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It is clear the task of preparing young students to perform in this world has become infinitely more complex. Even as the global economic challenges test us all, as educators we need not just react to the current problems, but find ways to innovate and renew to meet this challenge.

CHRISTOPHER SCHUCK HEAD OF SCHOOL

For the more than three decades

STATE OF THE ART LIBRARY • 42,000+ item collection • Five full-time librarians • Thirty-four desktop computers and 20 wireless laptops • Interactive online catalogue • Access to online subscription databases for original research • Separate Lower School and Middle/Upper School facilities • Visiting author program • Parent education classes

that I have worked as a professional educator, I don’t believe I have witnessed a more challenging time. The economic recession has forced all educators -- in both public and private institutions -- to work harder and more creatively to meet increasing demands with fewer resources. Still, it has been the nature, not the depth, of this recession that poses the greatest challenge to educators.

As global markets have writhed and shifted, home and oil prices in unison have formed crests and valleys across continents. In the last year we watched scientists trace illness as it spread across time zones and oceans. The world has never seemed smaller nor more interconnected.

At La Jolla Country Day that has meant adding Mandarin and Arabic languages to our Upper School, extending Spanish instruction literally into our pre-school and, throughout our institution, continue a process that will challenge us to look out into that complex world for the inspiration for how we must evolve to succeed.

Already this school year, our students have been asked to work with orphans in the Dominican Republic, analyze the effects of global warming in the Sierra Nevadas and have packed food in the warehouses of the San Diego Food Bank.

La Jolla Country Day students are in classrooms on most days, but the era in which a school existed largely within the boundaries of its own campus is appearing more and more quaint with each passing day. The velocity of life in a global economy won’t allow that. We must teach even very young students how to confront and dissect issues and events that rise and evolve quicker than text books can capture and analyze them.

That is why these are exciting times to be an educator. We have neither the obligation nor the burden of pursuing our profession exactly as our forbearers. But we do have advantages over our predecessors.

Internet tools and other modern media techniques have opened our classrooms to the wider world in new and creative ways.

At Country Day, our Board of Trustees, including many executives working in San Diego’s leading global companies, have invested in the future with a virtually new campus that brings focus to the newest tools in education. These new facilities will help us shrink the world ourselves, bringing distant places and complex issues, into our classrooms in the appropriate ways – from the Early Childhood Center in our Kindergarten Village to the high-tech science labs of our Upper School.

It is hard to know where and when San Diego will produce its next Irwin Jacobs, whose creativity and hard work built Qualcomm into a global power. But at La Jolla Country Day, we believe Mr. Jacobs’ leadership in science, business and the arts is a good model. We will continue to educate the complete child -- the scholar, artist, athlete of character -- but we will do it going forward with a greater appreciation of the challenges these students will face as they move as adults into a more complex and challenging world.

-Chris Schuck

It is clear the task of preparing young students to perform in this world has become infinitely more complex. Even as the global economic challenges test us all, as educators we need not just react to the current problems, but find ways to innovate and renew to meet this challenge.

CHRISTOPHER SCHUCK HEAD OF SCHOOL

For the more than three decades

STATE OF THE ART LIBRARY • 42,000+ item collection • Five full-time librarians • Thirty-four desktop computers and 20 wireless laptops • Interactive online catalogue • Access to online subscription databases for original research • Separate Lower School and Middle/Upper School facilities • Visiting author program • Parent education classes

that I have worked as a professional educator, I don’t believe I have witnessed a more challenging time. The economic recession has forced all educators -- in both public and private institutions -- to work harder and more creatively to meet increasing demands with fewer resources. Still, it has been the nature, not the depth, of this recession that poses the greatest challenge to educators.

As global markets have writhed and shifted, home and oil prices in unison have formed crests and valleys across continents. In the last year we watched scientists trace illness as it spread across time zones and oceans. The world has never seemed smaller nor more interconnected.

