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Baldwin’s 121st school year
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In order to provide students and
parents with a more economical
and convenient system for ordering
textbooks, Baldwin has decided to
partner with MBS Direct and begin
using an online bookstore for textbook
purchases beginning with the
upcoming 2009 - 2010 school year.
Here are just some of the advantages
of utilizing Baldwin's Virtual
Bookstore: Order textbooks at the
Virtual Bookstore
• Early information regarding
booklists and pricing. The virtual
bookstore is scheduled to be open
online on July 15, 2009.
• When available, a used book
price option will be shown.
• Textbooks will be shipped
directly to your home with shipping
discounts available for early
ordering.
• Ability for students to sell back
textbooks at the end of the year.
Important information to remember:
• Book Purchases: Due to the
conversion to our Virtual
Bookstore, textbooks will not be
available for purchase at the
school on registration day. Please
make sure that students have purchased
their textbooks prior to the
first day of classes. We realize this
is a new process so please do not
hesitate to contact me directly with
any questions or concerns you may
have regarding the purchase of
textbooks. (see contact information
below)
• Used Textbook Sale: Since a
Used Textbook option will be available
on the Virtual Bookstore, we
will no longer have a used textbook
sale at the school.
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Baldwin’s 121st year concluded with
Commencement Exercises for the Class of
2009 on Thursday, June 4 at Bryn Mawr
Presbyterian Church. Student speaker was Larissa
Russell ’09, and guest speaker was Lexie
Brockway Potamkin, vice-president of the
International League for Human Rights.
Middle School Moving Up Ceremonies were
held June 4 at 9 a.m. The Closing Assembly for
Lower School was held the day before,
The Baldwin School honored its Upper School
athletes at its annual Athletic Association (AA)
banquet May 15.
Senior Maggie Mae Shields was chosen to receive
the White Blazer by members of the school's varsity
and junior varsity teams from a ballot of
seniors who have played at least two sports.
Shields served as a co-captain of the soccer, basketball
and lacrosse teams. She also was named
most valuable player in basketball and lacrosse.
Other awards included the Pat West Award for
Excellence in a single sport to juniors Jennifer
Newman for tennis and Alexandra Sawin for
squash; the Tina Roak Leadership Award to senior
Jessica Kane; the Lois Harlos Award for integrity
and spirit to senior Olivia Stanton-Ameisen; and
the Alice Comly Award for determination to senior
Stephanie Salvitti.
Most Valuable Player Awards included: Arden
Simone, cross country; Jennifer Newman, tennis;
Elizabeth Schoenberg and Sawin, soccer; Kane,
field hockey; Stanton-Ameisen, volleyball and
softball; Alia Murray, winter track; Noelle Niu,
swimming; Kimberly Rouse, dance; Sawin, squash;
Haley Post, crew; and Caroline Sawin, golf.
Commitment Awards
Margot Cunningham Commitment Awards, which
go to those seniors who played three sports each
Wednesday, June 3 at 8:45 a.m.
Baldwin’s Sports and Academic Enrichment
Camps begin June 8, and Camp Magar opens
June 22. Upper School sports pre-season practice
begins on Aug. 24.
Registration for Upper and Middle School is
Sept. 8. Classes for Grades one to 12 begin
Sept. 9. Half of PreK and Kindergarten report
on Sept. 10; the other half on Sept. 1; and all
report on Sept. 14.
Athletes honored at awards banquet
Volume XXVIII
No. 4
Late Spring 2009
year for four years, were given to Toutia Daryoush,
Salvitti, Shields and Stanton-Ameisen.
Baldwin Pins were presented to those athletes who
played three varsity sports for the first time this
year: sophomores, Akela Lacy, Alisha Maity, Julia
Pelzer; and seniors, Jessica Kane and Alia Murray.
The Commitment Pin went to those girls who have
played on three teams at any level in a given year
and have not yet qualified for the Baldwin Pin.
They are freshmen, freshmen, Elizabeth Asch,
Alexandra Dias-Lalcaca, Tiffany Hau, Kayla Kleczka,
Emaline Laney, Barbara Langfitt, Randa Melham,
Madison Noteware, Alexa Tzarnas; and sophomores,
TraiAnne Peek and Lauren Rhodes.
