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Celebrating the Academy Experience | | | |
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Students Make Bowls for a Good Cause | All are invited to the annual Empty Bowls/Soup for Shelter dinner on Friday, December 8, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. in the Otterbein University Campus Center. For $20, you can select a lovely handmade bowl created by our ceramics students and receive a meal that includes your selection of soup, bread, cookie and beverage. All proceeds benefit the walls build for Westerville Habitat Partnership. Purchase tickets online by clicking here. | | | |
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Sweet Celebration for Faculty/Staff | It's time to celebrate the holidays and our wonderful faculty and staff at Columbus Academy! PACA needs your help in providing everyone who works at the school with a dozen festive cookies or sweet treats. Sign up to bake by clicking here (everything can easily be dropped off during morning carpool on December 14 or 15). Don't have time to bake? No worries! You can donate via Venmo (@Michelle-Singh-7) or Zelle (Ellie Merritt-Zeiger at 614-327-0643), and if you're not sure what to give, any donation is appreciated but for perspective, a $25 donation provides cookies for two faculty/staff members or a gallon of hot chocolate. If you are interested in volunteering to help pull it all together on the 14th and 15th, click here to join this favorite holiday tradition at CA. Thank you, in advance, to our generous community for your help in making this year's Sweet Celebration a big success! | | | |
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Performing Arts Talent on Display | |
The fall concert season concluded just before Thanksgiving break after performances by our choirs and concert bands, a USO-themed jazz night and the first-ever collaboration between our orchestra and theatre students. Click on the following links for social media recaps and visit columbusacademy.org/photos for complete galleries of images.
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Tradition Continues for State Champs | |
By winning state titles this fall, Academy's girls golf team and tennis doubles tandem of Yasemin Bilgin & Arya Chabria earned state champion flag-raising ceremonies. This school tradition includes a presentation during an assembly followed by a march to the flagpole in front of Academy Hall where the student-athletes take turns hoisting a special flag while their peers and families cheer them on. In addition to links below, visit @AcademyVikings for more athletics news.
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Honoring Academy's Veterans | Our celebration of Veterans Day began with a voluntary physical training (PT) session for students and faculty/staff followed by a solemn ceremony behind Academy Hall where the school bell rang out 505 times in honor of Academy's alumni and current staff veterans. Alumni veterans in attendance included Bruce Draudt '62, Steve Haverick '62 and Scott Lawrence '75. The morning ceremony concluded with our Camerata performing a moving rendition of "America the Beautiful" on the balcony overlooking the quad. In addition to these photos, you can see more Veterans Day coverage by clicking here and also scroll through @ColumbusAcademy to view more recent schools news including six ceramic artworks being selected for a juried exhibition, a sixth-grader being selected for the national karting team, a Thanksgiving gathering of Senior-Kindergarden Buddies, a Diwali presentation and dance performance at an upper school assembly and much more. | | | |
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Awarding Service to the School | At this year's Alumni Holiday Luncheon on December 22, Columbus Academy will honor Bob Bradway '81 as its 2023 Distinguished Alumnus and Debbie Keeran with the Alumni Service Award. Bob is chairman and CEO at Amgen and serves as a board member for several organizations including The Boeing Company and the University of Southern California. Debbie spent 17 years as a lower school teacher at Academy before becoming an administrator and eventually the assistant director of admissions where she guided more than a generation of families through the enrollment process. Learn more and register for the event by clicking here. | | | |
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Practicing the Art of Gathering | In early November, we welcomed Priya Parker – acclaimed author, New York Times podcast host and master facilitator trained in the field of conflict negotiation – to campus as this year's featured speaker for both the Currier Lecture Series and our Celebration of Leadership. Priya's best-selling book "The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters" was the focus of both conversations she had with Director of Diversity and Community Life Dr. Pascal Losambe, who facilitated a Q&A session that helped the Columbus Academy community dig down on the root of why and how we make connections and the importance of doing so (click here to learn more). | | | |
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Faculty, Staff & Alumni News | |
Debbie Asirifi, a first grade associate teacher in our Lower School who also goes by her pen name of Debbie Rigaud, has co-authored a new children's book about a group of Ohio mothers and their children who spent two years trying to get elementary schools in Hillsboro desegregated after the Brown vs. the Board of Education decision in the mid-1950s. Watch a TV story about the project by clicking here and on the following links for additional faculty, staff and alumni news.
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