2002 January Bucknall News

JANUARY 2002 (VOL. 8, NO. 9)

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Science Education Comes to Life on Marin Headlands Trip

The 5th graders enjoyed three days of outdoor education as part of the Science curriculum during their Marin Headlands Institute trip in December. Highlights of the trip included a night hike to the beach to hunt for Noctiluna-bioluminescent plankton; a visit to “Newt Nation”; panoramic hikes; water coloring on a hillside; watching river otters catching fish; seeing snow egrets, brown pelicans and turkey buzzards, and visiting wounded sea lions at the Marine Mammal center.

“It was a trip bursting with activities,” said Christy Vail, Elementary Division Head. Word has it that other trip highlights included the entertaining antics of teachers Mr. Oncay and Mr. Qua at the indoor “campfire” and learning the difference between poison hemlock and fennel.

The Harker students were a wonder ful group who enthusiastically participated in the activities of the trip in spite of the rainy weather, and we’re proud of them.

Chaperones for the trip, in addition to Ms. Vail, Mr. Oncay and Mr. Qua, were Jeanne Tyrell, Justin Gadbois, Jeff Gatlin, Colin Goodwin, Heidi Galenski, Kristin Giammona, Lisa Hackwood, Kate Shanahan, Mel Robinson and Pat Walsh.

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■ Art teacher Eric Hoffman reported that the Snowman Pins created by our kindergarten students and sent to the kindergarten students at Tamagawa arrived safely! Tamagawa teacher Kaoru Ogura (pictured to the right) sent us this e-mail: “Dear Santa Claus-HO! HO! HO! HO! Just now the present from you reached the kindergarten. Many snowmen came out of the box. I found many snowmen in a box, I was ver y glad! In spite of a long trip, snowmen are very fine!!! There are 3 bags in a box. Surely I received 238 snowmen! Really I appreciate 5th grade Snowman Team and you!”

■ The public Open House at the Bucknall campus in December was a wet and wonderful success! Many

■ Tsuyoshi Oyama, a PE teacher from the Tamagawa School in Japan will be visiting Harker from Jan. 417th as part of a teacher exchange program we have with our sister school in Japan. In October, Harker PE teacher Jeremiah Brewer visited

Christina Rowe, Andrew Law, Daniella Shulman, Aarathi Minisandram, Kevin Chen, Heidi Wang, Michael Kang, Natalie So, Raven Reddy, Tiffany Chen, Ian Cohen, Cayden Berkmoyer, Colin Daw, Lauren Ammatuna, Kevin Dawkins and Charlie Fang.

■ Brownie troop #565, comprised entirely of 3rd grade Harker girls, has “adopted” a family for the holidays through the St. Martin’s Church. Parent Mary Jo Townzen put the troop in contact with the church, and the girls have selected a single mom with three boys (ages 8, 6 and 6 months) and are buying and wrapping clothes, toys and treats to help make their holidays special. We commend this group of Harker students for their efforts to bring comfort and joy to families in need.

Troop leaders are Concepcion Grande, Harker Spanish teacher, and Harker parents Dhrummil Gandhi and Jui Tang.

The girls in the troop are Abhilasha Bellani, Anisha Agarwal, April Luo, Ashley Eggleston, Ayesha Malik, Carmen Das-Grande, Kristi Lui, Kristie Sanchez, Linnea Edholm, Nidhi Gandhi, Sheridan Jones, Sonika Suri, Supraja Swamy and Tara Kola.

■ The kindergarten students in Tara McFarland’s class created gingerbread houses in December.

Their handiwork is shown below!

thanks to our fabulous Harker students who served as capable guides for the day. We overheard many guests commenting on your knowledge, poise and charm.

Thanks to all: Megan Azebu, Ranjita Raghavan, Ashley Malone, Chiraag Deora, Daphne Gorman, Tonia Sun, Stephanie Benedict, Alex Fandrianto, Jonathan Chan, Sabena Suri, Emma Patten,

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Tamagawa and worked with their students, and Mr. Oyama is coming here to return the favor, working primarily work with our 6th grade students. We’ll have pictures and information about this visit in the February newsletter!

Grade 1 students performing at one of the three grade level performances enjoyed by parents and guests during this holiday season.

