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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

BLACC screens new film

Khyra Stiner October 4, 2018

The upper school Black Leadership Awareness and Culture Club members attended a pre-screening at Fox Studios of “The Hate U Give” on Sept. 30. Movie director George Tillman and actor Lamar Johnson,...

Tree People partners with Boeing

Ryan Albert October 4, 2018

Local environmental nonprofit TreePeople and American multinational corporation The Boeing Companypartnered with the help of other sponsors to revitalize burned and at-risk forest areas around California...

Father Justin to host weekly chapel services

Austin Lee September 19, 2018

Father Dan Justin will begin officiating weekly chapel services in St. Savior’s Chapel across from the Feldman-Horn plaza every Tuesday at 7:30 AM, following Father James Young's retirement last year....

Stephanie Cho 20, Anthony Cho 17 and Steven Zhao 19 instruct students in the classroom.  Printed with permission of Steven Zhao.

Students teach English to underprivileged children in China

Tanisha Gunby September 18, 2018

As a way to give back to his father’s family village, Steven Zhao '19 tutored underserved children in English in rural China with Anthony Cho '17, Ethan Tam ’19 and Stephanie Cho ’20 a July 8-22....

Eugean Choi ’21 travels to Bolivia for fellowship

September 18, 2018

After researching South American culture and healing practices, Staff Writer and Layout Assistant Eugean Choi ’21 traveled to Bolivia to meet the healer Kallawaya, the witch doctors of Charazani, Bolivia....

Lucy Kim ’19 studies political uprisings in South Korea

September 18, 2018

In an effort to discover South Korea's history and learn more about the culture that her family grew up in, Lucy Kim ’19 traveled to South Korea Gwangju to learn about the political uprisings...

Zane Grenoble ’19 retraces path of Spanish Reconquista

September 17, 2018

Combining his interests in world history, poetry, the Spanish language and cycling, Zane Grenoble ’19 traveled to southern Spain to retrace the path of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar’s victories over the moors...

Andie Cook ’19 studies the history of Kibbutz

Eugean Choi September 17, 2018

Andie Cook ’19 traveled to Israel to study the history of the Kibbutz, an agricultural community, after receiving the HWGo! Junior Summer Fellowship. Cook chose to visit Israel in order to connect with...

Charlie Ewell ’19 documents Mongolian music traditions

Spencer Klink September 17, 2018

Charlie Ewell ’19 traveled to Mongolia this summer to document musical traditions of the Mongolian people through the HWGo! program's summer fellowship. Ewell travelled to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous...

Samantha Ko ’19 studies traditional painting in Korea

September 17, 2018

Chronicle Art Director Samantha Ko ’19, the recipient of the HWGo! Asia Initiative fellowship, spent the first three weeks of her summer studying how to paint in the Korean traditional style and learned...

Theiss transitions to teaching full-time

Sarah Healy September 16, 2018

Andrew Theiss joined staff to teach computer science and lead the robotics program full-time this school year, having started at Harvard-Westlake as the part-time advisor to the US robotics team last school...

Chehak ’97 begins teaching in art department

Tammer Bagdasarian September 16, 2018

Jesse Chehak '97 joined the art department, where he will teach three classes and advise AP Studio Art, succeeding former art teacher Kevin O'Malley. After graduating from Harvard-Westlake, Chehak taught art...

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