At La Jolla Country Day that has meant adding Mandarin and Arabic languages to our Upper School, extending Spanish instruction literally into our pre-school and, throughout our institution, continue a process that will challenge us to look out into that complex world for the inspiration for how we must evolve to succeed.

Already this school year, our students have been asked to work with orphans in the Dominican Republic, analyze the effects of global warming in the Sierra Nevadas and have packed food in the warehouses of the San Diego Food Bank.

La Jolla Country Day students are in classrooms on most days, but the era in which a school existed largely within the boundaries of its own campus is appearing more and more quaint with each passing day. The velocity of life in a global economy won’t allow that. We must teach even very young students how to confront and dissect issues and events that rise and evolve quicker than text books can capture and analyze them.

That is why these are exciting times to be an educator. We have neither the obligation nor the burden of pursuing our profession exactly as our forbearers. But we do have advantages over our predecessors.

Internet tools and other modern media techniques have opened our classrooms to the wider world in new and creative ways.

At Country Day, our Board of Trustees, including many executives working in San Diego’s leading global companies, have invested in the future with a virtually new campus that brings focus to the newest tools in education. These new facilities will help us shrink the world ourselves, bringing distant places and complex issues, into our classrooms in the appropriate ways – from the Early Childhood Center in our Kindergarten Village to the high-tech science labs of our Upper School.

It is hard to know where and when San Diego will produce its next Irwin Jacobs, whose creativity and hard work built Qualcomm into a global power. But at La Jolla Country Day, we believe Mr. Jacobs’ leadership in science, business and the arts is a good model. We will continue to educate the complete child -- the scholar, artist, athlete of character -- but we will do it going forward with a greater appreciation of the challenges these students will face as they move as adults into a more complex and challenging world.

-Chris Schuck

developing the skills necessary to compete and continue to lead in that world, requires that we maintain the best schools – public and private – that can get this crucial job done.

DONALD INGS BOARD PRESIDENT

Three years ago my oldest son

graduated from La Jolla Country Day’s high school, and two years ago my youngest child graduated as well.

I decided to stay.

BEN BADIEE SHERRY BAHRAMBEYGUI-HOSEY JEFF CHURCH BETH DAVIDSON WADE DOSHIER KENNETH GONZALEZ GEORGE GUIMARAES PETER HAMILTON LARRY HERSHFIELD JONATHAN HUBERMAN PATRICIA HUGHES DONALD INGS DEBBY JACOBS KEITH KANNER STEVEN LIBMAN LESA MALECOT SHERRY MESMAN RONNIE MORGAN JOHN MULCAHY ROBYNANN NELSON GWYN CARTER RICE CAMERON ROOKE BARRY ROSENBAUM ALEX ROUDI LUCY SMITH CONROY LORI TEMKO MICHAEL WALL HOWARD ZIMENT

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

As Scott and Kevin made their way through their early years at Duke and Villanova, I continued volunteering as Board President, working side-byside with the teachers, parents, fellow board members and administrators at La Jolla Country Day. In part, I did this so I could see through to completion the $45 million campus renovation we had begun three years before. But in a larger view, my continued service was part of what I consider a contribution toward an important goal: keeping San Diego – and ultimately America – competitive in an increasingly challenging world economy.

As a former Vice President of Caterpillar Inc., a global company, I came to understand firsthand the impact world-wide competition is having on virtually every profession we hope our children might someday pursue. Understanding that world,

In fact, the hallways of our schools today are the front lines of a battle that will determine our place in that still-evolving global market. It is becoming clearer each day that the industrial skills and labor that built America’s place of prominence over the last 150 years will not keep us there for the next 150. It will take increased intellectual capital – developing the best scientists, engineers, mathematicians, writers and artists that will sustain us economically and culturally.

This is why I, and my fellow board members took the extraordinary steps toward rebuilding the Country Day campus five years ago. Today, that 24-acre campus is complete with all the tools that a talented faculty can use to mix scholarship, arts, athletics and public service to assure that the students educated here will have every opportunity to succeed in an ever-more-complex world.