Multicultural Committee Seeks Parent Input The Multicultural Committee is looking for parents to volunteer on a biweekly basis to display aspects of their culture and traditions. Since the displays will be changed every 2 weeks, each family will only need to volunteer once in the course of a few years to share aspects of their family and cultural traditions. Items such as clothing, religious artifacts, art, music, literature, currency, sport materials, etc. from each culture will be displayed. In addition, each family will provide information about the place they’re from, the way they immigrated to America, and any other special information they choose about their culture or a

SUMMER

festival they celebrate.

The committee sincerely hopes that each and every family at Harker will be represented in the course of the next few years as we see the students at Harker enrich their lives with better understanding, tolerance and respect for each other in their world.

To volunteer to participate in this program, please contact ninaa@harker.org. Please include your name, child/children’s names, daytime/evening contact number, and the month you would like to volunteer. The Committee is proposing to begin this program in February 2002.

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■ Summer Camp brochures and registration forms will be available Jan. 14th. Harker families have first priority until Feb. 11th when registration from the general public will be accepted. Questions can be directed to Cindi Gonsalves at the Summer Camp office: cindyg@harker.org.

CAMP DATES FOR 2002 ARE: K-8 Session I: June 24-July 26; Session II: July 29-Aug. 16; US Summer Institute: June 19-July 31 ■ Harker’s Summer Camp Fair, featuring over 50 camps, will be held Thursday, February 28, from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Bucknall gym.

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■ Professional choreographer and dance instructor Mr. Keith Banks recently taught a Street Jazz Master Class to the 3rd-6th grade boys in the Bucknall dance program. Gail Palmer, Harker dance teacher, said, “Keith is a dynamic instructor, and this was a great opportunity for our Bucknall boy dancers. They seemed to love it!” Ms. Palmer added that they hope to have Mr. Banks back to do a few other special classes for the boys.

NEWS

Q2 after school activities will resume on Thurs., Jan. 3rd when the students return from vacation.

Also, effective immediately, athletic practices will no longer be canceled on Faculty Meeting days since we now have sufficient non-teaching coaching staff to work with the students. Contact Teresa Smith (teresas@harker.org) if you have questions.

Here are a few reminders about the Q3 after school sign ups: • Mon., Jan. 7th: Q3 Recreation packets carried home • Fri., Jan. 11th: Registration forms due back by this day • Tues., Jan. 15th: Confirmations carried home • Fri., Jan. 18th: Last day of Q2 activities • Tues., Jan. 22nd: Q3 activities begin

Calendars Streamlined!

The Year-at-a-Glance calendar has been streamlined to show only vacations and holidays, making it easier for parents to identify key

feedback At press time we were still receiving and tabulating responses from our December “Survey of the Month” regarding parent communication, but we’d like to share some of the Bucknall responses with you here.

We will continue to update you and respond to some of your suggestions over the coming months.

Overall, you rated the web calendar information the highest, with 92% rating it “very good” or “excellent.”

Here were some of your comments and suggestions: • Print could be a little larger, and sports schedules on the different sections would be nice.

• Add Summer School start dates and also start dates for the 2002 academic year (we need to plan that far ahead!).

• No suggestions. Like that it is posted on-line and can retrieve any hour of the day, is efficient, cuts waste.

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Reminders from the Rec Department

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dates throughout the year (a white copy of this was sent home last month). As soon as key dates for the next school year are set, we will add them to this calendar and notify you via e-mail. We have also combined the Primary and Elementary calendars into one Bucknall Calendar for the convenience of our many families with more than one student on campus. http://www.harker.org/generalinfo/ calevents.htm

component in addition to our Building Evacuation (fire response), Drop, Cover, and Hold (earthquake response), Shelter in Place (intruder, civil disturbance response) and Directed Transportation (campus evacuation response). The Central Shelter response would be used for responding to a toxic spill resulting from an accident on the freeway or other exposure to airborne contaminants.

As for the Parent Home Page, 14% of the respondents have never visited the Parent Home Page.

Seventy four percent of those who did found it “very good” to “excellent,” favoring the calendars, newsletters and schedules, respectively.

