The Seven Hills Buzz - Seven Hills School
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<strong>Seven</strong> <strong>Hills</strong> faculty accepted to select summer programs<br />
Lotspeich science teacher Natalie Wildfong is one of three local<br />
educators selected to join the global master’s degree program that<br />
will study desert and marine ecosystems on the Baja peninsula at<br />
the UNESCO World Heritage site, Bahia de los Angeles on the<br />
Sea of Cortez, this summer. In this biosphere reserve, the group<br />
of 20 US educators will work to apply the fundamentals of field<br />
methods—capture/recapture, pitfall traps and line transects—to<br />
ecological questions and conservation practice. <strong>The</strong>y will participate<br />
in two more global expeditions over the next two summers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> teachers are three of 120 US and international educators<br />
accepted to the second year of the Global Field Program (GFP)<br />
from Project Dragonfly at Miami University. <strong>The</strong> program is based<br />
on the successful Earth Expeditions program from Dragonfly and<br />
the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.<br />
Upper/Middle English and Support Service Center teacher<br />
Meredith Brown has been accepted to participate this summer<br />
in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar<br />
for Secondary <strong>School</strong> Teachers, “America and the Great War: An<br />
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literature and History,” sponsored by<br />
the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas.<br />
Middle drama teacher Kristin Henderson has been invited to<br />
participate in a professional residency at the American Shakespeare<br />
Center in Staunton, VA, in July. She said, “I will be working<br />
with ASC actors and a nationally-acclaimed faculty of scholars<br />
and artists for three weeks of concentrated study in performing<br />
Shakespeare, through an exploration of the original performance<br />
practices and staging conditions of the Renaissance.<br />
Donations 2 Dollars is a way for members of the <strong>Seven</strong> <strong>Hills</strong> community to<br />
donate items to be sold on eBay and receive gift credit for the proceeds.<br />
Not only does this help streamline your collection of personal belongings,<br />
it also benefits <strong>The</strong> <strong>Seven</strong> <strong>Hills</strong> <strong>School</strong>.<br />
Explore your basement, attic, drawers and shelves for quality items you<br />
forgot you had or no longer need or want. Bring the items to either campus<br />
at the location and hours listed below. You will receive a receipt and your<br />
items will be listed for sale on eBay. We will mail you a gift credit in the<br />
form of a statement containing the net tax-deductible valuation of your item<br />
when the item is sold. <strong>The</strong> proceeds from the sale will benefit <strong>Seven</strong> <strong>Hills</strong> in<br />
your name.<br />
We ask that donated items be of at least $50 in value and weigh less<br />
than 50 pounds. <strong>The</strong> following is a list of items that tend to sell well and/or<br />
have sold recently:<br />
• Shirley Temple Doll • Antique Tray<br />
• Sterling Silver Trays • Pelikan Fountain Pen<br />
• Antique Sterling Silver Vanity Items • New Cole Haan Boots<br />
• Vintage Tiffany Style Stained Glass Lamp Shade<br />
Donations to Date:<br />
As of May 14, 2010, the total proceeds from items sold is $7,850.82.<br />
Thank you to our donors! We are grateful for your support.<br />
Drop Off Locations: <strong>Hills</strong>dale Campus—Resale Shop, Mon—Sat 9am—3pm;<br />
Doherty Campus—Kemper Building, Mon—Fri Noon—4pm<br />
Questions?<br />
Lynn Cowles, Donations 2 Dollars Manager – 513-221-1765<br />
Margo Kirstein, <strong>Seven</strong> <strong>Hills</strong> Development Office – 513-527-1319<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Blackfriars Playhouse at the American Shakespeare Center<br />
is the world’s only re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre. As<br />
such, it is not only a work space, it is also a source of inspiration<br />
and a partner in discovering the vitality of Shakespeare’s plays.<br />
ASC training challenges actors to discover anew the time-tested<br />
ways to illuminate the plays, transform the self, and transport an<br />
audience. I am very much looking forward to the work and to bringing<br />
home and sharing all I learn with students and colleagues!”<br />
She continued, “Last weekend I attended a conference sponsored<br />
by the Southeast Center for Education and the Arts (at UT<br />
Chattanooga) entitled ‘Arts @ the Core of 21st Century Learning.’<br />
It was FANTASTIC, and I’ve got some great resources to share with<br />
other F&PA department colleagues!”<br />
Follow Karen Glum’s Alaskan trip blog<br />
In June, science teacher Karen Glum will travel to Alaska with<br />
Drs. Dave and Jill Russell (the ornithologists/bird banders<br />
working with the sixth graders), journalism professor Jenny<br />
Wohlfarth, her sons Elliot and Michael, and husband Scott.<br />
She said, “<strong>The</strong> group’s primary purpose is to study birds and<br />
form partnerships with Alaskan teachers and scientists, but we<br />
will also learn about glaciers, volcanoes, earthquakes, wildlife,<br />
and the arctic. We’ll visit Anchorage, Denali National Park,<br />
Fairbanks, Barrow (the northernmost village in the US), and the<br />
Kenai Peninsula.”<br />
Follow the group’s Alaskan adventure from June 13 to July<br />
4 on Karen’s “Alaska is for the Birds!” blog at http://alaskaisforthebirds.blogspot.com/.<br />
• Giving Credit<br />
• A Tax Deduction<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Seven</strong> <strong>Hills</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Donations can be dropped off at Doherty Cam<br />
Kemper Building or <strong>Hills</strong>dale Campus, Resal<br />
3<br />
Telephone contact: Lynne Cowles 22