The  college acceptances for Catlin Gabel’s class of 2010 is very much in keeping with the lists from previous years. As always, the list in its range and variety shows evidence of independent thinking and decision-making by our students. It also shows their focus on looking beyond the metrics of name recognition and selectivity to find and apply to those schools that meet their own academic and personal criteria. And of course, since this was another very competitive year in the college admissions world, the list of acceptances also shows the high level of academic preparation that Catlin Gabel students bring to the admissions process.

Toby Alden	Whitman College
Zanny Allport	Tufts University
Jasmine Bath	University of Chicago
Erica Berry	Bowdoin College
Sam Bishop	Hamilton College - NY
Rohan Borkar	University of Oregon Honors College
Reed Brevig	TBA
Ted Case	University of Southern California
Koby Caster	Skidmore College
Brynmor Chapman	University of Oxford
Priyanka Chary	Scripps College
Kalifa Clarke	Smith College
Margaret Clement	University of Puget Sound
Abby Conyers	Williams College
Eli Coon	Claremont McKenna College
Catie Coonan	Wake Forest University
Becky Coulterpark	University of Oregon
Lauren Edelson	Stanford University
Chris Eden	Colby College
Kevin Ellis	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yale Fan	Harvard University
Lucy Feldman	Brown University
Eddie Friedman	Brown University
Sophie Fyfield	Mount Holyoke College
Oliver Garnier	University of Washington
Nauvin Ghorashian	University of Washington
Max Gideonse	Bennington College
Charlie Grant	Bates College
Duncan Hay	University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Molly Hayes	Whitman College
Kent Hays	Oregon State University
Sara Hensel	Whitman College
Will Jackson	Bennington College
Keenan Jay	Rhode Island School of Design
Donald Johnson	Evergreen State College
Joey Lubitz	Oberlin College
Juliah Ma	Occidental College
Adam Maier	University of Southern California
Ian Maier	Pomona College
Matt McCarron	Williams College
Carter McFarland	University of Montana, Missoula
Matthew Meyers	Franklin College, Switzerland
Irene Milsom	Oberlin College
Luke Mones	Occidental College
Leslie Nelson	Pitzer College
Rahee Nerurkar	Washington University in St. Louis
Maddy Odenborg	University of Oregon
MK Otlhogile	Scripps College
Michelle Peretz	Emory University
Rose Perrone	Stanford University
Devyn Powell	Tufts University
Jessica Ramirez	Macalester College
Emma Rickles	Williams College
Luke Rodgers	Bridge year/Evergreen State College
Stephanie Schwartz	Santa Clara University
Samantha Selin	School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Alma Siulagi	Reed College
Olivia Siulagi	Kenyon College
Ben Streb	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Kimmy Thorsell	University of Oregon
Jordan Treible	Davidson College
Matthew Trisic	McGill University
Sam Tucker	University of Redlands
Ingrid Van Valkenburg	Scripps College
Andy Vickory	Carnegie Mellon University
Maddy Weissman	University of Oregon Honors College
Leah Weitz	University of Puget Sound
Christine Weston	Washington University in St. Louis
Andreas Wilson	Goucher College
Yannie Wong	Pacific University
Tommy Young	Oregon State University

 

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What’s Next for What’s Next?

By Middle School head Paul Andrichuk and communications director Kitty Katz ’74

Introducing the Catlin Gabel Service Corps

We’re going to cut to the chase and announce the What’s Next plan, then we’ll review how we got here. After months of consensus building, research, and input, we are excited to launch the Catlin Gabel Service Corps: Multigenerations Working Together for the Greater Good. The Service Corps preserves many of the best attributes of Rummage, is sustainable and doable, and is consistent with the mission of the school. We are not replacing Rummage, which had become unsustainable and broken. We are doing something new.

The Catlin Gabel Service Corps initiative will take time to grow and become an institutional tradition. After all, Rummage began when one parent organized a small secondhand sale to meet the Catlin-Hillside School’s budget shortfall in 1945. The sale was not immediately embraced as an annual ritual: it grew over time.

A Corps Core group of faculty, staff, and volunteers will work on the details and long-term planning for the CG Service Corps. The Corps Core will be composed of can-do people who have demonstrated leadership in community service.

How did we get here?

Readers of this newsletter will recall that early in the school year we announced that the Rummage Sale would retire after 65 years. The people closest to the sale had concluded that it was not a sustainable operation, when it raised only 7 percent of our financial aid budget and volunteer numbers were declining. After the final sale was over, the What’s Next process began. A steering committee with representatives from all school constituent groups led the consensus-building efforts. At a community-wide workshop on January 23, more than 100 people generated four ideas for the steering committee to consider. (People who could not attend were invited to send ideas via the website.)

