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SUNDAY LETTER February 26, 2017
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A MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL
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The Dream Team of Ten Husky Board Chairs
I thought you might like to look over my shoulder this week and see the letter of appreciation I wrote to the ten board chairs who have served us so well over the past 36 years. The letter, I hope, provides a bit of insight along the way to the role of our trustees as well as into snippets of our history.
"Hello to RHP's Ten Board Chairs!
Today is "Thanking Thursday" here at school and it occurred to me this morning that this school (we are now actually two schools) has so much to appreciate in the leadership work that has been done, and in many cases continues to be done, by the TEN BOARD CHAIRS who have guided the organization through its several phases since 1981.
Steve Pilkington established the school in 1981 with his wife Joan and a small group of parents, at St. Luke's Church, initially as an extension of Rolling Hills Country Day School, and moved it to Rolling Hills Covenant Church and thence to Malaga Cove. The school added middle school grades and grew in enrollment with the Pilkingtons' support. Every school needs a founding family who gives work, wealth, and wisdom, combined with the vision to see what might be and the energy and commitment to act upon that vision. In its first years, RHP changed innumerable lives. I was lucky enough to be hired by Steve as the school's third Head in 1993, and to serve alongside him during my first year.
Kendra Diamond took over at the start of my second year as Steve and Joan moved to a well-earned rest in Arizona. Kendra had such big shoes to fill, and she was undoubtedly the right person for the job. In some ways the school, having passed infancy, was establishing itself anew as a young child. So many institutional norms were established during these years: health insurance for employees, standards of professional behavior, articulating and adhering to elevated expectations for student behavior."
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Peter McCormack
Head of School
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TOTALLY AWESOME GALA 2017
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Don't miss out on the all the FUN!!!
Purchase your ticket TODAY for the Totally Awesome Gala.
Saturday, April 22, 2017
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Tuesday, February 28
Bake Sale / Food Fundraiser | 5:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.
Quiz
Bowl | 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Quiz Bowl Night sponsored by the History Department is a family fun trivia night on campus. All grades, faculty, staff and parents are welcome to participate and test their trivia knowledge. Space is limited to 20 teams of 6 players. We will have 8 categories with 5 questions each from a variety of categories. You must register by this Thursday, February 23 by filling out this form and returning them to Mrs. Hagee. Please contact Mrs. Hagee at khagee@rollinghillsprep.org with any questions.
Author's Luncheon: Brian Curtis
Thursday, March 2 | 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
All 10th
and 11th
grade students will attend our annual Author's Luncheon on Thursday, March 3 during lunch. This year, we are pleased to welcome Brian Curtis to speak about his novel,
Fields of Battle: Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl, and the Boys Who Went to War.
10th and 11th grade students will be treated to a pizza lunch during this event. If students would like to purchase a copy of the book and get it signed by the author, they should bring money with them on that day. Parents are welcome to join and are encouraged to bring a copy of the book to be signed. Click here to learn more about the book.
Middle School Spelling Bee
Thursday, March 2 | 1:45 - 2:45 p.m.
All RHP and Renaissance middle schoolers are invited to participate in the Annual Middle School Spelling Bee from 1:45 to 2:45 on Thursday, March 3. Contestants should dress in field trip attire since they will be on stage. Parents are also invited to attend this event. After the Spelling Bee, all middle schoolers will be treated to an ice cream social.
Dr. Matthew Torrington Presentation: "How Your Brain Works and Why It Doesn't." The Neurology of Addiction.
Tuesday, March 7 | 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Join us for an insightful talk by Dr. Matthew Torrington who is a board certified family medicine physician with a specialty in addiction medicine, focusing on the individualized longitudinal disease management of addiction and pain issues. For almost 20 years, his practice has placed a distinct focus on helping individuals stabilize and build momentum biologically, psychologically, socially, spiritually and nutritionally. This presentation is aimed at educating families on the nature of addiction and why our brains are susceptible to addictive behaviors. This event is open to the entire community, so bring your friends and neighbors.
 Upper School Spring Musical: The Addams Family
THE ADDAMS FAMILY features an original story, and it's every father's nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. A man her parents have never met. And if that weren't upsetting enough, she confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he's never done before - keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday's "normal" boyfriend and his parents. Come meet the family. We'll leave the lights off for you.
Premier Seating for Saturday, March 11th's show is SOLD OUT, so don't wait!
Purchase Tickets Here.
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Varsity Baseball vs Animo
1st game of the season
Wednesday, March 1 | 3:15 p.m.
Alondra Park
Varsity Swim Team Practice Begins
Monday, February 27 | 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Miraleste Intermediate School
Sailing Team
Has your student thought about joining the RHP & REN sailing team but you're concerned because your student has never sailed or you need more info? See below for more details:
I don't have any experience with sailing, how do I get started with the RHP Sailing team? You can start sailing by contacting King Harbor Youth Foundation, at
http://www.khyf.org; or call (424)287-7245. Let them know you are interested in learning to sail with the goal of joining the RHP and Renaissance high school sailing team.
Where does the team practice and how often?
The team practices 2 days a week at King Harbor Yacht Club in Redondo Beach. The van drives the students from RHP & Renaissance campus to practice at
3:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays and parents pick up their sailors at
6:00 p.m. at the yacht club. There is also a Wednesday practice from
3:00-6:00 p.m. for new sailors learning to crew for a sailing team.
