When Angelica Estrada ’17 was in elementary school, she had to knock on doors and camp outside of grocery stores to get people to buy her Girl Scout cookies. The competition amongst the 20 other nine-year-old...
Associate Director of Admissions Janine Jones will become the Interim Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as the school launches a search to find a permanent person to fill the newly created position,...
The deans will enact a new admissions policy starting with the class of 2018 where Single-Choice Early Action applications to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford will be treated as Early Decision applications.
Under...
The school is investigating possible violations of the alcohol policy following the semester break trip to the Inauguration, Interim Head of Upper School Liz Resnick said.
An alum, who was not on the...
When talk show host Wendy Williams asked reality star Kim Kardashian if she had any tattoos, Kardashian responded, "Would you put a bumper sticker on a Bentley?"
While some students, like Kardashian, think...
Sitting in the lounge of her dorm at the University of Michigan, Katie Kreshek ’16 felt her stomach sink as she watched Donald Trump’s electoral votes rise. Around her, she heard the cheers of some...
When Asher Low ’17 found out that his favorite presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, did not win the Democratic nomination, he knew that he could not support either major party candidate.
“I’m...
After 28 years at the school, Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts will be retiring at the end of this year, Chair of the Board of Trustees Philip Holthouse and President Rick Commons announced in an email...
In accordance with the vision statement to have the school’s "commitment to inclusion enable every member of our community to feel an equal sense of belonging," the administration is engaging an outside...
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...
Valedictorian - Joss Saltzman ’16
Salutatorian - Jared Gentile ’16
Lester Medvene Award - DJ Lesh ’18
Awarded to a sophomore who contributes to the life of the school and embodies Lester Medvene’s...
While some of her classmates spent their summers doing STEM cell research at the University of Southern California or getting coffee for editors of NYLON magazine, Maddy Ulloa ’17 rang up customers and...
Part-time English teacher Mahshid Feiz ’92 will leave at the end of this school year.
For the last two years, Feiz taught English III: Living America.
One of the main reasons for her departure was the...
Upper School World Languages Department Chair Margot Riemer is leaving the school after 24 years of teaching Spanish to move to Berlin with her family.
"My husband and I have always wanted to live in Europe,"...
After a video surfaced last week of some white students from Brentwood School singing a rap song with the n-word, upper school deans decided to open up a conversation about racial insensitivity among Harvard-Westlake...
Performers and audience members attending the Playwrights Festival were required to evacuate Rugby Theater twice Saturday night after someone allegedly pulled the fire alarm three separate times, Playwrights...
Every Wednesday afternoon, Ashley Frey ’17 puts on her uniform and teen volunteer badge and spends two hours visiting patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Throughout the course of...
On a typical school day, while all of her friends begin their homework, Anya Andrews ’17 runs down Hollywood Boulevard in pajamas and slippers, receiving strange looks from those who pass by her.
Soon...
Environmental scientist and businessman Richard Sneider (Nicole '09, Alán '12, Eitan '17) shared his experiences exploring and building a research facility in an isolated region of Papua New Guinea with...
The school has increased its budget for betterment and development grants this year to allow for teachers to continue "honing their craft and to stay current," science teacher and Dean of Faculty Dietrich...
With music blasting from speakers and members of the school and Studio City community cheering them on, Cuban and Czech Special Olympics athletes marched down the Ted Slavin Field in a procession to the...
Members of the school community paid tribute to science teacher Jim Brink on the anniversary of his death, Nov. 12, by writing letters and messages to his family.
"The unfortunate passing of Mr. Brink...
The Harvard-Westlake Film Festival is holding a contest for students to submit their ideas to rename the festival in order to give it a more inclusive image.
The contest ends Oct. 5, when the faculty...
Victoria Keating '16: Bejing
A boy with a toy doctor kit in hand approached Victoria Keating ’16 to give her her daily thousand shots in a span of a couple of seconds.
"The problem was, the first...
Members of the Future Horizons Club handled sign-ins at the registration desk and encouraged cancer survivors and patients June 7 at the annual Cancer Survivor’s Day at UCLA.
The club, whose goal is...
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...
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...
Four students received awards for their scores on the National Latin Exam.
Alexandra Liao ’15 and Howard Deshong ’17 were awarded certificates for their perfect scores on the March exam.
Additionally,...
The breaking of the projector during the May 21 Senior Transition Day screening of “The Hunting Ground,” a documentary about sexual assault on college campuses produced by Amy Ziering (Hannah Kofman...
Following an upper school assembly speech by anti-sexist activist Jackson Katz, the Prefect Council met with about a dozen students last Thursday to discuss his message to test a plan to host talks on...
Students who attended the semester-break trip to Cuba will present their digital storytelling projects in Ahmanson Lecture Hall at 7 p.m. May 20.
The participants will display their various media projects,...
Anti-sexist activist Jackson Katz encouraged students at an upper school assembly Monday to shift the rhetoric of gender violence from a women’s issue to a male issue.
“Historically, people have seen...
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ’88 urged students to help the city and “be the angels of the City of Angels” as the Brown Family Speaker at an assembly March 23.
“In many ways you are on the...
Sophomores are attending a series of 10 supplemental history classes that will cover both additional content and test-taking skills that the World and Europe II course does not teach, to prepare the students...
Community Council put on a community service fair, book drive and other activities this week to make community service activities more accessible to students.
"We feel like a lot of kids just want to get...
A Community Service Fair, book drive and various activities meant to better the community are highlights of Community Service week, which was organized by Community Council to make community service more...
All sophomores answered a series of questions as part of the online Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children, a condensed personality inventory based on the Myers-Briggs indicator, last week to discover...
The Yang Family Chinese Cooperation Endowment, founded by Michael Yang and Anna Fang (Hang ’14), will allow students and faculty to interact with Chinese educational communities, Head of External Relations...
The Environmental Club will hold its first Los Angeles river restoration trip on Jan. 31 in an attempt to beautify and and improve the conditions of the area surrounding the river, while providing students...
In a warehouse packed with more than 300 volunteers, Alex Deronde ’17 grabbed a handful of 5-hour ENERGY bottles and stuffed them into a partially filled care package to which volunteers added sanitizing...
All Peer Support members will participate in a series of icebreaker activities to learn about each other and Peer Support itself at the first group meeting on Monday.
Peer Support coordinator Marc Shkurovich...
A video featuring a sophomore boy asking a junior to the Homecoming formal Sept. 20 and a recitation of an original poem by a senior at the first assembly of the year Sept. 17 highlighted the Community...
Annelise Colvin: Cameroon
Annelise Colvin ’15 was both nervous and excited about volunteering at a French orphanage in Douala, Cameroon, after receiving a Junior Summer Fellowship. In the two and a...