• Expand campus days to include a bigger work force that would encompass parents and alumni. Out-of-town alumni would be invited to volunteer in their communities on the same day(s) in solidarity with the events on campus.

• Enhance the current garden projects to engage people of all ages year round and cultivate more produce to use in the Barn.

• Create a multigenerational Catlin Gabel service corps to volunteer in the Portland community as well as on campus. Again, out-of-town alumni would be invited to represent Catlin Gabel in their own communities. We imagine that Catlin Gabel volunteer T-shirts would be an important part of this initiative.

• Find opportunities for the community to “barn raise” on campus, such as building a greenhouse, painting classrooms, or replacing siding. The Lower School playground project is the model for this initiative.

The steering committee broke into four sub-committees to research the ideas and explore the feasibility of launching them. The committee members met again after spring break to report on their findings and determine what needs to happen, so that Catlin Gabel can officially adopt one or more of the big ideas. The ideas were brought to Lark, division heads, and department heads for their input and reaction.

School leadership response

All-School Campus Day
An all-school campus day was initially appealing, but further investigation and input from the grounds crew caused us to reconsider. The current campus days are very successful and provide important services (leaf raking and bark chip distribution). Finding work and managing larger numbers all on a single schoolwide campus day could compromise the success of what we currently do. Working toward increased participation from parents and alumni and adding a celebratory element are positive outcomes of this investigation.

Garden Project and Fall Festival
The garden project is taking off, which is a great thing for our community. As the garden expands there will be more opportunities for planting, weeding, watering, and harvesting. However, there is not enough work for masses of people all at once. The idea of a harvest festival is very attractive, but fall of 2010 may be too soon. Perhaps Spring Festival could include a homegrown food and garden component.

Barn Raising
We are keeping our eyes and ears open to opportunities. However, there is not a large-scale on-campus project suitable for a significant crew of volunteers to undertake at this time. Building codes and safety regulations make this a difficult undertaking.

Community Service “Job Fair” (offshoot idea from the Service Corps subcommittee)
There was limited interest in a service fair and adding an event to our calendar. Students would not likely get this project off the ground without a great deal of supervision and staff support. However, if the Service Corps concept outlined below takes off, we can imagine adding a Service Job Fair to expand our reach and diversify our service.

Catlin Gabel Service Corps
This proposal gained the most traction with the admin team. It seems to best embrace the Rummage attributes we hold near and dear. The leadership team pursued the Service Corps proposal with greater specificity and looked for ways to combine it with other ideas such as campus day, the service fair, and a food festival or potluck.

Creating a Service Corps Committee (the “Corps Core”) of representative constituents was proposed. This long-term group will consider schoolwide themes, establish guidelines, and set school community goals that chart our progress.

What? Another committee?

Funny, yes. The What’s Next steering committee’s assignment is complete. They were charged with getting us to this point. Forming a new group to manage the Catlin Gabel Service Corps is essential for this initiative to successfully take root. the Corps Core will begin their work this summer. (It is premature to announce the members, but we have some great folks on the invite list.)

We are excited about the possibilities and know many Catlin Gabel community members will have great ideas for the Corps Core to consider. Here are a few suggestions the steering committee kicked around: How about a specific day when local community members and alumni around the world serve on behalf of Catlin Gabel? Drop everything and serve. Let’s kick off the Catlin Gabel Service Corps idea homecoming day – we’ll have a built-in celebration! Students could have a Rummage contest knockoff with blue and white teams collecting on behalf of the Oregon Food Bank or the Community Warehouse or Outside/In. We hope you are as enthusiastic as we are about the What’s Next: the Catlin Gabel Service Corps.

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Congrats!

Seniors Kevin Ellis and Yale Fan each received prizes of $50,000 from the Intel Foundation at the world’s largest pre-college science competition. This was the first time in Intel ISEF's history that two of the top three winners are from the same school. Two other Catlin Gabel students, senior Rose Perrone and junior Vighnesh Shiv, qualified for the international fair. Vighnesh won the 4th award level in computer science.

Out of more than 3,000 students who undertook a rigorous exam process, senior Yale Fan emerged as one of 20 students from across the U.S. who now make up the 2010 U.S. Physics Team. For his senior project Yale attended the team training camp. At the end of the training camp, five students will be selected to travel to Croatia for international competition, where more than 400 student scholars from 90 nations will test their knowledge in physics, competing with the best in the world.

Senior Ted Case was selected to be the pianist for the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra tour this summer. The Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, one of the premier high school bands in the country, is the Monterey Jazz Festival's national high school showcase band, filled with all-star musicians from around the country.

