Performing Arts Center Newsletter

NEWSLETTER February 26 - March 04, 2018

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“Today we celebrate the beginning of a new era of cultural opportunities for upcoming generations of Eagles. Forever we will celebrate the fact that together the EAGLES continue to be pioneers and builders of dreams..GO EAGLES!�

-Mrs. Liliana Jenkins

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INAUGURATION Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 at six o’clock in the afternoon, marked another milestone for the American School Eagles. After years of dreaming of an art and musical center for students, staff and community, the dream became a reality. This was the result of TEAM WORK, an effort by many who planned, collaborated and worked together to make this project the amazing Performing Arts Center that it is today.

SPECIAL THANKS AND RECOGNITION Leadership is a skill and a talent. All our gratitude and admiration goes to our Superintendent, Mrs. Liliana Jenkins, who worked on a daily basis with a team of collaborators, ensuring the quality of the project as well as making sure it provides the academic tools and meets the requirements for our students’ success. In the Center’s inauguration ceremony Mrs. Jenkins addressed the audience and thanked the following people on behalf of all past and future generations of Eagles. “ . . . all the Board Presidents who have worked really hard, by first supporting AST’s Arts and Music academic program, and then, by providing more space for it to grow. I would like to especially thank Mr. Dennis Figueroa, Mrs. Reina Irene Mejía and Mr. José Fco. Quiñónez.

For years we have been blessed to be guided by our Board Members who voluntarily give of their valuable time and skills to our school; tonight I want to recognize two outstanding board members Mr. David Tipping and Colonel Steve Stanley. Thank you!For many months a group of volunteers would meet on a weekly basis to guide the construction efforts. A huge thank you to our Constrution Committee: José Castillo, Rafael Inestroza, Pedro Díaz, José Luis Moncada, Roberto Aviles, Luis Caballero, José Fco. Quiñonez, Beatriz Cotrina, and Ingeniero Oyuela To all of you I say: all the late meetings, all the discussions, and all the research – it was all worth it.

I also glow with EAGLE PRIDE when I thank and congratulate our Designing Architect, alumnus (Class of 1990) Luis Casco. Thank you, Luis!

To our building contractor Mr. Sherwood Bonilla and subcontractors Mr. Jaime Pineda, Mr. Mauricio Ferrari, Mr. Antonio Kafati and Mr.Ricardo Reina, as well as to our construction supervisors Mr. Alex Bendeck and Mr. Andrés Rishmawi, thank you all for your time and dedication to this project. Today we will enjoy a wonderful concert thanks to the acoustic skills, knowledge and expertise of consultants Gary Siebein and Onías Peralta. We are so in debt to you. Thank you for your long hours of hard work and devotion to the project. Stage and ambience illumination was also guided by our consultant and parent Estiven Simón.

Please join me in applaudingtheir efforts.

Last, but of course NOT LEAST to our donors, especially to our major donor FICOHSA, Mr. Javier Atala. Thank you for always believing in AST. We thank YOU, FICOHSA and the ATALA family. Today we have with us Honduran renowned artist Darío Rivera. His sculpture TIEMPO Y ESPACIO is displayed in our main lobby. Thank you Darío for touching our hearts and soul through art. We also thank our parents, students, staff, and friends of our school who participated in the DONATE A SEAT CAMPAIGN. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to imagine and bring art and culture to our school.” – Liliana Jenkins

CONSTRUCTION The dream started back in August 2013 when the General Assembly approved the 5 year MASTER PLAN presented by Board Member David Tipping. This plan included the Performing Arts Center as the ďŹ nal project. The plan was approved by all stakeholders, and for several years our campus has been blessed with the physical transformation of many buildings which would sustain knowledge for new Eagle generations. For the ďŹ nal project in 2016, a group of skilled and talented parents joined the Construction Committee and dedicated hours, days and months of hard work to this new venue.