The decision to invest so heavily in these challenging times was not an easy one, but with each passing day that decision appears more farsighted. As the global nature of the economic challenges America faces become increasingly familiar, the need to assure that the next generation is truly our Greatest Generation becomes more urgent.

Not long ago, many of San Diego’s leaders in business and academia joined me in the Country Day board room with San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders. The discussions wandered over a long series of challenges facing the city and this region. For a moment, I couldn’t help but believe that elsewhere on this campus, we were preparing some of the future leaders that will eventually help solve the problems being discussed that day.

In June, I will leave Country Day after 5 years of service as Board President. I will move on to other civic challenges, but I will watch closely the results of the efforts we made here over the last decade to polish an institution of which the entire community can be proud.

So much depends on its continued success.

-Donald Ings

CIVIC AND

CAPITAL INVESTMENT

developing the skills necessary to compete and continue to lead in that world, requires that we maintain the best schools – public and private – that can get this crucial job done.

DONALD INGS BOARD PRESIDENT

Three years ago my oldest son

graduated from La Jolla Country Day’s high school, and two years ago my youngest child graduated as well.

I decided to stay.

BEN BADIEE SHERRY BAHRAMBEYGUI-HOSEY JEFF CHURCH BETH DAVIDSON WADE DOSHIER KENNETH GONZALEZ GEORGE GUIMARAES PETER HAMILTON LARRY HERSHFIELD JONATHAN HUBERMAN PATRICIA HUGHES DONALD INGS DEBBY JACOBS KEITH KANNER STEVEN LIBMAN LESA MALECOT SHERRY MESMAN RONNIE MORGAN JOHN MULCAHY ROBYNANN NELSON GWYN CARTER RICE CAMERON ROOKE BARRY ROSENBAUM ALEX ROUDI LUCY SMITH CONROY LORI TEMKO MICHAEL WALL HOWARD ZIMENT

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

As Scott and Kevin made their way through their early years at Duke and Villanova, I continued volunteering as Board President, working side-byside with the teachers, parents, fellow board members and administrators at La Jolla Country Day. In part, I did this so I could see through to completion the $45 million campus renovation we had begun three years before. But in a larger view, my continued service was part of what I consider a contribution toward an important goal: keeping San Diego – and ultimately America – competitive in an increasingly challenging world economy.

As a former Vice President of Caterpillar Inc., a global company, I came to understand firsthand the impact world-wide competition is having on virtually every profession we hope our children might someday pursue. Understanding that world,

In fact, the hallways of our schools today are the front lines of a battle that will determine our place in that still-evolving global market. It is becoming clearer each day that the industrial skills and labor that built America’s place of prominence over the last 150 years will not keep us there for the next 150. It will take increased intellectual capital – developing the best scientists, engineers, mathematicians, writers and artists that will sustain us economically and culturally.

This is why I, and my fellow board members took the extraordinary steps toward rebuilding the Country Day campus five years ago. Today, that 24-acre campus is complete with all the tools that a talented faculty can use to mix scholarship, arts, athletics and public service to assure that the students educated here will have every opportunity to succeed in an ever-more-complex world.

The decision to invest so heavily in these challenging times was not an easy one, but with each passing day that decision appears more farsighted. As the global nature of the economic challenges America faces become increasingly familiar, the need to assure that the next generation is truly our Greatest Generation becomes more urgent.

Not long ago, many of San Diego’s leaders in business and academia joined me in the Country Day board room with San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders. The discussions wandered over a long series of challenges facing the city and this region. For a moment, I couldn’t help but believe that elsewhere on this campus, we were preparing some of the future leaders that will eventually help solve the problems being discussed that day.

In June, I will leave Country Day after 5 years of service as Board President. I will move on to other civic challenges, but I will watch closely the results of the efforts we made here over the last decade to polish an institution of which the entire community can be proud.

So much depends on its continued success.

