killoren
Middle School
Assistant Librarian
Family:
"My husband Bob works for Ohio State. Three of our four children are grown up and
Rachel is a senior here at CA. She
started here as a sophomore when we moved from State College, Pa.,
two years ago. We live in Gahanna less than five
minutes from campus."
Philosophy:
"I love the Middle School library because it is
really busy with students who come in to get books, do research and just
learn. We have to teach them to be
effective users of information because that's where the future is - knowing how
to find information and using it to make decisions."
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Dress code items, logo T-shirts & more...
Store Hours:
7:30-8:30 a.m.
2:30-3:30 p.m.
We'll be at the home football game on Friday night!
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September 10, 2008
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Volume 2, Issue 6
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Eight CA students named National Merit Semifinalists
 Eight students from The Columbus Academy have
been named Semifinalists in the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Program. Academy seniors Steven Armstrong (Reynoldsburg), Lauren Falkenberg (Westerville), Krupa Harishankar (Blacklick), Skyler
Jordan (Gahannna), Garrett May
(Westerville), Benjamin Mozenter
(Gahanna), Aatifa Shareef (Gahanna)
and Audrey Young (Blacklick) are now
eligible for some 8,200 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $35
million, that will be offered next spring.
Click here for the full press release.
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Plans for 2008 Reunion Weekend announced
Columbus Academy's 2008
Reunion Weekend will take place October
10-11. Registration begins at 11:00 a.m.
on Friday, October 10, in Academy Hall followed by a free Golden Alumni Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. in the Dining Hall honoring
all classes celebrating reunions of 50 years or more. The much-anticipated Reunion Buddy Reception (click here for last year's photos) will
begin in the Dining Hall at 1:30 p.m. with student-led campus tours ending in
Schoedinger Theatre for a 2:30 p.m. production of "The Academy Stream" by the Class of 2016. This year's State-of-the-School update will be provided by Assistant Headmaster
of Development/External Relations Erich
Hunker '81, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid John Wuorinen '80 and Student Council President Austin Bening '09 at 3:15 p.m. Academy's pep band will then entertain the
crowd at the Former Faculty Reception
at 4:30 p.m., followed by the 26th annual Charlie
David Dinner at 5:30 p.m., the Athletic Hall of Fame Induction of Maxwell Stevenson '95 at 6:45 p.m. and
kickoff of the Vikings' home football game against Heath at 7:30 p.m. Reunion Weekend wraps up with CA's sixth
annual OSU Tailgate Saturday morning
and individual class parties Saturday evening.
Please click here for a complete rundown of events.
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Become a Charlie David Dinner sponsor
The 26th annual Charlie David Dinner will be held from 5:00-7:30 p.m. on Friday,
October 10, in the school's Dining Hall prior to the Vikings' home varsity
football game against Heath. The
much-anticipated event - which includes great food, free Boardwalk games for
the kids, a silent auction and raffles - raises funds for the athletics program
at Columbus Academy. Please consider
becoming a Charlie David Dinner sponsor.
For more information and a "wish list" to designate where your
contribution will be spent, click here. Anyone
wishing to donate items for the silent auction should call Jim Miller
at 614-280-4043. This year's raffle item
is a Mac Book Computer. Tickets are $5 or five for $20. If you are unable to attend and would like to
purchase raffle tickets, please send cash or check (made out to PACA) c/o Tim Dickes, 689 Stag PL. Gahanna, OH 43230.
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Academy's Blair Soden '02 lands at ESPN
Blair
Soden, a 2002 graduate of Columbus Academy,
was recently featured in ThisWeek Community Newspapers' Bexley issue for her
role as a producer on ESPN's new weekday morning edition of SportsCenter. The complete story is in this week's press clippings.
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Upper School News
Save the date... Upper School Parents Night is
Wednesday, September 17. The evening
starts at 7 p.m. in Schoedinger Theatre.
After opening remarks from various administrators and parent
representatives, you will have an opportunity to meet your child's teachers and
advisors as you follow their schedule through a condensed academic day. The purpose of the night is to put "a face
with a name" and to get a brief sense of what your child's "teacher is like,"
NOT to create opportunity for individual discussion about individual students. The school will provide you with a copy of
your child's schedule when you sign in on the 17th in the Schoedinger Theatre
lobby. I look forward to seeing you on
campus! ~ Shane MacElhiney, Head of Upper School
The student club GROW, which focuses on gender
relations, held a lunch-time book discussion on "Why Women Should Rule the
World" by Dee Dee Myers on Monday. Follow-up
discussions will be held on each of the next two Mondays. Everyone is welcome, including students and faculty
members from all three divisions.
