The Viking Voice is published weekly by the Columbus Academy communications office.
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November 5, 2008
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Volume 2, Issue 14
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Upper Schoolers to perform "See How They Run"
 The Upper School Theater Program will perform
Philip King's "See How They Run" this Friday and Saturday, November 7-8, at
7:30 p.m. in Schoedinger Theatre.
Academy seniors Zeshawn Ali
and Madison Lee, junior Emily Downes, sophomores Blair Brightwell, Stephanie Grauer, Ben
Sinvany and Ben Yoder and
freshmen Alex Farrenkopf and Drew Klopfer star in the classic
English comedy set in the 1940s. Tickets
are $5 (students and faculty/staff free) and can be ordered by e-mailing Mary Kate Hermann at marykate_hermann@columbusacademy.org. There will also be a special performance for
the Middle School at 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, November 6. To see photos from a recent assembly teaser,
visit this week's Around Academy gallery.
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Thank you for giving to the Annual Fund this year
Tuition covers 87% of the cost to educate our
students, leaving a gap of $2,600 per student which the Annual Fund helps to make up.
The bottom line is that the Annual Fund is NOT for extras - it is for
the day-to-day essentials of running the school, such as paying the salaries
and benefits of our terrific faculty.
Now, more than ever, your support is critical for the school's future
success. Thank you to those who have
already given to the Annual Fund this year (click here to see donors as of 11/3/08).
 For those families who are able to make a gift
at a leadership level (gifts of $2,500 or more), please remember that the
deadline to RSVP for the fifth annual Celebration
of Leadership event featuring special guest Lisa Ling on November 12 is this Friday. Ling is known to millions around the world as
the first-ever woman host and correspondent of the hit National Geographic
series Explorer and as special
assignment reporter for the Oprah Show. To RSVP (click here for invitation) or for
further information, please contact the Development Office at 614-509-2256.
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Obama and McCain split CA's mock election vote
 In mock elections held by Columbus
Academy's Middle School and Upper School,
President-elect Barack Obama was
widely preferred by the older students while McCain won the Middle School race
by a single vote. In the Upper School
election held yesterday, Obama garnered 55 percent (196) of the student and
faculty vote as opposed to 41 percent (147) for John McCain. Click here for
a complete breakdown, including by gender and by class. In the Middle School online election held
last Tuesday, McCain earned 137 votes to Obama's 136. A class-by-class breakdown shows Obama
winning grades 6, 8, 10, 11 and 12 while McCain won in grades 5, 7 and 9.
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Holiday Project update from the CA Service Board
 Thanks to the generosity of the Academy community, all
32 of our sponsored families will be receiving two weeks worth of meals with their holiday meals and clothing
delivery. Many, many thanks for helping
this worthy cause! Also, even though the
clothing drive ends today, toys will still be collected through the end of the
week.
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Free firewood offered to Academy families
"You've probably noticed a few fallen trees
around campus as a result of the storm damage last month," says Director of
Facilities and Grounds Doug Bennett. "These trees were cut into logs and many have
been used by the science classrooms to enhance outdoor learning areas. Now, though, the school wants to make this
wood available to the Columbus
Academy community. The landscape crew has relocated all of the
cut logs to the service road next to the white steel gate that leads to the
lower athletic fields. Anyone interested
in obtaining a log or two (some of these are very large and weighty) from the
pile, please feel free to contact Security
at 394-3403 to let them know when you will be on campus."
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Upper School News
The College Counseling office will host a Financing College Program this upcoming
Monday, November 10, at 7 p.m. in Schoedinger Theatre. All Upper School
students and their parents are invited to attend. Tally
Hart, who is senior advisor for the Economic Access Initiative at The Ohio
State University, will lead the program, which many families in the past have
reported as "the most helpful college counseling program they attended all
year." Applying for financial aid is
complex, and there are strict deadlines.
Plan to attend!
Also, a reminder that next week, Thursday,
November 13, is the next Upper School
Parent Coffee. The coffee will be
held in the Dining Hall and feature our college counselors, Darnell Heywood and Chris Jones. Please submit questions to US Head Shane MacElhiney at shane_macelhiney@columbusacademy.org,
as the Q and A will be limited to questions that he receives ahead of time.
