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  News List of 5 news stories. STEMM Hawks Garner Accolades at NEOSEF; Two Juniors Named Grand Prize Winners 3/14/2025 Eleven Hawks did a stellar job representing Hawken School’s STEMM Program at last night’s 72nd Annual Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF), where stude ...

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• Hawken is on Twitter
  News • 4/2/2013
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• Laura Ingalls Wilder
  News • 5/8/2007

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• Sean Decatur (`86) Emerging Scholar of the Year
  News • 4/26/2007

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• Summer Camp Menu
  News • 6/13/2007
  Summer Camp Menu 2007 Please click to open PDF file.

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• Gates Mills
  News • 11/28/2006
  November 2006 Gates Mills Lunch Menu Please click to open PDF file.

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• Sixth Grade Williamsburg Trip
  News • 5/15/2006
  Click here to relive the April 23-28 sixth grade tour of Williamsburg, Virginia.

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• Top Ten Men`s Times By Grade
  News • 10/31/2005
  Please download the Men`s Records .

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• Ella Wong '23 sets a school record & Girls Golf win the CVC Postseason Tournament!
  News • 9/14/2021
  Girls Golf win the CVC postseason tournament shooting a 348. Ella Wong ‘23 broke a school record for 18 holes shooting a 69 and won her 3rd CVC individual title! Kate Petersen ‘23 shot an 84 which placed her on the All CVC 1st team alongside Wong! CVC Article News-Herald Article

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• Senior Recognized for Launching Startup to Help Clevelanders
  News • 12/4/2018
  Neil Tewari ’19 was recently featured in a special Thanksgiving feature in the Chagrin Valley Times that expresses “gratitude to the people in our communities who do not hesitate to improve our corner of the world.”

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• Hawken Students Featured in the News!
  News • 11/20/2018
  Hawken's community engagement activities have been featured in the Cleveland Jewish News and Cleveland Magazine !

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• HPS Presents Mary Poppins
  News • 2/23/2018
  If you missed Hawken Players' Society's production of Mary Poppins last weekend, there's still time to catch one of this weekend's performances.

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• Hawken Players’ Society Presents Les Miserables
  News • 3/3/2017
  HPS members drew crowds to Kennedy Auditorium over the last two weekends to see their production of  Les Miserables .

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• News Flash: "A $26.5M makeover turns Hawken Upper School into an architectural gem"
  News • 8/18/2016
   We’re so excited to share with our community this wonderful article about Stirn Hall published this morning on   cleveland.com . 

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• Hawk Debaters Dominate in Sacramento
  News • 6/1/2016
  Four members of Hawken's Debate Team traveled to Sacramento this weekend to compete at National Catholic Forensic League Tournament.

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• Noah Whitehead '09 Finds Fulfillment in Afghanistan
  News • 5/13/2016
  http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/hawken-grad-noah-whitehead-finds-fulfillment-as-soldier-in-afghanistan/article_a6adc76a-1928-11e6-8cae-2781016eea5e.html

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• Steve Dettelbach '84 in the News
  News • 1/21/2016
  Steve Dettelbach '84 will step down as the U.S. District Attorney on February 5 to persue private practice. Thank you for your service to our country, Steve! ;

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• Former Faculty Member Connie Palmer Passes
  News • 11/12/2015
  With deep sadness, the Hawken School community shares the news that beloved faculty member, Connie Palmer, passed away yesterday. For 34 years (1966 – 2000), Connie touched the lives of Lower School students.   Hawken will share further details as they become available.

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• Shurtz Receives Award from Williams College
  News • 5/17/2014
  Congratulations to Upper School Science Teacher Bob Shurtz who will receive the Williams College George Olmsted Jr. Class of 1924 Prize for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching.

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• Coach Holtrey Featured on TV Sports Program
  News • 4/23/2014
  High School Sports Insider featured the amazing career of swim coach Jerry Holtrey on its weekly sports news program.

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• Senior Skater Wins Silver; Advances to Nationals
  News • 11/25/2013
  Hawken senior Micha Jaffe and his partner Maeve Pascoe ; won a silver medal in novice ice dance at the Midwest Sectional Figure Skating Championships earning them a trip to the National competition in January.

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• Senior Wins National Soccer Title
  News • 8/2/2013
  Rising senior Kat Zalar and her ;under-17 team Cleveland United White were crowned U.S. Youth Soccer champions during a national tournament Kansas City held the last weekend in July. ;

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• Markovich Named Student Athlete of the Week
  News • 7/2/2013
  Track and cross country runner Ally Markovich '13 has been named Student Athlete of the Week by Channel 5 News.

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• 7th Grade Cultural Garden Project Featured in Sun News
  News • 5/18/2013
  Hawken 7th graders are featured in a Sun News article about their impressive work at the American Cultural Garden.

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• First Grader's Art Show Featured on Fox 8 News
  News • 2/8/2013
  First grader Madison White was featured on Fox 8 news yesterday. Watch the interview of Madison as she talks about her ;“Fabulous First Grade Art Show." At six years old Madison is the youngest artist to display her work at the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library located on Lee Road. ...

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• Insights Class Highlighted on Fox 8 News
  News • 1/30/2013
  Fox 8 News aired "Students, Superheroes &; Success," a feature about Hawken's Insights class on Superheroes where students design their own superhero who tackles real-world problems. ; Click here ;to watch the inspiring story!

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• Two Hawks excel at Cross Country State Meet
  News • 11/6/2012
  Senior Ally Markovich placed 4th in the D-III State Cross Country meet with a personal best time of 18:19. Read more about the race in this News Herald article. ; Congratulations also go to Adam Berry '13 who placed 39th in D-III State meet with 16:37. Go Hawks!

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• Sixth Grader Plays Carnegie Hall
  News • 11/2/2012
  Hawken student George Shum '19 recently performed at New York City's Carnegie Hall after having placed in the 2012 World Piano Competition held in Cincinnati. ;Watch a video of George's inspiring performance and read more in this item from the Sun News . ;Hawken is lucky to be home to such talent.

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• Girls Soccer District Champs!
  News • 10/26/2012
  ...soccer team which team beat Gilmour yesterday 3-1 to be District champs and go on to the Regional rounds. The next game is Tuesday, October 30 in Nordonia at 7pm. Come on out and support the team! Read more about the team's District match in this News-Herald article ;with audio and video intervie ...

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• Girls Golf Places 4th in State
  News • 10/15/2012
  The girls golf team for placed first at the Districts II tournment and advanced to the state tournament where they placed 4th. Read more about their successful season in this Sun News article . Congratulations, Hawks!

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• Markovich Wins Third CVC Title
  News • 10/14/2012
  Senior Ally Markovich won her third CVC Cross County meet title in Saturday's meet held at Hawken. ;Adam Berry '13 placed 4th in the meet. ;Read more in this News Herald article.

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• Hawken Celebrates One World Day
  News • 8/23/2012
  Hawken students will co-host One World Day on Sunday, August 26 at the Cleveland Cultural Gardens. Read about the event and Hawken's role as the official stewards of the American Garden in these News Herald and Plain Dealer articles.

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• Hawken Swimmers Compete in Olympic Trials
  News • 8/10/2012
  ...rsquo;13 finished 82nd in the 100m backstroke and Morgan Cohara ’12 finished 109th in the 100m backstroke. Now that's impressive! In a Sun News article , Sarah Koucheki talks about her experience at the trials and looks ahead to her senior year at Hawken and the 2016 summer olympics in Braz ...

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• Student Debuts with Cleveland Orchestra
  News • 4/15/2012
  ...is debut with the Cleveland Orchestra. A pianist with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Arthur is described as "an exceptionally talented young man" by conductor James Feddeck in this Channel 5 news video . Arthur performed Saint-Saens's "Carnival of the Animals" as part of a family concer ...

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• Hawks Featured on SportsTime Ohio
  News • 2/21/2012
  SportsTime Ohio recently featured Hawken's varsity and JV basketball teams, which practice once a week with the team from Metzenbaum School for the developmentally disabled. Click here to watch the heartwarming news story.

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• Boys Soccer Team 2nd in State
  News • 11/14/2011
  ...nship at Columbus Crew Stadium. Six bus loads of students made the trip to cheer on the team, but after a well-fought battle, the Hawks settled for second place. The team has much to be proud of for a great season of play. Read about Friday's state playoff game on cleveland.com and The News Heral ...

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• Hawken Athletes Profiled in Cleveland Jewish News
  News • 8/9/2011
  ... man were featured in the July 29 Cleveland Jewish News. Swimmers Vexler and Senkfor participated in teh Maccabi Games in Vienna Austria July 5-13 and returned home with multiple gold medals. Waxman , who attends Auburn University, rode in the recent Cleveland Grand Prix competing in multiple cla ...

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• Hawken Senior Featured in News-Herald for Work with Habitat for Humanity
  News • 5/6/2011
  ... of Youth United, was recently credited by the News-Herald for his efforts in raising awareness and funding for Habitat for Humanity. Kyle has been instrumental in growing the Habitat for Humanity Club at Hawken and in establishing the club's affiliation with the countywide Habitat. Read more her ...

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• Sophomore State Champion Named McDonald's Student Athlete of the Week
  News • 4/28/2011
  Congratulations to Marissa Cominelli '13 for being named the McDonald's Student Athlete of the Week. Click here to view the video clip from WEWS News Channel 5.

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• Hawken's Haibara Exchange Program Featured in Plain Dealer and on Channel 3 News
  News • 4/5/2011
  ...ara, Japan have participated in a wonderful cultural exchange. This year, Hawken is hosting Japanese guests who arrived March 25 for a week of exploring Cleveland and American culture. Click here to read a Plain Dealer article on the exchange program and here to view a news story on Channel 3, WK ...

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• Sophomore Featured on WKYC News
  News • 3/3/2011
  Congratulations to Caroline Vexler '13, who was recently highlighted on WKYC news for being named Student-Athlete of the Week. Read about Caroline's impressive accomplishments here .

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• Senior Named Student-Athlete of the Week
  News • 9/17/2010
  Hannah Kerman '11 was recently named WKYC Student-Athlete of the Week and was featured on Channel 3 news on Tuesday, September 14. Congratulations, Hannah! Click here to read more.

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• Coach Holtrey To Be Inducted into ASCA Hall of Fame
  News • 8/11/2010
  ... This year Coach Holtrey celebrated not only his 40th year of coaching at Hawken but his swim teams’ 20th state championship. He will be honored at the Hall of Fame presentation during the Annual Awards Banquet at the World Clinic on September 4 in Indianapolis. Read more from the News-Hera ...

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• Coach Holtrey To Be Inducted into ASCA Hall of Fame
  News • 8/11/2010
  ... Fame. This year Coach Holtrey celebrated not only his 40th year of coaching at Hawken but his swim teams` 20th state championship. He will be honored at the Hall of Fame presentation during the Annual Awards Banquet at the World Clinic on September 4 in Indianapolis. Read more from the News-Hera ...

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• Boys Basketball Wins Metro Division Title
  News • 2/25/2010
  ...sketball team for winning the CVC Metro Divion title. This is the second time in the last three years the boys have clinched the title, this year sharing it with Cuyahoga Heights, who also boast an 8-2 record. Read more about the win and about senior John Weiss' winning performance in the Sun New ...

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• Boys Basketball Wins Metro Division Title
  News • 2/25/2010
  ...sketball team for winning the CVC Metro Divion title. This is the second time in the last three years the boys have clinched the title, this year sharing it with Cuyahoga Heights, who also boast an 8-2 record. Read more about the win and about senior John Weiss` winning performance in the Sun New ...

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• Girls Swim Team Wins Handily Over 2nd Place HB
  News • 2/19/2010
  The girls swim team won the Division II meet held at Hawken by a wide margin over both HB and Laurel. Read more details in the Sun News .

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• Hawken Winter Sports Teams Dominate
  News • 2/4/2010
  The girls and boys basketball and swim teams outperformed opponents in recent games and meets to continue their strong records. Read more about it in the Sun News .

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• Hawken Winter Sports Teams Dominate
  News • 2/4/2010
  The girls and boys basketball and swim teams outperformed opponents in recent games to continue their strong records. Read more about it in the Sun News. .

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• Alumna Speaks About Haiti`s Orphan Problem on National News Prog
  News • 1/21/2010
  ...Committee, was recently interviewed by John Hockenberry of The Takeaway, a national morning news program. In the interview, Sarah speaks about how to best go about dealing with the overwhelming number of children orphaned as a result of the earthquake in Haiti. Click here to listen to the intervi ...

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• MS Academic Challenge Wins First Place
  News • 11/23/2009
  ...res. Richmond Heights A came in 2nd place, Hawken B came in 3rd place, and Heritage A (Painesville) came in 4th place. Congratulations to all team members on a very successful tournamnent. Stay tuned for more news after the upcoming state tournament in Feb. and the regional tournament in the spri ...

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• Middle School Academic Challenge Team Wins First Place
  News • 11/23/2009
  ...res. Richmond Heights A came in 2nd place, Hawken B came in 3rd place, and Heritage A (Painesville) came in 4th place. Congratulations to all team members on a very successful tournamnent. Stay tuned for more news after the upcoming state tournament in Feb. and the regional tournament in the spri ...

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• Hawk Rock News is Back!
  News • 6/9/2009
  The June 2009 edition of Hawk Rock News, the Hawken Lower School newspaper, has been published just in time for year-end distribution. To view this latest edition, which is produced by students in the Passport program, click here.

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• Hawken in the News
  News • 5/19/2008
  The strides of ninth grade Humanities teacher Jim Newman and a group of ninth and first graders to create Hawken`s first organic garden were acknowledged in a recent issue of The Plain Dealer . Click here to read the article. And Middle School math teacher and baseball coach Aaron Brandt is back in ...

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• Hawken Grad Appears on CBS News
  News • 3/14/2008
  ... `99 graduated from college with a degree in engineering, he couldn`t find a job that he wanted and ended up a Bronx high school teaching physics. He was recently featured on CBS News with Katie Couric in a story about how in this lagging economy, it \"pays to teach.\" Click here to view that sto ...

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• Holtrey `Part Legend, Part Rock Star`
  News • 2/12/2008
  ...h school athletics coaching legacy in this area than the one Holtrey has,\" said The News-Herald`s Chris Lillstrung in a recent commentary about Jerry Holtrey, Hawken`s longtime swimming coach. Read more here and find out just how much Lillstrung was impressed when he met Holtrey for the first ti ...

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• Hawken to air on Channel 3, Monday and Wednesday
  News • 11/5/2007
  Tune into WKYC Channel 3 for the 6pm news on Monday November 5 and Wednesday November 7 as Hawken takes part in a series on teens by education reporter Kim Wheeler. Hawken ninth grade students and parents will share some of what they learned about Rosalind Wiseman`s visit in September. You can read ...

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• Men`s basketball team shares court, gains `perspective`
  News • 1/23/2007
  Every Wednesday, the Hawken men`s varsity basketball team suits up for practice with the Metzenbaum Blue Streaks and ends up learning about a lot more than jump shots and layups. Click here to read the recent News-Herald account.

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• Passport Program extends deadline
  News • 1/4/2007
  ...e winter session has plenty, including Intermediate Chinese, Web site design and PreMed Camp. One note: Young Thespians, a new Passport class, has been added but isn`t included in the current brochure. Click here for more information. For the most up-to-date news, information and forms, click her ...

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• Hawken Harrier Wins CVC Valley Championship
  News • 10/14/2006
  ...ippell won first place in the CVC Valley Division cross-country championships at Perry outdoor YMCA. His time of 17:46 placed him 25 seconds ahead of his nearest competition. This victory follows his impressive 17:13 run at Medina, a performance that earned him News-Herald Player of the Week hono ...

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• Senior Named Player of the Week
  News • 5/1/2006
  Brian Recht, Hawken outfielder/pitcher, has been named a Player of the Week by The News Herald . He went 9-for-16 at bat (.563 average), with six runs scored and 10 RBI. As a pitcher, he had 2 saves. Brian will attend Dartmouth in the fall.

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• Alum to be Featured on Channel 3 News
  News • 1/31/2006
  Tune into Channel 3`s 11pm newscast on Friday, February 3 to enjoy a feature story on Scott Healy from the Class of 1978. Scott is a keyboardist for the house band on Late Night With Conan O`Brien .

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• Hawken Grad Appears on CBS News
  News • 3/14/2008
  ...rg '99 graduated from college with a degree in engineering, he couldn't find a job that he wanted and ended up a Bronx high school teaching physics. He was recently featured on CBS News with Katie Couric in a story about how in this lagging economy, it "pays to teach." Click here to view that sto ...

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• 10 Seniors Named National Merit Finalists
  News • 2/27/2024
  Congratulations to the ten Hawken seniors who have been named finalists in the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Competition: Tolga Cavusoglu, David Dettelbach, Pranay Gupta, Andrew Hou, Kevin Jin, Elena Padley, Luka Simpfendorfer, Eva Stern, Niko Ustin (Mastery School), and Kahjin Yap .

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• HPS Presents Footloose
  News • 2/7/2023
  Don't miss this month's Hawken Players' Society production of  Footloose ! There are five performances between February 17 and February 26 at the Gates Mills campus. For more information, click  here .

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• 2022 National History Day Paper Showcase
  News • 6/15/2022
  Congratulations to Omar Elbadawy whose Jr. Paper for the 2022 National History Day competition entitled “Hamilton vs. Jefferson: Early Republic Diplomacy and the Debate That Shaped the Nation” was selected for the Virtual Paper Showcase with The White House Historical Association. The 20 ...

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• New York Times Annual Student Review Contest Winner
  News • 2/21/2022
  Congratulations to Omar Elbadawy, 8th grade student, for earning an Honorable Mention in the New York Times Annual Student Review Contest. Nearly 4,000 students from around the world submitted original reviews about any kind of creative expression covered in The New York Times. The judges selected n ...

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• Student Receives Honorable Mention in Thanksgiving Pollinator Drawing Contest
  News • 12/3/2021
  Danah Jang, a third grade student at Birchwood, was awarded an honorable mention in the Ohio Pollinator Habitat Initiative 2021 Thanksgiving Drawing Contest.

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• Six Seniors Make D-1 College Commitment at National Signing Day Ceremony
  News • 11/16/2021
  Congratulations to the following seniors, who made their Division I college commitment at a signing ceremony in the red gym on November 10!  

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• Niche.com Ranks Hawken Best in Ohio
  News • 9/30/2021
  Congratulations to the Hawken community!

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• Hawks win over Chagrin Falls 3-2, now 2nd Place in the CVC!
  News • 9/15/2021
  Hawks won in an electrifying 5 set match vs Chagrin Falls 3-2.  25-23,25-23,17-25,20-25,16-14 went the sets and Hawken took the win in the 5th set!   They are not 2nd place in the Chagrin Valley Conference behind West Geauga.

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• Field Hockey dominant over Hathaway Brown
  News • 9/15/2021
  Field Hockey is now 5-2 on the season after a big win over rivals Hathaway Brown.  Sofia Beseth '22 scored 2 goals and Hannah Doyle '23 scored 1 goal.

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• Field Hockey wins over Ottawa Hills
  News • 9/14/2021
  After an 3-0 defeat to Upper Arlington earlier in the day the Field Hockey team came back to win over Ottawa Hills 6-1.  Sofia Beseth '22 scored had a hat trick while Hannah Doyle '23 added a goal and 2 assists.  Other notable Hawks were Zoe Robinson '23 &; Elle Oberfield '23 who both scor ...

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• Hawks win over CVC rival Chagrin Falls to take over 1st Place!
  News • 9/14/2021
  The Hawken Boys Golf team are now 7-1 with a big win over Chagrin Falls 157-165.  The win puts them in sole possession of 1st place in the CVC.  Jack Zeid '24 lead the team with a score of 38.  Peyton O'Keefe '22 shot 39, Cooper Bryan '22 &; Vince Vombergar '23 shot 40.

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• Volleyball defeats AOA in straight sets
  News • 9/14/2021
  Volleyball won decisively over Andrews Osborne Academy in 3 straight sets, 25-10, 25-17, 25-12.  It was a total team win with many Hawks excelling at their respective positions.

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• Girls Soccer holds ranked Kirtland to a draw
  News • 9/9/2021
  With an amazing display of tenacity and skill the Hawken Girls Soccer team draws in a big CVC home game.

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• Hawken Alumna Joins White House Staff
  News • 1/15/2021
    Sonia Aggarwal ’02 has been appointed to the Office of Domestic Climate Policy as a senior advisor for climate policy and innovation for the Biden/Harris team.

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• Niche Names Hawken #1 School in Ohio
  News • 11/15/2020
  For the second year in a row, Hawken has been named the #1 school in Ohio by niche.com, a website that “combines rigorous analysis with authentic reviews to highlight the best schools, companies, and neighborhoods.” Hawken took first place in both the high school and K-12 school categori ...

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• D. Scott Looney Announces New Upper School Director
  News • 2/26/2020
  In a letter to the Hawken community today, Head of School Scott Looney announced that Suzette Dyer Redwine will succeed Kim Samson as Hawken’s Upper School Director.

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• Hawken Swimmers Featured in Best of Cleveland Sports Video
  News • 2/20/2020
  The 20th Greater Cleveland Sports Awards honored the best of Cleveland sports recently. Watch for several Hawken swim caps in  their opening video  (around the 1:38 juncture) and take note of this line: “There are dynasties and then there are dynasties. This is a capital D dynasty.&# ...

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• Patrick Reineke '22 wins Top Gun Tournament
  News • 1/21/2020
  Patrick Reineke continues to excel in his sophomore year of wrestling for the Hawks.  He wrestled through a very tough 106 lb division coming out victorious with the 106 lb Championship.  Patrick is now  17-0 with 7 pins for the season. Will Lindsey '20 placed 3rd at Top Gun and is no ...

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• Swimming continues to Shine!
  News • 1/15/2020
  Over the past week the Hawken swim teams have lived up to their state bound goals with the Boys Swim Team upsetting last years state champions University School 166-149!  Girls Swim Team had wins over Hathaway Brown, Orange and Gilmour.  In her most recent race vs Orange and Gilmour , Sydn ...

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• Students Speak with House Representative on Capitol Hill
  News • 12/17/2019
  Students in The Pursuit of Justice Intensive, taught by Julie Agar and Josh Carcraft, had the opportunity to speak with Representative Madeleine Dean about the Constitution on Capitol Hill last week during a break in the impeachment hearings.

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• Girls Hawks basketball pick up 2nd Win!
  News • 12/9/2019
  Girls Basketball   Hawken (2-1):  White 17, Pollard 16, Dori 11, Courtad 3, Bollinger 1   Hawken 14  14  10  10 – 48 Harvey 13  2  8  13 – 36   FT Hawken: 6 of 18 Harvey: 4 of 15   3 Pt Hawken (8): Pollard 5, Dori 2, Courtad 1 Harvey ...

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• Hawks win four titles at 50th Annual HIT
  News • 12/9/2019
  Hawken won four individual championships on the way to placing fourth overall at the 50th Annual Hawken Invitational Tournament on Saturday. The Hawks finished with 131 points behind Brecksville (177 ½), Benedictine (154 ½) and Cleveland Central Catholic (140). Winning titles for Hawken we ...

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• Hawken Ranked Top Private High School in Ohio
  News • 11/11/2019
  An article recently published in USA Today shared that data clearinghouse Niche has recognized Hawken as the #1 independent high school in Ohio. Hawken is proud to be listed alongside other #1 schools in each state including Andover, Exeter, Punahou, Lawrenceville, and more. Read more here . 

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• Thomas Wong '21 wins District Title
  News • 10/2/2019
  Boys Golf team places second in districts and is headed to states for their second year in a row.

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• Ella Wong '23 places 3rd in Districts and Qualifies for States
  News • 10/2/2019
  Ella Wong '23 shot a 77 at districts to qualify for states in her Freshman year.  She had a very clinical apporach to the disctrict tournament which led her to an eagle on the Par 5 6th hole. Kate Petersen '23 had a great showing at districts and had a lot of accomplishments through out her fir ...

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• Hawks Host Cross Country Invitational
  News • 9/5/2019
  The Hawks hosted the 2nd Annual Hawken Cross Country Invitational on August 24th.  112 girls completed the 3.1 mile course which looped around the Gates Mills campus, including the challenging front field.  The race on won by Ella Gilson '21 in a meet record time of 18:44.8.  The team ...

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• Senior Lands Coveted Spot on USA Debate Team
  News • 8/28/2019
  Congratulations to Cassandra Berlin '20 on being selected one of twelve members of the 2019-2020 USA Debate Team! To read the August 27 announcement on the National Association of Speech and Debate's Twitter feed, click here .   For more information about the National Speech and Debate Associat ...

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• Bob Shurtz Receives Distinguished Teacher Award from Northwestern
  News • 7/3/2019
  Congratulations to Upper School faculty member Bob Shurtz on receiving the Distinguished Secondary Teacher award from Northwestern at the university’s commencement ceremony held on June 21. Only five teachers from across the nation were honored recipients of this award.   Mr. Shurtz was n ...

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• Rising Sophomore Earns USCF National Master Title
  News • 6/17/2019
    At the Akron Chess Club tournament held on May 25, Destynn Keuchel ’22 took clear first place with a perfect score among 19 top players, beating three National Masters and becoming a National Master himself.   The United States Chess Federation (USCF) awards the National Master tit ...

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• David Gough '19 Named National Winner in NASA Essay Contest
  News • 6/13/2019
  Congratulations to David Gough '19 on being named a national winner in the Scientist for a Day Essay Competition sponsored by NASA. Read his winning essay here . Six additional students were named runners-up in the competition: Wilson Ha '21, Susanna Harrow '22, Destynn Keuchel '22, Julianna Metz '2 ...

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• Hawken-Haibara Exchange Marks 31st Year
  News • 4/12/2019
  This spring break marked the 31st annual Hawken-Haibara Exchange. 

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• Published Cricket Writers
  News • 4/5/2019
  Three Birchwood students in grades 3-4 were delighted to learn that the transformation stories they submitted in the Cricket contest earned national recognition. Maliha earned second place for her piece entitled, “My New Hair.” Johnny, who wrote “Caterpillar,” and Caroline wh ...

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• Freshman Wins National Chess Competition
  News • 3/1/2019
  Destynn Keuchel '22 won the "14 and Under" section of the 2019 National Junior Chess Congress held in Cypress, California this past weekend.

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• Student Magazine Recognized in NCTE REALM Competition
  News • 2/14/2019
  Congratulations to the advisors and editors of Calliope who, after submitting the student magazine to the National Council of Teacher of English REALM Competition, received a certificate awarding them a SUPERIOR designation.

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• Looking for service opportunities?
  News • 1/11/2019
  Are you interested in volunteering, but can't fit Hawken-sponsored events into your schedule? Do you want to look for an Integrated Service-Learning (ISL) or Hawken Project idea, but don't know where to start? Here are 3 great resources to help you get started:

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• Senior Receives Hispanic Heritage Gold Award
  News • 12/5/2018
  Congratulations to Claudia Hamilton '19 on being selected as a 2018 Hispanic Heritage Gold Award recipient for the Technology &; Engineering category in the greater Chicago region.

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• Hawks Named State Chess Champions
  News • 11/20/2018
  Twenty-three Hawken Lower, Middle, and Upper School students were among 307 students who participated in the 2018 State of Ohio Grade Level Chess Championships.

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• Senior Receives Award from The Society of In Vitro Biology
  News • 9/24/2018
  Congratulations to  Brennen Keuchel ’19 , who received the Society for In Vitro Biology Science Fair Award for his project, “Assessing the importance of asymmetrical cell division and neurotrophins in glioblastoma cancer stem cell survivors” at the Northeastern Ohio Science an ...

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• Congratulations to the Class of 2018
  News • 6/6/2018
  Members of the Class of 2018 celebrated Commencement at a ceremony at Severance Hall on Sunday, June 3.

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• Save the Date!
  News • 4/26/2018
  An Evening Gathering with Ted Dintersmith, Author of What School Could Be

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• Register Now to Celebrate Cliff Walton!
  News • 4/20/2018
  Be sure to register for the Cliff Walton Celebration to be held on Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 3:00 pm at the Gates Mills campus.

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• Cleveland.com: Hawken Leads with Most State Titles in Ohio
  News • 4/19/2018
  Hawken is #1 among all Ohio high schools for the number of all-time individual state championships won with 179, confirms cleveland.com in this article .

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• Great Composers Competition Winners
  News • 4/16/2018
  Congratulations to the members of the Birchwood Bach Quartet – Joseph D., Ehren, Hope, and John – on their third prize win in the 3rd edition of the global competition for young performers of The Music of Germany &; Austria. 

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• Hawken Arts Department Presents First Annual Belle Artes Event
  News • 3/5/2018
  The Hawken Visual Arts Department is proud to present its first annual Belle Artes event, a multi-media arts extravaganza to celebrate National Art Education Month.

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• Birchwood Artists to be Published
  News • 2/28/2018
  Congratulations to four Birchwood students who submitted artwork that has been chosen for inclusion in Lake Erie Ink’s upcoming Teen Book Project, the theme of which is “roots and branches.”

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• Upper School Musicians Excel at OMEA Contest
  News • 2/9/2018
  Three Upper School musicians received the highest rating in class A performance at the Ohio Music Education Association Solo and Ensemble Contest on Saturday, January 27.

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• Mastery Transcript Consortium Draws Widespread Support
  News • 1/30/2018
  It’s what many educators are talking about but many people are not yet aware of: the Mastery Transcript Consortium, an organization founded by Hawken’s Head of School D. Scott Looney.

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• Tickets for HPS Production of Mary Poppins Available Now!
  News • 1/26/2018
  The Hawken Players’ Society invites you to join the cast and creative team for its production of Mary Poppins, directed by Upper School Theater Director TJ Gainley.

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• Middle School Swimming Captures Championships
  News • 2/27/2018
  Congratulations to the Middle School girls and boys swim teams on being named champions at last week’s Independent Private School League (IPSL) Championship meet held at Linsly School in West Virginia.

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• Register Now for HawkFest 2017!
  News • 10/10/2017
  HawkFest is just a few days away!

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• Upper School Students Share ISL Experiences
  News • 9/29/2017
  Earlier this week, upper school students who completed Integrated service Learning (ISL) projects made presentations to parents, service partners, advisors, faculty members, and friends about their summer work.

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• Ashley Fulton '19 to Perform at Viva Starlight Room
  News • 8/18/2017
  Congratulations to Ashley Fulton ’19 , whose original song “Carry Me” was named “Best Song of the Month” by  SongwriterUniverse .

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• Hawken Welcomes New Assistant Director of Entrepreneurial Studies
  News • 8/18/2017
  Hawken extends a warm welcome to Assistant Director of Entrepreneurial Studies Sarah Swain.

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• 8th Graders Featured in July edition of Kelley's Island Newspaper
  News • 7/21/2017
  A group of eighth grade students recently completed their environmentally-focused service internship on Kelleys Island.

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• Interview with Beauty & the Beast Producer Todd Lieberman '91
  News • 4/5/2017
  Click here for a recent interview with Todd Lieberman '91 at Mandeville Films.

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• Sonia Aggarwal '02 in Forbes
  News • 4/3/2017
  Sonia Aggarwal '02 had an opinion article land in Forbes recently! Sonia is the VP of Energy Innovation, and Director of America’s Power.

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• Catch Meaning MusicFest Returns
  News • 3/25/2017
  The second “Catch Meaning Music Fest” continues to commemorate the lives of Josh Weil '15 and Alex Doody '15 . This year’s event is slated for May 28th at the House of Blues , where ; Sam Weil ’13 ;will return as lead bassist for the Aaron Cohen Band. Proceeds honor the magne ...

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• The Hawken Community Cookbook - Pre-Order Yours Now!
  News • 3/17/2017
  Over 300 recipes have been submitted for the Hawken Community Cookbook, and The Parents' Association is now accepting pre-orders.

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• Adam Rich '92 releases album
  News • 3/13/2017
  Musician and composer Adam Rich '92 was recently highlighted in the ; Sun Messenger . His new album, "Sunshine and Puppies," was released in February.

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• Jane Esselstyn '83 Speaks at Conference
  News • 3/12/2017
  Jane Esselstyn ’83 spoke at the “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease for Women Conference” this month at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. ;

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• Sophomore Named State Champion at OHSSL Tournament
  News • 3/10/2017
  Last weekend, 32 Hawks competed at the Ohio High School Speech League (OHSSL) State Tournament held in Berea and Olmsted Falls. 

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• Two Alumni Chefs Unite with Peter Scott
  News • 3/9/2017
  Two local alumni chefs will be featured presenters at Peter Scott’s “First Thursday” on April 13 titled “Too Many Restaurants in CLE?” Reserve your ticket to see Chefs Douglas Katz ’88 &; Chris Hodgson ’04 at www.hawken.edu/firstthursdays .  

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• Athletic Director Jim Doyle Receives Award
  News • 3/7/2017
  Congratulations to Hawken Athletic Director Jim Doyle for being selected as the 2017 recipient of the Northeast Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NEOIAAA) Dick Weiss Professional Development Award.

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• Molly Shannon '83 Interview
  News • 3/4/2017
  Molly Shannon '83 was interviewed recently about her new HBO show 'Divorce' and her roots on Saturday Night Live. ;

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• Emmy Award-Winning Alum Returns to Campus
  News • 3/3/2017
  Seven-time Emmy Award winner  Jim Margolis ’89  returned to campus this week to meet with members of the Hawken community. 

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• Rachel McKay '17 Receives Major Award
  News • 3/2/2017
  Rachel McKay '17 (daughter of Hugh McKay '74 ) was one of two Davidson College scholar-athletes to be awarded the prestigious Watson Fellowship. Learn more here .

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• Maddy Pesec '12 Research Success
  News • 3/1/2017
  Maddy Pesec '12 was highlighted in an article on Brown University's website. Read about her research success here . ;

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• Dr. Jacob Scott '94 Co-Inventor
  News • 2/24/2017
  Dr. Jacob Scott '94 co-invented the new Genomic-Adjusted Radiation Dose (GARD) technology at the Cleveland Clinic in conjunction with another MD at Moffitt Cancer Center. The tool matches radiation dosage with a tumor’s molecular profile. Learn more here. ;

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• Steve Phillips '82 in NY Times
  News • 2/23/2017
  Steve Phillips '82 contributed to the ; NY Times' Opinion Page ; last month. Did you miss it?

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• Joe Marabito '13 Scholar Athlete!
  News • 2/22/2017
  Joe Marabito '13 , Kenyon football player, was honored as a scholar-athlete by the National Football Foundation! Read more here . ;

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• Beauty & the Beast and Todd Lieberman '91
  News • 2/20/2017
  Class of 1991's Todd Lieberman 's company, Mandeville Films, produced the upcoming film version of Beauty and the Beast . Learn more here .

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• Brite Winter's Hawken Connections
  News • 2/15/2017
  Cleveland’s free outdoor music, art and social event, "Brite Winter," returns this Saturday, February 18 with Brian Horsburgh ’06 as the Executive Director and Emily Appelbaum ‘04 as art director. The event runs 3 pm – 1 am at the Flats West Bank. Learn more here .

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• William Daroff '86 Honored
  News • 2/14/2017
  William C. Daroff '86 will be honored with the JCPA Tikkun Olam Award at The Jewish Council for Public Affairs annual Chair's Awards Dinner on Sunday, Febraury 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. Click here for more information.

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• Class of 2016 College Carepackages!
  News • 2/13/2017
  The Class of 2016 will be getting college care packages from the Alumni Office this week. Their parents helped assemble the packages at a fun event at the White House earlier in the week. Thank you Class of 2016 parents! ;

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• Doug Katz '88 & Fire Spice Co.
  News • 1/13/2017
  Members of the Hawken community recently enjoyed an evening in the kitchen with Doug Katz '88 in the newly renovated White House at the Gates Mills campus. Chef Katz prepared a wonderful meal while showcasing his line of delicious spices, Fire Spice Company. The Parents' Assocation partnered with Ch ...

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• Alison Jin '15 & Special Needs Fundraiser
  News • 1/12/2017
  Alison Jin '15 recently returned to Hawken to run a Pocky Fundraiser for the Das Deutsch Clinic Center for Special Needs Children in Middlefield, Ohio. Watch this video to see how she raised $200 to support the cause.

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• Elizabeth Pryor '98 & Chill Pop Shop in Crain's and Cleveland.com
  News • 1/7/2017
  Click here for a Crain's Cleveland Business article on Elizabeth Pryor '98s Chill Pop Shop! Click here for a Cleveland.com article published in December too!

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• Chef Woody Redford '93 & Noble Beast Brewery in CLE
  News • 1/6/2017
  Click here to learn more about Woody Redford '93 , the Chef slated to preside over Noble Beast Brewery on the outskirts of Cleveland beginning this May, 2017. ;

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• Video Essay Highlights French Immersion Trip
  News • 1/3/2017
    Students enrolled in the Upper School French Immersion Intensive spent time traveling in and around Paris, France last month, improving their linguistic and cultural fluency while living with host families and participating in classes at a local school. The essence of the trip, which featured ...

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• Jim Newman on Raising Compassionate Men
  News • 10/28/2016
  Jim Newman. assistant director of student life at Hawken’s Upper School, recently published a blog post on the Independent School Magazine website. Read his reflections on “Teaching Boys to Become Compassionate Men – On and Off the Athletic Field”  here .

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• Media and Communications Lab Featured in Cleveland Magazine
  News • 10/14/2016
  Hawken’s new M.A.C. Lab, along with Director of Maker Spaces  Nick DiGiorgio , is featured in this month's  Cleveland Magazine .

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• City Club Speaker: Steve Phillips '82
  News • 9/3/2016
  Author of the best-selling book Brown is the New White , ; Steve Phillips ’82 ;will be presenting at The City Club of Cleveland on October 7. Click here for tickets and click here for more information related to his book.

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• Cathy Diamond '78 Artwork on Exhibit
  News • 9/1/2016
  The artwork of Cathy Diamond ’78 will be part of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s 32nd Annual Print Fair to be held September 22-25. ; Learn more here .

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• Hilary '16 featured on NPR
  News • 8/15/2016
  Hilary Vogelbaum ’16, Hawken’s most recent Valedictorian, was just featured on NPR to discuss her upcoming college sendoff to MIT. Her mother also discussed the parent perspective and the duo fielded phone calls from regional listeners. Click here to listen to the full segment. ;

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• Cast member of MadTV: Chelsea Davison '06
  News • 7/29/2016
  Chelsea Davison ’06 is a cast member of the Mad TV revival! Learn more here . ;

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• Keniece Gray '12 elected Sorority VP
  News • 7/24/2016
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• Phil Hedayatnia '16 and RealPolitics
  News • 7/18/2016
  Recent Hawken alumnus ; Phil Hedayatnia '16 ;founded "RealPolitics" ... ;"a place for political discussions of all kinds - whether you're liberal, conservative, libertarian, socialist, or anywhere in between." His site RealPolitics.us live-streamed at the 2016 RNC here in Cleveland as the youngest t ...

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• 2016 Athletics Hall of Fame Inductees Announced
  News • 7/8/2016
  Hawken School is pleased to announce the 2016 Athletics Hall of Fame Inductees who will be honored during Oct 7-8's Homecoming Weekend.

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• Boys Tennis Finishes Season as State Runners-Up
  News • 6/1/2016
  The Hawks went into Sunday's State Final as the underdog against the 2015 champs Cincinnati Country Day School.

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• Hawken Players Society Receives Dazzle Award
  News • 5/25/2016
  Congratulations to the Hawken Players Society for earning Best Technical Execution on "Into the Woods."

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• US Masters Team Champion: Fiona O'Donnell-McCarthy ’05
  News • 5/5/2016
  Fiona O'Donnell-McCarthy ’05 participated in her 7 th US Masters Swimming Nationals this month. She is a member of The Olympic Club who won the women’s, men’s, and combined national titles in Greensboro, NC for the third year in a row.

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• Hawken Students Win Awards at Chinese Speech and Essay Contest
  News • 4/19/2016
  Over 800 students from across the state participated in the Ohio K-12 Chinese Speech and Essay Contests last Saturday.

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• Hawken Students Visit Haibara, Japan
  News • 4/8/2016
  For 28 years, Hawken and the town of Haibara, Japan have engaged in a cultural student exchange during Spring Break. 

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• Sally Madiba '10 & Botswana Harvard Partnership
  News • 3/2/2016
  Since August, Sally Madiba '10 has been a part of ; The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health AIDS Initiative ;(HAI) ;dedicated to research and education to end the AIDS epidemic in Africa and developing countries. Since 1988, ;HAI has been at the forefront of HIV/AIDS laboratory research, clini ...

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• Rich Stoddart '81 named new CEO of Leo Burnett
  News • 1/28/2016
  Beginning February 1, Rich Stoddart will be the new CEP of Leo Burnett Worldwide, a globally active advertising agency based in Chicago.

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• Hands-on Learning at Lyndhurst Family Science Night
  News • 1/25/2016
    The Hawken science faculty at the Lyndhurst campus, along with the help of Hawken Middle School students, hosted an evening of science fun for Hawken K-8 families on Friday, January 22. Highlights included experiments and demos for students and families to observe as well as science stations ...

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• Angela Payne James '88 on the move!
  News • 1/19/2016
  Congratulations to Angela Payne James '88, just hired as ; the chief of staff for the ;technology division at Goldman Sachs.

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• Middle School Students Conclude Insights Week
  News • 1/13/2016
  Students returned from winter break to experience what just might be the best week of the year: Middle School Insights Week.

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• Monday, November 16: Join Us for the STEMM Symposium
  News • 11/13/2015
  The Annual Bob Maciunas Hawken STEMM Symposium will take place on Monday, November 16 in the Arts Communication building at the Gates Mills campus beginning at 6:45 pm.

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• Jiyan Wei '96 Featured by Forbes
  News • 10/20/2015
  BuildZoom, cofounded by Jiyan Wei '96 and his friend David Petersen, is featured in a recent Forbes article.

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• Freshman Sings at Prestigious Jazz Club
  News • 8/24/2015
  Freshman Ashley Fulton performed at Nighttown on July 31.

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• Performing Arts Chair Releases New Album
  News • 8/5/2015
  Jodie Ricci, PS-12 Performing Arts Chair, performs as a duo-pianist in a new album released in July.

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• Chess Players Excel
  News • 7/27/2015
  Zade Akras ’18 participated in the Akron Chess Club tournament in June earning a perfect score, winning all of his games, and receiving a cash prize for becoming clear first in the reserve section.

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• Graduate to Speak on Energy Policies
  News • 7/22/2015
  Sonia Aggarwal '02 will speak about clean energy  policies at 7pm on Thursday, July 23 at the Gates Mills Community House.

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• Celebration Planned for Alex Doody and Josh Weil
  News • 6/5/2015
  Members of the Hawken community are invited to join students and faculty in celebrating the lives of Alex Doody and Josh Weil on Monday, June 8 at 4:30 pm in the Red Gym on the Gates Mills campus, to be followed by a reception in Smith Lobby.

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• Field Day A Long-standing Tradition
  News • 5/20/2015
  Today is Field Day for grades 4-8 at the Lyndhurst Campus.

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• Swimmer Featured as "Shining Star"
  News • 4/7/2015
  Congratulations to senior Maureen Rakovec, profiled by Ohio Sports Insider as a "Shining Star."

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• Senior Wins Grand Prize at Science Fair
  News • 4/1/2015
  Robby Gray '15  was a grand prize winner at the  Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair  and will represent Hawken at the Intel international science fair this May in Pittsburgh.

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• Graduate Delights with Designer Cookies
  News • 3/10/2015
  Emily Philips Stephens '95 came to America without her family and next to no money.

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• Skaters Represent Hawken at Competitions
  News • 2/16/2015
  Congratulations to Hawken figure skaters Sydney Harper '18, Helena Costantini '18,  and Marilena DeGennaro '19 who competed in the 2015 Ohio High School Team Figure Skating Competition  February 7 and 8 at Thornton Park Ice Arena in Shaker Heights.

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• Art Students Earn Scholastic Awards
  News • 2/1/2015
  Ten Hawken art students earned awards in the Scholastic Art &; Writing Awards and had their works exhibited at the Reinberger Galleries.   Click here  to view their pieces.

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• Zoom In!
  News • 1/27/2015
  Students, faculty and staff from both campuses gathered at Gates Mills for a historic "100" photograph in October.

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• Student Speaks Out at Utilities Hearing
  News • 1/20/2015
  Hilary Vogelbaum '16 testifed at a hearing before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio addressing a FirstEnergy Corp. plan that would force Illuminating Co. customers to pay extra to keep the environmentally controversial W.H. Sammis and the Davis-Besse plants operating.

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• Hawken Featured in Cleveland Magazine
  News • 12/26/2014
  Hawken's successful policies regarding food allergies are featured in the January 2015 issue of Cleveland Magazine.

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• 8th Grade Chorus Opens Cavs Game
  News • 12/16/2014
  Hawken's 8th grade chorus sang the national anthem to open the Dec. 15 Cavs game against the Charlotte Hornets at Quicken Loans Arena.

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• New Swim Coach Interviewed by Cleveland.com
  News • 11/14/2014
  Jim Bocci begins his first season as Hawken's head swim coach, and as CEO and coach of the Lake Erie Silver Dolphins, he is well positioned to continue Hawken's swimming dynasty. 

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• Yale Spizzwinks Wow Students
  News • 10/24/2014
  The Yale Spizzwinks performed for Upper School students today, entertaining and impressing students with their vocal skills.

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• Golfer Isabella Joseph Featured on Cleveland.com
  News • 10/15/2014
  Hawken junior Isabella Joseph has been playing golf since she was 10 years old. 

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• Faculty Member Inducted into Hall of Fame
  News • 9/22/2014
  Hawken Instructional Technologist Pat Jewell was inducted into the Wickliffe Schools Alumni Association Achievement Hall of Fame.

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• A Interview with Hall of Fame Inductee Coach Walton
  News • 9/17/2014
  Coach Walton, who will be inducted in Hawken's Athletic Hall of Fame on October 11, was interviewed by  cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer .

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• Graduate Featured on ironman.com
  News • 8/26/2014
  Katie Diehl '92 , a veterinary ophthalmologist living in New Glarus, Wis., was featured on  ironman.com .

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• Hawken Conducts Global Educator Training
  News • 8/19/2014
  In August, Hawken conducted a 2-1/2 day workshop to enhance and expand the school's capacity for excellent and safe intercultural global experiential education.

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• Alumni Return for Sports Day
  News • 8/18/2014
  Hawken alumni enjoyed a terrific day at Alumni Sports Day earlier this month, returning to play and practice with the fall cross country, soccer, tennis, volleyball, field hockey, and football teams.

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• Graduate's Work Key in NCAA Lawsuit
  News • 7/7/2014
  Cleveland Attorney Richard Gibbs Johnson ’82 established the key legal framework underpinning the recent O'Bannon v. NCAA antitrust class action lawsuit. 

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• Class of 2014 Matriculates
  News • 6/17/2014
  A diverse group of students, the Class of 2014 will be matriculating to 62 different colleges in 24 different states and 2 foreign countries.

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• 8th Graders Bid Farewell to Lyndhurst
  News • 6/12/2014
  The Class of 2018 bid a fond farewell to the Lyndhurst campus in a moving up ceremony on Friday, June 9.

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• Graduate Addresses Glenville Graduation
  News • 6/2/2014
  1980 graduate Gerald Johnson, North America Manufacturing Vice President at General Motors, returned to Cleveland this week to address the 2014 graduating class at Glenville High School.

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• 9th Grader Wins Intel Prize at Science Fair
  News • 5/26/2014
  Ninth grader  Dhweeja Dasarathy  won the Intel Prize at the BEST Science Fair at the University of Akron with her project entitled “Alteration in Androgen Receptor Expression by the 3’ Untranslated Region.”

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• Field Day 2014
  News • 5/20/2014
  Field Day was held at the Lyndhurst Campus today, despite the threat of rain.

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• Peter Debelak '96 Finds New Career; Featured in Plain Dealer
  News • 5/18/2014
  Peter Debelak '96 had a successful career as a lawyer, but a sabbatical focused on his passion for woodworking led to a new career.

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• Student is Tribe Reporter for a Day
  News • 5/12/2014
  10th grader Dalya Oprian was selected as a winner of the 2014 Plain Dealer Tribe Reporter for a Day Essay Contest.

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• Video Previews Spring Theater Production
  News • 4/24/2014
  The Upper School Spring Theater presents "The Importance of Being Earnest" this Friday (5pm) and Saturday (3pm).

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• Hawken Happy
  News • 4/21/2014
  Hawken's 8th grade Growth Mindset Club focuses on trying new things to stretch comfort zones and have fun.

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• Genevieve Swan Passes
  News • 4/7/2014
  Hawken is sorry to report that Faculty Emerita Genevieve Swan passed away on March 28, 2014.

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• 3rd Grade Wax Museum Featured in CVT
  News • 4/5/2014
  Hawken's 3rd Grade Wax Museum project, which brought history alive last month, was featured in a recent Chagrin Valley Times article .

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• Student Video Captures Marine Science Fall Intensive
  News • 4/4/2014
  In this video shot by Max Pollack '14 and edited by Graham Duff '14, Hawken's Marine Science Fall Intensive comes to life.

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• Diversity Class Featured in Chagrin Valley Times
  News • 3/30/2014
  A recent Chagrin Valley Times article highlights Hawken's Upper School course "Leadership and Diversity through Self Reflection and Mentorship."

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• Hawken's Core Values Serve as Example
  News • 3/29/2014
  The importance of core values was the topic of a recent blog by John Chubb, president of  NAIS -- National Association of Independent Schools , in which he said of Hawken, "The school’s core principles are among the most meaningful articulations I have seen."

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• Hawken Cited as Example in Edutopia Article
  News • 3/27/2014
  Hawken's "authentic experiences" are cited in an article on Edutopia that re-examines private schools.

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• Students Travel to Japan for 26th Exchange
  News • 3/17/2014
  Middle School students from Hawken School are traveling to Japan this Spring Break to participate in the 26th Hawken-Haibara Exchange. ;

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• Cleveland.com Features Two Seniors
  News • 2/26/2014
  Cleveland.com regularly poses "5 Questions" to area citizens. This week, they turned to Seniors Will Mascaro and Aric Floyd, who eloquently answered questions about their roles in the Senate and the School's culture.

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• Musicians Make District Honors
  News • 12/4/2013
  Six Hawken musicians performed as part of the District Honors Choir and Concert Band last month.

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• Entrepreneurship Program Featured in Video
  News • 11/11/2013
  Director of Entrepreneurial Studies Natasha Chornesky was interviewed by JumpStart Inc. for a video about Hawken's entrepreneurship program.

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• Indians Player Visits Soccer Team
  News • 11/8/2013
  Cleveland Indians catcher and first baseman Carlos Santana visited the girls soccer team in October.

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• Eighth Grader Sets Sights on National Team
  News • 9/13/2013
  Eighth grade soccer standout ;Jordan Taylor ;recently made the under 14 USA national team pool and was one of only 40 players in the nation to make it while still being 12 years old.

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• Annie Artz '13 Scores Big in First College Game
  News • 9/10/2013
  In her field hockey debut playing for #1 ranked Tufts University in Boston, Annie Artz '13 scored the lone, winning goal against Bates College.

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• Graduate Works with Entrepreneurship Class
  News • 9/4/2013
  Hawken graduate Peter Rome '77, whose multitude of titles includes, "Dot Connector," connected the dots that brought AvitaeUSA and Hawken Entrepreneurs together.

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• 8th Grade Equestrian Featured in CVT
  News • 8/6/2013
  Equestrian Connie Holman '18 was featured in the July 18 Chagrin Valley Times.

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• Fifth Grade Teacher to Appear on Stage
  News • 7/25/2013
  Fifth grade teacher ;Andrew Narten ;will be appearing at the ; None Too Fragile theater ;in the comedy "On the Line," about three friends who take on their union.

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• Graduates' Vineyard Featured in Wall Street Journal
  News • 7/14/2013
  Nick '84 and Andy '88 Peay and their successful vineyard were featured in a July edition of the Wall Street Journal.

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• Graduate Opens Store at Legacy
  News • 7/11/2013
  Dud Humphrey '97 and Jody Herzog, husband of Heather Humphrey Herzog '00, are co-owners of the newest Legacy Village store, Spruce.

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• Graduate Stars on Food Network
  News • 6/23/2013
  Watch Chris Hodgson '04 cook up a storm on Food Network ;Star Sundays at 9pm. ;

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• Hawken Parades the Circle
  News • 6/19/2013
  Hawken's Upper School visual arts department once again impressed and enchanted spectators at the Cleveland Museum of Art's 24th annual Parade the Circle in University Circle.

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• Graduate Opens New Diner in Cleveland
  News • 6/11/2013
  Looking for a family friendly diner? Or how about the perfect spot for cocktails? You can do both at The Katz Club recently launched by Hawken parent and 1988 graduate Doug Katz.

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• 5th Graders Move Up
  News • 5/30/2013
  Hawken 5th graders bid a fond farewell to the Lower School today at a Moving Up Ceremony held in the Lyndhurst Chapel.

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• 5th Grader Raises Funds for Animals in Need
  News • 5/28/2013
  What will you do this summer? Last summer 5th grader Lily Nestor trained for an 8K race to benefit animals.

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• 7th Grade Mock Trial Tradition Continues
  News • 5/23/2013
  It's that time of the year when the brooding, gum-smacking Alex Carlson defends herself in court against the overreaching and oppressive authority of Malloryville High School. 

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• Two Seniors Receive National Merit Scholarships
  News • 5/14/2013
  Congratulations to seniors Sydney Costantini and Russell Cohen for being selected winners of the National Merit Scholarship Program.

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• Hawken in One Word
  News • 4/27/2013
  Students, parents and teachers describe Hawken in One Word... or at least try to!  Visit Hawken's YouTube channel to watch .

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• Hawken Featured in Net Assets Magazine
  News • 4/3/2013
  "Learn how three iconoclastic institution are staying on the cutting edge through real innovation," begins an article in the March/April issue of Net Assets Magazine , published by the National Business Officers Association. "Breaking the Mold" addresses some of the challenges of educational in ...

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• Battle of Bands Raises Funds for Nicaragua
  News • 6/24/2013
  The 6th Annual Battle of the Bands Benefit for Seeds of Learning, took place March 1 and raised nearly $5000 toward the purchase school supplies and building materials in Nicaragua.   For the past 12 years, Hawken students have travelled to Nicaragua and El Salvador to help further educational ...

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• Lyndhurst Campus Renovation Updates
  News • 3/23/2013
  Renovations at the Lyndhurst Campus will provide updated classroom space to meet Hawken's curriculum needs and increased enrollment demand. Read more and check construction updates at ; hawken.edu/LYProject .

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• Senior Named Scholar in National Program
  News • 3/20/2013
  Isabella Todaro '13 ;has been named a 2013 ; Coca-Cola Scholar for her commitment to academics, leadership and volunteer service. Selected from an initial pool of 100,000, Isabella will travel to Atlanta with 252 peers in April where Regional and National winners will be determined.

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• Graduate Up for Best New Chef Award
  News • 3/17/2013
  Tomorrow is the last day to cast your vote for Cleveland chef and Hawken '04 graduate Chris Hodgson in Food &; Wine's annual People’s Best New Chef award. Visit http://ow.ly/iLgvr ;to cast your vote!

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• Jazz Band Plays Sold Out Crowd at Nighttown
  News • 3/13/2013
  Hawken's Jazz Band played two rousing sets to a sold out crowd at the revered Cleveland jazz club Nighttown on March 12. ; The jazz band plays at many Hawken events and this was a great opportunity for the group to share their amazing talents with the greater Clevealnd community. ; Congrats, cats!

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• Junior to Compete at Lincoln Center
  News • 2/28/2013
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• Student Co-stars on The Mindy Project
  News • 2/25/2013
  Tune into to Fox 8 tomorrow at 9:30 pm to watch Kole Hoffman '16 costar on The Mindy Project . ;After graduating from Hawken 8 th grade last year, Kole ventured to Los Angeles to attend a performing arts high school. ; After only a short time, he finds himself playing a younger version of Seth Rogen ...

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• Seven Named Merit Finalists
  News • 2/11/2013
  Seven Hawken seniors have advanced to finalists the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Competition. ; Congratulations to ;Russell M. Cohen, Sydney T. Costantini, Jacob L. Dennis, Alexandra Markovich, Mark A. Murgiano, Isabella K. Todaro and Caroline G. Vexler. Winners in the national competition will b ...

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• Young Alumni Reflect on College Preparation
  News • 1/29/2013
  Ten graduates took time before last month's Alumni Winter Luncheon to share their thoughts on college preparation in this video posted on ; Hawken's YouTube channel . Hear what they have to say!

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• Eight Hawks Named Best of Best by Plain Dealer
  News • 1/2/2013
  Eight Hawken athletes were named "Best of the Best" in the Plain Dealer 's 2012 High School Fall Sports All Stars . ;Congratulations to the following students! All Stars Annie Artz '13 ;- Field Hockey Sydney Green '15 ;- Tennis Emily Leizman '13 ;- Tennis Ally Markovich '13 ;- Cross Country Jacob Na ...

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• Two Former Faculty Featured at Holiday Event
  News • 11/28/2012
  Former Upper School biology teacher Penny Orr will host an open house at her new business Perennials Preferred located on Mayfield Rd. near the Gates Mills campus. Stop in December 1st or 2nd where she'll be featuring art including works by former Upper School math teacher Hugh Thompson. ;Also avail ...

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• A Video of Thanks
  News • 11/30/2012
  In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, we hope that you will take a brief moment to ; watch this video . We at Hawken are grateful for our entire community.

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• Halloween at the Lower School
  News • 11/1/2012
  The Lower School held its traditional Halloween celebration in Ingalls Gym yesterday, which included a presentation to the Fall Family Fair Class Prize winner. ;The Class Prize went to Mrs. Malin's 5th Grade Class - Congratulations, Class!

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• Three Swimmers Receive Scholastic Honor
  News • 10/1/2012
  Congratulations to seniors Sarah Koucheki, Carrie Bencic, and Marissa Cominelli for being named to ; USA Swimming 's Scholastic All-American Team. ; Each year, USA Swimming recognizes student members who excel both in the classroom and in the pool. ;To be eligible for this recognition, 10th-12th gra ...

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• Science Teacher Featured in Chagrin Valley Times
  News • 9/20/2012
  Upper School science teacher Kelly Clark practices what she teaches as exemplified in the establishment of her six-acre farm in Bainbridge. Read about it in this Chagrin Valley Times feature .

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• Hawken Rowers Take Silver
  News • 9/16/2012
  Seniors Ben and Gabe Whitehead earned a second place win at the Head of the Cuyahoga Regatta on September 15. ; In it's 17th year, this year's Regatta included ;310 shells and scholastic and collegiate teams from over 16 states and 65 rowing clubs. ;Ben and Gabe placed 2nd in a field of 8 teams in t ...

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• Chinese Teacher Promotes Use of Technology
  News • 8/30/2012
  Lower School Chinese teacher Chunlan Liu was featured in the September 2012 issue of Cleveland Magazine . In the article, she describes her summer work on ;web-based teacher-training programs that can accelerate the learning process. ;Read the article here .

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• Coach Holtrey Featured in Cleveland Magazine
  News • 8/28/2012
  Hawken's longtime swim coach Jerry Holtrey was featured in the September 2012 issue of Cleveland Magazine . Click here to read some of the important "Lessons Learned" during Coach Holtrey's stellar career.

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• Upper School Conducts Service Day
  News • 8/24/2012
  Upper School students spent their first Friday of the year performing service at the Gates Mills Campus and around the Cleveland area. Projects ranged from cleaning up campus gardens, trails and classrooms to working at a men's shelter, a lamb farm, the Cleveland Food Bank, medWish, helping at the L ...

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• Students Studying Traditional Indian Music Featured in WCPN Story
  News • 8/23/2012
  Swetha Kareti '15 and Devesh Modi '16 were featured on WCPN's ideastream in a great story by David C. Barnett. Read or listen at this link .

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• Football Season Kicks Off on Friday
  News • 8/21/2012
  Coach Walton previews Hawken's football season in this article for the Mayfield-Hillcrest Patch . The first kickoff of the season is 7pm Friday, 8-24-12, against Western Reserve Academy. Go Hawks!

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• Students Passionate about Work with Homeless Shelter
  News • 8/20/2012
  The service relationship between Hawken 8th graders and ;the Men's Homeless Shelter at 2100 Lakeside ;is featured in the summer newsletter "Seeds of Change." Read more in the ; article on page 3 .

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• Graduate Tackles Climate Change
  News • 8/9/2012
  Yoni Binstock '07 ;has launched ; Climate Scores , an online resource for climate change activists and passionate citizens. "Our goal is to keep Congress accountable on climate change legislation and to create lasting policies that tackle this pressing issue," says Yoni, who is completed a master's ...

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• Thank You!
  News • 7/9/2012
  Hawken is proud to announce that our community worked together to achieve – and exceed – our Annual Fund goal for the 2011-2012 school year.

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• Congratulations, Class of 2012!
  News • 6/14/2012
  The Class of 2012 bid farewell to Hawken's hallowed halls on Sunday, June 3. One hundred and thirteen students received their diplomas and heard addresses from the following: student speakers Jenna Foti '12 and Liam Green '12 , Valedictorian Aden Wexberg '12 , Visual and Performing Arts Chair Denise ...

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• Sophomore Advances to State
  News • 5/25/2012
  Sophomore Zach Polk has advanced to state competition in the long jump. Read more and watch a video interview of Zach here .

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• Hawken Choir Opens Indians Game
  News • 5/7/2012
  Hawken's fantastic Lower School Choir under the direction of music teacher Jodie Ricci, opened the Sunday, May 6, Indians game by singing the National Anthem. The choir gave a rousing performance and had the thrill of high fives with Indians players and their mascot, Slider, when leaving the field. ...

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• Graduate Shares Thoughts in New York Times
  News • 5/7/2012
  1986 Hawken graduate Sean Decatur, who is currently the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Oberlin College, shared his thoughts about online education in a May 6, 2012 New York Times article titled " Enhancement, Not Replacement ." Decatur poses ...

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• Earth Day For The Birds: Lyndhurst Shutterbugs Celebrate Earth Day With Campus Bird Life Photography Show
  News • 4/22/2012
  The Lyndhurst Science Department sponsored a special Earth Day photography initiative this year to document bird life around campus. Click here to see submissions from our talented shutterbugs!

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• An Evening with Dr. Marc Gillinov '80
  News • 4/6/2012
  The Hawken School Alumni and Parents' Associations presents Dr. Marc Gillinov '80 as part of The Hawken Speaker Series. A cardiac surgeon and innovator at The Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Gillinov will speak on "Red Wine, Dark Chocolate and the Truth About Heart Disease" on Monday, April 16, 2012, 7-9pm in ...

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• Hawken Visits Haibara, Japan
  News • 3/21/2012
  For 24 years, Hawken and the town of Haibara, Japan have engaged in a cultural student exchange during Spring Break. This year a group of 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students along with two teacher chaperones travelled to Japan as part of Hawken’s longest operating student exchange opportunity. Th ...

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• Hawken Parents to Speak at City Club
  News • 3/13/2012
  Hawken parent Dr. Karen Jaffe will be speaking at the City Club on Friday, March 16. Diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson's Disease, Dr. Jaffe is working with the Michael J. Fox Foundation to raise awareness, and money, about the disease. Her husband Marc Jaffe, a comedian and a 1976 graduate of Haw ...

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• Peter Scott Publishes New Book
  News • 3/5/2012
  Upper School English Teacher Peter Scott has a new book out. Available on Amazon.com , In Deer Isle Maine is a novel about a regiment nearly wiped out at the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. Click here to view a promotional video shot by Aaron Kohn '09, and visit Peter's facebook page .

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• History Teacher Authors Article
  News • 2/8/2012
  Upper School History Teacher Ken Clark recently authored an article on his family's Sovenian heritage. Cleveland is touted as being home to the largest population of Slovenes outside the country of Slovenia. Clark's article was published in the Slovenian American Times. Click here to read the articl ...

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• Sarah Wilson-Jones '90 Featured in Plain Dealer
  News • 2/5/2012
  1990 graduate Sarah Wilson-Jones, CEO and superbarista of Phoenix Coffee Co., was featured in the Sunday, February 5, Plain Dealer column " Talk with the Boss ." Congratulations, Sarah!

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• Hawk Signs with Fordham University
  News • 2/2/2012
  Hawken Senior Tom Granot made it official on National Signing Day, signing his National Letter of Intent to play Men’s Soccer at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. He is joined by Hawken Head Coach Dani Giulvezan, and his parents Mrs. Iris and Dr. Elad Granot. Tom, 1st team All-Ohio an ...

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• Five Hawks Named to USA Swimming's Scholastic All-America Team
  News • 2/1/2012
  Five Hawken swimmers have been named to USA Swimming’s Scholastic All-America Team. They are Seniors Morgan Cohara and Lizzie Aronoff, and Juniors Carrie Bencic, Marissa Cominelli, and Caroline Vexler. To earn this prestigious recognition, swimmers must have a minimum 3.50 GPA and achieve spec ...

