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Society Annual Conference at Michigan State and at Universita Degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche in Pollenzo, Italy. ¶ Deirdra Hazeley ’00 (Head Teacher, Grade 4A) was accepted as a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center for the summer 2014. ¶ In partnership with Saint Ann’s School, Michal Hershkovitz P’16 organized Poly’s first ever U.S. History Teachers’ Symposium, with Yale, Dartmouth, Tufts, U. of Massachusetts, Boston, and New York University professors as well as independent school U.S. history teachers, enrolling over 50 high school history teachers, public and private, on June 21. ¶ Shannon Hummel (Dance and Movement, Lower School) and her group, Cora Dance, were chosen to participate in the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Professional Development Program. ¶ Mike Junsch ’71, P’94, ‘95 (Physical Education/Athletics) was named New York State Private School Coach of the Year by the Basketball Coaches’ Association of New York. Junsch, Poly’s Varsity Girls’ Basketball coach, received the same award in 2011. ¶ Javaid Khan P’24 (Director of Diversity) was accepted into the Leadership Institute for Educators of Color at Kingswood-Oxford in West Hartford, CT for the summer 2014. ¶ Yonghwi Kim P’22 (Visual Arts) and his wife Bokyoung Kim P’22 exhibited their artwork—his ceramics and her paintings-—in the Tower Gallery. ¶ Nick Lee ‘04 (Mathematics) attended the Anja S. Greer Conference on Mathematics, Science and Technology at Phillips Exeter Academy. ¶ Three faculty members—Pat Livingstone (Form V Dean; History), Pam Pratt-Galik (Form VI Dean; Associate Director of College Counseling; World Languages), and Olivia Tandon (Science;
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JV Squash Coach)—finished the New York City Marathon on November 3. ¶ Jamie Nestor (Classics) joined educators from around the country at the Institute for Ethical Education Leaders, run by the Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education. ¶ Jose Oliveras and Diana Chery (World Languages) appeared in “Carmen Loisaida” at Teatro Circulo. The play is an adaptation of Bizet’s opera “Carmen” with themes of unrequited love, human trafficking, and illegal immigration. ¶ Jennifer Olson Walker (World Languages) visited a child in Bolivia whom she and her class have sponsored through Save the Children. ¶ Ann Oransoff (Senior Technology Coordinator) attended an intensive iPad workshop at Harvard Law School. ¶ Mandy Pabon (Science) traveled with Poly students to the Student Diversity Leadership and National Association of Independent Schools People of Color conferences in National Harbor, MD. ¶ Dr. Amit Prakash (History) received a 2014-15 Miles M. Kastendieck Lecture in the Humanities grant for “Counterinsurgency and Us: A Genealogy of a Practice.” ¶ Elizabeth Rapacchietta (Math Department Chair) attended the Anja S. Greer Conference on Mathematics, Science and Technology at Phillips Exeter Academy. ¶ Kristy Raska (Learning Enrichment and
1. Sarah Bates (History) in South Africa. 2. Faculty and students at the Student Diversity Leadership Conference. 3. Louise Forsyth and family. 4. Jennifer Olson-Walker in Bolivia. 5. Olivia Tandon reports on research. 6. Dr. Angela Gittens.
Support) presented her Livingston Lecture, “The Brains Behind Brains: Neuroplasticity, Neurodiversity and Neuromarketing— Discerning Fact from Fiction,”on May 8 in the Gazzani Terrace Conference Room in Alumni House. ¶ John Rearick P’10, ‘14 (Senior Associate Director for College Counseling; English) studied the history of New York City during a professional development seminar sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Foundation. ¶ Ron Sarcos (World Languages) attended the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) Summer Institute at Manhattan College in preparation for teaching AP Psychology at Poly in 2014. ¶ Nick Soodik (Form III Dean; English) had an essay, “Overexposed,” published on the website Narratively, which publishes New York City journalism and memoir. ¶ Olivia Tandon (Science) presented her original research project “Diversity Dynamics in a Unique Fossil-Rich Zone Within the Merchantville Formation of Monmouth County, New Jersey” at the Geologic Society of America’s Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. ¶ Catherine Welch (Form I Dean; English) traced the history of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Oxford and London, England. In the British Library, she saw the original manuscript, handwritten and drawn, by Carroll.
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