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Middle School News
Don't
forget that this evening's Middle School
Parents' Night will
begin at 7 p.m. in Schoedinger Theater with brief introductions and sharing of
some general information. At about 7:35
p.m., parents will leave the theater and visit with teachers in classrooms and designated
areas to hear about the curriculum that will be covered in the different
subject areas. Upon arrival, fifth- and
sixth-grade
parents can proceed directly into the theater to be seated. Parents of seventh- and eighth-grade
students, please arrive a few minutes early to retrieve your child's schedule
at the table in the theater lobby. And
for more information about the upcoming MS Parent Forums, please click here.
This year's Tutoring
Café will have its first meeting on Wednesday September 17. The Tutoring Café is a free service available
to all Middle School students on Wednesday afternoons from 3:15-4:00 p.m. in
the MS library. Upper
School students and representatives
from both the US
and MS faculty will be available during these times to assist Middle School
students with any academic area. Please
make your children aware of this service and encourage them to use this
valuable resource. Arrangements can be
made with coaches if your child needs to miss part of a practice for academic
reasons. For more information, please
contact Michelle Platt at michelle_platt@columbusacademy.org.
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Lower School News
 Armando Hernandez, a visiting teacher from Mexico,
served as the guest of honor at the Lower
School's monarch butterfly release ceremony on
Monday. Academy students had raised the
butterflies and tagged them so that their migration to the winter sanctuary
near Hernandez's hometown of Angangueo,
Mexico, can be
followed by the students' computer programs.
To see photos from the event, click here for this week's Around Academy gallery. A cameraman from ABC 6 News was on hand but the story
was bumped from the newscast. If a copy
of the unaired story can be obtained from the station, it will be made
available as a video link in an upcoming Viking Voice.
 Be sure to check out the recently released Fall
After School Activities brochure to see what programs might interest your
child (grades PreK-6) . Activities include drama, yoga, art,
ballet, chess, gardening, knitting, fashion design, jewelry-making, modern
manners/etiquette, Spanish and sports-related programming such as swimming,
gymnastics, wrestling, basketball and horseback riding. Click here for the online brochure.
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Arts & Music News
The Columbus Academy Art Society will be
participating in this year's Via Colori, a street art festival September 13-14
at Goodale Park in the Short North. The event, which includes chalk pastels by
more than 100 artists, also features live music, gourmet food vendors and an
area in which children can create their own chalk masterpieces. Click here for more event info.
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Sports News
 The varsity boys soccer team ended up playing an
intrasquad scrimmage Saturday at Crew Stadium because Cincinnati Mariemont's
bus was stuck in traffic for three hours due to a fatal accident on I-71. The match has been rescheduled for 5 p.m. on
Wednesday, October 1, at Crew Stadium.
Admission and parking will be free.
Photos of the scrimmage are in this week's Varsity Fall Sports gallery,
along with recent girls tennis, football, field hockey and girls soccer
action. And thank you to all of the
parents who have sent in their photos from other Viking sports games. View their photos in the MS-JV Fall Sports gallery, which includes MS girls soccer, seventh-grade football, seventh-grade
volleyball, MS field hockey, JV boys soccer and JV football. Also, Columbus Academy's
2008 Fall Sports Program has been published and can be viewed online by
clicking here. And in case you missed
the Spring Sports Program that came out late in the season, it is now available
by clicking here. Updates on the teams
will be included in next week's Viking Voice, but you can peruse recent results
in this week's press clippings.
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PACA News
Deadline for Scrip orders is this Friday,
September 12. The program offers the
convenience of buying gift cards from all kinds of retailers like Lands' End,
Kohl's, Giant Eagle and Starbucks. The
retailers rebate a portion of your gift card purchase amount (up to 17 percent)
back to the school. You get the
advantage of having the Scrip cards
to use at the places you usually shop or to give as gifts, while the school
gets the benefit of a regular source of income. Click here to download the forms and details. Please
continue to reload the Kroger cards that you have purchased through our Scrip
program. For questions, please email Cindy Poehlmann at cwpoehlmann@sbcglobal.net. Thank
you for your support.
