ON CAMPUS
Boys Soccer Team Wins FAA Championship! For the first time, The Masters School won the Fairchester Athletic Association (FAA) championship in boys’ soccer. In the FAA semi-final, the boys beat Rye Country Day in overtime with a score of 4-3, propelling Masters into the FAA final for the first time in a game against Greens Farms Academy (GFA). On November 7, the boys beat GFA 1-0 in a very close match with the #1 seed. After multiple close chances by both teams, Masters’ Geoffrey Fox hit a shot from 18 yards out that hit the crossbar and fell just inside the line for a goal. With only eight minutes remaining in the game, Masters held off offensive attacks by GFA to win their first FAA title.
$4 Million Gift Names the Natatorium The Masters School has received an additional $2 million gift from the Hamill Family Foundation. This unrestricted endowment gift will provide ongoing funds for the maintenance and staffing of the natatorium, which houses the new sixlane competitive and recreational swimming pool and is connected to the Masters Athletic and Arts Center (MAAC). The Hamill Family Foundation’s initial gift of $2 million early in the campaign supported construction of the new facility. These two gifts from the Hamill Family Foundation were made in memory of Joan Smith Hamill ’34 and the natatorium will be named in her honor as the Joan Smith Hamill Natatorium.
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Tower Wins NSPA Pacemaker Award Congratulations to the staff of Tower, which was chosen as one of three winners in its category (eight pages or fewer broadsheet) in the NSPA (National Scholastic Press Association) 2014 Newspaper Pacemaker contest. Tower editors presented the Pacemaker plaque to Head of School Maureen Fonseca at Morning Meeting in November. Although Tower has won the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Standard award for two years in a row, this is the first time it has been selected as an NSPA Pacemaker winner. The contest attracted approximately 300 entries from around the country. This honor is “for our paper last year, when our solo editor was Teerin Julsawad ’14, an international student from Thailand,” stated journalism teacher and Tower advisor Ellen Cowhey. “He is currently at New York University studying journalism.”
Eighth Graders Learn to Code Ten eighth grade students from Masters Middle School participated in the Hour of Code, hosted by Zetetics, on December 12. The Hour of Code is an international program in which students gather for a one-hour introduction to computer science. As part of National Computer Science Education week, the program is designed to demystify computer programming and show that anyone can learn programming. During the one-hour activity, students engaged in a step-by-step tutorial on how to create and modify an iPhone game using Swift.