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• Hawken Parent Co-Authors Book
  News • 1/20/2012
  ...recently co-authored a book titled From Diploma to Dream Job. Heralded as "the perfect compass to help young people find a calling, choose a career, and locate the best place to get hired after college," Mauri and her book are featured in this week's Sun Messenger newspaper. Click here to read mo ...

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• Like Mother, Like Daughter
  News • 12/18/2012
  Sometimes a sport just runs in a family. That seems to be the case with Mary Toomey Clyde , a 1979 graduate of Hawken, and her daughter Kennedy Clyde '12 . According to Hawken records, Mary and Kennedy are the first parent-child combination to win an Old Board Award. Adding to the statistical first, ...

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• Evan Wright '83 Talks to Plain Dealer About New Book
  News • 12/12/2011
  Hawken graduate Evan Wright '83 was interviewed in the Sunday, December 11 Plain Dealer about his new book American Desperado, which tells the story of criminal Jon Roberts. Click here to read the compelling interview.

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• Cards Thank Troops
  News • 12/5/2011
  During the sixth grade Grandparents and Special Friends Day event on November 22, groups of students and grandparents created thank you cards for U.S. troops serving oversees. More than 100 thank you cards - 106 to be exact - were created. The Schulz family - Martin '82, Kristen, Sears '16 and Henly ...

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• Six Students Selected for Youth Panel
  News • 11/13/2011
  Claire Cohen '12 , Anna Garnitz '12 , Anna Lowenstein '13 , Benjamin Whitehead '13 , Gabriel Whitehead '13 and Adam Wolf '13 have been selected to participate in the Saltzman Youth Panel program of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland. The 2012 panel consists of 40 area high school juniors and seniors ...

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• "Unsinkable" Carrie Bencic Featured in National Magazine
  News • 9/1/2011
  Hawks swimmer Carrie Bencic '13 was featured in the summer issue of ESPN RISE Magazine, a national publication "serving teen athletes and fans of high school sports." Read about the inspiring story about Carrie's perserverance here .

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• Hawks Compete in 25th Cleveland Triathlon
  News • 8/16/2011
  Hawken sophomores Elijah Spiro, Aric Floyd, and Mark Gori were the winning Olympic Relay team at the Cleveland Triathlon on August 7. Also competing and placing second in the individual competition was 2008 graduate Davis Filippell. Read more about the triathlon competition in this Plain Dealer arti ...

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• Hawken Grad to Appear on Food Network Show
  News • 8/19/2011
  Chris Hodgson '04 appeared on WCPN's Around Noon on August 10 to talk about his upcoming appearance on The Food Network's " The Great Food Truck Race ," which premieres this Sunday, August 14 at 10 pm. Listen to his engaging radio interview and be sure to tune in for the TV show on Sunday!

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• Thomas Galvin '57 Featured in Plain Dealer
  News • 8/19/2011
  1957 Hawken graduate Thomas Galvin, a studio director at the Cleveland architecture and interior design firm of Vocon, is volunteering his design services for the $9.8 million renovation of the Cleveland Sight Center. The Plain Dealer featured Galvin in an August 1 story by Steven Litt.

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• Hawken Swimmers Place in Speedo Champion Series
  News • 8/3/2011
  Congratulations to Hawken swimmers Sarah Koucheki '13 and Marissa Cominelli '13 who placed in the Speedo Champion Series Central Zone 3 Sectional Championships held in Solon on July 27. The meet consisted of Olympic time trial berths, senior national berths, and junior national championship berths. ...

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• Six Hawks Travel to International Children's Games in Scotland
  News • 8/3/2011
  Tennis player Siddarth Ahuja '14 and swimmers Jordyn Bauer '17, Maureen Rakovec '15, Henry Senkfor '14, Sarah Senkfor '16 and Matthew Puckace '15 will compete at the 45th International Children's Games in Lanarkshire, Scotland August 3-8. Read more here .

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• Ellen Drake '11 Swims Across Chesapeake Bay
  News • 7/21/2011
  Congratulations to Ellen Drake '11, who recently finished second among women and 19th overall out of 600 swimmers who competed in the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim. Drake, who plans on swimming at Oberlin College this year, completed the 4.4 miles in one hour and 50 minutes. Read more here .

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• Girls Lacrosse Finishes Season Strong
  News • 6/20/2011
  Congratulations to Katie Goldston ‘11, who was named 1st team All-Ohio by the Ohio School Girls Lacrosse Association, and to Annabelle Rayburn for being named to the All-Ohio 2nd team. The Hawken girls lacrosse team were Regional Runners-up this spring. Way to go Hawks!

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• Students Perform at Barnes & Noble Book Fair
  News • 5/31/2011
  On Thursday evening, May 12, Middle Schoolers Lauren Cole, Sarah Parker, Egypt Ali, and Dennis Wu performed solo vocal and violin pieces to an enthusiastic gathering of fans at the Eton Collection Barnes and Noble Cafe. Their performances wowed book browsers and provided a special draw for Middle Sc ...

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• Boys and Girls Lacrosse Advance to Region Semi-Finals
  News • 5/23/2011
  Both the boys lacrosse and girls lacrosse teams have advanced to the region semi-finals this week. The girls defeated Kenston 21-7 in quarterfinal play, while the boys beat Cardinal Mooney HS 11-4 on Friday night. The girls play Walsh Jesuit Tuesday, May 24 @ Hawken at 5:30PM; the boys take on Gilmo ...

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• Two Hawks Make All Sun Basketball Team
  News • 5/9/2011
  Congratulations to junior Will Starks and sophomore Gabby Zaccaro for being named to boys and girls All Sun basketball teams! Read more here .

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• Hawken Gets Top Ranking at AAPT Physic Bowl Contest
  News • 5/5/2011
  Congratulations to physics students who participated in the three-state region American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Physics Bowl contest. Hawken placed first in both Division 1 (first year physics students) and Division 2 (second year physics students). Also impressive was Josh Petrack's ...

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• Junior Takes First Place in Piano Competition
  News • 5/3/2011
  Congratulations to Shulamite Chu '12, who won first place at the Venetia Hall Piano Concerto Competition held recently at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. The Ohio Federation of Music, organizer of the competition, awarded Shulamite a $600 scholarship for her performance of the first movem ...

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• Senior Art Exhibition to Open May 4
  News • 5/2/2011
  Please join the Upper School Arts Department in the AC Lobby for the opening of the Senior Art Exhibition on Wednesday, May 4th at 6:30 p.m. The opening will be followed by the Spring Upper School Concert scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium.

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• Joe Yanks '07 Named College Employee of the Year
  News • 4/22/2011
  Joe Yanks '07 was recently named Student Employee of the Year at Skidmore College, where he works for the Office of Communications as Facebook community manager. Read more from Skidmore's website .

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• 2011 Fisher House Charity Lacrosse Showcase
  News • 4/19/2011
  This Saturday, April 23, Hawken is hosting the Fisher House Charity Lacrosse Showcase for the third consecutive season. In addition to Middle School and High School lacrosse games scheduled throughout the day, the event will feature an auction and a raffle. Proceeds support the Fisher House Foundati ...

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• Swim Team Saluted at Lake County Captains Opening Game
  News • 4/8/2011
  The girls state championship swim team were honored at the opening season Lake County Captains game on Monday, April 11, along with other Cleveland-area high school and collegiate championship teams from the past year. Click here for details.

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• Hawken Sophomore Named PD Swimmer of the Year
  News • 3/30/2011
  Congratulations to Sarah Koucheki '13 for being named the Plain Dealer Swimmer of the Year and to Jerry Holtrey for being named Coach of the Year. Click here to read more about their phenomenal season and the accomplishments of All-Star teammates Carrie Bencic '13, Morgan Cohara '12, and Marissa Com ...

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• Hawken Students Tell Tales of Two Cities
  News • 3/29/2011
  Thirteen upper school students, along with history teacher Jim Newman and art teacher Denise Buckley, have been touring sites in London and Paris over spring break. Click here to view their blog.

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• Hawken Students Bring Home First Place and Grand Prize at Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair
  News • 4/5/2011
  Congratulations to Joe Soltzberg '11, who received both a first prize and a grand prize at the March 17 awards ceremony for the Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair; and to Ani Dasarathy '12 and Eric Xiao '12, who were first place winners in their categories. This is the third consecutive yea ...

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• Zach Voigt '12 Featured in Teen Speak
  News • 3/8/2011
  Junior Zach Voigt shared his perspective on the role of parents in teen sexuality in the Teen Speak column of Your Teen magazine. Read more here .

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• Hawken Figure Skaters Medal in Competition
  News • 2/26/2011
  Congratulations to Jacob Jaffe '12, Sydney Costantini '13 and Rachel Mckay '13, who received medals in four of the five events that they entered in the 2011 Ohio High School Team Figure Skating Competition held on February 12-13 in Shaker Heights. In addition to recieving the gold medal for the High ...

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• Justine Siegal '93 Makes Baseball History
  News • 2/22/2011
  Justine Siegal doesn't throw like a girl, and she proved it at the Cleveland Indians spring training in Arizona when she became the first woman to throw batting practice to a major league team during batting practice. "I've never thought of this as a physical task; I've always considered it a mental ...

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• Alexis Floyd '12 Featured in Actor Profile Series
  News • 2/11/2011
  Junior Alexis Floyd was recently featured in the Cleveland Performing Arts Examiner Actor Profile series. Read the interview and view Alexis' slide show here .

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• Girls and Boys Place First and Second at CVC Meet
  News • 1/31/2011
  The Hawken girls swim team scored 472 team points to dominate the Chagrin Valley Conference swim meet held at the Holtrey Natatorium last week, with the Hawken boys team placing second. Congratulations to both teams and to Sarah Koucheki '13, who set CVC records in both the 100-yard freestyle and th ...

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• Senior STEMM Research Accepted for Publication
  News • 1/24/2011
  STEMM participant Catherine Blebea ’11 was honored by having her research manuscript titled “Subclavian Artery Mycotic Aneurysm Associated with Congential Cervical Rib” accepted for publication in the Journal of Surgical Radiology. She has also been invited to present her abstract ...

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• Chester House Members Support Local Food Bank
  News • 1/18/2011
  Members of Chester House spent last Saturday working at the Cleveland Food Bank. Much of their time was spent unpacking, sorting, and repacking over 3,000 pounds of meat into 20 pound boxes.

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• First Intensive Courses Conclude
  News • 1/8/2011
  Watch the video on YouTube .

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• Josh Bass '11 Named PD Community Hero
  News • 1/6/2011
  Senior Josh Bass was recently named a 2010 Community Hero by The Plain Dealer for founding "Pass on the Gift of Reading" foundation, which collects books and DVDs for hospitalized children. Read more here .

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• 8th Grader Wins Gold Key in Art Competition
  News • 12/21/2010
  Congratulations to Jesse Mansoor '15, whose silk scarf created in Erin Thomas' art class received the coveted gold key in the Cuyahoga County Regional Scholastic Art Competition. About 300 award-winning works of art are chosen from over 1700 submissions by art teachers throughout Cuyahoga County sch ...

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• Two Field Hockey Players Voted All-League Northeast Ohio
  News • 12/1/2010
  Field hockey coaches from Northeast Ohio recently voted Annie Artz '13 First Team All-League and Colleen Schikowski '12 Second Team All-League. Congratulations to these two players and to the entire Hawken team on their hard work and achievements this season. More recently over Thanksgiving break, A ...

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• Three-Week "Intensive" Courses Begin
  News • 11/30/2010
  Monday, November 29 marked the start of the upper school Intensive unit, part of the innovative new schedule designed to support hands-on, in-depth learning focusing on a single topic of study. Course offerings range from Advanced Math to Public Opinion to Welding and Soldering to Choreography, amon ...

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• Hawken Alum Helps Companies Manage Social Media
  News • 11/22/2010
  Paul Gunning ’88, CEO and president of Tribal DDB Worlwide, was recently featured in the New York Times . The company, which is the digital division of DDB Worldwide, develops social media management technologies for the purposes of archiving communications to protect them from lawsuits and ot ...

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• Gymnast Takes First at Lake Erie Classic
  News • 11/22/2010
  Sixth grade student, Bailey Hagedorn, competing at the Lake Erie Classic gymnastics meet held at at Perry High School on Saturday November 7th, took first place in her division. Her scores ranged from 8 to 9 out of 10 for each of four events. Bailey demonstrated superior skill presenting a floor rou ...

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• Sophomore Swimmer Bound for Olympic Training Center
  News • 10/29/2010
  Sarah Koucheki '13 boarded a Colorado-bound plane yesterday to attend the USA National Swim Camp located at the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs. Sarah was one of 30 girls in the country to be invited to the camp, which runs from October 28 through October 31st. Congratulations, Sarah!

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• Girls Tennis Doubles Places 4th in State
  News • 10/26/2010
  After a phenomenal season highlighted by many successes, Taylor Johnson and Surya Khadilkar played hard but ultimately lost to Cincinnati Hills Christian in the state semi-finals and then to Walsh Jesuit, finishing fourth in the state tournament. Congratulations on a great season! Click here to read ...

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• Sophomore Named PD Player of the Week
  News • 10/25/2010
  Congratulations to Annie Artz '13 for being named the Plain Dealer Field Hockey Player of the Week !

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• Seven Students Named National Merit Semi-finalists
  News • 10/14/2010
  Congratulations to this year's National Merit Scholars! This year's scholars, all from the Class of 2011, are: Jocelyn Adams, Michael Baratz, Margret Erlendsdottir, Yonina Kirsch, Cecile Murray, Moriah Rahamim and Benjamin Sass. Commended scholars in this year's competition are seniors Catherine Ble ...

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• Jim Margolis '89 Featured in The Plain Dealer
  News • 10/5/2010
  Jim Margolis ’89, Emmy Award-winning producer of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” was recently interviewed by Michael Heaton of The Plain Dealer. In that interview, he speaks in his pointedly comic way not only about his work but about memories of Hawken and Cleveland. Click here ...

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• 4th and 7th Graders Experience Hands-On Learning at UC
  News • 9/30/2010
  University Circle was buzzing with Hawken students on Friday as seventh graders studied Hudson River painters at the Cleveland Museum of Art under the tutelage of Michael Weil '85, and fourth graders concluded a week-long study of archeology at the Gries Center and the Cleveland Museum of Natural Hi ...

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• Ally Markovich Named Plain Dealer Player of the Week
  News • 9/30/2010
  Sophomore Ally Markovich was named Plain Dealer Player of the Week for winning both the Beachwood Invitational and the Division III race at the Boardman Spartan Invitational. Read more from The Plain Dealer .

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• Recent Grads to Appear on Stage this Weekend
  News • 8/13/2010
  Charlie Marks `10, Evan Schreiber `10 and Ryan Smith `10 will appear this weekend in Stagecrafter`s Summer Stock production of \"The Wedding Singer.\" Shows are August 13 and 14 at 7:00 p.m. and August 15 at 2:00 p.m. at the Orange High School Auditorium. Tickets are available at the door. Join the ...

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• Middle School Student Plays Two Sports at Nationals
  News • 7/30/2010
  Mackenzie Berk, an upcoming 6th grader, will be playing Nationals in two sports this summer. Her basketball team, Reality Sports,is playing at the ESPN center in Orlando and is one of the few teams to represent Ohio. Mackenzie is also the pitcher for her softball team, the Hurricanes, who will be pl ...

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• MS Student Plays Chinese Zitherat UC Folk Festival
  News • 7/16/2010
  Alison Jin `15 will be presenting her Chinese zither solo performance for the 21st Annual International Folk Festival at University Circle to be held on Sunday, July 18th. Click here for more information.

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• Middle School Student Featured as "Student of the Week"
  News • 7/12/2010
  Anthony Charles `16 was recently named Sun Press \"Student of the Week\" for being one of about 25 students chosen from across the U.S. to attend a summer engineering workshop at Purdue University. Acceptance into the program is based on grades and teacher recommendations. Click here to read more.

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• Men's Lacrosse Players Earn Post-Season Recognition
  News • 7/1/2010
  Congratulations to the following Hawks who earned "All-Ohio" or "All-Northern Ohio" recognition for the 2010 lacrosse season: Teddy Hook (senior, defenseman) - Second Team All-Ohio Division II, First Team All-Northern Ohio DII Pat Horsburgh (senior, attackman) - Honorable Mention All-Ohio DII, First ...

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• Men`s Lacrosse Post-Season Recognition
  News • 7/1/2010
  Congratulations to the following Hawks who earned \"All-Ohio\" or \"All-Northern Ohio\" recognition for the 2010 lacrosse season: Teddy Hook (senior, defenseman) - Second Team All-Ohio Division II, First Team All-Northern Ohio DII Pat Horsburgh (senior, attackman) - Honorable Mention All-Ohio DII, F ...

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• Middle School Student to Appear on Jeopardy "Kids' Week"
  News • 6/29/2010
  Tune in to WEWS on Friday, July 9 at 7:30 p.m. to watch Jack Weisman ’15 compete on the Jeopardy game show. His episode was taped during the school year, but the results of the competition have been kept confidential (as required by the game show rules). Read more from The Plain Dealer , and b ...

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• Middle School Student to Appear on Jeopardy "Kids` Week"
  News • 6/29/2010
  Tune in to WEWS on Friday, July 9 at 7:30 p.m. to watch Jack Weisman `15 compete on the Jeopardy game show. His episode was taped during the school year, but the results of the competition have been kept confidential (as required by the game show rules). Read more from the Plain Dealer , and be sure ...

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• Senior Tennis Duo Headed to State Tournament
  News • 5/27/2010
  Charlie Marks and David Gerson are representing Hawken in the state tennis tournament in Columbus on Friday, May 28. This it the third year this powerful duo has made it to states. Congratulations and best of luck!

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• Bialosky `07 Heads to National Lacrosse Championship
  News • 5/27/2010
  Lacrosse powerhouse Alec Bialosky `07 will be playing for the Tufts University Jumbos in the DIII National Championship on Sunday, May 30 at noon on the College Sports Network. Be sure to tune in!

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• Support Varisty Baseball at District Championship Tonight!
  News • 5/20/2010
  After defeating Trinity High School 5-2 in last night's District Semifinal game, Hawken Varsity baseball will be playing in the District Championship game tonight vs. Independence High School. Tonight’s game will be played at 6:30PM at Euclid High School’s Serra Field, 711E 222nd St., Eu ...

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• Support Varsity Baseball at District Championship Game Tonight!
  News • 5/20/2010
  After defeating Trinity High School 5-2 in last night`s District Semifinal game, Hawken Varsity baseball will be playing in the District Championship game tonight vs. Independence High School. Tonight`s game will be played at 6:30PM at Euclid High School`s Serra Field, 711E 222nd St., Euclid, OH, 44 ...

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• MS Students Participate in Global Youth Service Day
  News • 4/28/2010
  The fourth and fifth grade Student Committee and Middle School Community Service Education Council (CSEC) celebrated Global Youth Service Day last Saturday by working at one of the Botanical Garden`s Urban Farms. Hawken students and parents worked side by side with Yolanda Polk and Andrew Narten to ...

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• Middle School Power of the Pen Wins the Sweeps
  News • 4/12/2010
  After taking first place in the district writing competition, Hawken`s 7th and 8th grade teams won the coveted Sweeps Award for the highest performing school overall in this weekend`s competition! Stay tuned for more details.

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• Hawken's Talkin
  News • 4/9/2010
  The latest Lower School Newscast, "Hawken's Talkin'" is available for viewing! Click here to get an inside look at what our lower school students are up to.

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• Hawken`s Talkin`
  News • 4/8/2010
  The latest Lower School Newscast, \"Hawken`s Talkin`\" is available for viewing! Click here to get an inside look at what our lower school students are up to.

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• Early Childhood Institute Summer Workshops Announced
  News • 4/7/2010
  Hawken`s popular Early Childhood Training Institute offers a variety of opportunities to strengthen developmental understanding of the young child and to support your growth as an educator. The teacher training instittue will feature nationally renowned presenters and workshops qualify for in-servic ...

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• Hawks Travel to Greece and Japan
  News • 3/23/2010
  Nick Fletcher and Jim Newman are traveling in Greece with 15 Upper School students while Todd Webster and Laura Staufer are in Haibara, Japan with 12 Middle School students. Read about their adventures in the respective travel blogs! More photos will be added as they come in, so check back for updat ...

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• Lower School Student Raises Diabetes Awareness
  News • 3/1/2010
  Spencer Fisher `23 has been a featured \"poster child\" for juvenile diabetes for both the JDRF (pictured with mother Ashley and Repesentative Tim Ryan) and the Greater Cleveland Diabetes Association (pictured with local Olympian Diana Munz and Coach Jerry Holtrey). Spenser and his family are commit ...

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• Coming This Weekend: 3rd Annual Battle of the Bands
  News • 2/27/2010
  Rescheduled! Join us this Friday, March, 2010 at 7 p.m. for the Battle of the Bands in the Kennedy Auditorium on the Gates Mills campus. Admission is $5.00, and all proceeds benefit the Seeds of Learning program in Nicaragua.

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• Hawken Figure Skaters Place at Competition
  News • 2/27/2010
  On February 20-21 Julia Kaesberg `10, Jacob Jaffe `12, Rachel McKay `13, and Sydney Costantini `13 represented Hawken at the Ohio High School Team Figure Skating Competition at Thornton Park Ice Arena in Shaker Heights. Congratulations to the team for earning medals in the following events: High Spi ...

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• Lower School Student Raises Diabetes Awareness
  News • 2/26/2010
  Spencer Fisher '23 has been a featured "poster child" for juvenile diabetes for both the JDRF (pictured with mother Ashley and Repesentative Tim Ryan) and the Greater Cleveland Diabetes Association (pictured with local Olympian Diana Munz and Coach Jerry Holtrey). Spenser and his family are committe ...

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• Support Hawken Performing Artists in Upcoming Productions
  News • 2/26/2010
  Alexis Floyd '12 will be giving her award-winning performance at Severance Hall on Saturday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m. at the Cleveland Pops Orchestra concert. Click here to purchase tickets. Alexis is also playing the lead role in the March production of Once on this Island at Heights Youth Theater and ...

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• Senior Named PD Player of the Week
  News • 2/25/2010
  John Weiss `10 was named Plain Dealer Player of the Week for his outstanding play in three basketball games last week. In all, had 40 points, 31 rebounds, 6 steals, 9 assists, and 8 blocks. Congratulations, John!

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• Lower School Newscast Features Student Broadcasters, Reporters
  News • 2/24/2010
  The latest Lower School Newscast, \"Hawken`s Talkin`\" is available for viewing! Click here to get an inside look at what our lower school students are up to.

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• Ohio HS Figure Skating Results and corrections
  News • 2/24/2010
  Full results of competition can be found at http://www.clevelandskating.com/results Corrected graduation years for team Julia Kaesberg `10 Jacob Jaffe `12 Rachel McKay `13 Sydney Costantini `13 Sorry for overloading you with emails

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• Hawken Figure Skating Team Competes at Ohio High School Competit
  News • 2/23/2010
  The Hawken Figure Skating Team (Julia Kaesberg `11, Jacob Jaffe `12, Sydney Costantini `13 and Rachel McKay `13)sucessfully competed in the Ohio High School Figure Skating Competition on February 20-21, 2010 at Thornton Park Ice Arena in Shaker Heights. The team competed in 3 individual events and 2 ...

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• Support Hawken Performing Artists in Upcoming Performances
  News • 2/23/2010
  Alexis Floyd `12 will be giving her award-winning performance at Severance Hall on Saturday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m. at the Cleveland Pops Orchestra concert. Click here to purchase tickets. Alexis is also playing the lead role in the March production of Once on this Island at Heights Youth Theater and ...

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• Support Hawken Performing Artists in Upcoming Productions
  News • 2/22/2010
  Alexis Floyd `12 will be giving her award-winning performance at Severance Hall on Saturday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m. at the Cleveland Pops Orchestra concert. Click here to purchase tickets. Alexis is also playing the lead role in the March production of Once on this Island at Heights Youth Theater and ...

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• Lower School Supports Hawken for Haiti
  News • 2/19/2010
  Students in grades K-5 want change for Haiti - both positive change and monetary change in the form of coins! Lighten your wallets and empty your stash of coins to support this worthy cause! Second graders and their families also showed their support for Haiti by sponsoring a bake sale on Wednesday, ...

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• Hawk Wrestlers Place at CVC Tournament
  News • 2/8/2010
  Seventeen wrestling teams competed in the Chagrin Valley Conference Wrestling Tournament held at Perry High School this past weekend. Three Hawk wrestlers placed in the tournament: Mikey Baratz placed 6th in the 130 pound class, Eric Meisel placed 4th in the 135 pound class, and Andrew Thomas placed ...

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• 3 Hawks Place at CVC Wrestling Championships
  News • 2/8/2010
  Seventeen wrestling teams competed in the Chagrin Valley Conference Wrestling Tournament held at Perry High School this past weekend. Three Hawk wrestlers placed in the tournament: Mikey Baratz placed 6th in the 130 pound class, Eric Meisel placed 4th in the 135 pound class, and Andrew Thomas placed ...

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• Innovations that Ready Students for a Changing World
  News • 1/2/2010
  Hawken`s Readiness Initiative supports meaningful learning and student engagement through our urban extension campus for service and experiential learning, our one-to-one tablet program, and our leading-edge schedule. Read more about it here .

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• 25th Annual White House Antiques Show
  News • 1/1/2010
  Be sure to attend the White House Antique Show on Monday, May 31, 2010. Click here for details.

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• Attend HawkFest, May 16
  News • 12/31/2009
  Members of the Hawken community will gather for Spring HawkFest on Saturday, May 15 to enjoy a family picnic and fun-filled activities. For more info, click here .

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• Early Childhood Institute Summer Workshops Announced
  News • 12/31/2009
  Hawken`s popular Early Childhood Training Institute has announced courses for this summer`s workshops. The Art of Teaching Young Minds will feature nationally renowned presenters and workshops qualify for in-service hours and/or JCU graduate workshop credit.

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• Coming Soon: 3rd Annual Battle of the Bands
  News • 12/21/2009
  Mark you calendars for the 3rd Annual Battle of the Bands fundraiser. The event will be held on Friday, January 8, 2010 at 7 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium on the Gates Mills campus. Admission is $5.00, and all proceeds benefit the Seeds of Learning program in Nicaragua. Click here to download the f ...

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• Academic Challenge Team to be Featured on WEWS
  News • 12/21/2009
  Be sure to tune in to WEWS Channel 5 on Staruday, December 26th at 7:00 p.m. to see the Hawken Academic Challenge Team Appearance!

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• Coming Soon: 3rd Annual Battle of the Bands
  News • 12/21/2009
  Mark you calendars for the 3rd Annual Battle of the Bands fundraiser. The event will be held on Friday, January 8, 2010 at 7 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium on the Gates Mills campus. Admission is $5.00, and all proceeds benefit the Seeds of Learning program in Nicaragua. Click here to download the f ...

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• Third Grade Prepares Hygiene Kits for MedWish
  News • 12/17/2009
  Third grade families recently joined forces to donate items for the grade level community service project, supplying enough items for the students to assemble approximately 350 dental hygiene kits to be distributed to a community in Haiti. The children also made cards for the recipients that include ...

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• Third Grade Prepares Hygiene Kits for MedWish
  News • 12/17/2009
  Third grade families recently joined forces to donate items for the grade level community service project, supplying enough items for the students to assemble approximately 350 dental hygiene kits to be distributed to a community in Haiti. The children also made cards for the recipients that include ...

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• Freshman Jumps at Chance to Perform in Macy`s Parade
  News • 11/30/2009
  Grace Huang `13 participated in the jump roping portion of the Macy`s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Click here to view a short video of the amazing performance.

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• Hawken Football Ends Season with 9-3 Record
  News • 11/19/2009
  The Hawks finished an impressive season culminating in a trip to the regional semi-finals on Friday, November 13. Despite a strong fourth quarter surge by the Hawks, Cuyahoga Heights retained its undefeated status. Read about the details of the teams` final game of the season here. . The Hawks` 9-3 ...

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• Lower School Explores Modern Dance
  News • 11/13/2009
  On Friday, November 13th, the Lower School students enjoyed a performance by Dancing Wheels, a modern dance company for \"stand up\" and \"sit down\" dancers. Prior to the performance, teachers previewed modern dance and diverse dancers with their students so that they could be informed about the ki ...

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• Hawken Football Advances to Regional Semi-Finals
  News • 11/9/2009
  In their second face-off of the season, Hawken beat Independence 14-7 on Friday night, advancing the Hawks to the regional semi-final game against Cuyahoga Heights. Click here to read more about the winning game. Join the excitement by heading to Solon on Friday night to support the team. Game time ...

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• Sophomore Wins Cleveland Pops Music Scholarship
  News • 11/5/2009
  Congratulations to Alexis Floyd ’12, who was recently chosen the Grand Prize Winner of the Cleveland Pops’ 2009 Jean L. Petitt Memorial Music Scholarship Competition. As the winner, Alexis will be performing at one of the upcoming Severance Hall concerts, the date of which is yet to be d ...

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• Sophomore Wins Cleveland Pops Music Scholarship
  News • 11/5/2009
  Congratulations to Alexis Floyd `12, who was recently chosen the Grand Prize Winner of the Cleveland Pops` 2009 Jean L. Petitt Memorial Music Scholarship Competition. As the winner, Alexis will be performing at one of the upcoming Severance Hall concerts, the date of which is yet to be decided by Ma ...

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• Football Team Makes Playoffs
  News • 11/3/2009
  Congratulations to the football team for their 35-0 win against Beachwood on Friday - a win that qualified them for the state playoffs to be held this coming Friday. The team`s 8-2 record earned them 5th seed; they are scheduled to play 4th seed Independence in what the Plain Dealer calls the playof ...

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• Sophomore Field Hockey Standout
  News • 11/2/2009
  Congratulations to Annabelle Rayburn, who is featured as this week’s Plain Dealer Field Hockey Player of the Week!

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• Sophomore Field Hockey Standout
  News • 11/2/2009
  Congratulations to Annabelle Rayburn `12, who is featured as this week`s Plain Dealer Field Hockey Player of the Week!

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• Middles School Teacher Wins Outstanding Educator Award
  News • 10/20/2009
  Middle School Science teacher Peter Thomas was recently selected as Educator of the Year by the Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District. This award is given to "an outstanding educator each year in recognition of someone who uses a variety of methods to help students understand the importance ...

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• Hawken Highlighted in Independent School Magazine
  News • 10/20/2009
  An article by Sara Mierke '84 , Hawken's Director of Community Partnerships and Service Learning, was featured in the Fall 2009 edition of Independent School magazine. In the article, she addresses how the programs at our University Circle campus will advance Hawken's purpose of "forward focused pre ...

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• Admission Open House, November 1
  News • 10/20/2009
  Hawken School is hosting an Open House on Sunday, November 1 starting at 1:00 p.m. at Lyndhurst and Gates Mills. Invite your friends to learn about Hawken`s nationally recognized early childhood program, our state-of-the-art Middle School, our extension campus for experiential and service learning a ...

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• Grant Roth Basketball Tournament
  News • 10/20/2009
  This 4th annual Thanksgiving weekend basketball tournament is open to all ages, talents and abilities. The 4 on 4 tournament will be at Hawken`s Gates Mills campus from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 28. For more information, please contact Michael Weil `85 at mrw6@case.edu.

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• Young Alumni Event
  News • 10/20/2009
  TGIF, Hawken`s 5th annual young alumni get together, will be on Friday, November 27 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in Smith Lobby at the Gates Mills Sports Complex. Graduates from 1995-2009 are invited to be Hawken`s guests at this relaxed and fun event. Meet up with friends, classmates, faculty and st ...

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• Hawken Alum Pursues Passion for Primary Care
  News • 9/30/2009
  Alex Howard ’05, a third year medical student at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine , was featured on WKSU this morning. Click here to listen to Alex’s perspective on becoming a primary care physician. (Scroll towards the top of the page and click on the audio link that a ...

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• Hawken Alum Pursues Passion for Primary Care
  News • 9/30/2009
  Alex Howard `05, a third year medical student at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, was featured on WKSU this morning. Click here to listen to Alex`s perspective on becoming a primary care physician. (Scroll towards the top of the page and click on the audio link that appears below ...

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• Freshman Sets New Hawken Record
  News • 9/22/2009
  Freshman Ally Markovich set a new Hawken School record for girls cross country at the Boardman High School Spartan Invitational on Saturday, September 19. Ally`s time of 19 minutes and 41 seconds also placed her second overall in the Division III section of the meet. Congratulations, Ally!

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• Help Josh Bass `11 Pass on the Gift of Reading
  News • 9/21/2009
  Junior Josh Bass has initiated a program called \"Pass on the Gift of Reading\" to provide children ages 2-18 in the Cleveland Clinic Children`s Hospital with new or gently used childrens books and DVDs. A collection will be held on Saturday, September 26th from 10:00 a.m. - 5 p.m. at Alson`s Jewele ...

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• Attend HawkFest 2009, October 16-17
  News • 8/26/2009
  The Hawken Community will come together to celebrate HawkFest 2009 on Friday and Saturday October 16-17. Click here for details.

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• Hawken Junior is Featured Soloist in CYO Boston Concert Tour
  News • 6/17/2009
  Margret Erlendsdottir '11 is headed for Boston for a four-concert tour with the Cleveland Youth Orchestra. Chosen as one of two soloists on the tour, she will be performing the opening Andante from Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No. 2. Read more from The Plain Dealer here .

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• Hawken Junior is Featured Soloist in CYO Boston Concert Tour
  News • 6/17/2009
  Margret Erlendsdottir `11 is headed for Boston for a four-concert tour with the Cleveland Youth Orchestra. Chosen as one of two soloists on the tour, she will be performing the opening Andante from Saint-Saens` Piano Concerto No. 2. Read more from The Plain Dealer here.

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• Track Team Sets New Record; Hurdler Named State Champion
  News • 6/8/2009
  The Hawken 4x200 relay team - Jake McKay, Jake Willen, Ryan Harkey, and Tyler Nichols - set the school record on their way to a second place finish in the 4 x 200 relay at the state meet this past weekend. Tyler Nichols went on to became state champion in the 110 meter high hurdles, leaving his oppo ...

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• Middle School Students Earn High Marks On National Mythology Exam
  News • 5/27/2009
  Congratulation to the 9 middle school students who earned medals for their performance on the National Mythology Exam. Russell Cohen ’13 earned a gold medal for his perfect score, Lena Goren ’14, Adam Stilson ’15, and Mara Cohen earned silver medals, and Victoria Jones ’13, Justin Faulhaber ’13, Ale ...

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• Attend HawkFest, May 16
  News • 5/11/2009
  Members of the Hawken community will gather for Spring HawkFest on Saturday, May 16 to enjoy a family picnic and fun-filled activities. Please RSVP for lunch to dhopk@hawken.edu or 440-423-2966. For complete details on the day, click here and for a schedule of sporting events, click here .

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• Girls Swim Team Holds 19 State Titles
  News • 3/30/2009
  Hawken`s varsity girls swim team won its 19th first place title at the state championships this year. It was the team`s 11th consecutive win and with talented sophomores, freshmen and an undefeated season by the girls middle school team, the winning streak looks poised to continue.

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• Lower School Expands Before and After Care Services
  News • 3/13/2009
  Beginning next fall, Hawken families will have expanded before and after care options for preschool through grade 5 children. Before care will run from 7:00 a.m. to the beginning of school. After care will run from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. Information on the expanded options and registration forms will be ...

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• Middle School Geography Wiz to Compete at State Bee
  News • 3/13/2009
  Erica Fearon `14 has qualified for the state-level Geography Bee to be held in Mansfield on Friday, April 3, where she will be competing for a spot in the national competition to be held in Washington, D.C. in May. The bee is sponsored by the National Geographic Society. Congratulations and good luc ...

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• Blood Drive Surpasses Goal
  News • 3/3/2009
  This year`s blood drive, held on Wednesday, February 25, drew more donors than expected, resulting in a very successful drive. Because so many students, faculty, and parents participated, we surpassed our goal of 57 pints by 12 for a grand total of 69 pints. Thanks to all who helped make this Hawken ...

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• Celebrate Winter Hawkfest, February 6!
  News • 2/5/2009
  Join the excitment! The Hawken community is invited to attend Winter HawkFest 2009. Activities begin at 5:00 p.m. in the Hawken Sports Center on the Gates Mills Campus and will include shooting contests, prizes, basketball clinics, lots of dinner choices and more fun for the whole family! Be sure to ...

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• Regional Champs Close Season at State-Semifinals
  News • 11/4/2008
  Despite high hopes and expectations, Hawken`s boys soccer team fell short in their bid for a state championship when they faced Toledo Ottawa Hills in the Division III state semifinal. But the team has much to be proud of from a season of hard work, incredible skill, and good sportsmanship. Read abo ...

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• Lower School Library Presents "Explore"
  News • 10/5/2008
  Hawken`s Lower School Library invites you and your child to a free four-week session of stories, songs and activities for 2-3 year olds. The program is open to the public and begins on Tuesday, January 20th. For more information, contact Kathy Fehrenback at kfehr@hawken.edu.

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• Varsity Golf Named League Champions
  News • 9/22/2008
  Congratulations the men`s varsity golf team, which was recently named league champions of the Metro Division of the Chagrin Valley Conference. This is the third consecutive year the team has won the distinction. Of note was the tournament medalist senior Sam Lincoln, as well as senior Mike Hruby, wh ...

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• Hawken Boys Cross-Country Team WINS at Madison`s "U-Wanna-Come-B
  News • 9/2/2008
  The Hawken Upper School Boys Cross-Country Team finished in first place in the White Division at the Madison \"U-Wanna-Come-Back\" Invitational on Saturday August 30, 2008. This was the first invitational championship for the boys in a very long time. The team was lead by sophomores Ian Mullenhour, ...

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• Hawken Girls Cross-Country Team is 2nd at Madison Invitational.
  News • 9/2/2008
  The Hawken Upper School Girls Cross-Country team finished in second place at the Madison \"U-Wanna-Come-Back\" Invitiational. They were lead by freshman Mackenzie Harris, sophomore Taylor Pearl, junior Julia Bramante, freshman Christy Nolan and senior Maddie Bell. The team is working very hard to im ...

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• Lower School Mailing Lists Incorrect No. for Motter`s Music
  News • 8/20/2008
  Due to an error in a recent Lower/Middle School mailing, the incorrect number for Motter`s Music was listed. The correct number is 440-442-7470.

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• Student`s Perfect Score a Rarity
  News • 8/19/2008
  Only one out of about every 4,000 Ohio students who took the ACT in April earned a perfect composite score of 36. Senior Brian Huser is among those elite few and joins only 172 students nationwide with a perfect score. Congratulations, Brian!

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• Eighth Grader Uses Bar Mitzvah to Give Back
  News • 7/17/2008
  For his bar mitzvah project, Gabe Napoli found a way to spread his love of music and the arts in more ways than one. Read about it here .

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• As Reunion Weekend 2008 Ends, Plans are Underway for 2009
  News • 6/16/2008
  Hawken graduates Bob Page '49, Doug Katz '88 and Chris Fusco '68 were honored at Reunion Weekend in May amongst friends, family and classmates. Click here to view photos from this year's event. Next year, class years ending in 4s and 9s will gather to celebrate their anniversaries on May 15-17. Mark ...

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• Upper School Spring Concert: May 7
  News • 4/30/2008
  The Upper School instrumental and vocal performing arts departments will present their spring concert on Wednesday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Kennedy Auditorium. Please join us for a special evening.

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• A Beautiful Awakening
  News • 4/18/2008
  Thanks in part to the work of Bill Scheele '66, there's a profound artistic energy pulsing through the Gordon Square Arts District on Cleveland's west side. Read more about the renaissance.

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• Jazz Combo at Eton Collection April 10
  News • 4/8/2008
  The Hawken Jazz Combo will be playing at The Eton Collection on Chagrin Boulevard this Thursday, April 10 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. To find the band, enter the building at the Cold Stone Creamery entrance and proceed roughly 150 yards west to the center atrium. The students will be playing two set ...

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• Hawken Grad on WVIZ`s Nova Tonight
  News • 4/1/2008
  Tune into WVIZ tonight at 8:00 p.m. for NOVA`s presentation of \"Underwater Dream Machine,\" the story of how Peter Robbins `60 attempted to build the world`s first submarine with panoramic views. Visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/alicia/ for more info.

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• What Africans Have to Say About the Primaries
  News • 3/4/2008
  While the country edges toward the eventual Democratic presidential nominee in this an election for the history books, the rest of the world has also turned its focus to the race for the White House and has lots to say. Junior Aaron Kohn, who is spending a semester at the Maru-a-Pula School in Botsw ...

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• Hawken Students to Appear on Channel 5’s Academic Challenge
  News • 3/3/2008
  Three members of Hawken's Academic Challenge Team will appear on the March 15 episode of WEWS - Channel 5's Academic Challenge television show. They will compete against teams from Fairless High School and Oberlin High School. The students appearing are juniors Samuel Milner, Alec Lai, and John Boro ...

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• Faculty Member, Students Featured in Photo Exhibit
  News • 2/25/2008
  Photography teacher Hank Skladanowski and advanced photography students Samantha Kadis, Mere Allenick, Ashley Southard -- all seniors -- were selected to show in a six-state photography show for professionals and serious amateurs in the gallery of Oberlin`s Firelands Association for the Visual Arts. ...

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• Champs All Around!
  News • 2/14/2008
  Both the men`s and women`s swim teams recently won the sectional championship, which was the first time in six years for the men. And the men`s varsity basketball team won the Chagrin Valley Conference Metro Division title. The men will play their sectional game at Lakeland Community College versus ...

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• Welcoming the Year of the Rat
  News • 2/12/2008
  The Chinese New Year was celebrated at the Lower School on February 7 as kindergarten, first and second graders welcomed in the Year of the Rat in the brightly decorated dome lobby. Chinese teacher Chunlan Liu and her students proudly demonstrated through song and recitation some of the things they ...

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• Hawken students volunteer at Children`s Aid holiday party
  News • 12/4/2007
  On Saturday, December 1, several Hawken students took part in the annual Children`s Aid holiday party. Volunteers played games and activities with families attending the event - a good time was had by all!

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• Eighth Graders Study Water Treatment
  News • 12/3/2007
  Eighth grade students recently each had a two hour tour at the Southerly Wastewater treatment plant in Cuyahoga Heights. The tour was the culmination of a series of learning activities at the Lyndhurst campus, where students studied the processes of water treatment.

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• Energy Team Hosts Science Workshop
  News • 12/3/2007
  Eleven students from of this year`s eighth grade energy team recently helped run a science workshop at the Great Lakes Science Museum. The workshop, sponsored by the Ohio Energy Project, is designed to teach local teachers and students about energy issues. Our students helped around 80 middle school ...

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• Young Graduates Return for TGIF
  News • 11/29/2007
  Over 150 alumni attended the TGIF 2007 event on November 23, 2007. To welcome all of our alums from the classes of 1993-2007 back to Hawken, a special selection of food and beverages was provided, including crispitos. Liane Beier, Leslie Cushner, Bob Kachurek, Wes Wilson, David Gillespie, Garry Darr ...

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• Holtrey Honored by Peer
  News • 11/15/2007
  Eight Hawken swimmers and nine members of the Frederick Douglass Club recently listened to words of wisdom from Jim Ellis -- swim coach, teacher and subject of the film \"Pride\" -- when they attended the West Side Ecumenical Ministry`s annual Inspire luncheon. Hawken swim coach Jerry Holtrey was aw ...

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• Hawken English Teacher on WCPN
  News • 11/14/2007
  Upper School English teacher Peter Scott appeared on WCPN yesterday on \"Around Noon\" to talk with Dee Perry about his book Barter Island. If you were unable to tune in, check here tomorrow for an archive of the show.

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• The Second Annual "G-Money 4-on-4" Basketball Tournament
  News • 11/10/2007
  Open to everyone of all shapes, sizes, ages and abilities, this event is all about fun! Prizes, food, good competition and oxygen for anyone who needs it will be on hand Saturday, November 24 from noon to 5:00pm. All proceeds go toward Hawken`s Grant Roth `85 Community Service Award Fund. Click here ...

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• Make Your Way to Brunswick Tomorrow for Soccer Semifinal
  News • 11/5/2007
  Cheer on your fellow Hawks as the men`s soccer team faces Kidron Central Christian in the state semifinals. Directions are below. The game starts at 7:00 p.m. Brunswick High School 3581 Center Rd. Brunswick, OH 44212 330-273-0496 Take I-271 south to I-480 (US-422) Continue on I-480 west; take exit l ...

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• Harvest Time
  News • 10/2/2007
  After observing and comparing trees at Hawken, kindergartners traveled to Chesterland, Ohio to discover more. Students broadened their science learning by visiting the Eddy Fruit Farm. Mr. Eddy explained the true meaning of harvest by showing them items he harvests each year. The Kindergartners conc ...

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• Eighth Grade Students Study Math, Science at Chagrin River
  News • 9/28/2007
  Eighth grade students visited the Chagrin River in the North Chagrin Metroparks reservation and spent the day studying the health of the river. While at the river, they did various math and science measurements. These included velocity and volume of the river, as well as other measurements of physic ...

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• Hawken Parent to Appear on Nightline
  News • 9/28/2007
  Dr. George Muschler, father of Ana Muschler` 10, a Cleveland Clinic Orthopaedic Surgeon and Director of the Clinical Tissue Engineering Center at the Clinic will be interviewed on Nightline at 11:30 pm on Monday, October 1 as part of a report on adult stem cell therapy in orthopaedic surgery. Muschl ...

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• Mens Varsity Golf Team Takes CVC Title
  News • 9/27/2007
  Congratulations go to the mens varsity golf team for winning the 2007 CVC Metro Division tournament. Hawken varsity golfers showed what they were made of by taking 1st place, and two golfers were awarded all-conference honors - Mike Hruby and Ryan Brenner. Ryan was also named CVC Metro Division Most ...

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• Golf Teams Head to Area Tournaments
  News • 9/24/2007
  The Hawken men`s varsity team recently won the Metro Division Chagrin Valley Conference tournament and are heading off today to play in the sectional tournament. As part of the division win, junior Mike Hruby and senior Ryan Brenner were named to the First Team All Conference. Brenner was also the t ...

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• Hawken Grad a Staffer for Harvard Int`l Review
  News • 9/21/2007
  At Hawken he was a star member of the Speech and Debate Team and in 2005 placed fourth in the nation in Lincoln-Douglas Debate. Now Michael Jaskiw `05, is lending his voice to international concerns as a senior editor of Web features for the Harvard International Review . Click here to read his Spri ...

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• Golf tees win
  News • 9/20/2007
  They won the post-season Metro Division Chagrin Valley Conference tournament. Two golfers were named 1st team all conference - Mike Hruby and Ryan Brenner, and Ryan Brenner was also the tournament M.V.P. for the Metro Division. The women`s golf team are having a great season - they`re unbeaten so fa ...

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• Looking for the Upper School weekly calendar?
  News • 9/5/2007
  Click here to access HawkNet.

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• PD slideshow captures first-ever night game
  News • 9/5/2007
  Click here for a Plain Dealer slideshow of pictures from our first ever night game at Walton Stadium during Walton Weekend.

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• Walton Weekend Game to be Re-Broadcast
  News • 9/1/2007
  After the successful opening of Walton Stadium and the start of a new tradition, the celebration continues today. Be sure to tune into Sportstime Ohio at 2pm (STO, Channel 17 on Time Warner) for a rebroadcast of Hawken`s first football game under the lights.

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• You picked, we won!
  News • 8/31/2007
  Thanks to the nearly 9,000 people who voted for Hawken in the Plain Dealer`s \"You Pick the Game\" contest. We won with a whopping 64.2 percent of the 13,377 votes cast. Reporter Pat Galbincea and a Plain Dealer photographer will be at Hawken this event to cover the game. And what a game to be cover ...

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• Hawken needs votes for Plain Dealer contest
  News • 8/28/2007
  This Friday`s Hawken vs. Lutheran West football game is one of five games in The Plain Dealer`s \"You Pick the Game!\" contest. This is a weekly contest where fans pick a Friday night game for the Plain Dealer to report on. The winning game is determined by online votes. So show your school spirit b ...

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• Hawken student`s project brings late grandfather to life
  News • 7/16/2007
  As part of a photography class project, rising Hawken senior Jared Bass took nearly 1,500 of his late grandfather`s photographs from World War II, restored them and, in a way, finally met the man that died seven years before he was born. His story was recently highlighted in The Plain Dealer . Click ...

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• Hawken parades the Circle
  News • 6/12/2007
  Over 25 students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends participated recently in Hawken`s return to Parade the Circle at University Circle. The event is the Cleveland Museum of Art`s annual celebration of art, music and dance. This year, Upper school art classes, with a bit of help from the preschooler ...

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• Antique Show on Memorial Day, May 28
  News • 5/9/2007
  Please join us for the 22nd Annual White House Antiques Show on Monday, May 28. A preview and breakfast will be 8:30-10:00 a.m., and general admission begins at 10:00 a.m. Get your tickets now! Click here for a flyer and ticket order form or here for a list of vendors.

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• Sixth-graders visit Williamsburg
  News • 4/30/2007
  The sixth grade class recently returned from their weeklong trip to visit to Williamsburg, Va, which was designed to complement their study this year of colonial America. Click here for a daily chronicle of their time in Virginia.

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• Fifth-To-Sixth Grade Transition Meeting
  News • 4/27/2007
  Fifth grade parents are invited to preview the sixth grade year in our Middle School by attending the 5/6 Transition Meeting on May 17, 2007 in the Middle School`s sixth grade pod starting at 7:00 PM. The sixth grade team of teachers/advisors will be present to preview the academic and social curric ...

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• Middle School Trip Return Times
  News • 4/27/2007
  As of 12:30pm, the estimated return times for the Middle School trips are: 6th Grade - 6:00-6:30pm 7th Grade - 4:00-4:15pm 8th Grade - 5:30-6:00pm

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• The circus comes to town
  News • 4/27/2007
  Oh no! The Ringmaster has come down with a case of laryngitis and the circus needs to find a substitute fast. Hawken kindergartners and first-graders recently took a musical trip to find the replacement, meeting lions and clowns stricken with low self-esteem. Look below for scenes from the spring mu ...

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• Sophomore to hold first book signing
  News • 4/23/2007
  ...lner recently published his first book, The Bible: A Parody , and has seen quite a bit of attention. He`s been featured in local newspapers, magazines and television. In his book, Milner gives the Bible a 21st century update, placing traditional biblical stories and figures in contemporary settin ...

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• 2007 Onyx for sale
  News • 4/20/2007
  Those interested in purchasing Hawken`s 2007 yearbook can do so by sending a check for $65.00 payable to the Onyx to: P.O. Box 8002, Gates Mills, OH 44040. The book will be available in June, and quantities are limited. Back orders of the Onyx, if available, can be purchased for $100.00. For more in ...

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• Girls lacrosse near perfect
  News • 4/19/2007
  With recent four recent wins — two at a tournament in Columbus, one against Chagrin Falls, one against Stow — the girls Varsity lacrosse teams has nearly a perfect season and on a fast track to a state title with a record of 7-1 .

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• Senior takes lead in area musical
  News • 4/11/2007
  Senior Arielle Hoffman appears this weekend in a Stagecrafter Teen Academy production of \"Urinetown: The Musical.\" Performances take place at Orange High School Auditorium on Saturday April 14 at 2pm and 7pm, and on Sunday April 15 at 1pm. Tickets are $7 at the door. Arielle plays the leading lady ...

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• Tonight`s lecture by Dr. Ellen Rome postponed
  News • 4/9/2007
  The lecture by Dr. Ellen Rome, head of Adolescent Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, scheduled for Monday, April 9, 7:30 p.m., at Hawken School`s Kennedy Auditorium, Gates Mills Campus, has been postponed to a later, unspecified date. Because the invitation list included grandparents of current stude ...

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• Mardi Gras 2007
  News • 4/6/2007
  French teacher Peggy Ringness` classes each year hold Mardi Gras celebrations, featuring a \"king and queen\" from each class, lots of beads and candy, singing, and fun for all. Here`s a look at this year`s festivities.

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• Instrumental concert this Sunday!
  News • 3/7/2007
  Plan on coming to the Upper School auditorium at 3:00 PM for a combined instrumental concert featuring students from both the Middle and Upper Schools! Please note that this Sunday is also when Daylight Saving Time begins, so set your clocks ahead one hour before going to bed on Saturday; Spring For ...

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• Hawken hosts Honor Band
  News • 1/4/2007
  Eight Hawken students joined 83 of the best band students from 15 area schools to form the Chagrin Valley Conference Honor Band on Wednesday, January 10. Students from Aurora, Beachwood, Berkshire, Cardinal, Cuyahoga Heights, Fairport Harding, Grand Valley, Independence, Kenston, Newbury, Perry, Ric ...

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• Best of the best
  News • 12/20/2006
  ...he best\" in field hockey by The Plain Dealer . Liz, previously featured in the newspaper as \"player of the week,\" is an all-star center midfielder who led the team this season to clinch the state sectional championship title in a nail-biter against Laurel School where she scored the winning go ...

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• 8th Graders Perform African Protest Poetry In Chapel
  News • 12/13/2006
  8th grade students took to the stage/floor of the Chapel today as they performed their African Protest Poems for 6th grade students. In groups of 4-5 students, the poems were powerfully presented, aided with sound effects that brought to life the themes of apartheid and racism that the 8th grade has ...

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• 8th Grade Field Trip
  News • 12/8/2006
  8th Grade students will be visiting the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame and the Great Lakes Science Center . Students will be leaving campus at 9:15 AM and will be taking Hawken transportation to and from this event. Along with this, students are to be bring money for lunch. Quesitons? Please feel free t ...

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• Middle School Sports Cancelled Today
  News • 12/7/2006
  Please note that Middle School athletic contests and practices are cancelled for today (12/7). Please try and pick-up your child at the 3:15 PM dismissal. Questions? Call the Middle School Office.

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• This isn`t my mother`s math!
  News • 11/8/2006
  Tonight at 7:00 p.m., plan to attend Parent Math Night for second and third grade that will feature the video \"Mathematics: What Are You Teaching My Child?\" After the viewing, parents will participate in a hands-on activity and discussion about math education. A family math night will follow on Tu ...

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• Healthy Weight with Dairy
  News • 11/2/2006
  I like to introduce to Dairy`s Role to Healthy Lifestyle to better weight management. This site is suited for early children to adults. This site is sponsored by The National Dairy Council.

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• Liz McBean: Player of the week
  News • 10/26/2006
  Senior field hockey player Liz McBean was selected as a Plain Dealer Player of the Week and was featured in the paper`s Locker Room high school sports section. The PD noted that \"the seven-county all-star excelled from center/midfield, coming up with two assists in a 2-0 tournament victory over Cle ...

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• Like father, like son
  News • 9/18/2006
  Thirty-four years ago, Blair Haas `72 packed his bags and left a job in Philadelphia to join his father in his business. In June, Blair`s son Josiah `99, left his job in Chicago to do the same thing. Maybe it`s in his blood. Click here to read about it in Crain`s Cleveland Business .

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• Summer Reading Requirements
  News • 6/6/2006
  Summer reading for the Hawken Lower School students will consist of pleasure reading for everyone and required reading for students entering K-5. Make summer reading a priority for the whole family. Access the 2006 Lower School summer reading lists for all grades. Questions? Please feel free to call ...

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• 2006-2007 Student Health Forms Now On-Line!
  News • 5/25/2006
  Parents can now access the following required 2006-2007 Student Health Forms on-line: -Student Health Information Booklet, Grades PS-8 -OHSAA Physical Exam (required for Grades 7 & 8) -OHSAA Authorization (HIPAA) (required for Grades 7 & 8) Simply click here for direct access to these forms. Once th ...

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• A Courageous Spirit
  News • 5/18/2006
  Marcia LaRiche, a former Hawken parent, a former Hawken trustee for 19 years, and the wife of Tim LaRiche `59, was interviewed by Channel 3 for a piece on ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig`s disease. Marcia has been battling this disease for about a year and a half, is now confined to a wheelchair, ...

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• Return Flight
  News • 5/11/2006
  Captain Lindsay M. Nelson, USMC, returned in February from a seven-month deployment in Iraq. A 1997 Hawken graduate and navigator on the F/A-18D \"Hornet,\" Lindsay was stationed at Al Asad Air Base, located approximately 140 miles west of Baghdad. Now stationed in Beaufort, SC, Lindsay and her fian ...

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• Men`s Tennis Wins Conference
  News • 5/8/2006
  The Hawken Men`s tennis team won the CVC tournament on Thursday, May 4. Congratulations to the 2006 Chagrin Valley Conference champs!

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• Students Plant Trees for Earth Day
  News • 5/1/2006
  Seventh grade students and faculty took time to plant trees in Poutasse Woods as part of an Earth Day Youth Service weekend. Armed with tools, soil and seedlings, the students had great weather and enthusiasm for the project, which help alleviate trees lost to construction of the new Middle School g ...

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• Music Students Honored
  News • 4/26/2006
  Junior David Ellis won a concerto competition and performed a cello concerto with the Firelands Symphony Orchestra. Several graduating seniors have been accepted into premier conservatory music and theater programs to begin next fall. \"It`s fairly regular to see students want to continue their purs ...

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• Sophomore Featured in Ohio Governor`s Youth Art Exhibition
  News • 4/20/2006
  Lauren Vandevier `08 had two works accepted into the 2006 Ohio Governor`s Youth Art Exhibition which opened at the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower, 30 East Broad Street in Columbus on April 9. Her works are included among 300 art works selected from the 12,000 entered by students from around the ...

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• Jump-a-Thon Planned to Benefit Bag Lunch Program
  News • 4/6/2006
  On Monday, May 8th from 3:00 - 4:30 pm, the Lower School is having a fundraiser jump-a-thon for grades 2-5 in support of the Bag Lunch Program. The Hawken Bag Lunch Program is celebrating its 10th year of providing meals to low income residents in the area. Annual costs of the program are met entire ...

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• Parent Named to City Club Board
  News • 4/5/2006
  Paul Harris has been named as a prospective new board member for the City Club for terms July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2009. Harris, Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel for KeyCorp, is the parent of a Hawken 10th grader and serves as a Hawken Trustee.

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• Greer Goodman `83 Appearing in Cleveland Film Fest Movie
  News • 3/9/2006
  Greer Goodman `83 is appearing in the movie \"Four Lane Highway,\" which will be shown during The Cleveland International Film Festival. Winner of Best Feature Drama at the Woods Hole Film Festival, the film will be showing on Friday, March 17 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, March 19, at 12:00 pm. For more i ...

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• Swimmers Rock State
  News • 3/9/2006
  Women`s State Results 200 Medley Relay: 1st; Katlin Dagg, Rachel Borden, Louise Gliga, Sarah Dorenkott 200 Free: 1st Brittany Strumbel; 4th Brittany Legal; 6th Bacon; 17th Gliga 200 IM: 3rd Jen Aronoff; 8th Courtney Tumbush; 11th Borden 50 Free: 1st Dorenkott; 23rd Erica Dorfman 100 Fly: 2nd Gliga; ...

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• Evening with the Experts
  News • 3/7/2006
  Tuesday 6:30 pm Topic is Adolescent Internet Safety. View the event flyer here .

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• Middle School Teacher Blog Spot
  News • 3/6/2006
  In an attempt to carry on the discussion regarding Outdoor Leadership as fulfilling the seventh and eighth grade interscholastic sports requirement, we are asking for your thoughts on this topic. Simply click on the following link to add your thoughts to this \"blog\": Outdoor Leadership Blog .

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• Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!!!
  News • 3/3/2006
  Students in the Middle School French classes dressed up and celebrated Mardis Gras this past week. Beads, masks, and good times were the order of the day: Let The Good Times Roll!!!

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• Women`s Varsity Soccer Coach Named
  News • 2/22/2006
  Stan Shulman will assume the head coaching responsibilities for the women`s varsity soccer team for the 2006-07 season when long-time coach Bob Wiemer leaves for sabbatical at the end of the school year. Stan was assistant coach this past season.

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• Wrestlers Qualify for Districts
  News • 2/22/2006
  Several wrestlers qualified for the district tournament, held this week. These include Malcolm Peyton-Cook, Brandon Bailys and Cameron Murray. Brian Johnson and Steve Johnson will serve as alternates.

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• Early College Admits Strong for Seniors
  News • 2/21/2006
  Seniors are off to a great start in their college careers as early admission notices roll in from colleges across the country. To date, 52 students, or 45% of the Class of 2006, have been accepted through an early decision or early action program. In all, 80 students, or 70% of the class, have an of ...

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• Upper School Art Teacher`s Work Featured at Michigan Gallery
  News • 2/15/2006
  During the entire month of February, the work of Anne Kmieck will be featured at Sisson Gallery in Dearborn, Michigan. The show is called Following the Thread: Narratives in Fiber and runs through March 3. See more of Anne`s work at her website .

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• Video of Duo`s Appearance on WKYC
  News • 2/13/2006
  Parents: Do you have friends who are considering Hawken for their children? Encourage them to watch this video from the Friday, January 13 broadcast on WKYC. Head of School Jim Berkman and senior Madeline Dangerfield-Cha discussed the benefits of a Hawken education on WKYC`s \"Good Company,\" a gene ...

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• Mummy Wrap Fosters Cultural Understanding
  News • 2/2/2006
  Hawken fourth graders held the Mummy Wrap on January 26 - a ceremonial production that brings to life the customs of ancient Egyptians. The Mummy Wrap was started by retired teacher Jim Gross as a component of the social studies program and remains an event fondly remembered by former fourth grade s ...

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• Strings Ensemble Wows Crowd
  News • 1/23/2006
  The Middle School Strings Ensemble played the Star Spangled Banner for the capacity crowd at the Middle School basketball games against University School last week. Both the 7th & 8th grade games were very close, but Hawken fell to US in the end.

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• Teacher Drums Way to Festival Stage
  News • 12/22/2005
  Chad Komocki teaches Upper School Spanish by day. But by night, he plays drums in various bands performing anything from jazz to rock, blues, folk, bluegrass, country, or \"a little bit of everthing,\" as he notes. In November, his band David Wank and the Boys competed against 10 other acts from Nor ...

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• 7th Grade Naturalist Journal Checklist
  News • 11/10/2005
  7th graders are busy completing their Naturalist Journals, which are due on Monday, Nov. 14th. Students are encouraged to use the checklist (provided on this week`s 7th grade homework page)to make sure that their Journal is complete andready for submission.

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• Parent-Advisor Conferences Coming Up
  News • 10/26/2005
  Parent Advisor conferences will be held on November 10-11. These conferences, following the first interim grading period, are a chance for parents and advisors to take a close look at a student`s academic progress since the opening day of school. Conferences are held on November 10th, from 5:00-8:00 ...

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• Hawks Advance to District Championship
  News • 10/25/2005
  Hawken`s Boys Varsity Soccer team has advanced to the division championship after a 4-3 win over Wickliffe on Monday. They trailed by 2 early in the second half, but came back to win, due in part to strong performances by Paul Burgess, Adam Waxman and Misha Carrel-Thomas.

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• Students Raise Funds for Suicide Prevention
  News • 10/17/2005
  Hawken`s Upper School students placed first in the Suicide Prevention Educational Alliance Walk into the Light fundraising event held at the Cleveland Zoo. Hawken students raised the most funds among participating area high schools. As a thanks for their hard work, the students were awarded a guitar ...

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• Just Wanna Bang on My Drum All Day
  News • 10/12/2005
  On Tuesday, October 11, students Connor and Dillon Zagrans (8th grade and 6th grade, respectively) performed a mini drum concert during Chapel for the Middle School student body, bringing the audience to their feet. Following the performance, Connor and Dillon`s drum teacher, Chad Szeliga, showed of ...

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• Eighth Graders Help Monitor Health of Chagrin River
  News • 10/11/2005
  On September 28th and 29th, Hawken`s eighth graders took their annual field trip to the Chagrin River. This inter-disciplinary project combines Math and Science classes in analyzing the relative health of the Chagrin River. Students take their findings and process them to rate the health of this sec ...

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• Cross Country Team Captures 2nd Place!
  News • 10/4/2005
  The Middle School Cross Country Team finished in second place (small school division) this past weekend at the Mentor Invitational meet. Congratulations also to Dylan F. whose winning time of 11:11:00 was the fastest time of the day in both the small and large school divisions!

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• Latin Class in Cyberspace
  News • 10/4/2005
  Mrs. Crowe`s Latin classes have recently been using a web site designed to reinforce the concepts learned in class. The web site, called QUIA, is one of the world`s most popular educational technology Web sites. Asked what they thought of this new addition to Latin class, a group of young Latin scho ...