'09 – ‘10 Captains
Announced at the banquet also were captains for
next year's teams. They are Elizabeth Auritt and
Jennifer Wigrizer for cross country; Sarah June and
Alice Matthai for field hockey; Maity, Newman and
Sami Shein for tennis; Charlotte Damico, Alexandra
Sawin and Schoenberg for soccer; Niu for swimming;
Melissa Philips and Samantha Swartz for volleyball;
Claire Henkel and Deionna Hill for basketball;
Margit Johnson for Dance; Hilary Gray and
Alexandra Sawin for squash; Auritt and Stephanie
Sheppard for track; Damico and Matthai for
lacrosse; Henkel and Alex Lucas for softball;
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• EZ Drop Buy Back Program:
Students will have the option,
beginning this May, to sell back
their textbooks! Students will be
able to go online, enter in the
ISBN#’s of the textbooks they
would like to sell and create a
quote. They will need to bring
their textbooks and a copy of the
quote to the Baldwin Bookstore
between June 1 and June 4 during
regular bookstore hours (8 a.m. –
4 p.m.) We take care of the shipping
and the check gets mailed
directly to you! Information will
be sent out announcing when you
will be able to begin processing
your quotes online.
• Customer Loyalty Program:
When you purchase your textbooks
via the Virtual Bookstore,
MBS increases the amount of
money you receive when selling
back your textbooks at the end of
the school year. If you purchase
your textbooks elsewhere you can
still sell them back via this program;
however, you will not
receive the Loyalty Bonus.
To access our Virtual Bookstore, go to
http://bookstore.mbsdirect.net/bald
winschool.htm
• As of May 20 – You are able to
create a buyback quote
• As of July 15 – You will be able
to purchase your textbooks
You will be receiving reminders
and other information via mail
and email. If you have any questions
and/or comments at anytime
please feel free to contact Baldwin
Bookstore Manager Nancy L.
Booth directly at nbooth@baldwinschool.org
or 610-710-4260.
Congratulations to ...
NATIONAL LATIN EXAM WINNERS:
A special award for achieving summa cum
laude Gold Medal status for four years to
juniors, Emily Lau and Caroline Durlacher.
Gold medals or summa cum laude to: Lau and
Durlacher in Latin IV; Elizabeth Auritt, Alisha
Maity, Gazelle Zerafati and Anjalie Field in
Latin III; Elena Saltzman, Regina Farren,
Ellen Powell and Ariane Walker-Horn in
Latin II; Abigail Grosskopf, Maya Patel,
Sonali Singh, Erin McCloskey, Jessica Fan and
Tarlan Daryoush in Latin I. Silver medals or
maxima cum laude to Zoe Cunningham in
Latin V; Hanna Elmongy and Nadia Tareen in
Latin III; Alex Dias-Lalcaca, Madison
Noteware and Seulah Choi in Latin II; and
Amalia Bowen, Julia Fournier, Sarah Anne
Tupchong, Jasmine Schlichting, Connie Li,
Karissa Wenk and Sophia Tareen in Latin I.
Magna cum laude to Allison Hume, Sylvie
Spewak and Arianne Wenk in Latin V; Diane
Ku and Sarah June in Latin III; and Emilie
Waché in Latin I. Cum laude to Noelle Niu
in Latin IV; Richelle Gewertz and Tanine
Daryoush in Latin III; Mariel Gaston in Latin
II; and Jennifer Pagano in Latin I. Sixty-three
Baldwin students took the exam and 67%
earned awards (42 students).
PHILADELPHIA CLASSICAL SOCIETY
academic and project competition winners:
Academic division: Summa cum laude to
Hanna Elmongy and Nadia Tareen for Latin
III and Emily Lau for Latin IV. Elmongy
earned the highest score in her division.
Magna cum laude to Zoe Cunningham in
Greek I; Erin McCloskey in Latin I; Regina
Farren and Seulah Choi in Latin II; and
Alisha Maity, Gazelle Zerafati and Anjalie
Field in Latin III. Cum laude to Marielle
Young and Kaitlin Kines in Greek I; Amalia
Bowen, Jessica Fan, Julia Fournier, Jasmine
Schlichting and Maya Patel in Latin I; and
Noelle Niu in Latin IV.
Literary division: Summa cum laude to
McCloskey and Field; and cum laude to
Arielle Kahn and Bowen.
