HARKER FAMILY & ALUMNI PICNIC
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Website harker.org/picnic
By Igor Hiller
Lower School Family Picnic Raffle Winners Enjoy Fun Field Trip Fifty happy K-2 students took a field trip in mid-March to Pump it Up, a warehouse filled with jump houses, obstacle courses and slides. The event was the reward for the students who sold at least 100 raffle tickets for the Harker Family & Alumni Picnic. Kim Coulter, director of the Bucknall Enrichment and Supervision Team (BEST), said, “The children had a great afternoon playing. They enjoyed going through the obstacle courses and racing some of their favorite BEST staff.” Top ticket sellers this year were grade 2 students Emma Gurleroglu with 2,780, Callie Mayer with 1,640 and Aaditya Gulati with 1,520.
Students Enjoy Picnic OUTING in San Francisco
Picnic Coordinators Lynette Stapleton lynettes@harker.org; Kelly Espinosa kellye@harker.org Volunteering 9-12: Sue Prutton suep@@harker.org; K-8: Teré Aceves terea@harker.org
fun and silly teacher packages are auctioned off every year. Photo by Jo nathan Brus
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On Dec. 10, four lucky Harker students enjoyed a whirlwind day in San Francisco with two of their favorite teachers. The grade 5 students, Arushee Bhoja, Devanshi Mehta, Nikhil Dharmaraj and Ayush Pancholy, won the trip at the Harker Family & Alumni Picnic auction on Oct. 9, where
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Accompanied by teachers Pat Walsh and Kate Shanahan, the excited students rode a cable car, visited AT&T park, North Beach and Chinatown, where the fortune cookie factory was deemed “awesome.” Said Shanahan, “The kids got a special kick out of where we stopped for dessert on the way home – a famous drive-through convenience store in South San Francisco!” Walsh was a busy chaperone - he also accompanied about 30 kids to an Oakland A’s baseball game in late April.
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