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• Parent Launches Non-Profit
  News • 9/30/2005
  Andrew RayburnGÇö1973 Hawken graduate, parent and board memberGÇöhas launched The Human Fund, a non-profit art and educational organization to promote arts education programs for under-served children of the city of Cleveland. An upcoming benefit will help save art programs that touch kids in the ci ...

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• All in the Process
  News • 9/28/2005
  What better canvas? Mrs. Thomas` 7th grade art students are working on a science mural for \"the ugly wall\" in Mr. Wiemer`s classroom, which has been boarded because of the Middle School construction. The mural is a creative way to embrace the awkward stage of progress, and is the perfect union of ...

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• Senior Named Athlete of the Week
  News • 9/22/2005
  Senior Nicole Pursell has been recognized by the Plain Dealer as "Athlete of the Week" for her stellar work as a goalie on Hawken`s varsity field hockey team. Nicole helped the Hawks to a 3-1-1 week that included 34 saves and a goal. Nicole is also talented in the dramatic arts, and is a Semifinalis ...

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• Steven Biel `79 at Joseph Beth Books
  News • 8/29/2005
  At 7pm on Monday, August 29, Steven Biel `79 will sign copies of his book American Gothic at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Legacy Village(Lyndhurst, OH). Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the American Gothic portrait, Biel`s wonderful new book traces the history of this instantly familiar painting an ...

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• Small Steps - Healthy Life Style
  News • 8/24/2005
  This website is sponsored by Department of Health and Human Services. Here`s a list of 120 small steps for healthier life style. The list contains a lot interesting activities for everyone to do. After reading this list, you will be enjoying these fun activities. Below is the link for 120 Small Step ...

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• 4x200 Wins Regional Championship and Places at State Meet!
  News • 8/5/2005
  The Hawken 4x200 meter Relay team won the Navarre Regional in a time of 1:31.92 to advance to the State Track & Field Championship Meet. At the OHSAA State Meet, Hayden, Mark, Stewart & David ran a season best & school record time of 1:31.37 in the semi-finals to advance to the finals. The team fini ...

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• 8th Grade Internship Overviews
  News • 5/3/2005
  8th grade students are preparing to participate in their end-of-year internship experience. For more information about these internship opportunities, visit internships .

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• "Chill Pops" a Healthy Treat on a Hot Day
  News • 7/28/2014
  Elizabeth Clapacs Pryor '98 and her partner Maggie were featured in a recent Scene Magazine article . Their business "Chill Pop" features handmade artisan ice pops - "totally fresh and naturally cool."

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• O.J. McDuffie '88 Featured in Plain Dealer
  News • 7/16/2013
  Could former NFL player O.J. McDuffie '88 been a Cleveland Indian?

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• Tennis Duo Crowned State Semifinalists
  News • 10/22/2012
  Tennis doubles team Sydney Green '15 and Emily Leizman '13 ;competed in state championship play on Saturday, Oct. 20, finishing an impressive weekend of play as Girls Division II Doubles Runner-ups. ;Read more in this Plain Dealer article . ; The dynamic duo was crowned District Doubles Champion two ...

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• Senior Writes Editorial After Returning from Norway
  News • 8/19/2011
  Hannah Meropol '12 recently returned from a month in Norway. Upon hearing of the tragedy at Utoya she wrote a poignant letter to the editor which was published in the July 12 edition of the Plain Dealer. Read her editorial here .

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• Senior Among Top Bloggers In Nation
  News • 9/5/2010
  Julie Zeilinger '11 was recently identified as one of the eight most influential bloggers under the age of 21 by Women's Day magazine. Called thefbomb.org - a bit edgy, and clever too; the“f” is for feminist - the blog serves as a place where teenagers can voice their concerns and though ...

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• Steve Dettelbach '84 Recommended For U.S. Attorney for Northern Ohio
  News • 3/13/2009
  Steven Dettelbach '84, Cleveland defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, has been recommended to serve as the next U.S. Attorney for Northern Ohio by Senator Sherrod Brown. Because of his strong qualifications and former ties with Barack Obama, Steve's chances of being nominated by the presi ...

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• Alums Gather at Chicago Reception
  News • 3/13/2009
  More than 40 Chicago-based alums gathered with Head of School Scott Looney who, along with other Hawken administration and staff members, were visiting the windy city to attend the National Association of Independent Schools conference. To view photographs of the gathering, click here .

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• Hawken Grad Gives Neglected Home Much-Needed Makeover
  News • 3/13/2009
  Katherine Chilcote '98 used her talent and ingenuity to convert a neglected West Side house she purchased for $5,000 into a home. Read about her here in a recent article that graced the front page of The Plain Dealer .

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• Congratulations, Merit Scholars
  News • 10/10/2011
  Twelve Hawken seniors were recently named semifinalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Competition. The students join a long tradition of Merit Scholar excellence and earn Hawken the distinction of the most number of National Merit Semifinalists in Cleveland independent schools over the past ...

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• Birchwood Writer Awarded National Silver Medal
  News • 5/23/2020
  ...Young Writers &; Artists delivered exciting news to Birchwood eighth grader, Qiwen Wu, that she is a national medalist. Her short story “Because of You,” received a gold key Scholastic Art &; Writing award at the regional level. At the national level the story was awarded a Silver Med ...

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• Girls Swimming Clinches 30th State Championship; Boys Place Third
  News • 2/24/2020
  ...nd Bainon Hart '20 set a state record! Congratulations also to the boys team for finishing third in the state after a tight race with University School. Read more about the state meet from the  News-Herald , cleveland.com , swimmingworldmagazine.com , and chagrinvalleyconference.com . GO HAW ...

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• Kim Samson Chosen to Lead Beaver Country Day School
  News • 9/6/2019
  ... chool Scott Looney shared the “bittersweet" news with the school community earlier this evening, highlighting Kim's accomplishments during her tenure at Hawken. Read Scott’s announcement to learn more about Kim’s contributions to Hawken as well as the next steps the administrat ...

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• Hawk Sets Record at Mentor Cardinal Classic
  News • 9/5/2019
  ...st or course personal record! Next week the Hawks travel the Walsh Jesuit for the Ritchie Invitational. Go Hawks! Click the following links to view other coverage of the meet. Interview With Ella Chagrin Valley Conference News Article News Herald Sports Article MileSplit Photos - Mentor Meet Resu ...

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• Hawken Celebrates the Arts
  News • 12/20/2017
  It's been a busy season for Hawken performing artists!

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• Mastery Transcript Consortium in the News
  News • 5/10/2017
  Earlier today, Scott Looney shared with the Hawken community exciting news about a project that Hawken has played a central role in launching: the  Mastery Transcript Consortium .

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• Hawks Swimmers Sweep State Titles
  News • 2/27/2017
  Congratulations to Hawken's boys and girls swim teams for clinching the state championships at the State Meet in Canton this weekend!

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• HPS Presents Les Miserables
  News • 2/16/2017
  Don't miss you chance to watch the talented thespians in the Hawken Players' Society perform Les Miserables .

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• Phillip Hedayatnia '16 featured in upcoming film
  News • 2/9/2017
  ...ief of RealPolitics , will be a part of a documentary called “A More Civil War," scheduled to launch this spring. His work with his student-run, student-focused news and opinion outlet ;will be featured in the film. Keep an eye out for him in this trailer during the :30 - :45 second section ...

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• Shari '79 to be honored at Gala
  News • 7/31/2016
  ...hael will be honored for all they do for the autism community. Learn more about the event and Shari's contributions to society here: ; http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/goldbergs-to-be-honored-at-autism-speaks-benefit-featuring-symon/article_6ba3cf46-534f-11e6-8774-afbc33ae3461.h ...

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• David Farmer '88 to Swim at Transplant Games
  News • 5/24/2016
  David Farmer '88 will be competing in the swimming events at the Transplant Games being held at Busby Natatorium at CSU in June, 2016. ;

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• Celebrate the Lives of Alex & Josh at Catch Meaning
  News • 5/2/2016
  Celebrate the lives of Alex Doody '15 and Josh Weil '15 at the Catch Meaning Musicfest at Jacob's Pavillion on May 28th. Sam Weil '13 will perform with the Aaron Cohen Band and Hawken All-Star Jazz Band members will also perform! Tickets can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.com.

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• Hawken Students Join Mock Trial Competition
  News • 2/3/2016
  Hawken was one of eight schools in Lake, Cuyahoga and Geauga counties to take part in last week’s 33 rd  Annual Ohio Mock Trial district competition held at Lake County Common Pleas Court in Painesville.

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• Medancic Named Player of the Year
  News • 11/12/2014
  Bianca Medancic '15 was named Girls Soccer Player of the Year by the News-Herald, and nine additional players were recognized as all-stars.

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• Mother-Daughter Team Featured on WEWS
  News • 3/7/2014
  Freshman Crile Hart and her mother, Jane Esselstyn '83, were interviewed by Channel 5 News about their state championship wins under Coach Holtrey.

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• Student and Diabetic Alert Dog Make Headlines
  News • 2/6/2014
  Elijah Spiro '14 and his diabetic alert dog, Nova, made headlines recently and also appeared on Fox 8 News.

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• Boys and Girls Swim Teams Dominate CVC Championship
  News • 1/20/2014
  Hawken's boys and girls swim teams dominated the competition at the Chagrin Valley Conference Invitational on January 18, making Coach Holtrey proud in his final season.

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• State Champs Recognized
  News • 12/13/2013
  The Ohio General Assembly passed a Resolution "Honoring the Hawken School girls golf team as the 2013 Division II State Champion."

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• Zalar Named Soccer Player of the Year
  News • 11/19/2013
  Kat Zalar '14 ;has been named Girls Soccer Player of the Year by the News-Herald. ;Mackenzie Lesnick '14 ;and Bianca Medancic '15 ;received First Team honors, and Miranda Holizna '15 ;received Second Team honors.

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• Girls Soccer Advances to State Finals
  News • 11/5/2013
  CONGRATULATIONS to the girls soccer team, who defeated Oak Harbor HS 4-1 Tuesday night in a State Semifinal matchup.

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• Graduate Featured in South African News
  News • 10/16/2013
  At age 22, Aaron Kohn '09 is the Director of the Museum of African Design (MOAD) - Africa's first museum dedicated to design, and Johannesburg's cultural hub in Maboneng.

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• Press Previews Football Season
  News • 8/29/2013
  Hawken’s football team has been getting some well deserved press as the 2013 season begins.

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• Graduate Appointed VP at General Motors
  News • 7/23/2013
  1980 Hawken graduate Gerald Johnson has been ;appointed North America Manufacturing vice president at General Motors.

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• Spring Intensives Conclude
  News • 5/26/2013
  Watch this video about the 9th Grade Humanities Intensive and watch for more news on the three-week courses that took place this spring.

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• Hawken and Shaw Students Collaborate
  News • 5/22/2013
  Journalism students at Hawken Upper School and Shaw High School have published the first edition of the Shawken News, which "supports, and sustains student media programs in inner-city schools in Northeast Ohio through inter-community collaboration."

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• Math Teacher Appointed to National Panel
  News • 5/2/2013
  Congratulations to math teacher Steve Ingrassia for being named to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics  magazine editorial panel. He's one of only five high school teachers nationwide to receive this honor!

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• Graduate Doctor Volunteers as Pilot
  News • 4/8/2013
  Dr. Howard Epstein '71 pilots patients traveling to and from medical treatment. He was profiled in the Cleveland Jewish News.

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• Carrie Bencic Named Swimmer of Year
  News • 3/14/2013
  ... for being named Girls Swimmer of the Year by the News Herald ! Fifteen Hawken swimmers also received all-star status from the News Herald . Read about the girls all-stars ; here , and the boys all-stars ; here . Girls 1st Team Kaitlyn Cerne '13 Marissa Cominelli '13 Sarah Koucheki '13 Maureen R ...

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• Eighth Grader's Orchestra Performance Featured in Sun News
  News • 2/26/2013
  ... ighth grader William Wang is featured in this Sun News article about his accomplishments as a violinist. ;Wang, who practices at least 1.5 hours a day, will be a soloist with the Lakeland Civic Orchestra on March 3 as the result of winning the Lakeland Young Artist Concerto Competition. ; Click ...

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• Hard Work Pays off for Girls Basketball Team
  News • 2/7/2013
  ...am is currently seeded 4th in their tournament bracket. Read more in this News Herald feature . The Hawks take on Wickliffe in a game that will be streamed live on Friday, February 8 (JV at 6pm, V at 7:30pm). ;Senior players will be recognized. ;Visit hawken.edu/live to tune into the game. Go Haw ...

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• Hawken Mourns Passing of Coach Moore
  News • 11/27/2012
  Hawken School shares the sad news that Coach Moore passed away yesterday. Coach Moore was Head Varsity Girls Lacrosse Coach for 10 years at Hawken and served as Assistant Field Hockey coach during the 2011 -12 academic year. Under his guidance, Hawken’s lacrosse team was a perennial state-rank ...

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• Soccer Season Ends: Boys Second in State; Girls Regional Champs
  News • 11/12/2012
  ...impressive 11 times and won the state championship title in 2000. ;Read about Saturday's game on cleveland.com and in the News Herald . The girls soccer team ended their strong season as regional champs with a ;13-5-2 record. Read about their trip to state semi-finals in this ; News Herald articl ...

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• Soccer Teams Crowned Regional Champs!
  News • 11/5/2012
  ...victory over West Salem Northwestern on Saturday, and advance to the ;State Semifinals on Wednesday at 7 pm against Ottawa Hill School at Perkins High School in Sandusky. ; Read about the ; girls game ;and ;the ; boys game ;in articles from the ; News Herald ;that include video interviews. Go Haw ...

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• Ally Markovich, State Champion!
  News • 6/2/2012
  ...:04.53. Ally ran a near-perfect race, staying with the front-runners, utilizing the pack on a windy day, and pulling away in the last 400 meters. She bested her own personal record by nearly six seconds. Read more in the News Herald and on cleveland.com . Congratulations Ally – STATE CHAMPI ...

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• Swimmers Win Districts, Advance to State Meet!
  News • 2/22/2012
  ... individual district titles. Click here to read a News Herald article with two videos on the team's impressive win, and click here to read a Plain Dealer article. In boys competition, Micah Simpson '13 who won his first career district gold medal in the 200 free. Henry Senkfor '14 placed 2nd in ...

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• Tennis Duo Headed to State Championship Tournament
  News • 5/23/2011
  ...s news, congratulations to Dhruv Yadav ’14, Chagrin Valley Conference 1st Singles Champion. Dhruv was also named MVP of the league, which was particularly impressive in that Hawken competes in the Chagrin Division in tennis, with schools including Kenston, Orange, Chagrin Falls, and Beachwo ...

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• Jaffe Brothers Represent NE Ohio at Skating Championship
  News • 11/15/2010
  ... in the Novice division with teammate Greta Riebe; they will serve as alternates to the U.S. Championship team, which is scheduled to compete at the U.S. National Championship in January. Congratulations to both Micah and Jacob on their fine performances! Click here to read more from Channel 5 Ne ...

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• Power of the Pen Prevails at Regional Tournament
  News • 4/20/2010
  ...rancesca Cominelli, Maddie Hengst, Valerie Heyd, Alison Jin, and Parker Selman and eighth grade team members Anna Du, Lena Goren, Sophie Kerman, Efae Nicholson, Elijah Spiro, and Sarah Stark - and stay tuned for news of students who qualify for the State Competition at The College of Wooster in M ...

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• Power of the Pen Prevails at Regional Competition
  News • 4/20/2010
  ...rancesca Cominelli, Maddie Hengst, Valerie Heyd, Alison Jin, and Parker Selman and eighth grade team members Anna Du, Lena Goren, Sophie Kerman, Efae Nicholson, Elijah Spiro, and Sarah Stark - and stay tuned for news of students who qualify for the State Competition at The College of Wooster in M ...

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• Hawks Earn High Marks in Latin
  News • 4/16/2010
  ... uth) Latin Translation Contest. In other Classics news,43 of the 53 Hawken students who sat for the National Latin Exam earned an award for their stellar performance on that exam. The following students were among the top winners in their respective levels in the nation: Perfect score: Jacob Den ...

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• Two Hawk Alums Make Top 50 Athletes of the Decade
  News • 4/16/2010
  ...he News-Herald for her stellar record. Three of the five honorable mentions in girls swimming are also Hawken alums: Sarah Dorenkott `06, Fiona O`Donnell-McCarthy `05, and Brittany Strumbel, `08. Brian Demell `01 also received an honorable mention from the News-Herald for boys swimmer of the deca ...

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• Margret Erlendsdottir `11 makes Cleveland Orchestra Debut
  News • 3/9/2010
  ...a. Margret, who is the principal keyboardist of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, was selected to perform Rachmaninoff`s Piano Concerto No. 2. The entire Upper School made the trip to Severance Hall to attend Margret`s debut. Channel 3 News was there to cover the story as was Channel 5 New ...

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• Hawken Football Team Victorious Over University School
  News • 8/29/2009
  ...ig plays, and dominated time of possession. As the game ended, students, parents, alumni, and faculty rushed onto the field in celebration. Congratulations to the players and coaches for a great start to the season! Read more from Sun News reporter Brian Lavrich at this link and from Cleveland.co ...

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• Hawken Football Team Victorious Over University School
  News • 8/29/2009
  ...lays, and dominated time of possession. As the game ended, students, parents, alumni, and faculty rushed onto the field in celebration. Congratulations to the players and coaches for a great start to the season! Read more from Sun News reporter Brian Lavrich at this link and also from Cleveland.c ...

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• Cleveland Playhouse Sets Stage for Senior Project
  News • 5/22/2009
  ... icle by Ellen Schur Brown of the Cleveland Jewish News, \"SPIN\" playwright Reedy "was looking for a showcase for her new work, and Brian was looking to produce a play with a large cast." Reedy not only donated the rights to Brian and his co-producer Galya Loeb of Beachwood High School, she has ...

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• Read All About It! Passport Students Produce Newsletter
  News • 3/19/2009
  ... inter session of first grade teacher Emma Ferek`s newspaper class - part of the Lower School`s Passport Program - are proud to present their first ever issue of Hawk Rock News. This first volume is full of news, artwork, word searches, photographs, and even ideas on what to do on the weekends! F ...

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• GIRLS SWIM TEAM WINS 19th STATE TITLE!
  News • 3/1/2009
  ... freestyle relays. Click here to read Plain Dealer reporter Tim Warsinskey`s account of the meet and to view video and photos, and click here for complete results from the state meet. You can also read more at the News Herald . The Hawken School community congratulates its dedicated girls swim te ...

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• Production of Rent: School Edition a Hit
  News • 2/25/2009
  ...ves through their art and "measuring their lives in love." Against the gritty backdrop of New York`s East Village, these friends strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic. Read more about the Hawken production from the News Herald her ...

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• 2004 Graduate to Speak at Walk
  News • 9/23/2008
  ... `04 spoke about suicide prevention on Channel 3`s News at Noon in preparation for her involvement with a Suicide Prevention Education Alliance Into the Light Walk, at 6:45 p.m. on September 28 at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. C.J. lost her brother to suicide during her senior year at Hawken and ...

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• Swimming Championships: `One of the Best Meets Ever`
  News • 2/25/2008
  ...er, Tumbush, Strumbel), 1st 200 Medley Relay Hawken (Dagg, Rospierski, Arnold, Aronoff), 1st Click here for more of this story of champions. Click here to read a News-Herald article about Strumbel, one of only two highlighted local athletes, who have records that are \"nothing short of remarkable ...

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• Women`s Swim Team Proves Again Why Its No. 1
  News • 12/18/2007
  ... meet record winning the 200 medley, senior Brittany Strumbel`s won the 200 and 500 free, junior Brittany Rospierski won both the 100 backstroke and 100 breaststroke and senior Jennifer Aronoff won the 100 free. Click here to read the for the News Herald story. Click here for the Plain Dealer sto ...

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• Hawken Soccer Continues Winning Streak
  News • 11/4/2007
  ... ad the details of Saturday`s exciting game in the News Herald at this link. Along with athletic prowess, the Hawken soccer team has displayed the best in Fair Play during their successful season. After Saturday`s game, players from St. Thomas Aquinas sent the Hawks a congratulatory email saying ...

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• Track Athletes Named All-Stars
  News • 7/25/2007
  The News Herald announced their 2007 Track and Field Division III All-Star Team, and the Hawks were well represented. First team selections were; Stephen Johnson `07 Shot Put & Discus, Tyler Nichols `09 Long Jump & 110m Hurdles, Boys 4x100m Relay-Jake McKay `09, Tyler Nichols, Jake Willen `10, Oge A ...

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• Lacrosse sophomore on Sports Time Ohio network
  News • 4/29/2007
  ...hed this ranking. Player of the Week In other sports news, senior Stephen Johhson was named the News Herald`s Player of the Week for his performance at the Beachwood Invitational where he won the shot put, was second in the discus and earned field event MVP honors as Hawken finished second to Ber ...

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• Hawken students formidable arts competition contenders
  News • 4/12/2007
  ... of Art (click here for that story). In other art news, Hawken students made impressive showings at two other area and state competitions. Exhibiting recently at a Beachwood Invitational, which featured works from Cleveland-area public and private school students, were Grace Dickman, Abel Mills ...

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• Hawken`s News-Herald All-Stars
  News • 4/9/2007
  ... winter season. The recognition came as part of a News-Herald section that highlighted area \"all-stars\" in high school sports. Here`s a breakdown of Hawken`s \"all-stars.\" Girls Swimming - Brittany Strumbel, Player of the Year, Division II first team - Coach Jerry Holtrey, Coach of the Year - ...

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• Track Team Receives News-Herald Honors
  News • 7/7/2006
  The News-Herald published their selections for All-Area Division III Track Teams. Congratulations to the Boys 4x100 & 4x200 Relay Teams for receiving first team honors. Team members were David Williams, Hayden Haas, Stewart Roulston & Tyler Kirsch. Congratulations to Colleen Barnes in the High Jump ...

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• Freshman Featured in New Television Venture
  News • 2/14/2006
  ...ng News and Olympic coverage. The goal of the show is to give people in the Cleveland community a chance to express their opinions and ideas. The pilot episode featured six Clevelanders, including parent Lolita McDavid. Aaron was the only student. \"I thought it was a great experience,\" said Aar ...

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• Seniors Named Players of the Week
  News • 9/29/2005
  ... and one for basketball, and writes for the school newspaper.\" Football Captain David Williams, as halfback and safety, had 29 carries for 109 yards and three touchdowns, two receptions for 32 yards, five tackles and one pass in the same win over state-ranked Cuyahoga Heights. The News-Herald al ...

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• Backpacks En Route to Louisiana
  News • 9/20/2005
  ...nity effort, begun by Hawken 3rd Graders, grew to include the Andrews, Dodge Intermediate, Horizon Montessori, Laurel, Lawrence, Ratner, and Ruffing Montessori schools, and attracted news coverage by the Plain Dealer and several area news broadcasts. Click here for continuing updates on this effo ...

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• Girls Swimming Clinches 29th State Championship; Boys Place Second
  News • 2/26/2019
  Girls swimming once again won the state championship in convincing fashion at the state meet in Canton this past weekend.

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• Graduate Wins Gold at Games in Israel
  News • 7/31/2013
  2009 graduate Noah Whitehead won two gold medals in rowing at the 2013 Maccabiah games held July 18-30 in Israel.

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• Doug Katz '88 Featured in CJN
  News • 7/17/2013
  An article on the great things Doug Katz '88 is cooking up ran in the July 12 edition of the Cleveland Jewish News.

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• Spring Teams and Players to Watch
  News • 4/5/2012
  ... oftball Team received preseason coverage from Sun News . In the article, Pat McKinley, Hawken head coach, comments on his thoughts for the upcoming season and his hopes for his youngest team ever. “The future looks bright,” McKinley comments in the article. “We have a young nuc ...

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• Young Grad Featured as Panelist in Global Summit
  News • 3/19/2012
  ... at the 3rd annual Women in World Summit hosted by Newsweek and The Daily Beast . The three-day conference held in New York City included notable speakers such as Hillary Clinton, Leymah Gbowee, Madeleine Albright, Christine Lagarde, Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie, Nancy Pelosi, Gloria Steinem, She ...

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• 14 Hawks Named National Merit Scholarship Finalists
  News • 3/4/2025
  Congratulations to the 14 Hawken seniors who have been named finalists in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Competition!

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• Students Present at STEMM Research Symposium
  News • 11/19/2024
  Congratulations to all Hawken STEMM students on their success at the 16 th Annual Dr. Robert Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium held last week. As Director of Hawken's Paepke STEMM Research Program Lacy Chick notes, “Our students did amazing work over the last year and a half and brought all th ...

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• 24 Seniors Recognized in National Merit Competition
  News • 9/17/2024
  Congratulations to the 24 Hawken seniors who received recognition in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program.

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• Seniors Finalize College Choices
  News • 5/17/2024
  Join us in congratulating the Class of 2024 on their college choices! This is the second year that Hawken's graduating class includes students from both the Upper School and the Mastery School of Hawken—and those from the Mastery School have completed all four of their high school years at our ...

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• Hawken Student-Athletes Named Champions and Runners-Up at State Meets
  News • 3/14/2024
  Congratulations to the girls swim team on being named state runner-up at the state championship meet! Special kudos go to  Sarah Pophal '24  for winning her second consecutive individual state title in dramatic fashion, after trailing most of the race and crushing the last 100 yards.

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• Two Seniors Nominated for Presidential Scholars Program  
  News • 2/26/2024
  Congratulations to Hawken seniors  Pranay Gupta and  Kevin (Hongyu) Jin  on being invited to apply for the prestigious Presidential Scholars Program.

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• Three Hawken Students Match as QuestBridge Scholars
  News • 12/12/2023
  Congratulations to the three Hawken seniors who have matched with a college that will provide them 100% financial aid in the form of scholarships to cover tuition, room and board, and all fees for four years of undergraduate study. In addition, there is a mentorship network that supports the student ...

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• Birchwood Alums Attending Hawken Match as Questbridge Scholars
  News • 12/12/2023
  Congratulations to Birchwood Class of '20 alumni and current Hawken Upper School juniors Andres Moreno, Quiwen Wu, and Rebecca Chin. All three matched with a prospective college from the Questbridge Program. The program provides a full-ride scholarship, including tuition, room and board, and all fee ...

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• Students Present at STEMM Research Symposium
  News • 11/29/2023
  Congratulations to all Hawken STEMM students on their success at the 15 th Annual Dr. Robert Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium held earlier this month. As Director of Hawken's Paepke STEMM Research Program Lacy Chick notes, “Our students did amazing work over the last year and a half and broug ...

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• 23 Seniors Recognized in National Merit Competition
  News • 9/13/2023
  Congratulations to the 23 Hawken seniors who received recognition in the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program.  

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• Seniors Awarded Diplomas at Commencement
  News • 6/14/2023
  Severance Hall provided the majestic setting on Sunday, June 4 for the Commencement ceremony that marked the culmination of high school for seniors at Hawken School.  

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• Upper School Celebrates Bolton Award Winner and Student Achievements
  News • 6/13/2023
  Congratulations to  2023 Bolton Award winner   Sidney Lorain Bourne . First bestowed in 1977, the Bolton Award is presented to a Hawken student who excels in all aspects of Hawken life and who has truly lived up to the Hawken motto: “That each generation introduce its successor ...

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• Seniors Finalize College Choices
  News • 5/4/2023
  Join us in congratulating the Class of 2023 on their college choices!

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• Student Reaches Finals of 2023 Bluefire $1,000 with 1,000 Words Contest
  News • 4/24/2023
  Congratulations to Niko Alicea for making it to the final round in the 2023 Bluefire $1,000 for 1,000 words contest. His story, titled "WWI," is an action-packed piece told from the perspective of a German soldier who encounters a terrifying new invention in warfare: the tank. A member of the editor ...

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• Second Grade Student Wins Entrepreneur Challenge
  News • 4/18/2023
  Juliet Lu, a second grader at Birchwood School of Hawken, has been selected to be featured in the Finalist Showcase for the NEO Young Entrepreneur Pitch Challenge sponsored by Young Entrepreneur Institute. Young Entrepreneur Pitch Challenge is a contest for students in Northeast Ohio in grades K-12. ...

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• Outstanding Achievement: Three Students in the Top 1% Nationwide
  News • 4/18/2023
  Arav Bhandari, Joshua Gordon, and Manya Raina have achieved a perfect score in this year's Continental Mathematics Competition, earning them the title of National Student Winners and placing them among the top 1% of students in the country. To attain this feat, the students had to complete five 30-m ...

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• Beautiful Penmanship is Alive
  News • 4/11/2023
  Birchwood School of Hawken student Mina G. (2nd grade) earned the honor of representing her grade level in the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest. As a State Grade-Level Winner, Mina’s manuscript submission can be chosen as one of the 18 National Grade-Level Semifinalists. Gountas won a ...

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• 2023 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Announced
  News • 2/7/2023
  Congratulations to the Upper and Mastery School students listed below who received recognition through the 2023 Scholastic Art &; Writing Awards hosted by the Cleveland Institute of Art. Gold Key pieces will be considered for national reognition in the spring. This program is the nation's "longest r ...

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• Four Seniors Nominated for Presidential Scholars Program
  News • 1/20/2023
  Congratulations to Hawken seniors Aidan Berard , Harsha Sanaka , John Shin , and Jasmine Shone on being invited to apply for the prestigious Presidential Scholars Program. 

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• Five Birchwood Fourth Graders Earn Cricket Magazine Writing Honors
  News • 12/5/2022
  National children’s literary magazine Cricket recognized five Birchwood School of Hawken fourth graders for their writing submissions on the topic “mythological creatures.” Birchwood’s Ryan Coppa earned first place for his story “The Day With Cerberus,” which will ...

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• Upper School Students Present at Annual STEMM Symposium
  News • 11/18/2022
  Hawken Science Research III students took part in the 14th annual Bob Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium earlier this week, presenting their projects before a panel of expert judges, families, and other guests.   

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• Birchwood Student Among Stone Soup Writing Contest Winners
  News • 11/1/2022
  Birchwood School of Hawken eighth grader Joshua Gordon earned congratulations in October for his submission to the monthly Stone Soup Flash Contest for his entry “Finding Permanence.” Gordon, 13, was among six winners and another six honorable mention awardees who responded to the childr ...

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• Four Birchwood Graduates are National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists
  News • 9/19/2022
  Birchwood School of Hawken is proud to announce that four of its graduates, almost 20% of the class of 2019, have been chosen as 2023 National Merit® Semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC).    Birchwood alumni Aiden Berard, Yian Shang, and John Shin are sen ...

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• 27 Seniors Recognized in National Merit Competition
  News • 9/14/2022
  Congratulations to the 27 Hawken students, representing 21% of Hawken’s senior class, who received recognition in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program.  Hawken’s 16 semifinalists are seniors  Ashwin Balakrishna, Aiden Berard, Spencer Fisher, Lillian Fu, Zayd Haufe  ...

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• Hawken Centennial Decade Displays Find Permanent Home at Lyndhurst Campus
  News • 9/13/2022
  In preparation for Hawken’s Centennial celebration in 2015, Hawken’s Marketing and Development Offices collaborated with Communications Exhibits, Inc. in Canal Fulton, where  Ann Conkle ’78  then served as executive vice president to create a series of “decade displ ...

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• Prose and Poetry Winners of Geauga Park District Nature Writing Contest
  News • 5/19/2022
  Geauga Park District announced the winners of their 27th annual Nature Writing Contest. Several fifth through eighth grade students at Birchwood School of Hawken opted to send either poetry or prose to compete with other schools under the broad prompt. Five fifth graders and one eighth grader receiv ...

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• Promising Young Writer
  News • 5/18/2022
  The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has recognized Birchwood School of Hawken eighth grader, Omar, as a Promising Young Writer. The Promising Young Writers Program represents NCTE’s commitment to early and continuing work in the development of writing. The school-based writing p ...

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• Class of 2022 Finalizes College Choices
  News • 5/3/2022
  Head of School Scott Looney sent out a community-wide email earlier today congratulating members of the Class of 2022 on their college choices.    

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• Students Win Big at BEST Medical Engineering Fair
  News • 4/12/2022
  The Bridging Engineering, Science and Technology (BEST) Medicine Engineering Fair was held in person this year at Cleveland State University. Devoted to 6-12th grade students interested in exploring biomedical or environmental engineering, this fair allows students to interact with each other as wel ...

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• Birchwood Students Win National Publication
  News • 4/3/2022
  Eighth grader Isabella Bixler of Fairview Park and fourth grader Magdalene Whitaker of Cleveland will be published in the April edition of Cricket magazine. The two girls were among many who submitted their work under the “Wintry Tale” prompt, with Bixler winning first place with her pie ...

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• MATHCOUNTS Team Places 3rd
  News • 3/4/2022
  At the 2022 Northeast Ohio MATHCOUNTS virtual competition the Birchwood School of Hawken team consisting of Jordan Gordon, Joshua Gordon, Ben Miyares, and Angela D’Souza placed 3rd out of the 12 participating teams and each member has advanced to the state competition.  Individually, Birc ...

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• Student Poems Published in National Magazine
  News • 12/14/2021
  Congratulations to Cara Coppa, Raina Roy Augustin, and Brinley Adamich for having their poems chosen for publication by Spider Magazine . Participating students wrote poems about the tastiest kind of noodles. Their award-winning entries will appear in the January edition of the magazine. To see the ...

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• Patriot’s Pen Essay Winners
  News • 12/14/2021
  Congratulations to Omar Elbadawy (1st place), Areesha Nouman (2nd place), and Benjamin Miyares (Honorable Mention) for their winning entries in the Second Annual Patriot’s Pen essay contest. They submitted their essays to the Strongsville Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and have all advanced to ...

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• 19 Seniors Recognized in National Merit Competition
  News • 9/9/2021
  Congratulations to the 19 Hawken students, representing 14% of Hawken’s senior class, who received recognition in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program.

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• Hawken All-American Swimmers Announced
  News • 8/26/2021
  The National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association (NISCA) recently published the list of the 2020/2021 season High School Swimming &; Diving All-Americans. Hawken was proudly represented with 10 All-Americans on the prestigious national list.

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• Hawken Honors Distinguished Alumni
  News • 7/21/2021
  Hawken School is pleased to introduce the 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award honorees, Kathy Ko Chin ’76 , David Geller ’81 , and Matthew Salerno ’92 . The Alumni Award honorees represent a select group of members of the Hawken community who embody the spirit of Fair Play and whose ch ...

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• Athletics Hall of Fame Welcomes New Inductees
  News • 7/21/2021
  Hawken School is pleased to announce the 2021 Athletics Hall of Fame Inductees:  Ted Bryan ’86 ,  Mary Toomey Clyde ’79 ,  Matthew Koren ’03 , and  John Leathers ’72 . The Athletics Hall of Fame inductees represent select student-athletes, coaches, and con ...

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• Senior Wins Dazzle Award for Best Actor
  News • 6/2/2021
  Congratulations to Wilson Ha '21 on receiving Playhouse Square's Dazzle Award for Best Actor for his  performance in Hawken's COVID-safe live-stream musical Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown.

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• Birchwood Students Earn National Recognition for Spanish Skills
  News • 5/26/2021
  Eleven eight-grade Birchwood students attained national recognition for their excellent scores on the National Spanish Examinations. Silver medal: Chloe Leng Bronze medal: Lydia Chen Manan Raina  Honorable mention: Jad Alsouss, Shreeyans Bhavaraju, Cadence Gou, Dilan Nadkarni, Nadine Nouraldin, ...

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• Class of 2021 Finalizes College Choices
  News • 5/3/2021
  Head of School Scott Looney sent out a community-wide email earlier today congratulating members of the Class of 2021 on their college choices.  

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• Senior Earns Spot on USA Linguistics Olympiad Team
  News • 4/22/2021
  Adithya Kalyanam ’21 recently placed 8 th in the nation in the North American Computational Linguistics (NACLO) Open Invitational Round, earning him a spot on the 8-member USA team in the International Linguistics Olympiad . The 2021 competition was scheduled to take place in Latvia, but ...

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• Four Seniors Nominated for Presidential Scholar Program
  News • 2/16/2021
  Congratulations to Hawken seniors  Ben Cohen ,  Adithya Kalyanam ,  Soren Palencik,  and  Raymond Tao  on being invited to apply for the prestigious Presidential Scholar program. 

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• Four Students Receive Multiple Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
  News • 1/15/2021
  Congratulations to Jane Nilson '21 , Natalie Knaggs '21 , Jasmine Shone '23 , and Samantha Werbeck '23 on being recipients of the 2021 Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards.

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• Locally Crafted Fairy Tales Win International Recognition
  News • 11/17/2020
  Two Birchwood seventh grade students won Stone Soup’s monthly flash contest in which young writers are given a prompt and the winning entries are published in their literary magazine. November’s prompt was, “Write a Story that begins with ‘Once upon a time in a land far away. ...

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• Birchwood School of Hawken Alumnae named National Merit Semifinalists
  News • 9/11/2020
  Congratulations to Jane Nilson ('17) and Shruthi Ravichandran ('17) for being among the 681 students in Ohio to earn National Merit Semifinalists designation. This honor places them in the top one percent of students in the state.

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• 18 Seniors Recognized in National Merit Competition
  News • 9/9/2020
  Congratulations to the 18 Hawken students who received recognition in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program.

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• There are still ways to make a difference in our community!
  News • 8/21/2020
  Although the all-school Community Engagement day has been canceled for September, and our after-school tutoring/mentoring opportunities have been put on hold, there are still ways to safely engage and support our wider community.

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• Senior Art Show Goes Virtual
  News • 7/15/2020
  The Hawken Visual Arts Department proudly presents the 2020 Senior Art Exhibition , brought to you virtually for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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• Students Capture Nature in Poetry and Prose
  News • 6/26/2020
  During their home study this spring students at Birchwood School of Hawken took it upon themselves to submit writing to the 25 th Annual Nature Writing Contest held by Geauga Park District. Birchwood students won six out of ten awards for student prose writers. Winning pieces are published online at ...

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• Winning Student Poet Captures the Moment
  News • 6/26/2020
  Birchwood School of Hawken sixth grade student, Omar Elbadawy’s poem was selected as a top ten winner in the Creative Communications Poetry Contest. The competition accepts submissions from students in Kindergarten through ninth grade and winning entries are published in an annual antholo ...

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• Hawken Recognizes Students at Virtual Awards Day and Cum Laude Induction Ceremony
  News • 6/5/2020
  Congratulations to the many students who were honored recipients of awards at this year’s Awards Day, which took place virtually on June 4, 2020.

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• Birchwood Writer Named National Finalist
  News • 5/20/2020
  The fictional short story, “Being Popular Isn’t for Everyone,” written by Birchwood seventh grader, Jennifer, is a finalist in the “It’s All Write” Teen Writing Contest sponsored by the Ann Arbor District Library in Michigan. Most of Birchwood’s seventh grad ...

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• Seventy- Eight Published Poets
  News • 5/16/2020
  Birchwood would like to congratulate the 78 student winners who wrote creative and touching poems for the Creative Communication contest. The contest accepts submissions from students in Kindergarten through ninth grade and winning entries are published in an annual anthology. Writing teacher of 3rd ...

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• Class of 2020 Finalizes College Choices
  News • 5/1/2020
  Congratulations to members of the Class of 2020 on their college choices! To see where they are heading next year and to view an infographic highlighting some compelling statistics, click here .

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• Senior Debaters Win State Championships; Hawken Named Runner-Up
  News • 3/10/2020
   

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• HawkForce 2020 Soars to New Heights
  News • 2/12/2020
  Now in its second year, Hawken’s summer internship program for college-age alumni has exceeded expectations, with 30 companies offering 40 different positions and over 89 opportunities for summer employment.

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• Two Birchwood Alumni are Named Questbridge Scholars
  News • 2/5/2020
  Congratulations to Jocelyn Chin (’16) and Jake Wei (’16) for being named Questbridge Scholars. These seniors matched with a college that will provide them 100% financial aid in the form of scholarships to cover the full cost of tuition, fees, room and board, books and supplies, and trave ...

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• Will Lindsey '20 Wins Waterloo D-III Classic
  News • 1/9/2020
  Will Lindsey continued his dominating season by winning the 285 pound weight class at the Waterloo D-III Classic on December 20 &; 21. Lindsey went 8-0 in the tournament, earning his second title of the season; he is now 19-1 on the season and is currently ranked 6 th in the state by borofanohio.net ...

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• Girls Basketball Travels to Florida
  News • 1/9/2020
  Over winter break, the Hawken Girls Basketball team traveled down to Orlando, Florida to participate in the KSA Holiday Tournament. During the 4-day tournament, Hawken competed against teams from Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, and Oklahoma. Between JV and Varsity, Hawken finished the tournament w ...

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• Hawken Swimmers find success nationally at Speedo Jr. Nationals
  News • 12/18/2019
  7 Hawken/LESD swimmers travelled to Atlanta last week to compete at the Speedo Jr. National swim meet ( for all swimmers 18 and younger). Sydney Bare '21 placed 9th with a time that’s over a second faster than her own school record.  1:02.34 (100 Breaststroke)    Tori Culotta '2 ...

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• Despite high energy Hawks fall to AOA
  News • 12/9/2019
  Boys Basketball Hawken (0-2): M. Coyne 31, J. Suggs 8, S. Ng 8, E. Ross 6, E. Buchanan 6, J. Totte 3, DJ Johnson 2 Hawken: 15 17 19 15 - 66 AOA: 24 10 18 23 - 75 FT Hawken: 21 of 33 3 Pt Hawken (12): Coyne 4. Ross 1, J. Suggs 1, Totte 1 Quote: Head Coach Josh Nugent“I was really impressed with ...

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• Birchwood Team Places First at Young Astronaut Day Competition
  News • 11/14/2019
  On Saturday, November 9 local students gathered at Cleveland State University for the 27th Annual Young Astronaut Day. They competed in engineering tasks that required them to work together creating and testing prototypes over a two-hour period. Students explored the same challenges that engine ...

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• Seeking Judges for Hawken STEMM Symposium
  News • 10/28/2019
  Now in its twelfth year, Hawken's STEMM Symposium is looking for judges who work in scientific research, medical research, or engineering. Judging involves examining student posters and posing thoughtful, probing questions to the student presenters. Judges are asked to be at Hawken’s Gates Mil ...

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• Hawken Project and HawkForce 2020
  News • 10/25/2019
  Our Hawken parent and alumni community is fortunate to have an immensely rich and talented base of business, civic, and cultural leaders.   Every year, the Alumni Office fields requests from current seniors and college-age alumni for connections within the Hawken community, local and national, ...

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• Ella Wong '23 wins the CVC Tournament
  News • 9/17/2019
   

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• Boys Golf takes 2nd Place at CVC Tournament - Drew Covitt '20 wins season MVP
  News • 9/17/2019
  The Hawks finished up their CVC season this past Monday playing in the conference championship at Quail Hollow Country Club placing in 2nd.  The boys also finished in 2nd place in the CVC Chagrin Division where Drew Covitt ‘20 was the CVC MVP for the second straight year.  Congratula ...

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• Two Hawks Named World Champions at National Tournament; Hawken Named Debate School of Excellence
  News • 6/26/2019
    Congratulations to David Lyons ‘19 and Cassandra Berlin ‘20 , members of the World Champion North Coast Worlds Schools team, on defeating a team from China in the final round to become the “world champions” at the National Speech and Debate Association national tournam ...

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• Congratulations, Class of 2019!
  News • 6/13/2019
  Congratulations to members of Hawken's Class of 2019, who celebrated Commencement at a ceremony at Severance Hall on Sunday, June 2. The 112 Hawken graduates will attend 63 different colleges and universities in 30 states and one foreign country. In total, members of the Class of 2019 were offered o ...

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• Senior Wins National Shakespeare Competition
  News • 5/1/2019
  Congratulations to Maria Schreiner ’19 , who took first place in the 36 th Annual National Shakespeare Competition, an event run by the English-Speaking Union and held at Lincoln Center in New York City on April 29!  

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• Class of 2019 Finalizes College Choices
  News • 5/1/2019
  Congratulations to members of the Class of 2019 on their college choices! To see where they are heading next year and to view an infographic highlighting some compelling statistics, click here .  

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• Upper School Chess Team Named State Champions
  News • 4/23/2019
  Thirteen Hawken Lower, Middle, and Upper School chess players were among 196 students from all corners of Ohio competing in four sections of the State High School and Middle School Chess Championships held in Cleveland on April 6-7.  

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• Students Gains Insight Through Immersive Learning Experiences
  News • 4/12/2019
  Middle School students recently engaged in Insights Week, five days of mixed-grade experiential courses grown out of the academic passions of the Middle School faculty.

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• Birchwood Math Team Wins 3rd at State Competition
  News • 3/18/2019
  Birchwood School of Hawken's MathCounts team placed 3 rd at the state level competition on March 9 th . Led by their coach and school co-founder, Chuck Debelak, students John Shin , Ehren Collins , James Mamone, and Aidan Berard proudly represented their school’s strong math program.  Joh ...

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• Wrestlers Place at States
  News • 3/12/2019
  This past weekend Hawken’s wrestling trio of Jackson Reineke ’20 , Will Lindsey ’20 , and Patrick Reineke ’22 wrestled in the D-III State Championship.

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• Indoor Track State Champion!
  News • 3/8/2019
  Last weekend at Spire Institute in Geneva, sophomore Ella Gilson won the Ohio High School Indoor State Championship in the 1600m with her time of 5:07.28!

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• Hawken Students Awarded at Film Festival
  News • 3/1/2019
  Congratulations to the following Hawken students who were winners in the third annual Kids Film It Festival held on Friday, February 23 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:

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• Birchwood MathCounts Team Wins Chapter Tournament
  News • 3/1/2019
  On Saturday, February 23 rd , Birchwood School’s MathCounts team placed first in the chapter round of competition at Cleveland State University. In one of four challenging levels, the countdown round (where speed and accuracy are tested), the team also placed first. In addition, three students ...

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• Eight Students Receive Scholastic Writing Awards
  News • 2/28/2019
  Birchwood 7 th and 8 th grade students earned gold key, silver key, and honorable mention for in the 2019 Scholastic Writing Awards competition. Ehren Collins was given Scholastic’s highest gold key award for his fantasy, “One Giant Leap for Mouse-kind.” Eric Vaziri  earn ...

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• Senior Wins Regional Shakespeare Competition
  News • 2/28/2019
  For the second year in a row, Maria Schreiner '19 took first place in the February 23 Cleveland Shakespeare Competition, an event sponsored by the Cleveland branch of the English-Speaking Union (ESU).  

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• Announcing the Mastery School of Hawken
  News • 2/14/2019
  Hawken School is pleased to announce the expansion of our campus in University Circle with the purchase of five additional properties on Magnolia Drive and the launch of the Mastery School of Hawken in August 2020.

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• Scholastic Awards Students for Creativity in Art/Writing
  News • 1/24/2019
  Congratulations to the following Upper School students who received Scholastic Art and Writing Awards earlier this month:

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• Announcing Hawken's New Toddler Program
  News • 1/18/2019
  Hawken School is pleased to announce a new program for toddlers from 18 to 36 months beginning in the 2019-2020 school year. This addition to the Lyndhurst campus is particularly timely given the increasing interest among current parents in program offerings for younger students.

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• 2018 Alumni Awards Presented at Winter Luncheon
  News • 1/15/2019
  The Alumni Association hosted its annual Winter Luncheon on Saturday, December 22 with over 175 alumni, family, and friends in attendance.

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• Birchwood Students Finish in the top 5% in American Mathematics Competition
  News • 1/15/2019
  Birchwood students, Ehren Collins, John Shin, Samuel Pan, Aidan Berard, Angela Shang, and Rebecca Chin, finished among the top 5% of all math students in the US in the American Mathematics Competition (AMC 8).

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• Birchwood’s 4 th Grade Wins Noetic Learning Math Contest
  News • 1/14/2019
  Birchwood’s 4th grade class received the Team Achievement Award in the 2018 Noetic Learning Math Contest. This award is given to teams who place in the top 10% of participating teams. These young mathematicians also placed first out of all Ohio teams.  Four students also earned National H ...

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• Announcing Hawken's New Toddler Program
  News • 12/19/2018
  Hawken School is pleased to announce a new program for toddlers from 18 to 36 months beginning in the 2019-2020 school year.

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• Upper School Students Present at Annual STEMM Symposium
  News • 11/12/2018
  Hawken Science Research III students took part in the 10th annual Bob Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium on Thursday November 8, presenting their projects before a panel of expert judges, families, and other guests.

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• 19 Students Present at 4th Annual ISL Symposium
  News • 10/25/2018
  Hawken students who are part of the Integrated Service Learning Program joined together with friends, family, and mentors for the fourth annual ISL Symposium held on Tuesday, October 23.

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• Chess Hawks Win Scholarships/Prizes at Cleveland Scholastic Open
  News • 10/23/2018
  Hawken Lower, Middle, and Upper School Chess Hawks Sophie Baum ’28 , Shivam Engineer ’22 , Arnav Guda ’30 , Edward Huang ’22 , John Joyce ’25 , Brennen Keuchel ’19, Destynn Keuchel ’22, Praveen Kumar ’22, Rahul Reyes Sundaram ’27, Rohan Reyes Sun ...

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• 10 Hawks Appointed to Saltzman Youth Panel
  News • 10/11/2018
  Congratulations to the following Hawken students who have been selected to participate in the 2018-2019 Saltzman Youth Panel of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland: Sam Axner ’20, Andrew Caplan ’20, Brian Caplan ’20, Danny Ecker ’20, Sammi Fremont ’20, Ross Krantz ’ ...

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• Introducing Hawken Plays!
  News • 9/28/2018
  Whether you are a parent, caregiver, or family member of a child between 18-32 months, we invite you to join us for open-ended explorations intentionally designed for you. Choose Friday or Saturday.

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• Indians CEO Presents Keynote at MS Chapel Grapple Kick-off
  News • 9/20/2018
  Last week, Cleveland Indians CEO Paul Dolan visited Hawken Middle School to kick off their yearly Chapel Grapple Character Education Unit, which this year focuses on the theme “Community, Membership, and the Indigenous Experience.”

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• Girls Cross Country finishes 2nd at Walsh Jesuit
  News • 9/12/2018
  The Hawken Girls Cross Country team traveled to Walsh Jesuit to compete in the Pat Ritchie Cross Country Invitational.  The girls competed well in the rain and on the muddy double loop course to finish second behind Warren Howland 75 to 78 points.

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• Upcoming Senior Helps Develop App to Beat Tobacco Addiction
  News • 8/14/2018
  Through his summer internship undertaken as part Hawken’s STEMM program, Nikhil Goel ’19 participated on a small team at CWRU working to develop an app interface designed to help tobacco users quit smoking.

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• Hawken Speech and Debate Team Earns School of Excellence Award
  News • 6/28/2018
  Congratulations to the members of Hawken’s Speech and Debate team for their excellent performance at the 2018 National Speech and Debate tournament held in Fort Lauderdale June 17 - 22.

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• LS Academic Challenge Team Wins National Championship in Chicago
  News • 6/21/2018
  Congratulations to Hawken’s Elementary Division Academic Challenge A team, who dominated at the Chicago National Tournament in early June.

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• Middle School Chess Team Clinches State Championship
  News • 6/20/2018
  Congratulations to Hawken Middle School Chess Team members Austin Daly ’22, Destynn Keuchel ‘22, Dillon Perni ’22, and Ishan Vyas ’22 for becoming state champions for the second year in a row at the State Chess Championships held in Columbus on May 25 and 26.

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• Welcome Hawken's Newest Alumni!
  News • 6/19/2018
  Congratulations to members of Hawken's Class of 2018, who celebrated Commencement at a ceremony at Severance Hall on Sunday, June 3.

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• Members of the Classes of ’22 and ’25 “Move Up"
  News • 6/19/2018
  Congratulations to members of the Class of '22! They bid farewell to the Lyndhurst campus at a moving up ceremony on June 1. Special congratulations go to Makayla White , recipient of the Muriel Bell Award, which honors the one peer who embodies the highest levels of character and represents the bes ...

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• 5th Annual Student Awards & Parent Appreciation
  News • 5/16/2018
  Birchwood School of Hawken students and parents gathered together on the morning of Wednesday, May 16 to celebrate the achievements they have earned throughout the 2017-2018 academic year and also to recognize the support each student has received from their family.

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• Congratulations Class of 2018!
  News • 5/8/2018
  Scott Looney recently sent out a community-wide email congratulating members of the Class of 2018 on their college choices.

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• Senior Awarded Princeton Prize in Race Relations
  News • 4/5/2018
  Congratulations to senior Courtney Reed , who has been awarded the Princeton Prize in Race Relations award for “her impact in focusing her school’s administration on equity and inclusion solutions.”

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• Western Reserve Science Day Success
  News • 3/17/2018
  On March 17th a group of Birchwood School of Hawken students participated in the Western Reserve District 5 Science Day. This is one of 16 district fairs held each spring by the Ohio Junior Academy on Science. The five students who received a superior rating will be heading to the State Science Day ...

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• Accolades at Science and Engineering Fair
  News • 3/12/2018
  Birchwood School of Hawken was represented by a group of seventh and eighth grade students at the Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF) which was held on March 12-15 at Cleveland State University. Approximately 600 students from over 80 schools discussed their science projects with ...

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• Birchwood Wins Second at Regional MATHCOUNTS Contest and Eighth at State Competition
  News • 3/10/2018
  Birchwood’s MATHCOUNTS team placed second in the local Chapter Competition on Saturday, Feb. 17. This placement entitled the team to attend the State Competition on Saturday, March 10 in Columbus. At the state level Birchwood’s team placed eighth out of 100 schools competing.

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• Science Olympiad Team Takes Third Place
  News • 3/3/2018
  The Science Olympiad took place Saturday, March 3 at Case Western Reserve University. 

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• Girls Swimming Captures 20th Consecutive State Title
  News • 2/27/2018
  As Athletic Director Jim Doyle commented after the girls swim team won the State Championship for the 20th consecutive year on Friday, "It was a meet for the ages tonight, one to add to the incredible legacy of Hawken Swimming. It was a meet where our swimmers saw triumph, heartbreak, agony, and exh ...

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• Scholastic Awards Students for Creativity in Art/Writing
  News • 1/29/2018
  Congratulations to the following Upper School students who received Scholastic Art and Writing Awards earlier this month:

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• Birchwood's Geography Bee
  News • 1/23/2018
  Birchwood’s Geography Bee class champs from grades 4-8 rolled out their mental maps in the schoolwide National Geographic Bee on Jan. 23.

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• Scholastic Writing Awards
  News • 1/16/2018
  The 2018 Scholastic Awards for middle and high school students recognizes writing that shows originality, personal voice, and technical skill. Out of all the grade 7-8 students who participated in the Northeast Ohio region, 10 Birchwood students were recognized.

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• 2017 Alumni Awards Presented at Winter Luncheon
  News • 12/20/2017
  The Alumni Association hosted its annual Winter Luncheon on Saturday, December 16, with over 125 alumni and friends in attendance.

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• Alumna Helps Secure $100 Million Grant to Educate Syrian Refugees
  News • 12/20/2017
  Sarah Smith ’92 , senior director of education at the International Rescue Committee (IRC), has successfully secured a $100 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation for the Sesame Workshop &; International Rescue Committee to provide early childhood education for Syrian refugees.

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• Football Hawks Lift for JADE Foundation
  News • 1/16/2018
  The football team conducted its 4th consecutive Lift-A-Thon earlier this month to raise money for The JADE Foundation .

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• Hawken Chess Players Shine in State Grade Level Chess Championships
  News • 11/21/2017
  Austin Daly ’22, Christian French ’22, Brennen Keuchel ’19, Destynn Keuchel ’22, Greta Rodgers ’22, Eli Rutherford ’28, and Ishan Vyas ’22 were among the 260 students who participated in the 2017 State of Ohio Grade Level Chess Championships held in Newark o ...

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• Hawken Alumna Joins with Local Artists for Hurricane Relief Fundraiser
  News • 11/21/2017
  Following Hurricane Maria, Eileen Podnar Sheehan ’04 and local artists Hector Vega, Richard Romero, Linda Zolten Wood, and TV personality and chef Lisa Pucci Delgado joined forces to create an art sale and auction fundraiser for immediate relief for Puerto Rican families. 

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• 6 Hawks Appointed to Saltzman Youth Panel
  News • 10/31/2017
  Congratulations to the following Hawken students who have been selected to participate in the 2017-2018 Saltzman Youth Panel of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland: Allison Cohen '18, Natalie Cohen '19, Reid Daroff '19, Dylan Goldberg '19, Sam Spiegle '19, and Morgan Tucker '19 .

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• Birchwood Students take part in 25th Annual Young Astronaut Day
  News • 10/28/2017
  A team of Birchwood students in grades 5-8 competed in the annual Young Astronauts Day at the NASA Glenn Research Center on Saturday, Oct. 28. Students were divided into two groups the Pilot Team and the Commander Team before spending the morning competing in hands-on activities related to engineeri ...

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• Middle School Students Energized to Lead
  News • 10/20/2017
  On October 18th, a group of middle school students known as the “Energy Team” attended a youth leadership summit hosted by the Columbus-based Ohio Energy Project.

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• Support JADE, Win Cavs Tickets!
  News • 1/16/2018
  The football team will participate in its 4th consecutive Lift-A-Thon on Wednesday, November 15 to raise money for The JADE Foundation, which honors the memory of Hawken football alum Alex Dobay '08 and provides comfort and entertainment items to young adult cancer patients at the Cleveland Clinic a ...

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• School Archivist Shares History with Middle School Students
  News • 10/13/2017
  School archivist Mary Crotty was recently the featured guest at a Middle School morning chapel meeting.

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• Artz '13 Named All-American
  News • 10/1/2017
  After missing all of her junior season with a knee injury, Artz returned in 2016 and was the leading scorer for the Jumbo Field Hockey team as it won the NESCAC championship and advanced to the NCAA Final.

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• 8th Graders Wade into Chagrin River to Assess Water Quality
  News • 9/29/2017
  Eighth grade students participated in an integrated math/science project earlier this week, traveling to the Old River Farm Park shelter in the North Chagrin Metropark Reservation after studying watersheds in their classrooms.

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• 10 Seniors Named Semifinalists in National Merit Scholarship Competition
  News • 9/13/2017
    Congratulations to 13 Hawken students who received recognition in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program. Hawken’s ten semifinalists are seniors Adith Abraham, Zade Akras, Esther Bedoyan, Jimmy Clark, Matthew Elias, David Gold, Sauren Khosla, Raina Liu, Brian Sun, and Zachary Vexle ...

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• Come "Back to School" at Hawken!
  News • 9/5/2017
  Calling all Hawken Parents! Don't miss the Parent Night for your child’s grade. These evenings provide the perfect opportunity to meet your child’s teachers and also other parents in the grade.

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• Hawks Shine at Chinese Speech and Essay Contest
  News • 8/28/2017
  Organized by The Confucius Institutes at both Cleveland State and University of Akron as well as The Ohio Association of Teachers of Chinese, the Fifth Annual Chinese Speech and Essay Contest welcomes participants from throughout the state of Ohio.

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• View the Solar Eclipse from Lyndhurst
  News • 8/19/2017
  The Lyndhurst Science Department invites Lower and Middle School families to view the solar eclipse from our campus on Monday, August 21.

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• Golf Outing Raises Funds for JADE Foundation
  News • 1/16/2018
  Hawken football coaches, alumni, parents and friends came together on Sunday, June 25 to participate in the second annual golf outing at Fowler’s Mill Golf Course. Following an afternoon of friendly competition on a beautiful summer day in Northeast Ohio, players and their guests gathered for ...

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• Hawken Team Wins National Academic Challenge Tournament
  News • 6/14/2017
  Congratulations to the Hawken Elementary A team for winning its first ever National Elementary Academic Challenge Tournament at the championship games held in Chicago earlier this month.

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• 5th Graders Celebrate Moving Up with Ceremony and Ice Cream Social
  News • 6/5/2017
  The Class of 2024 marked their transition from Lower to Middle School with a ceremony in the Headmaster’s Chapel followed by an ice cream social.

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• Class of 2021 Bids Farewell to Lyndhurst Campus
  News • 6/5/2017
  Hawken’s 8 th  graders participated in Closing Exercises on June 2 in the Ingalls Gymnasium, marking the end of their middle school years and their time on the Lyndhurst campus.

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• Class of 2017 Celebrates Commencement at Severance Hall
  News • 6/5/2017
  Saturday, June 4 marked the 2017 Commencement ceremony for Hawken’s graduating seniors.

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• Student Achievements Celebrated at Year-End Events
  News • 6/2/2017
  Hawken Upper School took time to celebrate the hard work and dedication of its students at both the Cum Laude Induction Ceremony held on May 31 and the Awards Day Program held on June 1.

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• Intensives and Senior Projects Highlight End of US Academic Year
  News • 5/30/2017
  A relative hush has fallen on the Gates Mills campus during the last few weeks as students have scattered near and far, intently focused on their Intensive class or, in the case of seniors, Senior Projects.

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• Visiting Artist Teams with Lower School Students to Build Machine
  News • 5/27/2017
  Many thanks to freelance artist, sculptor and Hawken parent Ian Petroni for serving as this year’s Lower School visiting artist.

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• Juniors Win National Science Essay Contest
  News • 5/26/2017
  Zade Akras ’18 and Vikash Modi ’18 were recently named winners of the NASA Cassini Scientist for a Day Essay Contest.

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• HPS Wins Two Dazzle Awards
  News • 5/22/2017
  Congratulations to the cast and crew of Hawken Players’ Society production of Les Miserables for bringing home two Dazzle Awards: Best Musical and Best Supporting Actress ( Cassandra Knaggs ‘17 ).

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• Be Sure to Register for Hawken Summer Camps!
  News • 5/19/2017
  Don’t let your child miss out on all the fun - register for Hawken Summer Programs today!

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• JADE Foundation Golf Outing Scheduled for June 25
  News • 5/19/2017
  Join Cliff Walton and other Hawken Football coaches, alums, parents and friends at Fowler's Mill Golf Course in Chesterland on Sunday, June 25!

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• Junior Named Runner-Up in Stop the Hate Contest
  News • 5/6/2017
  Congratulations to Courtney Reed '18 for being named a finalist in the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage annual Stop the Hate Youth Speak Out competition.

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• Senior Named Delegate to US Senate Program, Wins $10,000 Scholarship
  News • 5/5/2017
  Congratulations to Nayan Rao’17 for being named by Ohio Senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman as one of Ohio’s two delegates to the 55 th  Annual United States Senate Youth Program. Along with this honor, Nayan has received a ten thousand dollar scholarship.

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• Middle School Chess Players Clinch State Championship
  News • 5/4/2017
  After two days of six long and intense chess games at the State High School and Middle School Chess Championships held in Cleveland on April 29 – 30, Hawken Middle school players  Austin Daly ‘22, Destynn Keuchel ‘22, Hansen Song ‘22, and Ishan Vyas ’22  becam ...

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• HPS Nominated for 7 Dazzle Awards
  News • 4/28/2017
  Congratulations to the Hawken Players Society on being nominated for seven 2017 Dazzle Awards for their recent production of  Les Miserables .

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• Alumni Return to Hawken to Mentor Students
  News • 4/25/2017
  Yesterday marked the inaugural Alumni Give Back Day, which brought 60 Hawken alumni from across the country back to campus to share their experiences and expertise in the working world.

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• Upper School Hosts Author Cindy Pierce
  News • 4/14/2017
  Following her presentation for CCIS parents on Wednesday, April 12, Cindy Pierce, author and educational speaker on sexual health in teenagers and young adults, spoke to upper school students at this afternoon’s assembly.  

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• First Grader Places 1st at State Elementary Chess Championship
  News • 4/10/2017
  Jackson E. ’23, John J. ’25, Eli R. ’28, Rohan R. ’25 , and  Daniel X. ’25  (not pictured) competed with students from all corners of Ohio in the State Elementary Chess Championship tournament held on Saturday March 18, 2017.  

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• STEMM Students Shine at NEOSEF
  News • 3/18/2017
  Hawken STEMM students garnered many impressive accolades at the Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair held March 6-9 at John Carroll University.

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• Hawken Hosts GCCTM Math Contest
  News • 3/17/2017
  The Greater Cleveland Council of Teachers of Mathematics (GCCTM) Math Contest for middle school students was held on Saturday, March 4   at the Gates Mills campus.  

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• Eleven Seniors Named National Merit Finalists
  News • 3/6/2017
  Congratulations to Hawken's eleven seniors who have been named finalists in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Competition: Ellen Adams, Sarah Allaben, Aryeh Carmi, Anderson Clyde, Molly Emig, Ava Levin, Pheby Liu, Ammar Lone, Hannah Miao, Al Shumyatcher, and Kevin Yu.

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• Birchwood Turns in a Third Place at MATHCOUNTS
  News • 3/1/2017
  The Northeast Ohio MATHCOUNTS Chapter Competition was held on February 18, 2017 with the  Birchwood School of Hawken team placing third out of 16 teams. 

