| ADDAMS FAMILY MUSICAL
Come see the Upper School Musical Production the Addams Family! For those who remember the sitcom or the movie, there is now a Broadway musical with all your faves: Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday ("who's almost old enough to be Thursday"), crazy Grandma, cigar-smoking Pugsley, and the ever-incorrigible Uncle Fester. Oh, and who knows? Maybe even a short cameo from cousin It!
One teacher peeked into rehearsal one afternoon and exclaimed "O.M.G, they really are the Addams Family!" Come out to this fun-filled performance and see what happens when Wednesday's fiancee from Ohio brings his parents to meet the Addams Family!
NEW show times are Friday, February 26 at 7pm, Saturday, February 27 at 7pm, and Sunday, February 28 at 2pm. Tickets are $10 for adults and free for students. Tickets available at the door.
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TONIGHT IS COLLEGE NIGHT AT PREP!
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Prep’s annual College Night is tonight, February 9, 5:30-7:00 pm in the Prep Auditorium. Every year we invite an admissions officer to speak to our parents about the latest trends in college admissions and higher education and to provide some sage advice on the college search and application process. This year’s guest speaker is Tony Cabasco, Dean of Admission & Financial Aid at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. Whitman is a highly selective liberal arts college that is part of the Colleges That Change Lives consortium and a popular destination for Prep students. All Prep parents are invited, and junior parents are strongly encouraged to come as they prepare to support their child as he/she embarks on this journey of discovery. Our parents in the past have found this presentation a very helpful overview of how to apply for financial assistance. Parents will learn about the type of information colleges are using when determining financial aid awards, what questions to ask during the search process, and how to determine good financial fit colleges. We strongly urge any junior families contemplating applying for aid to come to this event. It is also a good time for senior parents who may have specific questions about forms they are filling out, as financial aid deadlines are rapidly approaching. And ninth and tenth grade parents, it is never too early to start thinking about how to pay for college.You will definitely feel more prepared for the process if you attend this session!
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PARENT DROP-IN DAY
Please join us for our annual Parent Drop-In Day at Prep on Friday, February 19.This is a day when parents can visit classes, have lunch with students, and see the school "in motion."
Plan to come for the day, or just a few classes. Copies of your child's schedule can be picked up at the front office, and school leaders will be available during break (9:45 am-10:00 am), where we will have coffee and light refreshments for you to enjoy as well.
No need to RSVP—just stop on by at your leisure! We look forward to seeing you.
Warmly,
Jim Leonard
Head of School
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| PREP GRASSROOT SOCCER Grassroot Soccer is an international movement to use soccer as a way to bring together young men and women in Africa for critical HIV/AIDS education and treatment. This Prep tournament, organized by Eliot Thornburg '18, Taylor Ellis '17, Harrison Miller '18 and Henry Barliant '18 as their TAP (Teen Action Program), will raise funds to support the movement. Come out on Sunday, February 21st, 1pm - 3pm and play the most beautiful game!
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CHILDREN NEED NATURE
On Sunday, February 21 at 7pm at the Lensic Theater, best-selling author of The Nature Principle and Last Child in the Woods Richard Louv
will speak about Nature-Deficit Disorder and the importance of reconnecting with nature—for both children and adults.
“The future will belong to the nature-smart—those individuals,
families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper
understanding of the transformative power of the natural world
and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech
we become, the more nature we need.” - RICHARD LOUV
Presented by the Santa Fe Waldorf School. Support for this event provided by The Lensic.
Tickets are available at the Lensic Theater Box Office, in person, by phone at 505.988.1234, or online.
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OOOM!
On Thursday, February 25, at 5:00 pm, the Prep Library and the English Department will host one of the most popular literary events of the year. OOOM!, or Out Of Our Minds!, is our annual Middle School Poetry Reading, where our budding writers and poets share their work with friends and family and classmates. Ms. K and Brother Alan invariably inspire a plethora of young writers, and if this year is at all like previous performances, the audience will laugh, applaud, wonder, and perhaps even shed a tear or two with our readers. There will be refreshments in the library foyer prior to the event. So please come out to support our middle schoolers. You won't be sorry you did!
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| Congratulations Tove Shere for earning the AAA Track Coach of the Year Award. This is on the heels of the Girls Track Team State Championship in 2015. Tove's dedication and talents continue to make the track program at Santa Fe Prep one of the best in the state.
The Griffin Swim Team hosted and competed in the District Champhionship this past weekend and there was a plethora of fantastic performances! The boys team finished 2nd and the girls finished 6th. Given the quality of the competition, it was inspiring to have our teams finish that well. Coach Dave Caldwell has brought the swim program to a new level.The Girls Basketball Team has been playing fantastic ball as of late, earning two victories in recent district play. Although they lost a heartbreaker to Monte Del Sol last night, they look to get back on the winning track this Thursday against Desert Academy at SFUAD's Driscoll Gymnasium at 6 pm.