Emergency Procedures The administration wishes to remind all parents that with the current world tensions, we have increased our state of readiness at Harker. As outlined in recent letters sent home, we have staged additional emergency drills at both campuses over the past month and have thoroughly reviewed emergency procedures with students, faculty and staff. We have taken stock of emergency supplies on both campuses and added additional emergency lighting, water storage, solar blankets, and available food. We have also reworked our emergency action plan, adding a Central Shelter

The next highest rating was for the newsletters, with 74% of you reading it thoroughly or reading most of it. Overall impression of 75% of you was either “good” or “excellent,” while 25% rated the newsletter “average.” Here were some of your comments and suggestions: • Content is good, print is small • A different format on the web would be easier to read • Newsletter is good at describing events that have occurred. Perhaps there could be a section for field trips, outings, performances.

• Answers to parent questions and concerns

Building evacuation drill for lower school We wish to reassure our parents that the safety of the children is our highest priority, and we will continually keep you posted as we update our emergency plans.

Please contact Dan Gelineau, Asst.

Head of School if you have any questions at dang@harker.org.

Thank you so much for taking the time to give us this valuable input.

The more participation we get in surveys like this, the more on target we can be with our parent communication efforts. Watch for improvements over the coming months based on your valuable suggestions.

The January “Survey of the Month” is on parent use of technology. Go to the Parent Home Page and share your thoughts!

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from the

archives

Frank Cramer (1862-1948) Earliest Founder of The Harker School Frank Cramer was born in Wausau, Wis. He was one of Palo Alto’s first residents and played a strong leadership role in both the city government and local public schools. I’m sure Diana Nichols would have found his company lively as Mr. Cramer had a life-long interest in the natural sciences and was a biologist.

Frank Cramer graduated from Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., in 1886, taught for a while and came to Palo Alto in 1891 to attend Stanford University. He studied zoology, earning a master’s degree in 1893.

What better training to open up a school? Under the influence of David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, Cramer opened Manzanita Hall, a college prep school for boys in 1893. Twentyfour boys were enrolled there in September 1894.

When Mr. Cramer opened the school, Palo Alto was not the bustling, expensive community it is today. But it was growing. According

to Arthur Coffman’s history of Palo Alto: “From 1890 to 1894 the number of buildings in Palo Alto increased from 6 to 165. During the same four years, the population rose from 12 to 700.”

In terms of real estate prices, Coffman reports “a six-room cottage was built for $1,500; a tenroom house for $3,300; and a twelve-room house for $4,500.”

Next: An anecdote about Frank Cramer and his helpful old horse Archie, a hero during the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake.

Thanks to Nancy Claunch and Melody Moyer for lending their artistic touches to other decorations around the Bucknall campus and beyond, and to Nancy, Melody, Dede Ogami and dad Fred Carr for turning the Advancement Office into a real Paris bistro for our recent informational Picnic Volunteer meeting on Dec. 7th. If you signed up for Picnic volunteer jobs way back in September, don’t be surprised when committee members soon call you and invite you to help in a variety of fun tasks!

Becky Cox and Margaret Demers hosted a wonder ful holiday party for Gr. 1 parents and teachers at Becky’s home in Los Altos in December. We heard that a good time was had by all, and what better opportunity to get acquainted with the parents of your child’s classmates in a very personal way?

Getting out Harker’s Summer Camp mailing requires a bright-eyed crew in January to collate, stuff and apply labels when the materials come back from the printer. Mailings Coordinator Smita Patel would be delighted to have some more help, so let me know if you’re interested!

—Nancy Reiley, Director of Community Relations nancyr@harker.org

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Author: Enid Davis Sources: Blitzer, Carol. http:// www.service.com/paw/Centennial/ 1994 Apr 15. 1890SC.html Coffman, Arthur. An Illustrated History of Palo Alto. Palo Alto: Osborne, 1969.

Palo Alto City Library. Obituary Files.

Unnamed newspaper, Jan. 31, 1948

Volunteer

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Our apologies, and a huge, belated “Thanks!” to all of these parent volunteers whose names did not appear in last month’s re-cap of the November Book Fair, but whose efforts greatly contributed to its success: Shankari Sundar, Helena Jerney, Sarala Devi, Archana Desai, Lalu Kling, Fran Axelrad, Tarini Kumar, Jane Sowards, Roni Wolfe, Presley Troyer, Christine Apap - Bologna, Madhu Jain, Regina Pankiar, Chris Douglas, Bella Yanovsky, Heather Wardenburg, Viji Dilip, Joanna Medin, Tina Chang, Kris McNamara, Tyra LaMar, Karen Hansen, Sharvari Dixit and Tommy Polzin, Marcia Riedel and Chidori Okubo and Pam Araki.

