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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

New teachers: Kasia Williams

Aaron Lyons August 27, 2013

Kasia Williams began ballroom dancing when she was 11 and continued throughout her high school career in Poland, where she lived. As Williams got older, she realized  her skill level was behind her age...

New teacher: Jason Fieldman ’98

Siddarth Kucheria August 27, 2013

Jason Fieldman ’98 will teach Design and Data Structures Honors, Advanced Topics in Computer Science and Precalculus: Trig & Functions at the Upper School. Fieldman attended University of California,...

New teacher: Claire Cochran ’06

Sacha Lin August 27, 2013

Claire Cochran ’06 will teach Visual Arts 7 and Mixed Media classes at the Middle School after acting as an assistant to upper school visual arts teacher Marianne Hall last year. Cochran has taught history...

New teacher: Jerome Hermeline

Jonathan Seymour August 27, 2013

Native French speaker Jerome Hermeline will teach French III, French III Honors and French IV at the Upper School this year. Hermeline was born in northern France, and he spent seven years in Paris studying...

New teacher: Jennifer Lechavallier ’98

Kelly Riopelle August 27, 2013

Jennifer Lechevallier ’98 will return to the middle school campus to teach French 1A, 1B and 1 New classes. After graduating from Bard College in New York with a B.A. in French Studies and a semester...

New teacher: Yi Jiang

Cole Feldman August 27, 2013

Yi Jiang will teach multiple levels of Chinese from Chinese II to the AP courses at the Upper School. Jiang taught in China, Singapore and Norway before moving to Los Angeles in 2009 to teach at a parent’s...

New teacher: Joe Busch

Benjamin Most August 27, 2013

Joe Busch will teach AP Statistics, Advanced Honors Seminar in Math and Algebra 2 with Analysis this year. Born in New Jersey and raised in Connecticut, Busch went to college in Boston and got a master’s...

Junior organizes anti-sexism group

Noa Yadidi May 29, 2013

After Annie Kors ’14 ran a case in an open demonstration debate about how debaters should be more sensitive with what they argue in rounds and more sensitive with the words they use, she overheard a...

Junior earns Girl Scout Gold Award, chosen to represent city in capitol

Nadia Rahman May 29, 2013

Kennedy Green’s ’14 Gold Award marked the pinnacle of her 10-year Girl Scout career and effectively ended it. "That’s as far as you can go," Green said. "After the Gold Award, your Girl Scout career...

Hiring process begins for faculty

Sophie Kupiec-Weglinski April 24, 2013

With nine job openings in four departments, Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts and other administration and faculty are busy reading resumes and interviewing candidates for the fall. 21 years ago, when...

Alumnus develops self-help website to share hardships

Lauren Sonnenberg March 13, 2013

Jack Davis ’10 created iOvercame, which he describes as a self-help website where users can post anonymously about their problems and adversity in the hopes of inspiring others. Davis, a self-proclaimed...

Exonerated man shares experience with Criminal Law students

Noa Yadidi February 13, 2013

A man who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit spoke about his experiences in prison and what his life has been like since he was exonerated to students in the Criminal Law and Advocacy...

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