GRADS RETURN TO BRECK FOR ANNUAL MLK GLOBAL ALUMNI DAY Breck’s annual global alumni event honoring the legacy of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., took place on Wednesday, January 22. Alumni participants and their session topics were as follows: • Keynote address by Sarah Bellamy ’97, recently named artistic director of Penumbra Theatre Company • Afternoon concert by singer Nyasia Arradondo ’13 • Foreign Policy and the Military in the Middle East with
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Joshua Simer ’93, Meredith Benson Doran ’02 and Rob Nelson ’03 • Race, Justice, and Crime with Shawn Renee Kennon ’77, Dr. Jan Tyson-Roberts ’83 and J.C. Cannon ’03
Sarah Bellamy ’97
• What’s YOUR Story? Broadcasting your personal narrative with with Alison Hitzeman-Hardy ’93 and Kent Rees ’93
• The New Jim Crow with Alexis Mansfield ’96 • Now that We’re Married…Navigating Embedded Biases
• “American?” “American Indian?” with Hannah Lussier ’05
And Assumptions with Emily (Nimmer) Gerhardt ’09
and Addie Gorlin ’07
and Rachel (Grandstrand) Gerhardt ’09
• Doing Business in a “Post Racial” America with Tarnika
• Coming out of the Closet Was Only the Beginning with
McDaniel ’99 and Raslyn Wooten ’97
Nick Kleidon ’12 and Michael Vargas ’04
• Teaching and the Achievement Gap with Chenelle
• Being Conscious with Marge Riazi ’08 and Jason
Boatswain ’00, Maggie Borman ’07, Kenyari Wright ’03,
Ilstrup ’95
Stephen Simrill ’07 and Eli Kramer ’97 • Criminal Defense with Catherine Turner ’98
• Justice Beyond Borders: Human Rights and Health with Gia Mejia Naranjo (Naranjo-Rivera) ’04
MUSICIANS RECEIVE HONORS Ten singers were selected for honors choirs by the Minnesota chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. Congratulations to sixth graders Jessica Detor, Ellie Holt and Hope Wang, seventh/eighth grade girls Eva Breitinger, Lucia Miller, Melinda Samaratunga and Reed Two Bulls, and seventh/eighth-grade boys Holden Felton, Jacob Johnson and Brett Schoppert. Sophomores Atlas Finch and Ramaud Bowman were accepted into the MBDA (Minnesota Band Directors Association) 9-10 Jazz Honor Band after submitting rigorous audition tapes. They performed at the Minnesota Music Educators Association’s Midwinter Clinic in February. Several piano students from Breck performed over the weekend at the Minnesota Music Teachers’ Association contest. From Lower School: first graders Amilia Hinck and Kristian Baker, second grader Piper Crosby, third graders Isabella Brama, Elinor Olson, Lileia Olson, Harrison Schwiebert and Ava Roh, and fourth grader Ella Fullerton; and from Middle School: fifth grader Peyton Schwieberg and sixth grader Abigail Roh. All of the students above, along with first grader Ballard Breazeale, third grader Madry Breazeale and sixth grader Annika Schoenborn, played for the national Federation Festival on February 22. And the Breck chamber players were featured on MPR on December 10.
$12,000
Amount raised for the American Heart Association at the Lower School’s annual Jump Rope for Heart event