Bucknall Winter holiday parties on Dec. 18th were celebrated with enthusiasm, thanks to our room parents and grade level coordinators. Santa was sighted in a number of places that afternoon, and the kindergartners had a few words with him as he passed around candy canes at their parties. Gr. 3 was regaled with special volunteer storytellers at their parties, thanks to room parent Vinita Belani. Gr. 6 room parents, led by grade level coordinator Brenda Davis, invited their students to participate in a “white elephant” gift exchange in their homerooms. The students discovered that one person’s trash can prove to be another person’s treasure as they opened gifts from classmates, such as Barneys, Ninja Turtles, PowerRangers, ugly hats, Pokemon videos and a well-worn Britney Spears CD! Parent volunteers also helped Harker students collect for Toys for Tots and for a canned goods drive for hungry local families. Room parent Janie Fung encouraged her daughter’s class to set new records for the number of food items collected, and Janie volunteered her shopping services to make purchases for those families who donated money.

A “volunteer extraordinaire” recognition this month goes to Sylvia Beals, Gr. 2 room parent for Ms. Beil’s Gr. 2 class and mother of Andree. Sylvia's

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creative genius was behind many of the decorations around the Bucknall campus, including a “fireplace” in the Bucknall library and the office lobby, and classroom trees for Proctor’s, Beil’s, Hickey's and Ferrera's classrooms. She also helped the Gr. 2 students with a Kwanzacraft!

2001 Had Spirit…Let’s Keep It Alive in the New Year!

We are truly grateful to those Harker families who kept the spirit alive during 2001 of the Campaign. Their generosity and participation place us at over 60% committed to our goal!

The $25,000 Matching Challenge Grant contributed by a Harker family is still in need of support. This grant matches dollar-for-dollar gifts received from returning families who did not participate in the 2000-01 Million for the Millennium Annual Giving Campaign. If you qualify for this grant, it is a wonderful way to double your contribution and, ultimately, double the support of your children.

Again, we wish to emphasize the eScrip program, an additional way you can support your children and their educational and extra-curricular experiences at Harker. According to San Jose Middle School, their 400 registered families have generated $2,700-$3,000 a month for their school.

Just imagine the potential support from eScrip in the Harker equation . . .

1,000 families + 1, 000 eScrip memberships = $6,750 a month . . . that is $81,000 a year!

For more information on eScrip and/or the campaign itself, please contact Amalia Keyashian, Director of Annual Giving, at amaliak@harker.org or logon to www.harker.org and click on ADVANCEMENT & ALUMNI. Thank you for your spirit and participation!

—Kelly S. Parker, Development Director

The Saratoga and Bucknall editions of the Parent Pages are published monthly by the Harker Office of Communications. They are also available on the web at: www.harker.org. Click on PARENTS. Editor: Pam Dickinson Design: Blue Heron Design Photography: Christy Vail, Kathy Polzin, Raj Das, Gail Palmer and Tara McFarland Printing: Communicart

Both Campuses Reach Out to Wider Community…

■ Congratulations to all the students and faculty in Harker’s Performing Arts department for sharing their time, energy and considerable talent throughout the community this past holiday season.

The Middle School Harmonics had a day-long community outreach tour, performing at the San Jose Day Nursery School, The Fathers of Mary Knoll in Los Altos and The Terraces of Los Gatos, as well as Vallco Shopping Center in Cupertino and The Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose.

After performing at the Fathers of Mary Knoll, a retirement home for priests, they joined the residents for lunch and learned about the places all over the world where many of the priests had served as missionaries. Congratulations to the fabulous Harmonics, as well as directors Maureen Driggs and Brian O'Sullivan, for their wonderful performances this year!

7TH GRADE: Debanshi Bheda, Matt Emery, Mariel Garcia, Paula Gitis, Danyal Kothari, Peter McCarthy, Molly Newman, Maya Perelman, Julia Price-Madison, Natasha Sarin, Aseem Shukla, Varun Sivaram, Siobhan Stevenson, Diane Strutner and Elyse Trinh.