Consultants were hired. An alumnus won the design bidding, and Constructora Wallace won the private bid. A lot of hard work and support from members of two boards followed. AST administrators and parents worked hard to make this dream a reality.

SOFT OPENING AND SNEAK PEEK SOIRÉE Who would be the first to see this new venue? Our students of course! Newly hired, Theatre Manager Mrs. Michelle Schneider, coordinated the student-led presentations and tours of this magnificent building. Our students’ wide open eyes and gasps were proof and satisfaction enough of a job well done. A new world had opened right in front of them.

Our AST Honor Choir and Elementary Honor Choir also had an evening of wonderful musical selections and a SNEAK PEEK of our new Performing Arts Center on Tuesday February 27th. After a great concert, our guests tasted some appetizers and desserts catered by our Dining Hall. This was the first event ever in our new Performing Arts Center.

Special thanks to Ms. Calyanne Crouch for organizing this great event and to all our great musicians!

THEATRE MANAGER - MICHELLE SCHNEIDER Michelle Schneider is the Manager of our new Performing Arts Center. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. Michelle lived all her childhood and adolescence in Guatemala City where she graduated from the American School of Guatemala. She was accepted to the University of Florida and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Food & Resource Economics, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Major in Management.

As a young girl, she found a passion in the performing arts especially in tap, jazz, and theater; thereby becoming, as a college student, a certified instructor, successful teacher and performer. After several years of training and teaching dance, she married Honduran and AST alumnus Lito Castillo (’01) and they move to Honduras to start a family. Michelle keeps tapping in the artistic world with her dance academy, and is the instructor for Tap & Jazz classes in AST’s extracurricular program. In October 2017 the school hired Michelle as the Performing Arts Center Manager. Her experience, talent and love for the arts make her stand out from other people. We are very happy that Michelle is part of our AST family and we wish her the best in this new adventure.

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INAUGURAL GALA Our Inaugural Gala assembled a group of 350 guests – all collaborators and donors of the Center. This gala marked the official opening of our Performing Arts Center. The school had a special gift for all its special guests – a concert by Honduran mezzo-soprano Melina Pineda and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tegucigalpa (OST).

Melina’s talented voice delighted the audience with a taste of opera as well as acclaimed music from popular Broadway shows.

The evening began with a welcoming speech from our Superintendent Mrs. Liliana Jenkins followed by words by Mrs. Reina Irene Mejía, our Board President. Mrs. Jenkins and Mrs. Mejía proceeded to officially inaugurate the center by cutting the ribbon together with major donor, Ficohsa’s Vice President Mr. Javier Atala and Mr. Dennis Figueroa, former Board President. The concert was followed with some fine hors d’oeuvres and wine in the Center’s lobby.

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INAUGURAL BALL

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PLAQUES

We will be in debt and grateful to all the people that supported us with this project forever. Recognition plaques have been made and will be posted in the building to celebrate and recognize everyone who gave of his/her time, skills, and/or money to the center. As promised in our DONATE A SEAT CAMPAIGN, each seat was labeled with the donor’s name and to be showcased in the theater for years to come. Thank you, thank you, and thank you!

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

THIS PROJECT HAS BECOME A REALITY THANKS TO THE VISION AND SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING DONORS: MARY SAGER’S CIRCLE

DEDICATED TO ALL WHO BELIEVED IN THIS PROJECT BY DONATING THEIR VALUABLE TIME, UNIQUE SKILLS AND TALENT. SPECIAL RECOGNITION TO OUR CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE

SUPERINTENDENT’S CIRCLE P.T.O. U.S. EMBASSY GOLDEN EAGLE GRUPO TERRA ANONYMOUS DONOR STUCO

SILVER EAGLE GRUPO FLORES POLLO CAMPESINO LARACH &CIA.

