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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Pep rally on Fanatic Friday

Eugenia Ko September 19, 2014

Red, black and white-garbed students will finish up Spirit Week Friday with a pep rally preceding Saturday's homecoming festivities. Western Wednesday featured free pizza available after school at PizzaRev...

25 seniors named National Merit Semifinalists

Cole Feldman September 11, 2014

25 seniors were selected as National Merit Semifinalists because of their 2014 PSAT/NMSQT scores: Nicholas Abouzeid Clare Chou Michael Chung Raymond Chung Sara Evall Benjamin Goldstein Jonathan...

Teacher receives Carolyn, Marion Hays Award

Juliana Berger September 4, 2014

Upper school mathematics teacher Kent Nealis was awarded the Carolyn and Marion Hays Award Aug. 26 at a joint faculty meeting. The award is given to a member of the faculty or staff who contributes to...

5 juniors attend LASA infrastructure program

Sacha Lin September 3, 2014

Five juniors began their exploration of city infrastructure and culture with the Los Angeles Service Academy and will continue the program throughout the year. Ben Winters ’16, Noah Redlich ’16, Shelby...

Commons sums up mission in 26 words

Zoe Dutton September 3, 2014

The new mission statement emphasizes the importance of "joyful" learning in addition to academic excellence. President Rick Commons spoke about the statement at Opening Convocation on Tuesday. He first...

626 students participate in AP examinations

Eugenia Ko September 3, 2014

A total of 626 students this past school year took 1,736 Advanced Placement exams, the highest number of exams in recent history. 91 percent of students received passing scores of 3, 4 or 5. Six middle...

Summer school enrollment up by 10-15 percent

Jake Saferstein June 20, 2014

The number of enrollments in the summer program increased this year by 10 to 15 percent, with 1,071 students signed up by mid-June and a few hundred more students expected to sign up by August. About half...

Genender ’15 claims CIF-SS Singles Title

Mila Barzdukas June 8, 2014

Michael Genender ’14 defeated Austin Rapp of Palm Desert 6-3, 6-4 to win the CIF-SS Singles Title yesterday. “One of the keys in the match was when I was serving down 1-2 at 0-30,” Genender told...

Manahan ’14 places 1st in State Championships

Aaron Lyons June 8, 2014

Co-captain David Manahan '14 finished his high school track career with the State Championship title and new school record of 1:51.04 over 800m at the California State Championships June 7. Manahan earned...

Lieberman to continue tradition of male Scene Monkey salutatorians

Sarah Novicoff June 4, 2014

Scene Monkey, actor and lacrosse player Joey Lieberman ’14 will deliver this year’s salutatory address, typically a funny and light-hearted speech, at graduation June 6. "In the letter I wrote to myself...

Stone-cutters magazine distributes new issue

Kelly Loeb May 28, 2014

Stone-cutters, the upper school art and literary magazine, was distributed May 23 and features students’ artwork and writing from the 2013-2014 school year. Students were emailed in October with submission...

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