New Trier: Global Exchange Club
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- Wilmette Life, 3 Apr 2008, p. 31, 32, , 110
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- New Trier student members of the Global Exchange Club, Computer Club, Interact Club, Drumline, and Magee's Closet will join the community in the Township's first E-Waste Collection Drive from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., Saturday, April 26, in the parking lot west of the New Trier Northfield campus, 7 Happ Road. Contact Lynn Grueneberg
New Trier's annual Sender School Art Exhibition will be held April 7-25 in the Anne Brierly Gallery, Winnetka campus, featuring artwork from students from the middle and junior high schools that matriculate students to New Trier.
Again this year, New Trier will participate in the national Take Your Child to Work Day on Wednesday. New this year is a Career Tour, which will allow younger students to find out about various careers from Career Center Coordinator Susie Thorngren, Student Activities Coordinator Wendy Parks, Physical Plant Services Manager John Ackermann, Technology Coordinator Jim Foster, Police Liaison Officer Brian O'Connell, Athletic Trainer Dale Grooms, Cafeteria Managers John Strzok and Donna Donovan, Winnetka Campus Principal Debbie Stacey, School Psychologist Lisa Barbe, and Web Developer Boris Spektor.
Residents can stay up-to-date with New Trier's Facilities Planning process by attending community meetings and Winnetka campus tours, open to the public on three remaining dates: April 22, May 20, and June 11.
The annual Wilmette Arts Guild Student Art Exhibit was displayed earlier this winter at the Wilmette Public Library, showcasing 2D and 3D media, including glass art and video art from New Trier. The Wilmette Arts Guild hosted a reception for local area junior high and high school students.
New Trier High School senior Alexandra Barnard won the $1,500 scholarship.
Other winners from New Trier are 1st Place winner Rachel Levy ('08), 2nd Place winner Margie Pratt ('09) and 3rd Place winner Jennifer LeFevre ('09) (all photography). Senior James Zulkie won 3rd Place for his oil painting.
Honorable Mention Award winners from New Trier included Aliza Abraham, Brad Babich, Sarah Block, Lisa Brown, Billy Buck, Kaelyn Dodd, Aliza Hoffman, Ellie Howser, Nikki LeServe, Colin MacGregor, Becky Mayer, Maggie Najarian, Katie Olson, Betsy Ray, Caryn Schwartz, Lauren Simon (breaking new ground with a video art entry), Julia Stoller, A.J. Trela, Jenni Tzanetopoulos, and James Zulkie.
Participating New Trier students included Sam Bloom, Devin Boe, Amanda Boldt, Bernadette Brandt, Alex Crider, Will Ford, Zoe Gutterman, Lisa Hahn, Meggie Horner, Sarah Johnson, Cara Kahan, Molly McAuley, Elizabeth McCarthy, Michelle Mudarth, Elli Plunkett, Sarah Powers, Andrew Scherer, Sarah Schwimmer, Greta Starrett, and Jacob Warsaw.
The 34th annual Nancy Joyce Murray Memorial Scholarship Exhibition was held recently, culminating in an awards presentation on March 13 at the Ann Brierly Gallery at New Trier, where senior Lucas Celler was awarded the 2008 Nancy Joyce Murray Memorial Scholarship winner. The award is funded by the Constance Murray and Robert Murray family in memory of their daughter, Nancy Joyce Murray. Judging the work were professional artists Charlie Cho, teacher at Northwestern University, University of Illinois in Chicago, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Lake Forest College; and Matt Siber, Columbia College teacher and a photographer.
This year the judges decided that the work was of such high caliber that additional awards were warranted. Christine Wilson received an Award of Distinction for her mixed media. Honorable Mention recipients included: Margaret Barnard, photography; Billy Buck, photography and mixed media; Mel Dillon, ceramics; Zoe Gutterman, painting; Katie Porter, sculpture; and Kathleen Walter, drawing and painting.
Other seniors who participated in this exhibition included: Brad Babich, Katie Baer, Alexandra Barnard, Elizabeth Bauman, Sam Bloom, Colleen Brennan, Ilana Brodsky, Lisa Brown, Tita Chaipongratana, Casey Chandler, Jane Cornell, Kaelyn Dodd, Caroline Fuller, Caitlin Gordon, Allison Grover, Lisa Hahn, Tarika Hammernik, Erica Kirsch, Rachel Levy, Emily Marzonie, Mary Kate McAdams, Zach Meyer, Maggie Najarian, Arielle Neiger, Mitch Ragusi, Patrick Rodriguez, Anne Rosean, Shawn Rusin, Meghan Schy, Bennett Sher, Cameron Smithe, Haley Streibich, William Stuart, David Velasco, Justin Wei, Samual Welch, Chelsea Wilcox, Elizabeth Zier, and James Zulkie.
A student project created in Art Department Chair Stephen Murphy's video art class has been selected to represent the United States in the Unilever International Schools Art Project entitled Beauty and Difference: Worlds Apart.
The student-authored project, entitled RSVP: A Digital Conversation RSVP, was designed to engage Chinese youth in an ongoing dialogue about global youth concerns.
New Trier senior Lauren Simon, who participated in the project, her mother, and Art Department Chair Stephen Murphy flew to London -- all expenses paid by Unilever -- for three days of activities, culminating in an awards ceremony.
