Eton Connections: Fall 2013

Eton School Connections Fall 2013

Eton Alumni Newsletter

A New Una Voce Includes You! One tradition at Eton School is to have our sixth through eighth grade Una Voce Latin Chorale perform every year in December. This year, we are very excited to make the Una Voce event much bigger by turning it into an all school performance that includes our Pre-elementary, Lower Elementary, Upper elementary and Middle School students!

This is a wonderful evening highlighting Eton’s community and we hope you can join us at the Bellevue Presbyterian Church on Friday, January 31, 2014. The performance begins at 7:00 p.m. and we are inviting Eton alumni to gather before the performance at 5:30 p.m. for a pizza party. It is a great time to reconnect with Eton friends! For more information please check our website and our Facebook pages (Eton Alumni or Eton School) or contact our Development Director, Monica Maling (mmaling@etonschool.org).

Save the Date to Celebrate: Eton Community Gala and Auction!

We changed the name of our Annual Auction Fundraiser to Eton Community Gala and Auction in order to recognize the spirit of the event as a wonderful celebration of the Eton School community.

Current parents join alumni parents as well as Eton staff, faculty and Board for this festive night. This year’s Gala is Saturday, March 1, 2014 at the Glendale Golf and Country Club in Bellevue.

Look for more information on the Eton School website and Facebook page. If you are interested in attending and/or donating an item for the auction, please contact Eton Community Gala and Auction Chair, Juliette Stephenson ( julietteq@mac.com), or Eton’s Development Director, Monica Maling (mmaling@etonschool.org). We hope you can join us for this exciting night!

Alumni Highlights We love hearing from our alumni! Nellie Sommer is a senior at Indiana University where she is studying music with an emphasis in bassoon performance.

Michael Patton graduated Cum Laude with Distinction in Chemistry from Occidental College this past spring. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and is currently in Chennai, India teaching English in a middle school and working in a local medical facility.

When Michael returns to the United States, he plans to pursue an M.D./Ph.D. in medical research.

Congratulations to our 8th grade students who graduated in June 2013! Our newest alumni are Michael van der Hoeven, Cooper Matsen, Matthew Ludeman, Megha Murali, Nicholas Gale, Taiga Koffron, and Kevin Charney McDermott. They are attending Eastside Preparatory School, 2701 Bel-Red Road, Bellevue, WA 98008

Redmond High School, Interlake High School, The STEM School, and The Northwest School.

We would love to hear from you! Please send a note to our Development Director Monica Maling (mmaling@etonschool.org) and like our Alumni Facebook page (www.facebook.com/EtonSchool.

Washington.Alumni). We look forward to hearing from and about you!

Phone: 425.881.4230

Cultural Fair 2013 Goes on Despite the Weather According to a local weather station, Saturday September 28, 2013 was the wettest September day since record keeping began in 1891! The winds howled and the heavens opened up, but that did not deter the intrepid Eton School community in coming together to create another fantastic Cultural Fair.

For the first time in seven years, we held the fair inside the Main Building. Volunteers (parents, staff and alumni) magically transformed classrooms into different countries. Scottish Highland dancers, Korean martial arts, Indian Bollywood dancers and a wonderful Caribbean steel-drum duo performed on the Sport Court, which was curtained off to keep the elements out.

We are extremely grateful for our alumni parents and students who came and participated in so many

ways. Alumni parent Chris Klimecky expertly ran the sound system and hosted the entertainment program. His wife, Erika and sons Erik and Alex hosted the Nepal booth. Leah and Kaila McGehee helped serve the sumptuous Mediterranean buffet that was set up in the Activity Room. Taiga Koffron also enthusiastically served food the entire time while his mother, Kazumi Koffron, helped at the Eton Parent Council booth. Judi Hoskins helped with Registration set up and even brought in her own table for us to use. Regine Hortuer-Edjlali and her daughter Tiffany joined the setting up of the fair and helped serve food.

We love seeing our alumni families, so please stay in touch! Check out additional fabulous photos of the Cultural Fair on Facebook (etonschool.washington).

Eton School’s New Web Site Launching Soon At last year’s auction, the raise the paddle provided funds for a new web site along with a new student management/development database. The new database is operational and we are using it to send out informative and easy to read broadcast e-mails to keep parents abreast of school news and events.

Another exciting feature of this database is that the directory, giving and all enrollment/re-enrollment forms are going online in January.

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Our Communications Director, Alice McNeer, has been working tirelessly with the web site development company to create a beautiful new web site that is vibrant and dynamic. In addition, the website will feature responsive design to make it easier to view on digital devices and Eton will have its own website app! Look for the new website launch sometime in December, and please check out the new Alumni pages. www.etonschool.org