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• Jim Margolis '89 & Peter Scott
  News • 2/23/2017
  ... will be teaming up with Peter Scott on March 2 for “First Thursdays.” Jim is a well-known producer, director and writer known for his work on The Daily Show, 60 minutes, Frontline, Veep, Blunt Talk, Newsreaders, Almost Royal, Children’s Hospital etc. Reserve your ticket here . ...

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• Hawken Co-Sponsors Diversity Recruitment Event
  News • 2/10/2017
  Hawken is partnering with Breakthrough Schools, Laurel School, and Warrensville Heights City School District to sponsor the inaugural  NEO Diversity in Education Recruitment Event , which will take place on Saturday, February 25 in downtown Cleveland at Key Tower from 8:00a.m. - 6:30 p.m.   ...

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• Sara Mierke '84 on Campus!
  News • 2/9/2017
  We were honored to have Sara Mierke '84 , visiting campus from South Africa, as a member of the Board of Directors for ISEEN’s 12th Annual Conference. Learn more about Sara and the Network here . ; ;

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• Two Seniors Selected as Candidates for Presidential Scholar Program
  News • 2/6/2017
  Congratulations to Hawken seniors Cengiz Ozan Ergungor and Alexander Shumyatcher for being selected as Candidates for the 2017 United States Presidential Scholars Program   

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• Counter-terrorism Expert Visits Hawken
  News • 2/3/2017
  Students in Katie Scott’s Foreign Policy and Middle East class recently welcomed guest speaker Professor Karl Kaltenthaler, professor of political science at the University of Akron, who spoke to them about the current intel on ISIL and Al Qaeda.

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• Two Seniors Sign Letter of Intent
  News • 2/3/2017
  February 1 marked National Signing Day,  the first day that high school seniors can sign a national letter of intent to play sports for an NCAA college or university. 

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• Hawken Hosts ISEEN Conference
  News • 1/18/2017
  This week Hawken has the honor of hosting the annual conference of the Independent School Experiential Education Network (ISEEN), which brings 120 educators and administrators from across the nation and abroad to Cleveland.

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• Students Remember Martin Luther King, Jr.
  News • 1/17/2017
  Students in all divisions observed the Martin Luther King holiday prior to the holiday weekend by planning and particpating in a number of activities. 

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• Fifth Grade Entrepreneurs Showcase Handmade Products
  News • 12/14/2016
  The Sherwin Commons at Lyndhurst was abuzz this morning as fifth graders peddled their wares - the outcome of a newly designed unit of study in entrepreneurship. 

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• Hawken Chess Players Shine in State Championships
  News • 11/30/2016
    Nicholas Bislich ’19, Nikhil Goel ’19, Brennen Keuchel ’19, Connor Keuchel ’17, and Destynn Keuchel ’22  were among the 236 students who participated in the 2016 State Grade Level Chess Championships held in Newark on Saturday, November 19 th .    ...

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• Connor Keuchel Interview at Cleveland Scholastic Open Airs on TV20
  News • 11/22/2016
  Senior  Connor Keuchel  was interviewed at last month’s fifth annual Cleveland Scholastic Open held at Cleveland State University, where he received the “2016 Cleveland Scholastic Chess Award” for his outstanding merit in academics, chess, and citizenship. Listen to the i ...

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• Middle School Teachers to Present at National and International Conferences
  News • 11/16/2016
  Three of Hawken Middle School's signature integrated projects have been selected for presentation at the National Science Teachers’ Conference, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference, and Texas Instruments T3 International Conference.

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• Upper School Students Present STEMM Projects at Annual Symposium
  News • 11/15/2016
  Hawken Science Research III students took part in the 8th annual Bob Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium on Thursday November 10, presenting their projects before a panel of expert judges, families and other guests. Topics ranged from finding a biomarker for epilepsy to studying insect diversity to th ...

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• Junior Wins Grant for Proposal Based on STEMM Project
  News • 11/8/2016
  Based on his research for his Hawken STEMM project at NASA this past summer,  Brian Sun ’18 , along with some other students, developed a research proposal and won the 2016 Ken Souza Memorial Research Competition, organized by Blue Origin and the Board of the American Society for Gra ...

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• Senior Receives High Rankings in National STEMM Competition
  News • 10/31/2016
  Congratulations to Dhweeja Dasarathy ’17 , who was named both a semifinalist (top 498 in the nation) and a regional finalist (top 60 projects in the nation) in the 2016 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology.

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• Groundworks Dance Company Holds Masterclass at Hawken
  News • 10/21/2016
  Earlier this month, students enrolled in Jodie Ricci’s Creative Movement class worked with professional artists from GroundWorks Dance Company in a ninety minute masterclass held at Hawken’s Gates Mills campus. 

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• Middle School Kicks Off Service Learning Program
  News • 9/23/2016
  The Middle School kicked of its Service Learning program last week with a series of presentations focusing on their goals for the year.

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• Award-winning Journalist Nagorski Visits Genocide Class
  News • 9/15/2016
  On Wednesday, students in Ken Clark’s Genocide elective were treated to a visit from award-winning journalist Andrew Nagorski.

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• 24 Hawken Seniors Receive Recognition in National Merit Scholarship Competition
  News • 9/14/2016
  Eleven Hawken students have been named semifinalists in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program.

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• Ingenuity Fest: Emily Appelbaum '04 and Peter Debelak '96
  News • 9/4/2016
  Emily Appelbaum '04 and Peter Debelak '96 were highlighted in a recent Crain's Cleveland article ;about Ingenuity Cleveland festival, to be held September 23-25. Click here to learn more. ;

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• Another Year of Record Enrollment
  News • 8/23/2016
  Today, Hawken School welcomed a record-breaking 1045 students to the 2016-2017 school year – 850 returning students and 195 new students.   

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• Don't Miss the Biggest Event of the Year!
  News • 8/15/2016
  Make sure your weekend plans include the Grand Opening of Stirn Hall events! If you have not yet RSVPed, now is the time.

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• Sports Day a Rousing Success
  News • 8/14/2016
  Alumni Sports Day drew a strong crowd in each sport this past Saturday and rousing school spirit prevailed despite a looming wet weather outlook. Field hockey, tennis, girls and boys soccer, cross country and volleyball and all went on without a hitch and many gathered at the Guren Picnic Shelter fo ...

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• Chill Pop Shop has Two Hawken Connections
  News • 8/6/2016
  Artisanal ;popsicles from Chill Pop Shop (owned by ; Elizabeth Pryor '98 ) will be available for purchase at Hawken’s Music and Fireworks on Saturday, August 20. If you are a Clevelander, you may have seen her pop-up cart or truck around town at many events. Now, you can even find her ice pops ...

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• Student Art "Pops" at Parade
  News • 6/14/2016
  Hawken School's impressive pop-art creations lit up Saturday's Parade the Circle in University Circle.

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• 8th Graders Bid Farewell to Lyndhurst Campus
  News • 6/9/2016
  The Class of 2020 celebrated their 8th grade graduation at Closing Exercises on Friday, June 3 in Ingalls Gymnasium.

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• Seniors Awarded Diplomas at Graduation
  News • 6/6/2016
  Severance Hall provided the majestic setting on Sunday, June 5 for the commencement ceremony that marked the culmination of high school for seniors at Hawken School.

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• International Travel Intensives Highlighted in Student Blogs
  News • 5/20/2016
  Intensives are underway at the Upper School! Be sure to check out the student blogs to learn more about our students' international experiences in China and Ireland.

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• First Graders Explore University Circle
  News • 5/5/2016
  First graders recently returned to the Lyndhurst campus after a week-long unit based at the Gries Center, where they immersed themselves in studying the five senses. 

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• Relay for Life Raises Funds and Spirits
  News • 4/19/2016
  Hawken’s 9th annual Relay for Life event took place on Friday, April 15 at the lawn at Legacy Village.

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• Winter Sports Post-season Updates
  News • 2/23/2016
  Three Hawken wrestlers have qualified for the District Tournament this week.

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• Last Call for "Into the Woods"
  News • 2/17/2016
  It’s not too late to see the Hawken Players Society’s production of  Into the Woods !

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• Lower School Musicians Join All-State Chorus
  News • 2/17/2016
  Eleven lower school vocalists were recently selected to participate in the Ohio Music Education Association All-State Children's Chorus in Cincinnati, Ohio on January 27, 2016.  

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• Upper School Students Receive Scholastic Art Awards
  News • 1/28/2016
  Congratulations to the following Upper School students who received Scholastic Art Awards earlier this month:

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• Spotlight on Radiolab Hawken
  News • 1/13/2016
  Students in the Upper School Radiolab intensive taught by Cris Harris and Chase Williams were introduced to the world of audio storytelling during this 3-week immersion class that concluded just prior to winter break.

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• Upper School Students Present STEMM Projects at Annual Symposium
  News • 11/17/2015
  Hawken Science Research III students took part in the 6th annual Bob Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium on Monday November 17, presenting their projects before a panel of expert judges, families, and other guests, including Hawken middle school students, who received a special invitation to the event ...

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• Sixth Grader Stars in Holocaust Theater Project
  News • 11/12/2015
  Milena Fernsler, a Hawken 6 th grader, will play one of the lead roles in The Star on My Heart, an original play based on the true story of Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher.

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• Hawk Chess Players Place in CSCL Tournament
  News • 11/2/2015
  Destynn Keuchel ’22 and Nicholas Bislich ’19 were among 137 students who participated in the Canton Scholastic Chess League tournament last Saturday.

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• Students Head City Club Forum on College Admissions
  News • 10/27/2015
  Phillip Hedayatnia '16, Chair of the City Club of Cleveland's Youth Council, introduced a youth forum on the college admissions process on Monday, October 26th.

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• Hawken School to Perform at World-Renowned Severance Hall
  News • 10/26/2015
  Hawken School's year of Centennial celebrations - from the all-school photo on the Great Lawn to the Party of the Century in May to the 100th birthday party commemorating Hawken’s October 1915 opening - will soon come to an end, and in grand fashion.

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• Second Oldest Alum Turns 100
  News • 10/22/2015
  Jock Collens from the Class of 1931 was born October 21, 1915, just weeks after Hawken School first opened its doors.

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• Students Selected for All-State Chorus and Band
  News • 10/6/2015
  Eleven Lower School students have been accepted by audition to participate in the Ohio Music Education Association All-State Children’s Chorus.

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• Junior Presents STEMM Project at Medical Symposium
  News • 10/1/2015
  Seysha Mehta '17 had the honor of presenting her STEMM research to the Society of General Internal Medicine Mid-West regional meeting at the Cleveland Convetion Center in late August.

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• Hall of Fame Inductees Honored During HawkFest
  News • 9/29/2015
  Hawken School congratulates the Class of 2017 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees: Alan L. MacCracken, Jr. Ph.D. ‘54 Baseball Coach, Basketball and Football Announcer Victor Schmelzer ’74   Basketball (Victor is unable to attend the ceremony. Therefore, he will be inducted in 2018)  ...

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• Hawken Welcomes Students from Chile
  News • 9/24/2015
  Hawken recently hosted 10 students and 2 teachers from the Thomas Jefferson School in Concepción, Chile for a cultural and language immersion experience.

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• 14 Seniors Receive Merit Scholarship Recognition
  News • 9/23/2015
  Six Hawken students have been named semifinalists in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. Congratulations to John Antolik, Tommy Dell, Sarah Senkfor, James Swingos, Hilary Vogelbaum and Matthew Zhu.

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• Graduate Presents "How to Study Less and Learn More"
  News • 9/9/2015
  Former student and drama club enthusiast Andrew Watson '84 returned to Hawken's stage this week, this time in the role of educational expert.

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• Exchange Students Arrive
  News • 8/25/2015
  Hawken families welcomed two ASSIST exchange students on Saturday, August 22.

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• 2015-2016 Marks Another Year of Record Enrollment
  News • 8/21/2015
  Hawken is thrilled to welcome a record-breaking 1022 students for the 2015-2016 school year – 571 at our Lyndhurst campus, 451 at our Gates Mills campus, and 172 students new to Hawken.

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• Graduate Elected to National Boards
  News • 8/17/2015
  Michael Weiss '75, a cancer research professsor at CASE, was elected to the board of trustees of two national high school programs.

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• Memorial Service Set for Larry Nelson
  News • 8/14/2015
  A memorial Service for beloved faculty member Larry Nelson will be held Saturday August 15 at 11am at the Federated Church in Chagrin Falls. 

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• Student Earns Spanish Scholarship
  News • 7/30/2015
  Alex Ashley '15  has received a first place scholarship of $2,000 through the National Spanish Examinations.

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• Happy Birthday, James A. Hawken!
  News • 7/14/2015
  Happy Birthday to our school's founder, James A. Hawken! Mr. Hawken was born on July 14, 1882 into a large working class family and grew up in Rochester, NY. 

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• Graduate Wins Cleveland Grand Prix
  News • 7/13/2015
  2010 graduate Jennifer Waxman won the Chagrin Valley Hunter Jumper Classic Cleveland Grand Prix on Sunday, July 12.

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• Entrepreneurship Workshops Featured on edSurge
  News • 7/6/2015
  Hawken's workshops for educators in entrepreneurial studies are featured in an article on edSurge, an independent education technology website.

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• 8th Graders Close Year with Ceremony at Lyndhurst
  News • 6/8/2015
  The Class of 2019 bid farewell to the Lyndhurst campus on Friday, June 5th.

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• Spring Intensives Begin
  News • 5/11/2015
  Spring Intensives have started at the Upper School, which means students will engage in one course for the next three weeks, allowing them to dive deep into their topic of study.

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• Crile Hart Named Swimmer of the Year
  News • 4/30/2015
  Hawken sophomore Criel Hart, who earned three gold and one silver medal at states, has been named Swimmer of the Year by cleveland.com. 

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• Two Seniors Receive Merit Scholarships
  News • 4/28/2015
  Congratulations to seniors  Maureen Rakovec  and  Matthew Thompson  for receiving corporate scholarships from The National Merit Scholarship Corp.

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• Graduate Featured in Crains'
  News • 4/27/2015
  1992 graduate Andy Simm, founder of PlayersRep Sports Management, has a reputation for being genuine and knowing how to best represent professional athletes.

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• Hawken Shares Schedule Experience with Albuquerque Academy
  News • 5/15/2015
  Director of Faculty Development and Humanities Teacher Dorothy Moulthrop visited Albuquerque Academy during spring break to share Hawken's experience with teaching and learning in long blocks.

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• Art Interprets Alzheimer's Exhibit and Forum
  News • 4/14/2015
  Parents, graduates and friends are invited to attend a public forum in the AC Lobby at Gates Mills on Thursday, April 16 at 7pm to discuss a recently installed exhibit "Art Interprets Alzheimer's."

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• Chess Players Impress at Ohio Championship
  News • 4/9/2015
  Four Hawken students recently competed at the 2015 Ohio High School Middle School Chess Championships.

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• Junior Attends Facebook F8 Conference
  News • 4/8/2015
  During spring break, Phillip Hedayatnia '16 attended the Facebook F8 conference held in San Francisco, California.

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• Tickets Selling Fast for Party of the Century
  News • 4/6/2015
  With only 40 days left until Hawken's Party of the Century, nearly 1200 tickets have been sold and only a few hundred tickets remain.

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• Hawken Hosts Guests from Japan
  News • 3/30/2015
  Ten Hawken families hosted 11 guests from Japan during spring break, making it the 27th exchange with the small community of Haibara.

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• 6th Grader Poses Question to President Obama
  News • 3/23/2015
  President Obama traveled to Ohio last week and during his day-long trip answered questions from citizens at The City Club of Cleveland -- a Presidential tradition stretching back to President Reagan.

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• Parents Meet 100 Hour $1 Million Challenge
  News • 3/18/2015
  The parent and grandparent community of Hawken met a challenge to raise $1 Million in just 100 Hours the week before spring break.

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• Speech and Debate Team Competes at State Tournament
  News • 3/12/2015
  Hawken's Speech and Debate Team sent 29 students to Youngstown to compete at the 2015 Ohio High School Speech League state tournament.

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• Graduate Receives Agriculture Award
  News • 2/18/2015
  1980 graduate  Beth Gibans was named 2014 Agriculture Citizen of the Year at a January awards ceremony in Oregon.

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• 100 Days Until Hawken's Party of the Century
  News • 2/5/2015
  In 100 days on Saturday, May 16, the Hawken community will come together to celebrate 100 years of Fair Play at the Cleveland Convention Center.

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• Two Seniors Named Semi-Finalists in Presidential Scholar Program
  News • 2/3/2015
  Hawken seniors Emily Hedlund and Maureen Rakovec have been selected as semi-finalists in the United States Presidential Scholars Program 

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• Middle School Insights Classes Inspire Students and Teachers
  News • 1/26/2015
  Hawken Middle School returned from winter break for Insights Week: 5 days of mixed-grade courses designed to inspire and inform.

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• Youth Forum on Racism to Air on C-SPAN
  News • 1/18/2015
  Phillip Hedayatnia '16, a member of the City Club's Youth Forum Council, gave the opening speech kicking off "A Conversation on Race," a forum at the City Club of Cleveland that will air Monday, at 8pm on C-SPAN.

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• Graduate Nominated for Casting Award
  News • 1/8/2015
  Michael Cassara '99 has been nominated by the Casting Society of America  for an Artios Award.

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• "Party of the Century" Tickets Now on Sale
  News • 1/6/2015
  2015 is a momentous year for our School as we celebrate our 100th anniversary.

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• Donations Brighten Holidays
  News • 12/23/2014
  Middle and Upper school students donated holiday cheer to several organizations this month.

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• Brothers Place in National Chess Tournament
  News • 12/16/2014
  Hawken brothers  Connor ’17  and  Brennen '19 Keuchel  were among 1528 students from 39 states competing at the  National Grade Level Chess Championships  held in Orlando December 12-14.

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• First Grade Scientists Study Butterfly Migration
  News • 12/5/2014
  First grade students took on the role of scientists this fall as they observed the growth and development of Monarch caterpillars in the classroom, and studied the mysteries of their migration to Mexico.

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• Hawken Receives Character Award for Second Year
  News • 11/28/2014
  Hawken Middle School has received a “Promising Practices” award from the Character Education Partnership for the second year in a row.

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• Sophomore Earns State Chess Title
  News • 11/24/2014
  Connor Keuchel ’17 participated in the 2014 Ohio Grade Level Chess Championships on November 22, and after a day of intense competition emerged State Co-Champion.

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• Graduate Addresses Cleveland Advertisers
  News • 11/8/2014
  Rich Stoddart, a 1981 Hawken graduate and CEO of North America for Leo Burnett Co. , addressed the Cleveland Chapter of the American Advertising Federation in October highlighting successful campaigns that also inspire people to do good.

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• Student Addresses Legislative Conference in DC
  News • 11/3/2014
  In September, at the invitation of Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, Larry Fulton '15 spoke at the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C.

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• Lower School Singers Selected for State Choir
  News • 10/28/2014
  Nine Hawken Lower School students were selected for the  Ohio Music Education Association 's first  All-State Children's Chorus . 

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• Student Singer Performs in Europe, Japan
  News • 10/20/2014
  Sarah Parker has been busy singing and competing in Europe and Japan.

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• Graduate's Blog Discusses Cleveland’s Urban Revitalization
  News • 10/16/2014
  What would it take for the Opportunity Corridor project to spark a revitalization of Cleveland’s urban core?

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• Centennial Celebrations Begin!
  News • 10/10/2014
  Hawken's Centennial Celebrations kicked off Friday, October 10, with an all-school photograph taken on the lawn of the Gates Mills campus.

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• Hawken Hawk to Race Sugardale Hot Dogs at Pep Rally
  News • 10/7/2014
  The Hawken Hawk is pumped and ready to take on the Cleveland Indians Sugardale Hot Dogs at Friday's pep rally.

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• Teacher Launches Garlic Company
  News • 9/27/2014
  Despite being busy with teaching and coaching responsibilities at Hawken,  Wes Wilson '01  somehow finds the time to run his own company - and raise a family! 

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• Graduate's Cookbook Fights Heart Disease
  News • 9/16/2014
  Jane Esselstyn '83  and her mother Ann Crile Esselstyn have published  The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook,  which empowers readers to make their hearts healthier through cooking and eating plant-based meals.

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• Stirn Hall Architectural Firm Ranked #1
  News • 9/12/2014
  Architect, the magazine of the American Institute of Architects, has ranked the firm of Westlake Reed Leskosky, designer of Hawken's Stirn Hall, as the No. 1 architectural firm in the U.S. for design, business and sustainability.

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• Golfer Featured by USA Today Sports
  News • 9/5/2014
  Junior Isabella Joseph hopes to help Hawken's golf team return to states this year. Last year, the team clinched the state championship.

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• Hawken Celebrates Record Enrollment of 1,011
  News • 9/4/2014
  As Hawken begins its centennial year, the School is thrilled to welcome 191 new students and their families to our community.

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• Graduate Shares Expertise at Museum Symposium
  News • 9/3/2014
  Harvey Webster '69, director of wildlife resources at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, will speak at an all-day symposium that will look at ways to prevent extinctions in Ohio.

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• Erica Rose '00 to be Inducted in Cleveland Hall of Fame
  News • 8/27/2014
  Congratulations to 2000 graduate Erica Rose, one of seven to be named to the 2014 Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame.

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• Start of School Heralds Centennial Anniversary
  News • 8/26/2014
  Centennial anniversary banners and festivities welcomed students and families to the first day of classes at Lyndhurst and Gates Mills.

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• A "Life-Changing" Senior Project
  News • 8/20/2014
  Christina Brosovich notes that her senior project took her half-way around the world and "opened countless doors to the career I hope to have."

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• Read the Latest Hawken Review
  News • 8/12/2014
  The Summer 2014 Review has been printed and mailed, and is also available online at hawken.edu/publications .

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• Graduate Gathers Chefs in Fight Against Autism
  News • 8/11/2014
  Shari Golberg '79 co-chaired the 2014 Autism Speaks Cleveland Chef Gala, which rallied celebrity chefs and 700 guests in the fights against Autism.

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• Stadium Tour Provides Memories for Students
  News • 8/9/2014
  A new summer Passport class wraps up this week after touring baseball stadiums in Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Cleveland.

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• Early Childhood Teacher Training Inspires Educators
  News • 7/30/2014
  Hawken's Early Childhood Teacher Training Institute is taking place this week, offering a variety of opportunities to strengthen the skills of early childhood educators.

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• Debate Takes 4 of the Top 5 Spots in Ohio
  News • 7/25/2014
  Four Hawken seniors placed in the top 5 "All-State" standings for Ohio as ranked by the National Forensic League.

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• "Teachers learn how to be better teachers from being students"
  News • 7/23/2014
  Upper School English/Humanities Teacher  Jeannie Kidera  was featured on cleveland.com in an article about teaching.

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• Graduate Publishes Travel Adventures
  News • 7/20/2014
  Facing her 40th birthday as a single woman in a job she was tired of,  Melissa Burovac ’90  decided to quit her job, store her belongings, and  travel the world . 

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• Lacrosse Player Competes on National Level
  News • 7/19/2014
  Rising ninth grader  Mason Goldberg  has been named a 2014 Brine National High School All-American and was selected to represent Ohio at the 2014 Brine National Lacrosse Classic in Boyds, Maryland earlier this month.

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• Graduate's Book Sales Benefit Hawken
  News • 7/11/2014
  Lauren Pacini '59 will donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of his new book to Hawken School.

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• Six Teams Finish at State Level
  News • 7/8/2014
  Hawken had 6 out of 22 varsity teams finish in the top four in the state during the 2013-2014 school year.

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• Hawken Shares Expertise on "The Art of Teaching Young Minds"
  News • 7/8/2014
  A national leader in early childhood education, Hawken conducts an Early Childhood Teacher Training Institute each summer to support teachers’ growth as educators.

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• Graduate Speaks at Naropa University Commencement
  News • 7/3/2014
  Lisa Rome '05 had the honor of delivering the graduate address at  Naropa University 's 2014 Commencement.

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• Student Elected Governor of Buckeye Boys State Program
  News • 6/25/2014
  On June 11, Larry Fulton '15 had the extreme honor of being sworn in as governor of the Buckeye Boys State program, a prestigious summer leadership and citizenship program sponsored by the American Legion.

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• Hawken Shines at Parade the Circle
  News • 6/24/2014
  The work of Hawken students delighted and amazed during this year's Parade the Circle.

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• Students in Myanmar Explore Culture, Religion and Development Issues
  News • 6/23/2014
  Soon after classes ended for the year,  a group of Hawken students and two faculty members traveled to Southeast Asia for a three-week course called "Myanmar: Culture, Religion and Development."

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• Commencement Ceremony Concludes Year
  News • 6/19/2014
  The Class of 2014 received their diplomas in a formal ceremony at the Gates Mills Campus on Sunday, June 8.

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• Debaters Champs Again
  News • 5/29/2014
  Tim Perevozchikov '14 and Zach Kirsch '14 were named Public Forum champions of the 2014 National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament held in Chicago, May 24-25.

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• Noted Illustrator Visits 5th Grade
  News • 5/28/2014
  Award winning artist and illustrator Gerard Dubois visited Hawken's 5th grade to talk about his illustrated book Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words , written by Leda Schubert.

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• Middle School Green Team 2nd in Ohio
  News • 5/27/2014
  Hawken's Green Team took second place in the state in the middle school division at the Ohio Youth Energy awards.

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• Graduates Create New from Old
  News • 5/23/2014
  Deej '91  and  Brinton '94 Lincoln  along with  Chase Horsburgh '99  recently launched a new company called "Rustbelt Reclamation," extending the "Reclaimed Cleveland" mission beyond the region.

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• A Day in the Life of the Gries Center
  News • 5/10/2014
  The Sally &; Bob Gries Center for Service and Experiential Learning has been teeming with activity this spring, and on a recent Friday, the Center simultaneouly hosted classes from the Lower, Middle and Upper School divisions.

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• Students Participate in Wreath Laying Ceremony in Washington, DC
  News • 5/1/2014
  Four seventh graders had the honor of representing Hawken in a Wreath Laying Ceremony at Arlington Cemetery this week.

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• Mascaro Wins Tournament of Champions; Team Places Second
  News • 4/29/2014
  Six members of Hawken's debate team competed at the 43rd annual Tournament of Champions held April 26-28 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

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• 7th Graders Design Memorials for National Mall
  News • 4/26/2014
  In preparation for their Doorways trip to Washington, DC next week, 7th grade students proposed and designed memorials for the National Mall.

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• Students Travel to Japan for 26th Exchange
  News • 6/25/2014
  During Spring Break, eight Middle School students traveled to Haibara, Japan to participate in the 26th Hawken•Haibara Community Exchange.   

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• Rodriguez Named Coach of the Year
  News • 4/18/2014
  Hawken Head Varsity Wrestling Coach Bob Rodriguez was named Division III Coach of the Year by the Greater Cleveland Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association.

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• Chris Hodgson '04 Named a Best New Chef
  News • 4/3/2014
  Food &; Wine Magazine named 2004 graduate Chris Hodgson one of America’s 10 most brilliant new chefs of 2014.

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• Roberta Kaplan '84 Profiled by "Makers"
  News • 4/1/2014
  Roberta Kaplan '84 is featured in a compelling documentary by "Makers," a video initiative developed by AOL and PBS.

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• Hawken to Offer Educator's Workshop for Entrepreneurial Studies
  News • 3/19/2014
  Hawken School will offer an "Educator's Workshop for Entrepreneurial Studies," to help educators design and implement entrepreneurial studies curricula.

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• 8th Graders Place First in kidWind Challenge
  News • 3/2/2014
  After spending several weeks studying wind energy, 8th grade students designed and built their own functional small-scale wind turbines, then competed against peers in the kidWind Challenge at the Cuyahoga Career Center in Brecksville.

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• Junior Places 2nd in NEO Shakespeare Competition
  News • 2/25/2014
  Congratulations to Matthew Thompson '15, who placed 2nd in the ; Northeast Ohio Shakespeare Competition.

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• Refugee Experience Class Hosts Exhibit
  News • 6/25/2014
  Last week, students from Hawken's fall Intensive, The Refugee Experience , held an opening for a photography exhibit called "Voices Worth Hearing, Art Worth Sharing."

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• Robotics Teams Competes at Regionals
  News • 2/20/2014
  A team of 11 students in Hawken's Robotics Club attended the Northeast Ohio Regional FIRST Technical Challenge (FTC) tournament in January. In existance for only two years, Hawken's club was one of the most novice groups to enter the competition. During their preparation, team "RoboHawk" learned ide ...

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• Two Athletes Make Commitments on Signing Day
  News • 2/14/2014
  Senior athletes Kat Zalar and Mackenzie Lesnick signed college letters of intent on February 5, National Signing Day.

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• Intensive: Spanish 4 Honors
  News • 6/25/2014
  During Fall Intensives, Spanish 4 Honors students read, wrote, thought and spoke in Spanish for three full weeks.

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• Upper School Theater Production Featured in Wall Street Journal
  News • 12/23/2013
  Readers of the Wall Street Journal learned that Hawken's fall production of "August: Osage County" was ahead of the curve. ;

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• Intensive: Furniture Design & Fabrication
  News • 12/18/2013
  What makes a good piece of furniture? And how do you make it? Students in “Furniture Design &; Fabrication” work to create one-of-a-kind pieces using a combination of wood and steel.

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• Intensives: The Refugee Experience
  News • 12/17/2013
  Students in the interdisciplinary Intensive “The Refugee Experience” are learning why people become refugees, who refugees are, and how Cleveland is redefining refugee resettlement in the U.S.

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• Intensives: Creative Non-Fiction
  News • 12/13/2013
  "Here and Now," introduces students to the genre of creative non-fiction. Based at the Gries Center, students go out into the community in search of the particulars that make for great non-fiction writing, and the experiences that let them write authenticially about their subjects.

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• Graduate's Film Airs This Week on PBS
  News • 12/10/2013
  Tune into "Extreme by Design" on WVIZ Cleveland, Thursday Dec. 12 at 8pm, to watch a film produced and co-directed by Hawken graduate Ralph King '74. (Check your local PBS listings in other areas.)

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• Speroff Named Field Hockey Player of Year
  News • 11/14/2013
  Congratulations to Sarah Speroff for being named 2013 Field Hockey Player of the Year by The Plain Dealer.

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• Noted Children's Author Visits Hawken
  News • 10/31/2013
  Rosemary Wells, author and illustrator of ;the well-known Max and Ruby series, visited Hawken's Lyndhurst campus on Monday.

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• Music Teacher Performs with Orchestra
  News • 10/5/2013
  When 6th, 7th and 8th grade students settled into their seats at a Cleveland Orchestra performance on Wednesday, they had no idea that their music teacher, Ms. Laura Schupbach, would be appearing on stage.

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• Grant Baltes '13 Earns Starting Position
  News • 10/1/2013
  After being recruited to play soccer at Washington University in St. Louis, Grant Baltes '13 is having an impressive first season starting as a Midfielder.

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• Hawks Have Weekend of Wins
  News • 9/29/2013
  Over the weekend, girls tennis won the CVC championship; ;Hawken volleyball finished a 5-game winning streak with wins over Laurel and Newbury; and Hawken football won 60-8 over Newbury.

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• Graduate's Broadway Production Opens On Broadway
  News • 9/26/2013
  The Glass Menagerie , produced by Tony Award winner  John Hart '71 , is "jaw-dropingly brilliant," as reviewed in The Wall Street Journal .

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• Six Swimmers Named to USA Swimming's Scholastic All-America Team
  News • 9/20/2013
  Carrie Bencic '13, ; Marissa Cominelli '13, ; Maureen Rakovec '15, ; Henry Senkfor '14, ; Elijah Spiro '14 and ; Caroline Vexler '13 were recently named to ;USA Swimming's Scholastic All-America Team.

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• Graduate Named Athlete of the Week
  News • 9/18/2013
  Volleyball player Kennedy Clyde ; ’ 12 was named Athlete of the Week at Marietta College.

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• Eight Seniors Named Merit Semifinalists
  News • 9/12/2013
  Congratulations to ;Sid Ahuja, Aric Floyd, Sophie Kerman, Zachary Kirsch, Emma Link, Elijah Spiro, Sarah Stark, and Ben Wu for being named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

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• Graduate Heads Nationally Ranked Brewing Company
  News • 8/26/2013
  1976 graduate Wynne Odell is the CEO of Odell Brewing Company , which recently placed #11 in the Daily Meal's 25 Best Craft Breweries in America list.

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• O.J. McDuffie Makes Top 10 List
  News • 8/26/2013
  O.J. McDuffie '88 is No. 8 in the Plain Dealer's ranking of ;top 10 area high school football players from the past 50 years!

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• School Starts with Record Enrollment
  News • 8/23/2013
  Hawken is excited to welcome a record breaking 984 students for the 2013-2014 school year.

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• Recent Graduate Published in World Journal
  News • 8/20/2013
  An article by Sydney Costantini '13 was published in the July 2013 issue of the World Journal for Pediatric and Congential Heart Surgery .

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• 1931 Alum Reflects on WWII in PD Article
  News • 8/19/2013
  1931 Hawken graduate Jock Collens reflects on his experiences in World War II in an August 15 Plain Dealer feature article.

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• Sophomore Completes Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program
  News • 8/15/2013
  Rising 10th grader Phillip Hedayatnia didn't spend much time relaxing this summer. Instead, he was one of nine high school teams enrolled in a six-week program designed to ; mentor high school entrepreneurs.

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• Faculty Get Preview of New Lower School
  News • 8/15/2013
  Hawken faculty returned to school on Tuesday for opening of school meetings. A highlight of the day was a tour of the new Lower School renovation and expansion.

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• Alumni Sports Day Held
  News • 8/12/2013
  On Saturday, August 10, more than 60 alumni came out to join Hawken athletes get ready for their fall seasons with friendly scrimmages and practices in soccer, football, tennis, field hockey, cross country, and volleyball.

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• Beat the Heat at Sweetie Fry!
  News • 7/19/2013
  Stay cool by treating yourself to handcrafted ice cream served up by 1981 graduate Keith Logan.

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• Hawken Receives Award from A Better Chance
  News • 7/8/2013
  Hawken School was recognized with A Better Chance’s Access Award at a May member school breakfast at Case Western Reserve University.

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• Teacher Witnesses History in the Making
  News • 6/28/2013
  Upper School teacher Julie Agar traveled to Washington for a professional development trip and while there, was a witness to historic legislative decisions.

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• Global Online Academy Featured in Crain's
  News • 6/27/2013
  Hawken's membership in the Global Online Academy was featured in the June 3-9, 2013 issue of Crain's Cleveland Business.

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• College Guidance Visits Abu Dhabi
  News • 6/24/2013
  Hawken's Director of College Guidance  Andrea Hays  was one of 25 U.S. high school counselors invited by New York University Abu Dhabi to visit and learn about their school, community and selective admission process.

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• Students Reflect at Middle School Closing Exercises
  News • 6/4/2013
  Closing exercises for the Middle School was held on Friday, May 31, 2013 in Ingalls Gym.

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• Congratulations Class of 2013!
  News • 6/2/2013
  The Hawken community gathered to recognized the graduating class of 2013 today at the Gates Mills Campus.

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• Students Experience Real World Application of Chemistry in Intensive
  News • 5/29/2013
  On Friday, May 17, students in the Intensive chemistry class spent a day at Spunfab Ltd., a manufacturer of Nonwoven Adhesive Fabrics, located in Cuyahoga Falls.

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• Junior Wins Prize at Intel Science Competition in Arizona
  News • 5/28/2013
  Aric Floyd '14 won a 4th place award in Chemistry for his project at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair on May 17 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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• Middle School Knowledge Master Team Places 1st in Ohio
  News • 5/24/2013
  Hawken Middle School’s Knowledge Master Team has won the state of Ohio again!

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• Isabella Todaro Selected as Plain Dealer Senior Standout
  News • 5/19/2013
  Congratulations to Isabella Todaro for being named a Plain Dealer Senior Standout - one of 10 students selected for this distinguished award that honors academic achievement, leadership and community service.

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• Graduate Quoted in New York Times
  News • 5/17/2013
  Dr. Barron Lerner, a 1978 Hawken graduate and author of "The Breast Cancer Wars," is quoted in this New York Times article titled " Jolie’s Disclosure of Preventive Mastectomy Highlights Dilemma ."

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• Sean Decatur '86 Featured in Plain Dealer
  News • 5/8/2013
  Hawken graduate Sean Decatur and his appointment as president of Kenyon College are featured in a great article in The Plain Dealer.

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• Larry Fulton Wins Top Honors in State Oratory Contest
  News • 5/6/2013
  Congratulations to Larry Fulton '15 who earned first place at the State of Ohio Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commission Oratorical Contest held in Columbus.

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• Graduate Nominated for Tony Award
  News • 5/2/2013
  Brian Zeilinger '09 and his father are up for a Tony Award for producing "Lucky Guy," starring Tom Hanks. Read more on cleveland.com

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• Tournament Honors '72 Graduate
  News • 5/1/2013
  Hawken boys tennis hosted the first annual Richard S. Caraboolad '72 Memorial Tournament at the end of April. Michael Caraboolad ’78 was on hand to speak about his family’s inspiration to establish this tournament in memory of 1972 graduate Richard who passed away in 2011.

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• Senior Receives State Department Scholarship
  News • 6/24/2013
  Congratulations to  Sarah Jammal '13  who has received a scholarship for a year of study in China awarded by the National Security Language Initiative for Youth.

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• MOCA Event Thanks Leadership Supporters
  News • 4/29/2013
  On April 18th, Hawken recognized the leadership of the James A. Hawken Society – members of the Hawken Community who generously support the Annual Fund with gifts of $2,000 or more – with a special evening at the sparkling new Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland.

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• Eighth Grader Wins Global Citizen Scholarship
  News • 6/24/2013
  Al Shumyatcher '17 has won the 2013 Global Citizen Scholarship Award for his achievement on the National Spanish Examination. Congratulations, Al!

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• Hawken Senior Wins Scholarship
  News • 4/18/2013
  Annie Artz '13 is one of 10 area seniors to win a scholarship from FirstMerit Bank and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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• Hawken Featured in Education Journal
  News • 3/15/2013
  Hawken School is featured in the current issue of  Independent School Magazine , a leading publication about education trends published by the National Association of Independent Schools.   " Extending the Classroom: Transforming a School Through Experiential Education ," articulates ...

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• Wrestler Seth King '14 Places at State Tournament
  News • 3/7/2013
  Seth King ’14 participated in the Ohio High School Individual State Wrestling Championships held at the Schottenstein Center of Ohio State University last weekend. A huge event, he competed in front of 13,800 fans and placed ;7th, becoming the first Hawken wrestler to place at the tournament s ...

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• Graduate Grows Local Greenhouse
  News • 3/3/2013
  Alayne Reitman ‘82 has more than a green thumb. After years of work as board chair for the Green City Growers Cooperative (GCGC), her efforts have helped grow a ;hydroponic food production greenhouse. ;Located at 55th and Woodland, the worker owned cooperative business harvest their first crop ...

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• Junior Advances to State Wrestling Competition
  News • 2/27/2013
  Wrestler Seth King '14 qualified for the State Wrestling Tournament ;in the 152 pound weight class by placing 4 th ;at the Garfield Heights District. Seth's season record stands at 43-7. ;He is the first Hawken wrestler to achieve more than 40 wins in a season and only the fourth ;junior to qualify ...

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• Junior Wins National Essay Contest
  News • 2/26/2013
  Congratulations to Claudia Willen '14 for winning an essay contest sponsored by ;the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America . The contest, open to students in grades 10, 11, and 12, requires applicants to write a 500-word essay response to the following prompt: How does the Monroe Doctrin ...

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• Swimmers Sail through Districts to States
  News • 2/22/2013
  As we wish our girls and boys swim teams well at the State Championships, these Plain Dealer and Chagrin Valley Times articles highlight their impressive performances at the District championships. ;The Girls were crowned Division II Northeast District Champions and had 10 swimmers qualify for state ...

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• Green Team Conducts Energy Carnival
  News • 2/12/2013
  Last week, 6th and 8th grade members of the Middle School Green Team club ran an energy carnival for 5th grade students. The carnival consisted of a series of energy-related games and activities to educate children about the science of energy and energy conservation. Teams of 5th graders were introd ...

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• WATCH TODAY'S BASKETBALL GAME ONLINE, LIVE!
  News • 2/5/2013
  Visit ; hawken.edu/live ;at ; 7:30pm today ; to watch ;Boys Varsity Basketball vs. ;Richmond Heights Hawken's Upper School Honors Entrepreneurship Course is consulting for ; Boxcast , a startup company that provides video streaming solutions. ;To help market Boxcast's product, Hawken students are pr ...

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• 100th Win for Seth King!
  News • 1/17/2013
  Seth King '14 , Hawken's Junior 152 pound team Tri-Captain has earned his 100th career win. Seth’s current season record stands at 30-4. His overall career record is currently 100-25. Seth becomes only the second Hawken wrestler to have 100 victories, joining Jeff Walton from the class of 1999 ...

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• Two Students Selected for Leadership Program
  News • 12/6/2012
  Christopher Tatsuoka '14 and ;Ali Gole '14 have been ;selected to the Look Up To Cleveland Class of 2013. Look Up To Cleveland is a high school leadership development and diversity awareness program for outstanding high school leaders. The goal is to develop and enhance student leadership skills whi ...

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• Fall Intensives Underway
  News • 12/4/2012
  Upper School students are engaged in a wide variety of studies during this year's Fall Intensives.  Made possible by Hawken's unique schedule, Upper School students take one course all day long for three consecutive weeks. Their coursework counts for one full semester credit. The cost of the co ...

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• Swimmers Sign Letters of Intent
  News • 11/16/2012
  Three Hawken swimmers signed National Letters of Intent on Wednesday, November 14, 2012. Sarah Kouchecki '13 , headed to the University of North Carolina, ; Carrie Bencic '13 , ;a Vanderbilt recruit, and ; Kaitlyn Cerne '13, ;who will swim for The Ohio ;State University, were joined by Hawken Coach ...

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• Ms. Libbey Named Semi-Finalist for Facing History Award
  News • 11/5/2012
  Vote for her between now and Nov. 9 to be named a Finalist

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• Soccer Teams Play in Regional Finals
  News • 11/2/2012
  Both Hawken's boys and girls soccer teams have advanced to the Regional Finals. The boys team won their ;Regional Semfinal against Elyria Catholic HS, 2-0.They play West Salem Northwestern in the finals, at 12:00 noon at Ravenna High School. The girls soccer team won ;their Regional Semifinal agains ...

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• Hawken is "Getting a Ton of Things Right" says Education Researcher
  News • 10/16/2012
  Education expert Grant Lichtman recently visited Hawken's three campuses to conduct research for a project called "Innovation in Education: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century."    Lichtman comments in his education blog, The Learning Pond, "The main points I will touch on are the u ...

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• Hawken Coach Inducted into BW Hall of Fame
  News • 10/10/2012
  Bob Rodriguez, Head Varsity Wrestling Coach, Head Middle School Football Coach, and PE teacher, ;will be inducted into the Baldwin Wallace Alumni Athletic Association Hall of Fame on Saturday, October 13. Bob, who participated in football, wrestling and baseball at BW, joins his father, uncle and tw ...

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• History Teacher Receives Fellowship
  News • 9/21/2012
  Upper School history/humanities teacher Jim Newman ;was selected for a Barringer Fellowship through the Monticello and Thomas Jefferson Foundation. The Fellowship gave Newman the opportunity to conduct two weeks of independent research and study during the summer at Monticello, and the Jefferson Lib ...

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• Sunday Afternoon with Hawken Arts Faculty
  News • 9/4/2012
  Spend this Sunday at the Gries Center enjoying the talents of Hawken's fabulous Visual and Performing Arts faculty. ;The afternoon will ;include performances by Chad Komocki, Rick Tate, Sergio Castellanso, Gary Darrow, Mike Larochelle, Stacy Bolton, Liesl Langmack, Jodie Ricci, and Ahren Stock. ;Art ...

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• Summer Interns Work for the Arts
  News • 8/1/2012
  Sam Weil '13, Langston Burton '15, Emma Link '14 and Cache McClay '13 spent their summer working for Artworks of Young Audiences of Greater Cleveland. The Artworks program provides "opportunities for students to earn a wage, gain valuable workforce skills, prepare for higher education, and have fun ...

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• Cyclops Win Chronicle Cup!
  News • 5/31/2012
  The Chronicle Cup, presented to the Lower School Society, Vikings or Cyclops, which accrued the most points across the year in the field of athletics was presented at yesterday’s Final Assembly. This year’s competition was the closest in memory with the final decision coming down to the ...

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• Three Faculty Recognized
  News • 5/23/2012
  Kindergarten teacher Gail Holtz was recognized as a Woman of Professional Excellence at the 2012 YWCA Women of Achievement luncheon. Since 1977, the agency has held this luncheon to recognize the region's most noteworthy career women. Mrs. Holtz was recognized for embodying the mission of the YWCA o ...

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• Spring Intensives Underway
  News • 5/17/2012
  Hawken Upper School students are engaged in 3-week Intensive courses at Gates Mills, Hawken's Gries Center in University Circle, and beyond. Made possible by Hawken's innovative Upper School schedule, Intensive courses are included in the cost of tuition and allow students in-depth study of a single ...

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• Senior Presents Check to Cleveland Clinic; Featured in Plain Dealer
  News • 5/8/2012
  In January, Dani Berns '12 presented a check for $110,000 to the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute to support the work of immunologist Vincent Tuohy. Dani will also focus her senior project on raising money and awareness for Tuohy's research. Read more in this Plain Dealer article . If you' ...

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• Graduate Profiled in Plain Dealer
  News • 4/30/2012
  Congratulations to 1974 Hawken graduate Kay Shames who was profiled in the Sunday Plain Dealer about her work as director of the Center for Arts and Innovation at Cleveland State University. As noted in the interview, Kay graduated in Hawken's first class of girls in 1974. Founding director of the C ...

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• National Theater Group Explores Contemporary Issues Through Ancient Greek Texts
  News • 4/17/2012
  On Thursday, April 19, Hawken School’s Lyndhurst Chapel at 5000 Clubside Road will host the Aquila Theater presentation of Homecoming: The Return of the Warrior , part of a series that received the largest drama grant bestowed from the National Endowment for the Humanities ($800,000). Homecomi ...

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• Auction Raises Funds for Faculty Professional Development
  News • 3/16/2012
  The Hawken community gathered for a night of fun fundraising on Saturday, March 10. Under a canopy of college banners heralding the theme of March Madness, guests dressed in spirit wear engaged in friendly competition as they bid on silent and live auction items donated for the occasion. The biennia ...

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• MathCounts Produces State Competitor
  News • 3/2/2012
  After three months of practice, eighth graders Michael Gerace , Derrick Liu , Karen Yao , and Mathew Zhu , seventh grade team members Josef Horwath , Seysha Mehta , Nihaal Rahman , and Al Shumyatcher , as well as individual competitors Leo Liu and sixth grader Raina Liu earned the 10 available place ...

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• Art Club Embraces Peace Project
  News • 1/31/2012
  Mrs. Thomas' middle school art club has been passionate about creativity and also about a desire for world peace. They have followed the lead of the Create Peace Project , which is run by a former University School graduate, Ross Holzman. The project sends out blank postcards, asking kids around the ...

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• Hawken Parent to Sit With First Lady During State of Union
  News • 1/24/2012
  Hiroyuki Fujita, parent of Ryuji '14 and Ryuta '16, will be sitting in the first lady's box during this evening's State of the Union Address delivered by President Obama. Read more about this honor in today's Plain Dealer .

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• Senior Places at U.S. Figure Skating Championships
  News • 1/24/2012
  ...Jaffe '76 that provides funding for Parkinson's disease research. Jacob's brother Micah '14 and his partner Kimmie Berkovich placed fourth in Intermediate Ice Dance at the U.S. Junior Championships. Jacob and Michah are the sons of Beth Hellerstein '81. Read more on NewsNet5.com and icenetwork.co ...

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• Hawks Excels at Wrestling Tournament
  News • 12/15/2011
  The North Coast Classic Wrestling Tournament held December 9 and 10, 2011. Pictured is Seth King – 145 lb weight class. Seth, a Sophomore, placed 4th, the highest place ever for a Hawken wrestler at this tournament. The three places above him are the state champ from Solon and two out of state ...

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• Student Wins Second in State While Chess Team Finishes Strong
  News • 12/12/2011
  Seventh graders, Jonas Jacobson , Connor Keuchel , Leonard Liu , and Benjamin Weiss participated in the 2011 Ohio Grade Level Chess Championships held at the University of Akron on Saturday Dec. 10th. Ben, Connor, Jonas, and Leo were among 401 students from all corners of Ohio competing for grade-le ...

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• Four Prizes Awarded in Third Annual STEMM Research Symposium
  News • 11/19/2011
  Hawken flexed its academic muscle on Monday, November 14, as 17 students took part in the third annual Bob Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium presented their projects before nine distinguished judges. The event featured three student presentations, and a keynote address by Dr. Nikolai Sopko Ph.D., fo ...

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• Pep Rally Fires Up Student Body
  News • 10/13/2011
  All students, kindergarten through eighth grade, gathered in Ingalls Gymnasium for a spirited pep rally on Thursday October 13. Mr. Jim Doyle, the upper school athletic director, served as master of ceremonies for the event. He introduced captains of upper and middle school fall sports teams, led ch ...

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• Hawken Girls Soccer #1 in State
  News • 10/12/2011
  The Hawken Girls Soccer team earned a #1 ranking in the most recent D-III State Coaches Poll. The Hawken Boys team was also top ten at #9. Both Hawken teams, boys and girls, earned #1 seeds in the District Tournament. Come support our teams as they go for district titles! The girls play Berkshire on ...

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• Esteemed Journalist Speaks at Upper School
  News • 9/26/2011
  ...peak your mind even if your voice shakes." Last week Schultz resigned from the Plain Dealer stating, "it has become painfully clear that my independence, professionally and personally, is possible only if I'm no longer writing for the newspaper that covers my husband's senate race on a daily basi ...

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• One World Day at Cultural Garden Features Students
  News • 8/31/2011
  Seventh grader Molly Webster was a featured singer at the 64th annual One World Day celebration sponsored by the Cleveland Cultural Garden Federation on Sunday, August 28th. Proceeding a welcome by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and a Naturalization Ceremony for new U.S. citizens, Molly sang a beauti ...

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• Hawken Reaches Record Enrollment
  News • 8/25/2011
  The Hawken community has much to be proud of as the academic year begins, and there are more students than ever to share the school’s pride. A record number of 971 students are enrolled for the 2011-2012 school year, which represents an additional 30 students (a 3.2% increase) from last year. ...

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• Hawken Celebrates Opening of New Early Childhood Center
  News • 8/22/2011
  Hawken opened the doors on its stunning new early childhood center on Sunday, August 21, with a grand opening celebration that included a keynote address from renknowed education expert Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus, Harvard Medical School and founder of the Brazelton Touc ...

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• New Tennis Courts to Grace Gates Mills Campus
  News • 8/21/2011
  Construction on new tennis courts will begin on Monday, August 29, at the Gates Mills campus. For many years, Hawken School has boasted conference champions, state-ranked boys and girls tennis teams, and individual state qualifiers. Unfortunately, the Gates Mills campus does not have the quality ten ...

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• Coach Holtrey to be Inducted at Sports Hall of Fame
  News • 6/20/2011
  Congratulations to Hawken Swimming Coach Jerry Holtrey, who has been named one of only eight new inductees to the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame. As a 2011 inductee, he joins esteemed colleagues Dominique Moceanu, Olympian; Bob Golic, former Browns star; and Mike Hegan, Indians broadcaster an ...

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• Congratulations to the Class of 2011!
  News • 6/6/2011
  The 94 members of Hawken`s Class of 2011 received their diplomas at a commencement ceremony held on Sunday, June 5 in the gymnasium on the Gates Mills campus. Reflecting on their time at Hawken and anticipating their futures as Hawken alumni, seniors Rachelle Brenner and Kyle Hoffman offered Class A ...

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• Power of the Pen Team Impresses at State Competition
  News • 5/31/2011
  Hawken teachers, Mrs. Lynne Petkovic and Mrs. Laura Staufer, escorted eighth graders, Emily Staufer , Alison Jin and Valerie Heyd , to the Power of the Pen State competition at the College of Wooster on Friday May 27. Over seven hundred 7th and 8th graders competed in three rounds of writing. Alison ...

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• Girls Track Wins District Championship
  News • 5/23/2011
  The Girls Track and Field team took first place at the District Meet last Friday at Independence HS. This is the second consecutive year the girls have won the District Championship. Go Hawks! The girls won the 4x400m relay (Emily Heyd ’13, Ally Markovich ’13, Kerrin Sunshine ’11, ...

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• Two Hawks to Represent US at Maccabi Games
  News • 5/6/2011
  This July Caroline Vexler '13 and Henry Senkfor '14 will be representing the United States at the European Maccabi Games held in Vienna, Austria. The Maccabi Games are the biggest Jewish sporting event and are organized in a similar way to the Olympic Games. The Games are one of the five biggest int ...

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• Students in Homelessness Class Present at Psychiatry Conference
  News • 3/29/2011
  On Friday March 25, seniors Matt Burns, Saeed Jackson and Josh Bass (in absentia) presented the results of their research project about homeless veterans at a local conference, The All Ohio Institute on Community Psychiatry, sponsored by the Medical School at CWRU. Their presentation, “Percept ...

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• Hawken Places First in CVC Academic Tournament
  News • 3/9/2011
  Hawken students took first place at both the varsity and junior varsity levels in the 2nd Annual Chagrin Valley Conference Academic Tournament held at Hawken on Saturday, March 5th. The varsity team was undefeated; its matches included a 1 point win over 2nd place Beachwood. They also qualified for ...

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• CDC Leaders Meet with Students at Gries Center
  News • 2/24/2011
  Students in Sara Mierke's Community Development and Urban Renewal class gathered at the Gries Center yesterday to learn from three of the top Community Development Corporation (CDC) leaders in Cleveland: John Anoleifo, Executive Director of Famicos Foundation; Vickie Eaton Johnson, Executive Directo ...

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• Lyndhurst Lunches Rank High on Nutrition
  News • 2/21/2011
  Since Lyndhurst began its work with the Cleveland Clinic several years ago, Hawken has made great strides in its school lunch program, exceeding the national nutritional guidelines recently passed for schools. In addition to having already surpassed the requirements for calories, fat, saturated fat, ...

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• Girls Swim Team Dominates Sectionals
  News • 2/17/2011
  The girls swim team won the Division II sectional meet held on Saturday at Holtrey Natatorium, scoring a total of 561 points and winning all three relay events and five of eight individual events. Morgan Cohara '12 finished first in the 200 yard freestyle and second in the 100 freestyle; Sarah Kouch ...

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• Middle and Upper School Students Learn Lessons in Tolerance
  News • 2/16/2011
  Marc Elliot, a national inspirational speaker on the subject of tolerance, recently visited both the Lyndhurst and Gates Mills campuses to visit with students in grades 7-12. His presentation, during which he shares his life story which includes struggles with a rare disease and a neurological disor ...

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• Middle School Students Wield Pens at District Competition
  News • 2/15/2011
  The seventh and eighth grade Middle School Power of the Pen teams demonstrated their expert wordsmanship in the district competition held at Hathaway Brown this past weekend, with 11 writing pieces ranking first in their writing rooms; a 5th place ranking for eighth grader Maddie Hengst; a 1st place ...

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• Latin Students Place 3rd in City-wide Competition
  News • 1/31/2011
  On Sunday, January 30th eighth Grade Latin students Mara Cohen, Aman Nair, Adam Stilson, Daniel Weiss, and Jack Weisman participated in a Cleveland city-wide, multi-school Latin “certamen,” a competition which tests students' knowledge of Latin, Roman history, mythology, and other relate ...

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• Lower School Students Embrace Winter
  News • 1/24/2011
  Lower School physical education teacher Sandy Kahn has discovered a recipe for conquering the winter blues: combine snow with chilly temperatures and add a sled, some snowshoes, or a pair of skis! Winter physical education classes inspire students to develop a fit and healthy lifestyle throughout th ...

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• Middle School Concludes Second Annual Insights Week
  News • 1/17/2011
  The first week of January marked the second annual Insights Week for middle school students and teachers. Each middle school student was immersed in a five-day interdisciplinary course composed of students from mixed grade levels. The courses, which have grown out of the academic passions of the mid ...

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• Passion for Ancient Coins Enthralls Students
  News • 12/9/2010
  At the beginning of December, middle school Latin teacher Mrs. Liz Crowe invited an expert to speak to her class about coins of the ancient Greek and Roman world. Mr. Andrew Caldarone, a robotics engineer for Parker Hannifin, did not disappoint as he enthralled students with a fact-filled, illustrat ...

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• Hawken Seniors Take First Place in State Chess Tournament
  News • 12/8/2010
  Congratulations to seniors Travis Fried, Roman Kowalysko, Stephen Hopkins, and Ryan Stefancik, who won the State Grade Championship in at the chess tournament held on November 20th at the Bertram Inn in Aurora. Team leader Roman Kowalysko also received the fourth place individual honors. This is a p ...

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• Students Immersed in River Study
  News • 11/22/2010
  Each 8th grade student spent a day at the end of September with math teacher, Mr. Aaron Brandt, and science teacher, Mr. Peter Thomas, at one of our local rivers. The group immersed themselves in math and science research as they examined the river’s physical, chemical and biological health. O ...

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• Alumni Association Presents Entrepreneurial Panel
  News • 11/22/2010
  On Monday, November 15, the Hawken Alumni Association hosted an assembly featuring three panelists who shared with students their experiences in entrepreneurism. Panelists included Sam Gerace, Hawken parent and founder and CEO of Veritix, a digital ticketing, event marketing, and relationship manage ...

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• Gries Center Hosts Philanthropy Consortium
  News • 11/22/2010
  Earlier this month, Director of Community Partnerships and Service Learning Sara Mierke '84, along with Yolanda Polk, Scott Looney, and Monique DeVane, hosted members of the Philanthropy Education and Service Learning Consortium and the CCIS Service Learning/Civic Engagement Affinity Group at Hawken ...

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• 8th Grade Visits Water Treatment Plant
  News • 11/22/2010
  Eighth grade students have been studying watersheds and water treatment in science. To see the process of waste-water treatment in action firsthand, science teacher Mr. Peter Thomas arranged a visit to the Southerly Treatment Plant in Cuyahoga Heights at the end of October. Students donned hard hats ...

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• Service Group Reunites to Work at Urban Farm
  News • 11/18/2010
  Middle and high school students who participated in last June’s service learning trip to the Heifer Ranch in Arkansas joined their leader, seventh grade science teacher Mr. Matthew Young, to spend time at the newly established Ohio City Farm for a day of service. They also enjoyed catching up ...

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• Senior Earns Perfect Score on SAT
  News • 10/29/2010
  Hawken School senior Margret Erlendsdottir scored a perfect 2400 on her October SAT test: 800 on each of the math, verbal, and writing sections. Less than 0.02 percent of high school seniors who took the exam last year achieved a perfect score – that is, just 297 students out of 1.5 million. D ...

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• Hawks to Regional Championship; Markovich Wins District Title
  News • 10/26/2010
  Ally Markovich '13 won the district cross country title at Edgewater Park on Saturday with a time of 19:19, leading the Hawken girls cross country team to a third place finish and a regional championship meet birth. The Hawks scoring was completed by Mackenzie Harris '12 in 16th place, Jenny Satterf ...

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• Peter Scott Reads at Hiram College
  News • 10/26/2010
  English teacher Peter Scott was a featured author in Hiram College's "Big Read" program last week. At the Garfield Meeting House on Hiram's campus, students and faculty gathered to listen to Peter read selections from his first book, Lost Crusade: America's Secret Cambodian Mercenaries , a non-ficti ...

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• Hawken AP Students Earn Scholar Recognition
  News • 10/20/2010
  Sixty-seven Hawken students earned 2010 Advanced Placement Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on AP exams.

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• 11th Grade American Studies Students Head to Gries Center
  News • 10/6/2010
  Last Friday, October 1, the 11th grade American Studies class paid a visit to University Circle, using the Gries Center as a springboard for their visit.

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• Two Juniors Named to Scholastic All-American Team
  News • 10/14/2010
  Hawken juniors Elizabeth Aronoff and Morgan Cohara were recently named to the Scholastic All-American Team of USA Swimming, the national governing body for the sport.  The team is comprised of high school athletes from across the country; to qualify for the honor, students must have a ...

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• Electric Junkyard Gamelan Enthralls Upper School Students
  News • 9/30/2010
  The upper school student body was recently treated to a performance by Terry Dame's Electric Junkyard Gamelan, an eclectic group of classically trained musicians who perform original compositions that fuse Indonesian traditional with contemporary elements including salsa and hip hop. With a motto of ...

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• Middle School Students Featured at Cultural Garden's One World Day
  News • 9/21/2010
  Seventh grader Sarah Parker was a featured singer at the 63rd annual One World Day celebration sponsored by the Cleveland Cultural Garden Federation on Sunday, September 19th. Proceeding short addresses by Congressman Denis Kucinich and local City Councilman Jeff Johnson, Sarah sang a beautiful rend ...

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• Three Hawks Finish First in Cleveland Triathlon Relay
  News • 8/10/2010
  Rising freshmen Aric Floyd, Mark Gori, and Henry Senkfor competed in the sprint group of the Cleveland Triathlon on Sunday, finishing first with a winning time of 1:18:14 and beating out all other relay competitors, including the men’s and women’s teams. Showing their school pride by nam ...

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• Three Hawks Finish First in Cleveland Triathlon Relay
  News • 8/10/2010
  Rising freshmen Aric Floyd, Mark Gori, and Henry Senkfor competed in the sprint group of the Cleveland Triathlon on Sunday, finishing first with a winning time of 1:18:14 and beating out all other relay competitors, including the men`s and women`s teams. Showing their school pride by naming their re ...

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• Jack Weisman Wins on Kids Jeopardy!
  News • 7/13/2010
  Although he has known for months, it`s finally official... Jack Weisman `15 was the winner! Though he faced some tough competition in the game, which aired last Friday night, he was the leader at the end of every round. As the winner, Jack left the set of Jeopardy with $15,000 and a family vacation ...

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• Congratulations to the Class of 2010
  News • 6/8/2010
  The 118 members of Hawken`s Class of 2010 received their diplomas at a commencement ceremony held on Sunday, June 6 on the lawn of the Gates Mills campus. Reflecting on their time at Hawken and anticipating their futures as Hawken alumni, seniors Valentina Muraleedharan and Kent Green offered Class ...

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• GCCTM Championship Math Awards for Sixth Grade Competitors
  News • 6/8/2010
  In May, twelve sixth grade students competed in teams of four in the Annual Greater Cleveland Council of Teachers of Mathematics Contest at the Mayfield High School contest site. There were eight contest locations to accommodate hundreds of students in the greater Cleveland area. They had earned the ...

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• Ohio Energy Project Artwork Best in State
  News • 5/24/2010
  On May 13, seven members of the middle school energy team traveled to the Fawcett Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Under the leadership of science teacher Mr. Peter Thomas, the team attended the annual Ohio Energy Project awards banquet in recognition of their efforts on energy-rel ...

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• Power of the Pen Climax: Third in the State
  News • 5/24/2010
  Congratulations to coach Laura Staufer and our five state qualifiers for Power of the Pen: Alison Jin, Valerie Heyd, Anna Du, Sophie Kerman, and Elijah Spiro. The Hawken team earned third place in the state of Ohio this past weekend. In addition, Alison Jin won two \"Best of the Best\" personal writ ...

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• First Graders Host Urban Pen Pals
  News • 5/19/2010
  As part of their study of different communities, Judy Rubertino's first grade students have been participating in a pen pal program with the Urban Community School in Cleveland. Mrs. Rubertino believes that the program not only provides students with an authentic writing experience, but that it stre ...

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• First Graders Host Urban Pen Pals
  News • 5/19/2010
  As part of their study of different communities, Judy Rubertino`s first grade students have been participating in a pen pal program with the Urban Community School in Cleveland. Mrs. Rubertino believes that the program not only provides students with an authentic writing experience, but that it stre ...

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• Old Guard Remembers Carl N. Holmes
  News • 5/15/2010
  Members of Carl N. Holmes` family, including his daughter Jean Holmes Babson, gathered at the Lyndhurst campus during Alumni Reunion Weekend to remember Mr. Holmes, who was head of school from 1932 to 1955. Old Guard Alumni dined in the Brown Gym, took a tour of the new Middle School, and then atten ...

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• MS Students Excel on National Mythology Exam
  News • 5/6/2010
  All Hawken middle school Latin students - and one student of Chinese - took the National Mythology Exam this spring, and 41% of these students earned awards. The format of the exam is multiple choice, with a thirty-question section on Greek and Roman mythology, ten questions from a themed subsection ...

