CSG IN THE ARTS
BEYOND THE HALLS CSG students are involved and engaged in many activities outside our walls. Our girls continue to make an impact all over the globe! Miranda Donley qualified for the Olympic Swim Trials At the Junior National Swim Meet in Clearwater, FL, Miranda Donley qualified for the Olympic Swim Trials in the 50 meter freestyle She won the event with a time of 26.13, beating the Olympic Qualifying time of 26.19.
Jordan Pace Pilots an Airplane Jordan Pace, Form VII, piloted an airplane over New Orleans, under the careful supervision of a flight instructor. On Jordan’s second time in the air, she landed the plane completely on her own.
Olivia Yadav, Maddie Weaver, Kelly Privette, and Tara Joshi
Select Winds Ensemble Lily Shayani and Haleigh Colombo
The Upper School Select Winds made their public
Middle School Debuts Persephone UNCUT The Middle School performance of Persephone UNCUT, by Chris Leyva, was the world premiere of the stage production. The production follows two friends who inadvertently insult Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and find themselves in the underworld. The cast was very excited to debut the play at CSG.
debut this semester! The talented musicians performed at Ronald McDonald House to bring much needed enjoyment to families with children being treated at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. The group also performed at Kensington Place as entertainment for a tea to celebrate residents in their 90’s! The musicians received rave reviews in both communities.
Jim Reese, Molly Bokor, Alyssa Colombo and Ellie Wade
Vine Street Garage project CSG participated in a beautification project funded and run by the Greater Columbus Convention Center.
Alyssa Colombo as Mary, Eliya Smith as Colleen, and Ben Martin as Dickon
JV and Varsity Cast for Secret Garden Thirteen CSG students from the 2015 Playwriting class,
Jim Reese, from The Reese Brother’s Production
under the guidance of Janetta Davis, adapted the beloved book,
Company, worked closely with CSG’s art teacher Susan
The Secret Garden, into an exciting new theatrical piece. The
Li O’Connor and her AP Studio Art class to recreate a
new version included fun new ideas, original characters and
piece currently featured at the Pizzuti Collection. The
puppetry! Because of the exciting number of talented students
work was reproduced in tile and installed in the Vine
who work in the CSG theater department, this play had a
Street Garage located in downtown Columbus.
double cast with a JV cast, who performed opening night, and a
Jordan Aurnou-Rhees Youngest Competitor to Make Junior National Swim Finals At the Ohio State Championship Swim Meet, Form VIII student athlete, Jordan Aurnou-Rhees, was the State Runner Up in the 100 Fly. Also, her relay team won 4 State Championships, breaking one meet record and one state record. At the Junior National Swim Meet in Clearwater, FL, Jordan was the youngest competitor to make the finals in the Women’s 16 and under 50 yard breaststroke.
The Works Science Fair Fifteen Lower School students participated in a science fair at The Works in Newark, OH in March. Each girl completed a project of her own choosing with guidance from her parents and the Lower School Science Specialist, Jessica Fries-Gaither. CSG faculty from Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools listened to presentations during a mock fair held a few days before the actual event. The students represented the school admirably, with over half of the fair’s participants from CSG!
German Exchange Students
Independent Project on Sea Turtles
CSG welcomed exchange students, Rahel Gebhardt and Johanna Holfeld, from Dresden, Germany into the CSG community this spring. German teacher, Ron Nocks, has coordinated this exchange program for the past six years. The program began in 2010 with the help of Franck Wobst, past Rahel Gebhardt and Johanna parent and former Board President. The Wobst Foundation provides funds Holfeld (back, left to right) with CSG students (front, left for two students from CSG to travel to right) Kelly Privette ’16, to Dresden for four weeks and for two Isabella Pesavento ’16, and Dresden students to come to CSG for Jeneil Davis ’16. four weeks. This program was created to honor the memory of Frank Wobst Sr., past CEO of Huntington National Bank, and CSG Board President 1980-1982. Frank was born in Dresden, Germany and a student at the Kreuzschule Gymnasium, before coming to America. This year, CSG students Isabella Pesavento and Kellly Privette were awarded the opportunity to travel to Germany. Jeneil Davis was selected to go to Germany last year; but traveled this year with Pesavento and Privette.
Penelope “Penny” Riederer ‘23 has been immersed in an independent study of threats to sea turtles around the world in her science class. Penny’s love for sea turtles began at a young age with a visit to Buddy, the sea turtle at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. She conducted independent research, created a Powerpoint, and shared information about natural and human-caused threats to the turtles with her Form V peers during a service learning class in April. Furthermore, Penny, with the help of her mother, created sea turtle pins to be worn in an effort to raise awareness. As a result of Penny’s study, the Lower School plans to donate a portion of the proceeds from their yearly Adopt-a-School bazaar to Sea Turtle Inc., a rescue and rehabilitation center in Texas. In happy coincidence, Penny discovered that this organization was responsible for the rescue and rehabilitation of Buddy, the turtle at the Columbus Zoo who sparked her love for the animals.
Varsity cast, who presented the three following shows.
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FORTE ET GRATUM • SPRING/SUMMER 2016
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