-Donald Ings

CIVIC AND

CAPITAL INVESTMENT

K-Grade 4

Age 3-Jr. K

• Lower School is child-centered • The intellectual, social and emotional life of each child is honored • A love of knowledge is fostered through a rich and varied curriculum • The faculty, through diverse styles and interests, inspire creativity and imagination

Grades 5-8 • Middle School environment that understands and nurtures the emerging adolescent • Develops the critical prerequisite foundation for a competitive college preparation course load • English, Mathematics, Science, History and World Language • Homeroom, Study Hall, Multiple Varied Electives and Life Skills

Country Day’s Early Childhood Center’s (ECC) goal is to provide each child an environment which offers developmentally appropriate activities to encourage social, emotional, cognitive and physical growth as well as personal responsibility. The 7:1 student to teacher ratio promotes individualized attention and encourages a love of learning.

ECC STUDENT GOALS • Provide a relaxed transition from home to school • Encourage children’s independence and self-confidence • Develop each child’s skills of listening and speaking • Teach acceptable outlets for emotions • Encourage each child’s desire to learn

Grade 9-12 • Focus on College Preparation • English, World Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies • Visual and Performing Arts • Athletics including: Baseball, Basketball, Cheerleading, Cross Country, Fencing, Football, Golf, Lacrosse, Roller Hockey, Sailing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Track & Field, Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball and Water Polo.

• Community Service, Experiential Learning • Clubs and Activities

K-Grade 4

Age 3-Jr. K

• Lower School is child-centered • The intellectual, social and emotional life of each child is honored • A love of knowledge is fostered through a rich and varied curriculum • The faculty, through diverse styles and interests, inspire creativity and imagination

Grades 5-8 • Middle School environment that understands and nurtures the emerging adolescent • Develops the critical prerequisite foundation for a competitive college preparation course load • English, Mathematics, Science, History and World Language • Homeroom, Study Hall, Multiple Varied Electives and Life Skills

Country Day’s Early Childhood Center’s (ECC) goal is to provide each child an environment which offers developmentally appropriate activities to encourage social, emotional, cognitive and physical growth as well as personal responsibility. The 7:1 student to teacher ratio promotes individualized attention and encourages a love of learning.

ECC STUDENT GOALS • Provide a relaxed transition from home to school • Encourage children’s independence and self-confidence • Develop each child’s skills of listening and speaking • Teach acceptable outlets for emotions • Encourage each child’s desire to learn

Grade 9-12 • Focus on College Preparation • English, World Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies • Visual and Performing Arts • Athletics including: Baseball, Basketball, Cheerleading, Cross Country, Fencing, Football, Golf, Lacrosse, Roller Hockey, Sailing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Track & Field, Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball and Water Polo.

• Community Service, Experiential Learning • Clubs and Activities

ACADEMIC HIGHLIGHTS

CARING CITIZENSHIP TRUSTWORTHINESS RESPONSIBILITY FAIRNESS RESPECT

PILLARS OF CHARACTER

C O L L E G E P R E PA R AT O RY We are passionate about providing the best college preparatory education possible for our students -- one that shapes them into creative thinkers and responsible young citizens. We provide a rigorous academic program, a nurturing environment, multi-layered global engagement, and a commitment to the development of good character.

State-of-the-Art Technological Facilities • Computers available in every classroom for student use • Classrooms and campus facilities wired for “smart” technology to optimize teaching • Keyboarding skills, Powerpoint and multimedia project develop- ment beginning in Lower School • Instructors with expertise in the latest technological innovations • Two world language laboratories – a model for global language education

EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION - LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

• Highly motivated student body led by expert, veteran teachers, who are passionate about education • Small class size fosters active engagement and a student mentor atmosphere • Diversity and depth of course offerings at all grade levels • Education beyond the classroom including visiting artists, authors, local internships, experiential and outdoor education • College acceptances to the finest universities

• Astronomy students view the Leonid Meteor Shower by traveling to the Anza Borrego badlands.

• Students explore subjects like the Holocaust, the Civil Rights movement and Apartheid by interpreting their learning into visual art projects.

