Contents Fall 2012
Features
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12 21st Century Biology
S tudents learn content and skills in the face of unexpected results cross-pollinating Wisconsin Fast Plants.
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Educating Winning People John Thiel is actively learning about Penn Charter and sowing the seeds that will help him grow the school’s athletic legacy.
20 Loving Shakespeare
Silliness. Seriousness. Magic. It’s all there as sixth graders romp their way through Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
24 Ed Marks in China
A five-month sabbatical takes a veteran PC social studies teacher outside the tourist bubble in China.
28 For the Common Good Among Penn Charter’s many first: The world’s first student newspaper.
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32 PC All-Star
In his fifth decade at Penn Charter, Steve Bonnie shifts his focus from Admissions to Development as PC prepares for a new capital campaign.
Departments Opening Comments
From the Head of School. ............................................................................... 2 Around Campus
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Campus Currents................................................................................................ 3 The Grace Fund.................................................................................................. 11 Grandparent Visits and Giving. ................................................................. 15 Athletics...............................................................................................................19 Commencement 2012.................................................................................. 36 Alumni
PC Profiles: Stefan Pulst, Rachel Dowling, David Jordan, Skip Corson............................................................................. 9 Alumni Weekend. ............................................................................................ 38 Class Notes.......................................................................................................... 41
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On the Cover
eporters Revolutio 1 Student Journalism in 1777
Photography by Michael Branscom; design by Isabel Hirshberg, Class of 2015; typography by Michael Glica.
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