The Boys Basketball Team had one of the most thrilling finishes in recent memory when Francis Catillo Y Mulert '16 hit a game winning shot from half court to beat district foe ATC! The Blue Griffins will host Monte del Sol again tonight, in a very important showdown.
The Girls' Middle School Basketball Team You can access all our Griffin game schedules here: Prep Athletics Calendar
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Santa Fe Prep Rummage Sale Drop-Off
Santa Fe Prep's annual Rummage Sale will take place on Saturday, April 16. In the meantime,
Rummage Chair Jill Gerber will accept donations on the following dates and times:
- February 22, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- March 7, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- March 28, 7:45 am - 8:45 am
Please make sure to donate only clean and unbroken items. Call Jill (505.795.7516) with questions or to arrange alternate drop off times, and look out for the car with the "Rummage Sale" sign on the roof in the circle. If you're ready to sign up for volunteering at the sale then please click here to find what times work best. Thank you!
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| Tuesday, Feb 9:
College Night, Auditorium,
5:30pm
Fri, Feb 12:
Faculty & Staff
Professional Development,
NO SCHOOL
Mon, Feb 15:
Presidents' Day,
NO SCHOOL
Wed, Feb 17:
Mongolia Trip Meeting, Founders' Room, 7pm
Friday, Feb 19, Parent Drop-In Day
Mon, Feb 22:
Winter Wonder Day
Thurs, Feb 25:
OOOM, MS Reading
Prep Library, 5pm
Mon, Feb 29:
Winter Wonder Day
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| Wondering what's for lunch this month?
Click here: Lunch Menu
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| The Santa Fe Prep Chess Team participated in the last of three Northern Schools Chess League tournaments recently. This year, Prep fielded two qualifying teams, one in the upper school and one in the middle school. Over a span of three months, 8 students played almost 100 chess games, and in the end, our Middle School team placed 3rd and our Upper School team earned first place by winning all four of their final rounds! Congratulations to team captain Harsh Bhundiya '16, 2nd seat Asher Nathan (a 5th grader at RGS and future Blue Griffin), and to regular chess club contributors and all around great guys Alan Rohrback '16 and Adam Melk '16!
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| The Presidential Scholars Program was established by Executive Order in 1964 to honor the nation's top scholars based on outstanding academic achievement.
Out of 3.3 million high school students, 4,000 are nominated each year to apply to be Presidential Scholars as a result of their ACT or SAT scores.This year Santa Fe Prep has four students that have been honored with a nomination:
Alan Rorhbach '16
Drake Merians '16
Gordon Goodwin '16
Shannon Kossman '16
These student will apply to be selected as one of 160 students to meet the President at the White House in June. We wish them the best of luck!
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| Mike Laposata '16 is a TA in Ms. Rae's World History class this semester, where he periodically team-teaches. Last Friday, Mike taught a short lesson comparing three Roman emperors (Augustus, Constantine, and Justinian), and led a discussion on how the concept of Roman identity changes over time. As part of Mike's Senior Internship Project (SIP) this spring, he will teach an entire week of classes on the Crusades, a favorite topic of his. After Graduation, Mike will major in history at the University of Richmond.
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| Mark your calendars now for our annual Parents' Association’s Dancing with the Santa Fe Stars. We are hosting this fabulously fun event on Friday, April 29 at
the Santa Fe Convention Center to accommodate growing demand. Mayor Javier Gonzales has agreed to be our honorary chair and we will send a separate email soon announcing the names of our talented dancers and judges. Stay tuned for more on what will be a mesmerizing and unforgettable evening!
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| This July 2016, a group of 12 Prep Upper School students and two teachers, Ms. Rae and Ms. Pendleton, will travel to Mongolia, land of the eternal blue sky and Genghis Khan.They will have an opportunity to stay and work with nomad families, visit Buddhist temples, travel by camel in the Gobi Desert to see the Flaming Cliffs, and celebrate traditional Mongolian culture at the great Naadam Festival. To help defray costs for the trip, the students are running a fundraiser through FlowerPower Fundraising, which can be visited here.
50% of each purchase goes directly to the students’ expenses. If you would like to help but don’t want flower bulbs, you can donate the bulbs to Prep’s Gardening TAP, run by Brother Doug Lynam. The bulbs will be planted around campus as part of that TAP’s campus beautification efforts. Thank you for your support of this once-in-a-lifetime student trip!
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