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Smoke hovers over campus Tuesday. Students were told to stay inside. Credit: Kaitlin Musante/Chronicle

School closes due to fires

Lucas Gelfond December 6, 2017

Classes and activities were canceled on both the upper and middle school campuses on Wednesday and Thursday due to poor air quality caused by recent fires in the area. "We took into account air quality,...

Golfers practice on the driving range of Weddington Golf & Tennis. HW purchased the property, which also includes a golf course and tennis courts, to build a Community Athletics Center. Credit: Danielle Spitz/Chronicle

HW purchases Weddington Golf & Tennis

Danielle Spitz October 30, 2017

Harvard-Westlake purchased Weddington Golf & Tennis with plans to build a Community Athletics Center and put parking structure plans on hold, President Rick Commons announced in an email to the school...

City Council postpones parking structure discussion

Sophie Haber September 5, 2017

Due to an influx of public comments, the City Planning Commission postponed discussion of the school’s parking structure proposal from Sept. 28 to a date in the foreseeable future, Los Angeles City Councilmember...

Parents to attend forum for LAUSD

Claudia Wong February 16, 2017

President Rick Commons urged the community to attend a forum for candidates for the L.A. Unified School District 4 school board. Participating in the forum would help members of the Harvard-Westlake community...

Commons announces Head of Upper School

Sammi Handler November 22, 2016

Effective July 1, Laura D. Ross will become the new Head of Upper School, leaving her position as Head of Upper School at the Greenhill School in Dallas, President Rick Commons announced in an email to...

Search for upper school head narrows

Sammi Handler August 31, 2016

A team of administrators, deans and faculty narrowed the search for a new head of the Upper School to eight candidates and expects to make an appointment at least before Thanksgiving. Two of the eight...

Seniors to begin year with ring ceremony

August 30, 2016

The Class of 2017 will receive rings or pins and listen to speeches and celebrate their graduating year at the annual Ring Ceremony Sept. 11. The event will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Students...

Sharon Chow 16 receives her diploma from President Rick Commons at the commencement ceremony Friday. Credit: Danielle Spitz/Chronicle

Class of 2016 celebrates at commencement ceremony

Jesse Nadel June 10, 2016

Speeches from Salutatorian Jared Gentile ’16 and Valedictorian Joss Saltzman ’16 highlighted the class of 2016’s commencement ceremony Friday on Ted Slavin Field. Gentile used a series of jokes...

Visions to map out steps towards mission

Henry Vogel September 1, 2015

President Rick Commons introduced six visions meant to fulfill the mission statement in the next three to five years at the annual faculty meeting Aug. 25. "Mission is generational — we hope the new...

Alum to become Interim Director of Communications

Jesse Nadel August 12, 2015

Ari Engelberg ’89 (Jacob ’21) will replace Jill Shaw as Interim Director of Communications, where he will focus on strategically planning the school’s communications and marketing approach as well...

School welcomes Cuban and Czech Special Olympics athletes

Jesse Nadel July 25, 2015

Members of the school community welcomed 150 Special Olympic athletes and coaches from Cuba and the Czech Republic at the host town community barbecue on the school’s campus July 23. “Harvard-Westlake...

Parents’ Association website breached, information stolen

Zoe Dutton March 19, 2014

The Harvard-Westlake Parents’ Association Party Book fundraising website experienced a security breach, compromising parents’ credit card information, President Rick Commons notified parents and faculty...

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