Catlin Gabel finished a solid 21st out of 44 teams at the national mock trial competition in Philadelphia. Senior Eli Coon was awarded the Judge Nicholas A. Cipriani Outstanding Performance Award.

Nine Spanish V students volunteered at the annual Cinco de Mayo celebration. Thanks go to the following students for representing Catlin Gabel at the 26th annual festival: juniors Perla Álvarez, Grace Kim, Josh Langfus, Stephen Lezak, Tara Mills, and Miguel Ángel Rojas Ortega, and seniors Sam Bishop, Samantha Selin, and Leah Weitz.

Senior Irene Milsom won third place in the Beaverton City Library limerick contest for her limerick “The Yellow Letter Sweater.”

Sophomore Neil Badawi and freshman Koby Yudkin’s U15 Team Navy soccer team will play in the regional competition in New Mexico in mid-June after making it to the finals in Oregon. They lost a hard fought battle 3-2 in double overtime at the state championship.

Seventh graders Elliot Lewis and Ford Brown  performed poetry at the annual Beaverton Library open-mic night.

Ten Middle School writers attended the prestigious Oregon Writing Festival, a daylong event for aspiring writers at Portland State University. Participants included sixth graders Soren Anderson, Anna Dodson, Julien Leitner, and Melissa Moore, seventh graders Jacob Case, Jarod Gowgiel, and Victoria Michalowsky, and eighth graders Henry Burmeister-Brown, Kelsey Hurst, and Tapwe Sandaine.

Sixth grader Hayle Meyerhoff's poem “Paradise” took first place out of almost 200 middle school entries in the Beaverton City Library limerick competition.

Jacob Bendicksen's poem "The Ballad of Bobby Joe" was selected for the 6th grade Poetry Box competition.

Professional musicians in the 13th annual “Hearing the Future” Young Composers Concert at Lewis & Clark College performed an original composition by 4th grader Aditya Sivakumar.

Third grader Isabella Pozzi, competing for Metro Gymnastics of Tigard in the Oregon state gymanstics meet, placed 4th on balance beam, 4th on floor, and 6th overall in the 4- to 9-year-old division. She competed against 9-year-olds for the first time because the meet was on her 9th birthday.

 A note about Congrats!

Keep us posted throughout the summer when students and faculty-staff accomplish cool things, win awards, or otherwise distinguish themselves. We will publish their news in the first All-School News of the 2010-11 school year. Send news to Karen L. Katz (Kitty) at katzk@catlin.edu or call her at 503-297-1894 ext. 305.

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Championship season for Eagles

Boys Golf
Team: state and district champions
Matt McCarron: state champion, district champion, new school record 147 total
Conor Oliver: first team all-district
Philip Paek: second team all-district
James Furnary: third team all-district 

Girls Golf
Team: 3rd at district (best 3A team)
Ingrid van Valkenburg: first team all-district
Logan Smesrud: second team all-district

Boys Tennis
Team: state and district champions
Peter Beatty: state champion, 2nd at district
Andrew Salvador: 4th at state, district champion
Rohan Borkar: 3rd at state, 4th at district 
Reid Goodman and Will Caplan: 3rd at state doubles, district champions

Girls Tennis
Team: 4th at state
Kate Rubinstein: 2nd at state, 2nd at district

Girls Track and Field
Team: state and district champions
4x100m relay team: state champions, district champions
Eloise Miller, Mariah Morton, Linnea Hurst, Cammy Edwards, Fiona Noonan
4x400m relay team: second at state, district champions
Eloise Miller, Mariah Morton, Linnea Hurst, Cammy Edwards
Leah Thompson: state and district champion 3000m, state and district champion 1500m
Eloise Miller: state and district champion triple jump, state champion long jump, 2nd place at district long jump
Mariah Morton: 2nd at state long jump, district champion long jump, new school record 18' 0", 2nd at state and district triple jump, 2nd at district and state qualifier 100m
Cammy Edwards: 2nd at state, district champion 300m hurdles, 7th at state, 2nd at district 100m hurdles
Linnea Hurst: 6th at state and district champion 200m

Boys Track and Field
Team: 12th at state, 5th at district
4x400m relay team, 7th at state, 2nd at district
Max Gideonse, Parris Joyce. Ian Maier, Nauvin Ghorashian, Cody Hoyt
Max Gideonse: 6th at state, district champion 100m, 2nd at state, district champion 200m
Eddie Friedman: 6th at state, 2nd at district, shot put
Nauvin Ghorashian: 3rd at state, district champion, 110m hurdles, 8th at state, 2nd at district 300m hurdles

Baseball
Team record: 2-12
League: 0-12
Sam Tucker: second team all-league
Sam Bishop: second team all-league

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Modern language awards galore

Upper School Spanish Awards
Students from Catlin Gabel earned 10 gold, 12 silver, and 16 bronze medals along with 46 honorable mentions in the National Spanish Exams. "Attaining a medal or honorable mention for any student on the National Spanish Examinations is very prestigious," said Kevin Cessna-Buscemi, national director of the exams, "because the exams are the largest of their kind in the United States, with 125,915 students participating in 2010."