FUNDACIÓN EZTUINAGA

ESPRESSO AMERICANO

BRONZE EAGLE OUR AST COMMUNITY (STAFF, PARENTS, ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL) WHO DONATED TO OUR “DONATE A SEAT” CAMPAIGN. SDO

“Volunteers do not necessarily have the �me; they just have the heart.”

— Elizabeth Andrew

MARCH 2018

EAGLE’S DISTINCTION OUR PARENTS WHO APPROVED THE MASTER PLAN (2013 -2018) IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND COLLABORATED WITH A MONTHLY FEE PER STUDENT. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill MARCH 2017

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PLAQUES “DONATE A SEAT CAMPAIGN” - DONORS

“DONATE A SEAT CAMPAIGN” - DONORS

ABBIE AMARISE QUIÑÓNEZ LANZA ADRIÁN CRUZ HERNÁNDEZ ADRIÁN KAFIE ('06) ADRIANA FARAJ BUESO ADRIANA MARÍA ATALA MOURRA ALBERTO DAVIDYAN FLORES ALBERTO JESÚS KAFATI GIUDICELLI ('09) ALEXANDRA QUIÑÓNEZ LARACH ('13) ALFREDO VARGAS PADGETT ALIA GABRIELA SIMÓN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (ASTAA) 2018 AMIR MASSAD CASTILLO ANA LUCÍA VALLADARES ANA MARIA VILLEDA ('81) ANA QUIÑÓNEZ HEINRICH ('78) ANAM-CARA FULTON ANDREA CAROLINA KAFATI GIUDICELLI ('13) ANDREA SOFÍA FARAJ FLÉFIL ANDRÉS FIGUEROA SIMÓN ('13) ANDY ALVARADO ARGUELLO SISTERS (‘06, ’08, ‘10, ‘15, ‘18) AST TEACHERS ASSOCIATION 2018 AUXILIADORA PADGETT BEATRÍZ COTRINA BIANCA DACCARETT BRYAN LUIS ZÚNIGA HURST ('12) CAMILA MICHELLE CORRALES AMADOR CAMILLE KAFATI VILLEDA ('09) CARLOS ALBERTO CORRALES AMADOR

CARLOS ARNULFO LAGOS ORDOÑEZ CARLOS EMILIO JAVIER LAGOS CAROL Y ÁLVARO VINDEL CATHERINE JENKINS ('05) CHRISTOPHER KAFIE ('02) CLASS OF 1983 CLASS OF 1985 CLASS OF 1988 CLASS OF 1989 - FOREVER YOUNG CLASS OF 1992 - 25 YEARS REUNION CLASS OF 2023 CLAUDIA SIMÓN ('87) COL STEVEN D. STANLEY CORMAC FULTON CYNTHIA ZAVALA P.E. DANIEL AND JILL DOBBE DANIEL ARTURO CASCO BARQUERO DANIEL PAZ (USA) DANIELLA HERNÁNDEZ AYALA DAVID DI BONO - PROUD PARENT OF 3 DAVID RAMÍREZ DEANNA GOLDSTEIN ANHALT ('82) DENNIS FIGUEROA - BOARD PRESIDENT (2007-2011 & 2014-2016) DIANA ALVARADO DIEGO C. STANLEY DIEGO COREA RIVAS DJ VIC BUEZO EDUARDO ALBERTO FARAJ ('95) EDUARDO KAFATI GEADAH ('77) EDUARDO KAFATI

