SAVE THE DATE
FOR
HOMECOMING
Remember to mark your
fall 2007 calendar for Homecoming at WRA on Saturday,
September 29. |
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Reunion Guest List Continues to
Grow
Although Reunion Weekend 2007 is just
days away, there is still time to make your reservation. Use
the Register Online option and join your
classmates for a great weekend. The Reunion Weekend
2007 schedule is packed with activities. For the latest
information, consult the Weekend Schedule web link. Not certain
whether your friends will be on hand? Check the Guest List as late as June 3 to find out
who will be on campus the weekend of June 8 - 10.
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Jazz Flourishes at
Reserve
On May 26 the Athenaeum hosted
"Jazz Night at the A." This is the third year the dorm
has held the event, and this year it offered students a
well-deserved opportunity to relax on the Saturday before exam
week.  The evening featured
music by the Jazz Project (the school's jazz band).
Launched several years ago with
a lunchtime practice schedule under the
name 12:30 Jazz Band, the group adopted its new name in
2004. Take a moment to view video clips of Jazz Project
performances at two past instrumental music concerts in the
Knight Fine Arts Center. View Spring Concert ClipView Winter Concert
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Classic Cameras Click on
Campus
Thanks to those who saw Alan Doe's request for classic cameras in
the November 2006 e-newsletter and responded with
generous donations. A special thanks to Class of 1969
alumnus Chris Gulker for sending all of the equipment
shown in this photo. Albert Fisher '80, Norm
Wulff '59 and school friend Lauren Shay
Lavin also mailed their classic equipment to the
photography program. (Photo by Alan
Doe) |
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Commencement a Family Affair
as 45 Legacies Graduate
When the Class of 2007 marches up the
walk to the front of the Chapel on June 3, 45 of its
members will have been preceded by other family members such
as a grandfather, father, mother, brother, sister, uncle or
cousin.
The list includes at least one
three-generation family. Harrison T. Bubb '57 is the father of
David '95 and grandfather of graduating senior Amanda Daniels.
To see all 45 Class of 2007 legacies and their Reserve
alumni connections, view this complete list (PDF format).
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A NOTE TO
RESERVE ALUMNI:
The focus of this spring e-news
is on Reunion Weekend 2007, but we have also updated the
newsletter format and expanded our news coverage.
We hope you like the new look and
content. Please send any comments
or suggestions to wraaab@wra.net. |
Golf Classic Deadline
Nears
 It is not too
late (yet) to register to play in the Reunion Weekend Golf Classic at the Country Club of
Hudson on Friday, June 8. Reservation forms are due by
June 5 with a check for $125.00 per player, or sign up online to play (Visa or
MasterCard accepted). The registration fee
includes greens fees, riding cart, use of the locker
room and practice range, brunch and on-course beverages,
a gift bag and a post-golfing reception.
Registration begins at 10:00 a.m. and brunch is served
at 10:15. The shotgun format start is at
11:30. Contests and prizes at the event include
closest to the pin, longest drive and hole-in-one, as
well as a raffle and silent auction.
All alumni, whether participating in other Reunion
Weekend activities or not, are welcome to play, along
with their invited guests. Proceeds benefit the
Alumni Association Scholarship Fund. Read more about the
scholarship, its benefits and this year's recipient in
the article that
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Alumni
Association Scholarship Award Goes to Class of 2008
Recipient
Gregory Stevenson (Wilton, Conn.), a member of the
Class of 2008, has been named winner of the Alumni
Association's Annual Scholarship Award. Alumni
Association President Chuck Mullins '65 presented
the award to Gregory during the Celebration of Student
Excellence assembly in the Chapel on May 24. He
was assisted by last year's winner, Elizabeth Timmis '07
(North Salem, N.Y.). This is the third year for
the award, which was first presented in 2005 to Piper
Beckwith-Collings '06 (Hudson, Ohio).
The award, in the amount of $1,000, is intended to
help defray such senior year expenses as college
application fees. It is presented each spring to a
member of the junior class who: is in good academic
standing; is a positive all-around contributor to his or
her class and to the school; and by virtue of his or her
presence on campus, makes Western Reserve Academy a
better school. The award recipient also is the
kind of person who will represent Western Reserve
Academy well as an alumnus/alumna. The winner is
selected by a committee consisting of the dean of
students, the dean of admission or his/her designee and
the president of the Alumni Association Board or his/her
designee, with the ultimate consent of the
headmaster.
Proceeds for the award come from the Alumni
Association Board's Golf Classic fundraiser. This is
the Classic's fifth
year. |
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Family Day
at Cleveland Metroparks
Zoo
SATURDAY, JUNE 30 from 10:00
a.m. to 6:00 p.m., join area alumni and family
for a picnic and a day at the Waterfowl Lake Tent in
close proximity to the zoo's DINOSAUR
exhibit. Group rate tickets: $11 for
adults and $6 for children. RSVP
by JUNE 12. Contact Greta Rothman at
330.650.5862 or at rothmang@wra.net. |
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Lacrosse
Teams Raise Funds to Fight
Leukemia
 Throughout
April, lacrosse players from Western Reserve Academy and
Walsh Jesuit rallied together to support efforts to find
a cure for leukemia.
WRA boys and girls lacrosse teams, along with the
Walsh Jesuit girls lacrosse team, participated in
a pledge drive, Lacrosse for Leukemia, based on
team and individual performances in lacrosse games in
April. Their combined efforts generated a $5,700
gift to The Leukemia
Foundation. |
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Curriculum
Explores China
 WRA is taking a
closer look at China. In fact, over 70 Reserve
students traveled to China for a WRA music
department choir performance tour over spring break.
Sophomores Lubin Lee (South Korea), Rene Silva
(Mexico) and Tae-Heon Jeong (South Korea) were
on that trip and were anxious to use skills learned in
their Mandarin Chinese I class taught by language
department faculty Feng Shu (Judy) Chen.
"I was able to maintain basic
conversations with native Chinese people," says Silva of
his spring break experience. Jeong adds, "I was
brave enough to start a conversation
with our Chinese tour guide."
WRA introduced Mandarin Chinese I to
its curriculum last September. The new course was
so successful that the language department put Mandarin
Chinese II on its course list for next year. Lee, Silva
and Jeong say they intend to register for the next level
class, asserting that learning Chinese will better
prepare them for the business world.
Just across the way in the
history wing of Seymour Hall, senior seminar department
chair Sarah Horgan chose James Kynge's
China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and
Troubled Future - and the Challenge for
America for her class of 16 students to read and
discuss this spring. "Each year in senior seminar, we
spend the fourth marking period focusing on a current
events topic... This year we wanted to look at
globalization's impact on our world. I heard
the author, a former Beijing bureau chief of the
Financial Times, discuss his book on the radio,
and I knew it was just what I was looking for," says
Horgan.
After reading Kynge's book in Horgan's
class, Reserve senior Amy Sondles (Streetsboro, Ohio),
who also took the choir trip to China, explains, "Many
of the author's points hit home for me." Sondles
says she plans to continue studying the country and
its culture in college and adds, "Our world is
becoming smaller...we can choose to isolate ourselves
and be left out or we can embrace the fabulous cultures
of the world."
To view descriptions
of Mandarin Chinese I and II course offerings at
Reserve, click here. So
that students may fulfill their language
requirements by
taking Mandarin Chinese, the language
department may add level III and IV
courses in 2008 and
2009. |
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E-news Editor: Don
Husat, Reserve Alumni Association
Board
E-news Production: Christine
Bradbury, Communications
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