News of the School Summer 2011 Park Tudor School
Record number selected for IU Honors
Twelve Park Tudor students are studying
abroad this summer in the Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages. “This is a record number for Park Tudor,” says French teacher and IU Honors Program Coordinator Janice Vote. Eight of the students are studying in France, while four are studying in Spain. Studying in Spain are Anne Armstrong (Leon), Kate McCarter (Valencia), Emma Skeels (Oviedo), and Lauren St. Clair (Valencia). Studying in France are Sarah Cohn (Saumur), Lillian Crabb (Saumur), Alexandra Janin (Saumur), Emma Johnson (Brest), Ayana Lindsey (St. Brieuc), Rebecca McClure (St. Brieuc), John Rardon (Brest) and Monika Tilmans (Brest). The Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages is open to high-school juniors. Following a rigorous testing, application and interview process, approximately 30 students from the state of Indiana are selected for each of the nine Honors Program sites in Spain, France, Mexico and Germany. Participants in the program live for seven weeks with a host family, attend morning classes, and participate in afternoon activities and excursions with the other students. Students must agree to speak no English for the duration of the program. More than 150 PT students have participated in this intensive language-immersion program since 1971, with 95 studying in France, 51 in Mexico or Spain, and eight in Germany. Read an essay on page 15 by Lindsey Blum ’11 about her experiences living in France last summer as an IU Honors program participant.
• Chicago was the destination for students in Upper School French III and Art History classes in April. The French III students visited the Art Institute as the culminating activity for their intensive study of French Impressionism. The Art History students, in addition to visiting the Art Institute, toured the Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago to view the large collection of Mesopotamian art, stopped by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House in Hyde Park and took in the sculptures at Millennium Park. The students’ tour guides were French teacher Janice Vote and Art History teachers Heather Teets and Carol Rogers. • Upper School students will take a bookish adventure to the Boston area in October. A highlight of the trip will be a visit to the home of notable author Kathryn Lasky Knight ’62. Other activities will include a sojourn to Concord for a taste of transcendentalism and to see the homes of Emerson, Hawthorne and Alcott, as well as Thoreau’s Walden Pond. Students also will visit the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, the Salem area, the Boston Public Library, and will bike the historic Freedom Trail. The trip, which will conclude with a tour of Harvard and a meeting with a panel of PT alumni
attending college in the Boston area, is being organized by Coordinator of Media Services Jane Hizer.
Eighth-graders got a first-hand view of the White House during their Washington, DC trip.
Teacher Heather Teets (left) provides insight on a painting to Avery Mitchell ’11 (right) during the art history class field trip to Chicago.
Trips expand horizons • Park Tudor’s eighth-grade class spent three days in Washington, DC in March on a three-day tour of historical sites, including the White House, Capitol Hill, the National Archives, Arlington National Cemetery and other historical sites. They also visited several museums, including the Newseum, the Museum of American History and the Holocaust Museum.
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Sixteen Upper School students spent 14 days in June exploring the country of Peru. On a trip led by Upper School Social Studies teacher Margo McAlear, the students visited Cuzco, Lima and Raqchi, hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu and took a boat trip to the Ballestas Islands, where they viewed thousands of seabirds, penguins, sea lions and dolphins.