Category: Features

Performing Arts teacher and Conservatory member participate in Foothill Music Theatre production
August 26th, 2010 at 4:17 pm

Standing on a boat on stage, John Ammatuna (12) sings his rehearsed music. Meanwhile, Upper School Performing Arts teacher Catherine Snider directs a band suspended eight feet above the stage. Both...
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Clare Elchert is one of twenty people in USA to test plug-in Toyota Prius
August 26th, 2010 at 4:15 pm

Clare Elchert, Upper School nurse, is one of twenty people across the nation to test out a plug-in Toyota vehicle that will be released in 2012.

Already a Prius owner, Elchert received a phone...
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Editorial: Putting 100 percent into everything that we do
August 26th, 2010 at 4:13 pm

We could all be stars. Living in such a beautiful world, in the midst of this wealth of opportunity, our lives could be the stuff of dreams.

Yet, too often we live passively, aimlessly, and apathetically.

We...
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Nikoloff: prom king to Head of School
August 24th, 2010 at 8:30 am

Tie-collector, avid golfer, high school prom king. The non-academic side of our teachers hardly ever reveals itself, and even less so with administrators. Introducing the Winged Post’s admin feature...
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Three seniors delay college by a year for personal pursuits
May 21st, 2010 at 6:34 pm

Undergraduate school: the future home for the next four years for the senior class. However three students out of the 166 will be travelling completely on their own path. For them, college can wait...
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An alternative to donating Saloni Gupta microlends with Kiva
April 23rd, 2010 at 12:09 pm

One click to change a life across the globe: sounds like a standard blind donation that never actually reaches its intended recipient. Saloni Gupta (11), however, has found a way to make that click...
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TESLA MOTORS: Changing the face of the automobile industry
April 23rd, 2010 at 12:05 pm

Vroom vroom! Millions of automobiles pull into gas stations every day, but those routine stops may soon be replaced with lithium ion car batteries that can be easily recharged in home garages. The Tesla...
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Students run in SF marathon to honor late history teacher John Near
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:55 am

Down a scenic route and up a hilly trail, 35 students, teachers, and parents pushed through seven miles or more in honor of history teacher John Near.

One person, Aadithya Prakash (12), participated...
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AP Calculus teacher by day, thespian by night
March 15th, 2010 at 11:58 am

It is a small, cozy theatre where the seats start right at the edge of the stage. The lights go dim and the first act begins. Soon, a familiar voice is heard and the rabbi enters the stage. From his...
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Lent: Students sacrifice
March 15th, 2010 at 11:53 am

Forty days without candy. Forty days without Facebook. Or maybe it’s 40 days without music. Lent, the duration of time framed by Mardi Gras and Easter, is traditionally practiced by Catholics who...
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