When is the sailing season and where are the regattas held?
The sailing season runs from September to April. There are 5 main state wide regattas hosted by local colleges and held in Monterey, Santa Barbara, Newport Beach, San Francisco and Santa Barbara. The final regatta of the season in the state wide championships. Other southern California only regattas are held in San Diego, Newport Beach, Long Beach and San Pedro.
For more information on the RHP & REN Sailing program, please reach out to Brian Knigin or Heidi Morris in the Main Office.
Click Here
to view the full athletic schedule and stay up to date on the CIF Playoff schedule. Go Huskies!
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Senior Speech: Tuba Asifriyaz
I always thought running away from problems would make them better. That everything would be fine. That I would no longer have to face them. Of course, now I know I was wrong. Today, I realize that, no matter how much you run away from something, it will always come back to you. That you will have to face it eventually.
I think it is important that as humans we make mistakes and learn from them. It took some time to get to where I am now. In order to fix the problem, I first had
to acknowledge it, accept it, and then find ways through which I can cope with it.
Senior Speech: Caleb Tedder
...after visiting Mexico, I learned just how lucky I am. While roaming the streets of Ensenada I found myself being swarmed by children attempting to sell things to me on every block. Their faces were dirty, and their clothes torn, but what really broke my heart were their zombie-like expressions. In their dark brown eyes I could see the numbing depression that filled them. They were just going through the motions, as if selling that little pack of chicle was all that mattered.
I wake up every day now and think that that could have been me, yet I owe those children everything. They taught me to be thankful for what I have.
PV Net Course: Introduction to Aeronautical Engineering
 Unmanned Aerial Systems technology has evolved into a sophisticated, highly-advanced and competitive area of technology with limitless applications. UAS's are not limited to recreational use. They are used for search and rescue, water management, accident reporting, military, topography mapping, artificial intelligence development, first responder information, and movie-making. This is a fully project-based class where students will build a UAS quadcopter from scratch and receive basic flight instruction from an FAA certified pilot and licensed drone expert.
Course Outline:
In this class, students will be introduced to and learn concepts and hands on applications in the areas of safety, electronics, mechanics, programming, radio control, fundamentals & physics of flight and basic understanding of the digital electronics used to control the craft as wells as gain actual hands on flight skills.
Instructor Don Wahlquist's Bio:
Don is a PVNet Manager of UAS and Robotics and has extensive mechanical and software engineering experience. He is also an FAA licensed aviator, UAS expert, as well as the President of the Soaring Union of Los Angeles.
Specifics:
1:15- 3:30 on Tuesdays, April 11- May 30th (8 total classes, 18 total hours)
1.5 credits
Open to MS and US Students, both RHP & Renaissance and South Bay Schools
Location: RHP Campus
Cost, including Quadcopter: $510.00
This Week is Spirit Week!
Bandanas of your class color will be available for sale Thursday, March 2 by Student Council in the MPR at Lunch! For $3, personalize your bandana to wear on Friday, for class colors day!
Comedy and Magic Club Fundraiser
A huge thank you to current and past parent Jayme Brewer for all her hard work and effort in organizing this event.
Junior League of Long Beach's 12th Annual Kids in the Kitchen's Healthy Eating and Exercise Fair
NHS is sponsoring the Junior League of Long Beach's 12th Annual Kids in the Kitchen's Healthy Eating and Exercise Fair on Saturday, March 11th. Students can earn service hours for donating new sports equipment to the event to help kids lead an active lifestyle. We are looking for hula hoops, basketballs, baseballs and bats, jump ropes, frisbees, etc. For each $10 item donated students can earn one service hour. Up to 5 service hours available! We also need volunteers from 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. on March 11th at Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in Long Beach to help facilitate the games booth, selfie station, and participate in the hula hoop contest! Talk to anyone in NHS or Emily Wratschko for more information at
ewratschko@rollinghillsprep.org.
Student Organized Book and Teddy Bear Drive
We are asking for book donations to help local elementary schools without a library by building a small library for a few schools. We are looking for any kid friendly k-5 gently used and new books. There will be box in the office with a sheet. The advisory with the most donations will get a pizza party donated by the Akahiji family.
In addition, we want to help the
many kids in foster care who constantly move from place to place and possibly losing things along the way. We are asking for teddy bear donations of all shapes and sizes to give to children as they go through the final process of adoption. There will be another box in the office with a sheet. The advisory with the most donations will get an ice cream party donated by the Whitfield family.
The deadline for both these donations is Friday, March 10.
Student Volunteers Needed for Annual Directory Delivery
Pam Van Alstyne from Community Helpline invites RHP students to join us for the Annual Directory Delivery taking place on
Saturday, March 4, 2017
. Students will earn Community service hours for helping deliver the books to 25,000 homes on the Peninsula. Each route takes 2-4 hours. Parents are encouraged to drive a "route" if possible. The delivery is the largest fundraiser for Community Helpline and PV Hills Nursery School, both non-profits.
We thank
your students, teachers, and faculty who have volunteered in the past
. Click here to view the flyer for more information.
Calling all early birds: We are so excited to be hosting Galileo and their messy, bold, and all-around awesome innovation camps at our campus again this summer! Sign up now (by February 28th) for Camp Galileo or Galileo Summer Quest and save $25 on every week of gritty, glorious camp. Learn more:
www.galileo-camps.com/earlybird.
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