Senior Kevin Ellis presented at the International Symposia on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages IFL 2009 conference at Seton Hall University. After winning two major prizes at science fairs last year, Kevin submitted his paper to IFL, and it was accepted. He presented along with graduate students and university professors from around the world. IFL brings together researchers and practitioners to present and discuss novel work on the implementation of functional and function-based programming languages and applied functional programming. This is a forum to discuss new ideas, preliminary results, work in progress, and publication-ripe material.

Senior Tommy Young racked up some medals at the all-metro swim meet this past summer. His medal count in the 15-and-over competitions included 3rd place in the 50-yard freestyle, 3rd in 100-yard freestyle, 2nd in 200-yard freestyle, and 2nd in the medley relay where he swam butterfly. His team, Sunset Athletic Club, won the meet championship for the fifth consecutive year. 

Junior Anna Byrnes won several championships on her horse Chance, including a grand championship. She also won an Oregon Hunter Jumper Association medal class on her hunter horse, Lucero.

Sophomore Neil Badawi’s F.C. U14 soccer team was a finalist in the Oregon state cup championships last spring. Apologies to Neil, who played left back on the team, for omitting this note in last June All-School News.

Ashley Tam, 7th grade, competed in the Oregon Swimming long course state meet during the summer and took third in both the 50m and 100m breaststroke in the 11-year-old age group.

At a luncheon in early September, Albina Head Start honored Catlin Gabel for its 16-year commitment to volunteer service at the early childhood education center. Middle School dean of students and 6th grade teacher Len Carr accepted the award on Catlin Gabel 's behalf.

On September 26 retired teacher Dave Corkran accepted a Regional Forester's award from the Mt. Hood National Forest for Catlin Gabel's volunteer partnership with the Barlow Ranger District. The National Forest honored the school for our many years of volunteer work restoring degraded land, through the Elana Gold '93 Memorial Environmental Restoration Project and other student volunteer work. Since 1991, Catlin Gabel students have contributed more than 15,000 hours of labor. Read more about the Elana Gold project.

On August 30, in Penticton, B.C., Upper School English teacher and admission associate Chris Bagg completed his first Iron Man triathlon, finishing 24th of 2,602 finishers in an overall time of 09:31:13.

Thank you to parent and faculty-staff volunteers who have generously agreed to serve on the 2009-10 Annual Fund committees. Parent committee members include Becky and Stuart Ellis, co-chairs, Alfredo Apolloni, Drew and Sara Bernard, Hadley Boyd, Joan Brandaw, Stephanie Broad, Lisa Ellenberg, Brigid Flanigan, Jeff Gaus, Laura Gordon, Nandita Gupta, Julia Kassissieh, Tina Koehler, Nancy Phillips, Eric '83 and Tiffany Rosenfeld, Gregg Semler '76, Jane Speyer, Meghan Stuvland, Chuck Thorsell, Kaycee Wiita, Vanessa and Jay Wilkins, Jennifer Yoken, and Irma Valdez. Faculty-staff Annual Fund committee members include Chris Balag, Lynda Douglas, Kate Grant, Ginny Malm, Kathy Qualman, Ron Sobel, Spencer White, and Chris Woodard.

Please share your news. Submit “Congrats!” information about student and faculty-staff achievements to Karen Kitty Katz, editor, katzk@catlin.edu, 503-297-1894 ext. 305.