The Ninth Annual Visiting Artists Workshop was held in early March, inviting all students regardless of previous art experience.
Painter David Gista worked with the students in multi-layered mixed media compositions. Printmaker David Jones, led his class in working with dry point needles to incise an image into a plate which was then rolled through the press. Photographer Bea Nettles, led students through an exploration of the field of artists' books and how to make some of their own. Columbia College teacher and Ragdale Foundation recipient Marilyn Propp led classes in still life drawing in charcoal, using dramatic lighting.
Over 200 student musicians from the band, choir, and orchestra programs participated in the annual Solo and Ensemble Festival last month.
Vocalists included: Lindsay Alston, Grace Anaclerio. Annie Barrett, Julia Bobo, Allison Brenner, Kathleen Carroll, Natalie Ciulla, Natalie Damon, Katharine Estes, Sarah Goomar, Claire Hafter, Sally Hayes, Hannah Hershman, Gary Hosfield, Eleanor Javore, Isabelle Kaplan, Ellen Katcha, Catherine Katz, Hadley Kennary, Aimee LeFevre, Elizabeth Lyons, Laura McDonald, Erin McDonough, Eliza McLean, Claire Mesrobian, Sarah Mitchell, Emma Moss, Katie Straub, Lauren Neuschel, Bridget Pals, Natalie Pelletier, Alex Perraud, Rob Ballentine, Eliza Por, Kara Ramlow, Alexandria Rust, Karen Schriesheim, Alex Shenkman, Tessa Simpson, Erin Slomski-Pritz, Jessica Snyer, Stephen Snyder, Nina Stoneham, Emily Swann, Caroline Thinnes, Heidi Voelker, Ellen Walsh and Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon.
Wind and percussion players included: Olivia Armstrong, Robby Balikov, Sarah Balzer, Peter Bang, Laura Birkhold, Drew Bobesink, Jonah Brandhandler, Allison Brenner, Danny Bressler, Haley Brown, Meb Buckingham, Jacob Cahnman, Liz Caris, Hannah Chang, Jesse Clevenger, Marie Conway, Katherine Cook, Austin Culver, Ford Culver, Claire Danstrom, Adrian DeSmul, Quinn Delaney, Andrew Dolinar, Hannah Doren, Kyle Doren, Erin Engelhard, Michael Fatum, Sandy Findlay, Brandon Foster, Adam Freeman, Carrie Furniss, Ryan Glynn, Adam Goone, Maeli Goren, Drew Hansen, Molly Harris, Ellie Hersh, Jackie Hirschey, Kevin Honaker, Molly Hunt, Rachel Huvard, Katie Kalmikoff, Harvey Kaplan, Nickolas Kaplan, Hitoshi Kawashima, Katie Kim, Andrew Koehler, Michael Korobov, Andrew Kovacic, Evan Link, Ma'ayan Malter, Sam Mattenson, Braham Mehta, Sara Mitrano, Marcello Molinaro, Eileen Moon, Brooke Morse-Karzen, Hannah Naughton, Evan Nixon, Parker Nixon, Hanna Oimoen, Elliot Ostrowski, Chris Paik, Michelle Paine, Theresa Paine, Tessa Pals, Nathan Peppey, Zachary Popp, Katie Powell, Eastman Presser, David Reiff, Ben Richmond, Isabel Rodriquez, Robert Semeh, Katie Schnecke, Junjie Shangguan, Shane Simpson, Sarah Specht, Frank Sripada, Meredith Stock, Dan Suchsland, Chris Sullivan, Alex Terchek, Karl Thelen, Sam Thomas, Patrick Tuman, Hannah Turner, Ben Varick, Emily Wahlgren, Emily Warnick, Chris Wellems, Christina Zhang, Mitch Zielinski, and Ben Zisook.
String players included: Shea Acott, Max Bass, Peter Baxter, Katie Burds, Nana Byun, Candice Chang, Edrick Chu, Camille Connor, Sarah Conviser, Adam Davis, Allison Doren, Melanie Eckert, Natalie Fahey, Hollis Finke, James Garrick, Sarah Golden, Mengsha Gong, Mallory Greenspon, Lizzy Hamilton, Sam Heo, Seong Min Heo, Anna Horstkotte, Amelia Johnson, Pete Jorgensen, Willie Kamin, Joyce Kang, Sarah Kempel, Paul Kim, Christian Kim, Joseph Kim, Katherine Knight, Jacob Laser, Eddie Lee, James Lee, Maren Magill, Cara Mekus, Grace Min, Alex Miner, Ingrid Mui, Abby Needles, Isaac Noda, Carrie O'Brien, Elizabeth O'Connell, Sarah Oh, CeCe Olin, Daniel C. Park, Andrew Park, Kit Pavlekovsky, Hemanth Potluri, Dan Pritchard, Sean Quan, Isabel Rubin, Nik Saboo, Katie Schwaber, Heather Shawaluk, Dan Sohn, Aaron Suiter, Christopher Sullivan, Janie Warnock, Natalie Weilandt, Rachel Weitzman, and Jack Whelan.
New Trier Television is the community's exclusive educational access cable channel. The station is broadcast via Comcast Cable on Channel 18 in Winnetka, Glencoe and Kenilworth, and on Channel 16 in Wilmette and Northfield. Article continued on p.112 - Date of Publication
- 3 Apr 2008
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