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PLAQUES “DONATE A SEAT CAMPAIGN” - DONORS EDUARDO KAFATI VILLEDA ('18) ELAMINTA HERNÁNDEZ ELENA DÁNZILO ELIZABETH ZUÑIGA BOBADILLA ELSA SOSA DE SCHLAGENHAUF EMIL BELIBASIS ('95) EMILIO J. QUIÑONEZ LARACH ('16) ENRIQUE ENAMORADO L. ERIKA ALEJANDRA LANZA - QUIÑONEZ VICKY Y ESTELA MARÍA DÍAZ ('90, '96) EUGENIA M FLÉFIL LARACH DE NUFIO ('76) EVANGELINA CASCO BARQUERO FACE AMERICAN FAMILIA AMADOR SUSSMANN FAMILIA ARGÜELLO FINDLEY FAMILIA ÁVILA AMAT FAMILIA AYÓN DICUNTA FAMILIA AZCONA AYUSO FAMILIA BENDECK ASFURA FAMILIA BENDECK GARAY FAMILIA BENDECK GIRÓN FAMILIA BENDECK LLANES FAMILIA BENDECK MELARA FAMILIA BULNES ALVARADO FAMILIA BUSMAIL FAMILIA CABALLERO TÁBORA FAMILIA CARRERA COTRINA FAMILIA CASTILLO CASANOVA FAMILIA CHINCHILLA MEJÍA FAMILIA DACCARETT DACCARETT

“DONATE A SEAT CAMPAIGN” - DONORS FAMILIA DÍAZ KEE HAM FAMILIA DÍAZ MATUTY FAMILIA ENAMORADO LÓPEZ FAMILIA ESPINOSA ATALA FAMILIA ESPINOZA TOMÉ FAMILIA FARAJ BUESO FAMILIA FERRERA HIRAOKA FAMILIA GIRBAL FUNES FAMILIA GIRÓN ERRAZURIZ FAMILIA HILSACA FERNÁNDEZ FAMILIA JAEN ÁLVAREZ FAMILIA JAVIER VIDES FAMILIA KAFATI GIUDICELLI FAMILIA KAFATI MONTES FAMILIA KAFATI ZABLAH FAMILIA KAFIE ATALA FAMILIA MASSAD CASTILLO FAMILIA MASSU NIÑO FAMILIA MATAMOROS BATSON FAMILIA MEJÍA CHINCHILLA ('07, '10, '14) FAMILIA MIRALDA NASSER FAMILIA MOLINA SEE FAMILIA MOTZ GUTIÉRREZ FAMILIA NASSER BARRIENTOS FAMILIA ORDOÑEZ GIRÓN FAMILIA PAREDES VARGAS FAMILIA PASCUA LEÓN GÓMEZ FAMILIA PENAGOS AGUILAR FAMILIA PRATS LUNA FAMILIA QUAN HO FAMILIA QUAN PAO

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PLAQUES “DONATE A SEAT CAMPAIGN” - DONORS FAMILIA RAMOS NASSER FAMILIA RIVERA SIMÓN FAMILIA SANDERS BORJAS FAMILIA SCHACHER FAMILIA SEE MEDRANO FAMILIA SEGURA MIRALDA FAMILIA SIMÓN KAFIE FAMILIA SUAZO GUTIÉRREZ FAMILIA TURCIOS ARGEÑAL FAMILIA VALENZUELA NEDA FAMILIA VARGAS KAFATI FAMILIA VILLAVICENCIO MORENO FAMILIA ZABLAH KAWAS FAMILIA ZALDAÑA IRÍAS FAMILIA ZELAYA KAFATI FAMILIA ZÚNIGA CHAMPOUX FANY HEINRICH QUIÑONEZ FAUZI DACCARETT FERNANDO ÁLVAREZ ZELAYA ('16) FRANK LUIS ZÚNIGA HURST ('00) FUNDACIÓN ALAN E. FLORES FUNDACIÓN CHITO Y NENA KAFIE FUNDACIÓN PABOVI CHRISTOPHER FUNDACIÓN PABOVI FERNANDA FUNDACIÓN PABOVI HELENA FUNDACIÓN PABOVI LINDA ('95) FUNDACIÓN PABOVI MARÍA JOSÉ ('96) FUNDACIÓN PABOVI MATTHEW FUNDACIÓN PABOVI MURIELLE ('92) FUNDACIÓN PABOVI ROBERTO ('17) FUNDACIÓN PABOVI ROBERT ('69)

