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Sophomore girls on prom night.
Next Week
  • Monday - Friday, April 25 - 29:  Faculty and Staff Appreciation Week
  • Monday - Tuesday, April 25-26: Hybrid Learning Consortium (HLC) Director at EDS                                                         for parents, students, and teachers
  • Thursday, April 28, lunch: Global Language National Honor Society Induction
Looking Ahead
  • Monday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 11: AP Exams
  • Friday, May 6: Dinner and a Play at 7:00 PM
  • Tuesday, May 10: Fine Arts Night at Shanklin Theatre at 7:00 PM
  • Friday, May 13: Senior Send-off
  • Monday, May 16 - Wednesday, May 25: Senior Projects 
  • Monday, May 23 - Thursday, May 26: Sophomore End of Course Assessments (ECA) 
  • Thursday, May 26: Senior Dinner
  • Friday, May 27: Senior Project Presentations
  • Friday, May 27: Upper School Field Day
  • Friday, May 27: Commencement Practice at 1:00 PM at Shanklin Theatre
  • Saturday, May 28: Commencement at 2:00 PM
  • Tuesday, May 31 - Friday, June 2: Upper School Final Exams
  • Friday, June 3: Promotional Assembly
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New! Class of 2016 Photos
The Class of 2016 will have a group photo taken in their caps and gowns and in their chosen college T-shirts on Friday, May 13 at 8:45.  Seniors - don't forget to purchase a school pennant and have a T-shirt or sweatshirt with your college logo on it for that picture.

N ew! Key Club News
Key Club members will elect officers for the 2016-2017 school year at the May 5 meeting. To run for office, a student must have logged 50 hours of community service. Members should be sure to turn in all service hours and let President Zoe Renschler or Adviser Marjan LaGrange know of their intent to run no later than May 3.

Driven to Give
Lincoln will be on Day School's campus Saturday, April 30 from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm offering test drives of their vehicles. For each test drive, Lincoln will donate $20 to Friends of EDS. This event raises up to $8000 for us, and we would appreciate your participation! 

Even if you cannot attend that day, you can sign up online, and $20 will still be donated to the school. 

Friends of EDS
Friends' final meeting of the year will be on Friday, May 6 at 8:05 am.  This will also be our Volunteer Breakfast for the EDS community as a thank you for a great year. We invite everyone to mark your calendars and plan to join us that morning!
 
 

General Updates and Campus Happenings

New! Welcome, Hazel
Evansville Day School welcomed its newest member, Hazel Barbara Hungate, Class of 2034, on Friday, April 15. Congratulations to parents Michael & Margy Hungate and big sister Charlotte (1st grade)! Special congratulations to aunt Diana Zausch and cousins Elayna, Wyatt, Lillian, and Owen. 

New! Final Exams Schedule
 
Tuesday, May 31
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM - B1
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM - B3
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM - B5

Wednesday, June 1
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM - A1
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM - A3
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM - A5

Thursday, June 2
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM - A7
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM - B7


New! Indiana/Kentucky Track and Field Challenge
Congratulations to Evansville Day School finishers!

Boys
Joey Ballard - 100m (5th) & 200m (4th)
Tyler Rodgers - 100m (25th) & 200m (18th)

Girls
Amanda Wiley - 100m (19th)
Rachel Lewis - 100m (20th)
Lawren Elderkin - 100 hurdles (15th)
Madi Edwards - 1600 run (30th)
Hannah Koch - Long jump (12th)
Brittony Rodgers, Amanda Wiley, Madiya Farmer, and Rachel Lewis - 4x100 relay (12th)

New! Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week
Next week, April 25 - 29, is Teacher Appreciation Week, a time for our community to recognize and celebrate the efforts of the faculty and staff at Day School. This year, each day has a theme, culminating in a Friday Feast!
 
***Daily breakdown of Teacher Appreciation Week ***
  • Muffin Monday - breakfast foods provided by parents
  • Tasty Treats Tuesday - desserts/snack foods provided by parents
  • Wellness Wednesday - massages provided by Evansville Massage Associates & sponsored by Friends of EDS
  • Thankful Thursday - students bring notes & gifts to show how much they appreciate their teachers 
  • Friday Feast - lunch donated & catered by Acropolis
We cannot do this without your help! Click the link below to sign up for a day or more and help us make the week a smashing success. 
 

New! Recap from Richard III
Senior English classes and the Theater Intersession students, accompanied by Corrie Sarol and Marjan LaGrange, attended a special production of Richard III on Tuesday, April 19 at the University of Evansville. 
Freshman Ashley Jorgensen's favorite part was the costumes. She said, "The female costumes were not what I expected. Although their style and cut was almost masculine, they possessed a strong feminine power." 
Junior Kenady Hess said, "It was amazing. There was a lot going on but the characters clearly conveyed their relationships." 
Ben Jordan liked the set; he felt it captured the ambiguity between restoration and destruction.   

New! Academic Bowl - Hoosier Heritage Competition
On April 19, over 5,100 high school students competed across the state, representing  279 schools. Subject area squads competed in rounds such as Social Studies, Mathematics, English, Science, and Fine Arts, with an Interdisciplinary round as the climax of the competition. The theme of this year's competition was "Hoosier Heritage" and outlines focused entirely on Indiana history, as well as scientists, artists, composers, and authors with Indiana roots. In our division, there are 70 schools.  All of our teams had scores that put us in the top 20 (of the 70), which indicates very strong teams across the board.  To go to state, you have to have one of the top 6 scores, and our Interdisciplinary team qualified to attend! They will head to Purdue on May 7.


Entire team 
Front row: Kenady Hess, Maddie McDaniel, Emily Shockley, Danielle Morris, Maya Mchedlishvili, Sarah Ballard
Middle row: Jessica Myers, Sehal Shah, Blair Bucshon, Sophie Fox, Gianna Meckler
Back row: Chris Basinski, Joey Ballard, Ben Jordan
 
Interdisciplinary team
First row:  Maddie McDaniel, Emily Shockley, Sarah Ballard, Jessica Myers
Second row:  Blair Bucshon, Danielle Morris, Ben Jordan, Joey Ballard

Learn more about Academic Bowl by clicking the link below.
 

Happy Birthday This Week!
Sunday, April 17 - Jake & Sam Springer
Tuesday, April 19 - Sydney Yune
Friday, April 22 - Zoe Renschler & Sehal Shah 


Pictures from the Week
Upper school students had a great time at prom last Saturday at the Evansville Museum. Prom pictures are posted online for those who would like to purchase photos. Just log on to www.Bennettportrait.com. The password is EDS2016.






Congrats to Jake Somody, Jordan Nouri, Jacob Darr, and Zipporah Rathke on a 3rd place finish (their highest yet!) in Mater Dei's "Game Over" robotics competition.
From left to right: Ziporah Rathke, Jacob Darr, Jake Somody, Jordan Nouri. Not present were Connor Hunt and Alexander Chambers.

Jacob and Jake are working on reinforcing the robot during one of our 10 minute pit stops.

Jordan Nouri is driving the robot for the first course. There were a total of nine obstacle courses, each one was more difficult (somewhat analogous to the labors of Heracles).

Dr. Mary Jane Gibson | Evansville Day School | (812) 476-3039 | mjgibson@evansvilledayschool.orgl | e vansvilledayschool.org
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