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• Upper School Students Share Culture with First Graders
  News • 5/5/2010
  On Wednesday, April 28th, Jodie Gill`s French 4/5 and Jane Botella`s Spanish 3 travelled to the Lower School to work with Judy Rubertino`s and Liane Beiers`s 1st grade classes who are studying \"Our Neighbors to the North and South\"-a social studies unit on Mexico and Canada. The upper schoolers ga ...

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• EC Teachers Present at State Conference
  News • 5/4/2010
  Jackie Woodie, Emily Gielink, and Kathy Fehrenbach presented a workshop entitled “More Than Just a Story” at the 2010 Ohio Early Care and Education Conference last Friday – one so popular that a second session was scheduled to accommodate all interested educators from across the st ...

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• Arthur Erlendsson `13 Places 2nd in Statewide Piano Competition
  News • 5/4/2010
  Arthur Erlendsson `13 performed in the final round of Piano Ohio at Cleveland State University`s Drinko Hall this past Saturday. Delighting the audience with pieces by Beethoven, Liszt, and Debussy, Arthur was one of six finalists in the competition, having been selected for the final round after ju ...

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• Fisher House Charity Lacrosse Showcase a Success
  News • 5/3/2010
  The Fisher House Charity Lacrosse Showcase, sponsored by Burning River Lacrosse Club and hosted by Hawken School on Saturday, April 24th, was a phenomenal success, raising over $36,000. Fisher House helps wounded or ill service men and women by enabling their families to be nearby during hospitaliza ...

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• Hawken Junior Featured in PD for Teenage Feminist Blog
  News • 5/3/2010
  Kudos to Julie Zeilinger ’11, who was featured in the Arts section of Sunday’s Plain Dealer for her teenage blog site thefbomb.org (a bit edgy – and clever too; the“f” is for feminist.) It’s been a year since Julie launched the site, which has gone global with mor ...

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• Civil War Students Meet Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
  News • 4/16/2010
  Members of Jim Newman`s Civil War senior elective had the opportunity to meet Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz Monday evening April 12 at the Hudson Library. Horwitz, who is researching a new book on John Brown, discussed with students topics from his book Confederates in th ...

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• Blood Drive Draws Record Turnout
  News • 3/22/2010
  Blood Drive Draws Record Turnout On Tuesday, March 16, Hawken`s annual Red Cross Blood Drive drew such a crowd of willing donors that some had to be turned away. Of the 82 donors, 48 were first-timers, and the 58 viable pints collected will touch the lives of 174 people. Parents, students, and facul ...

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• Mathcounts Team Clinches Second at State Competition
  News • 3/15/2010
  On Saturday March 13th at Columbus State College, four eighth grade Hawken students tested their mathematics skills by taking on three rounds of fast-paced problem-solving in the state Mathcounts competition. Shang-Shang Chen, Aric Floyd, Elliot Glazer, and Sarah Stark outranked all but one of the 4 ...

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• 5 Physics Standouts Make U.S. Physics Team Semifinals
  News • 2/28/2010
  Congratulations to Ani Dasarathy +óGé¼-£12, Omar Diab `10, David Gerson `10, John Weiss +óGé¼-£10, and Alex Zempolich +óGé¼-£10 for making it to the semi-final round in the U.S. Physics Team competition. These students placed among the top 150 physics students in the nation out of the more than 3,00 ...

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• Don`t Miss HPS Production of Footloose
  News • 2/27/2010
  The Hawken Players Society`s winter musical \"Footloose\" runs February 19, 20, 26 and 27 at 7:30 p.m. and February 28 at 2:00 p.m. Principal roles are played by Myles Simmons `10, Erin Sheplavy `10, Andrew Johnson `10, Ali Foti `10, Charlie Marks `10, Erika Pronty `12, Sam Mintzer `10, Jessica Wein ...

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• Fifth Graders Re-enact Trial of Martin Luther
  News • 2/25/2010
  To what extent does greed for money and power as well as personal grudges influence one`s position on political and religious issues? And what exactly is heresy? Fifth grade students grappled with such questions through a re-enactment of the trial of Martin Luther to decide whether or not the allege ...

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• Swimmers Advance to States; Girls Dominate District
  News • 2/23/2010
  Congratulations to the girls swim team for winning the District Championship last weekend – and also to the following swimmers from the boys and girls swim teams are advancing to States: David Aronoff (medley relay, 200 individual medley), Jon Borden (medley relay, 400 free relay), Ryan Stefan ...

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• Speech and Debate Team Awarded at Districts
  News • 2/23/2010
  Five upper school students who participated in the NFL North Coast District Tournament at Orange High School February 19-20 qualified for the National Speech and Debate Tournament to be held in Kansas City in June: Mike Gwin and Ozan Cubukcu in Public Forum; Michael Eby and Paul Macklis in Policy De ...

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• Swimmers Advance to States; Girls Dominate District
  News • 2/23/2010
  Congratulations to the girls swim team for winning the District Championship last weekend - and also to the following swimmers from the boys and girls swim teams are advancing to States: David Aronoff (medley relay, 200 individual medley), Jon Borden (medley relay, 400 free relay), Ryan Stefancik (m ...

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• Hawks Wrestle Their Way to Districts
  News • 2/23/2010
  The Hawken Wrestling team experienced great success at the Sectional Wrestling Tournament held at Beachwood High School. For the first time in Hawken history, we had three Sectional Champions in the same year: senior Eric Meisel (135 lb. bracket), sophomore Andrew Thomas (285 lb. bracket) and junior ...

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• Senior Signs with Wheeling Jesuit
  News • 2/16/2010
  Senior Erin Sheplavy recently signed a national letter of intent to continue her soccer and academic careers at Wheeling Jesuit University. Erin looks forward to working with the Cardinals` head coach, Carrie Hanna. Erin made great contributions to the Hawken girls soccer team during her three years ...

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• Senior Named District Champion at Speech and Debate Tournament
  News • 2/10/2010
  On February 5th and 6th, Hawken`s Speech and Debate Team competed in the 2010 Cleveland District Tournament Invitation at Vermillion High School. Not only did many Hawken students advance to the State Tournament on March 5th and 6th, but Hawken also took 4th place overall, with Maya Shumyachter winn ...

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• 7th and 8th Grade Writing Teams Take First Place
  News • 2/8/2010
  The Hawken Middle School Writing Team outperformed their peers at the district Power of the Pen competition held at Hathaway Brown on Saturday, February 6th. More than 200 writers from 18 schools competed in three consecutive 40-minute rounds. Coached by Laura Staufer, Hawken`s 7th and 8th grade tea ...

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• Friday is Winter HawkFest!
  News • 2/1/2010
  The 2nd Annual Winter HawkFest is this Friday, February 5. Featuring Hawken girls and boys basketball and swimming competitions along with kids` games, activities, shooting contests, and great food, this evening is sure to have something for students, parents, and alumni of all ages. Events start at ...

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• Biology Students Weigh in with Powers That Be
  News • 1/29/2010
  ... cons of farmed vs wild-caught fish. Students read newspaper articles and researched the topic in order to develop an informed opinion about the problem. They then wrote letters proposing a solution supported by research and sent them to environmental organizations, the media, and politicians. Cl ...

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• Don't Miss HPS Production of Footloose
  News • 1/21/2010
  Mark your calendars for this year's winter musical Footloose , scheduled for February 19, 20, 26 and 27 at 7:30 p.m. and February 28 at 2:00 p.m.

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• BE COUNTED!
  News • 12/30/2009
  Everyone involved with Hawken School is asked to make a gift to the Annual Fund each year. Parents, alumni, former parents, grandparents and friends all contribute to the Annual Fund because they care about our School. Participation sends a vital message to the community: the people who are the clos ...

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• Hawken Math Student No. 1 in Ohio
  News • 12/28/2009
  In late November, a well-trained and motivated group of Hawken middle school students took part in the national AMC-8 mathematics competition. Results were just announced and Mrs. Pam Richmann is thrilled to report that an eighth grader, Elliot Glazer, received the highest score in the state of Ohio ...

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• 10 Hawken Students Win eXpressions Awards
  News • 12/22/2009
  Students from Cris Harris’ Creative Non-Fiction class and Heather Nelson’s AP Spanish Language classes participated in the 2009-2010 Cleveland Clinic eXpressions Language Program. The program received more than 700 submissions for both Art and Language, and judges awarded five levels of ...

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• 10 Hawken Students Win eXpressions Awards
  News • 12/22/2009
  Students from Cris Harris` Creative Non-Fiction class and Heather Nelson`s AP Spanish Language classes participated in the 2009-2010 Cleveland Clinic eXpressions Language Program. The program received more than 700 submissions for both Art and Language, and judges awarded five levels of special reco ...

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• Community Celebrates Hawken at Alumni Luncheon
  News • 12/22/2009
  Hawken graduates, teachers and family members gathered on December 19 for the 83rd Annual Alumni Winter Luncheon. The afternoon of dining and bestowing honors began with an opportunity to socialize in the AC Lobby amidst a backdrop of student art. Following greetings from Head of School Scott Looney ...

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• Middle School Robotics Team wins Creativity Prize
  News • 12/16/2009
  Hawken`s Middle School Robotics team brought home an impressive trophy for "Presentation Creativity" from the First Lego League regional competition held on December 12 at Hathaway Brown. Challenged to design an innovative solution to a transportation problem facing their local community, the team c ...

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• Hawken Upper School Observes World AIDS Day
  News • 12/7/2009
  Valentina Muraleedharan and Sally Madiba, exchange students from the Maru-a-Pula school in Botswana, helped the Hawken community commemorate World Aids Day by asking the community to wear red to show solidarity and to raise the awareness of the devastating effects of this virus on individuals, commu ...

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• Hardy Hawks Row through Snow at Head of the Charles
  News • 12/1/2009
  Several Hawks recently traveled to Boston to participate in the Head of the Charles regatta held on October 17-18. Sara Mierke ‘84 rowed for the Western Reserve Rowing Association Senior Master Eights Women, finishing with the 11 th best time and earning an invitation to return next year. Gavi ...

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• Swimmers Give Time and Talent This Season
  News • 12/1/2009
  The Hawken Swim Team kicked off its 2009 season in November by giving the gift of its time and talent. Eighteen Hawks and Head Coach Jerry Holtrey volunteered at the Special Olympics Ohio State Qualifying Meet in Wooster to provide for others the same athletic opportunities they enjoy. Organized by ...

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• Hardy Hawks Row through Snow at Head of the Charles
  News • 12/1/2009
  Several Hawks recently traveled to Boston to participate in the Head of the Charles regatta held on October 17-18. Sara Mierke +óGé¼-£84 rowed for the Western Reserve Rowing Association Senior Master Eights Women, finishing with the 11th best time and earning an invitation to return next year. Gavin ...

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• Senior Attends ARNOVA International Conference
  News • 11/30/2009
  Emily Weatherhead `10 set-up her Spot the A Checkerspot display at the ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action) Conference held in Cleveland on Saturday, November 21. The conference brings together researchers, scholars, and practitioners from around the worl ...

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• Seniors Rank High in National Debate Tournament
  News • 11/23/2009
  Ozan Cubukcu +óGé¼-£10 and Mike Gwin `10 traveled to Chicago this weekend to participate in the Glenbrooks Debate Tournament, the largest high school debate tournament in the nation. Among teams from across the nation that were represented at the tournament, Ozan and Mike were 6-0 and first seed in ...

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• Hawken Sophomore Headed to US Figure Skating Championships
  News • 11/23/2009
  Jacob Jaffe `12 and his partner Greta Riebe (Laurel `11)recently qualified for the US Figure Skating Junior National Championships in Intermediate Dance. The Championships will be held December 15 - 19 in Strongsville, Ohio. Jacob and Greta placed 3rd in the Intermediate Dance at the Midwestern Sect ...

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• 37 Hawken Students Participate in United Nations Conference
  News • 11/17/2009
  On Wednesday, November 11 and Thursday, November 12, 37 Hawken Students attended the 66th Annual Cleveland Council on World Affairs Model United Nations Conference. Student Delegates to the conference represented seven different countries (Iceland, United Kingdom, Finland, Austria, Kosovo, Kenya, & ...

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• 37 Hawken Students Participate in United Nations Conference
  News • 11/17/2009
  On Wednesday, November 11 and Thursday, November 12, 37 Hawken Students attended the 66th Annual Cleveland Council on World Affairs Model United Nations Conference. Student Delegates to the conference represented seven different countries (Iceland, United Kingdom, Finland, Austria, Kosovo, Kenya, & ...

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• Hawken Writing Center Sponsors Visit From Author Thrity Umrigar
  News • 11/13/2009
  Upper School students were treated to an assembly this morning featuring writer Thrity Umrigar, who spoke about her writing, read from her newly published book The Weight of Heaven, and answered students’ questions about her work as a novelist. Ms. Umrigar also met with Steve Weiskopf’s ...

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• Hawken Writing Center Sponsors Visit From Author Thrity Umrigar
  News • 11/13/2009
  Upper School students were treated to an assembly this morning featuring writer Thrity Umrigar, who spoke about her writing, read from her newly published book The Weight of Heaven, and answered students` questions about her work as a novelist. Ms. Umrigar also met with Steve Weiskopf`s AP students, ...

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• Upper School French Students Visit with Native Speaking Author
  News • 11/13/2009
  Jodie Gill`s French 4 Honors and French 4 and 5 classes were among a small group of students invited to Case Western University by Prof. Cheryl Tomam, Associate Professor of French, for a program given by award winning author L+â-¬onora Miano, who spoke to the students in French about her work, her ...

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• Cross Country Runners Shine in State Race
  News • 11/9/2009
  Having placed 11th and 12th respectively at the OHSAA Regional Meet at Boardman High School on Saturday, October 31st, sophomore Mackenzie Harris and freshman Ally Markovich earned the right to compete in the State Championship Race on Saturday, November 7th at Scioto Downs in Columbus. Out of 150 r ...

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• Two Hawken Runners Advance to States
  News • 11/6/2009
  Sophomore Mackenzie Harris and freshman Ally Markovich placed 11th and 12th respectively at the OHSAA Regional Meet at Boardman High School on Saturday, October 31st. Both Mackenzie and Ally have earned the right to compete in the State Championship Race this Saturday, November 7th at Scioto Downs i ...

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• Football Team Makes Playoffs
  News • 11/2/2009
  Congratulations to the football team for their 35-0 win against Beachwood on Friday – a win that qualified them for the state playoffs to be held this coming Friday. The team’s 8-2 record earned them 5 th seed; they are scheduled to play 4th seed Independence in what the Plain Dealer cal ...

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• Hawken Students Featured at CWHS Exhibit
  News • 10/29/2009
  Dani Berns '12 , Julie Zeilinger '11 , Josh Berns '10 , Aaron Kohn '09 , and Jenny Feuer '07 are featured "Upstanders" in the current exhibit at the Western Reserve Historical Society entitled "Choosing to Participate: Facing History and Ourselves." In addition, art work by Conrad Young '15 , Erica ...

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• Hawken Students Featured at WRHS Exhibit
  News • 10/29/2009
  Dani Berns `12, Julie Zeilinger `11, Josh Berns `10, Aaron Kohn `09, and Jenny Feuer `07 are featured \"Upstanders\" in the current exhibit at the Western Reserve Historical Society entitled \"Choosing to Participate: Facing History and Ourselves.\" In addition, art work by Conrad Young `15, Erica F ...

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• Longtime Friend Passes
  News • 10/20/2009
  Former Upper School English teacher James A. Snavely passed away earlier this month at the age of 75. For 34 years, his presence, knowledge, and collegiality graced the Upper School. Mr. Snavely was a master teacher and served as a department head, girls' tennis coach, and director of the stage band ...

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• Longtime Friend Passes
  News • 10/20/2009
  Former Upper School English teacher James A. Snavely passed away earlier this month at the age of 75. For 34 years, his presence, knowledge, and collegiality graced the Upper School. Mr. Snavely was a master teacher and served as a department head, girls` tennis coach, and director of the stage band ...

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• Fall "Explore" Sessions to Begin Soon
  News • 10/1/2009
  Hawken School`s Early Childhood Library is once again offering a free four-week library/activity program called "Explore." The program, which welcomes 2-3 year olds with an adult, provides a half-hour literacy experience and is aimed at introducing young children to libraries, books, and activities ...

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• Hawken Tops Area Independents in National Merit Semifinalists
  News • 9/16/2009
  For the second consecutive year, Hawken has surpassed all other Cleveland area independent schools in the number of students qualifying as National Merit Scholarship Semi-finalists. Congratulations go to seniors David Aronoff, Nate Baker, Timothy Callahan, Ozan Cubukcu, Dylan Ford, Alisa Foti, David ...

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• Hawken Alum Takes a Stand in Today`s New York Times
  News • 9/4/2009
  An article titled "Can the U.S. Lead Afghans?" by Mark Moyar `89 was published in the Op Ed section of today`s edition of The New York Times . After graduating from Hawken, Mark attended Harvard, where he graduated summa cum laude before going on to Cambridge University, where he earned his PhD in h ...

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• Seventh Grade Student Medals in Piano Competitions
  News • 9/2/2009
  Alison Jin attended the 53rd annual World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 3 of this year -- playing so magnificently that she was presented with a gold medal in the seventh-level Young Artist division. In addition, she received the young artist award for being the highest-marked region ...

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• Hawken Senior Aces the ACT
  News • 8/31/2009
  Ozan Cubukcu will no doubt be submitting his ACT scores for review in his college applications, even should he apply to any of the increasing number of colleges and universities who have moved towards a "test optional" policy. After all, Ozan is one of only 268 students in the entire U.S. and abroad ...

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• Early Childhood Training Workshops a Success
  News • 8/13/2009
  Hawken School`s Early Childhood Training Institute hosted a series of summer workshops dedicated to \"The Art of Teaching Young Minds\" on August 10-13 at Hawken`s Lyndhurst campus. Gaye Gronlund, an early childhood education expert; Juanita Copley, an early childhood mathematics expert; Sallee Bene ...

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• Hawken Upper School Co-ed Cross-Country Team Needs Runners
  News • 7/21/2009
  The Hawken Co-ed Cross-Country Team is looking for more runners, especially for the Girls team. The teams are competitive and have plenty of fun; come join in. If you are new to the school, athletic and interested in running the 5K or 3.1 mile races for Hawken, please call Head Coach Jim Farroni (44 ...

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• MS Team Ranks 3rd in Nation at National Academic Challenge
  News • 7/2/2009
  After winning at the state level in Knowledge Master, the Middle School Academic Challenge Team recently participated in the Junior National Academic League Challenge Tournament. Under the supervision of coach and teacher Pat Jewell, 15 students traveled to Washington, D.C. to compete against the be ...

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• Hawken Welcomes Summer at Parade the Circle
  News • 6/17/2009
  On Saturday, June 13, members of the Hawken community gathered under clear blue skies at the Cleveland Museum of Art to celebrate the start of summer. This year`s Parade the Circle with its theme of "Chiaroscuro Beguiling the Penumbra" drew a crowd of more than 70,000 people. Hawken, one of the larg ...

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• 5th Graders Design Floor Plan for Mather House Classroom
  News • 6/10/2009
  Fifth graders engaged in real-world, hands-on learning this spring when they were charged with creating a classroom floor plan for the Mather House, Hawken`s University Circle extension campus. The project, initiated by math enrichment instructor Molly Kling, included elements of both math and langu ...

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• Class of 2009 Honored at Commencement
  News • 6/9/2009
  The 105 members of Hawken`s Class of 2009 received their diplomas at the commencement ceremony held on Sunday, June 7 on the lawn of the Gates Mills campus. Representing their classmates, valedictorian Samuel Milner and seniors Cassandra Bucceri and Brian Huser reflected on their time at Hawken and ...

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• Hawken Environmentalists Named Runners Up for EPA Award
  News • 5/21/2009
  Five Hawken students – Charlie Primbas, Greg Pasiadis, John Wilson, Zachary Lawrence, and Brian Vogt - have been recognized for their environmental community service work by being named runners up for the US EPA Presidential Environmental Youth Award, Region 5. These students have formed a group cal ...

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• Fifth Graders Shine in GCCTM Math Competition
  News • 5/21/2009
  This year, 26 fifth grade students practiced after school twice a week for about 6 weeks to prepare for the Greater Cleveland Council Teachers of Mathematics Competition. On May 16, Hawken was represented by 12 of these students who competed in four events including problem solving, construction (a ...

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• Hawken Junior Receives Two Service Awards for Butterfly Project
  News • 5/21/2009
  Congratulations to junior Emily Weatherhead for receiving both the 2009 Gold Service Award from Teens for Planet Earth and the 2009 Outstanding Youth Service Award from the Youth Philanthropy and Service Youth Committee of the Mandel Center at CWRU. Emily`s project, funded in part by a grant she rec ...

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• Hawken Environmentalists Runners Up for EPA Award
  News • 5/20/2009
  Five Hawken students - Charlie Primbas, Greg Pasiadis, John Wilson, Zachary Lawrence, and Brian Vogt - have been recognized for their environmental community service work by being named runners up for the US EPA Presidential Environmental Youth Award, Region 5. These students have formed a group cal ...

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• Hawken Academic Team Places 3rd in State
  News • 5/13/2009
  On Saturday May 2nd the Hawken Academic Team, Northeast Regional Champions, joined twelve schools from six regions around the state at Columbus State Community College for the Ohio Academic Competitions State Championships. After a very close, four-point loss to Fisher Catholic (Lancaster) in the op ...

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• Seventh and Eighth Grade Students Medal in Math
  News • 5/4/2009
  On Saturday, May 2, twelve seventh and eighth grade students went to Mayfield High School to participate in the annual Greater Cleveland Council of Teachers of Mathematics Contest. Hundreds of students competed in this event at one of eight contest locations in the greater Cleveland area. In four ch ...

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• Spring Theatre Project Presents Festival of Student Plays
  News • 5/4/2009
  What can happen in a two-minute play? The answer, it turns out, is: almost anything. If you need proof, come see this weekend`s Spring Theatre production at the Upper School, comprised of thirty plays written by Hawken students and faculty. In a schoolwide playwriting contest held throughout March a ...

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• Knowledge Master Team Places First Nationally
  News • 5/1/2009
  A team of 21 Hawken Upper school students recently competed in the Spring Knowledge Master Competition. The students once again finished first nationally in Division II and second among all Ohio divisions. The test consists of two hundred multiple choice questions from fifteen different subject area ...

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• Hawken Charity Lacrosse Showcase a Success
  News • 4/27/2009
  The Fisher House Charity Lacrosse Showcase, sponsored by Burning River Lacrosse Club and hosted by Hawken School this past Saturday, was an absolute success, raising over $42,000.00. Fisher House helps wounded or ill service men and women by enabling their families to be nearby during hospitalizatio ...

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• Hawken Co-ed Cross-Country Team Sign-ups
  News • 4/27/2009
  Continue the traditions and success of the Hawken Cross-Country teams by signing-up for Varsity Co-Ed Cross-Country at Hawken Upper School. Both the Boys and Girls Cross-Country Teams were very successful in 2008 and are looking to improve this season. We are looking for young athletic men and women ...

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• Hawken Partners with Magnolia Clubhouse for Benefit Screening
  News • 4/21/2009
  In another effort to support the greater community, Hawken is partnering with Magnolia Clubouse, a community-based center in University Circle that supports people affected by mental illness, to support a benefit screening of The Soloist, starring Jamie Fox and Robert Downey Jr. The film documents t ...

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• Charlise Lyles `77 to Speak at City Club of Cleveland
  News • 4/20/2009
  Charlise Lyles `77, author of \"Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? From the Projects to Prep School,\" will speak about her memoir of race and education at the City Club of Cleveland on Tuesday, April 28 at 12:00 p.m. In addition to being a 1977 graduate of Hawken, Charlise is an alumna of "A Better Ch ...

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• Hawken Sophomore Named NSLI for Youth Scholar
  News • 4/20/2009
  Stephen Hopkins `11, a Chinese I student in Mr. Chen`s language class, has received a scholarship to study abroad in China next year through the National Security Language Initiative for Youth, a program sponsored by the U.S. Government and administered by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affa ...

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• Sixth Graders Paint a Bright Future for Residents at IHN
  News • 4/20/2009
  On Saturday, April 11th, several sixth graders and family members spent their morning in community service to benefit the residents of the Interfaith Hospitality Network Family Center in Shaker Heights. Parker Selman and her mother, Caroline, the entire Looney family, George and Katelyn Long, Jaylen ...

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• Senior Scores Among Top Ten in 31 States on Latin Test
  News • 4/7/2009
  Sam Milner, Hawken senior and current AP Latin Literature student, participated in the CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) Translation Contest, which is given annually to advanced Latin students in the 31 states and 3 provinces that CAMWS covers. Results of the contest, which ...

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• Two Juniors Win National Essay Contest
  News • 4/7/2009
  Congratulations to Elizabeth Bruml `10 and Emily Weatherhead `10, who have been selected as winners of an essay contest sponsored by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. The contest, open to students in grades 10, 11, and 12, requires applicants to write a 500-word essay response t ...

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• Hawken Students Find Adventure and Culture in Italy
  News • 4/1/2009
  History teacher Jim Newman and Latin teacher Nick Fletcher, along with 20 upper school students, recently returned from a whirlwind spring break tour of Italy. Jim - a 2001 Fulbright recipient to the American Academy in Rome Summer Program that focused on Roman archaeology, mythology, and art histor ...

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• Hawken School Invites You and Your Child to "Explore
  News • 3/19/2009
  Hawken School`s Early Childhood Library is offering a free four-week library/activity program called "Explore." The program, which welcomes 2-3 year olds with an adult, provides a half-hour literacy experience and is aimed at introducing young children to libraries, books, and activities associated ...

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• Hawken Mourns Passing of Faculty Emerita LaVelle Esgar
  News • 3/16/2009
  The Hawken community mourns the loss of faculty emerita, LaVelle Esgar, who passed away on March 13, 2009. Mrs. Esgar worked at Hawken from 1973 until 1997. For more than two decades she served as a beloved lower and middle school teacher, learning specialist, and Lyndhurst calendar coordinator. Mrs ...

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• Student and Faculty Works Selected for Fava Gallery Exhibit
  News • 3/13/2009
  Guy Baratz `09 and upper school art teacher Hank Skladanowski submitted winning works in the Six-State Photography Show at the FAVA Gallery in Oberlin. This is a professional show that accepts submissions from amateurs and professionals from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and West ...

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• Seven Students Reach Quarter-Finals in Physics Olympics Team
  News • 3/4/2009
  Congratulations to Hawken students Evan Berlin `10, Omar Diab `10, Michael Eby `10, David Gerson `10, Brian Huser `09, Peter Mintun `10, and Quentin Smith `09 for being among the top 400 students chosen to advance to the quarter-final round of the U.S. Physics Team selection. These students were the ...

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• Editors and Entrepreneurs
  News • 2/26/2009
  Upper School students were exposed to potential career paths today thanks to the generosity of two local professionals who took the time to share their stories and expertise. Past parent and current trustee Jeff Lucier visited campus today to speak with Ms. Gray`s Professional Writing class and run ...

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• Mr. Shurtz Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to Physics
  News • 2/25/2009
  Bob Shurtz, Upper School Physics teacher, was presented with a Distinguished Service Citation from the American Association of Physics Teachers at their Winter Meeting held this past weekend in Chicago. Established in 1953, the Distinguished Service Citations are presented to members of AAPT in reco ...

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• Mummy Wrap Tradition in Its Third Decade
  News • 2/23/2009
  In 1974 Mr. Gross' fourth grade class held a small ceremonial Egyptian burial as part of their studies of ancient Egypt and the tradition grew to The Mummy Wrap - a full-fledged stage production that brings to life the ancient Egyptians' customs. Now in its third decade, the social studies exercise ...

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• Mummy Wrap Tradition in its 3rd Decade
  News • 2/11/2009
  In 1974 Mr. Gross` fourth grade class held a small ceremonial Egyptian burial as part of their studies of ancient Egypt. The word quickly spread to the other fourth grade classes and the tradition grew to The Mummy Wrap - a full-fledged stage production that brings to life the ancient Egyptians cust ...

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• Middle School Swim Team Boasts Undefeated Season
  News • 2/6/2009
  The Girls Middle School Swim Team finished out the season undefeated, winning the IPSL Championship meet in West Virginia and defeating Hathaway Brown, their toughest competition and winner of last year`s IPSL Championship. This accomplishment is particularly noteworthy given the team`s small number ...

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• Power of the Pen Club Places 2nd in District Competition
  News • 2/6/2009
  On January 24th, 12 seventh and eighth graders participated in the district Power of the Pen writing competition. Hawken was one of 17 schools participating among a total of nearly 200 writers. Hawken seventh graders placed second in the competition and included Lena Goren, Sarah Stark, Anna Du, Sop ...

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• Sixth Grade Knowledge Master Team Makes Impressive Debut
  News • 2/4/2009
  The brand new sixth grade Knowledge Master team competed for the first time on January 21st against 322 teams from around the world. They scored 697 points in a field where the average was 622; the average for schools our size was 590, putting this fledgling team far ahead of the pack. The team came ...

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• Eleanor Hitchcock Anderson `79 Appointed Alumni Director
  News • 1/29/2009
  Eleanor Hitchcock Anderson `79 has been named Director of Alumni Relations and Events. Eleanor began working at Hawken in 2004 part time as Reunion Coordinator, a role that became a full-time position in the summer of 2006 when her responsibilities were expanded to include Events Coordinator and Dev ...

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• Helen Hochstetler
  News • 1/16/2009
  Hawken has lost a beloved community member with the passing of Helen Hochstetler on Thursday, January 15 at the age of 94. Helen served Hawken from 1959-1993 as the school`s head dietitian and head of dining services. Countless graduates, faculty and staff will remember Mrs. H fondly and her family ...

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• Lower School Library Invites You and Your Child to "Explore"
  News • 1/6/2009
  Hawken School`s Early Childhood Library is offering a free four-week library/activity program called "Explore." The program, which is open to the public and welcomes 2-3 year olds with an adult, provides a half-hour literacy experience and is aimed at introducing young children to libraries, books, ...

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• Girls Cross-Country Team Advances to Regionals
  News • 10/20/2008
  The Girls Cross-Country Team advances to the Canton Glen Oak Regional on the strength of their 5th place finish at the very competive Edgewater District meet on Saturday October 18, 2008. They were lead by freshman Mackenzie Harris who finish in 6th place with a season best time of 20:31 for the 5K ...

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• Hawken Girls Win Cardinal Invitational
  News • 9/21/2008
  The Hawken Girls Cross Country team won the Cardinal Invitational with 49 points. The girls finished 18 points ahead of runner-up Hathaway Brown in the 12 team field. The girls were led by the first place finish of Mackenzie Harris (`12) in a time of 21:06 and Christy Nolan (`12) in 6th place (21:45 ...

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• Boys Cross-Country Team Wins at Tiffin
  News • 9/7/2008
  The Hawken Boys Cross-Country team won the Division III-B race at the Tiffin Carnival Invitational on Sept. 6, 2008. The boys scored 120 points, winning by 12 points in the 24 team field. The boys ran with great team energy and spirit, with all of the boys setting new personal records for the 5K dis ...

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• PD: Hawken Men`s Varsity Soccer is a Team to Watch
  News • 8/20/2008
  If Plain Dealer reporter Pat Galbincea`s predictions are correct, the 2008-2009 men`s varsity soccer team will make another appearance at the Division III state finals. Galbincea noted that among the teams in the divsion, Hawken will \"be hard to beat,\" and gave nods to senior strikers Jake McKay ( ...

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• Academic Challenge Team Wins Championship
  News • 6/16/2008
  Hawken School`s Academic Challenge team recently won $10,000 and the season championship against Magnificat and Highland Hills on WEWS Channel`s 5 longtime trivia program for high school students. The team - juniors Samuel Milner, Team Captain, John Borokhovich, Alec Lai and alternate sophomore T.J. ...

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• Academic Challenge Team In Championship on WEWS June 14
  News • 6/10/2008
  Be sure to tune into WEWS` Academic Challenge on Saturday, June 14 at 8:00 p.m. and watch as Hawken`s Academic Challenge team battles Highland and Magnificat for the season championship and $10,000 in grant money from Westfield Insurance. The team - juniors Alec Lai, Samuel Milner, John Borokhovich ...

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• Two Headed to Track Finals, Two Make Showing at Tennis Finals
  News • 6/2/2008
  Seniors Davis Filippell and Louise Gliga are headed to the Jesse Owens Stadium at Ohio State University this Saturday to compete in the state finals for track. Both qualified in the 3200 run: Davis with a Hawken record and regional-winning time of 9:29:91, Louise with a regional fourth place time of ...

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• Eighth, Ninth Grader Win Big at Power of Pen
  News • 5/28/2008
  Eighth grader Sonia Feldman recently traveled to the Power of the Pen State Competition for Young Writers at the College of Wooster. The tournament is the culmination of 28 District and 12 Regional competitions held throughout the State of Ohio. Approximately 700 writers from 300 schools in Ohio wer ...

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• Relay for Life Festivities Continue Thursday
  News • 5/20/2008
  This Thursday, it`s Relay for Life: Part 2. The inclement weather on Saturday forced event organizers to postpone the Luminaria Ceremony and second half of the Relay, so the fun continues. On Thursday at 7:30 p.m., on the Upper School campus, the Luminaria Ceremony in honor, in memory and in support ...

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• Sophomore on WKYC`s Good Company
  News • 5/8/2008
  Sophomore Josh Berns appeared recently on WKYC`s Good Company to promote The Race, an event, he co-founded with with his sister and Hawken eighth grader Dani, to fight breast cancer. On Mother`s Day, Sunday May 11 at Legacy Village in Lyndhurst, Race participants and supporters will gather for the f ...

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• Eight Hawken Sixth Grade Girls to Attend Be WISE Camp
  News • 4/24/2008
  Eight sixth grade girls will attend Be WISE camp at Denison University this summer in June. The camp is designed for rising seventh and eighth grade girls to inspire them to continue their studies in the fields of mathematics and science. The program is staffed by female educators who have an intere ...

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• Sixth Grader is First Hawken Student Accepted to MathPath
  News • 4/24/2008
  Hawken sixth grader Elliot Glazer has long been known by his peers and teachers as a profoundly gifted student of mathematics. He has earned many awards in competitive mathematics throughout the year, but perhaps the most prestigious of these is his recent admission to the MathPath program. MathPath ...

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• Three First Place Wins at History Day
  News • 4/17/2008
  Seventh grader Arthur Erlendsson, senior Hannah Miller and junior Tim Miller are headed to the state History Day competition after winning first place recently at districts. Erlendsson became John Ross for his presentation and dramatically retold his experiences with the Cherokee Nation`s struggles ...

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• Hawken Wins Big on Academic Challenge
  News • 3/18/2008
  Hawken`s Academic Challenge team recent performance on the Academic Challenge on WEWS puts it in second place in high scores and gives the students a good chance of returning for the championship at the end of the season, which is a match among the three top-scoring teams. Hawken scored 720 in its m ...

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• Make Plans to Attend Concerts, March 9 and 12
  News • 3/5/2008
  Hawken School will present on Sunday, March 9 at 3:00 p.m. an Instrumental Music Concert featuring the Sixth Grade Band, Seventh and Eighth Grade Band, the Seventh and Eighth Grade Jazz Band, the Upper School Jazz Ensemble and the Upper School Concert Band. The afternoon concert, which will be in Ke ...

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• Speech and Debate Looks to Take Top Prizes at Championship
  News • 2/25/2008
  After an impressive showing at the recent national qualifying district tournament, the Speech and Debate Team is headed to the state championships and two juniors are headed to nationals in Las Vegas in June. Dylan Herts and Drew Macklis were both national qualifiers and district champions with a wi ...

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• Arts, Humanities Reception Features Work Inspired by Japan
  News • 2/13/2008
  Upper School art teacher Denise Buckley traveled to Japan in November 2006 as part of the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program. Now, a traveling art exhibition inspired by the trip has made its way to Hawken and features the work of Buckley as well as the other art teachers who went with he ...

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• Debate Team`s Winning Words
  News • 1/24/2008
  The Hawken Speech and Debate team recently faced most of the top speech and debate teams in the state in a two-day tournament in Sylvania, Ohio. Congratulations go to: Senior Sam Skove, who was a semi-finalist in Oratorical Interpretation. Junior Alex Ferris, an octafinalist in Lincoln Douglas Debat ...

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• Art Students Bring Home Gold, Silver, Honorable Mention
  News • 1/23/2008
  Seven Upper School students were recently recognized in the Cuyahoga County Scholastic Arts Competition. Here`s a breakdown of who won what. Gold Key Portfolio: Hannah Miller `08, Lauren Vandevier `08 Gold Key: Lauren Vandevier `08, drawing; Ana Muschler `10, sculpture Silver Key: Ana Muschler `10, ...

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• Alumni return for 82nd Winter Luncheon
  News • 1/11/2008
  Graduates from near and far attended the 82nd Winter Luncheon on Saturday, December 22. The 2007 Honorary Alumni recipients were David Coad, Physical Education teacher and Lower School football coach from 1972-1995 and Mike Iorio, the Lyndhurst maintenance supervisor since 1967. The Alumni Art Exhib ...

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• Lower School Visiting Artist 2008
  News • 1/11/2008
  We are pleased to announce that our Visiting Artist this year is Lisa Schonberg. Lisa is a printmaker and her work has been exhibited and honored locally as well as in other states. She not only is an accomplished artist, but also a seasoned lecturer and teacher. Currently she is an Adjunct Assistan ...

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• Battle of the Bands
  News • 1/9/2008
  Hawken will host its first-ever Battle of the Bands on Friday, January 11, beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium on the Upper School campus. Admission is $5.00. The event is a fundraiser for the school`s summer service program, Seeds of Learning, a non profit institution founded by Hawken ...

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• Eighth Grader Wins Coveted Spot in Art Show
  News • 1/7/2008
  Eighth grader Robert Fearon`s self-portrait was recently selected to be shown in the Cuyahoga County Scholastic Art Show. Robert`s piece was chosen from hundreds of high school and middle school entries from the entire Cuyahoga County area (both public and private schools). According to art teacher ...

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• Feel The Rhythm
  News • 12/21/2007
  Garet Libby definitely kicked it up a notch. Last year, the eighth grade Humanities teacher, at the culmination of a unit of study about Africa, had her students perform and record a series of powerful songs and poems that Africans used to cope with and overcome segregation and apartheid. But this y ...

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• Two Longtime, Beloved Employees Retire
  News • 12/21/2007
  After 27 years of service, Jackie Gillespie and Isabell Salvo are retiring. They both joined the Hawken staff in 1980, Isabell as an Upper School Food Service Provider and Jackie as a part-time switchboard operator (though she leaves today as an administrative assistant in the Tech Department). The ...

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• Best of the Best
  News • 12/18/2007
  Men`s varsity soccer coach Dani Giulvezan and senior Lindsay Woodson were recognized in this year`s fall Best of the Best award section of The Plain Dealer . Giulvezan was named for the soccer team`s impressive journey to the state finals against Springfield Catholic Central. It was the second time ...

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• Hawken Chess Team Places Third in Ohio Championships
  News • 12/4/2007
  On Saturday, December 1, a freshmen chess team comprised of Stephen Hopkins, Roman Kowalysko, Joe Soltzberg and Dayne Sundman, competed in the Ohio Grade Level Championships at Solon Middle School, finishing third in the state this year with individual honors going to Stephen Hopkins, who placed sev ...

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• Hawken`s Year of Discovery: Completing the Circle
  News • 11/28/2007
  Parents, graduates and students are invited to a special evening meeting of the Parents` Association on Monday, December 10 at 7:00pm in the Lyndhurst Chapel. Head of School Scott Looney will present outcomes from the Year of Discovery including: Hawken`s new strategic plan; highlights from a compre ...

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• Hawken Grad Who Sat at Vanguard of Iraq Invasion Visits
  News • 11/20/2007
  In March 2003, Evan Wright `83 was on the front lines of the Iraqi invasion as one of the first Americans to enter the country with the First Reconnaissance Batallion of the Marine Corps. Only, he was there not as a troop, but as a journalist who`d negotiated a bigger contract at Rolling Stone by co ...

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• Award-Winning Author to Visit Hawken
  News • 11/8/2007
  In celebration of Children`s Book Week, Doreen Rappaport will visit the Lyndhurst campus on Monday, November 12 for an experience that is sure to inspire and encourage. In 1965 when Doreen Rappaport went to teach a freedom school in McComb, Mississippi, she says the experience opened her eyes to the ...

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• Hawken Juniors Perform on Fox 8
  News • 11/6/2007
  Fresh on the heels of a brief appearance by a Middle Schooler on Fox 8`s \"That`s Life,\" two Hawken juniors were featured in performances on the same show one day later Ben Sala and Dylan Herts presented scenes from their educational drama troupe Expect Respect. They and junior Brian Zeilinger are ...

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• Upper School Student Group Awarded $5,000
  News • 11/5/2007
  Eight Upper School students were recently awarded nearly $5,000 dollars for their continued efforts to educate Northeastern Ohio about the state of Lake Erie`s water quality. Sophomores Jon Borden, Zack Lawrence, Aaron Nusrala, Greg Pasiadis, Charlie Primbas, Brian Vogt, John Wilson and senior Angel ...

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• All Ages Race in First Fun Run
  News • 10/25/2007
  Seventy participants braved chilly temperatures to participate in Hawken`s inaugural Family Fun Run on Saturday, October 13. Runners participated in a 1K or 5K course in the alumni sponsored event. Congratulations to all! 1K Race Logan Lair `16 - 1st place male 1K Emily Heyd `13 - 1st place female1K ...

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• What`s "Acting Black" or "Acting White?"
  News • 10/18/2007
  Four Hawken students recently traveled to the 90.3 WCPN radio studio to participate in a conversation on race, ethnicity and American culture. Students from the entire Cleveland area participated in the on-air program. The wide-ranging discussion covered all aspects of what it means to say someone i ...

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• Third Grader`s Indians Uniform Design Lands in PD
  News • 10/15/2007
  When third grader Helen Kovac took up the task of redesigning the Tribe uniform, she decided she`d totally overhaul the look and give it a more \"modren (that`s not misspelled)\" flair, spicing it up with purples, browns, greens, yellows, and browns in addition to the signature red and blue. Last we ...

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• Upper School Students` Fight against Suicide
  News • 9/26/2007
  Behind homicide and accidents, suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15 to 24-year-olds. Sadly, it`s an epidemic that`s hit close to home for a few Hawken families and one that a group of Upper School students has committed itself to combating. As part of that fight, a Hawken Team will par ...

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• Two teams honored
  News • 9/20/2007
  Hawken varsity football and boys soccer teams were named Teams of the Week by the Cleveland Plain Dealer on September 20, 2007. In soccer, the Hawks are 5-0-1 after beating Gilmour and Cuyaghoga Heights. Paul Burgess `08 scored two goals in each game and Avery Mainardi `09 had three goals against Cu ...

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• Teacher featured in area production
  News • 9/17/2007
  This is your last week to see Hawken Upper School English teacher Robert Hawkes in Lillian Groag`s autobiographical play \"The Magic Fire\" now playing at Ensemble Theatre through Sunday, September 23. Hawkes plays Otto Berg, the father of Lise Berg, Groag`s alter-ego, in the story set in early 1950 ...

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• Thirteen Scholars Named in Merit and Achievement Programs
  News • 9/17/2007
  Twelve Hawken students have been named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program - an impressive number amongst area schools. Congratulations go to seniors Bryn Adams, Mona Ascha, Blake Daley, Nathaniel Dickey-White, Louise Gliga, Karoline McMullen, Suzanne Murray, Ryan Pearl, Angela P ...

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• Not just a football game
  News • 8/22/2007
  Think the grand opening of Walton Stadium is just a celebration for Hawken`s Upper Campus? Think again. It is a school-wide event for kids of all ages. On Friday, August 31, beginning at 4:30 p.m., there will be two inflatable games provided by the Cleveland Browns, face painting, clowns, giveaways, ...

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• Hawken student`s film wins grand prize at Rhode Island festival
  News • 8/22/2007
  Hawken junior Aaron Kohn recently found himself in a winner`s circle of directors and writers from across the globe, including famed actor turned director Morgan Freeman. He was one of two grand prize winners in the KidsEye International Film Festival portion of the Rhode Island International Film F ...

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• Hawken senior, father make cross-country bike trip
  News • 8/14/2007
  Hawken senior Bryn Adams and her father are making the incredible cross-country trek from Seattle, Washington to Boston, Massachusetts all on their bikes and in only 50 days. The two are guest correspondents for The Sun Press and submitting weekly entries from their experiences on the road. In only ...

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• Former Hawken parent`s art exhibit to show at Solon Arts Center
  News • 8/9/2007
  Henry Fusco, father of two Hawken graduates (Tim `68 and Chris `70) and grandfather of Jessica Fusco `99, Megan Ames `96 and Martha Fusco `01 has had his art work exhibited world-wide at galleries and museums. His next local exhibition, entitled Versatility, will open Saturday, August 25, from 6-8 p ...

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• Ready to roll out the "green" carpet
  News • 6/27/2007
  Several rolls of artificial turf are ready to be installed on the multi-purpose field, also shown. The project to install artificial turf on a new multi-purpose field and in the current stadium began in June. Both the multipurpose and the stadium field will be ready for the fall athletic season. Th ...

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• MS promotees encouraged to use `the force`
  News • 6/25/2007
  Middle School Director Bill Waskowitz bid a farewell to both Hawken`s eighth-graders and Hawken School as he delivered the Middle School Closing Ceremony`s address, where he challenged the students to continue to use the confidence they`d developed during their years at Hawken to help them face the ...

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• MS lax players on big stages
  News • 6/22/2007
  Four recently promoted eighth grade lacrosse players are hoping to find success on larger playing fields. Mitchell Joseph `11 will participate in the USLacrosse National U-15 Lacrosse Festival in Orlando, FL this weekend. He is a midfielder for Team North Coast Ohio, the only representative from the ...

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• And so they commenced...
  News • 6/4/2007
  Hawken`s Class of 2007 said its final goodbyes at this year`s Upper School Commencement. Representing the 93 graduating seniors during the ceremony were valedictorian Hannah Recht and seniors Michael Silva and Hannah Whitehead, who all addressed their classmates, teachers, families and friends with ...

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• Middle School Summer Preview Program: August 6-17
  News • 6/4/2007
  The Hawken Middle School Preview Program is designed to formally prepare students new to our Middle School to understand and improve the challenging transition into the middle grades. The Hawken Middle School Preview Program is designed to help students make the best of their middle school experienc ...

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• 8th Grade CCIS Social
  News • 6/2/2007
  All 8th grade students from the CCIS schools are invited to attend this annual end-of-middle-school dance at University School (Hunting Valley Campus) from 8:00-11:00 PM. Formal dress is required. The theme for this year`s dance is \"007\" with the following guidelines for dress: All students may dr ...

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• Hawken third grade math teacher is `outstanding`
  News • 5/31/2007
  Each year, the Greater Cleveland Council of Teachers of Mathematics recognizes outstanding teachers who have demonstrated extraordinary dedication to the teaching and learning of mathematics. Chris Brez, one of Hawken`s third grade teachers, has been honored as an outstanding mathematics teacher in ...

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• Varsity boys lacrosse in final four
  News • 5/29/2007
  Following the nail-biting victory over Walsh Jesuit High School, Hawken`s boys lacrosse team will face New Albany in a semi-final game today at 5:30 p.m. in New Albany. If successful, the team will face the winner of the Mariemont-University School game, which means the Hawks could face the Preppers ...

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• Middle Schoolers make Hawken No. 1 in nation in math league
  News • 5/25/2007
  Nine sixth graders have made Hawken School number one in the nation in the Euclidian Division of the Continental Mathematics League competition. Each of the students began in November in the League`s annual competition, which spans five months, with a series of six complex math problems and only 30 ...

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• Get your official Hawken Flip Watch
  News • 5/24/2007
  As part of his Senior Project, Abel Mills has been working with HourPower Watches to design a custom flip Hawken watch. Now after weeks planning, the watch is available to buy. Coming in a variety of men`s and women`s styles, it is engraved with a Hawken \"H.\" Its unique face flips open, allowing y ...

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• Hawken Track finished 2nd at District Meet
  News • 5/20/2007
  The Hawken Mens Track Team finished second at the Division III District Meet at Independence High School on Friday. The Hawks were paced by the following regional qualifiers; 4x100m Relay(McKay, Nichols, Willen, Anoliefo)-1st, Davis Filippell-3200m-1st, Stephen Johnson-Discus-2nd, Tyler Nichols-Long ...

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• Hawken grad wins Tony nomination
  News • 5/17/2007
  Hawken grad Scott Frankel`s Broadway musical \"Grey Gardens\" won critical acclaim when it debuted last year. Now the show has garnered 10 Tony nominations, including a nod for the score which composer Frankel `81 and lyricist Michael Korie created. \"Grey Gardens\" tells the story Edith and Edie Bo ...

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• Listen to the Concert of Remembrance
  News • 5/17/2007
  On May 8, Hawken hosted a Concert of Remembrance at the Upper School, commemorating the Holocaust and World War II, featuring the critically acclaimed chamber group Panor+â-ímicos. The event, conceived by Mary Kay Ferguson, a Hawken parent and founder of the chamber ensemble, was also designed to ca ...

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• Relay for Life this weekend
  News • 5/17/2007
  Each year, the Hawken community rallies together for Relay for Life, the American Cancer Society`s annual event, which raises money for cancer research while celebrating and remembering those who`ve battled the disease. This year`s event for Hawken and Central Lake County will be held this weekend a ...

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• Work on Pool Roof To Begin This Week
  News • 5/14/2007
  Work will begin this week to rectify a vapor barrier breach in the pool roof, walls, and transitions at Gates Mills. The construction project will \"correct deficiencies in insulation and ensure a continuous vapor barrier throughout the roof, transitions and walls brought about by construction and d ...

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• Track Team Places in CVC Metro Meet
  News • 5/12/2007
  The Track teams competed in the CVC Metro Division Championship Meet this past week. The Hawken Mens team finished 1.5 points behind Cuyahoga Hts in team scoring. The Hawks were paced by first place finishes by Davis Filippell(Jr)-1600m and 3200m, Tyler Nichols(So)-110m Hurdles, Stephen Johnson(Sr)- ...

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• The results are in: La Dolce Vita a record success!
  News • 5/8/2007
  Life was certainly sweet at Hawken`s biennial auction. A Night to Remember - La Dolce Vita`s sell-out crowd included the highest faculty attendance level in recent history as well as the highest level of corporate and parent sponsorship. The silent and live auctions and Raffle Splendido were an over ...

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• Math Presentation For Middle School Parents
  News • 5/4/2007
  Plan on attending a meeting designed for the parents of Middle School students who are currently in the sixth and seventh grades to find out more about Math course offerings. The meeting (May 9, from 7:00-8:00 PM in Hochstetler Dining Room) presented by Middle School Math Chair Pam Richmann and Midd ...

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• Dress Down Day: May 4, 2007 To Benefit Diabetes Association
  News • 5/3/2007
  Friday, May 4, 2007, will be a Dress Down Day, the proceeds from which will directly benefit the Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland (DAGF). As stated on their website, the DAGC`s Mission is \"to improve the lives of people affected by diabetes by leading the Northeast Ohio community in its pr ...

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• Hawken grad Molly Shannon in `poignant` breakout role
  News • 4/25/2007
  Molly Shannon `83 is winning wide praise for a her new film \"Year of the Dog.\" The quirky dramedy, from the writer of \"School of Rock,\" stars Shannon as Peggy, an unremarkable single woman, who has as her closest companion a little beagle named Pencil. When Pencil meets an untimely end, Peggy`s ...

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• Preparing students for the future
  News • 4/25/2007
  The Hawken community gathered on April 24 for what proved to be both a thought provoking evening on educating and preparing children for the future. Pat Bassett, president of the National Association of Independent Schools, engaged the Hawken audience with words of wisdom and insight as he presented ...

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• April 13 Marks 30th Anniversary of Barn Fire
  News • 4/13/2007
  Thirty years ago, Hawken and Ohio lost a magnificent landmark to fire. What was once Ohio`s largest dairy barn burned to the ground on a windy afternoon as students and teachers tried to keep flames from spreading nearby. English teachers Robert Hawkes and Peter Scott shared their memories of this e ...

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• Middle School Athletic Games & Practices Changed Due To Snow
  News • 4/9/2007
  Due to the recent snowfall, Middle School athletic games and practice schedules have had to be modified until the field conditions improve. Please note the following information: *All athletic contests for this week have been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date. Once they have been de ...

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• Third and fourth graders earn trophy
  News • 4/5/2007
  Lower School students earned a second-place trophy competing against 60 Northeast Ohio teams in a Destination ImagiNation Tournament held during spring break. The group of third and fourth graders started working together in September as part of an after school Passport Program. In December the grou ...

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• Hawken places first in TEAMS competition
  News • 4/4/2007
  Hawken recently received a first-place division ranking in Ohio in the annual TEAMS competition and advanced to national eligibility. The school`s team of eight students who earned the ranking participated in the national science, math and engineering contest in late February at the University of Ak ...

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• Sixth Grade Knowledge Master Team Places 1st In Ohio
  News • 4/2/2007
  Hawken`s 6th grade Knowledge Master Team has done it again!! This competition takes place twice a year, and both times in the 2006-2007 school year, a Hawken Team has won the State of Ohio. In an event where the mean score was 645 points with an average accuracy of 87%, Team Prodigious scored 759 po ...

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• Two Hawken 8th Graders Compete In World Sport Stacking Regionals
  News • 4/1/2007
  Hawken 8th grade students Arica Waters and Travis Salvati recently competed in the World Sport Stacking Regional Tournament in West Carrollton, Ohio, on March 24th. Arica and Travis joined \"cup stackers\" from six other states and emerged victorious in several categories: *Arica finished 1st and Tr ...

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• Indoor Track Places at State Meet
  News • 3/18/2007
  The Hawken Indoor Track and Field Team competed in the Ohio Association of Track & Cross Country Coaches Indoor State Championship Meet on March 17 at the University of Akron. The Hawks were represented in four events in the Division II/III Meet. The Girls 4x200 Meter Relay Team of Colleen Barnes(Sr ...

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• Fourth-grader shaves head for cancer
  News • 3/14/2007
  Cassidy was 10 years old when she was diagnosed with malignant brain tumors. Anthony was only two when he found out he had leukemia. They`re only two of thousands of children who are diagnosed with cancer each year. That didn`t sit well with Hawken fourth grader Evan Hill, so, recently, he shaved hi ...

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• Seventh-grader advances to State Geography Bee
  News • 3/11/2007
  Jonathan Meckler, current seventh grade student, has qualified to represent Hawken Middle School at the state level of the National Geographic Bee, sponsored by JPMorgan Chase. The state bee will be held on March 30, 2007, at Ohio State University, Mansfield Campus. This is not a new experience for ...

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• Dress Down Day to Benefit Mental Health Services of Cleveland
  News • 3/9/2007
  There will be two dress down days this Friday (3/9) and next Friday (3/16) to raise supplies for the Safe Haven Shelters Program , an outreach program of Mental Health Services of Cleveland . Safe Haven Shelters are \"residential programs helping persistently homeless clients with severe mental disa ...

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• Students explore professions at Career Fair
  News • 3/7/2007
  Juniors and seniors recently had the opportunity to explore their futures during Hawken`s first Career Fair. As students filed into the gymnasium, a distinguished group of 25 parents and graduates sat poised to share their personal career paths during 35-minute "roundtable" discussions. The list of ...

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• `The Wall` a new addition to P.E.
  News • 2/26/2007
  Hawken students are using a Traverse Climbing Wall! The wall is a new addition to the Brown Gym and will be used in Physical Education classes for students at the Lyndhurst campus. At its highest point, the wall measures eight feet and is approximately twenty feet long. Under the careful supervision ...

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• Hawken girls swim team state champs!
  News • 2/26/2007
  For the ninth consecutive year, the Hawken girls swimming team won the Division II state championship. In all, the team has 17 titles. \"We really enjoy winning it and keeping the tradition going,\" said senior Erica Dorfman in a Plain Dealer article. \"It means a lot to everyone.\" Junior Brittany ...

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• Girls swim team takes top spot at districts, off to states
  News • 2/21/2007
  After an impressive showing at the Northeast Ohio District swimming championships, the girls swimming team is off to states this weekend in Canton. The team was the overrall winner of this past weekend`s event at Cleveland State University with 455 points. The score was over 200 points above the Hat ...

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• MS, US girls compete in figure skating competition
  News • 2/21/2007
  Four Hawken Middle and Upper School girls recently competed in the Ohio High School Team Figure Skating Competition and placed first in four of a total of six individual events. Read below for all of their standings. Low Manuever Teams Hawken Team, 3rd Novice Ladies Short Program Melissa Petersilge ...

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• Middle School Drama Production To Premiere on Feb. 24th!
  News • 2/20/2007
  On Saturday, February 24th, starting at 7:30 PM, A Staged Reading of The Clouds, by Aristophanes as adapted for students by Robert Hawkes (Upper School English teacher and well-known regional actor) will open in the Middle School Chapel. Plan on attending this fun-filled and playful satire on school ...

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• It`s Middle School Spirit Week! Get in on the Fun!
  News • 2/19/2007
  During the week of February 20-23, the Middle School will be sponsoring a Spirit Week, filled with fun activities and events for the entire Middle School. Whether it`s dressing up in a certain style, performing a Hawken School poem or rap, participating in a Karaoke Contest, or attending a Beach Par ...

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• Yoga Teacher To Visit With 8th Grade Humanities Classes
  News • 2/19/2007
  To complement their study of India, local yoga teacher, Indira Shekerjian, will visit with 8th grade Humanities classes on February 21st to talk about and demonstrate some of the basic elements of yogic practice. Indira Shekerjian, a certified instructor of various types of yoga, teaches at Evolutio ...

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• Hawken seniors named Nat`l Merit Finalists
  News • 2/15/2007
  Eight Hawken seniors were recently named National Merit Finalists. Harrison Adams, Kenan Diab, Erica Dorfman, Rebecca Maurer, J. McNamara, Cari Meisel, Amanda Warren and Hannah Whitehead earned the distinction by scoring in the nation`s top one percent of students taking the Preliminary SAT/National ...

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• Swim team off to districts
  News • 2/15/2007
  The Hawken girls swim team and two from the boys team will compete Thursday-Saturday in the swimming districts at Busbey Natatorium at Cleveland State University. If successful, the last stop to glory will be the State meet in Canton on February 22-24. The district diving competition begins at 9:00 ...

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• Sixth-grade Electromagnetic Fishing Derby opens!
  News • 2/7/2007
  Sixth grade students in Mr. Kachurek`s science class participated in the long-awaited Electromagnetic Fishing Derby ! In conjunction with their current study of electricity and magnetics, students (working in teams of two) had the task of constructing an electromagnetic fishing pole that employed ma ...

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• Early Learning Program gives you freedom to choose
  News • 1/31/2007
  The Early Learning Program has restructured its program to give parents more freedom in choosing an educational pathway for their children. Ultimately, the changes will expand our opportunties to expose your child to the joys of learning. Here`s a look at your new choices. Preschool: Three-Year-Olds ...

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• Junior advances in Shakespeare competition
  News • 1/30/2007
  Junior Bryn Adams is off to perform at The Cleveland Play House and then could be on her way to the Lincoln Center in New York City. The actress took first place in Hawken`s Shakespeare monologue competition, which was hosted in conjunction with the English Speaking Union`s (ESU) National Shakespear ...

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• Hawken hosts Scholastic Book Fair
  News • 1/25/2007
  The Scholastic Book Fair will be February 1-8 in the Lower School Media Center. Students with any gently used books they`ve outgrown are encouraged to bring them to the Fair. Hawken will donate all collected books to Citizens Academy, a Cleveland charter school. Students will also have the chance to ...

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• Remembering Jeff Beacham `94
  News • 1/21/2007
  JEFFREY MICHAEL BEACHAM of Cleveland Heights, age 30, dear son of Dee and William Beacham of Euclid, dear brother of Jon Beacham of New York City and dear friend of Jenny Plut of Rocky River died suddenly January 21. Jeff was the captain of the swim teams at Hawken School, where he was a 1994 gradua ...

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• Eighth grade students focus on Darfur
  News • 1/17/2007
  Having recently studied the current crisis in Sudan`s western region of Darfur, several eighth grade students felt compelled \"to make a difference\" in an attempt to help those of Darfur who have been victims of this 21st century genocide that is currently being waged by the government-backed Arab ...

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• No No. 1 in Ohio?
  News • 1/11/2007
  A day after The Ohio State University football team lost its Number One in the Nation status to the University of Florida in the BCS Championship Game, being soundly defeated by a score of 41 to 14, Bob Shurtz, a Hawken physics teacher and, more notably, a University of Michigan grad, gave his stude ...

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• Hawken grad paints to build bridges
  News • 1/8/2007
  Artist Katherine Chilcote`s palette is a colorful mixture of heartbreak and triumph, sadness and joy. The 1998 Hawken graduate, recently featured in \"The Daily Life,\" a photographic chronicle in the The Plain Dealer , captures the life stories of people she meets and immortalizes them in murals th ...

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• Second-graders chat with peer in Japan
  News • 1/5/2007
  The students in Bryan Wamsley`s second grade class recently had their first Skype video conference with Tsukuba, Japan. One of their classmates, Maddelana (Lane), is in Japan with her family for several months. In a wonderful coincidence, the second graders at Hawken are in the midst of a social stu ...

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• Hawken Sophomore Publishes Book
  News • 1/3/2007
  Hawken sophomore Samuel Milner recently published his first book, \"The Bible (A Parody)\" (iUniverse, 2006). As winner of the 2003 National Bible Contest and U.S. Representative to the 2004 International Bible Contest, Milner culminated his studies by taking stories from the Torah and updating them ...

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• Cleveland Clinic to host internships, invites Hawken students
  News • 1/2/2007
  The Cleveland Clinic has invited Hawken students to participate in two paid summer internships. The Science Internship and Nurses of the Future Programs are nine-week experiences, where students will have the opportunity to work with renowned Clinic professionals for 40 hours a week, Monday through ...

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• Dress Down Day Blanket Drive A Huge Success
  News • 12/14/2006
  Today`s Blanket Drive was a great success in the Middle School. While no official count has been obtained, the corner of Lincoln Lobbey was filled with new and gently used blankets that students brought in, all of which will be donated to Interact Cleveland`s efforts to provide for the city`s homele ...

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• US, MS teams place first in state, rank in top internationally
  News • 12/12/2006
  Both the Upper and Middle Schools placed first statewide and, out of over 700 schools competing internationally, scored in the top 10 percent in the Fall Knowledge Master Open (KMO). The KMO is hosted by the Colorado-based company Academic Hallmarks, which specializes in writing questions for academ ...

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• Grant Roth `85 G-Money Basketball Tournament
  News • 12/1/2006
  On Saturday, November 25, the 1st Annual Grant Roth `85 G-Money Basketball Tournament was held in the Gates Mills Athletic Complex. Fourteen teams made of Hawken Alumni, Faculty, Staff, and friends of Grant Roth `85 participated in 4 on 4 team play in a double elimination tournament. A large crowd o ...

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• Hawken grad to sign book at Joseph Beth
  News • 11/29/2006
  Dr. Barron Lerner `78 will sign his latest book, When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Illness , at the Joseph Beth Booksellers in Legacy Village on Friday, December 1 at 7:00 p.m. The book explores how celebrity illnesses, while beneficial to medical research and treatment ...

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• Hawken sophomore organizes forum for 90.3 WCPN
  News • 11/28/2006
  Aaron Kohn, a Hawken sophomore, helped organize an hour-long forum that was broadcasted on 90.3 WCPN`s The Sound of Ideas hosted by Dan Moulthrop on Thursday, December 7. The show was produced in conjunction with UNICEF`s International Children`s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) and featured a panel of lo ...

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• Granddad goes back to school
  News • 11/21/2006
  It`s fair to say that when you were in kindergarten your gym partner probably wasn`t your grandmother or grandfather. That is, of course, if you didn`t attend Hawken. Actually, if it does happen here, it`s only for half a day during our annual Grandparents and Special Friends Days, when Hawken stude ...

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• Hawken math team ties for first place
  News • 11/13/2006
  Five Hawken students recently tied for first place in a math competition that was a part of Cuyahoga Community College`s first-ever math and science fair. Freshman Omar Diab, sophomore Alec Lai, junior Myron Zhang and seniors Kenan Diab and Zach Rosskamm were given an hour to complete a set of ten c ...

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• Weaving for warmth
  News • 11/7/2006
  A handful of Hawken students seem to be getting closely acquainted with the virtues of a needle and yarn. Apparently, there`s a lot to be gained from weaving hats, mittens, blankets and sweaters. Like warmth. As winter eases its way into the atmosphere (with recent unexpected visits), Hawken French ...

