Significantly CSG Rachel Politi ’15: UVA Bound On November 12, 2014, family, friends, coaches, faculty,
Columbus Theater Awards Recognize CSG Faculty and Alumnae
and staff gathered together for National Letter Signing
The Columbus Theater Awards honored both Upper and
Day and to celebrate Rachel Politi ’15, varsity swimmer, who signed her official letter of intent to join the University of Virginia Swim Team next fall.
Middle School Theater teachers and alumnae. Middle School Theater Teacher Liz Wheeler Bishara ’00 won the Theater Roundtable award for “Best Actress in a Musical” for her stellar performance in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at CATCO. Upper School Theater Teacher Janetta Davis was cast as Queen Gertrude in the Actors’ Theatre of Columbus’s production of Hamlet, which was voted one of the best plays of 2014 in the Columbus Dispatch, receiving “Best of 2014” theater commendations from all three critics in town. Of special note, the Columbus Theater Critics Circle gave a citation to Actors’ for casting CSG alumna Grace Bolander ’14 as Hamlet. The honor of a citation is reserved for very special theatrical performances.
Middle School First® Lego® League Robotics Team Places First at District Tournament The Unibots took the first place trophy for Strategy and Innovation at the Ohio Youth Robotics District Tournament held on January 10 and January 11, 2015, at Wayne Warrior High School near Dayton, and advanced to the FLL Ohio State Championship event at Wright State University on February 7 and 8, 2015. The team qualified for the District Tournament after competing against 16 teams, winning the trophy for Robot Design in the Regional FLL challenge “World Class Learning” on November 22, 2014. The Unibots rank in the top nine percent of young robot programmers in Ohio.
This year’s team members are, from left to right, first row: Sophia Feinberg ’21, Ella Feinberg ’21; second row: Katrina D’Arms ’20, Raelina Yu ’19, Vara Mehra ’20, Eileen Boyle ’20, Ali Maniace ’19, Haleigh Colombo ’20; back row: Coach, Michael Vernier, a doctoral student in Engineering at Ohio State. Their advisor, not pictured, is Ms. Ann Marie McDonnell.
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Running left to right it is Todd Covert as Andre, Liz Wheeler Bishara ’00 as Christine Colgate, Joe Bishara as Freddy, Matt Clemens as Lawrence, and Susan Bunsold Wilson as Muriel in the CATCO production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. (Photo by Sostrom Photography)
Grace Bolander ’14 as Hamlet (center), Rachel Gaunce as Ophelia (right), John Feather as Lord Polonius (far left), and Janetta Davis as Queen Gertrude (second from left) in the Actors’ Theatre of Columbus 2014 production of Hamlet in the Schiller Park Amphitheatre. (Dispatch Photo by Courtney Hergesheimer.)