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Photo Gallery: Celebrating 22 years of Westflix through photographs
Photo Gallery: Celebrating 22 years of Westflix through photographs
Bear Boxes Club hosts book drive
COURSE GUIDE: Prefect Council organized the annual academic fair to help students navigate course selections for the upcoming school year.
Prefect Council hosts academic fair to showcase course offerings
RAISING AWARNESS: The Justin Carr Foundation conducted free heart screenings at the school, raising critical awareness about sudden cardiac arrest. The event honors Justin Carr’s memory and aims to protect student-athletes through early detection and community education.
Free heart screenings in Taper honor Justin Carr and raise awareness for student-athlete health
Head of School Laura Ross poses with Santa Monica and Malibu School District Superintendent Antonio Shelton.
District Superintendent visits Directed Study class
Coast-to-Coast offers summer opportunities at fair
Coast-to-Coast offers summer opportunities at fair
Restaurant Lemonade closes Studio City location
Restaurant Lemonade closes Studio City location
A structure fire broke out internally at 4132 Vanetta Place and spread up the Sunswept hillside to a neighboring four-story building.
What happened at the Sunswept Fire?
Holiday shopping in Sportsmen’s Lodge offers an opportunity to browse stores, buy gifts, and enjoy the wintertime ambience.
Holiday Guide in Los Angeles
Coldwater Canyon Ave. is undergoing maintenance again and is set to finish by November 2025. The street's last roadwork project was in 2023 after a water breakage. Just like with the construction in 2023, the increased traffic and congestion has hindered students' and faculty's commute despite them taking alternate routes.
Roadwork on Coldwater Canyon to finish by 2025
Staff Editorial: Select What You Love
Staff Editorial: Select What You Love
Illustration by Annabelle Cheung
Take initiatives to decrease obesity rates
Illustration by Annabelle Cheung
Continue semester classes
Illustration by Annabelle Cheung
It is time to start fighting climate change
Pick Up Your Console
Pick Up Your Console
Asking for Letters of Recommendation: Your Foolproof Template
A Valentine’s Day Gift Giving Guide
A Valentine’s Day Gift Giving Guide
The Official Club Fair Guide
Head Prefect Predictions
The Official Chronicle Curriculum Guide 3
Soul Provider
Soul Provider
Coming Around to Coming out: How LGBTQ+ Students Find Acceptance and Community
Coming Around to Coming out: How LGBTQ+ Students Find Acceptance and Community
Better Than the Movies: Alumni Couples
Better Than the Movies: Alumni Couples
Lost in Translation: Exploring Language Loss Among Generations of Immigrant Families
Lost in Translation: Exploring Language Loss Among Generations of Immigrant Families
Illustrated by Iris Chung
Wanna Bet: The Rise of Campus Gambling
Illustration by Annabelle Cheung
Paddington’s adventures in Peru
Choir performs songs for competition, recital
Presentations Managing Editor William Liu ’25 performs Camille Saint-Saëns' “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso.”
Symphony hosts spring concert
Summer Park ’27 performs a solo piece to “Running Up That Hill.” Other dance pieces included genres of hip-hop, soft rock, and other contemporary works. Dancers choreographed 8 dances themselves.
Students in dance class perform in spring showcase themed “Time”
Illustration by Annabelle Cheung
“Alligator Bites Never Heals:” leaving a mark
Printed with Permission of Savvy Mahoney
Wolverines Only: Savvy Mahoney
Seniors Lead Championships Follow
Striker Cole Grossman '25 fights over a ball with a Jurupa Hills defender.
Photo Gallery: Boys soccer brings home first CIF-SS championship in school history
ON THE MOVE: Amir Jones ’26 dribbles past a defender during the Mission Leage Championship game Feb. 5 at home. The boys basketball team secured their seventh consecutive league title and ended their season with a 24-1 record. The team now prepares to faceoff in the first round of playoffs.
Boys basketball wins seventh straight Mission League title before advancing to CIF playoffs
Girls water polo wins league
The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle
English and history teachers attended a speaker event regarding the Holocaust, where they heard from a survivor to better understand how to navigate the subject during classes.