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• Hawken Faculty Band To Perform...Live!
  News • 11/6/2006
  The Hawken Faculty Band, somewhat of a tradition by now, will be performing live in the Chapel on Wednesday, starting at 2:30 PM. Band leader John Krol has put together a collection of contemporary songs that the faculty band will perform in front of a very excited student audience. Mr. Krol, who pl ...

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• Milk Your Way to Healthy Life Style
  News • 11/2/2006
  I want to introduce you a great way of staying healthy life style along with weigh loss. This site is sponsored by The National Milk Processor Promotion Board+é-¬. We take it for granted that we dumped diary product because our association with reduction of calories. Along with it, we mistakenly dum ...

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• Panamanian artist visits Hawken
  News • 11/2/2006
  Upper School Spanish classes were recently treated to a visit by a native Spanish speaker. Gloria Ritter, a Panamanian-American, visited three of Se+â-¦oras McNamee`s and Williams`s class sections to teach the students about the Latin custom of Quincea+â-¦era , the celebration of a young woman`s tra ...

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• Homework woes?
  News • 10/27/2006
  It`s often a toilsome experience for school-age children. Concepts and ideas presented in school seem to make sense until, that is, they pull out their homework at night. Some persevere, some give up. You pull out your hair. And that`s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to homework issues. Dr ...

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• Cleveland Cavaliers join Hawken to host internship
  News • 10/26/2006
  Hawken School recently teamed with the Cleveland Cavaliers to provide a unique in-school sports marketing internship for Hawken`s Upper School students. The partnership is in conjunction with the school`s Pathways Program, which connects students with professionals to help navigate their own future ...

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• Fall Sports Season Comes To A Close: Where Should Your Child Be?
  News • 10/23/2006
  The fall sports season for 7th & 8th grade students comes to a close this week. Unless students are involved in winter sports team practices, they are to either (1) go home immediately following the 3:15 PM dismissal or (2) attend a supervised study hall. At no time is a student to be in an unsuperv ...

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• Women`s varsity soccer, field hockey win big
  News • 10/20/2006
  Don`t touch us. Unless, that is, you want to get burned. Hawken`s sports teams are setting the playing fields afire. The women`s varsity soccer and field hockey teams are joining the men`s soccer team in their respective quests to their state championship games. In a state-qualifying tournament, the ...

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• Easing the transition
  News • 10/16/2006
  The new children at Hawken love their new school, said Sally Zarney, director of admissions for the Lower and Middle Schools. That`s according to a meeting Support Services and the Admissions office hosted recently for the parents of new students in grades K-8. "One mother said that she sees her chi ...

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• Winter Sports practice start dates
  News • 10/16/2006
  As the Fall sports season comes to an end, Middle School Winter sports teams will soon begin practices. Listed below are the start dates for the following teams: -Boys` Basketball Teams (7th & 8th grades): *Open Gym practice on 10/23 from 3:15-4:45 *Formal practices begin on 10/26 from 3:15-4:45 -Gi ...

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• Graduate`s latest book offers `contrarian` view of Vietnam
  News • 10/10/2006
  Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, in a recent Wall Street Journal book review, lamented the tendency of writers to disparage the Vietnam War as an all-out disaster. "All [writers] follow the same theology: Vietnam was a mistake, an American tragedy, a war of buffoonery and, it is often said, a war-mongering ...

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• Wrong Number Plagues Teacher
  News • 9/18/2006
  \"...No, this isn`t the Athletics Department, this is Bob Kachurek speaking...,\" says the patient and pleasant voice at the other end of 440-423-2935. Since last year, Mr. Kachurek has fielded Athletics Department inquiries as a result of an incorrect printing. Those wishing to reach the Athletic D ...

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• JV Golfer Scores Ace
  News • 8/23/2006
  You`ve surely heard the age-old maxim "practice makes perfect." Well, here`s proof that the saying is more than empty words. Junior Andrew Hinterberger, a member of the Men`s JV Golf Team, improved his score eight to nine strokes over last year, is currently playing at the number one spot on the JV ...

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• Lacrosse Players Compete on National Level
  News • 7/20/2006
  Four Middle School boys competed in June for Team North Coast Ohio in the U.S. Lacrosse U-15 Youth Festival in Orlando, Florida. Forty-eight boys` and girls` programs participated and represented 21 different states from California to Massachusetts. Matt Miller (midfield), Teddy Hook (defense), Pat ...

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• Middle School Teacher Published in Latin Newsletter
  News • 6/14/2006
  ... n a recent issue of The American Classical League Newsletter. Her piece, The Birth of a Latin Teacher , tells of the invaluable mentoring she received as she struggled to master basic Latin in one summer to meet the rising demand for Hawken`s Middle School Latin program. \"I have worked hard to ...

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• Alum Plays Key Role in Ingenuity Festival
  News • 6/14/2006
  This summer, the New Center for Art and Technology, under the leadership of William Scheele `66, will participate in Cleveland`s Second Annual Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology . Held July 13 - 17, the festival is a celebration of the intersection of art and technology, and includes a variety ...

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• Athletes Honored at 36th Annual Spring Banquet
  News • 6/7/2006
  Several athletes were honored on May 30th at Hawken`s 36th Annual Spring Athletics Banquet. After a welcome by Joseph Algrant, students Allie Sandacz , captain of the women`s track and field team, and David Williams , captain of the men`s track and field team, reflected on their athletic experiences ...

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• Hawken Athletes Place at State Track Finals
  News • 6/2/2006
  In the first day of State competition at Ohio State`s Jesse Owens Stadium the Hawken Track Team advanced two events to the State finals to be held on Saturday. In the 4x100m Relay, the team of Hayden Haas, Tyler Nichols, Stewart Roulston and Tyler Kirsch battled a strong field and a strong rain to r ...

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• Young Writers Assert Their Power...of the Pen
  News • 6/1/2006
  Four Hawken middle schoolers participated in the Power of the Pen writing state competition on Friday, May 26th at Wooster College. Eighth grader Hannah Pittman and seventh graders Hannah Kerman, Julie Zeilinger and Nick Richard had to \"out-write\" over 7,500 writers around the state in order to ma ...

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• 6th grade to view M. Night Shyamalan`s "The Village"
  News • 5/31/2006
  6th Graders have been reading \"The Giver,\" which deals with themes such as a utopian society, coming-of-age, fear of the unknown, development of family, independence, and honesty. To provide students with a different perspective, and to inspire discussion, 6th grade English classes will be watchin ...

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• LiveSTRONG Day: Wear Yellow!
  News • 5/16/2006
  \"It`s time for our nation to address our issues. Together, we can help change things for the better. As a team, we can make a difference for survivors.\" -Lance Armstrong On Wednesday, May 17, you can help Lance and the Lance Armstrong Foundation be a voice for change. By wearing yellow, you can he ...

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• Parlez Vous Francais? These Students Do!
  News • 5/11/2006
  Two Hawken French students placed in Ohio and nationally on the National French Exam. Hawken had the only students with a first place ranking in Ohio, Sami Stilson and Sam Broer. Over 100,000 students participate in this test. Nine other Hawken students placed in the top ten rankings nationally. Eac ...

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• Sophomore Wins State National History Day Competition
  News • 5/11/2006
  Hannah Miller `08 won the local and state level of the National History Day competition with her individual performance of \"Mother Bickerdyke: A Unwavering Stand for the Civil War Soldiers.\" This year`s topic for NHD was taking a stand in history - people, events, ideas. She competed against 7 or ...

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• Alum Makes a Splash at Lake Forest
  News • 5/11/2006
  With her All-American performance, Swett led Lake Forest College to an 18th place tie at the 2006 Women`s Swimming and Diving NCAA Division III National Championship Meet. She also was named \"Diver of the Meet\" after placing third in the 1-meter event, and posting an NCAA Division III record score ...

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• 8th Grade To Host Middle East Public Forum
  News • 5/3/2006
  Once again, 8th grade students have taken the initiative to host a Public Forum about some of the current issues involving the Middle East. Each eighth grader is presently interviewing a person with some connection to the Middle East and developing that interview into a feature story, which they are ...

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• Holocaust Survivor Speaks To Seventh Grade
  News • 5/3/2006
  Students in the 7th grade had the rare opportunity to hear from Mrs. Frankel, a Holocaust survivor, at a special assembly on Wednesday, May 3, 2006. Complementing their recent study of the Holocaust and trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., students listened intently to Mrs. Frankel`s des ...

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• TEAMS National Results Roll In
  News • 4/24/2006
  At this year`s Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Math, and Science (TEAMS) competition, Hawken`s varsity team placed 1st, with a score of 60 out of 80 possible points. The competition was held at the Univerity of Akron on Tuesday, February 21 and included some 30 varsity teams. The team has been awaiti ...

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• CCIS Live 8 Benefit Concert: TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION NOTICE!
  News • 4/18/2006
  IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PARENTS: As many of you know, Hawken Middle School will be hosting the upcoming CCIS Social at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame on April 21, 2006: The Live 8 Benefit Concert (click on the following link for more infomration about this event: Cleveland Live 8 ). In terms of tr ...

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• Hawken Family Active in Fight Against Breast Cancer
  News • 4/17/2006
  The Berns family and the Susan G. Komen Foundation invites you to celebrate your mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and all the women you love on Mother`s Day 2006. Run or walk in the 3rd Annual, One-Mile Komen Kids For The Cure+é-« and raise money to fight breast cancer at Legacy Village on May 14, 2006 ...

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• Hawken Hosts Japanese Art Exhibit
  News • 4/13/2006
  The Hawken Community and the general public are invited to an opening reception on April 21, 5-7pm, for Infusion and Diffusion , an exhibit of works by four Japanese artists. The exhibit, which is part of Hawken School`s Arts and Humanities Series, is being co-sponsored by the Japanese Association o ...

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• Incoming Head Announces Leadership Appointments
  News • 4/13/2006
  While finishing his duties at Cranbrook School in Michigan, Hawken`s incoming Head of School Scott Looney has been devoting time to ensure that next year will be a strong, positive and productive year for Hawken School. In that spirit, Mr. Looney has announced several leadership appointments, all ef ...

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• Seniors Achieve Banner Year in College Acceptances
  News • 4/13/2006
  Hawken`s Class of 2006 has achieved a banner year in college admissions, even as colleges and universities nationwide are becoming more selective. Highlights of the accomplishments include: 17 Hawken seniors gained admission to an Ivy League college this year, four of whom were admitted to more than ...

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• CCIS Smart and Sober Program For Middle School Students
  News • 4/10/2006
  Smart & Sober is a 1-day event for all Middle School students, grades six through eight, who attend one of the ten participating Cleveland-Area Independent Schools. The purpose of the event is to educate and empower students to choose a healthy lifestyle free from alcohol, tobacco & other drugs. Vol ...

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• CCIS Smart And Sober Parent Workshop
  News • 4/10/2006
  Smart and Sober Parent Workshop: May 2, 2006 \"The Unofficial Rules of Adolescence and the Unofficial Rules of Parenting Teens,\" will be held on Tuesday May 2, 2006 at Corporate College East (4400 Richmond Road in Warrensville Heights). Registration will be at 6:30 with the program starting at 7:00 ...

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• Hawken Students To Compete In Power Of The Pen State Finals!
  News • 4/7/2006
  Four Hawken Students have been selected from the recent Power of the Pen regional competition to participate in the State Finals at the College of Wooster on May 25-26, 2006. Hannah Pittman (8th gr.), Hannah Kerman (7th gr.), Nick Richards (7th gr.), and Julie Zeilinger (7th gr., alternate)were reco ...

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• Sister-Brother Team Win Destination Imagination Competition
  News • 4/5/2006
  David Nelson (current 8th grader) and his sister Kalle Nelson (current 7th grader) won the Desintation Imagination Regional Competition that was held on March 18, 2006 at Lorain Community College. By winning the Middle School Improv division, their team will now advance to the state competition to b ...

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• 6th Grade Student`s Bookmark Wins Ohio Energy Project Award
  News • 4/4/2006
  Henry Holmes (current 6th grade student) was recently recognized by the Ohio Energy Project (OEP) for his award winning finish in the OEP Bookmark Contest. This annual event gives students in grades 4 - 12 the opportunity to design bookmarks based on an energy efficiency theme. Henry`s bookmark (see ...

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• 6th Grade Knowledge Master Team Places Second in Ohio!
  News • 3/30/2006
  The Sixth Grade Knowledge Master Team recently took part in the winter Knowledge Master Open Competition for Sixth Grade Teams this past March and finished in 2nd place in the state of Ohio and 35th place in the world! Congratulations to the team of sixth graders and to Mrs. Jewell, the faculty advi ...

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• Senior Wins City Club Debate
  News • 3/10/2006
  Hawken senior Alyssa Lane won the City Club of Cleveland`s annual High School Debate Championship. This was Alyssa`s third consecutive year competing in the City Club`s Lincoln-Douglas style debate. She and her sister Jenny, a 2001 Hawken graduate, have participated in the City Club debate a total o ...

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• Seventh Graders Host Visiting Artist
  News • 3/6/2006
  Artist Bess Rodriguez will be visiting seventh grade classes this week. Ms. Rodriguez paints primarily in acrylics and is an expressionistic colorist. She will be working with seventh graders to creates works using egg tempera. In conjunction with the seventh grade history curriculum, students creat ...

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• Seventh Grade Students Begin To Build Bridges
  News • 3/3/2006
  Seventh grade students have begun the Bridge Building Project; an interdisciplinary curriculum unit between Science and Math that challenges teams of students to construct a bridge that can support a certain amount of weight. Students recently met with Marc Ciccarelli, an architect from Studio Techn ...

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• Robots Take Center Stage at Case Engineering Week
  News • 2/28/2006
  Hawken entered two robots in the High School Lego Robot competition at Case against 44 other teams from area high schools. One robot lost in the first round. Two tied Lake Ridge Academy in the first round, advancing to the second round by a coin-flip tie-breaker. Those two eventually fell in the sec ...

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• Tyler Kirsch Named Player of the Week
  News • 2/16/2006
  Senior basketball player Tyler Kirsch was named a Player of the Week by the Plain Dealer. Last week, he scored 17 points and had five assists, four rebounds an three steals in a victory over Beachwood. He also totaled 10 points, four rebounds and three assists in a win over Western Reserve. The Plai ...

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• 6th Grade Knowledge Master Team Places 2nd In Ohio!
  News • 1/31/2006
  Hawken`s 6th Grade Knowledge Master Team participated in the January 25th 6th Grade Knowledge Master Open. The team`s efforts resulted in a 2nd place finish in the state of Ohio! Team members John B., Kathleen C., Sunjeev D., Aaron E., Graham F., Greg F., Nick H., Claire H., Jonathan M., and Adil M. ...

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• Kene Anoliefo `06
  News • 1/26/2006
  Kene Anoliefo `06 is a Hawk on the go. Whether she is running circles around other track competitors, chairing the Bloodmobile, serving on student council, or traveling to London with the Hawken Chorale, this senior is recognized for her energy, smile, cooperative spirit, and personal motto: \"I alw ...

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• Bright Horizons Announces Annual Events
  News • 1/24/2006
  Bright Horizons, a community service program that gets Upper School students involved with younger students in underserved communities, has announced the events planned for 2006. The long-running, student-driven program invites Upper School students to visit an inner city school on a weekly basis to ...

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• Cozying Up With a Good Book
  News • 1/12/2006
  The Lower School participated in a Read-In on January 6. The event came about after Lower School Director Kathie Macewan spoke with a 4th grader who really enjoyed his third grade \"read-in\" experience. There is a national read-in day in March is in honor of Dr. Seuss, in which students are encoura ...

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• Will Bowen Plays Long Awaited Suicide Prevention Concert
  News • 12/19/2005
  Earlier this year, Hawken`s Upper School students placed first in the Suicide Prevention Educational Alliance Walk into the Light fundraising event held at the Cleveland Zoo. Hawken students raised the most funds among participating area high schools, over $3000. As a thanks for their hard work, the ...

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• Students Invest in Community
  News • 12/9/2005
  Last year the Investment Club won three consecutive seasons of the Ohio Stock Market Game. Then they followed their successes with a trip to New York City and Wall Street where they visited the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. But the group decided that it wasn`t enough for themselves to succee ...

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• 4th Graders Boast Most Seaworthy Craft
  News • 12/7/2005
  Students, faculty and alumni of Hawken participated in the inaugural Cardboard Boat Regatta, sponsored by the new Principles of Engineering and Design class. Nineteen teams participated in the event, which took place Sunday, December 18th at Holtrey pool, on the Gates Mills campus. Teams included al ...

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• Swimmer Signs With Nationally Ranked Nebraska
  News • 12/7/2005
  Senior Brittany Legal has signed a national letter of intent to swim at Division I Nebraska. She nearly reached the pinnacle of swimming when she qualified for the 2004 Canadian Olympic trials in the 400- and 800-meter freestyle, reaching the finals of the 800. Legal was the runner-up in the 500-yar ...

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• Steven Biel `79 to Speak at the Hunt Club
  News • 11/16/2005
  Alumni author Steven Biel `79 will address donors at the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club on Friday, November 18th. This event will recognize members of the James A. Hawken Society, the Heritage Society and the supporters of the successful Hawken Now! campaign, which has raised $10 million so far toward the ...

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• Visiting Author Highlights Africa and Writing Craft at Lyndhurst
  News • 11/7/2005
  Jane Kurtz visited the Lower School and Middle School community on November 1-2. She did special presentations with 4th and 2nd grade, read to kindergarten and shared lunch with Power of the Pen participants. Her presentation was varied and engaging, including many photos. Kurtz grew up in Ethiopia, ...

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• Give Thanks for Alumni Events!
  News • 10/26/2005
  Thanksgiving weekend is packed with alumni events. Last`s year`s inaugural TGIF celebration was a huge success, and this year is expected to be no different. Upper School and current college students are invited to meet with young alumni and openly discuss their path since Hawken graduation at the P ...

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• Tyler Kirsch Player of the Week
  News • 10/13/2005
  Senior Tyler Kirsch has been named a Player of the Week by the Plain Dealer. The golfer earned medalist honors at the Oak Knolls sectional by shooting a 77. He also led the Hawks to the Chagrin Valley Conference Metro Division tournament title and earned medalist honors with a 76. The Plain Dealer w ...

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• Anne Kmieck Exhibits Out of the Closet: Her Side
  News • 9/22/2005
  Notre Dame College Art Department presents Upper School art teacher Anne T. Kmieck`s show "Out of the Closet: Her Side" through October 20 in the Performing Arts Center. Kmieck says "This show features four new works inspired by the words and writings of 19th century women, as well as four from the ...

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• Hawken Parent Appears in Upcoming Production
  News • 9/22/2005
  Hawken parent Susan Lucier will encounter several Mr. Wrongs when she performs in Theresa Rebeck`s one-woman play Bad Dates in the MainStage theater production at the Solon Center for the Arts in October. The comedy, directed by Jacqi Loewy, is about a divorced, single-mother of a teenage daughter w ...

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• Former Hawken Parent Featured on "60 Minutes"
  News • 9/7/2005
  Hawken former parent Dr. Eric Topol, was recently featured as an expert on the Vioxx situation on CBS` "60 Minutes". Dr. Topol, chief of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, was Merck`s first and most persistent critic. In 2001, he conducted a statistical analysis of all the available da ...

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• Praise for American Gothic
  News • 7/15/2005
  Steven Biel `79 has written American Gothic: The Life of America`s Most Famous Painting , which explores how the public`s opinion of the famous Grant Wood painting has evolved over the painting`s 75-year history. The New York Times Book Review praised Biel`s writing as full of "wit and broad knowled ...

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• Hawken Debaters Excel at National Tournament
  News • 7/11/2005
  Two members of Hawken School`s Speech and Debate Team placed in the top 20 in Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the National Forensic League National Speech Tournament in Philadelphia, PA on June 13-17, 2005. Hawken School was the only high school in the nation to have two debaters finish in the top 20. Out ...

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• Middle School Lacrosse Players Excel
  News • 7/7/2005
  Maddie Bell `09 and Taylor Stone `09 have been recognized for their lacrosse skills on a regional and national level. Maddie and Erin Bruek `09 were the Hawken players nominated by coach Erin Thomas to compete in an all-star game in Cincinnati on June 11. After playing in the North/South Middle Scho ...

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• Seventh Grade Mock Trial
  News • 5/30/2005
  The annual seventh grade Mock Trial is set to take place from June 1-2 during Mr. Scully`s history classes. This event places students in the role of lawyers who must \"try\" a fictitious case before their peers and the presiding \"judge,\" real-life lawyer Mr. Jim Berkman. Students have been prepar ...

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• MacEwan,Hilborn Named as Lower School Administrative Team
  News • 5/19/2005
  ... mmunicate with parents through monthly divisional newsletters, her collaboration with PS-Math Chair Chris Lowber to articulate and implement the Math Program, and her examination of the current Preschool structure. MacEwan will be joined by Mary Beth Hilborn, the current Acting Assistant Directo ...

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• 5th and 6th Graders Excel in Math Competition
  News • 5/12/2005
  On Saturday May 7, three teams of fifth graders and three teams of sixth graders participated in the GCCTM math competition, where their hard work and diligence were evident in their performance. Both grades earned two blue ribbons and one trophy award. The competition included four categories: Prob ...

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• Latin Students Earn Top Marks on National Exams
  News • 5/12/2005
  Hawken 8th Graders Samuel M. and Jacob S. recently earned 39/40, or Summa Cum Laude, on the National Latin Exam, and John B. earned a Cum Laude award. The exam requires students to answer forty questions on topics ranging from history and mythology to Latin grammar and Latin reading comprehension. T ...

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• Sculptor Alicia Basinger Visits Upper School Art Classes
  News • 5/4/2005
  During the week of May 2, ceramicist Alicia Basinger visited the Upper School, working with students in the art studio and discussing her work. Basinger`s sculptures \"concentrate on how manmade and natural forces interact with, encroach upon and transform the earth`s landscape. Basinger deliberatel ...

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• Josh Berns and Kids for the Cure Featured in Plain Dealer
  News • 5/3/2005
  7th Grader Josh Berns and his family were featured by Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett in the Sunday, May 1 edition of the Plain Dealer. Brett`s column details the Berns family`s efforts to raise youth cancer awareness by starting an Ohio Kids for the Cure Run/Walk to raise money for breast cance ...

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• Knowledge Master Teams Finish 1st & 3rd in Ohio!
  News • 5/2/2005
  The Hawken Middle School 7th/8th Grade Knowledge Master Teams have done it again! Team Unparalleled came in 1st in the state of Ohio, 17th in the world, and 3rd out of all the teams of similar school-size in the world. Fantastic Job, Team Unparalleled!! Team Incomparable was 3rd in the state of Ohio ...

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• Fifth Graders Show Their Stuff at Science Expo!
  News • 4/18/2005
  Hawken fifth graders recently completed long-term Science research projects and displayed their findings during The Third Annual Hawken Lower School Science Expo. Beginning last November, students selected a topic of interest and developed an experimental procedure designed to answer a specific ques ...

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• Science Excites Lower School Students
  News • 3/5/2005
  Twenty Hawken fifth-grade students competed as a team in the 2005 Science Olympiad held at Cleveland State University in March. The Olympiad is a team event for local elementary schools that promotes the fun and excitement of science. The Hawken team finished first out of 24 participating schools in ...

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• Speech and Debate Team Advances to State and National Tournament
  News • 2/5/2005
  Hawken School Speech and Debate students participated in the Ohio High School Speech League Cleveland District Tournament on February 4-5, 2005, at Vermilion High School. Sarah B. was the district champion in Lincoln Douglas debate. Overall, Hawken placed second in team sweepstakes out of 22 schools ...

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• Dr. Barron Lerner '78 Publishes New Book
  News • 5/27/2014
  Bioethecist, internist and 1978 Hawken graduate Dr. Barron Lerner will visit Cleveland in early June to promote his new book, The Good Doctor .

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• Jazz Legend to Visit Hawken
  News • 4/25/2014
  From April 24-26, Jazz legend Michael Henderson will work with members of Hawken's student Jazz Band as part of the School's "From Motown to Miles and Beyond" curriculum unit geared toward expanding students performance-based music skills.

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• Alumni Celebrated at Winter Luncheon
  News • 12/24/2013
  An estimated 175 graduates attended the Alumni Winter Luncheon at the Gates Mills Campus on December 20, returning to visit with fellow alumni and former teachers.

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• Prizes Awarded at 5th Annual STEMM Symposium
  News • 11/21/2013
  25 Upper School students presented projects ;before a panel of judges at the fifth annual Bob Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium earlier this week.

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• Graduate's Film Chosen for Film Festival
  News • 9/23/2013
  "Becoming an Ally," a film by Annie Koeblitz '09, was shown at the ; Global Peace Film Festival in Orlando last week.

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• Hawken Named Top Workplace
  News • 6/26/2013
  Hawken School has been named a Top Work Place  in the Plain Dealer's 4th annual listing of 100 Top Workplaces.

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• Graduate's Project to be Featured at Urban Outfitters
  News • 6/24/2013
  If you're shopping at Urban Outfitters in Hollywood or NYC this month, look for a popup store called African Lookbook, founded by Aaron Kohn '09.

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• Hawken Graduate Named President of Kenyon
  News • 4/10/2013
  Dr. Sean Decatur, a 1986 Hawken graduate, has been named president of Kenyon College after a national search. ;He begins his appointment in July and becomes the first African-American president of the Gambier, OH, college.

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• Hawken Announces Lyndhurst Campus Project
  News • 2/19/2013
  Due to the generous lead support of Daniel and Ellie Hurwitz and other ;contributing Hawken community members, Hawken School will be moving forward with the completion ;of its Lyndhurst campus renovation. ;In recognition of Dan and Ellie’s generosity and leadership, the Lower ;School building ...

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• STEMM Students Impress with Presentations
  News • 11/19/2012
  Hawken flexed its brain power as Upper School students presented their projects before a panel of judges ;at the fourth annual Bob Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium. ;Dr. Christopher Wilson, who teaches pediatric neurology at the Case School of Medicine, was the keynote speaker. Kathleen Graham '13 ...

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• 2011 Graduate Pens First Book
  News • 8/27/2012
  Julie Zeilinger '11 has followed her popular teen blog thefbomb.org ;with a book published by Seal Press. ; Julie's interest in feminism was sparked by her middle school advisor who recommended she read ; Jessica Valenti’s book, Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminis ...

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• Debaters Excel in Indianapolis Competition
  News • 6/19/2012
  Hawken debaters participated in the National Forensic League National Debate tournament in Indianapolis, June 10-15. Ani Dasarathy ‘12 achieved semi-finalist status by placing 11th in Lincoln Douglas debate and received a trophy at the Lincoln Douglas final round debate. Tim Perevozchikov &lsq ...

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• Hawks to Perform in Community Theater Production
  News • 4/30/2012
  Josh Schneider ’18 , Kole Hoffman ’16 , Tara Krantz ’16 and Larry Fulton ’15 will be performing in Beachwood Community Theatre’s “13,” which will open this Friday, May 4 at 8:00 pm, and run through the first three weekends in May. All four students, who were ...

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• Girls Tennis 3rd in State; Girls Golf 5th!
  News • 10/24/2011
  The Hawken girls tennis team played in the D-II State Team Tournament Final Four in Columbus on Sunday, October 23rd. They were defeated in the semifinals by Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy, but won in the 3rd place match over Columbus Academy. Surya Khadilkar '12, Sydney Green '15, and Emily Lei ...

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• Junior Competes at National Level in National History Day Competition
  News • 5/31/2011
  This winter, Ani Dasarathy ’12 entered the National History Day Competition by submitting his website project, “The Kansas-Nebraska Act: The Debate Over the Expansion of Slavery,” to the individual website category. In March, his web site was designated as one of the top two in th ...

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• Student Sculptures on Display at Cleveland Museum of Art
  News • 12/10/2010
  Visit through January 2

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• Student and Faculty Photographs Selected for Fava Gallery Exhibit
  News • 3/13/2009
  Guy Baratz '09 and upper school art teacher Hank Skladanowski submitted winning works in the Six-State Photography Show at the FAVA Gallery in Oberlin.

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• Graduates Welcomed at Winter Luncheon
  News • 1/9/2013
  A record number of graduates returned to Hawken's Gates Mills campus on December 22 to visit with fellow alumni and to recognize ; the following for their contributions to Hawken and the community: ; - Alexander W. Kennedy '67 received the ;Carl N. Holmes Award, presented by Bill Bruner II '67 - Ala ...

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• Debater Places 2nd in Nation
  News • 5/30/2012
  Will Mascaro ‘15 placed second in the nation in Congressional Debate at the National Catholic Forensic League Grand Finals held in Baltimore May 26-27, 2012. More than 200 students participated in Congressional Debate at the tournament offering six forensics and four debate events. “This ...

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• Graduates Honored at Winter Luncheon
  News • 12/18/2011
  Alumni gathered at the Gates Mills campus on Saturday, December 17 for a traditional luncheon honoring alumni Vincent Fiordalis II '57, Marla Esgar Robbins '75 and Andrew K. Rayburn '73, pictured above, for their contributions to Hawken and the community. Click here for a full program of the event a ...

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• Thirty-Eight Students Qualify for the Future Problem Solving State Bowl
  News • 3/10/2023
  This year, 38 Birchwood 6th-8th grade students qualified for the Future Problem Solving (FPS) State Bowl. Each year Birchwood 6th-8th grade students apply a six-step model which teaches critical and creative thinking, and problem solving to qualify as individuals or teams composed of four students.& ...

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• Terrence Robinson II '22
  News • 9/24/2021
  ...am down field on a 96-yard game-winning drive." Terrence also was awarded News-Herald Player of the week: https://www.news-herald.com/2021/09/23/news-herald-players-of-the-week-for-sept-23/ and CVC Player of the Week https://www.chagrinvalleyconference.com/cvc-athletes-of-the-week-september-24-20 ...

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• Hawken Students Win Awards at 2021 Science and Engineering Fair
  News • 4/21/2021
  Congratulations to our Hawken School scientists on their tremendous presentations at the 2021 Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSF). The following students received notable commendation for their excellent work:

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• Future Problem Solvers Head to State Bowl
  News • 4/13/2021
  Six teams and two individual students from Birchwood School have qualified to compete at the State Bowl of International Future Problem Solving. Though it is being held virtually again this year, these students engaged in a rigorous process of research and an in-depth, six-step problem solving proce ...

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• Students Receive Upbeat Welcome Back Message from Teachers
  News • 4/1/2020
  Students were welcomed back to Hawken after spring break with this virtual video featuring faculty and staff, who, along with some of their temporary “co-workers,” sent greetings from their homes. They have been busily preparing to launch remote teaching and learning throughout spring br ...

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• Birchwood Students Win at National History Day Competition
  News • 6/14/2019
  Over 3,000 students in grades 6-12 from across the world met at the final level of National History Day June 9-13. After winning local and regional levels the top two entries in each category were invited to the University of Maryland, College Park, to compete on the national stage, where local stud ...

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• Wrestlers Headed to States
  News • 3/8/2019
  Hawken Wrestling had a day for the ages at the OHSAA D-III Northeast District Meet at Garfield Heights High School last weekend. The Hawks had not had a district champion since Jeff Walton did it in 1999, 20 years ago.   

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• Birchwood Students Win National Publication
  News • 2/3/2019
  Six Birchwood students were awarded recognition in Cricket magazine’s September story-writing contest and were published in the January 2019 edition. This national competition invited children to submit a story about an act of kindness. Zain Daoud earned an Honorable Mention award. Mei-Li Mann ...

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• In Memoriam
  News • 2/13/2018
  It is with great sorrow that Hawken School shares the news that Mike Iorio, retired Lyndhurst maintenance supervisor, passed away on Saturday, February 10 after suffering a heart attack.

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• Girls Swim Team Wins 26th State Title; Boys Team Places 2nd
  News • 3/4/2016
  Hawken girls swim team competed at the Division II State Championships in Canton this past weekend, placing 1 st  to win their 18 th  consecutive state title , with the boys team landing an impressive second place.

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• GIRLS SWIMMING WINS 25th STATE TITLE!
  News • 2/28/2015
  Hawken swimmers competed at the Division II State Championships yesterday. The girls placed 1st to win their 17th consecutive state title, and the boys placed 5th.

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• School Spirit Shines at Centennial Kick Off Weekend
  News • 10/21/2014
  Hawken School kicked off a year of centennial celebrations with a weekend of spirited festivities, October 10-11.

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• Senior Wins Harvard Debate Tournament
  News • 2/27/2014
  Will Mascaro '14 placed first out of 392 contestants representing 105 schools from 22 states at the Harvard National Congress tournament, February 15-17.

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• Girls Soccer Team Second in State
  News • 11/11/2013
  Congratulations to Hawken's girls soccer team for being the first in the school's history to make it to the state championship!

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• Hawken Announces The Sydell and Arnold Miller Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies
  News • 10/30/2013
  Hawken School is pleased to announce a generous gift from parents Lauren (Hawken Trustee) and Steven Spilman and Stacie and Jeffery Halpern for the establishment of a partnership with Hawken's Entrepreneurial Studies Program. The partnership will be called The Sydell and Arnold Miller Institute for ...

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• Girls Golf Are State Champs!
  News • 10/14/2013
  Girls Golf won the state title Saturday at the OHSAA's 6th Annual Girls Division II Golf Championships held at the Ohio State University Golf Course.

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• Hawken Graduate Wins Landmark Case
  News • 7/2/2013
  Hawken graduate Roberta Kaplan ’84 is the attorney responsible for winning the recent landmark case ;in which the ; U.S. Supreme Court ;determined the ; Defense of Marriage Act ;(DOMA) to be unconstitutional.

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• Girls Swim Team First in State, Boys Third!
  News • 2/23/2013
  ... e relay since 1989. Read early results in the Sun News , News Herald , and more articles below. Carrie Bencic Named News Herald Swimmer of the Year ; ;3/11/13, News Herald: 11 on Girls Team Receive News Herald All-Star Status ; ;3/11/13, News Herald: 5 on Boys Team Receive News Herald All-Star S ...

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• Hawks Enjoy Winning Streak
  News • 9/25/2012
  ... uo;14 for being named Player of the Week by the ; News Herald . ; Ally took first place at the Fleet Feet Cross Country Invitational in Strongsville on Saturday. Read about it in the News Herald and Plain Dealer . Sawyer's win at sectionals yesterday advances him to the District Tournament next ...

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• Hawks Featured in Local Press
  News • 9/5/2012
  ... n Division III. The team was also featured in the News Herald for their work with the Special Olympics soccer team. The boys soccer team was ranked No. 3 in the D-III state poll. Yesterday, they beat Chagrin Falls 3-2, who was ranked Nol. 9 in the D-II poll. This game, and striker Jacob Naft '13 ...

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• Former Cadet Shares Story of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
  News • 3/18/2011
  ... herine Miller, a former West Point cadet who made news when she publicly resigned under the military’s “Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, visited Hawken Upper School on March 17. She addressed the difficulty of living in a culture that did not accept gays and lesbians and her determinat ...

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• Ally Markovich Finishes Fourth in State Meet
  News • 11/10/2010
  ... osition through to the finish. Markovich told the News Herald, "Last year, I went out slower. But this year, if I wanted to be in a position to place, I needed to run faster the first two [miles] and then the third one - it's just give it all you've got." In 2009, Ally placed 12th at States in a ...

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• HPS Double Casts Fall Play
  News • 10/20/2009
  ... three shows to six. (Read more about this in the News-Herald .) Written at the end of the Second World War and set before World War I, An Inspector Calls is a compelling and haunting thriller by one of Britain's leading post-war dramatists. An immensely popular play in England, Priestley's mast ...

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• CareerNet Assembly Spotlights Hawken Parent Artists
  News • 3/4/2009
  ... motivated enough to push back and say +óGé¼-£I can`t not do it.` Without that insatiable inner drive and determination, they all agreed, a successful outcome is unlikely. Stay tuned for news about other professions to be highlighted in future CareerNet assemblies featuring Hawken parents and alu ...

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• Hawken in the News: Standouts and Record Breakers
  News • 5/28/2008
  One Hawk signs a letter of intent to play for an Ohio university and another breaks a track record. Read about Ryan Brenner's future after Hawken here and about Davis Filippell's performance at a recent district showdown here .

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• Let`s hear it for the teams
  News • 12/29/2006
  ... amed Coach of the Year. Junior Ryan Brenner named News Herald Player of the Week and CVC Metro Division MVP. Brenner also earned a CVC Metro Division medal. Women`s Golf Sophomore Pia Trikha named a Player of the Week by The Plain Dealer . Women`s Field Hockey Senior Liz McBean named a Plain Dea ...

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• Track and Field Teams win CVC Titles
  News • 5/12/2006
  ...Johnson (4x100, 4x200), Allie Sandacz (4x100), Louise Gliga (4x800), Peggy Seabright (4x800). Congratulations to Hayden Haas for being named News Herald - Player of the Week. Next week the Mens & Womens Track Teams will will be competing in the Division III District Meet at Independence High Scho ...

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• Junior Honored for Outstanding Season
  News • 5/8/2006
  ... Full of Trophies section of the Cleveland Jewish News on May 5, 2006. Recht, who plays mid-field forward for the Hawken women`s varsity soccer team, scored 18 goals last season and assisted on 13. She is proud of being named the Chagrin Valley Conference Most Valuable Player after leading her t ...

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• Faculty Artist Featured in Art Business News
  News • 4/26/2006
  \"My earliest memory is one of collecting objects and papers to put together to make a doll,\" says Denise Buckley. \"I cannot remember a time when I was not using a form of art to communicate. My art defines who I am. I have had many fine teachers along the way who inspired and pushed me to think, ...

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• Tyler Kirsch & Vicki Wilson Named Players of the Week
  News • 4/19/2006
  ... Field Player of the Week by the Plain Dealer and News Herald for his performance at the Beachwood Invitational. Tyler finished first in the Triple Jump with a meet record jump of 40`3\", and second in the High Jump earning himself the Meet MVP Award for Field Events. Tylers accomplishments cont ...

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• Students Appear on Channel One Network
  News • 4/13/2006
  ... ne Network. The Peabody Award-winning Channel One News and its three-time Webby Award-winning Web site feature breaking news and in-depth issues affecting the world and American teenagers. The 12-minute news broadcasts are delivered daily to more than seven million teens in middle schools and hi ...

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• More Than Just a Storybook Ending
  News • 3/7/2006
  ...my abilities to rediscover the motivation that arts school demanded of me. \"Winning the Gold Award was simply unbelievable, and I can`t adequately divide all the emotions I felt when I found out.\" Wilson`s mother, Jane Wilson of Kirtland, is proud. By Jenny May News-Herald Wednesday, March 1, 2 ...

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• Alum Novelist Addresses Upper School
  News • 9/29/2005
  ...from Goddard. She has written for Essence , The New York Times and The New York Daily News and has just published her third novel, Third Girl From the Left . Her visit was part of a series hosted by the English department. Tim O`Brien, author of The Things They Carried , spoke to students last fa ...

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• Drew Covitt
  News • 9/17/2018
  Junior Golfer To me, Hawken Athletics means dedication, teamwork, excitement, and success.

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• Park Design Project Kicks Off in Sixth Grade Math
  News • 2/5/2013
  ...r proposing that their design should be selected based on the benefits it brings to the city. Good Luck to all students as they use their geometry skills to undertake this experiential project! Thanks to math teacher, Mrs. Pam Richmann, for news of the engineer's visit and for this inspired proje ...

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• HAWKEN GIRLS WIN 13TH STRAIGHT STATE SWIM TITLE!
  News • 2/27/2011
  ...Relay (Henry Senkfor, Elijah Spiro, Micah Simpson, Ryan Stefancik) 14th place - 400 Free Relay (Henry Senkfor, Quinn McHale, Nick Ranallo, Micah Simpson) Links to media coverage: The Plain Dealer Sun News The News Herald OHSAA swimmeet.com Congratulations to our hard working swim teams! GO HAWKS! ...

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• Student Plan Approved for Cultural Garden
  News • 2/25/2013
  ... is to create a student-led space to learn, memorialize American cultural icons, enhance the neighborhood’s natural beauty, foster clean and safe interactions, and provide a welcoming space for all.” Read more about the project in this Cleveland Cultural Gardens ; news story and ; blo ...

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• 7th Grade Hosts Picnic at American Cultural Garden
  News • 6/13/2011
  ...oratory, Inc. The exciting news comes amidst the "Bust Out Twain" school-wide fundraiser to support their Community Picnic held in early June. Click here to read more from The Plain Dealer and Interim Middle School Director Matthew Young about Hawken's involvement with the American Cultural Garde ...

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• Birchwood Student Reaches Top Four for National Handwriting Honor
  News • 3/12/2025
  Congratulations to Birchwood School of Hawken second grader April, the Grade 2 Northeast Regional Winner in the 2025 Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest!  Congrats are also in order for third grader Tara and fourth grader Mina who were judged best in Birchwood for each of their respective ...

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• Birchwood Power of the Pen Teams Shine at Districts
  News • 1/13/2025
  Seventh and eighth grade teams from Birchwood School of Hawken competed in the first round of the Power of the Pen tournament season, held Jan. 11, at Fairview High School, and walked away with several awards, including three students who placed individually in their respective grade ’ s ...

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• Teamwork Propels Birchwood Students at Young Astronaut Day
  News • 11/4/2024
  Students from Birchwood School of Hawken turned in a stellar showing together as teams as well as paired off for separate competitions, finishing at or near the top team spots and turning in top three finishes in smaller groups at the 30th Annual Young Astronaut Day held this past Saturday, Nov. 2, ...

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• Hawken Speech and Debate Team Wins School of Outstanding Distinction Award at the National Speech and Debate Association National Tournament
  News • 6/25/2024
  More than 6,600 students from 1,500 schools across the country competed June 15-21 at the National Speech and Debate Association national tournament in Des Moines, Iowa. By week's end, the Hawken Speech and Debate Team earned the Association's highest honor and was named a School of Outstanding Dist ...

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• Birchwood POP Writers Bring Success to Next Level at Regional
  News • 3/11/2024
  Birchwood School of Hawken continued building on its earlier tourney success with a strong showing at the Northern Region Power of the Pen interscholastic creative writing competition at Baldwin Wallace University, in Berea, on Saturday, March 9.  Birchwood landed second in the Sweepstakes comp ...

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• Birchwood 7th & 8th Graders Scribe Their Way to Success at Power of the Pen Districts
  News • 2/27/2024
  Birchwood School of Hawken students let their ink do the talking at the Power of the Pen Northern Region District 2 competition as both of their teams earned top-three honors. Birchwood’s eighth-grade team won first overall  while the seventh grade placed  third overall . The school ...

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• Pair of Birchwood Students Place in Stone Soup Magazine Contest
  News • 1/5/2024
  Two Birchwood School of Hawken seventh-graders earned recognition from Stone Soup magazine for December entries in its monthly Flash Fiction writing contest. Chrysanthi Constantinou’s entry earned Winner honors and Andrew Khawam earned Honorable Mention for the same age category. 

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• Native Garden Flourishes on Mastery School Campus
  News • 9/15/2023
  Many Hawken community members may not be aware that Hawken has cultivated its own native garden, thanks to the combined efforts of teachers Claudia Tausz, Nick Fletcher, students from both the Mastery School and the Upper School, and numerous other members of the Hawken community. Located outside th ...

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• Birchwood Power of the Pen Team Places Second in Ohio
  News • 5/25/2023
  Birchwood School of Hawken’s 2023 Power of the Pen (POP) team wrote its way to rewards at the recent State of Ohio tournament, returning with a second-place overall finish as well as a handful more accolades earned by its seventh- and eighth-grade scribes.    Other Birchwood student ...

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• Joshua Gordon is Named Promising Young Writer
  News • 5/2/2023
  Joshua Gordon, an eighth grade student at Birchwood School of Hawken received First Class distinction for his writing "Only a Game" and was recognized as a 2023 Promising Young Writer by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). This year, schools nominated 146 students to participate in t ...

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• Students Soar at Future Problem Solving State Competition
  News • 4/19/2023
  This year, 19 Birchwood 6th-8th grade students placed at the Future Problem Solving (FPS) State Bowl. Each year students compete either in scenario writing - imagining specific problems and solutions the future may hold – or as teams of four or individuals who apply a six-step model which teac ...

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• Student Wins National Scholastic Writing Award
  News • 4/17/2023
  8th grader, Joshua Gordon, won a National Gold Medal in the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition for his flash fiction story "For Civilization." His work was one of 300,000 submissions by more than 100,000 students in the middle and high school art and writing competition, which places his story i ...

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• Birchwood Students Flex Brain Muscles At Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair
  News • 4/12/2023
  Birchwood School of Hawken’s seventh and eighth graders brought home several top three trophies as well as a variety of special awards while competing at the 70th annual Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF), held March 13-16, at Cleveland State University. Birchwood’s eig ...

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• Power of the Pen Regional Winners
  News • 3/1/2023
  Congratulations to Birchwood School of Hawken’s seventh and eighth grade teams who won several team, individual, and special awards at the 2023 Power of the Pen Regional Tournament at Kent State University on February 25. The Birchwood teams are coached by Lorraine Tzeng, Jennifer Seward, and ...

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• Birchwood Team Finished Third at MATHCOUNTS Chapter Round
  News • 2/24/2023
  At the 2023 Northeast Ohio MATHCOUNTS Chapter Round on February 18, the Birchwood School of Hawken team consisting of Ishika Chand, Caroline Lu, Haadeya Salman, Arav Bhandari, Joshua Gordon, Manya Raina, Jonathan Samulak, Ayat Jaffar, Nikhil Yalavarthy, and John Gordon placed 3rd out of the nine par ...

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• Birchwood Students Place High at Power of the Pen District Tournament
  News • 1/27/2023
  Twelve seventh and eighth grade Birchwood School of Hawken students flexed their creative expression at the recent Power of the Pen Northeast District 2 Tournament held Jan. 21 at Ashland Middle School. Under the direction of language arts teachers Lorraine Tzeng, Jennifer Seward and Allison Noga, B ...

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• Birchwood Students Soar at Young Astronaut Day
  News • 11/15/2022
  Science-minded students from Birchwood School of Hawken brought home winning accolades from the 28th Annual Young Astronaut Day, hosted by Cleveland State University, on Saturday, Nov. 5.   Competing against nine other teams, the Birchwood Mission Specialist Team (made up of eighth graders) won ...

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• Community Members Gather to Dedicate Speech and Debate Wall of Fame
  News • 10/21/2022
  Earlier this month during Homecoming and Reunion weekend, alumni, parents, past parents, and students gathered in the lobby of Stirn Hall to dedicate Hawken’s new Speech &; Debate Wall of Fame.

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• Students Among Top Competitors In National Stem Competition
  News • 9/16/2022
  Congratulations to recent Birchwood graduates Jasmine Chen (Westlake) and Michael Zhu (Avon) for earning spots in the 2022 Top 300 Broadcom MASTERS ®, the nation’s premier STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) competition for middle school students. Jasmine Chen competed in Oh ...

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• Hawken Athletics Announces Two New Wellness Initiatives with the Opening of McAfee Sports Medicine Clinic and a Partnership with Center for Peak Performance
  News • 9/12/2022
  Hawken Athletics is thrilled to announce the opening of the McAfee Sports Medicine Clinic. Made possible through the generous gift of Hawken alumnus Alexander “Sandy” McAfee ’42 , this new construction represents Phase II of the Kleinman Wellness Center and will provide signif ...

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• Student Places First at Future Problem Solving International Competition
  News • 6/22/2022
  Congratulations to 8th grade student, Omar Elbadawy for placing first at the 2022 Future Problem Solving Program International Conference in the Scenario Writing competition (Middle Division). His winning entry, entitled " The Big Bird " on the topic of Building Green, depicted the hard decisio ...

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• State Science Day Winners
  News • 6/17/2022
  For over 90 years and with more than 60,000 alumni, State Science Day is the pinnacle of student originated, inquiry-based science education for Ohio’s students. The academic equivalent of a state athletic championship, this year’s event was one of the largest of its kind in the nation. ...

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• Success at State Power of the Pen Tournament
  News • 5/17/2022
  This year a team of seventh and eighth graders from Birchwood School of Hawken competed against more than 180 schools at the Power of the Pen state competition, hosted by Otterbein University. State qualifying students were: Isabella Bixler, Areesha Nouman, Joshua Gordon, Ayat Jaffar, Stephen Parrin ...

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• Students Recognized by National Spanish Examinations
  News • 5/2/2022
  Every year Birchwood students studying Spanish under Noemi Rodriguez who wish to push themselves take the National Spanish Examination (NSE). The test is an online standardized assessment tool for 6th-12th graders and is given by about 4,000 teachers throughout the United States. It measures perform ...

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• First Grader’s Poem Published in Spider Magazine
  News • 4/25/2022
  Eliesha Parrino’s poem will be published in the May/June issue of Spider magazine. Students were asked to submit a poem about "bragging." Her poem can be found below or on their website.    I am fast, you are slow. You don’t know how to go. I am faster than a cheetah. You are s ...

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• Students Soar on the National Latin Exam
  News • 4/23/2022
  The National Latin Exam, given in March every year by the American Classical League, tests students on their knowledge of Latin grammar and vocabulary as well as aspects of Roman culture such as history, architecture, and clothing. Birchwood’s 7th and 8th graders - coached by Catherine Haskins ...

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• Ten Students Qualify for FPSPI International Conference
  News • 4/18/2022
  This year 35 Birchwood 6th-8th grade students qualified for the Future Problem Solving (FPS) State Bowl. Each year Birchwood 6th-8th grade students apply a six-step model which teaches critical and creative thinking, and problem solving in order to qualify as individuals or teams composed of four st ...

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• Birchwood Student Earns Silver at National Scholastic Writing Awards
  News • 3/31/2022
  Aanya Lakireddy of Strongsville won the National Silver Medal in the Scholastic Writing Awards on March 23 rd for her short story entitled, “ Who are you? ” The eighth grader’s personal essay about her grandfather and a poignant moment in the progression of his dementia had pr ...

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• Thirty-Five Students Advance to Future Problem Solving State Bowl
  News • 3/15/2022
  This year 35 Birchwood 6th-8th grade students qualified for the Future Problem Solving (FPS) State Bowl. Each year Birchwood’s 6th-8th grade students apply a six-step model which teaches critical and creative thinking, and problem solving in order to qualify as individuals or teams composed of ...

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• Students Raise Record-Breaking Harvest for Hunger Funds
  News • 3/14/2022
  Birchwood School of Hawken students have been raising food and money donations for Harvest for Hunger since 2006. This year’s goal was $10,000 and they exceeded that goal and raised $10,545.35.  Each year the third and fourth grade students are led through the creative problem solving pro ...

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• Birchwood Science Olympians Land on Top
  News • 3/10/2022
  On Saturday, March 6, Birchwood students competed in the 2022 Science Olympiad competition held at Case Western Reserve University. The Birchwood team, coached by Linda Brown, Michelle Bogden, Lauren Miller, Sam Miller, and Rana Bottino have been practicing since October 2021. This team composed of ...

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• Hawken Announces Hawk Link/KWW Sponsorship
  News • 3/4/2022
  Hawken School is pleased to announce that Kastner Westman &; Wilkins, LLC (KWW) is the sponsor of Hawk Link. Sean McKinley ’14 and Julie Pullin Trout ’00 are attorneys at KWW and are thrilled that this partnership provides a way of giving back to their alma mater. They recognize the bene ...

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• Published Poet
  News • 3/1/2022
  Congratulations to Jordan Gordon, an 8th grade student, for being named a Top Ten Winner in the Fall 2021 Poem Contest sponsored by Creative Communication in the 7th-9th grade age division. His poem and nine others were recognized from the 6,600 entries and will be published in “A Celebration ...

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• Power of the Pen District Champions
  News • 2/28/2022
  Congratulations to Birchwood’s 7th and 8th grade teams who took home the first place trophy at the Power of the Pen District competition. The team is coached by Lorraine Tzeng, Jennifer Seward, and Maysan Hadar. In addition to winning team titles, these students also brought home some impressi ...

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• Upper School Students Present at Annual STEMM Symposium
  News • 12/8/2021
  Hawken Science Research III students took part in the 13th annual Bob Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium earlier this month, presenting their projects before a panel of expert judges, families, and other guests. Topics ranged from “Effects of Peripheral Inflammation on Neural Circuitry Involved ...

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• Birchwood Teacher is Recognized by Teaching Cleveland
  News • 12/1/2021
  This month Teaching Cleveland spotlighted Todd Boyer, a social studies teacher for 1st-4th graders at Birchwood School of Hawken. Todd ’ s love of history has resulted in his joining the National Council for Social Studies, National Council for History Education, and the Ohio History Connectio ...

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• Calling Parents and Alumni: Internships Needed for Hawken Seniors and Young Alumni
  News • 11/30/2021
  Our parent and alumni community is fortunate to have an immensely rich and talented base of business, civic and cultural leaders. Every year, our Advancement Office fields requests from current seniors and college-age alumni for connections within the Hawken community, local and national, to help gu ...

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• Birchwood Students Rally Again for their Cleveland Neighbors
  News • 11/29/2021
  Each year Birchwood School of Hawken’s first grade students spearhead a schoolwide Thanksgiving Food Drive for their Cleveland neighbors. For the 14th year, Mrs. Sprau, Mrs. Mamone, and Mrs. Higginbotham helped their first grade classes coordinate with the Bountiful Basement Hunger Center, loc ...

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• Kleinman Family Gathers to Dedicate Wellness Center
  News • 11/29/2021
  On November 24, 2021, a small gathering of the Kleinman family and friends gathered for the dedication of the Kleinman Wellness Center on the Gates Mills campus. The lead gift for the new Center was generously provided by Blake ’95 and Sevda Kleinman in honor of Blake’s late father Reed, ...

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• APEX Awards Recognize Excellence in Communication
  News • 7/27/2021
  At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Birchwood School recognized the importance of effective communication as the key to holding their community together and maintaining the academic excellence and character development for which they are known. Their efforts began with an email crafted by eight u ...

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• Birchwood Students Win Top Honors for Latin
  News • 5/25/2021
  This March Birchwood Latin students took the National Latin Exam along with students across the United States and around the world. Many earned gold and silver medals and Omar Elbadawy (7th grade) earned a coveted “Perfect Paper” award, just the second in the school’s history. Gold ...

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• Record Number of Birchwood Students Headed to State Science Day
  News • 5/3/2021
  On April 19 th, the results of District Science Day were announced, with a record number of Birchwood students heading to State Science Day in May.   Superior Rating and State Science Day Qualifiers Ayat Jaffar (6 th grade) for “Can a Microbial Fuel Cell be Used to Create Electricity from ...

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• Senior Awarded Gates Scholarship
  News • 4/21/2021
  Hearty congratulations to senior Aniyah Nelson , who was recently named a Gates Scholar!

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• Birchwood Ranks Number One in the Region in Ohio Mathematics League Competition
  News • 4/20/2021
  Birchwood School’s sixth, seventh, and eighth-graders participated in the Ohio Mathematics League contest, which offers middle school students the opportunity to compete against each other to solve challenging word problems in thirty minutes. The contest requires a broad understanding of mathe ...

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• Young Mathematics Champions Recognized Nationally
  News • 4/13/2021
  Over the past five months, Birchwood students competed in a series of 30-minute math tests sponsored by the Continental Mathematics League. The second, third, and fourth grade teams earned national recognition for their outstanding work.   The second-grade team won 4 th place nationally (out of ...

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• Birchwood Named Regional Champion at Power of the Pen
  News • 4/1/2021
  The regional Power of the Pen competition was held virtually this year but was no less a challenge to the students who performed their best creative writing; and no less an honor to those recognized for their excellent performance. The regional competition included 21 schools with 63 7th grade and 6 ...

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• Student Wins Scholastic National Gold Medal Award
  News • 3/24/2021
  Birchwood School 7 th grader, Isabella Bixler, was awarded a Gold Key at the national level of Scholastics Art &; Writing Awards for her written work called, “Home.” Despite the challenges of the pandemic, more than 80,000 students across the country participated in the 2021 awards with ...

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• History Teacher Acquires the Tools to Help Students Dig Deep
  News • 3/9/2021
  Mr. Joseph Parrino, a teacher at Birchwood School of Hawken, is one of 120 teachers around the world selected for a National History Day (NHD) professional development program. The course focuses on using online Library of Congress resources to develop and support historical arguments. National Hist ...

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• Students Raise Record-Breaking Harvest for Hunger Funds
  News • 3/8/2021
  Birchwood School of Hawken students have been raising food and money donations for Harvest for Hunger every year since 2006. This year’s goal was $2,500 but they raised over $7,000, breaking all their previous records. Each year the third and fourth grade students are led through the creative ...

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• Students Advance to State MathCounts Tournament
  News • 3/8/2021
  Five Birchwood students competed among the 21 Northeast Ohio finalists in the MathCounts chapter round finals. Three qualified for the state tournament. Their coach, Mr. Charles Debelak said, “I wish everyone could go on to state, but this is the nature of a competition against the best math s ...

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• Birchwood Students Advance to MathCounts Chapter Round
  News • 2/24/2021
  Birchwood students competed to advance to the chapter rounds of the MathCounts. The competition was fierce with 2,500 students participating in this round. Their coach, Mr. Charles Debelak said, “I wish everyone could go on to state, but this is the nature of a competition against the best mat ...

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• Creative Writing Advances Birchwood Teams to the Next Level
  News • 2/22/2021
  On February 6 th , Birchwood’s seventh and eighth grade teams competed at the district level Power of the Pen creative writing tournament taking top honors. The seventh grade team placed second and the eighth grade team placed first. Both teams advance to the regional competition.   Indiv ...

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• Thirty-Eight Students Shine on Math Olympiad Test
  News • 2/1/2021
  After the third of five Math Olympiad tests, Birchwood students have earned their medals, with three holding a perfect score thus far:  Gold Jacob Gao (6 th grade) perfect score! Jordan Gordon (7 th grade) perfect score! Joshua Gordon (6 th grade) Shivam Mahajan (5 th grade) Julia McClenin (5 t ...

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• National Math Competition Honors Birchwood School of Hawken Students
  News • 2/1/2021
  Birchwood School of Hawken students competed in the American Mathematics Competition 8 (AMC 8) and three finished among the top 5% of all math students in the United States. Two others were also recognized for their exceptional scores. Angela D’Souza (7 th grade) finished third place in her se ...

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• Continental Mathematics League Recognizes Local Birchwood Mathematicians
  News • 1/26/2021
  Continental Mathematics League holds five meets per year that students can participate in from school or home. Students are given 30 minutes to answer six questions aimed at furthering students’ progress in the art of problem solving.  After the third test was completed this week, local B ...

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• Scholastics Awards Birchwood School of Hawken Writers
  News • 1/11/2021
  The nation’s longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens has awarded local teens their highest honors. Each year Scholastic Art and Writing Awards accepts entries from seventh through twelfth-grade students in 28 categories. They are then blindly adjudicated by som ...

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• Birchwood’s Math Students Rank in the Top 10%
  News • 12/16/2020
  This fall second through fourth grade students nationwide competed online in the semiannual, problem-solving, Noetic Learning Math Contest. Birchwood School’s second grade team was among the top 10% of teams in that grade, earning the Team Achievement Award. Individual students in both second ...

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• Two Hawken Students Named QuestBridge Scholars
  News • 12/10/2020
  Congratulations to the two Hawken seniors who, through the QuestBridge Scholars Program, have matched with a college that will provide them 100% financial aid in the form of scholarships to cover the full cost of tuition, fees, room and board, books and supplies, and travel expenses for four years o ...

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• Ella Gilson '21
  News • 9/26/2020
  ... sphere.  Interview with Nate Barnes with the News Herald: "I felt really strong," Gilson said. "I actually started going back to swimming this week, I’m really happy with how I feel and how I ran. I feel like I ran the hill really well, in the trails I stayed strong and I just tried t ...

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• Noteworthy Patriotism
  News • 9/21/2020
  Ben Miyares and his Boy Scouts of America troop 605 packmates took on the responsibility of retiring Birchwood School of Hawken’s American flag.    He described the ceremonial process saying,   When a flag becomes worn and torn, ripped and ragged, it is disrespectful just to thr ...

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• Two 2020 Graduates Recognized for Achievement in Spanish
  News • 9/14/2020
  Congratulations to Maddy Eippert ’20 and Adele Metres ’20 on receiving national recognition for their achievements in Spanish!

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• Orientation Prepares Students for Official School Opening
  News • 9/5/2020
  After being away from school for nearly six months as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, students returned to their respective campuses this week eager to engage with peers and teachers and to begin a new school year - albeit under very unfamiliar circumstances.

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• Achievement and Time-on-Task
  News • 9/1/2020
  Increased time-on-task equals increased achievement in school.

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• Birchwood Students Win National History Day Competition
  News • 6/26/2020
  Birchwood School of Hawken students recently competed in the National History Day Contest, held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, June 14-20. Rebecca Chin and Abby Gemechu won 4 th place for their website on the visual arts of the Harlem Renaissance. Angela D’Souza earned 9 th ...

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• Birchwood Team Places 13th and Omar Elbadawy Places 7th at International Future Problem Solving
  News • 6/17/2020
  June 4th -9th qualifying students across the world participated in Future Problem Solving’s International Conference virtually. Congratulations to the Birchwood School of Hawken team on placing 13th overall. Congratulations are also extended to Omar Elbadawy who won 7th place in the junior sce ...

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• Birchwood Students Win Regional Power of the Pen
  News • 6/1/2020
  This year’s north regional Power of the Pen tournament was held virtually and concluded with a live-streamed award announcement on Thursday, May 28 th . The creative writing of Birchwood’s students earned the 7 th grade team 2 nd place and the 8 th grade team 3 rd place. Additionally, Si ...

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• Birchwood Writer Wins National Award
  News • 5/26/2020
  The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has recognized Birchwood School of Hawken eighth grader, Abigail Gemechu, as a Promising Young Writer .

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• Award Winning Cursive Penmanship
  News • 5/17/2020
  Birchwood School’s third and fourth grades held a school-wide cursive handwriting competition. Aisha won the third grade level and Leen won the fourth grade level. Their winning entries were then submitted to the state level of the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest. We are pleased to a ...

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• Birchwood’s 2nd and 4th Grade Teams Win Noetic Math Contest
  News • 5/7/2020
  Second through fourth grade students nationwide competed online in The Noetic Learning Math Contest (NLMC), a semiannual, problem-solving contest . Each student was given 50 minutes to complete 20 questions designed to challenge them and develop their analytic skills.   This year, 14,502 studen ...

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• Birchwood Team Places 1st at State Future Problem Solving
  News • 4/26/2020
  In April, 4 th through 12 th grade students across the world participated in qualifying competitions virtually, earning invitations to the International Future Problem Solving Conference to be held June 3-7. Cleveland area students at Birchwood School of Hawken delved into topics such as Internation ...

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• Three Hawks Land Coveted Scholarships
  News • 4/24/2020
  Congratulations to the two Hawken juniors and one senior who were recently named recipients of highly selective scholarships.

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• Birchwood Places First in Ohio Math League Competition
  News • 4/7/2020
  In Ohio’s league, Birchwood School of Hawken’s 6 th grade and 8 th grade teams placed 1 st for their grade level and the 7 th grade team placed 2 nd .  In addition, 14 individual students placed in the top 25 for their age division

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• Birchwood Students’ Creative Writing Wins Big at Power of the Pen
  News • 2/21/2020
  On Saturday, February 8, Birchwood’s 7th and 8th grade teams competed at the district level Power of the Pen creative writing tournament. The 7th grade team placed 2nd and the 8th grade team placed 4th   out of 21 teams. Individually, James Mamone placed 10th  ...

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• Birchwood MathCounts Team Wins 1 st Place
  News • 2/19/2020
  Birchwood School’s MathCounts team won 1st place at the regional Chapter Competition held at Cleveland State University on February 15th. They also placed 2nd in the Speed Round. Additionally, several team members placed individually: James Mamone (8th grade of Parma) placed 2nd; Manan Raina ( ...

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• Hawks find ways to win on Senior Night!
  News • 1/29/2020
  Last Friday on senior night, both Will Lindsey '20 and Jackson Reineke '20 added on to their great season of success.  This season Jackson has had 9 pins and Will with 14 (tied team high) 106   Patrick Reineke, Hawken  19-0    100%   8 pins West G- Win Pi ...

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• National Math Competition Awards 7 Birchwood Students
  News • 1/24/2020
  Birchwood students competed in the American Mathematics Competition 8 (AMC 8) and two finished among the top 5% of all math students in the United States. Five others were also recognized for their exceptional scores. Jacob Gao - scored 22- Honor Roll (top 5% in the nation) and Distinction as a 6th ...