8TH GRADE: Shivani Bhargava, Casey Blair, Meghana Dhar, Adam Edwards, Ankur Gupta, Lauren Gutstein, Michael Hammersley, Ellen Harris, Rahul Jaswa, Emily Leonard, Andrew Nasser, Casey Near, Amanda Polzin, Kevin Santora, Swasti Sarna, Ryan Townzen and Rohini Venkatraman.

US Show Choir director Cathy Snider reported that the group conducted a community tour over the weekend of Dec. 1st, performing at The Terraces in Los Gatos and then travelling to The Forum in Los Altos Hills. “With permission from the patients, the kids, without hesitation, walked into rooms, held hands, sang carols, chatted, smiled and brought some much needed Christmas spirit,” said Ms. Snider. The group then traveled to Stanford Children’s Hospital, where they played with kids, caroled through the hallways and visited with patients for almost two hours. Student Gabby DeMers’ mom, who is a nurse in Adult Oncology, arranged for the group to visit her floor. The final community performances were in the lobbies of a number of area hotels, including the San Jose Fairmont and the Hotel St. Claire. US Show Choir: Emma Hawley, Gabby DeMers, Nadia Raza, Leena Bhalerao, Neil Bhalerao, LeAnn Duong, Sean Wienstock, Leslie Hernandez, Rick Hayashi, Tommy Polzin, Maheen Kaleem, Kathryn Lee, John Tepperman and Brendan Boland.

Bel Canto per formed at the Vallco Mall and also joined the Harker String Quartet for a per formance at a local church for their annual Christmas dinner. Bel Canto: Aditi Bhattacharyya, Alice Chi, Amanda Tobin, Ana Maheshwari, Brinda Venkatesh (2nd sem. only), Claudia Ruegg, Daphne Karpel, Emily Hsi, Erin Schwartz, Estelle Charlu, Georgia Manr y, Ilana Traynis, Isabella Liu, Jacinda Mein, Jackie Laine, Janine Carpenter, Jennifer Lin, Jessica Travis, Kalpana Sundaram, Kathy Peng, Kimberley Wong, Lisa Schwebke, Meghana Komati, Mickey Selbo-Bruns, Mythri Papolu, Neha Bajwa, Nina Zheng, Pia Pal, Rachel Newman, Rubina Chuang, Shani O'Brien, Shreena Grewal, Sneha Krishna, Sam Singh, Swetha Vakkalanka, Vivian Nguyen, Whitney Graves and Sophia Wang - accompanist. String Quartet: Jenny Yao, Tiffany Day, Anjana Sundaram, Lisa Nakano and pianist Catherine Kim.

The Upper School Dance Troupe per formed at the Fairmont Hotel’s tree lighting ceremony in December. Laura Rae, dance teacher and director of the troupe said they danced to “Dig That Crazy Santa Claus.” Dancers were Chris Kim (Santa), Sonia Rastogi, Heather Baratz, Andrew Chen, Lisa Schwebke, Karla Bracken, Humsa Venkatesh and Vivian Leung. “They were awesome and everyone loved Santa!,” Ms. Rae said.

■ On Dec. 11th Harker honored President Bush’s request to have the nation’s students participate in an observance of the 3 month anniversar y of the Sept.11 tragedies. To commemorate this event, the Show Choir led the students at each campus in singing the National Anthem over the PA system, preceded by a moment of silence.

■ Harker recently received a letter from the Aids Walk organizers informing us that our team raised $5,014 making Harker the number one school team this year. We are extremely proud of the 15 US students and over 30 MS students who participated in this event held Sun., Oct. 14th. And a big thanks to faculty participants and organizers Steve Woods (MS Science), Vandana Kadam (MS Math), Steven Hewitt (MS English) and Jennifer Gargano (US Math).

letters from their 5th graders thanking our students for th e i r l e t t e r s a n d g o o d wishes, as well as a book about Ramadan. The book is dedicated to “Our friends at The Harker School.”

■ This year the US conducted a towel and blanket drive for the Emergency Housing Consortium of San Jose. Barrels were placed in Dobbins, and several hundred towels and blankets were collected and delivered.

■ Thanks to everyone’s participation in the Bucknall t-shirt fundraiser, almost 300 t-shirts have been sold and delivered, and $1,200 was raised for the Relief Fund! There are a few additional shirts being sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Families interested should bring a check for $12.00 per shirt to Ms. Vail’s office, and shirts will be sold until they are all gone!