Please note
these two phone number changes to the front of the Directory-Handbook: the number for the Upper School Office is 509-2281 (not 337-4300 as listed on Page 5),
and Co-Dean of Students Sheri Dillon
can be reached at 509-2227 (not at her old number of 509-2121 as listed on Page
6).
And please make note of our performing arts schedule over the next two weeks and come out and
support our talented and hardworking students and faculty.
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Middle School News
 Students in grades 4-8 recently took class field
trips to different destinations both in-state and out-of-state. Click here to see photos from the fourth grade trip to the Glen Helen
Nature Preserve, the fifth grade
trip to the Henry Ford Museum
and Greenfield Village,
the sixth grade trip to OSU's Freshwater Mussel
Research Center
and the Robinson family farm, the seventh
grade trip to Hueston Woods State Park
and the eighth grade trip to Washington, D.C.
Middle School girls are encouraged to
participate in the Connections program with the Upper School
club G.R.O.W. (Gender Relations in Our World). In its fourth year,
this program creates bonds across grade levels and eases the uncertainties felt
by young women in the Middle School. The next meeting is scheduled for
Thursday, November 6, from 3:30-4:30 in the Dining Hall's Garden Room.
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Lower School News
 View photos from the LS Halloween Parade by clicking here! And for
photos from the fourth grade trip to Glen Helen, please click here.
The Lower
School began Election Day yesterday with an assembly
presentation by the first grade, which included segments on "If I Were
President," "Jobs of the President," "My Teacher for President," and a goat and
sheep poem about voting.
The third grade Little Dribblers are performing just
before the start of the Cleveland Cavaliers' 7:00 p.m. game at Quicken Loans Arena on Tuesday, November 11. They will be leaving
school at 2:30 p.m.
Save the date:
Lower School
Holiday Gathering will be on Thursday,
December 18, at 1:45 p.m.
All kindergarten
parents are invited to a parent get-together this Friday, November 7, at 7 p.m. in the
home of Sean and Vanessa Gouhin. Please contact
grade mom Sarah Henry at Sarah.Henry2@gmail.com with any
questions.
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Arts & Music News
The first concert of the school year will take
place tonight!
Students in grades 6-12 will perform at the Fall Choir Concert, which is set to begin at 7:00 p.m. in
Schoedinger Theatre. Admission is free.
Also, the Upper School
and Middle School Viking Strings
will present their Fall Festival Concert
on Tuesday, November 11. The 7 p.m.
performance in Schoedinger Theatre will feature the Fifth and Sixth Grade
Strings, the Seventh and Eighth Grade Strings, and the Upper School Viking
Strings joined by the Upper School Winds and Percussion. Admission is free.
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Sports News
All students
in grades 7-12 who are interested in playing a winter sport (basketball, swimming or wrestling), please click here
to see start dates and coaching contact information. If you have any questions, please contact
Maureen Belcher in the Vikings' athletics office at 509-2253 or maureen_belcher@columbusacademy.org.
 CA's field
hockey team beat defending state champion Thomas Worthington 1-0 last
Friday in the state semifinals on a goal by junior Caroline Casey in the closing seconds of the match. In Saturday's state championship game,
however, Academy fell 3-1 to Hathaway Brown.
It marked the 11th appearance in the state title game for the Vikes,
whose eight championships in field hockey are the most of any school in Ohio.
At the Mid-State League Fall 2008 Awards Banquet
two weekends ago, 10 Columbus
Academy athletes earned
first team all-league honors. The
first-teamers were Molly Belcher '10
in volleyball, Matt Coffin '09 and Byron Viets '09 in boys golf, Erin Simmons '12 in girls soccer, David Gantos '09, Peter Paras '09 and Gebby
Keny '10 in boys soccer, and Sheena
Koushik '09, Val Micek '09 and Christiana Raymond '10 in girls tennis. Gantos and Raymond were named Players of the
Year for boys soccer and girls tennis, respectively, while their coaches - Ron Leach and Jeff Warstler - received Championship Coach recognition. We will try to list all other postseason
honors in next week's Viking Voice.
For other news and notes, please visit this
week's press clippings.