School hosts Holocaust survivor for teachers in student lounge

Alex Reisner, Assistant News Editor
March 19, 2025

Lower School English Department Head Alton Price and Coordinator of Jewish Life and Community Engagement Sarah Rapaport organized a free workshop at the Upper School providing resources and best practices...

A globe to represent the need to learn about multicultural issues.

Bring awareness to global issues

Hannah Shahidi, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
February 10, 2023

The smell of traditional Persian stews fills the air as I sit down for my daily family dinner. Normally, when I sit down to eat, my parents and I exchange small talk and catch up with each other about...

History Bowl club prepares for national competition

Konnie Duan
October 29, 2020

Participants of the History Bowl club prepare for the National History Bowl, a buzzer-based history quiz competition for teams of up to six students, in their weekly meetings on Mondays. Questions in...

Alex Daum ’20 studies Jewish community in Spain

Lauren Cho
August 31, 2019

Latin American and Iberian Studies Fellowship recipient Alex Daum ’20 researched the history and present-day societal status of the Jewish community in Spain by traveling to six different cities: Madrid,...

Students from both History Bowl teams pose at the National Mall in Washington D.C. On the trip, they competed in the History Bowl Tournament as two teams and in individual competitions, in the National History Bee.

History bowl teams compete at National History Bowl Tournament in Arlington, Virginia

Erin Ryu, Staff Writer
May 14, 2024

History Bowl Club traveled with two teams to Arlington, Virginia to compete for the first time in the 2024 National History Bowl from April 27 to April 28. Although both teams did not make it past the...

New to Normal: Spotlight on Dr. Sheehy

New to Normal: Spotlight on Dr. Sheehy

Dr. Sheehy and Dr. Stewart spent their first year at the school teaching through Zoom. Now, they reflect on the return to teaching in the classroom.
Fallon Dern
November 20, 2021

   Following a nine year break from teaching and a yearlong substitution teaching history at the Marlborough School, Dr. Peter Sheehy joined the History Department in 2020. Sheehy led his first Advanced...

Credit: Lauren Nehorai and Joanna Im/Chronicle

Mapping Representation

Tammer Bagdasarian
October 2, 2019

Last year, Mimi Offor ’21 read hundreds of textbook pages, spent hours upon hours studying for exams and burned through more than a few packs of pencils during her history course, The World and Europe...

Harvard School cadets pose with rifles during the 1923-1924 school year.

War Games: New Marching Orders

Alumni reflect on Harvard School’s military past and the administration’s Vietnam War era decision to remove the Junior ROTC curriculum and affiliation.
Zoe Goor
September 21, 2023

On a sun-drenched morning at the end of the 1960s, as war raged across the Pacific and Beatlemania spread stateside, the Studio City fire department received an unusual call. There had been a brush fire...

MESA hosts open forum discussion

Sandra Koretz and Tessa Augsberger
June 1, 2021

The Middle Eastern Student Association (MESA) hosted a discussion with History Teacher Dror Yaron about current events and historical tensions between Israel and Palestine on May 18. Two days later, President...

LA Times Editor of the Editorial Pages speaks to students

Konnie Duan and Natalie Cosgrove
December 12, 2020

LA Times Editorial Page Director Sewell Chan spoke to students in Advanced Placement United States History and Advanced Placement Government over Zoom Nov. 17. History teacher Peter Sheehy (Will ’22,...

Peter Sheehy joins History Department

Natalie Cosgrove
August 28, 2020

Peter Sheehy (Will '22, Tate '24) joined the history department this year to teach Advanced Placement United States History and Advanced Placement Government. Sheehy holds a bachelor’s degree in history...

Two new teachers join school for second semester

Siobhan Harms
January 31, 2019

Conrad Cuda and Jackson Kroopf ’06 joined the Upper School History and Art Departments, respectively, mid-year. Cuda, an upper school football coach, previously taught at John Adams Middle School...

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