Level 1 Qiddist Hammerley, silver Ellie Lezak, silver Rachel Caron, bronze Kassi Carter-Howard, honors Cody Hoyt, honors Hannah Jaquiss, honors Matt McCarron, honors MK Otlhogile, honors Zoe Schlanger, honors Level 2 Ramtin Rahmani, silver Audrey Davis, bronze Margaret Fossand, bronze Mira Hayward, bronze Ben Shmulevsky, bronze Curtis Stahl, bronze Will Bishop, honors Rahul Borkar, honors Devin Ellis, honors Allison Foltyn, honors Chance Henritzy, honors Sara Hensel, honors Naomi Iverson, honors Max Meyerhoff, honors Henry Shulevitz, honors Veronica Stanley-Katz, honors Kenny Yu, honors Level 3 Casey Currey-Wilson, gold Jackson Morawski, gold Andrew Salvador, gold Owen Chapman, silver Zoë Frank, silver Jeremy Wood, silver Mary Bishop, bronze Emily Bragdon, bronze Kanaiza Imbuye, bronze Grace McMurchie, bronze Grant Phillips, bronze Maggie Weirich, bronze Katy Wiita, bronze Koby Yudkin, bronze Conor Carlton, honors Alex Compton, honors Brooke Edelson, honors

Level 3 cont. Lily Ellenberg, honors Brian Farci, honors Yoseph Melaku, honors Anaka Morris, honors Nathan Norris, honors Ari Ronai-Durning, honors Hannah Rotwein, honors Gautum Srinivasan, honors Kimmy Thorsell, honors Level 4 Jade Chen, gold Rebecca Garner, gold Jenna Rolle, gold Taylor Smith, gold Cydney Smith, gold Leah Thompson, gold Talbot Andrews, silver Esichang McGautha, silver Lauren Ellis, silver Nina Greenebaum, silver Samme Sheikh, silver Logan Smesrud, silver Will Caplan, bronze Alex Henry, bronze Maddy Weissman, bronze Julianne Johnson, bronze Holly Kim, bronze Rohan Borkar, honors Linnea Hurst, honors Spencer Fuller, honors Nikom Hall, honors Ben Lovitz, honors Kate McMurchie, honors Mariah Morton, honors Joseph Oberholtzer, honors Lynne Stracovsky, honors Level 5 Miguel Ángel Rojas Ortega, gold (outside experience) Abby Conyers, honors Lauren Edelson, honors Stephen Lezak, honors Tara Mills, honors Michelle Peretz, honors Morgann Turkot, honors Leah Weitz, honors

Middle School Spanish Awards

Level 1
Alexis Shoemaker, gold, first in state
Henry Burmeister-Brown, gold, third in state
Ella Turkot, silver
Mara Bower-Leo, bronze
Jonathan Cannard, bronze
Ian Gaus, bronze

Level 2
Sadie Yudkin, gold, first in state
Katie Zechnich, gold, second in state
Noa Monheimer, bronze
 

Upper School French awards
More than 100,000 students participated in the Grand Concours National French Contest. Eight Catlin Gabel students placed among the top 10 nationally in three proficiency levels.

Level 1A
Hannah Ashley, certificate of honor

Level 2A
Fiona Noonan, 1st in Oregon, 3rd in the nation
Hannah Hay-Smith, 2nd in Oregon, 5th in the nation
Zoë Frank, 3rd in Oregon, 7th in the nation
Allison Weston, certificate of honor
Siobhan Furnary, certificate of honor

Level 3A
Rachel Savage, 1st in Oregon, 4th in the nation
Mona Corboy, 4th in Oregon, 10th in the nation
Neil Badawi, certificate of honor
Rachel Caron, certificate of honor
McKensie Mickler, certificate of honor

Level 4A
Alexandra Corey, certificate of honor
Henry Gordon, certificate of honor
Ko Ricker, certificate of honor
Benjamin Streb, certificate of honor