■ The Harker Key Club collected gifts that were then delivered to the Emergency Housing Consor tium for the 38 homeless families adopted by the US students.

■ The 3rd annual Toys for Tots drive was another wonderful success! Students in grades K-6 deposited toys into the large donation boxes which were MS walkers: Polina Minkin, Alexandra Nazari, Oriel cheerfully decorated by members of our Student Nissim, David Linder, Daniece Loomis, Mika Council, and over 400 toys were collected this year.

Sugawara, Milton Lee, Kunal Gupte, Brice Lin, An officer from the Marine Corps Reserve joined our Jonathan Chu, Debanshi Bheda, Freya Waldern, holiday assemblies to accept our donations and thank Swasti Sarna, Michael Lee (8th), the students in person. Thanks to Arjun Kohli, Ira Patnaik, Priya all the parents for their support in Patel, Saloni Mathur, Alisha Tolani, stressing the purpose and imporRohini Venkatraman, Brittany tance of this fundraiser with their Schieron, Lauren Harries, Shilpa children, and all the children for their Vadodaria, Rami Antoun, Edward participation. You all made the holiHejtmanek, Andrea Wang, Elyse days brighter for many less fortunate Kim, Colleen Lee, Kari Berglund, Harker’s new student mentoring program matches our children.

Vijay Umapathy, Katy Yu, Mansi high school students with younger students who are ■ Food collected by the grade 6 Shah, Asavari Gupte, Adriana in need of homework help, some tutoring, a “big kids was taken to Second Harvest Widdoes, Karen Horovitz, brother or big sister,” or someone to simply help them Food Bank on Friday. The donations Mohammed Ahmed, Mariam with organization. filled 5 containers and were estiRangwala, Shawn Huda, William mated to weigh between 1500 and All US students who are interested in becoming a mentor are screened by a Waggoner, Conor Sullivan, Irine 1600 pounds! counselor who reviews the students’ grades and applications. They then atTyutereva, Emily Isaacs, Rose

…and help each other closer to home!

Student Mentoring Program

Kirby, Mahncy Mehrotra and Ankoor Shah.

tend an orientation meeting prior to starting work with their younger partners and receive one hour of community service credit for each tutoring session.

US walkers: Anita Gupta, Alex Lee, Elise Nguyen, Alfred See, Wendy Tsai, Luke Wyman, Shelton Chow, Ben Chang, Peter Noonan, Claudia Ruegg, Ken Loh, Maya Hey, Jessica Scheerder, Vivek Saraswat and Ilana Traynis.

The younger students selected to participate are chosen by their grade level counselor, based on the particular needs of the student.

■ After the tragedy, many of the Harker 5th graders wrote letters to students of the Silicon Valley Academy, an Islamic School in Sunnyvale, expressing their sorrow that some people were blaming all Muslims for the actions of the terrorists. We recently received a package from the school, which included

Students meet in the library on each campus and are under the supervision of the librarians. Also, the counselors periodically visit and monitor the student matches.

There are currently 18 US students matched with the same number of younger students: Mythri Papolu, Jackie Laine, Vivian Leung, Ana Maheshwari, Thomas McMahon, Swetha Vakkalanka, Naushin Husain, Maya Ragavan, Mickey Selbo-Bruns, Karla Bracken, Allison Kwong, Maya Hey, Ilana Eydus, Sheena Reddy, Anita Mazloom, Julia Gitis, Tiffany Day and Alex Janofsky.

So far the reviews have been terrific from students, teachers, administration and parents! In fact, one younger student has asked if his mentor could meet more times per week as he has enjoyed it so much. Interested parents should contact their child’s counselor.

■ The ESL classes recently participated in a “ClassroomsCare” program of the Scholastic Book Club.

By reading 100 books by Dec. 14th, the Harker ESL students demonstrated that “Reading is Giving,” and joined students across the country in helping to donate one million books to children in need. Congratulations to our ESL students for their avid reading to support this worthy cause: Daisuke Ito, Hoon Jeong, Kei Ogawa, Jack Wu, Katy Yu, Michael Choi, Young- Jo Kim, Andy Lin, Anthony Liu, Mika Sugawara, Ariel Wang, Simon Yang, Nicole Chuang, Daniel Chung, Willy Ho, Milton Lee, Rita Leung, Leo Liu, Jay Sohn and Robert Yu.