ACADEMIC HIGHLIGHTS

CARING CITIZENSHIP TRUSTWORTHINESS RESPONSIBILITY FAIRNESS RESPECT

PILLARS OF CHARACTER

C O L L E G E P R E PA R AT O RY We are passionate about providing the best college preparatory education possible for our students -- one that shapes them into creative thinkers and responsible young citizens. We provide a rigorous academic program, a nurturing environment, multi-layered global engagement, and a commitment to the development of good character.

State-of-the-Art Technological Facilities • Computers available in every classroom for student use • Classrooms and campus facilities wired for “smart” technology to optimize teaching • Keyboarding skills, Powerpoint and multimedia project develop- ment beginning in Lower School • Instructors with expertise in the latest technological innovations • Two world language laboratories – a model for global language education

EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION - LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

• Highly motivated student body led by expert, veteran teachers, who are passionate about education • Small class size fosters active engagement and a student mentor atmosphere • Diversity and depth of course offerings at all grade levels • Education beyond the classroom including visiting artists, authors, local internships, experiential and outdoor education • College acceptances to the finest universities

• Astronomy students view the Leonid Meteor Shower by traveling to the Anza Borrego badlands.

• Students explore subjects like the Holocaust, the Civil Rights movement and Apartheid by interpreting their learning into visual art projects.

Photos of Ellie Choi courtesy of the San Diego Union-Tribune

Visual Arts • All Lower School students receive 4 hours per week in the arts • Painting, sculpture, collage • Study of the Masters • Studio arts, ceramics, graphic design, photography • Creative, innovative space • Integrated art/history program

ELLIE CHOI, A FULL-TIME COUNTRY DAY STUDENT MON-THURS, TRAVELS WEEKLY TO NYC TO STUDY THE VIOLIN AT THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL

8th Grade Ceramic Mask Project

UNDER THE MASTERS.

studio

At LJCDS, we understand the importance of exposure to the arts for all learners and we are committed to the integration of the arts into the daily curriculum.

Students are provided a wealth of opportunities to explore creative potential through dance, theater, visual arts, music, graphic design and filmmaking.

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Performing Arts • Music beginning at age 3 • Instrumental music in all divisions • Lower School Premier Orchestra • Middle & Upper School Orchestra • Madrigal Singers • Dance, drama, vocal music • Art teachers are, themselves, working artists • Multimedia productions include: exhibits, performances, dance and films

MADRIGALS

Photos of Ellie Choi courtesy of the San Diego Union-Tribune

Visual Arts • All Lower School students receive 4 hours per week in the arts • Painting, sculpture, collage • Study of the Masters • Studio arts, ceramics, graphic design, photography • Creative, innovative space • Integrated art/history program

ELLIE CHOI, A FULL-TIME COUNTRY DAY STUDENT MON-THURS, TRAVELS WEEKLY TO NYC TO STUDY THE VIOLIN AT THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL

8th Grade Ceramic Mask Project

UNDER THE MASTERS.

studio

At LJCDS, we understand the importance of exposure to the arts for all learners and we are committed to the integration of the arts into the daily curriculum.

Students are provided a wealth of opportunities to explore creative potential through dance, theater, visual arts, music, graphic design and filmmaking.

w w w. L a J o l l a C o u n t r y D a y S c h o o l . o r g

Performing Arts • Music beginning at age 3 • Instrumental music in all divisions • Lower School Premier Orchestra • Middle & Upper School Orchestra • Madrigal Singers • Dance, drama, vocal music • Art teachers are, themselves, working artists • Multimedia productions include: exhibits, performances, dance and films

MADRIGALS

Physical Education • Physical Education five days a week, all grade levels • Sportsmanship and teamwork are part of the fabric of LJCDS • Extraordinary school-wide participation

Everybody Plays at Country Day No-cut policy ensures that if a student wants to participate in a sport, they do! Creating confident students through participation.

TRI-SPORT ATHLETES HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS

WNBA PLAYER WIMBLEDON SEMI-FINALIST

1st EVER STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Women’s Volleyball Champions!