Level V A
Yale Fan, 1st in Oregon, 6th in the nation
Paul Krums, 2nd in Oregon, 8th in the nation (tie)
Jessica Ramirez, 2nd in Oregon, 8th in the nation (tie)
Priyanka Chary, 3rd in Oregon,10th in the nation
Zanny Allport, certificate of honor

Middle School French awards

National Level 01A (7th grade)
5,285 participants nationally
Victoria Michalowsky, bronze, 9th rank
Raina Morris, bronze, 10th rank

National Level 1A (8th grade)
18,142 participants nationally
Sage Palmedo, silver, 3rd rank
Cristina Tolosa, bronze, 9th rank
Dina Zaslavsky, bronze, 9th rank

Regional Level 01A rankings (7th grade)
Victoria Michalowsky, 1st
Raina Morris, 2nd
Jarod Gowgiel, 3rd
Nicole Nelson, 3rd
Mary Gilleland, 4th
Dana Kallan, 5th
Moss Hardman, 6th
Jillian Rix, 7th
Nicolas DeStephano, 8th
Finn Schneider, 9th
Chloe Smith, 9th
Ethan John, 10th
Simon McMurchie, 10th

Regional Level 1A rankings (8th grade)
Sage Palmedo, 1st
Cristina Tolosa, 2nd
Dina Zaslavsky, 2nd
Ian Smith, 3rd
Emily Tuchmann, 3rd
Kelsey Hurst, 4th
Hannah Skutt, 4th
Supriya Kapur, 6th
Liam Burke, 7th
Emmarose John, 7th
Erin Wynne, 7th
Lewis Holland, 8th
Madison Lee, 9th

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Urban studies student presentation impresses at PSU graduate school; come see for yourself at public forum

Students in the PLACE urban studies class have been working with Portland State University graduate students on a food security project involving Zenger Farms in outer southeast Portland. The students will report their findings at a public meeting for planning professionals and community members on Wednesday, June 2, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., at Portland State’s Smith Union, room 238. Food and drink provided. Come early to get a seat.

The audience raved about how well prepared and engaging our young community stewards were when they presented their findings and recommendations to professors and students in the PSU School of Urban Studies and Planning.This is the first time high school students have collaborated with graduate students on an important community project. Come support our students and our city.

For more information about PLACE, contact George Zaninovich at PLACE@catlin.edu.

» Link to student projects

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Viewfinder Global Film Series successful in first year

In its inaugural year, the Viewfinder Global Film Series hosted more than 700 parents, students, and faculty-staff. Thirty-five teachers and students hosted 23 films. Next year, the series will continue bringing together Catlin Gabel community members to watch films that engage us in world affairs.

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Parent survey closes May 28

Complete the online survey by 5 p.m. on Friday

Beginning School survey

Lower School survey

Middle School survey

Upper School survey

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Tuition due July 1

Tuition for the 2010–11 school year will be billed on your June statement and is due by July 1. There will be a finance charge assessed if payment is not received by July 15. If you will be away at this time, please make arrangements with the business office before you leave to pay your bill in advance or have your bill sent to a different address than your home. You can calculate the tuition amount you will owe by going to the business office site on insideCatlin. Of course, you can certainly contact anyone in the business office as well.

Catlin Gabel strongly encourages families to set up an automatic bank draft to pay your school bills. This convenient payment method allows Catlin Gabel to automatically debit your bank account each month for the balance due or for a determined amount that you choose. Please call Mary Ann Rogers in the business office at 503-203-5114 if you would like more information on this payment method.

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Return forms by June 11

You should have received a packet of important forms that was sent to each household with children enrolled for next year. Please don’t let this mailing get lost in the shuffle.

Your to-do list

• Sign and return the double-sided emergency medical forms. Even if you do not make any changes, we need your signature.
• Check your directory listing.
• Complete and return the parent professional and grandparent information form.
• Return the photo identification denial form if you do not want your child identified in Catlin Gabel print publications or the public media.

Your children’s health and safety and your family’s directory listing depend on your doing your homework. Thank you for your prompt attention to these materials.

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Don’t make a move . . . without telling us

Let us know if your address, e-mail, or telephone information will change next year. Please notify the school if you want to change your listing for 2010-11 by making the update yourself on our new online database at http://new.catlin.edu/parents/update-contact-details, or by e-mailing updates@catlin.edu, or by calling Chris Woodard at 503-297-1894 ext. 469. We are happy to hear from you any time during the summer. Each family listing may include one telephone number and two e-mail addresses. Updates made by August 1 will be included in the new directory.

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Speaking of the directory

Did you know that the online directory has the most up-to-date information for current families and faculty-staff? To find the directory, go to the Quick Links pull-down menu on the home page of our website. You must be logged in to see directory information.

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