2006-2007 Fall/Winter Directions - Friends' Central School

Chris Green ’10, Rafi Hayne, Dan Jacobson ’10, Olivia Gillison ’10, Susannah Ivory ’10, Emma Richman
’10, Ben Melman ’10, Jaime Clough ’10, Nicholas Loh ’10, Amy Freeze of NBC 10, Hallie Greitzer ’10,
Robb Fox of Manko, Gold, Katcher, & Fox, Doug Ross, Emma Fox ’10, Emily Brodsky, ’10, Taylor
Anderson ’10, and Madelena Rizzo ’10.
Chris Green ’10, Dan Jacobson ’10, and
Lizzie McMorris ’10 won first place in
their category at the Montgomery County
Science Research Competition 2006.
Their poster was titled “Ability of
Different Soils to Control Water
Retention and Water Quality.” They
worked with Middle School science
teacher, Doug Ross. Last year, Ross and
his eighth grade students won the
Environmental Community Service
Award and a check for $5,000. This
award recognizes schools that support the
community with programs to improve the
environment. The Friends’ Central students
had worked in Morris Park at 66th
and City Avenue. They beautified the
park by removing harmful weeds, performing
erosion control, and replenishing
the soil with new plants. Ross used the
money as a grant toward enhancing environmental
studies, purchasing new plants
for the School nursery, and restoring
water testing equipment.
Nathaniel Kahn, director of the 2003
Oscar-nominated film My Architect about
his father, architect Louis Kahn, came to
Friends’ Central with his half-sister and
Friends’ Central parent Alexandra Tyng
and her son, Kahn’s grandson, Julian
Kantor ’07.
Alexandra Tyng, Julian Kantor ’07, Nathaniel Kahn, and Joel Dankoff
Alumna Linda Hawkins Costigan ’86
visited in October to screen her new documentary,
The World According to Sesame
Street.
Two award-winning authors have spoken
at Friends’ Central recently: young adult
fiction writer Margaret Peterson Haddix,
Leah Hawkesworth ’12, Andrew Nemroff ’12, Giulietta
Schoenfeld ’12, Author Margaret Peterson Haddix,
Benjamin Yahalomi ’11, Allegra Armstrong ’13
author of The Shadow Children series,
Running Out of Time, and Double Identity,
and two-time Caldecott winner David
Weisner, author of Tuesday, Flotsam, and
Night of the Gargoyles.
The American Council of Teachers of
Foreign Languages lists LinguaZone.com
as one of the top new things to watch for
online for language teachers.
LinguaZone.com is a new
language website created by
Colin Angevine ’05 and
Middle School language
teacher, Margaret
Somerville Roberts ’83
where teachers can customize
games for their students
using their own
vocabulary lists and culture
TAKE NOTE
questions. The program grew out of the
Prima Lingua course that Roberts created
and oversees here at Friends’ Central and
began with Colin’s work on his senior project.
It is now used in over 210 schools in
31 states and 6 other countries by language
teachers from kindergarten through college
levels. Visit the site at http://www.linguazone.com.
When Alex Kleiman ’11 and his family
traveled to Israel in 2005, a visit to an
Ethiopian absorption center had such an
effect on him that he returned to the States
and created a unique Bar Mitzvah project:
a 22-mile bike ride to raise funds to aid
Ethiopian Jews. Alex chose 22 miles he
said, “in honor of the 22,000 Ethiopian
Jews who have immigrated to Israel.” He
was accompanied by his father and several
friends. Altogether the project raised
$3,774, all of which he donated to
Operation Promise, a UJC campaign to
help Ethiopian Jews and elderly Jews
in the former Soviet Union. The
money Alex raised was matched by
Kenneth Kaiserman, a trustee of the
Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman
Foundation.
College Counselor Carrie Brodsky
participated in her third Habitat for
Humanity Global Village build in
Africa this summer. Her first trip, to
Carrie Brodsky in Uganda
Malawi in the summer of 2004, was partially
funded by a Clayton Farraday summer
stipend. In 2005, she traveled to
Zambia and this past summer to Uganda.
The 2006 build was hosted by the
Katikamu-Luwero Affiliate in Uganda.
Carrie’s group built two homes, each for
single mothers with young children.
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