Artistic project division: Summa cum laude
to Abigail Grosskopf, Sarah Anne Tupchong,
Remy Walk, Alia Murray, Kathryn Harmon,
Angela Farren, Choi and Zerafati. Magna cum
laude to Ellen Powell, Tiana Mason, Madison
Noteware, Diane Ku, Madeline Scott, Tarlan
Daryoush, Toutia Daryoush, Ariane Walker-
Horn, Fournier, Schlichting, Maity, Elmongy and
Nadia Tareen. Cum laude to Elena Saltzman,
Megan Nicoletti, Sydney Sisler, Brooke Simone,
Jennifer Pagano, Paulina Kathopoulis, Sonali
Singh, Emilie Waché, Sophia Tareen, Valerie
Cohen, Tanine Daryoush, Richelle Gewertz,
Caroline Durlacher, Sophia Lisowski, Regina
Farren, Mariel Gaston, Hannah Levick, Noelle
Niu, Connie Li, Karissa Wenk, Elizabeth Auritt,
Bowen, Fan and Kahn.
NATIONAL FRENCH CONTEST
WINNERS: Sarah Anne Tupchong ’13 and Erin
McCloskey ’13 earned First Place honors in Level
1A of the test, sponsored by the American
Association of Teachers of French. Also placing in
the 95th percentile were eighth graders Jessica
Fan, 5th place honors; Amalia Bowen, 6th place
honors, and Abigail Grosskopf and Savanna
Stanton-Ameisen, 7th place honors. Placing in
the 90th percentile were eighth graders Tarlan
Daryoush, 8th place honors; Paige Tobin, 9th
place honors; and Charlotte Morris, 11th place
honors. Placing in the 95th percentile on Level
1B with 6th place honors was Emilie Waché.
MATH WINNERS in 15th annual Math
Marathon held in April are: Gr. 6 - Vanessa
Auritt and Elena Stains; Gr. 7 - Selena Maity and
Jamie Schwartz; Gr. 8 - Sonali Singh and Sarah
Anne Sun Tupchong. The winners for the
Mathcounts Problem of the Week competition
held throughout the year are: Gr. 6 - Jasmine Syed
and Rachel Zachian; Gr. 7 - Abigail Lemmon; and
Gr. 8 - Sarah Anne Sun Tupchong.
THE MIDDLE SCHOOL'S CHORAL
GROUPS, which received top awards May 9 at
Hershey Park in the Music in the Parks
Competition. The Chorus B-Naturals, and the
Eighth Note Singers each received a Superior rating
in the Female Ensemble category of the single
"A" schools present that day.
CHARLOTTE MILLER SIMON POETRY
AWARD WINNERS: In the teen division,
Melissa Philips ’10, first prize; Emily Clark ’14,
second prize; and Alexandra Grizos ’13, Lauren
Cooper ’12, Charlotte Matthai ’13, and Gabby
Donatucci ’13, honorable mentions. Shayna
Silverman ’16 won honorable mention in the children's
division.
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Sports Shorts
CREW
The lightweight double of seniors, Saabi
Markar and Tori Ibrahim Gonzalez, won
silver medals at the Philadelphia
Scholastic Rowing Championships
(PSRA,) the Stotesbury Cup Regatta and
the Scholastic Rowing Association of
America's (SRAA) national championships
in Mercer, NJ in May. The two
won a gold medal at the New Jersey State
Championships in April. They have qualified
for the US Rowing National Youth
Invitational Championships in
Cincinnati, OH in June.
The freshman quad of Elizabeth Asch,
Kaylah Kleczka, Natalie Webb and
Madison Noteware won a gold medal at
the Stotesbury Cup Regatta in May.
The junior quad of juniors, Alison
Callegari, Gabrielle Amundson and
Alison Hoeltzel, and sophomore, Tess
Candell, won bronze medals at the PSRA
Championships and the SRAA
Championships. The junior quad with
Callegari, Hoeltzel, Candell and sophomore,
Maddy Taggart, won a gold medal
at the New Jersey State Championships.
Baldwin Crew won more medals than any
ATHLETES HONORED
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Alexandra and Caroline Sawin for golf;
and Gabrielle Amundson and Alison
Callegari for crew.
Heading the AA next year is Damico.
Board members include seniors, Henkel
Alexandra Sawin and Samantha Swartz;
juniors, Sloan Warren, Wigrizer and
Lucas; sophomores, Julia Smith and Hau;
and freshmen, Charlotte Morris and
Taylor Nickens.
other Main Line girls team at the 2009
SRAA event. It placed fourth overall
out of 65 schools in the girls sculling
point competition in the 2009 PSRA
Flick-Horvat series.
LACROSSE
The Baldwin Lacrosse Team finished the
season with a winning record of 18-4
overall and tying for second in the
Inter-Academic League. The team
outscored its opponents 322 to 206 and
finished with a Pennsylvania state ranking
of 12 and national ranking in the
top 100 of 2,364 teams.