“DONATE A SEAT CAMPAIGN” - DONORS FUNDACIÓN PABOVI RODRIGO FUNDACIÓNPABOVI CRAIG FUNDACION PABOVI MARÍA JOSÉ VINELLI FUTCH CORZO ('13,'14,'20) GABRIEL PRATS ('96) GABRIELA SOFÍA JAVIER LAGOS GIULIANA DI BONO BECERRA ('17) GLORIA LANDES GUISELA RIEDEL Y RODRIGO BANEGAS ('17) HECTOR ALVARADO HERMANAS FOGLIA SANDOVAL HERMANOS CASTILLO SCHNEIDER HERMANOS NUFIO FLÉFIL HERMANOS RAMÍREZ ZABLAH HERMANOS SALINAS MELARA HERMANOS SARMIENTO NAVARRO IAN HENRY MERRIAM RUBIANO ('90) IN LOVING MEMORY CÉSAR MONTES ('76) ISA, VALE Y ALE ATALA LANG ISA BISHARA MASSAD CASTILLO ('16) ISABELLA DI BONO BECERRA ('16) IVAN FARAJ Y FAMILIA IVANNA VICTORIA ATALA DÍAZ JACKIE SMITH ('85) JACQUELINE FLÉFIL LARACH ('79) JACQUELINE HASBUN ('77) JACQUELINE MARIÉ FORTIN FLÉFIL ('12) JAIME A. BETANCOURT RESTREPO JAVIER EDUARDO ATALA ('13) JAY WINOGRAD JENNIE MEDINA C. 1964

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PLAQUES “DONATE A SEAT CAMPAIGN” - DONORS JEREMY LAMPMAN GOLDSTEIN ('09) JESÚS RICARDO Y MARGARITA FLÉFIL JORGE CHUCRY SIMÓN ('98) JORGE NABIL SIMÓN JORGE SIMÓN ALAM JORGE SIMÓN SALAZAR JORGE Y VICTORIA SALOMÓN JOSÉ DAVID y DILCIA MONTES JOSÉ FRANCISCO QUIÑONEZ HEINRICH ('85) JOSÉ FRANCISCO QUIÑÓNEZ LANZA JOSÉ G. QUIÑONEZ LARACH ('16) JOSÉ LUIS CORRALES JOSÉ TOMÁS QUIÑONEZ JOSH LAMPMAN GOLDSTEIN ('03) JUAN CARLOS CASTILLO CALLEJAS ('88) JUAN CARLOS SUAZO JUAN CARLOS SUAZO GUTIÉRREZ JUAN CARLOS ZAPATA COLINDRES ('90) JUAN DIEGO CRUZ HERNÁNDEZ JUAN DIEGO SUAZO GUTIÉRREZ JUAN FERNANDO SANTOS ORDOÑEZ ('88) JUAN PABLO PAZ (USA) JUANITA IVETTE LARACH ('85) JUANITA LASTENIA BUESO ('95) JULIA BECERRA DI BONO ('86) JUSTA COREA KARIM ALEJANDRO FARAJ FLÉFIL KARIM FARAJ R.

“DONATE A SEAT CAMPAIGN” - DONORS KARIM Y LORI FARAJ ('91, '93) KARINA ELENA KAFATI GIUDICELLI ('07) LANDES VÁSQUEZ FAMILY LEA Y BRI LENA K. GUTIÉRREZ LEONARDO JAVIER MEDINA LILIANA FLÉFIL JENKINS ('74) LOME LUCÍA BELIBASIS ('99) LUCIANA ÁLVAREZ ZELAYA LUCIANNA KAFATI VILLEDA ('13) LUCIANNA SOFÍA VALENZUELA FACUSSÉ LUIS FELIPE ENAMORADO L. LUIS JOSÉ KAFIE ('98) MALILA FERNÁNDEZ DE VARGAS MARIO D. NUFIO PRATS ('89) MARISELA AVILÉS DURÓN ('09) MARK GOLDSTEIN ANHALT ('78) MATILDE FERNÁNDEZ MÍA GABRIELLE SIMÓN SABAT MÍA VICTORIA ATALA DÍAZ MICHAEL LAMPMAN GOLDSTEIN ('14) MICHAELA MARÍA SIMÓN SABAT MICHELLE CORRALES ('93) MICHELLE GABRIELA LAGOS RICO MIGUEL EDUARDO KAFATI GIUDICELLI ('06) MIGUEL MAURICIO FACUSSÉ ('83)