 A hearty thank you goes to everyone who dropped
off items for the preliminary "Kids for
Kids" Holiday Clothing Drive collection last
Thursday. Another drop-off date is being
planned for October. For more
information, please contact Ann Boeckman
at 253-3108 or rpboeckman@aol.com. And don't forget about the Viking Closet, which is a free school
clothing exchange for families that is located in the lowest level of the
Middle School next to Ms. Klug's
science room, across from Mr. Neal's
art room and just down the hall from Nurse
Hoagland's office. Managed and maintained
by Margie Kelley and her family, the
closet has a good selection of clean, dress-code acceptable clothing. To see photos of both the preliminary
clothing drop-off and the Viking Closet, visit this week's Around Academy gallery.
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Parent SEED program to being on September 23
The Parents' Association is very excited to be
offering a new program to CA parents this year.
While SEED is new for parents
at CA, this program has been used in schools in the U.S. and abroad for 22 years, and
CA Middle School teacher MaryEve
Corrigan has been running a SEED group for CA faculty for more than 16
years. SEED stands for Seeking
Educational Equity and Diversity and offers participants the chance to consider
issues of multi-culturalism and diversity, especially with regard to our own
school community, and within the context of our personal life stories. The group, limited to 20 parents, will meet
over the course of the year, once a month for nine months, from 6-9 p.m. Click here for meeting dates. Dinner will be provided. Joyce
Simson P'08 will lead the group. Please
contact PACA Parent Education Chair Lee
Szykowny (Zeke162@aol.com ), PACA
President Ken Brown (KBrown@sbcadvertising.com) or Joyce Simson (jrs@ix.netcom.com) with questions.
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10-Day Calendar
Thursday, Sept. 11-E - Patriot Day
Marketing
Committee Meeting, 8:00 a.m. (Trustees' Room)
Junior
Speeches, 10:30 a.m. (Danielle Cannella, Jackie Mahler, Gavin Benedict)
Lunch: grilled
cheese sandwiches, baked ziti, sautéed snow peas, tofu with orange sauce,
sandwich/soup/salad bars, ice cream
Friday, Sept. 12-F
8th Grade
Ropes Course, 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. (Summit Vision)
Lunch:
pepperoni & cheese pizza, cottage potatoes, cauliflower blend, vegetable
pizza, sandwich/soup/salad bars, fresh fruit
Monday, Sept. 15-A
Lunch: hamburgers,
waffle fries, cauliflower florets, baked beans, garden burgers, sandwich/soup/salad bars, fresh fruit
Tuesday, Sept. 16-B
7th Grade
Parent Forum, 8:00-9:00 a.m. (Dining Hall)
Lunch: pot
roast, roasted potatoes, baby carrots, buttermilk biscuits, mushroom sun-dried
tomato strata, sandwich/soup/salad bars, ice
cream
Wednesday, Sept. 17-C
5th Grade
Parent Forum, 8:00-9:00 a.m. (Dining Hall)
US Parent Night, 7:00 p.m.
(Schoedinger Theatre)
Lunch: BBQ
pork sandwiches, bowtie pasta, marinara sauce, sautéed vegetables, baked green
tomatoes, assorted cereal bar, sandwich/soup/salad bars, fresh fruit
Thursday, Sept. 18-D
6th Grade
Parent Forum, 8:00-9:00 a.m. (Dining Hall)
Junior
Speeches, 10:30 a.m.
Lunch:
chicken fajitas, Spanish rice, roasted corn & peppers, vegetable strudel,
sandwich/soup/salad bars, frosted yellow cake
Friday, Sept. 19-E
8th Grade
Parent Forum, 8:00-9:00 a.m. (Dining Hall)
Senior/Kindergarten
Buddy Cookout, 10:30 a.m. (Lazarus Courtyard)
Lunch:
encrusted salmon, confetti rice, baked chicken nuggets, vegetable medley,
stuffed zucchini, bagel bar, sandwich/soup/salad bars, fresh fruit
Click here for the complete Sept. 8-12 lunch menu
Click here for the complete Sept. 15-19 lunch menu
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Nine CA students participate in Skate For Hope
 On Saturday, August 30, nine students from Columbus Academy
- Natalie Bongirno '21, Cassidy Crane '19, Madeline Edwards '15, Annalise Grammel '20, Audrey
Grammel '17, Jennifer L'Hommedieu
'19, Natalie L'Hommedieu '18, Joey Pinzone '21 and Amelia Wise '10 (pictured left) - performed
with current Olympic, world and national figure skating champions at Skate for
Hope's fifth anniversary show at Nationwide Arena. The event raised $63,000 for cancer research.
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