Sloan Warren ’11 was one of eight finalists
for the prestigious Heather Albert
Award for the Most Outstanding Player
in U.S. Lacrosse National
Championship held in Bel Air, MD
Memorial Day weekend. She played on
the Upper Atlantic Squad, First Team
that claimed the championship in the
top flight of the Schoolgirls division.
She scored six goals in the six games and
was noted for her teamwork.
VOLLEYBALL
Kaylah Kleczka ’12 will compete at the
36th AAU Girls' Junior National
Volleyball Championships at Disney's
Wide World of Sports and the Orange
County Convention Center in Orlando
this June. She is a member of the
Delaware Volleyball Under 15’s Open
team.
FIELD HOCKEY
Nicole Wells ’12 has been selected to
play for the Pennsylvania Team in the
U. S. Field Hockey National Futures
Championship, which showcases the top
high school field hockey players in
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America. The NFC will be held at the
USA Field Hockey Training Center in
Virginia Beach, VA from June 24 to 28.
She has been playing club indoor field
hockey and on the USA Field Hockey
Futures Program for three years. Brooke
Simone ’11 will participate in the USA
Field Hockey Regional Rumble, also held
in Virginia Beach the same week.
SQUASH
Sami Shein ’11 placed third out of 28
players at the U.S. Junior Bronze Squash
Championships held April 24 to 26.
Alexa Horwitz ’15 won a bronze medal
in the Girls U-13 division at the U.S.
Squash Nationals in April.
ARCHERY
Anjalie Field ’11 placed first in the
Pennsylvania State Archery
Championship this winter. She also
placed first in the region and eighth
nationally in the Junior Olympic
Archery Development (JOAD) Indoor
National Championship.
FALL SPORTS PRACTICE
Mandatory practices for Upper School
cross country, field hockey, soccer and
tennis begin Aug. 24. Practice times are
as follows:
8/24, 8/25, 8/26, 8/27, 8/28, 8/31 and
9/1: 8 to 11 a.m.
9/2 and 9/3: 3:45 to 6:45 p.m.
9/4: 8 to 11 a.m.
No practice on Labor Day.
After school practices begin Sept. 8.
Teams practice Mondays through
Thursdays from 3:45 to 5:45 p.m. and
Fridays from 3 to 5 p.m.
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SPECIAL THANKS TO
The Parents’ Association’s
event chairs and their hardworking
volunteers for wonderful
and successful events
this spring:
Faculty/Staff Appreciation
Day – Carey Roseman
Community Gala – Susan
Kuebler and Julie Horenstein
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four times a year for the Baldwin
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Leslie Pfeil
Editor
The North Door News
Thanks from the Parents’ Association
LATE SPRING 2009
North Door
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The Baldwin Parents’ Association has had a
fabulous year filled with some of the most
wonderful and profitable events! We have
made new friendships and bonded even closer with
old ones! The community has come together and
supported the school in so many generous ways!
Thank you!
The Gala was a huge success with net profits
expected to be over $200,000! The community
celebrated in sports-chic attire in the new Athletic
Center. Many parents were just elated by the
venue itself. It was the perfect setting for the
“BSPN Zone” giving ample room to move around
and bid on the many special treasures. We were so
pleased with the evening; it brought so much positive
energy to the school! Parents are still complimenting
our dedicated volunteers and remarking
on the fun and relaxed atmosphere of the event! I
am personally grateful to our co-chairs, Julie
Horenstein and Susan Kuebler, who generously
donated so much of their time and energy to the
success of the Gala. They truly are wonderful ladies
who genuinely believe in the mission of Baldwin.
They did it for the girls and every detail reflected
that notion.
I have been honored to hold the position of president
this year, and I feel privileged to have had the
opportunity to become a more integral part of the
Baldwin community. Recently the Parents’
Association had the pleasure of presenting Head of
School Sally Powell with a very generous check in
the amount of $220,000! I am so delighted to have
this opportunity to represent the Baldwin community
and share with the school such a tremendous gift
from the Parents’ Association. It truly is a reflection
of the brilliant families we have right here at our
school. Thank you so much to the many volunteers
who have given so selflessly and genuinely to our
school; Baldwin is standing proud today!
This year has been a remarkable experience for me.
It has blessed me with new friendships and a deeper
appreciation for the gift we give our girls everyday at
Baldwin. Thank you for the opportunity to serve on
the Executive Board of the Parents’ Association. I
look forward to enjoying and supporting many future
Baldwin events.
Sincerely,
Megan Nicoletti
President,
Parents' Association 2008-2009