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Melissa Soderberg Head of School
Dan Olexio Asst. Head of School for Academic Affairs
Cory Izokaitis Head of Upper School
Shaka Arnold Head of Middle School
Mark Hansen Head of Lower School
David Block US Art
Ryan Jenkins Choir Director
Whitney Eads Director of Theatre Arts
Jennifer Kristoff Music Assistant
Beth Rusnak MS Art & US Foundations
Dr. Soojin Lee LS Strings Assistant
Amy McLaughlin LS Music
Susan O’Rourke Asst. Band Director
Michelle Schroeder-Lowrey LS Music, Movement & Drama
Jessica Sneeringer Performing Arts Chair; Dixon Master Chair in Art & Art Appreciation; Band Director
Nathan Greenwood Orchestra Director
Crystal Tursich Fine Arts Chair, US Art & Photography
Charity White US Art & Ceramics Instructor
Janny Cann Explorers Art
Anthony Stype Technical Theater Design
Kerry Abraham LS Art
Maria Miller Asst. Head of School for Development
Special thanks to our photographers and printer!
Photography
Printing
Cindy Wilson, Brad Feinknopf ’82, Russell Hoeflich, Crystal Tursich, Colin McGuire Productions
Kenwel Printers, Inc.
Empty Bowls 2024
Our student-run Service Board hosted its annual Empty Bowls/Soup for Shelter event in December and raised just under $7,000 to benefit the Westerville Habitat Partnership! Included with each $20 ticket to the event was a bottomless bowl of soup, crackers, cookies and a drink along with a choice of a handmade bowl from Academy’s ceramics students. Special thanks to the Westerville Senior Center for hosting this year, North High Brewery for donating the soup and our SAGE dining service for providing cookies. Also, shoutouts to Christy Bening, Charity White, all the members of our Service Board and bowl-a-thon participants who helped make this event a success!
Senior Artist Award Winners
Photography: Jacob Brentlinger, Craig Edson and Caroline Zeiger
Graphic Design: MJ Jackson
2D Art: Ryan Hurst, Sydney Lesh, Alina Liu, Kouros Rajaie and Matthew Tolliver
Ceramics/3D Art: Kate Cartwright, Elina Tiwari and Katie Zaki
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Schoedinger Theatre
Middle School Musical
“The SpongeBob Musical: Youth Edition”
February 2025
Upper School Fall Play
“The Importance of Being Earnest”
October 2024
Fourth Grade Musical
“A Year with Frog and Toad”
February 2025
Fall, Winter and Spring Concerts
Renovations to Schoedinger Theatre at Columbus Academy were completed in the fall of 2019 after the initial plan to update the facility was announced in September 2018 by Head of School Melissa Soderberg.
Schoedinger Theatre now features a balcony which helped increase overall seating capacity to around 550 (about 100 more seats than the original theatre), all new seats throughout, and improved lighting and sound, complete with acoustical panels.
Celebrate
Band, Choir and Orchestra
The lobby outside of our Schoedinger Theatre was dedicated in honor of the late Susan Neal (teacher from 1994-2016) on January 29, 2022, prior to the middle school production of “Matilda the Musical Jr.”
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6th Grade Band
Tanuz Acharya, Brendon Ankamah, Henry Becknell, Matthew Becknell, Penn Blevins, Maddy Bridinger, Derrick Buehner, Bella Bunting, Asiya Campion, Bear Carr, Liam Carroll, Camden Chattman, Reagan Cripps, Chase Crockett, Angelina Drew, Quinn Fisher, Gus Filhart, Kinsley Haberman, Ella Hensley, Holden Hill, Eden Karunakaran, Leo Li, Mia Mahaffey, Phillip Mallory, Alex May, Kash Metha, Kalen Patel, Mateo Pereira, Hudson Rowe, Jiya Singh, Evie Snyder-McGee, Quinn Thorne, Alanna Wang, Tucker Warstler, Ari Weinberg, Benjamin Whitesel, Malcolm Wooden, Nolan Zhang
7th Grade Band
