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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

History teacher studies economics in England, Netherlands

Tara Stone August 27, 2013

History teacher Celia Goedde was one of 16 teachers chosen out of more than 100 applicants from the United States to study "The Dutch Republic and Britain: The Making of Modern Society and a European World...

Senior meets Obama as Boys State rep, others attend Sacramento conference

Jivani Gengatharan August 27, 2013

Oliver Goodman-Waters ’14 represented California at a national conference from July 19 to July 26 in Washington D.C. and met President Barack Obama. Goodman-Waters was selected for the honor when he...

Offices, classrooms undergo renovations

Sophie Kupiec-Weglinski August 27, 2013

During the summer there has been a case of what Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts called “musical chairs” in Seaver, as well as construction in Rugby and the orchestra room. Various offices in Seaver...

High Stakes: Beginning the common application

Sydney Foreman August 27, 2013

Daisy*, The All-Around Daisy* used her summer to pursue two of her passions, science and soccer, by interning at a UCLA neurobiology research lab and attending soccer camps. Daisy hopes to pursue a career...

‘Little Princes’ author to visit Middle School

Kristen Gourrier August 27, 2013

Conor Grennan, the author of this year’s middle school all community read “Little Princes,” will visit the middle school campus Sept. 23 to speak to students about the novel and his non-profit organization. The...

Teen Vogue not ‘Devil Wears Prada’

Leily Arzy August 27, 2013

Amanda Reiter ’14 found out about an internship at Teen Vogue almost by chance. “It was a really fluke incident how I ended up getting the internship,” Reiter said. She met a member of the Teen...

Perfecting quadrocopters at JPL

Sophie Kupiec-Weglinski August 27, 2013

Christian Stewart ’15 spent his summer as a paid intern at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, part of California Institute of Technology, working on quadrocopters, which are small four-rotor helicopters. JPL,...

Divya Siddarth: India

Marcella Park August 27, 2013

In the two weeks she spent at a yoga university in Bangalore, India, Divya Siddarth’s ’14 typical day started at 5 a.m. and consisted of hours of practicing yoga, chanting and meditating. She took...

Junior assists locals in Burma

Enya Huang August 27, 2013

Xenia Viragh ’15 used funds provided by the Gunter-Gross Asia Initiative to get hotspot wi-fi on cell phones for students at Phaung Daw Oo, a school for students of all ages in Mandalay, Burma. “It’s...

The Golden Age

Chronicle Staff August 27, 2013

The summer of 2013 saw Wolverine baseball flourish in high school competition and beyond.

Unconventional Leadership class has unconventional assignment

Lizzy Thomas August 27, 2013

Instructions instead of a teacher greeted the Unconventional Leadership students today. The class was tasked with three objectives: to retrieve an object suspended in the pool without getting wet, to have...

Dancer performs in professional music video

Carly Berger August 27, 2013

Six days after responding to a friend’s Facebook post, Alexis McCarthy ’14 finds herself in a backyard filled with dancers, extras and cameras. Her hair and makeup are done, and she has her choreography...

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The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School
August 2013