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GET READY TO RUMMAGE!
The annual Prep Rummage Sale is around the corner—Saturday, April 27! Our sale is always a success because YOU volunteer your time. Thank you everyone who signed up just before Spring Break. We still have 80 more slots to go and there are jobs on all days, at all times, to fit any schedule. Please consider what you can do to help us raise money for tuition assistance and Breakthrough Santa Fe. Our volunteer sign-up has jobs both big and small and anyone who volunteers 10 hours or more gets access to the pre-sale on Friday, April 26!!  Check out volunteer opps here: Rummage Sale Volunteers 2019

And yes, we still are collecting donations: 
 
- Thursday, April 11, 8:00 am - 8:30 am (behind gym) 
- Saturday, April 20, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm (behind gym) 
- Wednesday, April 24, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (directly to the gym)
- Thursday, April 25, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (directly to the gym)


Please no encyclopedias, text books, ski gear older than 5 years or old electronics. If you have any questions or have a large-item donation you need help with, call Rummage Chair Julie Murray at 505.501.2150 to arrange a pick up.


Details about the weekend of the event: The Rummage Sale begins in the gym with a preview sale for the Prep community on Friday, April 26 from 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Tickets are $10 per person or $20 per family at the door. Get first pick of our many treasures! On Saturday, April 27 from 8:00 am - 1:00 pm, the event is free and open to the entire Santa Fe communityplease tell your friends! All profits go to Breakthrough Santa Fe and tuition assistance at Prep.
ANNUAL FUND
Spring is here and kids are making connections, rehearsing lines for literary recitals, preparing to release trout into spring streams, constructing atomic models, cultivating our gardens, and building their futures! Prep’s Annual Fund helps create the platform for every student’s future, and we need your backing. Each of you is a critical part of our effort to raise $620,000 by June 30 to help open possibilities for our students and build the future of our community at-large. We need you now! If you have not already, please click here and give to our Annual Fund at whatever level you canTogether, we all make a difference. Thank you!
ATHLETIC NEWS 
SFP Baseball is undefeated two games into the season, posting double-digit wins over Tierra Encantada and Desert Academy. They begin district play on the road this week travelling to Robertson on Wednesday and Raton for a double header this Saturday. 

The Girls LAX team staged two decisive conference victories recently with wins over Duke City and Bosque. They play Rio Rancho tonight (Tues) and El Paso this weekend. Meanwhile the Boys LAX hosted two teams from Colorado over the weekend. With a rusty start, they lost to Pine Creek, but rebounded on Saturday with a win over Chapin. They also continue league play with games this Wednesday against Los Alamos and Thursday hosting Sandia Prep.

The Tennis schedule heats up this week with matches in Española and at Capital High School

Boys and Girls Track teams both took second place last week at the Route 66 Invite in Gallup. In addition, the girls took second and the boys fifth at the very competitive West Las Vegas Meet this past weekend. They both continue to qualify relay teams and individuals for state events. School records have been broken by Sam Sparks '19, who went 42 feet in the triple jump, and Hayden Colfax '20, who set school records in the high jump and the 100 hurdles. The teams compete in Santa Fe at the Golden Spike this week. 

You can access all Santa Fe Prep game schedules here: 
Prep Athletics Calendar.
ALUMNI NEWS
Thank you so much to our amazing alumni who gathered on March 6 to help Adelante feed local families experiencing homelessness. Not pictured are the many alums who donated food, but couldn't attend the dinner. Thank you, thank you! 
(Above: The class of 1979; they recreated their pic at their 30th reunion.)
Reunion planning is in full swing! If you graduated in 1969, 1979, 1989, 1999 or 2009, please get in touch with Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving Becky Anderson! Also, to ensure you're receiving reunion news, please update your contact information here >> Alumni Contact Info
BREAKTHROUGH SANTA FE SPOTLIGHT 
Meet Victoria Alarcón! Monte del Sol Junior, Breakthrough student, and Antarctic explorer, Victoria has always been someone known for pushing the limits. A committed student and athlete, Victoria is also involved in her school’s Model UN team, and she volunteers as a Super Saturday teacher for Breakthrough. In the past few years, Victoria has sought to broaden her horizons even more. Last summer, Victoria went on a two-week immersion trip to Tsuyama, Japan with her classmates. Learning about a new culture through the eyes of its young people inspired Victoria, pushing her to keep acquiring new stamps in her passport.