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• Birchwood 8th Grade Writers Win Recognition
  News • 1/11/2020
  Birchwood eighth grade students earned gold key, silver key, and honorable mention in the Regional Scholastic Writing Awards. Samyuktha Iyer (Highland Heights) was awarded a gold key for her personal essay and memoir, “A Pop of Color in a Grey Place.” Rohan Kumar (Brunswick) also ea ...

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• Three Hawken Students Named Questbridge Scholars
  News • 12/6/2019
  Congratulations to the three Hawken seniors who have matched with a college that will provide them 100% financial aid in the form of scholarships to cover the full cost of tuition, fees, room and board, books and supplies, and travel expenses for four years of undergraduate study.

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• Homecoming Reunion Weekend and HawkFest Draw Hundreds of Hawks
  News • 10/14/2019
  October's HawkFest and Homecoming Reunion Weekend 2019 was another smashing success, drawing more than 1,000 families, alumni, and guests onto the Gates Mills campus. The weather was perfect for this traditional fall weekend, and those in attendance at the various events were well-entertained.   ...

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• Charles Debelak Recognized as Impact Educator by Northwestern University
  News • 10/14/2019
  Northwestern University’s Midwest Academic Talent Search is known for recognizing high achieving students. However, their mission also incorporates parents and teachers in a quest to support gifted students. In fact, elementary and middle school students who are recognized based on their excep ...

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• 15 Seniors Recognized in National Merit Competition
  News • 9/11/2019
  Congratulations to the 15 Hawken students, representing 12% of the Class of 2020, who received recognition in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program.

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• Birchwood Students Recognized as NUMATS Award Winners
  News • 8/30/2019
  Birchwood is pleased to announce that six of our students qualified to attend the annual NUMATS Award Ceremony sponsored by Northwestern University’s Midwest Academic Talent Search (NUMATS) or received recognition for outstanding achievement based on performance on the PSAT™8/9, SAT® ...

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• Hawken Hires New Head Swim Coach
  News • 7/16/2019
  Hawken School Director of Athletics Jim Doyle recently announced that Tim Hable '73 will take on the role of head swimming coach for Hawken and for the Lake Erie Silver Dolphins (LESD) beginning August, 2019.  

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• Hawken Projects Selected for State and National Awards by ASA
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• Fourth Graders Fight for Pollinators from the School Yard to the Statehouse
  News • 5/4/2019
  What began as a science lesson on native plants and pollinators and their importance to our lives and region quickly expanded as Birchwood’s fourth graders became captivated by the issue. They learned that according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), pollinators critical to ...

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• Students Explore Societal Impacts of Stress
  News • 5/2/2019
  On April 12-13, Birchwood School’s Future Problem Solving team competed in the State Bowl at Solon Middle School. In preparation, the team conducted extensive research on the worldwide problem of stress and offered many creative solutions in competition. Their hard work paid off as nine studen ...

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• Birchwood Students Triumph at State History Competition
  News • 5/2/2019
  On April 27, Birchwood students competed in the state level of National History Day at Ohio Wesleyan University. Students conducted in-depth research into a topic of their choosing on this year’s theme, Triumph and Tragedy in History. They presented their work through writing, performance, or ...

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• Birchwood Students Creative Writing Shines at Power of the Pen
  News • 5/2/2019
  On Saturday, April 6, Birchwood’s district level winners participated in the regional Power of the Pen creative writing tournament at Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School. Abby Gemechu (seventh grade of Avon) won 5th place overall and Best of Round 2 for her story, “Diving Boards and Othe ...

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• Interdisciplinary Science Project Combines Research, Writing, and Diversity Awareness
  News • 4/16/2019
  The next time you are on the Lyndhurst campus, take time to check out the sixth grade science cards project! You’ll find the finished product posted on the wall of the sixth grade science class and in a sixth grade hallway.  

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• Birchwood Student is a Finalist in Letters About Literature Competition
  News • 4/15/2019
  Ari Eman placed second in Ohio and was named as a finalist in the nation-wide Letters About Literature Competition.  As a finalist, his letter is included in a special commemorative booklet and is invited to a special awards ceremony and luncheon to be held at the Main Branch of the Clevel ...

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• Lower School Students Honored at Exploravision Awards Ceremony
  News • 4/12/2019
  Congratulations to the Hawken Lower School students who were members of the three Hawken teams recognized in the 2018-2019 Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision science innovation competition, the largest K-12 science competition designed to build problem-solving, critical thinking and collaboration skills.

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• Students Tackle Problem of Food Waste
  News • 4/11/2019
  Birchwood students in grades 6-8 participated in a qualifying round of Future Problem Solving where after extensive research, they used a complex six-step process to outline the problem, solutions, and action plan regarding food waste and loss. Due to their outstanding performance, 23 students will ...

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• Birchwood School of Hawken Students Win Prestigious Science Fair
  News • 4/11/2019
  On March 11-14 eight Birchwood seventh and eighth grade students participated in the Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair at Cleveland State University. Out of the nearly 700 projects from over 80 schools, every Birchwood entrant received an award and many were also presented with addition ...

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• Birchwood Science Olympians Win Big
  News • 3/12/2019
  On March 2 the 25-member Science Olympiad team traveled to Case Western Reserve University to compete against 13 Greater Cleveland area teams. Each team is comprised of fourth through sixth grade students. The competition includes 25 events that test knowledge of various scientific topics and engine ...

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• Hawks Display Chess Prowess at Greater Cleveland Tournament
  News • 3/8/2019
  Eighteen Hawken Lower, Middle, and Upper School students were among 264 chess players who participated in the Greater Cleveland Scholastic Chess League tournament on Saturday, March 2. Read on for highlights from the tournament.

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• Two Hawks Named State Champion at Ohio Speech and Debate Tournament; Team Places Second in Sweepstakes
  News • 3/8/2019
  Hawken had a fantastic weekend at the state tournament held earlier this month in Columbus, with Ella Attell ’19 and Jared Shapiro ’19 crowned state champions in Congress and Program Oral Interp, respectively, and the team finishing as state runner-up in overall team sweepstakes – ...

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• Chess Hawks Stand Out at GCSCL Tournament
  News • 2/14/2019
  Nineteen Hawken Lower, Middle, and Upper School students were among the 242 students who participated in the GCSCL (Greater Cleveland Scholastic Chess League) tournament on Saturday February 9, 2019. Highlights are listed below.

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• 41 Speech and Debate Hawks Qualify for States
  News • 2/14/2019
  Congratulations to the following students who qualified for states at the district tournament on Saturday, Feb 2 at Berea-Midpark High School:

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• Lindsey leads Hawks Wrestling to a successful North Coast Classic Tournament outing
  News • 12/12/2018
  INDEPENDENCE, OH. -- Last Friday and Saturday were busy days for the Hawken wrestling team as the Hawks competed at the 34 team North Coast Classic tournament . 

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• Hawks sink Skippers, 58-33, to capture their first win of the season
  News • 12/11/2018
  GATES MILLS, OH -- The Hawken boys basketball team used a 20 point 2nd quarter and 18 point 4th quarter to secure a 58-33 triumph over Fairport Harding in CVC play on Saturday, Dec. 8.

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• Rebounding Edge guides Hawken to 41-32 win over Beachwood
  News • 12/7/2018
  Gates Mills, OH. – Double digit scoring from both Erica Emig (Junior) and Juliana Pollard (Freshman) guided the Hawks girls basketball to a 41-32 victory over Beachwood in home CVC action Wednesday, Dec. 5.

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• Goldberg Innovation Lab Opens on Lyndhurst Campus
  News • 11/16/2018
  To the delight of students and teachers at Hawken’s Lyndhurst campus, the new Goldberg Family Innovation Lab opened its doors on Tuesday, November 13.

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• Jordan Kutash
  News • 9/17/2018
  Junior Volleyball Hawken Athletics has been a very memorable experience that I know I will miss when I’m older.

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• 23 Seniors recognized in National Merit Scholarship Competition
  News • 9/12/2018
  Congratulations to the 23 Hawken students, representing 20% of the Class of 2019, who received recognition in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program.

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• Girls 3rd, Boys 4th in Inaugural Hawken Invitational
  News • 8/22/2018
  The Hawken Girls Cross Country Team opened the season with a 3rd place finish on their home course at the Hawken Cross Country Invitational. The teams from Chardon and Shaker Heights bested the Hawks on Saturday. The Hawks finished with four medalists in the meet. Ella Gilson ’21 won the race ...

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• Plans Underway for Fall Opening of Goldberg Family Innovation Lab
  News • 5/19/2018
  If you’ve visited the Lyndhurst campus in recent months, you may have noticed that the area near the Brown gymnasium has been under construction to make way for a new facility that will enrich the learning experience for every student on campus: the Goldberg Family Innovation Lab.

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• Hawken Students Claim 3 of 4 Grand Prizes at NEOSEF
  News • 3/16/2018
  Hawken had a phenomenal showing at the 65th Annual Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF) held March 12-15 at Cleveland State University.

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• Speech and Debate Team Places 2nd in State Tournament
  News • 3/8/2018
  Congratulations to the Hawken Speech and Debate Team for being named Runners-Up at the 90th Ohio Speech and Debate Association State Tournment held in Toledo last weekend. This marks the fourth time in the last six season seasons that the Hawks have finished in the top three teams in the state at th ...

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• Hawks Swimming Heads to States as Favorites; Girls Team Poised for Historic Day
  News • 2/27/2018
  Hawken Boys and Girls   Swimming will compete in the finals at the OHSAA State Championships tomorrow at McKinley High School in Canton. The finals begin at 5:00 pm.  

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• Freshman Named Semifinalist in National Competition
  News • 2/7/2018
  Thomas Wong ’21 was recently named a semifinalist in a competition offered by Future Engineers and NASA called “Two For The Crew.” This standing put him among the top 10 in the teen category.

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• Spotlight on Middle School Insights
  News • 1/25/2018
  Students returned from winter break to experience what just might be the best week of the year: Middle School Insights Week, where students get to choose an experiential course on which to focus their attention all day, every day for five days.

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• Upper School Intensives Engage Students in Real-World, Experiential Learning
  News • 12/6/2017
  This week an email alert went out to Hawken Upper School faculty and staff from history/humanities teacher Katrina Hagen. It read, “Tri-C’s Mobile Innovation Lab is working with our Hum 10 Economy Intensive today. Don’t be alarmed if you see small drones flying around the Shiverick ...

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• Hawken Hosts Inaugural Speech & Debate Tournament
  News • 11/14/2017
  This past weekend, Hawken hosted the first annual Larry Banks Memorial Speech &; Debate Tournament in Stirn Hall at the Upper School Campus.

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• Upper School Students Present STEMM Projects at Annual Symposium
  News • 11/10/2017
  Hawken Science Research III students took part in the 9th annual Bob Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium on Thursday November 9, presenting their projects before a panel of expert judges, families, and other guests.

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• Students Preview Soon-to-be-Released Film Wonder
  News • 11/8/2017
  Students in grades 3 – 12 gathered in Kennedy Auditorium on the Gates Mills campus yesterday for a special screening of the soon-to-be-released movie Wonder .

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• Middle Schoolers Build Community at Opening Retreats
  News • 9/11/2017
  Ask any seventh or eighth grade student what experiential learning is, and they are likely to cite examples from their grade level retreats held last week.

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• Sarah Speroff Sets Kenyon Record
  News • 9/1/2017
  Standout goalkeeper Sarah Speroff became the Kenyon record-holder in shutouts on Friday morning as the Ladies dialed up a 2-0 season-opening win against Transylvania University. The contest was played on the campus of Centre College.

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• Middle School Students Open New Doors
  News • 5/5/2017
  Middle School students returned from their Doorways trips having gained newfound confidence, independence and enlightenment.

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• Russell Lincoln '64 Awarded Hawken Medallion
  News • 4/21/2017
  Congratulations to Russell Lincoln '64 , who was honored   at last nights' James A. Hawken Society Reception with the presentation of the Hawken Medallion, which recognizes a lifetime of extraordinary service and commitment to the School.

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• Hawken Families Hosts Guests from Japan
  News • 4/7/2017
  This spring break marked the 29 th  Annual Hawken-Haibara Exchange.

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• Aric Floyd '14 Commercial
  News • 3/31/2017
  Did you catch Aric Floyd '14 in this Dairy Queen commercial between the :04 and :08 spot? ; ; https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wV7R/dairy-queen-reeses-extreme-blizzard-treat-creation

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• Student Success at Science Olympiad
  News • 3/30/2017
  The Science Olympiad was held on March 4, 2017 at Case Western Reserve University with a 23-member team from grades 4-6 representing Birchwood School of Hawken.

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• Birchwood Students Soar at National History Day Districts
  News • 3/22/2017
  Birchwood’s 37 sixth through eighth grade students who took part in the National History Day District Contest garnered phenomenal results. 

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• Hawks Swimming Headed to States
  News • 2/23/2017
  Both the boys and girls varsity swim teams are well into the mix at the State Swim Meet, scheduled for February 22 and 23 at Canton McKinley High School in Canton. 

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• Two Hawks Nominated for Prestigious National Art Award
  News • 1/26/2017
  Each year the Cleveland Institute of Art hosts the Scholastic Art Competition that recognizes creative achievement in students in grades 7-12. The young artists compete for cash prizes, medals, and scholarship awards.

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• Kindergarten Continues Gingerbread Man Tradition
  News • 1/17/2017
  Graduates who attended Hawken in kindergarten may remember reading  The Gingerbread Man  and then participating in an exciting hunt for cookies that escaped during the night.

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• Insights Week Takes Students Beyond Classroom Walls
  News • 1/12/2017
  Insights courses have concluded, but the experiences will be long remembered by Middle School students.

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• Intensive Excursions
  News • 12/8/2016
  It’s December, which means another round of exciting Intensives for Hawken’s Upper School students.

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• Hawken Arts Department Presents…
  News • 11/21/2016
  November has been a busy month for Hawken performing artists!

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• Debaters Shine at Local and National Tournaments; Shurtz Receives Golden Apple Awar
  News • 11/7/2016
  Fourteen members of Hawken’s Speech &; Debate Team traveled to  Minneapolis this past weekend to compete at the Minneapple Debate Tournament hosted by Apple Valley High School. 

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• Hawken Expands Westward
  News • 10/11/2016
  Hawken School has announced its expansion westward into Cleveland in a 2-phase process, with Phase I representing a merger with Birchwood School and Phase II focusing on the development of an early childhood center in Gordon Square.

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• Hawken Students Serve on Saltzman Youth Panel
  News • 10/10/2016
  Congratulations to the Hawken students who have just completed their year on the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s 2015-2016 Saltzman Youth Panel:  Reed Abrams ‘18, Jordyn Bauer ‘17, Josh Caplan ‘17, Ryan Covitt ‘18, Mason Goldberg ’18  and  David Wi ...

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• Senior’s Work Published on Huffington Post Site
  News • 10/5/2016
  Kareem Danan ’17  never imagined that he would become a published author. But real world experiences gained through his Hawken journalism class changed that perception.

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• Hawken Celebrates Opening of Stirn Hall
  News • 8/23/2016
  Hawken opened the doors to its spectacular new Upper School academic building center on Sunday, August 21, with a Grand Opening Open House that featured tours of the 115,000 square feet of new and renovated academic space and opportunities to speak with faculty, staff, and college counselors.

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• Coach and Team Recognized at National Competition
  News • 6/29/2016
  Hawken participated in the National Academic Challenge Competition earlier this month and proudly won the title of the Winningest Junior National team history. Instructional Technologist Pat Jewell was awarded the title of Coach of the Year. “I am honored to be able to work with our Hawke ...

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• Awards Day and Cum Laude Induction Celebrate Student Accomplishments
  News • 6/6/2016
  Hawken Upper School took time to celebrate the hard work and dedication of its students at the Cum Laude Induction Ceremony on June 1 and Awards Day Program on June 2.               

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• This Weekend: Catch Meaning Music Fest and Lacrosse Event
  News • 5/25/2016
  Please join us this coming weekend for the inaugural  Catch Meaning Music Fest  and  Lacrosse Event  to commemorate Josh Weil and Alex Doody.

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• Student Artwork to be Displayed at Cleveland Gallery
  News • 4/14/2016
  For the past two years, the 7 th  Grade Arts &; Education Service Group, led by teachers Laura Barkett and Anna Delia, has partnered with The Rainey Institute to provide music, art, dance, and theater experiences to Cleveland preschool students. 

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• Senior’s Creative Work Featured in Cleveland Ballet Production
  News • 4/13/2016
  Last summer  Mitch Maly'16  landed an   internship that some students could only dream of: serving as associate artistic director of the “new” Cleveland Ballet company. 

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• Ki Allen and David Kay to Perform with Hawken Jazz Band
  News • 3/17/2016
  As part of its Artist in Residence program, Hawken School is proud to announce a special artistic collaboration with two of Cleveland’s top jazz artists, Ki Allen and David Kay. 

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• Chess Club Shines in the Canton Scholastic Chess LeagueTournament.
  News • 3/17/2016
  Nicholas Bislich ’19, Austin Daly ’22, Nikhil Goel ’19, Alexander Isherwood ’16, Brennen Keuchel ’19, Connor Keuchel ’17, Destynn Keuchel ‘22, and Anton Salem ’16 were among 208 students who participated in the Canton Scholastic Chess League Tournament ...

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• Hawken Speech & Debate Earns 4 State Titles
  News • 3/6/2016
  Hawken's Speech and Debate Team took home three individual state awards and also won Team Sweepstakes State Champion at the Ohio High School Speech League State Championship held March 4-5 at Cincinnati Princeton High School.

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• Prestigious National Scholarship Program Awards Hawken Senior $20,000 for College
  News • 3/2/2016
  Congratulations to Sarah Senkfor ’16, who has been recognized as one of the country’s most outstanding high school leaders by the Coca‑Cola Scholars Foundation and has been awarded a $20,000 college scholarship.

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• Hawken Debaters Qualify for State and National Tournaments
  News • 2/26/2016
  Six members of Hawken’s Speech and Debate Team qualified for the NSDA National Tournament to be held from June 12-17 th  in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

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• New Lower School Director Announced
  News • 2/12/2016
  Following a national and international search for a new Lower School Director in recent months, Head of School Scott Looney has announced that Ms. Courtney Martin has accepted our offer to assume this position effective July 1, 2016.

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• Former Ambassador to Slovakia Visits Hawken’s Campuses
  News • 12/22/2015
  Last week Tod Sedgwick ’66, former US ambassador to Slovakia, experienced Hawken’s intensive classes first-hand by sharing his knowledge and expertise with students in both Scott Looney’s Politics and Public Opinion course at the Gries Center and Ken Clark’s Genocide class at ...

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• Intensive Engagement
  News • 12/18/2015
  If you’ve had a chance to walk through Hawken's Upper School this month, you probably noticed that the traditional classroom has undergone a transformation.

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• Hawken Senior Recognized by Cleveland’s Board of Education
  News • 12/18/2015
  When Hawken senior Phillip Hedayatnia launched his #FightForForensics website earlier this year, little did he know that he would play a critical role in garnering a $25,000 grant to support Speech and Debate programming in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD). 

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• Middle School Pilots Standing Desks
  News • 12/10/2015
  “It’s cool… it’s different… I like it.”

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• Football Team Raises Funds for JADE Foundation
  News • 11/20/2015
  The Hawken football team conducted its annual Lift-a-Thon this morning in support of the JADE Foundation. 

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• Schneider Family Challenge Course Opens on Gates Mills Campus
  News • 11/20/2015
  Not all grand openings live up to their name, but today’s opening of the Schneider Family Challenge Course certainly did.

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• Debate Team Wins Two of Three Championships at Prestigious Minneapple Tournament
  News • 11/12/2015
  The Hawken Debate Team made school history last weekend at the Minneapple Tournament in Minneapolis, MN through impressive performances in both Public Forum and Congressional Debate.

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• Stirn Hall Beam Raising Lifts Steel and Spirits
  News • 11/9/2015
  Against a backdrop of clear blue November sky, Stirn Hall’s final beam was lifted from the ground of the construction site at Hawken’s Upper School earlier today.

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• Hawken Junior Places Second at AIPNO Research Showcase
  News • 10/30/2015
  Congratulations to Seysha Mehta ’17, who was awarded the second place prize at the Association of Indian Physicians of Northern Ohio (AIPNO) 3rd Annual Research Showcase, held on October 24th at the Cleveland Convention Center. Given that Seysha was the only high school student presenter in a ...

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• Sherwick Fund Makes $1 Million Legacy Commitment to Hawken’s Centennial Campaign
  News • 10/22/2015
  A legacy gift from the Sherwick Fund, a supporting organization of the Cleveland Foundation, is a game-changer as Hawken proceeds with fundraising to complete the construction of Stirn Hall, the new $25 million academic building on the Upper School campus.

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• "Most Likely to Succeed" Sparks Passionate Conversation
  News • 9/17/2015
  Kennedy Auditorium filled with parents, teachers and administrators on September 16 to watch the award-winning education documentary "Most Likely to Succeed." After the screening, Ted Dintersmith, the film's producer, participated in a lively audience discussion alongside three area school administr ...

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• Film Internship A Valuable Experience
  News • 9/2/2015
  Three members of the Class of 2013 connected with film producer Todd Lieberman '91 for a summer internship with the help of Hawken's alumni office.

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• Senior Advocates for Debate Programs
  News • 8/11/2015
  Phillip Hedayatnia '16 has formed Fight For Forensics  in an effort to bring speech and debate to students who can't afford or don't have access to debate programs.

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• Graduate Receives Journalism Award
  News • 6/30/2015
  Congratulations to Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Brie Zeltner ’97 on being awarded the inaugural Urban Health Journalism Prize .

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• Seniors Awarded Diplomas at Graduation
  News • 6/18/2015
  Sunday, June 7 marked the culmination of high school for seniors at Hawken School.

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• Cum Laude Society Inducts New Members
  News • 6/5/2015
  Family, friends and faculty gathered June 3 to induct 9 new members into the Cum Laude Society.

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• Community Commemorates 100th Anniversary at Centennial Weekend
  News • 6/2/2015
  Parents, faculty, staff, friends and the largest gathering of alumni ever to assemble at one time came together to commemorate Hawken School's 100th anniversary during a series of inspiring events held May 15-17.

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• LAX Team Advances to State Semifinals!
  News • 5/26/2015
  Hawken boys lacrosse defeated University School 13-9 in the OHSLA Region Championship game. The Hawks now play Chagrin Falls HS in a State Semifinal Wednesday, June 3rd at 7:00pm at Medina HS.

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• Weil, Scully and Doyle Receive Lacrosse Awards
  News • 5/21/2015
  Hawken lacrosse has received notable recognitions from the Ohio High School Lacrosse Association, Northeast Region.

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• Faculty Travel to Share Hawken Innovations
  News • 5/6/2015
  Hawken faculty and administrators are frequently invited to other schools to share their experiences with the School's innovative programming.

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• Hawken Directors Share Experiential Ed Info
  News • 2/24/2015
  Upper School Director Kim Samson and Gries Center Director Sara Mierke '84 attended the January Institute of the Independent Schools Experiential Education Network .

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• Anonymous Donor Funds $1 Million Parent Challenge
  News • 2/18/2015
  The Hawken community has raised $7 million toward the $8 million Smith Challenge to build Stirn Hall, the new Upper School Building. 

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• Junior Addresses International Gathering of Scientists
  News • 2/2/2015
  Anton Salem '16 spoke at the 39 th   International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites , addressing 1,100 scientists and engineers gathered in Daytona Beach from around the world.

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• Wall Street Journal Features Hawken Entrepreneurship Program
  News • 1/22/2015
  Hawken's entrepreneurship program is featured in a Wall Street Journal article that addresses  the need to more effectively teach students how to start and run their own businesses.

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• Debate Teams Places 1st at Invitational
  News • 1/17/2015
  The Hawken Speech and Debate Team kicked off 2015 with a bang as 56 students traveled to the Sylvania Invitational in Sylvania, OH.

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• Kindergarten Continues Gingerbread Man Tradition
  News • 1/13/2015
  Graduates who started Hawken in kindergarten may remember reading The Gingerbread Man, and then participating in an exciting hunt for cookies that escaped during the night.

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• Record Number Attend Alumni Winter Luncheon
  News • 12/31/2014
  More than 200 members of the Hawken community attended the 2014 Alumni Winter Luncheon on Saturday, December 20.

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• 7th Grade Project Combines Art and Science
  News • 1/6/2015
  Last month, 7th graders learned about biomimicry by combining art and science to find solutions to problems.

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• Fall 2014 Intensives Conclude
  News • 12/19/2014
  As students and faculty leave for winter break, they complete the fall session of Upper School Intensives – three weeks where students take one course, all day long.

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• Fall Intensives Provide Inspirational Experiences
  News • 12/10/2014
  Hawken Upper School returned from Thanksgiving break for Fall Intensives – three weeks where students take one course, all day long.

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• Former Teacher Helps Bring Carousel to Life
  News • 12/4/2014
  Former faculty member Terry Kovel, who became a well-known antique expert and author, was interviewed recently about her part in the resurrection of the beloved Euclid Beach Park Carousel.

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• Hawken History On Display for Community
  News • 11/29/2014
  Hawken is proud to announce a series of Decade Displays that celebrate the School's rich history through items chosen from 100 years of archived materials.

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• Hawken Appoints Director of College Counseling
  News • 11/25/2014
  Hawken School has appointed Renee Bischoff Director of College Counseling.

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• Debaters Excel at Tournaments in Minneapolis and Cleveland
  News • 11/11/2014
  This weekend, Hawken's debate team competed as a split squad with 12 students joining Mr. Shurtz and Mr. Williams at the 29th Annual MinneApple Debate Tournament in Apple Valley, MN, and 26 students joining Mr. Ingrassia at the Lincoln West Tournament in Cleveland. Hawken students excelled at both, ...

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• Centennial Celebrations Start at HawkFest Weekend
  News • 10/6/2014
  Hawken School begins a year of celebrations during Fall HawkFest, the school's Homecoming Weekend.

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• 12 Named National Merit Semifinalists
  News • 9/29/2014
  Congratulations to the following 12 seniors named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program : Alexander Amin, Larry Fulton, Robert Gray, Emily Hedlund, Maddie Hengst, Alison Jin, James Li, Maureen Rakovec, Monica Sass, Matthew Thompson, Jonathan Vexler, and Jack Weisman.

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• Hawken Speech and Debate Wins Yale Invitational
  News • 9/23/2014
  Hawken's 2014-2015 debate season kicked off this weekend with a win at the Yale Invitational in New Haven, CT.

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• "The Woodstock of K-12 Education"
  News • 9/22/2014
  In an article for  Forbes.com  and  The Huffington Post , serial entrepreneur and educator Steve Blank called Hawken's Educator’s Workshop for Entrepreneurial Studies “The Woodstock of K-12 Education.”

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• Exchange Students, Now and Then
  News • 9/19/2014
  Hawken welcomes exchange students from Sweden and Germany this year.

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• Alumnae Spend Summer in Africa
  News • 9/11/2014
  Three graduates from the Class of 2013 spent their summers living and working in Africa.

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• At Busy Summer at Gries
  News • 8/20/2014
  Hawken's Gries Center at University Circle was teaming with activity this summer, being used by Hawken School as well as area organizations.

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• Head of School Authors Influential Article on Education
  News • 8/6/2014
  "In my 28 years in education, I have never been more excited or so fearful for the future of education and the future of this world," writes Looney. "It is precisely this polarity of hope and fear that motivated me to write this article." The thought provoking 28-page essay encompasses how our curre ...

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• Annual Fund Surpasses Goal
  News • 7/16/2014
  Thanks to over 1,880 donors, Hawken's 2013-2014 Annual Fund reached a record-breaking total of $1,436,814.

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• Hawken Conducts Groundbreaking Entrepreneurship Workshop for Educators
  News • 6/25/2014
  Hawken’s Doris Korda and Tim Desmond recently returned from an enormously successful, sold out Educator’s Workshop for Entrepreneurial Studies hosted at the K&;S Ranch, home of serial entrepreneur and Stanford University professor, Steve Blank.

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• Debate Team Wins National Championships
  News • 6/23/2014
  Hawken's debate team competed at the National Speech &; Debate Tournament in Overland Park, Kansas, winning two national championships, a second place championship, and the  Debate School of Excellence Award, given to the top 20 schools in the nation.

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• Eighteen Inducted into Cum Laude Society
  News • 6/17/2014
  Family, friends and faculty gathered on June 6 to induct 18 new members into the Cum Laude Society.

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• Middle School Team Academic Team Competes in DC
  News • 6/3/2014
  May 30-31 Hawken’s Middle School Academic Challenge team competed at the QUnlimited Junior National Championship in Washington D.C.

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• Kindergarten Raises $1000 for Heifer International
  News • 6/25/2014
  This week kindergarteners celebrated the culmination of a year-long project to raise funds for the purchase of goats for families in need.

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• Hawken Tennis Advances to States
  News • 5/30/2014
  Hawken Boys Tennis has advanced to States on two different fronts, in both the OHSAA Individual Singles Tournament, and in the OTCA State Team Tournament.  Both tournaments finish out this weekend in Columbus.

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• Investments Place 6th Graders 3rd in State
  News • 5/24/2014
  During the course of an after school investment club, the 6th grade team of Jack Ritz, Henry Michaelson and Collin Witt built a portfolio that increased by an amazing 18%, placing them 3rd amongst 655 middle and high school teams competing in  the Ohio Stock Market Challenge.

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• Junior to Present Research at International Conference
  News • 6/25/2014
  Next month, Kush Khosla '15 will stand before an international medical science conference in Sweden to present research that could lead to new treatments for bacterial infections and cancer.

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• Senior Receives Gates Millennium Scholarship
  News • 5/14/2014
  Rebekah Russell '14 has received the coveted Gates Millennium  scholarship, a good-through-graduation scholarship to use at any college or university of her choice.

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• Jazz Legend Shares Stage with Jazz Band
  News • 5/7/2014
  From April 24th to April 26th, jazz legend, Michael Henderson visited Hawken to teach and perform with the Hawken Jazz for a combined concert on April 26th.

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• Great Lakes Theater Visits 4th Grade
  News • 4/19/2014
  Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" came to life recently in the 4th grade with the help of  professional actors from the Great Lakes Theater Festival .

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• Two Students Earn National Spanish Awards
  News • 6/25/2014
  Emily Hedlund '15 and Seysha Mehta '17 have earned scholarships for their achievements on the National Spanish Examination and for their excellent skills in the Spanish language.

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• Science Teacher Receives Irene C. Heller Award
  News • 4/14/2014
  Upper School Science Teacher Russell Maurer, Ph.D. recently received the 2014 Irene C. Heller Award presented by the Cleveland Section of the American Chemical Society.

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• Noted Heart Expert Addresses Anatomy Class
  News • 3/25/2014
  Renowned surgeon and author Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. spoke to Hawken School’s Honors Anatomy and Physiology class on the impact of diet on heart disease, diabetes and premature death.

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• Luke Rodehorst '05 Honored by University of Chicago
  News • 3/20/2014
  Congratulations to Luke Rodehorst '05, who was recently named the 2014 University of Chicago Young Alumni Service Award recipient. 

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• Entrepreneurship Class Featured in Huffington Post
  News • 3/13/2014
  Hawken's  first-ever 3-credit semester program in entrepreneurship was featured in the March 12 edition of the Huffington Post.

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• 6th Graders Earn Trophies at Math Contest
  News • 3/4/2014
  Twelve sixth grade mathletes recently devoted a Saturday morning to competing in the annual ;Greater Cleveland Council of Teachers of Mathematics (GCCTM) ;Math Contest.

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• Faculty Pen Article for Great Lakes Biomimicry
  News • 2/26/2014
  After attending an inspiring lecture by American ;natural sciences ;author ; Janine Benyus, ; Hawken Middle School faculty Erin Thomas (Art) and Anna Delia (Science) were inspired to ; develop and teach a 7th-grade unit on biomimicry. ;

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• Middle School Character Program Featured at Oxford Conference
  News • 2/15/2014
  Hawken Middle School Co-Director Jen Halliday and 8th Grade Humanities Teacher and Student Life Coordinator Megan Saxelby traveled to England in early January to present their paper "Using Culture as a Teaching Tool for Character Development," based on ;Hawken Middle School's program "What Films Can ...

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• Middle School Wins State Academic Challenge Title Again
  News • 2/4/2014
  After seven hours of competition and ten hard fought matches, Hawken won the Ohio Regional Academic Challenge Tournament held at John Carroll University on Feb. 1. The competition gained Hawken an invitation to the national tournament in Washington D.C. in June.

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• Graduate Receives Ohio Liberator Award
  News • 1/27/2014
  Kimberly Hogan '98 was awarded the Ohio Liberator Award on January 20th in Columbus for her work to help end human trafficking.

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• Alumni Board Hosts Career Day
  News • 1/24/2014
  Juniors and seniors had the opportunity to meet with professionals from the Hawken community this week during The 2014 Career Day.

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• Gingerbread Men Escape from Lyndhurst!
  News • 1/22/2014
  Kindergarten students engaged in an exciting hunt today, in a tradition that began at Hawken more than 20 years ago.

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• Intensive: Marine Science
  News • 12/28/2013
  As part of a year-long elective, the marine science class spent two weeks during Hawken's fall Intensive session at the Island School  /  Cape Eleuthera Institute  in the Bahamas.

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• Intensives: Leadership in Diversity
  News • 12/11/2013
  Students in the Upper School "Leadership in Diversity" Intensive traveled to Washington, DC last week for a five day experience that included touring monuments, visiting the Newseum, and attending the Student Diversity Leadership Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

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• Entrepreneurship Students Present to Sharks
  News • 12/6/2013
  Last month, four student groups made Shark Tank -style presentations at the Gries Center in search of viable scalable business models for their business ideas.

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• Students Take 2nd and 3rd in State Chess
  News • 12/1/2013
  Two middle school students competed in the Ohio Grade Level Chess Championships held at Kent State University on November 23, winning 2nd and 3rd place trophies.

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• Third Grade Spends Week at Gries
  News • 11/27/2013
  Hawken third graders traveled to University Circle for a week in November to delve into the study of Native Americans.

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• Graduate Serves Up Gourmet Pizza in NYC
  News • 10/12/2013
  Jarett Appell '99, executive chef of Stella 34 Trattoria , was featured in the 10/9/13 edition of the free daily newspaper " Metro ."

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• Chess Player Donates Winnings to Flood Response
  News • 10/11/2013
  Seventh grader Brennen Keuchel ;and his brother Connor participated in the Akron Chess Club tournament in Cuyahoga Falls on Saturday October 5.

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• Entrepreneurship Students Land Another Internship
  News • 10/6/2013
  After four HawkENtrepreneur teams made their presentations to representatives of the caffeinated water company Avitae, Team Eat Grit walked away with a $2500 internship.

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• 15 Receive Merit Scholar Recognition
  News • 9/27/2013
  Hawken is proud to congratulate ;eight Semifinalists and seven Commended students in the National Merit Scholarship Program, as well as one Semifinalist in the National Achievement Scholarship Competition.

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• Senior Awarded Competitive Research Fellowship
  News • 9/16/2013
  Henry Senkfor '14 ;has been awarded ;a prestigious Eli and Edythe Broad Student Research Fellowship grant from the American Gastroenterological Association.

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• Hawken Participates in Cultural Festival
  News • 8/29/2013
  Hawken participated in Cleveland's first One World Festival, held on August 25 at the Cleveland Cultural Gardens.

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• Sophomore Launches Product
  News • 7/29/2013
  Phillip Hedayatnia '16 is working hard to "connect viewers with great digital content creators for the first true 'Web TV' experience."

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• Annual Fund Closes with Record Participation
  News • 7/20/2013
  Thanks to the generosity of the Hawken community, the 2013 Annual Fund exceeded both its dollar and participation goals.

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• Hawken Rowers Win Midwest Championship
  News • 5/17/2013
  Seniors Ben and Gabe Whitehead won first place in an exciting race last weekend at the 2013 Midwest Scholastic Rowing Championship at Lake Dillon, near Zanesville, OH.

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• Spring Intensives Begin at Upper School
  News • 5/24/2013
  From Entrepreneurship to Honors Chemistry, and from the Gates Mills Campus to Harbin, China, Upper School students are engaged in Intensives - three weeks of in-depth study on a single subject.

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• "The Race" to be Held on Mother's Day
  News • 5/8/2013
  Join Hawken at The Race this Sunday at Legacy Village, founded by Hawken siblings and graduates Josh '10 and Dani '12 Berns, to raise funds for breast cancer research.

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• Fifth Grader Makes Award Winning Video
  News • 5/3/2013
  Fifth grader Jackson Slater won first place in a video contest sponsored by The Ned Show. Congratulations, Jackson!

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• Induction Ceremony Recognizes Academic Excellence
  News • 5/2/2013
  The Upper School gathered on April 25 to induct new members of the Cum Laude Society, recognizing academic achievement for the purpose of promoting excellence (Areté), justice (Diké) and honor (Timé).

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• Former Librarian Passes
  News • 4/18/2013
  Jane Warner-Seik, a member of the Hawken community for more than 30 years, passed away in March at her Ft. Collins, CO, home after a lengthy battle with cancer.  She was 75 years old.

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• Chess Players Impress at State Competitions
  News • 4/15/2013
  Sixth grader Samia Menon won first place in the Ohio Girls’ Chess Championship; ; 8th grader Connor Keuchel and 6th grader Brennen Keuchel, placed ;2nd and ;5th respectively at the Ohio High School/Middle School State Chess Championships. ;Congratulations, chess players!

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• Freshman's Team Wins National Ice Hockey Title
  News • 4/8/2013
  Casper Yonel plays for the '98 Ohio Selects ice hockey team, which came in first out of 730 US teams at the Tier II 14-and-Under AAA 2013 USA Hockey National Championships.

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• Graduate From Class of '31 Visits
  News • 4/5/2013
  1931 Hawken graduate Jock Collens attended Hawken when it was located on Ansel road, attended from 1st grade through 10th grade, was the captain of the football team, and went on to get his BS from Yale and a law degree from Harvard. Read more about his visit online.

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• Bob Shurtz Inducted into Debate Hall of Fame
  News • 3/12/2013
  Upper School science and math teacher Robert “Bob” Shurtz was one of two inductees to the Ohio High School Speech League Hall of Fame in a ceremony preceding the state tournament at Boardman High School March 1. Shurtz and co-inductee ;Kathy Patron of Perry High School ;were selected by ...

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• Junior Named Grand Prize Winner at NEO Science & Engineering Fair
  News • 3/11/2013
  Hawken junior Aric Floyd was named Grand Prize winner at the 2013 Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair held March 4-7 at John Carroll University, qualifying him for the International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix this May. This is the fifth consecutive year that Hawken has had a Gra ...

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• 7th Graders Celebrate Continued Success on Cultural Garden Initiatives
  News • 3/7/2013
  Fresh off the heels of last month’s unanimous approval of their long-term master plan for the American Cultural Garden, Hawken 7th graders this week secured a notable commitment from Cleveland’s Water Commission to establish an efficient and timely procedure to expand access to water for ...

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• Upper School Teacher and Author Peter Scott Visits 7th Grade at Gries
  News • 3/4/2013
  Upper School English teacher Peter Scott treated 7th graders to a visit recently as they began work on a new historical fiction short story writing project at the Gries Center. Engaging in concentrated research, brainstorming, and one-on-one work, students will integrate writing skills and historica ...

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• Noted Social Entrepreneur Visits Hawken
  News • 3/1/2013
  Shawn Askinosie, founder of Askinosie Chocolate of Springfield, MO, spoke to Hawken Upper School students and faculty about his work as a social entrepreneur during an engaging assembly on Feb. 28. While at Hawken, Shawn also met with students in Hawken's Entrepreneurship Honors class to discuss his ...

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• Wrestlers Qualify for Districts
  News • 2/20/2013
  The Hawken Wrestling Team placed 7 th ;out of 12 teams at the Sectional tournament held this past weekend in Beachwood. ; Despite only filling 8 of the 14 weight classes, the overall team effort was impressive. ;Two Hawks won Sectional Championships: Louis DeMarco '15 at ;106 pounds, and Seth King ' ...

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• Debaters Win at Stanford and Harvard
  News • 2/20/2013
  Hawken debaters had impressive performances at national competitions this month as they head toward the state tournament at the beginning of March. Hawken's Public Forum team of Tim Perevozchikov '14 and Aric Floyd '14 were crowned tournament champions in a field of 161 nationally selected teams at ...

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• Sarah Koucheki Featured on Sports Insider
  News • 2/18/2013
  High School Sports Insider will feature Sarah Koucheki '13 and highlights from the Div. 2 District Meet. The show debuts Monday, Feb. 19 at 9:00pm on SportsTime Ohio, and on Tuesday at 5:30pm and 9:30pm on Time Warner Cable SportsChannel (311 in SD, 1311 in HD). The show will re-air a number of time ...

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• Debaters Win Prestigious Tournaments as they Prepare for States
  News • 2/12/2013
  Hawken student debaters Tim Perevozchikov '14 and Ron Lubarsky '14 go into the upcoming March state competition with significant winter championships in Ohio and North Carolina tournaments. At the 40th Annual Laird Lewis Invitational held January in Charlotte, NC, the team of Perevozchikov and Lubar ...

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• Five Students Medal at Team Skating Event
  News • 2/12/2013
  Three Upper School students, Rachel McKay '13, Sydney Costantini '13 and Micah Jaffe '14, along with Middle School students Marilena DeGennaro '19 ;and Helena Costantini '18, represented Hawken at the Ohio High School Team Figure Skating Competition February 9-10 at Thornton Park Ice Arena in Shaker ...

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• Wrestlers Show Strength at CVC Championships
  News • 2/10/2013
  The Hawken Wrestling team showed their strength earlier this month at the Chagrin Valley Conference Championships held at Kenston High School. Wrestling teams can have 14 weight classes on a team, but the Hawks only had five competing and four of those individuals placed at the tournament. ; Jeff Ch ...

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• Senior Selected for Presidential Scholars Program
  News • 1/31/2013
  Congratulations to Russell Cohen '13 for being selected to compete in the highly selective Presidential Scholars Program , ;a national program whose purpose is to identify and recognize extraordinarily talented students. Potential academic candidates are identified based upon exceptional SAT or ACT ...

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• Jaffe Brothers Compete at National Skating Championships
  News • 1/30/2013
  Micah Jaffe '14 and his partner Kimberly Berkovich competed in the 2013 National Skating Championship in Omaha, NE, last week, placing 10th in the Novice competition. Micah and Kimmie started competing in 2010, were pewter medalists at junior championships last year and bronze medalists at Midwester ...

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• Kindergarten Search Ends at Head's Office
  News • 1/29/2013
  In a long standing tradition, kindergarten classes followed their reading of the gingerbread man fable with baking their own gingerbread cookie. This morning they arrived at school prepared to decorate their creation, only to find that their gingerbread man had run away! They spent the rest of the d ...

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• Student Writers and Artists Recognized
  News • 1/17/2013
  Five Hawken juniors and seniors have been recognized with awards from The Alliance for Young Artists &; Writers, a nonprofit organization that identifies teenagers with exceptional artistic and literary talent and brings their work to a national audience through the Scholastic Art &; Writing Awards ...

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• Students to Compete at National Events
  News • 1/14/2013
  At the end of October at a regional competition in Boardman, OH, the three-person team of Shang-Shang Chen ‘14, Max Schachere ‘15, and Aman Nair ‘15 qualified to compete in the National History Bowl in Arlington, VA in April 27, 2013. ; They made it to the semi-final round of compe ...

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• Fall 2012 Intensives Conclude
  News • 12/19/2012
  Mathematicians analyzed chess moves, designers brought fabric creations to life, students gathered oral histories in Little Italy, and songwriters journeyed to Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium. These are but a few of the authentic and life-changing experiences that engaged Upper School students ...

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• Debaters Place at Tournaments
  News • 12/10/2012
  The Hawken Speech and Debate team scored championships in two December tournaments. Junior Aric Floyd was declared co-champion at the Ohio Valley Invitational tournament held at the University of Kentucky, December 1-3, while Senior Russell Cohen received a fifth place speaker award in Lincoln Dougl ...

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• Brothers Take First in Cleveland Chess Tournament
  News • 11/8/2012
  Hawken Middle School students, Connor Keuchel (8th grade) and Brennen Keuchel (6th grade) competed as a team in the 7th-8th grade section of the 2012 Cleveland Scholastic Open chess tournament on October 27. It was held at Cleveland State University. The tournament was organized by Alpha Phi Alpha F ...

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• HPS Presents Hilarious Comedy "Lend Me A Tenor"
  News • 11/4/2012
  The Hawken Players’ Society invites you to join the cast and creative team for its production of Ken Ludwig’s hysterical comedy, Lend Me A Tenor . Directed by Upper School Theatre Director Mike Larochelle, Lend Me A Tenor will run Nov. 8, 9, 10 and 11 in Kennedy Auditorium on the Upper S ...

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• Debate Team Wins Prestigious National Event
  News • 10/23/2012
  Eight Hawken students recently participated in the prestigious Bronx High School of Science 42nd annual ; New York City Invitational ;featuring competitors from across the U.S. Hawken representation included three ;Public Forum Teams (Ron Lubarsky '14/Tim Perevozchikov '14, Sid Ahuja '14/Zach Kirsch ...

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• Senior Appointed to National Advisory Group on Food Allergies
  News • 9/25/2012
  Liam Oznowich ’13 has been named a 2012 Teen Advisor for the Food Allergy &; Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN). The Network’s Teen Advisory Group helps promote food allergy awareness while offering advice and tips on food allergy management to other allergic teens. According to FAAN, food aller ...

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• 16 Receive Merit Scholar Recognition
  News • 9/25/2012
  Seven Hawken seniors were recently named semifinalists in the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Competition. The students join a long tradition of Merit Scholar excellence and earn Hawken the distinction of the highest number of National Merit Semifinalists amongst its Cleveland area peer schools over ...

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• Entrepreneurial Studies, Athletics Welcome New Administrators
  News • 9/19/2012
  Hawken welcomes two new administrators this fall. Natasha ; Chornesky, Director of Entreprenerial Studies, ;has been both an educator and entrepreneur. Most recently, she taught English to at-risk urban eighth graders at Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas. She earned a BA in Engli ...

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• Beloved Former Staff Member Remembered
  News • 9/18/2012
  Kathleen A. Carr passed away on September 9, 2012 after a long and courageous battle with cancer. In 1972 Kathleen began her 31 year career at Hawken as the assistant in the Upper School Admission Office. Her voice was the first impression thousands of people had of Hawken School; thus earning her t ...

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• Hawken Announces Parent-Infant Series
  News • 9/7/2012
  For Parents or Caregivers and their Infants, Aged 3-6 Months

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• Shulman Family Tennis Courts Dedicated
  News • 8/17/2012
  Parents, alumni, faculty and friends gathered to dedicate the Shulman Family Courts on Saturday, August 11. The eight new state-of-the-art courts will preserve the success of championship tennis at Hawken School. Head of School Scott Looney opened the program by acknowledging donors – individu ...

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• 8th Graders Close Year With Reflections
  News • 6/6/2012
  Eighth grade students bid farewell to the Lyndhurst campus and their Middle School years at Closing Exercises held on Friday, June 1st in the Ingalls Gymnasium. After addresses by Tim Holman , Mara Ursu and Karen Yao , Michael Gerace , winner of the Murial Bell Award, offered reflections on his Midd ...

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• Hawks Advance to State Tournament Play
  News • 5/24/2012
  The Hawken Girls Lacrosse team defeated Olentangy HS 9-8 on Tuesday, advancing to the Region Championship game. Molly Liebeskind ’12 scored the game winner with just ten seconds remaining in the second overtime period. The Hawks host Chagrin Falls HS today, May 24, at 5:00pm for a chance to re ...

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• Family Service Day Warms Hearts
  News • 3/14/2012
  Our annual family service day, Warming the Hearts, was a success again this year. Forty students and parents, representing all three divisions, attended the event on a Sunday in March. Participants made 40 blankets in just one-and-a-half hours, finding themselves energized by the idea of donating a ...

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• Math Students Earn GCCTM Awards
  News • 2/25/2012
  On Saturday, February 25 th , Hawken was represented well at the GCCTM (Greater Cleveland Council of Teachers of Mathematics) annual math competition. Twelve sixth grade students in three teams of four spent their morning collaborating on integrated mathematics applications and construction activiti ...

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• Debaters Win at Tournaments
  News • 2/21/2012
  Three Hawken teams in public forum debate competed at the Stanford Invitational Speech & Debate Tournament against 141 teams from around the nation February 11-13. All three teams placed in the top 32 and therefore advanced to the elimination rounds. Miles Bloomenkranz '12 and Ryan Looney '12 were d ...

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• Lyndhurst Book Fair Raises Funds
  News • 2/17/2012
  The Hawken Safari Book Fair at Lyndhurst was a "roaring" success with sales raising funds for Hawken's technology department and for the "One for Books" program at partner school Citizens Leadership Academy. Congratulations to the fifth grade on their exemplary effort and victory in the Decorate You ...

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• Academic Challenge Teams Victorious
  News • 1/30/2012
  On Saturday, January 28, the Hawken Academic Challenge team travelled to Lodi, Ohio for the Cloverleaf Invitational Academic Challenge Tournament. Competing in a bracket with seven other Ohio Regional Tournament Qualifiers, The Hawken A team consisting of seniors Eric Xiao, Jonathan Meckler, Adil Me ...

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• Saxelby Advisory Leads Fund Raising Effort for Men's Shelter
  News • 1/5/2012
  Congratulations to Ms. Saxelby's advisory for their leadership of an impressive one-day fund raising effort in support of 2100 Lakeside, Cleveland's largest men’s homeless shelter. This advisory’s service focus is Hunger and Homelessness, and they have partnered with 2100 Lakeside for th ...

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• Hawken Community Collects Shoes
  News • 12/12/2011
  The National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) North Coast Ohio Chapter and Hawken School are teaming up in an effort to collect shoes for the organization Soles4Souls. Hawken students and families from both campuses are participating in a drive. A truck arrived at Lyndhurst on December ...

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• Henri Pell Junod, Jr. '59 Makes Commitment of $1.2 Million to Establish Endowed Chair
  News • 11/21/2011
  Class of 1959 graduate Henri “Hank” Pell Junod, Jr. is designating more than $1.2 million of his estate to Hawken’s endowment for the purpose of a named faculty chair in the history department. This is the first endowed faculty chair at Hawken and serves to advance the national rep ...

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• Football Alumni Honored
  News • 10/25/2011
  On Friday, October 21, several Hawken football alumni were honored at the game’s halftime. Members of the 1981 undefeated team along with members of the 1986 undefeated team (and the first ever playoff team) reunited for a night of camaraderie as the Hawks defeated the visiting Cardinal Huskie ...

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• Mark Twain Bust Returned to Garden
  News • 10/11/2011
  A 1935 bust of Mark Twain received a long awaited return to it's home in a celebration at the American Cultural Garden on October 7, thanks to the efforts of Hawken seventh graders past and present. The bronze statue was originally a part of the American Cultural Garden, one of 26 gardens that line ...

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• Girls Golf Advance to State; Girls Soccer Wins CVC
  News • 10/7/2011
  Hawken Girls Golf place third at the District Golf Tournament, advancing to the State Tournament in Columbus October 14 & 15. The team, coached by Debby Horowitz, is comprised of Allie Schwertner '12, Meredith Cohen '14, Ali Gole '14, Beatrice Cahill-Camden '14, and Haley Newman '15. At districts th ...

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• Author Encourages Development of Empathy and Intellect
  News • 10/7/2011
  The Middle School community welcomed Charlise Lyles ’77 on Monday September 26. She visited the seventh grade Humanities classes to read from her memoir, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe: From the Projects to Prep School . Her reading connected to the Civil Rights curriculum and tied to students ...

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• Students Conduct Campus Service
  News • 9/26/2011
  On Thursday, September 22 Upper School students took part in a day of a service day fanning out across both the Lyndhurst and Gates Mills campuses as well as reporting for service with partner organizations. Projects ranged from cleaning the gray gym special events kitchen, to sorting and packing fo ...

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• Coach Holtrey to be Inducted into Sports Hall of Fame
  News • 9/20/2011
  Congratulations to Hawken Swimming Coach Jerry Holtrey, who has been named one of only eight new inductees to the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame. As a 2011 inductee, he joins esteemed colleagues Dominique Moceanu, Olympian; Bob Golic, former Browns star; and Mike Hegan, Indians broadcaster an ...

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• Sophomore Honored at NWF Awards Dinner in D.C.
  News • 5/31/2011
  Isabella Todaro ’13 recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to accept a Conservation Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation at their Annual Meeting Awards Dinner. Those honored at the dinner represent “the best and the brightest individuals and organizations whose actions ...

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• Natural History Museum's Sky Lab Comes to Lower School
  News • 5/2/2011
  The seed was planted when a third grade intern asked K-3 science teacher Jennifer Hartz for ideas to support the work third graders' study of Harriet Tubman and the Drinking Gourd. "I immediately thought of the Star Lab," Hartz said. The Star Lab/Cosmodyssey is an inflatable planetarium that is rent ...

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• Alumni Panel Addresses Environmental Sustainability at Upper School Assembly
  News • 4/19/2011
  Many thanks to three Hawken alumni who served on the Environmental Sustainability panel for the upper school assembly last week: Barry Benjamin ’68, founder and owner of Benjamin Environmental Sustainability Team, a consulting company that performs sustainability assessments for individuals, o ...

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• Upper School Wins 7th Consecutive OCTM Contest
  News • 3/18/2011
  Four Hawken School students placed first in Division II in the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics High School Mathematics Contest held on Saturday, February 26th. The team, consisting of Josh Petrack ’12, Ani Dasarathy ’12, Russell Cohen ’13, and Elliott Glazer ’14, had ...

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• Latham Boyle ’96 Addresses Upper School Students
  News • 3/14/2011
  On March 14, 1996 graduate Latham Boyle returned to Hawken to speak at an upper school assembly and to visit science classes. During his presentation, Boyle talked about his work on gravitational wave telescopes and encouraged students to consider interesting questions that have not yet been answere ...

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• First Graders Learn Lessons in Philanthropy
  News • 2/11/2011
  Students in Hawken's first grade classes are no strangers to helping others. Each week, 1R spends one hour knitting hats for Lake West Hospitals, passing the loom so each child gets a chance to contribute to every finished product, which to date numbers 15 hats. For the holidays, the students made g ...

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• Junior Wins Grand Prize at Art Show
  News • 2/7/2011
  Congratulations to junior Katelyn Ursu, who took the grand prize at the Beachwood 16th Annual Juried High School Student Art Show held on Sunday, February 6. Katelyn's work and that of three other Hawken students - Abigail Moeller '11, Lauren Kennedy '12 and Travis Reilly '11 - is on display at the ...

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• Three Seniors to Participate in Prestigious Competition
  News • 2/6/2011
  Congratulations to the three member of Hawken's Class of 2011 who have been selected to compete in the highly selective Presidential Scholars Program: Catherine Blebea and Yoni Kirsch, who qualified for the academic component of the program; and Margret Erlendsdottir, who qualified for both the acad ...

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• Upper School Devotes Day to Service and Spirit
  News • 1/28/2011
  Friday, January 28 marked Hawken’s second upper school community service and campus stewardship day, with students dispersed throughout the school and at various locations off campus to focus on a service project or activity. School stewardship activities included chemistry demonstrations for ...

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• MS Boys Basketball End Season Strong
  News • 1/18/2011
  On Saturday the Hawken Middle School 8th Grade boys basketball team concluded their Lyndhurst careers by taking third place in the Chagrin Falls Middle School Basketball Tournament with a scintillating double-overtime victory over West Geauga 50-47. West Geauga forced both overtimes with dramatic ba ...

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• Ancient Textile Methods Examined in Latin Classes
  News • 12/9/2010
  Latin students experienced the Roman way of creating textiles on Thursday, December 2nd, when local fiber artist and Roman wool expert, Sarah Prueter, shared her knowledge and love of wool and hand spinning. Students discovered the many uses of sheep, properties of wool, compared plant and animal fi ...

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• Sixth Grader Crowned State Chess Champion; Third Grader Tied for 6th
  News • 12/2/2010
  The 2010 K-12 Grade Level State Chess Championships were held in Aurora, Ohio on Saturday November 20. When the intense day of competition was over, Connor Keuchel '17 emerged victorious, earning top honors at his grade level, and Vijay Sastry '20 tied for sixth place in the third grade competition. ...

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• Engineering Class Shares Cardboard Chair Designs
  News • 11/10/2010
  Kelly Clark’s Principles of Engineering and Design class displayed their cardboard chair creations for members of the Hawken community this afternoon. The cardboard chair project is one of a number of hands-on projects for the class that asks students to come up with product designs within cer ...

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• MS Teachers Collaborate on Publishing Children’s Book
  News • 11/5/2010
  The Twin Fairy Sisters, by author Jenifer Halliday (assistant director of the Middle School) and illustrator Erin Thomas (Middle School art teacher), is the first of a four-series collection of stories about friendship, sharing, and the powerful bond between twins. The project began as a collaborati ...

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• Parents Association Hosts Dan Moulthrop
  News • 10/29/2010
  Dan Moulthrop, former host of WCPN's Sound of Ideas, joined the Parents Association in the Arts & Communications Lobby of the Gates Mills Campus last Tuesday to speak about his work and his current leadership role in the Civic Commons , a nascent project of the Fund for Our Economic Future in Clevel ...

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• Othello Actor Speaks with 10th Grade Humanities Classes
  News • 10/29/2010
  Prior to attending a production of Shakespeare’s Othello at Playhouse Square tomorrow, students in the 10th grade humanities classes had a unique opportunity this morning to meet David Anderson, who plays the leading role in that production. In addition to speaking to the students about how he ...

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• Hawken's New Urban Campus Opens Doors
  News • 9/7/2010
  An estimated eight hundred guests gathered on Sunday, August 29 to witness the opening of Hawken’s new urban campus, The Sally and Bob Gries Center for Experiential and Service Learning – the newest of 42 member institutions that comprise University Circle, Inc. Under sunny skies, the cr ...

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• Class of 2010 Matriculation
  News • 7/12/2010
  The members of the class of 2010 are preparing to head off to college shortly, having made their commitments to their respective universities across the nation - and their statistical results have far exceeded the norms. Not only did a significant majority of our students gained acceptances at their ...

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• Class of 2010 Matriculation
  News • 7/12/2010
  The members of the class of 2010 are preparing to head off to college shortly, having made their commitments to their respective universities - and their statistical results have far exceeded the norms. Not only did a significant majority of our students gain acceptances at their first choice school ...

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• Middle School Places 2nd at Academic Challenge Nationals
  News • 6/30/2010
  The Middle School Academic Challenge Team returned home from Chicago with a second place trophy from a national competition in Chicago. Working collaboratively as a team, they took out the #1 seed from Kentucky, who had been undefeated going into the playoffs against #8 seeded Hawken. They then pass ...

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• Championship Award, Other Honors Earned at GCCTM Contest
  News • 5/14/2010
  Imagine committing to take part in a competitive mathematics event to be held the day after returning from an exhausting week-long class trip to Washington, D.C. or New York City. Such was the dedication of fifteen seventh and eighth grade students on Saturday May 1st. That morning, five teams of Ha ...

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• Sixth Graders Hit Easy Street on Wall Street
  News • 5/14/2010
  Hawken sixth grade students volunteered in record numbers this year to participate in the Ohio Stock Market Challenge, and one team of four -- Jacob Cohen, Ryuta Fujita, Tim Holman, and Israel Moorer -- took second place out of more than 800 Ohio teams taking part in the grade 4-8 division. The Ohio ...

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• Cum Laude Society Welcomes New Members
  News • 4/30/2010
  Thursday, April 29 marked the 2010 Cum Laude Induction ceremony, where current members of The Cum Laude Society from the Class of 2010 welcomed 21 additional juniors and seniors to join the ranks while classmates, faculty, and family gathered in the Kennedy Auditorium looked on. The 2010 inductees h ...

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• Hawken to Host Recycling Event, April 19-23
  News • 4/23/2010
  In observance of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Hawken Upper School will be hosting a recycling event for computers, electronics and shoes during the week of April 19-23, 2010. Shoe Recycling All athletic and non-athletic shoes will be collected in the AC Lobby throughout the week and recycled t ...

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• Randi Michel`s Research Presented at National Convention
  News • 4/21/2010
  Research on lowering women`s risk for breast and ovarian cancer conducted by Randi Michel `10 and her STEMM mentor Jill Polk was accepted for a platform presentation at the Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting held in Albuquerque, New Mexico in March. Randi and Jill were joined by \"a diverse group of w ...

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• Hawken Celebrates Earth Week
  News • 4/15/2010
  Hawken is extending Earth Day throughout next week, and a plethora of environmentally fun and friendly activities have been planned. The week will kick off with an Opening Assembly on Monday, which will include brief presentations about disposable water bottle use, energy conservation and recycling ...

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• U.S. Attorney Steve Dettelbach `88 Visits Hawken
  News • 4/15/2010
  On Monday, April 12, Hawken Upper School students were treated to an assembly featuring Steve Dettelbach `88. Steve was nominated by President Obama on July 10, 2009 and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 15, 2009 as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. Steve ...

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• Senior Wins Grand Prize at Regional Science Fair
  News • 3/19/2010
  Peter Mintun `10 was honored for being one of the two Grand Prize Winners in the Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair at an awards ceremony on Thursday, March 18 at Cleveland State University. As a grand prize winner, he qualifies for entry in the International Science and Engineering Fair to ...

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• Seniors Crowned State Champs in Debate Tournament
  News • 3/11/2010
  Seniors Mike Gwin and Ozan Cubukcu were named state champions at The Ohio High School Speech League State Tournament held on March 5th and 6th at John Carroll University, Hathaway Brown School, and Laurel School. After 10 rounds of competition, Gwin and Cubukcu defeated Canfield in the final round o ...

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• Seniors Crowned State Champs in Debate Tournament
  News • 3/11/2010
  Seniors Mike Gwin and Ozan Cubukcu were named state champions at The Ohio High School Speech League State Tournament held on March 5th and 6th at John Carroll University, Hathaway Brown School, and Laurel School. After 10 rounds of competition, Gwin and Cubukcu defeated Canfield in the final round o ...

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• Lower School Students Pledge to Care for Earth
  News • 3/10/2010
  Over the last few weeks, students in grade 1-3 have worked hard to participate in the Climate Quilt Campaign, a worldwide effort to unite children around the globe to support the environment. Many Hawken families donated old fabric, decorating supplies and time to cut over 100 squares. Students were ...

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• Students Tackle Living on Minimum Wage
  News • 3/10/2010
  Why do many people - even those living in our immediate area - live with limited opportunities and choices on a daily basis? This question guided Hawken sixth grade students during an innovative February service-learning experience. In math class, students examined the struggle of making ends meet o ...

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• Fifth Graders Re-enact Trial of Martin Luther
  News • 2/25/2010
  To what extent does greed for money and power as well as personal grudges influence one’s position on political and religious issues? And what exactly is heresy? Fifth grade students grappled with such questions through a re-enactment of the trial of Martin Luther to decide whether or not the ...

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• Hawken US and MS Teams Win State Academic Challenge Tournament
  News • 2/23/2010
  On February 6, 2010, Hawken hosted the first annual State Academic Challenge Tournament for Middle School in conjunction with a State Tournament for High School. Despite the blizzard that closed roads around the state and kept some teams from attending, fourteen teams from various schools were able ...

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• Hawken MS and US Teams Win State Academic Challenge Tournament
  News • 2/23/2010
  On February 6, 2010, Hawken hosted the first annual State Academic Challenge Tournament for Middle School in conjunction with a State Tournament for High School. Despite the blizzard that closed roads around the state and kept some teams from attending, fourteen teams from various schools were able ...

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• Lower School Supports Hawken for Haiti
  News • 2/19/2010
  Students in grades K-5 want change for Haiti – both positive change and monetary change in the form of coins! Lighten your wallets and empty your stash of coins to support this worthy cause! Second graders and their families also showed their support for Haiti by sponsoring a bake sale on Wedn ...

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• Fifth Graders Get Charged about Energy
  News • 2/5/2010
  Fifth graders were treated to an Energy Carnival presented by the Middle School Energy Club on Thursday, February 4th. Club Advisor Peter Thomas explained to the assembled students that the point of the carnival was to “have fun and learn.” And from all reports, they did both. Students w ...

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• Middle School Expands Tablet Program
  News • 2/1/2010
  Middle School Director Steve Hopkins recently announced that after a very successful pilot program in our sixth grade this year, the One-to-One Tablet Computer Program will be expanded to the entire middle school next year. Tablet computers are simply laptops with additional features, such as a pres ...

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• Hawken for Haiti Relief Effort Launched
  News • 1/26/2010
  Hawken School has just launched a school-wide initiative to support victims of the earthquake in Haiti, with all funds raised to be donated to two organizations: medWish and Partners in Health . This is not the first time Hawken has partnered with medWish, a Cleveland-based organization that collect ...