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PLAQUES “DONATE A SEAT CAMPAIGN” - DONORS MIKKEL AGUILAR JAKOBSEN MS. CALYANNE PEACE CROUCH MS. CUTY MS. DULCE ORELLANA MS. NENA BUESO ('75) MS. RAQUEL MOLINA ('89) MS. YADIRA MUÑOZ NATIONAL ART HONOR SOCIETY ('17) OFICINA ADMINISTRATIVA 2018 OLGA Y NELSON FRECH ('11, '13) OSCAR MOLINA PAOLA DI BONO BECERRA PAOLA FACUSSÉ ('97) PATRICK & CAROL FINDLEY & FAMILY RACHEL LAMPMAN GOLDSTEIN ('18) REGGINA MASSAD CASTILLO RICARDO ERNESTO MADURO ANDREU - CLASS OF 1989 RITA ROSEN ROBERTA JENKINS ('09) ROBERTA SEE ('95) RODRIGO FIGUEROA SIMÓN ('18) ROGER BENDECK ('94) ROLF SCHLAGENHAUF SARAH Y DENNIS BARJUM ('06, '09) SEBASTIÁN HERNÁNDEZ AYALA SEBASTIÁN ROMERO AGUILAR SENIORS 1994 SENIORS 1995 SENIORS 1999

“DONATE A SEAT CAMPAIGN” - DONORS SERAPHINA SOFÍA SABAT TROCHEZ STANLEY PADGETT STEVE PADGETT ('02) SUSANA P. MOSHENEK THE SWANSONS TYARA KAFIE ('04) VALENTINA MOLINA VALENTINA Y LORENZA VALLADARES VALERIA FARAJ BUESO VALERIA VALLADARES VALKYRIE PADGETT VANESSA JENKINS ('03) VÁSQUEZ FUNES FAMILY VICENTE Y VICKY DÍAZ VICTORIA ISABEL VALENZUELA FACUSSÉ VIRGINIA PADGETT ('05) VIVIAN FLÉFIL EIROA ('84) VIVIANNA SOFÍA ATALA MOURRA ('15) 5TH GRADE BAND 2017-2018

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INAUGURATION BALL INVITATION

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER SCULPTURE The Performing Arts Center Sculpture was part of Ficohsa’s donation, as part of their HECHO EN CASA campaign. This s culpture was created by Honduran Artist Darío Rivera specifically for the Center’s lobby. The sculpture’s name is “TIEMPO Y ESPACIO”.

“Tiempo y Espacio” Obra que representa las diferentes manifestaciones del ser humano; cuerpos que ocupan un espacio y que trascienden en el tiempo sin dejar por fuera el equilibrio, poniendo en evidencia la perfección.

DARIO RIVERA Escultor Hondureño Febrero 2018 Técnica: Hierro Donado por Ficohsa

“TIME AND SPACE” THIS SCULPTURE REPRESENTS THE DIFFERENT EXPRESSIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS; BODIES THAT OCCUPY A DEFINED SPACE & TRANSCEND IN TIME WHILE MAINTAINING EQUILIBRIUM, WHICH SERVE AS EVIDENCE OF PERFECTION. DARIO RIVERA HONDURAN SCULPTOR FEBRUARY 2018 MEDIUM: METAL DONATED BY FICOHSA

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