Victoria’s next adventure will take her somewhere much colder and less traveled: Antarctica. Victoria is one of four U.S. high school students, out of hundreds of applicants, who will embark next winter on the Joint Antarctic School Expedition (JASE) sponsored by Dartmouth College, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Chilean Antarctic Institute. While exploring one of the most remote places on Earth, students from the U.S. and Chile will participate in “tours of international science facilities, studies of animal behavior at Elefanteras beach and on the Ardley Peninsula, vegetation surveys at the margin of Collins Glacier, and a visit to Bellinghausen Dome for glaciological studies,” according to the program’s website. JASE aims to increase interest in arctic and polar studies, and to connect future generations of U.S. and Chilean scientists. Because of the program's goal to foster cross-cultural collaboration, U.S. participants must be fluent in Spanish. Breakthrough is so excited to watch Victoria set out on this next adventure—we hope she brings some warm socks!

IMPORTANT DATES
Fri, April 5: 
Danny Maas Children's Cancer Run
Las Golondrinas
9:00 am 

Fri, April 5:
Prom Closet
Inventory Sale
Prep Gym
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Sat, April 6:
Prom Closet
Inventory Sale
Prep Gym
9:00 am - 5:00 pm


Tues, April 9:
PA Meeting
Founders' Room
5:00 pm

Wed, April 10:
ISAS Arts Fesitval
St. Stephen's Episcopal School, Austin, TX (Returning Sat, April 13)
 

Sat, April 13:
ACT Testing
Commons Building
8:00 am

Wed, April 17:
US Talent Show
Prep Auditorium

9:35 am
 

Fri, April 19:
Good Friday
No School


Mon, April 22:
Senior Internships Begin


Fri, April 26:
8th Grade Step Up Day

Fri, April 26: 
Rummage Preview Sale
Prep Gym
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
 

Sat, April 27:
Rummage Sale
Prep Gym
8:00 am - 1:00 pm


Fri, May 3:
MS "Gaga Games"
Dining Hall, 5:30 pm
Wondering what's for lunch this month?

Click here: Lunch Menu
GRIFFIN
SHOUT OUTS
Congratulations to History Teacher Russell Spinney, whose co-edited volume on Emotions in German Studies from 1500 to the present, with a special focus on the body and materiality of emotions, has been officially accepted for publication by Berghahn Press later this year. In Feelings Materialized: Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500-1950, Russell co-wrote the introduction, co-edited the chapters from 15 different scholars across a range of disciplines in German studies, and wrote a stand-alone chapter on emotions and anti-Semitic practice in the Weimar Republic, based on his postdoctoral research. Russell proudly shares that much of this has been accomplished with professional development support from Santa Fe Prep!
We thank Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat, who visited Prep last week courtesy of the Lannan Foundation. Students from the upper school participated in a conversation with the MacArthur Foundation Fellow, discussing topics ranging from death in literature to immigration rights. Danticat's visit followed her reading the night before at the Lensic as part of Lannan's Reading & Conversation series.
PA NEWS
Please join us for our next Parents’ Association Meeting on Tuesday, April 9 at 5:00 pm in the Founders’ Room. Please note that this is an evening meeting—we hope that parents who have not been able to attend our morning meetings can join us. Our guest speaker for this meeting is Director of Studies Kendel Fesenmyer, who will provide us with the opportunity to hear about our school’s impressive academic programs (teaching and learning).

We also invite parents who may be interested in becoming PA class representatives next year to reach out to us for more information. Class representatives are essential in keeping each grade level informed and connected; and they provide opportunities for parents to build a sense of community. Please contact us at pa@sfprep.org for more information.

- Cameron Anderson and Hunter Redman, 
PA Co-Presidents

 
 
 
 
 
 
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