Oliver Alonso-Taub, Ashton Amato, Ben Ayan, Nick Ayan, Tristan Battah, Yoon Choi, Aiden Feinberg, Reid Gambone, Gigi Hill, Nick Hu-Van Reeth, James Krabill, Layla Joyner, Shubhraketan Kanumury, Zuriel Latham, Beverly Lin, Sajan Mahajan, Gus Miller, Max Oberdorfer, Miggy Ordonez, Calvin Priestas, Zach Rogaliner, Isaac Royal, Jordan Sneeringer, Jack Solaro, Al Kaiser Soudah, Jaya Srini, Nishika Ready Thumma, Rohan Wakelin, Nini Wang, Wynn Wiggins
8th Grade Band
Grayson Alexander, Tej Andrews, Hari Bagwe, Henry Bloch, Camille Bowman, Jack Bright, Wystan Cann, Alex Chahine, Maryam Christian, Gia Coats, Ryan Coats, Sofia Donev, Ian Epstein, Bradley Esposito, Landon Fisher, Daniel Gao, Gavin Haberman, Quinn Harris, Adella Hong, Teddy Hughes, Sam Izokaitis, Jackson Janis, Rhea Kapoor, Claire Kerrigan, Ella Lovera, Jaylen Martin, Penn Massey, Conor Miggo, Ava Milenkovski, Colin Mokas, Quentin Nzimiro, Ethan Parish, Emerson Rhee, Jayden Ross, Arjun Satyapriya, Mila Shah, Drew Skasko, Eric Toop, Kate Turner, Kate Wang, Ryan Wang, Desmond Wolford
Upper School Concert Band
Ridah Abbas, Rehan Abbas, Adam Aikins, Graham Alexander, Vivian Allison, Sofia Alonso-Taub, Ibrahim Bakar, Will Barney, Adrianna Belousov, Max Berry, Henry Bhavnagri, Sujay Billakanty, Sameer Bommareddy, Phinn Boninsegna-Mullins, Mircea Butnariu, Umar Campion, Kaitlyn Cartwright, Chase Crane, Alaina Dadlani, Marc Daneault, William Duan, Baron Dye, Julian Edwards, Ella Farrell, Timothy Flythe, Dilin Gokhale, Daria Golikov, Anders Hsiao Fang-Yen, Lucy Izokaitis, Nicholas Johnson, Andrew Jonas, Emma Jontes, Margaret Kurtz, Seth Lee, Makenzie Lesh, Andy Li, Devin Li, Sophie Lichten, Jacob Lifer, Olivia Lin, Owen Lucas, Saurav Malik, Julia Maroo, Nathan Maroo, Nico Martin, Cayden Mealick, Brady Mears, Avery Medina, Nolan Meyers, Rylan Mifsud, Aubree Mifsud, Carolina Mize, Laken Moffett, Chaz Moore, Tegan Murphy, Rohan Nadella, Marceline Ordonez, Jackson Rodocker, Alec Shah, Joshua Sneeringer, Daniel Solis, Emma Stark, Clara Stevens, Lauren Stevens, Jude Suh, FuMei Sun, Rachael Sutherland, Eesha Tanneru, Jayden Tsao, Agastya Vadde, Emily Van Hulse, Aashi Varia, Esther Wang, Melody Wang, William Whitson, Alexander Wolford, Amaya Wood, Nate Yeoman, Ryan Zand
Jazz Ensemble
Ridah Abbas, Adam Aikins, Graham Alexander, Max Berry, Kaitlyn Cartwright, Baron Dye, Ella Farrell, Patrick Flythe, Lucy Izokaitis, Andrew Jonas, Margaret Kurtz, Devin Li, Jacob Lifer, Saurav Malik, Carolina Mize, Laken Moffett, Chaz Moore, Marceline Ordonez, Santiago Pereira, Emma Stark, Clara Stevens, Lauren Stevens, Jude Suh, FuMei Sun
Middle School Choir
6th Grade Choir
Daniela Arrese, Bella Bako, Luciana Bhavnagri, Charlie Bloch, Ariella Bodner, Blyden Brawdy, Ava Chahine, Gabrielle Crucke, Lily Dadlani, Vivie Davidson, Eli Flickinger, Will Fusonie, Carter Hall, Caitlin Halsey, Brinkley Janis, Nathaniel Johnson, Mila Jonas, Niara Kumar, Margot Malhame, Elli Mannava, Dylan Mena, Walker Mills, Reid Mokas, Skylar Monfort, Anaya Page, Michael Penney, Angad Rajpal, Ande Sabo, Georgia Skestos, Sofia Skestos, Agnes Sun, Candice Wang, Elizabeth Weinberg, Eva Wood
7th Grade Choir
Malak Ahmed, Rory Amin, Ina Arnold, Shaan Bakhru, Nola Bundy, Byron Chaky, Arjan Dhungana, Andrew King, Robert Lash, Anahi Lopez, Josie Malhame, Sam Mendelson, Sean Rajan, Sam Ray, Cate Repasky, Will Skrobarcek, Ella Tancevski, Lily Taneff, Sara Wang, Caroline Woods, Matan Worly, Ava Zochowski
8th Grade Choir
