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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Science teacher takes leave of absence

Leily Arzy October 15, 2013

Upper school science teacher Walt Werner has taken a medical leave after being diagnosed this past June with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph tissue. Doctors are confident that he will be...

Students to screen Laos documentaries

Jessica Spitz October 15, 2013

Six documentaries made by students who traveled to Laos last spring break will be screened in Ahmanson Lecture Hall Oct. 24. The documentaries focus on the victims of unexploded ordinance left in Laos...

Stanford honors 3 teachers

Nikta Mansouri October 15, 2013

Three teachers were honored by Stanford University as part of the Teacher Tribute Initiative this past month. Latin teacher Paul Chenier, English teacher Jocelyn Medawar and history teacher Dror Yaron...

Students, parents attend Rwanda trip information session, learn about genocide

Marcella Park October 15, 2013

A meeting in Ahmanson Lecture Hall Oct. 3 presented students and parents with information on a trip to Rwanda to investigate the Rwandan genocide and its effects. Award-winning producer Jeff MacIntyre,...

Scene Monkey auditons to be held on Oct. 25.

Jacob Goodman October 1, 2013

Auditions for the Scene Monkeys, the upper school improv group, will be held Friday, Oct. 25. in the drama lab. Callbacks will be held the following week on Friday, Nov. 1. Additionally, performing arts...

Writer, director David Wain to guest in interview series with Reitman ’95

Jacob Goodman October 1, 2013

Comedy writer, actor, director and producer David Wain will answer questions  in a Q&A session with director Jason Reitman ’95 in the sixth installment of “Speaking of Movies”  Wednesday Oct....

Homecoming 2011

David Gisser September 27, 2013

Students prepare for Homecoming games with semiformal dance, Fanatic Fest week

Noa Yadidi September 25, 2013

In the lead-up to Homecoming Oct. 5, students will attend the first Homecoming dance in recent years and participate in Fanatic Fest festivities that will no longer include an all-school assembly in Taper...

Students to voluntarily teach weekend arts classes at public school in honor of Carr ’14

Sydney Foreman September 25, 2013

A bimonthly arts program in memory of Justin Carr ’14 will begin at an Inglewood elementary school Sept. 28. Each of the three-hour workshops in the Justin Carr’s Dare to Dream Arts Program were designed...

Commons, Huybrechts share hopes for new school year at first annual parent meeting

Jack Goldfisher September 25, 2013

President Rick Commons and Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts told stories about the beginning of the school year and their hopes for the rest of the year to parents at the first Parents’ Association general...

Computer Science Club to teach Python

Kenneth Schrupp September 25, 2013

Aaron Anderson ’14 and Daniel Palumbo ’14, leaders of the Computer Sciences club, will teach a series of after school introductory classes for the programming language Python staring in October. These...

Parents to resolve absences online

Alex McNab September 25, 2013

A new system for submitting parent notes has recently gone live on the Parent Portal. With the new electronic note sending system, when  students have an unresolved absence on their record, a parent is...

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