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Parents' Association News
 Headmaster John
Mackenzie will be the featured speaker at the next monthly Parents' Meeting, to be hosted by the
Parents' Association on Tuesday, November 11, from 8-9 a.m. in the Trustees'
Room. Also on the agenda will be Bob Lee, CA's director of
communications, discussing the school's website. All parents are invited to attend. Click here for the meeting agenda.
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Scrip orders available now through November 17
It is time for your holiday order of Scrip! Gift cards make great gifts for friends and
family, allow young drivers to pick up groceries on the way home from school,
and offer a controlled entertainment "credit card" for young teenagers. Our program offers the convenience of buying
gift cards from all kinds of retailers like the Gap, Kroger's, Robeks and
Starbucks. The retailers rebate a
portion of your gift card purchase amount back to the school. This rebate can be up to 17%. 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 e-mail Cindy Poehlmann at cwpoehlmann@sbcglobal.net. Thank you for your support.
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10-Day Calendar
Thursday, Nov. 6-B
"Kids for
Kids" Clothing Drive
Sorting (Theater Lobby)
Grove City College visit, 10:15 a.m.
Junior
Speeches, 10:30 a.m. (Clay Hoster, Sarah Kahwash, Will Sherman)
MS viewing
of "See How They Run", 12:30 p.m. (Schoedinger Theatre)
Brass Band
Concert, 7:00 p.m. (Schoedinger Theatre)
Lunch: sloppy
joe sandwiches, chicken & wild rice, sautéed snow peas, zucchini casserole,
sandwich & salad & soup bars, ice cream cups
Friday, Nov. 7-C
"Kids for
Kids" Clothing Drive
Sorting (Theater Lobby)
US Play "See
How They Run", 7:30 p.m. (Schoedinger Theatre)
MS Dance at
CA, 7:30 p.m. (Barton Room)
Lunch: pizza
(pepperoni, cheese & vegetable), cottage potatoes, cauliflower blend,
sandwich & salad & soup bars, fresh fruit
Saturday, Nov. 8
Northeastern
Ohio Universities College of Medicine visit, 9:00 a.m.
US Play "See
How They Run", 7:30 p.m. (Schoedinger Theatre)
Monday, Nov. 10-D
Swarthmore College visit, 12:45 p.m.
College
Counseling Financial Aid Meeting, 7:00 p.m. (Schoedinger Theatre)
Lunch: all-beef
hamburgers, baked waffle fries, cauliflower florets, baked beans, garden burgers,
sandwich & salad & soup bars, fresh fruit
Tuesday, Nov. 11-E
Veterans
Day
Parents'
Meeting, 8:00 a.m. (Trustees' Room)
Drew University visit, 11:30 a.m.
Hanover College visit, 12:45 p.m.
Strings
Concert, 7:00 p.m. (Schoedinger Theatre)
Lunch: sliced
roast beef, roasted potatoes, baby carrots, portobello sandwiches, sandwich
& salad & soup bars, ice cream
Wednesday, Nov. 12-F
LATE START,
9:30 a.m. (Professional Development Day)
Marketing
Committee Meeting, 8:00 a.m. (Trustees' Room)
US Assembly
with Lisa Ling, 4:00-5:00 p.m. (Schoedinger Theatre)
Celebration
of Leadership Event, 7:30 p.m.
Lunch: BBQ
pork sandwiches, bowtie pasta, marinara sauce, sauteed vegetables, baked green
tomatoes, assorted cereal bar, sandwich & salad & soup bars, fresh
fruit
Thursday, Nov. 13-A
Upper School Parent Coffee, 8:15 a.m. (Dining
Hall)
Kindergarten
Music Performance, 8:15 a.m. (Schoedinger Theatre)
Junior
Speeches, 10:30 a.m. (Ben Krempley, Natalie Szykowny, Bradley Rusoff)
Lunch: chicken
fajitas, Spanish rice, roasted corn & peppers, vegetarian Mexican lasagna,
sandwich & salad & soup bars, frosted yellow cake
Friday, Nov. 14-B
Lunch: encrusted
herb salmon, confetti rice, baked chicken nuggets, vegetable medley, stuffed
zucchini, bagel bar, sandwich & salad & soup bars, fresh fruit
Click here
for the complete Nov. 10-14 lunch menu
Click here for Viking Athletic schedules! |
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