Students have many choices at LJCDS, there is something for everyone including: Baseball, Basketball, Cheerleading, Cross-Country, Fencing, Football, Golf, Lacrosse, Roller Hockey, Sailing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Track & Field, Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball and Water Polo.

LJCDS is proud to report that six teams won league championships this fall.

Men’s Cross-Country CIF Champions!

Physical Education • Physical Education five days a week, all grade levels • Sportsmanship and teamwork are part of the fabric of LJCDS • Extraordinary school-wide participation

Everybody Plays at Country Day No-cut policy ensures that if a student wants to participate in a sport, they do! Creating confident students through participation.

TRI-SPORT ATHLETES HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS

WNBA PLAYER WIMBLEDON SEMI-FINALIST

1st EVER STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Women’s Volleyball Champions!

Students have many choices at LJCDS, there is something for everyone including: Baseball, Basketball, Cheerleading, Cross-Country, Fencing, Football, Golf, Lacrosse, Roller Hockey, Sailing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Track & Field, Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball and Water Polo.

LJCDS is proud to report that six teams won league championships this fall.

Men’s Cross-Country CIF Champions!

“A penny saved is a penny earned.” “ I was extremely pleased to help the school find extra funds to continue providing the highest quality education services without impacting students and programs or eliminating services,’’ says Greg Brown.

YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR When Brian Geffen graduated from La Jolla Country Day in 2003, he had an entrepreneurial idea – print and deliver custom clothing to schools all over the U.S. Today, his Duds By Dudes company services customers in 30 states and at 100 different schools from his Miramar facility.

In 2009 he decided to open his first retail outlet – The Torrey Store – located appropriately on the Country Day campus.

Geffen says this is where he first learned the business and interpersonal skills that are

When La Jolla Country Day administrators wanted to

fueling his success today.

make sure they were using resources wisely, they turned to Greg Brown and Expense Reduction Analysts. Drawing on the experience of more than 700 consultants who have conducted more than 14,000 projects in 30 countries, ERA analyzed contracts, streamlined purchasing and used stateof-the-art proprietary software to help save thousands.

Gregory Brown, Director 13250 Sundance Avenue San Diego, CA 92129 858.538.0462 US Headquarters Carlsbad, CA 92008 760.712.3600 www.expensereduction.com

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“A penny saved is a penny earned.” “ I was extremely pleased to help the school find extra funds to continue providing the highest quality education services without impacting students and programs or eliminating services,’’ says Greg Brown.

YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR When Brian Geffen graduated from La Jolla Country Day in 2003, he had an entrepreneurial idea – print and deliver custom clothing to schools all over the U.S. Today, his Duds By Dudes company services customers in 30 states and at 100 different schools from his Miramar facility.

In 2009 he decided to open his first retail outlet – The Torrey Store – located appropriately on the Country Day campus.

Geffen says this is where he first learned the business and interpersonal skills that are

When La Jolla Country Day administrators wanted to

fueling his success today.

make sure they were using resources wisely, they turned to Greg Brown and Expense Reduction Analysts. Drawing on the experience of more than 700 consultants who have conducted more than 14,000 projects in 30 countries, ERA analyzed contracts, streamlined purchasing and used stateof-the-art proprietary software to help save thousands.

Gregory Brown, Director 13250 Sundance Avenue San Diego, CA 92129 858.538.0462 US Headquarters Carlsbad, CA 92008 760.712.3600 www.expensereduction.com

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They say it takes a village to raise a child . . .

So we built one. When La Jolla Country Day worked to build a school within a school for its youngest students, it turned to Davy Architecture, a San Diego firm, known for its creativity. What Davy came up with is a functional landmark, a “village’’ that uses natural light and open space to serve as a transition from home to school.

811 TENTH AVENUE SAN DIEGO CA 92101 PHONE 619.238.3811 Fax 619.238.0442 W W W. D A V Y A R C H I T E C T U R E . C O M