Jonah Berg, Simran Bhalla, Sanika Bhave, Elliott Bohutinsky, Sarah Bundy, Shand Bundy, Henry Calodney, Price Chapman, Adi Cordray, Evan Crain, Abby Crowl, Lily Devezin, Lexi Forchione, Isabel Fusonie, Gabby Gilson, Audra Hall, Anna Harpster, Asa Henry, Bennett Hunter, Sidney Jackson, Nathan Katz, Colby Kauffman, Maddy King, Kevin Klingerman, Hailey Krumm, Will Mahaffey, Aashi Mathur, Sabrina Milenkovski, Mihika Mukherje, Lyla Negi, Emily Neviaser, Ty Padgett, Amari Phillips, Julian Pizzotti, Brackyn Reeves, Finn Reinig, Jedd Reinig, Olivia Skestos, Sydney Smoot, Lyndon Spalding, Jay Thompson, Patrick Toop, Isabella Wood
Upper School Choir
Camerata
Soprano: Alaina Dadlani, Addison Griffith, Emma Matros, Leah Shi, Meera Srini, Datse Tsering, Katie VanDyne Tenor: Brady Cripps, Billy Griffith, Dillan Lucas, Arnav Nawani, Charles O’Donnell, Kenneth Onwe, Terrence O’Donnell, Anthony Penney, Henry Pizzotti, Jon Proctor, Lexington Purdue | Alto: Tamanna Arya, Rosemary Jenkins, Prishya Katamneni, Charlotte Kurtz, Aubree Mifsud, Skyler Myers, Nour Soudah, Amaya Wood | Bass: Nolen Chambers, Arnav Edamadaka, Cyrus Imani, Gabe Koppel, Avery Lee, Mark Masek, Charlie Pizzotti, Ryan Rajan, Dillan Reddy, Surya Vadhi, Ishaan Vazirani, Mitch Zumberge
Treble Choir
Soprano: Sydney Al-Lateef, Gabriela Arrese, Lydia Baker, Leeyah Broomfield, Claire Chan, Anna Khvalsky, Morgan Liebtag, Jessica Shnayder, Datse Tsering, Katie VanDyne | Alto: Tamanna Arya, Molly FitzPatrick, Hailey Gillies, Grace Holbrook, Lucy Izokaitis, Christina L’Hommedieu, Sydney Lesh, Gabi Mendelson, Carolina Mize, Leila Rimmel, Aanya Shah, Laylah Waller
Lower School Strings
Level I
Aafiyah Arif, Peter Bezant, Aly Bring, Penelope Bunting, Warren Cann, Reagan Carnam, Nora Crane, Lilly Dixon, Liam Foran, Sebastian Geers, Ralph Greenwood, Maryjane Joslyn, Kaia Julka, Anna Kim, Virginia Kohland, Addilyn Ledford, Kiran Lester, Regan McCartney, Kai Mele, Ace Miller, Princeton Miller, Ellie Nash, Eva Polanco, Alonzo Salas, Saahir Singh, Beatrice Snyder-McGee, Advith Vallakati, Kimberley Van Hoff, Jason Wan, Ellie Webb
Level II
Hadley Adkins, Symone Al-Lateef, Jack Bethel, Breelle Bogan, Addy Bowman, Grant Carnam, Caleb Cunningham, Madeleine Gentry, David Hildahl, Sean Inomata, Kai Kemp, Giada Kostas, Angad Kumar, Scarlett Lantsman, Mercy Lee, Emma Lin, Jax Louis, Geetani Pannu, Sahana Patel, Matthew Pflieger, Mallory Proud, Guy Reid, Sloane Reid, Jorin Ross, Thea Stegner, Riley Stinziano, Chelsea Wan, Ethan Zhong, Zivan Zochowski
Level III
Ava Anderson, Olivia Asirifi, Mia Brooks, Rhys Brown, Yiyi Chen, Henry Eads, Gianna Forchione, Caroline Hughes, Gianna Kahwash, Kai Kemp, Leena Lester, Allison Liu, Abrielle Lopez, Aadi Patel, Hartley Perdue, Diya Raval, Lachlan Rhee, Samina Satyapriya, Mae Sterling, Eva Zhang
Sixth Grade Orchestra
7th Grade Orchestra
Franklin Davis, Lilah Hong, Norah Hong, Isabella Kahwash, Arjun Kumar, Catelyn Mize, Courtney Mize, Keke Nwoke, Katherine Paulic, Missy Shi, Samantha Stoughton, Henry Walton
Aatif Arif, Auden Cann, Teddy Dennett, Kiera Dietrich, Polina Golikov, Lucas Guisinger, Eliana Hamedani, Avni Kapoor, Sana Lilly, Thomas Lucas, Zoey Maicher, Evan Malik, Samoh Pannu, Emmie Wolery
8th Grade Orchestra
Upper School Orchestra
Vincent Aebi, Nousha Afaghi, Noor Albirini, Alisha Arora, Andy Becknell, Noah Berg, Jacob Brentlinger, Vincent Chen, Victoria Chirita, Guszti Chopra, Rowen Connick, Leah Denberg, Joseph Guo, Mason Hong, Xander Hu-Van Reeth, Caden Ivery, Katie Jauchius, Olivia Kallas, Jennifer Lee, Bella Lee, Jiaqi Li, Justin Li, Morgan Liebtag, Landen Liu, Harry Liu, Ted Liu, Ethan Liu, Lianna Lopez, Luke Lu, Lawrence Malhame, Addison Medina, Sam Otter, Tirth Patel, Giuseppe Peppercorn, Lexington Purdue, Andy Rumpke, Sunil Santry, Andrew Silver, Landon Stokes, Alison Wang, Clement Williams, Sophie Wu, Alester Xiao, Hansheng Xu, Zyhni Zeng, Mimi Zeng, Alex Zhang, Angela Zhang, Jett Zhang, Megan Zhang, Claire Zhao, Aiden Zhao
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