The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

31 seniors named National Merit Semifinalists

Jonathan Seymour • September 10, 2015

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced Wednesday the names of 16,000 National Merit Semifinalists across the country, including 31 students from Harvard-Westlake. The semifinalists are the...

March of the Living dates conflict with AP testing schedule, Prom

Jonathan Seymour • September 1, 2015

The 2016 March of the Living trip to Poland and Israel, taking place from May 1 to May 15, will conflict with all AP exams as well as the prom. Students will be allowed to make up their exams during the...

No conflicts arise from lunch period

Jonathan Seymour • September 1, 2015

The new mandatory lunch period did not cause any conflicts with student schedules, the upper school deans’ office said. "We always have conflicts, but there were no extra conflicts created because of...

Corrin wins state title, Florent takes 4th

Jonathan Seymour • June 7, 2015

Courtney Corrin '16 won the girls' track and field CIF State Finals in the long jump event Saturday at Buchanan High School in Clovis, and Alexandria Florent '15 took fourth place in the high jump event....

Corrin, Florent qualify for state meet

Jonathan Seymour • May 31, 2015

Courtney Corrin '16 and Alexandria Florent '15 both qualified for the CIF State track and field meet through their performances May 29 in the CIF Southern Section Masters meet at Cerritos College. This...

School names new girls’ tennis coach

Jonathan Seymour • May 27, 2015

Harvard-Westlake has announced Kristie Reynolds-Gipe as the new head of the girls' tennis program. Reynolds-Gipe will replace Chris Simpson, who has been the head of both the boys' and girls' tennis programs...

Alum returns for 31st season of ‘Survivor’ in Cambodia

Jonathan Seymour • May 27, 2015

Alumnus Stephen Fishbach ’97 was one of the 20 former contestants on the reality show "Survivor" voted Wednesday night to return as a contestant on the show’s 31st season, "Survivor: Cambodia – Second...

School announces new swim coach, Flacks to head aquatics program

Jonathan Seymour • May 26, 2015

The Athletics Department has named Jason Schwarz as the new head coach of the swimming program and Brian Flacks '06 as the new head of aquatics. Schwarz and Flacks will be replacing current Swimming...

Girls still unbeaten, boys fall to Notre Dame

Jonathan Seymour • April 29, 2015

Going into the final league dual meet of the season at home against Alemany on Thursday, the girls’ track team boasts a 4-0 dual meet league record, while the boys maintain a 3-2 record. The girls’...

Have you met Molly?

Jonathan Seymour • April 29, 2015

Pockets brimming with pills and powders, a man peddled his goods to the crowd around him as they listened to the latest hits at Ultra Music Festival in Miami earlier this year. Gerard* ’17 and a friend...

Students hold surprise wedding shower for science teacher

Jonathan Seymour • March 25, 2015

AP Chemistry students take National Chemistry Olympiad qualifier exam

Jonathan Seymour • March 19, 2015

Students enrolled in Advanced Placement Chemistry as well as past AP Chemistry students took the 2015 Local Chemistry Olympiad Exam both yesterday and today after school. The test, which includes 60 multiple...