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• 6th Grade Knowledge Master Team Places 2nd in State, 10th Worldwide
  News • 1/22/2010
  The 6th grade Hawken Knowledge Master team competed in the winter competition on January 19th,working exceptionally well together - analyzing the questions and narrowing down the choices in such a way that they were able to answer 87 of the 100 questions accurately, most of the time within the 15 se ...

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• Hawken Day at "Choosing to Participate" Exhibit
  News • 1/22/2010
  Hawken Day at the Western Reserve Historical Society \"Choosing to Participate Exhibit\" will be held on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 10:00 a.m. to noon. During that time Hawken will cover the cost of admission for any current Hawken Middle or Upper School family. The program begins promptly with a t ...

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• Seniors Rank High in National Debate Tournament
  News • 11/24/2009
  Ozan Cubukcu ‘10 and Mike Gwin ’10 traveled to Chicago this weekend to participate in the Glenbrooks Debate Tournament, the largest high school debate tournament in the nation. Among teams from across the nation that were represented at the tournament, Ozan and Mike were 6-0 and first se ...

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• Seniors Rank High in National Debate Tournament
  News • 11/23/2009
  Ozan Cubukcu ‘10 and Mike Gwin ’10 traveled to Chicago this weekend to participate in the Glenbrooks Debate Tournament, the largest high school debate tournament in the nation. Among teams from across the nation that were represented at the tournament, Ozan and Mike were 6-0 and first se ...

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• In-Residence Theater Company Inspires Creativity, Innovation
  News • 11/23/2009
  Hawken Upper School students and faculty were treated to a unique performance by music and dance students at an assembly last Friday - the culmination of a project undertaken under the guidance of GroundWorks dancetheater, a Cleveland based contemporary arts organization that has been working in-res ...

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• Groundworks Dance Company Visits Upper School
  News • 11/13/2009
  On Monday November 9 th , Bill Stark class of 2003 and Steve Hall class of 2000 presented a workshop on Capoeira, a dance/ martial arts movement originating from Brazil. Handmade instruments were played as the dance classes learned a few Capoeira steps. For the past few weeks, the Performance arts d ...

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• Hawken Vets Saluted at Morning Meeing
  News • 11/11/2009
  After the following announcement was made at morning meeting this week, the entire Upper School community stood to applaud Hawken veterans Jim Baker, Peter Scott, and Teri Williams for their selfless courage and service to our country: At 11:00 a.m. on November 11th, 1918, Allied and German governme ...

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• Hawken Vets Saluted at School Meeting
  News • 11/11/2009
  After the following announcement was made at morning meeting this week, the entire Upper School community stood to applaud Hawken veterans Jim Baker, Peter Scott, and Teri Williams for their selfless courage and service to our country: At 11:00 a.m. on November 11th, 1918, Allied and German governme ...

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• Cross Country Runners Shine in State Race
  News • 11/9/2009
  Having placed 11th and 12th respectively at the OHSAA Regional Meet at Boardman High School on Saturday, October 31 st , sophomore Mackenzie Harris and freshman Ally Markovich earned the right to compete in the State Championship Race on Saturday, November 7th at Scioto Downs in Columbus. Out of 150 ...

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• Upper School Art Teacher Joins Global Art Dialogue
  News • 11/2/2009
  Upper School art teacher Anne Kmieck recently returned from a trip to China, where she participated in the International Art Dialogue in Chinese Gardens with 16 other American and Chinese artists. The 14- day trip included 6 days at the Chinese gardens, where artists participated in formal and infor ...

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• Cross Country Makes Tracks at Perry Invitational
  News • 10/1/2009
  The 2009 Hawken Middle School Cross Country team is 14 members strong, says co-coach Pam Richman. All runners have mastered the rigorous two-mile courses across fields, through woods, and over hills. The Perry Invitational is an especially exciting event. Fifteen schools and 200 runners compete in o ...

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• Hawken Again Tops Area Independents in National Merit Semifinalists
  News • 9/16/2009
  For the second consecutive year, Hawken has surpassed all other Cleveland area independent schools in the number of students qualifying as National Merit Scholarship Semi-finalists.

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• 2009 Hawken Grad Travels to the Congo
  News • 7/13/2009
  Aaron Kohn ’09 is spending a portion of his summer in the Republic of Congo on assignment for INCEF, the International Conservation and Education Fund – an organization he has worked for previously as an intern in their Washington, D.C. office.

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• 2009 Hawken Grad Travels to the Congo
  News • 7/13/2009
  Aaron Kohn `09 is spending a portion of his summer in the Republic of Congo on assignment for INCEF, the International Conservation and Education Fund - an organization he has worked for previously as an intern in their Washington, D.C. office. INCEF`s founder, Cynthia Moses, was a National Geograph ...

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• Trip to Nicaragua Combines Service and Exploration
  News • 7/13/2009
  In June, ten Hawken Upper School students traveled to Nicaragua to participate in a service project that impacted their lives as well as the lives of others. The group, led by Sara Mierke and Chad Komicki, was one of three groups helping the community of Piedra Colorada in the Matagalpa region. Each ...

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• Middle School Team Ranks 3rd in Nation at National Academic Challenge Tournament
  News • 7/2/2009
  After winning at the state level in Knowledge Master, the Middle School Academic Challenge Team recently participated in the Junior National Academic League Challenge Tournament. Under the supervision of coach and teacher Pat Jewell, 15 students traveled to Washington, D.C. to compete against the be ...

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• 8th Graders Reflect on Lessons in Character at Closing Exercises
  News • 6/12/2009
  The 69 members of the eighth grade class bid a fond farewell to the Lyndhurst campus and their lower and middle school years at the Closing Exercises held on Wednesday, June 10 in the Ingalls Gymnasium. Addressing faculty, family, and friends, Russell Cohen and Gabe Napoli offered the welcoming addr ...

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• Boys Lacrosse Reaches Final 4; Ranks 3rd Among Ohio D II Schools
  News • 6/12/2009
  The boys lacrosse team finished their impressive season at 16-4,ranking third among Division II schools in Ohio Division II (see laxpower.com). After defeating Walsh Jesuit in the Division II/Region 2 championship 12-7 to make the state final four, they lost to eventual state champion University Sch ...

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• 5th Graders Design Floor Plan for Mather House Classroom
  News • 6/10/2009
  Fifth graders engaged in real-world, hands-on learning this spring when they were charged with creating a classroom floor plan for the Mather House, Hawken’s University Circle extension campus. The project, initiated by math enrichment instructor Molly Kling, included elements of both math and langu ...

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• Class of 2009 Honored at Commencement
  News • 6/9/2009
  The 105 members of Hawken’s Class of 2009 received their diplomas at the commencement ceremony held on Sunday, June 7 on the lawn of the Gates Mills campus. Representing their classmates, valedictorian Samuel Milner and seniors Cassandra Bucceri and Brian Huser reflected on their time at Hawken and ...

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• Track Team Sets New Records; Hurdler Named State Champion
  News • 6/8/2009
  The Hawken Track Team was in Columbus for the OHSAA State Track & Field Championship and came home with gold and silver. Seniors Tyler Nichols and Jake McKay along with Juniors Ryan Harkey and Jake Willen represented the Hawks at The Ohio State University. Tyler Nichols became the first Hawken boy`s ...

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• Senior Explores East Cleveland Through Artistic Dialogue
  News • 5/26/2009
  Media and its influence have always fascinated Aaron Kohn, so it`s no surprise that for his senior project at Hawken School he decided to explore the intricacies and the value of story telling. But what might surprise some is that he decided to do it in East Cleveland. As a child, Aaron`s parents dr ...

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• Middle School Academic Challenge Team Shines at Local Tournament
  News • 5/14/2009
  Are you smarter than a middle schooler? Take the Middle School Academic Team Challenge by answering this question: "It is the third person, singular, perfect, indicative form of the Latin verb meaning +óGé¼-£to declare an oath.` What is this legal term for a written statement of fact, made voluntari ...

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• Hawken Academic Team Places 3rd in State
  News • 5/13/2009
  On Saturday May 2nd the Hawken Academic Team, Northeast Regional Champions, joined twelve schools from six regions around the state at Columbus State Community College for the Ohio Academic Competitions State Championships. After a very close, four-point loss to Fisher Catholic (Lancaster) in the op ...

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• Hawken Honors 2009 Cum Laude Inductees
  News • 5/1/2009
  The Hawken community gathered in Kennedy Auditorium on Thursday, April 30 to honor 21 members of the Classes of 2009 and 2010 who were inducted into the Cum Laude Society during a ceremony held on Thursday, April 30 in the Kennedy Auditorium. The Cum Laude Society permits participating schools to in ...

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• Hawken Hosts CCIS Arts Festival
  News • 4/28/2009
  Hawken School`s Visual and Performing Arts Department, under the direction of Department Chair Denise Buckley, welcomed 180 students to its Gates Mills campus on Friday and Saturday, April 24 and 25, to participate in the Cleveland Council of Independent School`s Arts Festival. The festival is one o ...

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• Family Presents Grant S. Roth `85 Community Service Plaque
  News • 4/24/2009
  Bob and Margo Roth joined the Hawken community for school meeting on Monday, April 20th, for the presentation of a plaque commemorating their son, Grant Roth `85, who passed away in 2005 after and 8-year battle with cancer. In 2007, Grant`s family and friends established the Grant S. Roth `85 Commun ...

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• Hawken to Host Lacrosse Fundraiser
  News • 4/22/2009
  Hawken will be teaming with lacrosse players from across northeast Ohio this Saturday, April 25, as the school hosts the 2009 Fisher House Charity Lacrosse Showcase. The +óGé¼-£showcase` is an all day series of high school and middle school lacrosse games held to raise money and awareness for the Fi ...

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• Benefit Screening for Magnolia Clubhouse
  News • 4/20/2009
  In another effort to support the greater community, Hawken is partnering with Magnolia Clubouse, a community-based center in University Circle that supports people affected by mental illness, to support a benefit screening of The Soloist, starring Jamie Fox and Robert Downey Jr. The film documents t ...

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• First Grade Family Visitors Share Real World Lessons
  News • 4/14/2009
  As part of the first grade Student of the Week program, relatives of students in Judy Rubertino`s class are invited to share a special talent, expertise, or activity. In addition to enhancing Hawken`s family-oriented culture and instilling pride in the child being celebrated, this particular aspect ...

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• Students Shine in O.M.E.A. Sponsored Events
  News • 4/8/2009
  Last week, Eleanor Rimmerman, Noah Geller (grade 7), and Nils Gudbranson (grade 8) represented Hawken Middle School at the annual District VII Jr. High Honors Band sponsored by the Ohio Music Education Association. Students nominated from 28 schools in Cuyahoga, Lake, and Geagua Counties gathered fo ...

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• Hawken Welcomes Students from Haibara
  News • 3/31/2009
  Hawken welcomed six Japanese students and two adult chaperones from Haibara, Japan last week as part of the Hawken-Haibara exchange program, now in its 21st year. Last year, 12 Hawken students visited Haibara, and many of those students are now serving as host families to the Japanese visitors. Whil ...

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• Student Wins Grand Prize at Science and Engineering Fair
  News • 3/13/2009
  Alec Lai `09 was presented top prize in the North East Ohio Science and Engineering Fair at a special awards ceremony held at John Carroll University on March 5 with his entry entitled: "Thermal Optimization of Deep Boreholes for Minor Actinide Waste Disposal." This entry not only won First Place in ...

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• Sixth Grade Advisories Bring Hope to the Homeless
  News • 3/10/2009
  The second in a series of three Community Service Days for the sixth grade gave the Bolton/Halliday and Richmann advisees another opportunity to partner with the Interfaith Hospitality Network. After the initial student-led toy and book drive last fall, which created a library for the children at th ...

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• Beloved Former Teacher Zoann Dusenbury Passes On
  News • 3/3/2009
  It is with great sadness that Hawken announces that Faculty Emeritus Zoann Little Dusenbury passed away on February 26, 2009, in the company of her children, at Judson Park as a result of complications from Alzheimer`s disease. Mrs. Dusenbury, a Laurel School alumna, earned a B.A. in English and gra ...

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• Upper School Forum Links Students With Service Agencies
  News • 2/25/2009
  Upper School students participated in a Community Service Roundtable Forum on Friday, February 20. The event, organized by Sara Mierke, Director of Community Partnerships and Service Learning, her assistant Susan Jambor, and Hawken parents Lynne Cohen, Joon-Li Kim, and Peter Anagnostos, was designed ...

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• Lost Boys of Sudan Speak at Upper School Assembly
  News • 2/4/2009
  Hawken`s Speaker Series recently featured Akol Madut and Amiol Arop, two of the nearly 27,000 "Lost Boys" separated from their parents and forced to flee their war-torn country in 1987. The young men spoke of their 14-year struggle for survival amidst threats of bombings, starvation, dehydration, di ...

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• Genocide Class "Skypes" Classroom Guests
  News • 1/29/2009
  Now in its sixth year, Ken Clark`s curriculum for his Genocide course is, like any good curriculum, constantly evolving. He keeps what works, like role playing activities that attempt to recreate 20th century dilemmas and "culture presentation" that enable greater accessibility to and understanding ...

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• Gloved Hands Apply Principles of Engineering and Design
  News • 1/29/2009
  Lower School Science teacher Todd Webster once again seized an opportunity to use nature as his classroom as he and a group of fourth and fifth graders trudged through the snow in frigid temperatures, armed with snowsuits, hats, gloves, and tupperware containers. Their task? To build an igloo by pac ...

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• Hawken Artists Win Accolades
  News • 1/29/2009
  Nine Hawken art students received accolades in the Scholastics Art and Writing Awards, a competition amongst 75,000 teens across the nation and regarded as the most prestigious recognition program for creative youth in the nation. The competition begins on the regional level and Gold Key winners go ...

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• Young Alum Forms Global Connections Through Service
  News • 1/27/2009
  When Sarah Scott `04 set off for a three-month service adventure in Tanzania last fall, inspiring Hawken students to make a difference in the lives of children on the other side of the world was not part of her plan. But that is exactly what happened. In Tanzania, Sarah volunteered at an orphanage c ...

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• Fourth Grade Self-Contained Classroom Teacher
  News • 1/26/2009
  THE POSITION Hawken School is seeking a full-time fourth grade self-contained classroom teacher. The essential duties/responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following: +é-+ Teach in a self-contained section of fourth grade, including language arts, social studies and ...

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• Experiencing the Inauguration
  News • 1/20/2009
  Thanks to teachers and technology, Lower, Middle and Upper School students gathered across Hawken`s two campuses to witness history as Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Hawken`s technology department pulled out all the stops to project the ceremony in high definit ...

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• Lower School Students Perform at Winter Recital
  News • 1/8/2009
  Hawken`s Lower School Winter Music Recital was held in the Lower School Chapel just prior to winter break and featured 27 Lower School Students performing solo on piano, clarinet, saxophone, and flute. The program was proudly presented by Shanelle Cook`s and Bridge Rinehimer`s Piano and Woodwind Stu ...

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• Battle of the Bands Fundraiser
  News • 12/23/2008
  Hawken will host its second annual Battle of the Bands fundraiser on Friday, January 9th at 7:00 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium on the Gates Mills campus. Admission is $5.00, and tickets will go on sale starting January 5th. The event will help fund Hawken`s summer service program, Seeds of Learning ...

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• Early Childhood Program Featured in Training Videos
  News • 12/17/2008
  Gaye Gronlund is no stranger to Hawken -- or to the many other schools she has visited around the nation. Project Director for the National Association for the Education of Young Children`s book Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs, she also served as a presenter at Hawke ...

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• Holiday Party and Film Event on December 27
  News • 12/17/2008
  Dan Kuhlman (+óGé¼-£95) and Jeremy Kuhlman (`99) own the film production company Breakwall Pictures. They are currently producing the feature length film, HELENA. The project will star well-known, award-winning actors from both film and television and has a budget of 2 million dollars. On Saturday, ...

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• Seventh Grader to Represent Hawken at State Geography Bee
  News • 12/17/2008
  Which state is bordered by both the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers: Iowa, Ohio, or Washington? If you are a middle school student and you consider this an easy question, then there`s a good chance you were a participant in the National Geography Society Geography Bee held at Hawken on Friday Decemb ...

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• Sociologist Shares "The Science of Raising Happy Kids
  News • 12/15/2008
  \"Happiness is a learned skill," says Dr. Christine Carter of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. Judging by her engaging and contagious smile, Dr. Carter has learned more than a few things about happiness - knowledge that she`s gained from her own parenting as well as her studies as a s ...

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• Mathemagic or Simple Physics?
  News • 11/19/2008
  Can you balance 30-plus nails on a single nail-head? Mrs. Richmann`s sixth grade math students can. \"Students discovered the secret of balance in their math classes,\" reports Mrs. Richmann. \"Working in teams, they were given a block of wood with one nail in it. The problem posed to them was to fi ...

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• Financial Experts Weigh in on Global Economic Crisis
  News • 10/17/2008
  Hawken`s Speaker Series hosted its first event of year with an economic talk show featuring financial consultant Scott Roulston `75, Cleveland State University professor Kenneth Borokhovich and National City CEO Peter Raskind. The panel, organized and moderated by Hawken senior Aaron Kohn, discussed ...

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• Speaker Shares Thoughts on Civic Engagement
  News • 10/3/2008
  Upper School students and faculty enjoyed a visit by political and social activist Paul Rogat Loeb, who shared his thoughts on civic involvement. "What I want to do today is talk about your role, here, at this very interesting time on this planet," he said in his opening remarks. \"You look around a ...

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• Alex Dobay to be Honored at HawkFest 2008 Homecoming Game
  News • 9/26/2008
  Hawken School will be honoring Alex Dobay `08 by retiring his #55 football jersey at a special halftime ceremony during the Homecoming game against Independence on Friday, October 3. Alex`s framed jersey will be unveiled during the ceremony and later hung in the Sports Center to become only the seco ...

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• Looney Starts Year With Forward-Focused Message
  News • 9/24/2008
  Head of School Scott Looney welcomed faculty, staff and parents to the 2008-2009 school year with a look at the past and a glimpse of the future. \"The needs of children, their nature, have not really changed so much,\" he said. \"What has changed, dramatically, is the world our children will enter, ...

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• Brother, sister duo in Karamu/Dobama production
  News • 9/18/2008
  Seventh grader Aric and his sister Alexis Floyd, a ninth grader, are appearing now as Jackie and Emmie Thibodeaux in the joint Karamu and Dobama Theater production of \"Caroline, or Change,\" running through October 12 in the Jelliffe Theater at Karamu House on East 89th Street in Cleveland. Set in ...

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• Siblings Score Big at History Day Competition
  News • 7/16/2008
  Out of thousands of competitors, Hannah `08 and Timothy `09 Miller earned a bronze medal at the National History Day contest held at the University of Maryland in June. The two won for a group performance about the conflict over the United States` response to the Armenian Tragedy of the early 20th c ...

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• Awards Day 2008
  News • 6/9/2008
  Alex Dobay `08 received this year`s Charles B. Bolton Award at a recent Upper School Awards Day that was raw with emotion as graduating seniors capped off their careers at Hawken. Upper School students relished the fruits of their hard work and commitment and as departing faculty and staff members r ...

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• Spot the Checkerspot!
  News • 5/28/2008
  First organic gardens. Now butterfly habitats. Only time will tell what's next as Hawken plays its role in environmental sustainability. Eleven Hawken students recently planted some 475 plants at the Upper School in an effort to restore the habitat for the rare Harris Checkerspot butterfly. Emily '1 ...

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• Couldn't Make it to Alumni Reunion Weekend? You Were Missed.
  News • 5/20/2008
  This year's attendees will vouch that it was a great three days. Here's brief recap of what went on: There were hugs. There was laughter. There were smiles. We missed yours. Bob Page '49 received the Carl N. Holmes Distinguished Alumnus Award on Friday; Doug Katz '88 and Chris Fusco '68 received the ...

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• Couldn`t Make it to Alumni Reunion Weekend? You Were Missed.
  News • 5/20/2008
  This year`s attendees will vouch that it was a great three days. Here`s brief recap of what went on: There were hugs. There was laughter. There were smiles. We missed yours. Bob Page `49 received the Carl N. Holmes Distinguished Alumnus Award on Friday; Doug Katz `88 and Chris Fusco `68 received the ...

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• First Graders Team With Ninth Graders for Circle W
  News • 5/19/2008
  Who knew you could order 5,000 worms online? A group of first graders do now. They also know what it looks like when those worms help in composting scraps of food and other raw materials for fertilizer. \"Disgusting,\" was the account of one. \"Smelly,\" is how another took it, holding her nose. The ...

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• Michael Ma `84: World Changer
  News • 5/19/2008
  In the 24 years Michael Ma `84 has worked for the government, most of that in the U.S. State Department, as a foreign service officer, he`s always battled the nagging feeling that life was better on the other side, the corporate world, that is. But when he surveys his career, those feelings are quic ...

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• Relay for Life This Saturday, May 17
  News • 5/12/2008
  Come out and join the fight against cancer as Hawken hosts its first Mini Relay on Saturday, May 17, 2008 from noon to midnight. Monetary support for the event, which supports the efforts of the American Cancer Society, has swelled to over $21,000, but organizers Samantha Kadis and Alex Dobay, both ...

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• Hawkes to Cum Laude Inductees: Put Skills to Noble Ends
  News • 5/1/2008
  Ours is a \"nation duped into giving rubbish a standing ovation,\" lamented English teacher Robert Hawkes at this year`s Cum Laude induction ceremony. His prayer it seemed was that the 22 newest inductees into Hawken`s Cum Laude Society would play their role in redeeming the time spent greeting \"th ...

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• Sixth Graders Use Math and Technology to Design Parks
  News • 4/21/2008
  Introducing AA Waterside Park, just one of the lush, fresh concepts from Hawken sixth graders, who recently rolled up their sleeves and became park designers. Sixth grade math classes have been engaged in an exciting, real-world application of geometry concepts, creating original park designs to sca ...

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• Kleening Up the Awards
  News • 4/19/2008
  The Lake Kleenerz, a group of Hawken students who have committed themselves to raise awareness about the quality of Lake Erie waters, recently won the Seaworld/Busch Gardens Fujifilm Environmental Excellence Award and $10,000 to help continue their efforts. The award has been given since 1993 to stu ...

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• CCC Donates Time and Labor to Food Bank
  News • 4/16/2008
  Several members of the Hawken faculty and staff recently donated a morning to volunteer at the Cleveland Foodbank, working to sort perishables and packing and carrying boxes. The work of the Hawken volunteers helps the clearinghouse manage and coordinate its efforts to feed the hungry. \"Volunteers ...

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• Student Environmental Group Wins $10,000
  News • 4/16/2008
  The Lake Kleenerz, a group of Hawken students, who`ve committed themselves to maintain the quality of Lake Erie waters recently won the Seaworld/Busch Gardens Fujifilm Environmental Excellence Award and $10,000 to help with their continued efforts. The award has been given since 1993 to students tha ...

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• Hawken`s Four All-Stars
  News • 4/10/2008
  Of ten girls swimmers that The Plain Dealer named Northeast Ohio all-stars, four were from Hawken. Freshman Alana Arnold, senior Jennifer Aronoff, junior Brittany Rospierski and senior Brittany Strumbel were named among the highest performing athletes in the newpaper`s special high school winter spo ...

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• Middle School Math Students Measure Up!
  News • 4/9/2008
  Students at Hawken Middle School are making their mark in math and have had numerous opportunities to shine in a wide spectrum of competitive events. Most recently, 30 students from all three grade levels, stretched their capabilities by attending training sessions for Mathcounts, a rigorous contest ...

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• At Lower School: Community Gathers, Works For Common Cause
  News • 3/12/2008
  The Hawken community recently teamed with Mentor fifth grader Ashley Imbrogno and her mother Karen to make blankets and warm some hearts around Greater Cleveland. Ashley began her efforts and founded Warming the Hearts after her own bout with a life-threatening illness and realizing that there are h ...

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• Graduate Premieres Film at Cleveland Film Festival
  News • 3/7/2008
  As Ohio goes...for governor, so goes the presidential election? It`s just one of the premises explored in a new documentary that Hawken graduate Spencer Young `92, Jason Zone Fisher, son of Ohio`s Lt. Governor Lee Fisher, and his college friend John Intrater will premiere at the Cleveland Internatio ...

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• Hawken Students Place First in Math Contest
  News • 3/3/2008
  Four Hawken Upper School students placed first in Ohio in Division 2 and tied for ninth overall in the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics Contest. Eleven Hawken students participated in the event on Saturday, February 23 in which 1447 students from 97 schools statewide participated. The scores ...

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• MathCounts Team Wins Regionals
  News • 2/19/2008
  Led by coach Pam Richmann, four Hawken \"mathletes\" competed as a team at the 2008 regional MATHCOUNTS tournament on Saturday, February 16 at Cleveland State University. Sixth graders Shang-Shang Chen, Aric Floyd, and Elliot Glazer and seventh grader, Russell Cohen problem-solved their way to a fir ...

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• Take A Trip to Urinetown
  News • 2/19/2008
  Urinetown, Broadway`s uproarious musical will play on the stage of Kennedy Auditorium this weekend as Hawken presents the Upper School Winter Musical on February 22 and 23 at 7:30 p.m. Winner of three Tony Awards including Best Book and praised by critics for reinvigorating the very notion of what a ...

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• Think Pink: Support the Lady Hawks
  News • 2/13/2008
  Come support your Lady Hawks on Friday, February 15, 2008 as they take on the Beachwood Bisons on Think Pink/Senior Night at 7:30 p.m. We would like to challenge everyone in the school to wear something pink on that day (within dress code, of course) and the athletic department will be donating $1 f ...

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• 2008 Ohio Stock Market Participants Begin Investing
  News • 2/13/2008
  Hawken is proud to announce that 19 sixth graders will participate in a 10-week program to learn about investing in the stock market. The students have committed to attend trading sessions twice a week to work with their teams as they go online to research companies and discover how growth trends, P ...

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• Speech and Debate Team Wins Award Honoring Late Faculty Member
  News • 2/7/2008
  Hawken`s Speech and Debate Team recently competed in the Cleveland District of the Ohio High School Speech League`s District tournament, winning district champion in Public Forum debate and Policy Debate and winning best overall school in Lincoln Douglas Debate. The team also placed second overrall ...

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• Women's Swim Team Overwhelms Competition at CVC Championship
  News • 1/31/2008
  Hawken's women's swim team amassed a total of 622 points at the recent Chagrin Valley Conference and led the tournament setting four meet records and coming in first or second in 10 out of 11 events. Swim Placements 200 yard medley relay: 1st place, Best in Ohio 200 yard freestyle: Brittany Strumbel ...

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• The Daily Life: Purling profitably
  News • 1/10/2008
  Kate Jackson (Podnar) '00 recently appeared in the Plain Dealer as a part of its Daily Life chronicle of life around Northeastern Ohio.

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• Upper, Middle School Teams Tops in Academic Challenge
  News • 12/14/2007
  Two teams, one comprising Upper School students, the other Middle School students, placed first statewide and, out of over 700 schools competing nationally, scored in the top 10 percent in the Knowledge Master Open (KMO). In the past eight years, Hawken has won the state at least once each year and ...

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• Hawken to Open Extension Campus at University Circle
  News • 12/6/2007
  Hawken School has announced that it will expand its Cleveland presence by establishing an urban extension campus dedicated to experiential service learning in University Circle. A generous gift from Sally and Bob Gries will help Hawken School move forward with its investment, which will be named the ...

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• Hawken Announces Appointment of Asst. Head for External Affairs
  News • 12/6/2007
  Hawken announced today the appointment of Devin K. Schlickmann as its next Assistant Head of School for External Affairs, beginning July 1, 2008. In this role Schlickmann will oversee the areas of development, communications and admission/financial aid. He comes to Hawken after having served at Gilm ...

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• Recovering Lost History
  News • 11/13/2007
  Ever hear about the Boston Coffee Party? It`s likely you haven`t and that you think the term should be the Boston Tea Party instead. But they are in fact two separate uprisings in the same period of revolution, the tea party largely a movement of men, the coffee party one where women at the helm. No ...

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• Hawken Student Attends Taping on WJW Ch. 8
  News • 11/5/2007
  Middle Schooler Mary Margaret Horsburgh attended a recent taping of and made a brief appearance on \"That`s Life\" with Robin Swoboda on WJW Channel 8. The two joined Karen and Ashley Imbrogno, the founders of Warming the Hearts, an organization that provides blankets to children in hospitals throug ...

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• Fall HPS Production Promises Fun
  News • 10/31/2007
  It`s 1940, and the creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop -- in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious \"Stage Door Slasher\" -- are assembling for a backer`s audition of their new show at the estate of a wealthy sponsor. The estate is filled with sliding bookcases, s ...

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• Noted Expert Shares Thoughts on Teens and Parenting
  News • 10/25/2007
  Best-selling author and parenting expert Rosalind Wiseman brought her high-energy, no-nonsense wisdom to Hawken in September. After spending a full day with ninth graders she noted that Hawken students did the hard word of looking into a mirror and asking difficult questions. \"Your kids were respec ...

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• Basketball "Fun Raiser" Planned for 11/8
  News • 10/25/2007
  Do you consider yourself a \"Baller\" but are not a member of the basketball team? Do you think you can \"hang\" with the Hawken faculty in a game? Are you always up for participating for a good cause? If you can answer \"YES!\" to any of these questions, come on down to the faculty vs. students bas ...

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• Circle W Garden Project Takes Root
  News • 9/26/2007
  \"We need to go back to the basics and we need to begin now,\" said Adam Waxman `07, in a letter decrying the nation`s eating habits. \"We have lost our traditional food systems that were created to produce healthy, nurturing food.\" Both he and Pete Scully `07, after attending a senior seminar that ...

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• Hawken to Host International Robotics Tourney in December
  News • 9/26/2007
  Hawken will host the regional tournament for the First Lego League (FLL) on Saturday, December 1, the first time in several years the event has been in the area. The FLL, is an international robotics program for students ages 9-14, and December`s regional tourney will have as participants students f ...

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• Memorial Service Planned
  News • 9/24/2007
  The Hawken Community will gather on Friday, September 28 at 2:30 pm in Kennedy Auditorium at Gates Mills for a celebration of Sharleen Russo`s life. Shar served the School in many capacities for 25 years, most recently as Assistant to the Director of the Upper School. Her brave battle against breast ...

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• EcoGarden a 'Natural' Classroom Extension
  News • 9/19/2007
  Throughout the summer, faculty and staff on the Lyndhurst campus watched with anticipation and excitement as a new addition emerged. The EcoGarden, a space that was conceived and created through the generosity of the Geller family, is now complete and ready to be used by students and teachers alike. ...

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• Sixth Grade Math Students Build Learning Bridges
  News • 9/14/2007
  The sixth grade math classes were recently challenged to use their engineering skills to construct bridges using only 3x5 index cards and staples. Working in teams, their goal was to design an economical bridge with adequate structural integrity and an aesthetically pleasing appearance. This was no ...

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• Sign up now to Race for the Cure
  News • 8/30/2007
  Time is running out to sign up for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure! The online registration deadline is Monday, September 3rd. This is the second year that Hawken Senior Samantha Kadis will have assembled a school team for the Race. The Race for the Cure is a 3 mile run/walk in downtown Clevela ...

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• Nation`s top sports execs mentor Hawken students and grads
  News • 8/22/2007
  Some of the nation`s top sports marketing executives-people who`ve worked with some of the biggest names in sports including Brady Quinn, Tiger Woods, Venus and Serena Williams, Joe Montana, Eli and Peyton Manning, Maria Sharapova, Muhammad Ali and Charles Barkley-recently pooled all that expertise ...

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• Cedar, Mayfield construction causing considerable delays
  News • 8/21/2007
  If you`re used to traveling Mayfield or Cedar between Hawken`s Lyndhurst and Gates Mills campuses, you might want to plan an alternate route. Construction on Mayfield Rd. has traffic funneling to one lane each way, resulting in long backups. And relief is not in sight as the Mayfield Rd. project`s t ...

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• Hawken graduate selected as finalist in California tech open
  News • 8/10/2007
  Sonia Aggarwal `02 was recently selected as a finalist in the 2007 California Clean Tech Open. She was among fifty finalists chosen from an entrant pool of 150. The open, according to its Web site, is \"an independent effort by entrepreneurs, researchers, environmentalists, investors and others to c ...

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• Hawken graduate helps in resurgence of Cleveland schools
  News • 7/16/2007
  Hundreds of Cleveland Municipal School District students have Cecilia Carter `76 to thank for \"Smart in the City,\" a new summer arts and education program. Carter, the first African-American female to graduate from Hawken, is head of community affairs for UBS Wealth Management and is largely respo ...

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• Hawken senior scores perfect 36 on ACT
  News • 7/10/2007
  Perfection. That`s what Hawken senior Ryan Pearl can claim. He was one of only six in the state of Ohio to receive a perfect score on the college entrance exam, the ACT. Over 31,000 students in the state took the test in April. Colleges use the ACT scores typically for admission decisions, course pl ...

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• Hawken Hawk now perched in high places
  News • 7/2/2007
  The Hawk has a home. Emblazoned on the water tower with view overlooking the athletic fields and the Gates Mills campus, he casts a watchful eye over everything Red and Gray. And this just in time for the upcoming grand opening of Walton Stadium, Hawken`s new $1.95 million field with turf and lights ...

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• Hawken student a Moondance Film Festival finalist
  News • 6/29/2007
  A documentary by Hawken junior Aaron Kohn was recently selected as a finalist in both the Kids Short Film and Short Documentary Film categories at the Moondance International Film Festival, which places him among the best of the best filmmakers internationally. \"Project Kick Talk\" is Kohn`s effort ...

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• Renowned open-water swimmer also Hawken graduate
  News • 6/25/2007
  Give Erica Rose `00 some open water, tell her to swim and she`ll go and go and go... and go. Since 1997 when she was a swimming powerhouse at Hawken, open-water swimming in rivers, lakes and oceans has been a passion that`s taken her to Argentina, Ecuador, Canada, Italy, Mexico, Australia, Panama, t ...

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• Hawken to Participate in Parade the Circle
  News • 6/7/2007
  The summer season officially begins this Saturday with one of Cleveland`s best festivals, Parade the Circle, a celebration of art sponsored by the Cleveland Museum of Art. A fantastic array of costumes, music and festivities for all ages, the Parade is a Mardi Gras style event that is unique in many ...

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• A triumph of school spirit
  News • 6/4/2007
  Hawken students go the extra mile, 160 more precisely, to cheer on the men`s lacrosse team as they made it to the Final Four. They rode a yellow school bus two and a half hours, after school, arriving for the second half of the Varsity men`s lacrosse state semi-final game at New Albany, in Columbus, ...

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• Senior to travel to Iran for international Physics competition
  News • 6/4/2007
  Hawken senior Kenan Diab has earned a spot as one of only five students to represent the U.S. at the International Physics Olympiad. The international competition will be held in Isfahan, Iran this July. In April, Kenan was selected to be a member of the United States Physics Team by the American As ...

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• Track & Field athletes advance to State Finals
  News • 5/29/2007
  At the recent OHSAA Region 9 Track & Field Finals, the boys` team scored 32.5 points to finish in 5th place in a field of 54 teams, and the girls` team scored 13 points to finish 16th in a field of 48 teams. Sophomore Tyler Nichols advanced to State Competition in the Long Jump (20-6.5) and 100m Hig ...

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• Track & Field Athletes advance to State Competition
  News • 5/26/2007
  The OHSAA Region 9 Track & Field Finals were held at Navarre Fairless High School on Wednesday & Friday. The Boys team scored 32.5 points to finish in 5th place in a field of 54 teams, and the Girls scored 13 points to finish 16th in a field of 48 teams. Tyler Nichols advanced to State Competition i ...

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• Hawken senior meets U.S. Senator
  News • 5/25/2007
  Hawken senior Kenan Diab, one of the top physics students in the country, recently met with Sen. Sherrod Brown. Diab, who was selected to be a member of the United States Physics Team by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), met with Sen. Brown as one of the activities of the team`s t ...

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• Middle School science teacher wins fellowship for innovation
  News • 5/25/2007
  Eighth grade science teacher Peter Thomas was recently awarded the Murdock-Thompson Center for Teachers` 2007 Summer Fellowship for Innovative Teachers. It was only one of two awards that the center gave out in the national fellowship competition. \"Having worked with Peter for the past six years as ...

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• Not On Our Watch: Students Dial For Darfur!
  News • 5/23/2007
  In an attempt to literally \"speak out\" against the genocide that is occuring in the Sudan, students used their cell phones to call the White House to urge President Bush to implement \"Plan B\" economic sanctions on Sudan. This idea for a school-wide \"phone-in\" was proposed by several 8th grade ...

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• Art teacher remembers victims of Mexican femicide in exhibit
  News • 5/17/2007
  When Hawken art teacher and Amnesty International advisor Anne Kmieck visited Juarez, Mexico in 2004, she walked into a grim, murderous reality. At that point, over 400 women, ranging in ages from 15-30, had been abducted, raped and murdered since 1993 in what has been called the \"femicide capital\ ...

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• Join `The Race` to benefit cancer
  News • 5/11/2007
  The Berns family - Josh `10, Dani `12, Patti and Jonathan - invites you to celebrate your mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and all the women you love this Mother`s Day. Run or walk in The Race at Legacy Village on May 13, 2007 to raise money to fight breast cancer. Funds will benefit breast cancer rese ...

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• A Concert Of Remembrance
  News • 5/8/2007
  On Tuesday May 8, from 7:00-8:00 PM in Hawken`s Kennedy Auditorium (on the Gates Mills campus) the Hawken Community is planning a collaborative Concert of Remembrance , featuring Panor+â-ímicos , a critically acclaimed Cleveland Chamber Music Ensemble. The concert is for students and families from t ...

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• Alumni seek to enliven minority population with alumni dinner
  News • 5/8/2007
  Two Hawken alumni, Scott Hamilton and Wayne Lawrence, are actively involved in a Cleveland Council of Independent Schools initiative that brings alumni of color together around a special event that will help raise funds for minority scholarships and, in the process, reengage graduates with their res ...

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• Hawken well represented at Cheadle/Prendergast Event
  News • 5/7/2007
  On Saturday, May 5, actor Don Cheadle and scholar/activist John Prendergast spoke to over 2,800 \"upstanders\" from greater Cleveland, downtown at the State Theater. Hawken had a notable presence at the event, designed to promote a newly released book aimed at raising awareness about the genocide in ...

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• MS team wins honorable mention in nat`l science competition
  News • 5/3/2007
  Eighth grade students Katie Goldston, Kyle Hoffman, and Mitchell Joseph were recognized with an Honorable Mention Award in the recent Exploravision Awards program. This is the largest Science competition in the nation, with more than 200,000 participants involved since 1992. Sponsored jointly by the ...

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• Senior standouts
  News • 5/3/2007
  ... eeds of Peace. Kenan Diab was also honored by the newspaper for his stellar performance during his high school career. \"This is a young man whose ability, energy and appetite for learning know no bounds,\" Harris said. Kenan is a member of the U.S. Physics Team, a Lincoln-Douglas debate winner, ...

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• Twenty become Cum Laude Society members
  News • 4/26/2007
  \"Excellence by some raises standards for all,\" Dr. Rick Stacy told an auditorium full of beaming parents, students, trustees, faculty and staff. \"It increases what is perceived as possible, and it improves society in a thousand ways.\" Stacy, a Hawken history teacher, brought the message that cha ...

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• Evening with Bassett promises to be thought-provoking, engaging
  News • 4/24/2007
  Did you know that China will soon be the number one English speaking country in the world? Preparing our children for a future of changes known and unknown necessitates that we reexamine the skills and values we teach them. Hawken parents, graduates, faculty and staff are invited to attend a special ...

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• Hawken students honored for service, scholarship
  News • 4/24/2007
  Junior Angela Primbas was recently named one of Ohio`s Distinguished Finalists in the 2007 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. She was among only 10 other students in the state to receive recognition and was honored for her efforts to educate the public about Lake Erie pollution and the endangere ...

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• Writing team wins contest, among best in region
  News • 4/19/2007
  Hawken`s seventh and eighth grade Power of the Pen teams recently swept the competition at the writing contest`s regionals. Students competed against other top schools in the area including Hudson, Hathaway Brown, University School and Shaker Middle, scoring the most points and winning the Sweepstak ...

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• Strumbel, Aronoff, Holtrey all best of the best
  News • 4/10/2007
  Two Hawken girls swimming standouts and the longtime girls swimming coach landed a place in The Plain Dealer`s \"Best of the Best\" for winter sports. Junior Brittany Strumbel received the highest acclaim in the girls swimming category and was named Swimmer of the Year. This season she won her secon ...

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• Co-chairs work magic on auction raffles
  News • 3/15/2007
  There are many energetic volunteers who work to make Hawken auction`s \"A Night to Remember.\" The fun-filled biennial event brings the entire Hawken community together to honor Hawken faculty by raising money for professional development. Two amazing women have stepped up to co-chair this year`s au ...

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• Debate team state champs in policy debate
  News • 3/5/2007
  The four-person team of juniors Jim Goldston and Michael Laks and sophomores Drew Macklis and Dylan Herts recently won the state championship in policy debate in Boardman, Ohio. Senior Kenan Diab was a quarter-finalist in Lincoln Douglas Debate and junior Sam Skove a semi-finalist in Oratorical Inte ...

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• Over 130 voices to unite in Upper, Middle School vocal concert
  News • 2/26/2007
  Music will be the tie that binds come Sunday. For the first time in a long time, the Upper School and Middle School vocal groups will come together for a joint-concert on the Upper School campus. The performance will be this Sunday, March 4 at 3:00 p.m. Featured groups will include the Hawken Choral ...

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• Hawken-US basketball game on Fri, Feb. 23
  News • 2/20/2007
  The Varsity boys basketball team will face rival University School on Friday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. It is one of Hawken`s most anticipated athletic events of the year. The sold-out game will be the last of two Pathways Program \"projects\" that had Hawken students marketing two basketball games w ...

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• Hawken presents "Little Shop of Horrors"
  News • 2/14/2007
  \"You better tell your mama somethin`s gonna get her. You better-everybody better-beware.\" That man-eating plant Audrey II will plant its roots at Hawken for the school`s winter musical, \"Little Shop of Horrors,\" on Friday, February 16 and 23 and Saturday, February 17 and 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the K ...

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• From a dad`s heart: `Thank you`
  News • 2/9/2007
  He stood there, paralyzed by hope. A dad long estranged from his family because of incarceration stood there gazing at what seemed a sea of Christmas presents - for his children. For his wife. Tears streamed down his face. This was the first time in a long time that he was going to come through. \"J ...

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• Celebrating women in sports, student marketing excellence
  News • 2/2/2007
  As thousands of coaches, athletes, parents and boosters across the nation gather to celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Hawken will join them in hosting a game that could very well be a kick-off celebration for Cleveland`s hosting of the Women`s Final Four basketball game and festiviti ...

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• Don`t mess with these fourth-graders
  News • 2/2/2007
  The gym was full of fourth-graders, gazing intently ahead, each thrusting their fists out in front of them as if giving bullies well-deserved socks to the kisser. \"Kiah!\" they shouted, the sound a reverberating war cry. On this day, the kids had become temporary students of the ancient martial art ...

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• Middle Schoolers wield pen power
  News • 2/1/2007
  If writing is empowering, a group of Hawken seventh and eighth-graders are incipient literary stalwarts. A team of Middle Schoolers, led by sixth and seventh-grade English teachers Laura Staufer and Yolanda Polk, recently traveled to the disrict competition of Power of the Pen and swept the competit ...

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• Sixth-graders work academic wonders
  News • 1/31/2007
  Two Hawken sixth-grade academic challenge teams dubbed Team Stupendous and Team Prodigious lived up to their names recently winning top spots in the state in the winter installment of the Knowledge Master Open (KMO), a contest that puts teams to the test in math, geography, literature, science and t ...

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• Lauren Rich Fine `77
  News • 1/26/2007
  She`s a top media analyst for the newspaper industry, working for Merrill Lynch as First Vice President and Managing Director of Corporate Strategy and Research in Equity Research. It`s a title that screams New York. You`d imagine her life to be one of high-rise apartments, gourmet meals, taxicabs, ...

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• Eighth Grade Students To Visit Upper School
  News • 1/24/2007
  Now that it is 2007, we are beginning to plan for the important transition between eighth and ninth grade. Our eighth and ninth grade teaching teams as well as Lyndhurst and Gates Mills administration have already begun to plan a number of transition events throughout the second half of eighth grade ...

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• Young artists shine at regional art competition
  News • 1/19/2007
  Twelve Upper and Middle School artists were recognized for their bodies of work in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards regional competition. As part of winning, the students` work will be displayed in the Cleveland Institute of Art`s Reinberger Galleries until February 3. Here`s a breakdown of the ...

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• Brett Goulder `01
  News • 1/19/2007
  Climb atop your roof. What do you see? Other homes? Parkland? The Cleveland skyline? When Brett Goulder `01 goes to his rooftop, his view is a bit different. He can see a skyline all right. But it`s not Cleveland`s or any other American city, for that matter. It`s Sydney`s, as in Syndey, Australia. ...

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• MS Humanities Teacher Instills Passion
  News • 1/17/2007
  When hunger meets passion and dedication, it`s a powerful convergence. So, consider Yolanda Polk`s Middle School humanities classes a sight to behold. The students yearn for knowledge while Polk provides the unrelenting passion. She brings close to 15 years of educational expertise to the classroom, ...

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• Sixth-graders invited to join stock market simulation team
  News • 1/11/2007
  It`s time for the Ohio Stock Market Simulation! This is a statewide contest for middle school students, and this year the program at Hawken will be offered exclusively to our sixth graders. The contest is sponsored by Economics America through John Carroll University. It is an online program where e ...

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• Lower, Middle, Upper students swim among best in region
  News • 1/10/2007
  Four Lower, Middle and Upper School students recently competed in the 2007 Mid-States Quadrangular Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana. The students were selected to represent Ohio because each were top swimmers with the fastest times in their event categories. Two Hawken swimmers were winners in ...

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• Hawken sophomore publishes first book
  News • 1/5/2007
  Jacob and Esau on the Jeremiah Springer Show? Isaac and Ishmael on a special edition of Orpah? And what about Sigmund Freud`s attempts to probe the issues surrounding Isaac`s close call atop Mount Moriah? You`ve never heard the Bible told quite this way. But now, through the mind and wit of Hawken s ...

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• Help Hawken soar: give to the Annual Fund
  News • 1/2/2007
  Think about everything Hawken has been to you and your family. Think about the friendships. The sense of community. The opportunity. The stellar education. The inspiration. Now, think about everything Hawken could be to future students and their families. Giving to the Annual Fund is your way of ens ...

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• Dance and diversity
  News • 12/15/2006
  We`re different on the outside, but the same on the inside. There are different dance forms, but they all require technique. These were a few of the concepts shared with Lower School students as members of the Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theatre (CCDT) performed in Ingalls Gym at a recent assembly. ...

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• Bringing holiday cheer to area families
  News • 12/13/2006
  Ever been to the North Pole? You should have come to Ireland Hall, recently. The lobby was a well-stocked Santa`s workshop. Packages were piled high as Hawken students, faculty and staff assembled their gifts for over 40 Cleveland-area families. The contributions came as part of Hawken`s holiday par ...

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• Third graders win trophy at LEGO Competition
  News • 12/11/2006
  Competing as the youngest team ever to enter the robotic competition known as LEGO League, four Hawken third graders won one of 13 trophies distributed December 9 at a state regional tournament in Toledo. Twenty-eight teams competed for 13 awards and the bragging rights to represent the region in th ...

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• As marketing interns, Hawken students score primo skills
  News • 12/6/2006
  For the past month and a half, a group of Hawken students have been interns in a program that most students have to wait until college to experience. The internship, a partnership of Hawken`s Pathways Program and the Cleveland Cavaliers, has provided over 30 Upper School students the opportunity to ...

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• Hawken grad`s family legacy blasts off
  News • 12/5/2006
  When the Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off recently, Dudley Humphrey, Jr. `68 will see a piece (actually, pieces) of him blasting off as well. Sunita (Suni) Williams, Cleveland native and member of the Discovery crew, requested that the Humphrey family`s famed Euclid Beach Park popcorn balls travel ...

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• Hawken junior`s activism recognized
  News • 12/4/2006
  Hawken junior Evin McMullen recently received the Earth Island Institute`s 2006 Brower Youth Award for her leadership in environmental activism. She joins just five other winners from throughout the continent to receive the honor from the California-based organization. Evin is a co-founder of Save O ...

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• Lend Us Your Photos
  News • 11/30/2006
  In 2003, Upper School history teacher John Tottenham began to organize thousands of school-related photos in a searchable, web-based archive. With the help of academic dean David Gillespie `89, he has electronically archived more than 43,000 photographs. Now a Faculty Emeritus, Mr. Tottenham still d ...

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• The stuff of folktales
  News • 11/29/2006
  ... actually the brainchild of Amy Friedman, a noted newspaper columnist turned children`s author, who recently visited Hawken`s Lower Schoolers to read excerpts from her collection of folktales and myths entitled Tell Me a Story . The book, adapted into a CD version, features actors from Broadway ...

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• David Ellis `07
  News • 11/28/2006
  Give him a few years. Lifer David Ellis +óGé¼-£07 could end up onstage at Carnegie Hall, making his world debut. "...I`m sure that we`ll be hearing more from this exceptionally gifted student in the years to come," said Board of Trustees President Alan Rosskamm after one of his cello performances. D ...

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• Faculty band brings down the house
  News • 11/27/2006
  The shrill of the screams in the Middle School chapel was enough to shatter glass, the pounding of feet enough to generate a mild tremor. From the sound of it all, you would have thought Justin Timberlake was onstage bringing \"SexyBack.\" But he wasn`t. The cries of the crowd were elicited by real ...

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• Hawken grad helps bring `Grey` eccentricites to stage
  News • 11/17/2006
  In 1976 two documentarians captured the wildly eccentric lives of Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale, the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in the film \"Grey Gardens.\" `Big Edie` and `Little Edie,` as they were known, had been living in a decrepit 28-room mansion without any running w ...

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• Heather Williams
  News • 11/15/2006
  Thousands-dare we say hundreds of thousands?-of Americans each day begrudgingly roll out of bed to prepare themselves for another day at a job that they most likely hate. Hawken Spanish teacher Heather Williams isn`t one of those people. "Coming to work almost never feels like work," she exclaimed. ...

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• Powder Puff Match Brings Out School Spirit
  News • 11/15/2006
  In an athletic contest reminiscent of the infamous Winter Squamish match of 1966, Hawken students witnessed an event that will long be remembered by all. The Junior Class of 2008 women challenged the Senior Class of 2007 women to a 7 on 7 flag football game. Teams were organized and two-a-day practi ...

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• Founder of African Leadership Academy Visits With Students
  News • 11/14/2006
  Mr. Fred Swaniker, Chief Executive Officer and founder of The African Leadership Academy (located in Gauteng, South Africa) visited with 7th & 8th grade students on Monday, November 13, 2006. The African Leadership Academy`s vision is to develop the next generation of African leaders through a rigor ...

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• Hawken hosts first-ever Health Day
  News • 11/7/2006
  Your daily grind could be doing a lot more than just wearing you out. It could be making you sick. It`s a sobering thought considering how studies show most illnesses stem from unhealthy lifestyles. For most teens, though, that`s a distant thought. Their resilient bodies often provide them a naive s ...

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• Hawken grad travels with Duke University president
  News • 11/6/2006
  A Duke University dean looked at Geoff Bass `04 and, out of probably thousands of students, saw something special. The North Carolina school was in the process of interviewing student candidates for a new public event series "A Duke Conversation," and Geoff, a junior, was recommended by the dean to ...

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• Art teacher selected for Fulbright Fund Program
  News • 10/27/2006
  Thanksgiving for art teacher Denise Buckley probably won`t be Thanksgiving at all, considering where she`s soon headed. Why? They don`t celebrate the holiday in Japan. No worries; she`s just fine with it. It`s not everyday you get selected to take an all-expenses-paid trip anywhere, let alone a thre ...

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• Evin McMullen `08
  News • 10/27/2006
  Meet Evin McMullen. She`s a junior at the Hawken Upper School who is not only a published author, but also an award-winning environmental activist. In the seventh grade, Evin and two other Hawken classmates founded Save Our Streams (S.O.S.), an action group which raises awareness about an endangered ...

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• Fall play explores one man`s worth
  News • 10/24/2006
  The Hawken School Players Society will present its fall production, "The Adding Machine," on Friday, October 27 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, October 28 at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, October 29 at 4:00 p.m. at the School`s Gates Mills campus. Elmer Rice`s "Adding Machine," dating back to 1923, is widely consi ...

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• `Something for everyone`
  News • 10/18/2006
  The weather on the Saturday of the Fall Family Fair, October 14, was erratic, almost manic. Blackened skies one minute. Clear the next. There was snow, then rain. But none of that seemed to damper the day`s events. The new gym at the Upper School was astir with fair fervor as Lower and Middle school ...

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• Student spearheading Ronald McDonald House food drive
  News • 10/17/2006
  Jess Weiner, a current 8th grade student, is taking the lead on raising food items for the Family Room at the Cleveland Ronald McDonald House. According to Jess, the Family Room, an extension of the Ronald McDonald House itself, is \"a place where families can spend time away from the hospital where ...

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• Fall Family Fair Promises Fun
  News • 10/10/2006
  Saturday, October 14, will be a day of fun for Hawken families as they attend the Fall Family Fair. Held from 10am to 2pm at Gates Mills, the yearly tradition will include games, fabulous prizes, a Chinese raffle, inflatables, a Sweet Shop, a nut free bake sale and more. All activities are sure to b ...

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• Hawken swimmer named to All-American Team
  News • 10/2/2006
  Junior Jennifer Aronoff was recently named to USA Swimming`s Scholastic All-American Team, which comprises high school athletes. To qualify for the honor, students must have a G.P.A. of 3.5 or above and must have participated in an individual event in either the 2005 U.S. Paralympics Swimming Nation ...

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• Sophomore featured in Plain Dealer
  News • 9/29/2006
  The Plain Dealer`s Bob Fortuna went \"Off campus with...\" Hawken sophomore Pia Trikha, one of the top three golfers on Hawken`s Women`s Varsity Golf Team. Here`s the interview that was featured in the PD`s Thursday, September 28 issue of The Locker Room, its high school sports supplement. Pia Trikh ...

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• Golfers Grab CVC Title
  News • 9/25/2006
  They`ve done it again. The Men`s Varsity Golf Team grabbed the Chagrin Valley Conference Metro Division title, edging out Kirtland and Cuyahoga Heights at the Conference Tournament on Thursday, Sept. 21 at the Painesville Country Club. The Hawks move to the State Sectional Tournament at Oak Knolls i ...

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• Hawken welcomes new Head of School, opens new Middle School
  News • 9/17/2006
  Over 1,000 Hawken School alumni, parents, students and friends gathered Sunday, August 27, at the Lyndhurst campus to celebrate both the installation of the 10th Head of School, D. Scott Looney, and the dedication of Lincoln Hall, the new Middle School. The gala capped over a year`s worth of activit ...

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• Hawken Rolls out Red Carpet with Latest Raffle
  News • 9/1/2006
  You might soon be rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous in New York`s Bryant Park during Olympus Fashion Week, viewing next season`s collection of fashion must-haves. Or perhaps you might soon find yourself on the Floridian tropical isle of Key Biscayne during the NASDAQ 100 Tennis Tournament. ...

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• Hawks Rally for Relay for Life
  News • 5/25/2006
  With a turnout of over 80 people, the Hawken Hawks raised $23,000 for the American Cancer Society on May 19 & 20, which netted them with three trophies; Biggest Division 1 team, most money raised online, and most money raised overall. Hawken was also recognized as a Diamond Donor. The American Cance ...

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• Senior Project Leads to Google Internship
  News • 5/11/2006
  The next time you get on Google, search Ben Maurer`s name. In a matter of days, Maurer, who graduated from Hawken in 2005 and is currently finishing his freshman year as a Computer Science major at Carnegie Mellon University, will wake up in Mountain View, California and begin a summer internship wi ...

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• 8th Grade Knowledge Master Teams Place First & Second in Ohio
  News • 5/3/2006
  Both of the Middle School`s 8th grade Knowledge Master Teams placed 1st & 2nd in the state of Ohio Middle School at the most recent Kowledge Master Open competition this past April. Along with this, both teams respectively placed 6th & 9th in world-wide competition for schools with a student populat ...

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• Tres Bien! Intercampus French Program a Success
  News • 4/27/2006
  An intercampus, cross-curricular program between the 1st grade and the Upper School French 4 Lang/Culture class took place on Wednesday, April 26. The French 4 class, which studied Quebec earlier this year, presented a program for the 1st graders, who will be studying Canada at the end of the month. ...

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• Women Swimmers in Spotlight Again
  News • 4/17/2006
  The Plain Dealer rounded out their Winter Sports coverage with a season all-star feature last week. Four of the ten honored female swimmers were from Hawken. Brittany Strumbel `08 Event: 200 freestyle Superstar stats: She won the Division II state championship in the 200 freestyle and placed second ...

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• Cleveland Live 8 Benefit Concert: A Student Creation!
  News • 4/14/2006
  On April 21st, 2006, Hawken Middle School will be holding a benefit concert completely powered, planned, and run by Hawken School 8th grade students. In conjunction with the Cleveland Council of Independent Schools, Hawken Middle School will be hosting the Live 8 Benefit Concert from 5:30 PM - 8:00 ...

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• Alum on Internship Encounters Hawken Teacher - in Italy!
  News • 4/13/2006
  It`s a small world. While in Italy for an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim museum, Courtney Stewart `99 had to do a double take. \"Miss Buckly! I thought that was you but then I looked and saw the two different color socks and I knew it was you.\" It was indeed Denise Buckley, Chair of Hawken`s PK ...

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• Students Explore the Art and Culture of India
  News • 4/11/2006
  The Art and Culture of India class traveled to Pittsburgh on Wednesday, April 12th, for a visit to the Hindu temple there and an Indian art exhibition at Carnegie Mellon. The Pittsburgh temple is called the Sri Venkateswara Temple. It was one of the first Hindu temples built in this country and is m ...

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• Pathways Students Visit Case School of Medicine
  News • 4/6/2006
  As part of Hawken`s new Pathways Program, a dozen Upper School students spent the morning on April 5 at Case Western Reserve University`s School of Medicine. A panel of four physicians and researchers described their work and the passion they bring to it. The hour and a half open forum with biochemi ...

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• Hawks Place at Indoor Track State Championship
  News • 3/18/2006
  The Hawken Indoor Track Team completed their season on Saturday March 18 at the OATCCC State Indoor Championship at the University of Akron. The Hawks competed against Division II/III teams from across the state in the following events: Girls - 4x200m Relay, 60m Hurdles, 4x800m Relay, 800m, 4x400m R ...

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• Men`s Basketball Wraps Up Successful Season
  News • 3/9/2006
  The men`s Varsity Basketball team finished a fine season with a record of 15-8. After handily defeating neighborhood rival Kirtland thanks to Max Artz`s 20 points in the state tournament sectional finals, they drew the dubious honor of playing Villa Angela - St Joseph High School (VASJ) in the Distr ...

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• More Success for Academic Challenge Teams
  News • 3/8/2006
  On February 25, seven members of the Hawken School Academic Challenge Team participated in the 15th Annual Copley Invitational Academic Challenge Tournament. Varsity Team 1, consisting of Jon Moorman `06, Joe Liang `06, Kenan Diab `07, and Samuel Milner `09, defeated Perry, Fisher Catholic, St. Pete ...

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• Swimmers Eye Eighth Consecutive State Title
  News • 2/23/2006
  The Hawken School girls swimming team has won seven straight state championships, including the past six in Division II. The Hawks have claimed titles in 15 of the past 22 years, all with Jerry Holtrey as their coach. Barring a major surprise, by 10 p.m. on Saturday, the record books will show Hawke ...

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• Ahren Stock to Perform March 5
  News • 2/22/2006
  You`ve probably seen Ahren Stock putting in a full day teaching general music, instrumental music and jazz band to Hawken`s 4th - 8th graders, but you may not know that he tops off his day at Lyndhurst by pursuing music of his own. As part of his graduate studies in Music Education at Case Western, ...

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• Alum Explains Super Bowl Close Calls
  News • 2/21/2006
  As millions of Americans settled in front of the T.V. to watch the Super Bowl, David Coleman `69 took his high above the Super Bowl action at Ford Field in Detroit. Working with a partner, he reviewed instant replays during the game, a privilege he earned during a playoff of sorts among other Nation ...

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• Fifteen Debate Team Members Advance to State
  News • 2/21/2006
  At the NFL North Coast District tournament this weekend, Alyssa Lane qualified for nationals in Lincoln Douglas debate. She will also debate at the City Club for the third consecutive year which takes place noon on Friday, March 10th. Her opponent will be Daniel Litt from Orange High School. Alyssa ...

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• Hawken Parent Sings with Cleveland Orchestra
  News • 2/21/2006
  You`re not imagining that familiar face on the stage of Severance Hall. It`s Cindy Pitera, mother of Emily `15 and Matthew `15, in her alter-ego role as a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus` first alto section. Prior to moving to Cleveland, Pitera was the northeast regional manager of network ...

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• Winter Musical Not to Be Missed
  News • 2/21/2006
  During the last two weekends in February, HPS will perform The Will Rogers Follies . This musical performance is an examination of the life of the famous American humorist and Renaissance man, Will Rogers. Told in the style of a Zeigfeld Follies show, Will Rogers himself takes you through his life a ...

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• Ceramic Artist to Visit Lower School
  News • 2/15/2006
  Cleveland artist Angelica Pozo is our Hawken Lower School Visiting Artist this year. She is a ceramic tile-maker of note locally and nationally, and has been an instructor and artist-in-residence at dozens of schools throughout Ohio. She has served as a lecturer, juror, panelist, keynote speaker, an ...

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• Hawken Beats US in Basketball!
  News • 2/15/2006
  At a packed Kilroy Field House, the Hawken Men`s Basketball team beat University School 56-49 in a hotly contested game between the two archrivals. Hawken students, faculty, staff, parents and alumni turned out in droves to cheer on the Hawks, dressed in red and cheering loudly throughout the game. ...

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• Middle School Athletes Named Old Board Award Winners
  News • 2/15/2006
  Several eighth-grade athletes were recognized as Old Board Award winners for their success during the winter season. The Old Board Award is one of Hawken`s most prestigious awards for deserving athletes. Recipients of the award embody the highest ideals of fair play and respect for the game, opponen ...

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• Hawken Teachers Share Community Service Experience
  News • 2/13/2006
  Director of Student Affairs and Community Service Nadja Deighan and Life Skills Instructor Sue Wilson participated in the 2005-2006 Raushenbush White Paper Conference. The conference, sponsored by the Ohio Association of Independent Schools (OAIS), brings together teachers to produce an authoritativ ...

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• Smile...You`ve Just Been Tagged!
  News • 2/13/2006
  Senior Jarell Lee has asked a question this National Random Act of Kindness Week: is kindness truly contagious? Starting in September of 2003, small cards with the words \"Smile, You`ve Just Been Tagged\" began appearing all around the world. They are markers of a newfangled game of tag, where \"you ...

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• Senior Receives Cleveland BBB Integrity Scholarship
  News • 2/2/2006
  Racquel Armstrong `06 was recently honored as one of four "Students of Integrity" by the Greater Cleveland Better Business Bureau. The honorees were selected from a pool of forty-eight graduating seniors in Northeast Ohio. Armstrong was selected in recognition of her "high character through leadersh ...

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• Power Of The Pen Teams Finish Second At District Tournament!
  News • 1/31/2006
  Hawken`s 7th & 8th grade Power Of The Pen Teams recently participated in the District Tournament at Chagrin Falls Middle School on Saturday, January 29th. The Tournament was comprised of roughly 20 area schools, most with seventh and eighth grade teams of six writers each. Hawken`s 7th grade team in ...

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• Gates Mills Students Form Majority of 2006 Saltzman Youth Panel
  News • 1/10/2006
  Seniors Winston Berkman, Adam Yasinow and Scott Yasinow, and Juniors Zachary Rosskamm, Hannah Whitehead, Adam Baratz, Yoni Binstock, Madeleine Bruml, Cari Meisel and Matthew Raskind are among 40 area youths who have been selected to serve on the Jewish Community Federation`s 2006 Saltzman Youth Pane ...

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• Land Rights Activist Speaks to Upper School Students
  News • 12/16/2005
  The Director of the Empowerment and Rights Institute (EARI) in China, Hou Wenzhuo, also known as Maggie, spoke to Upper School students regarding farmers and land rights in China. EARI is a non-governmental human rights organization that focuses on supporting and protecting laborers, farmers and mig ...

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• Middle School Hawks Defeat US in Wrestling!
  News • 12/14/2005
  Hearty congratulations go out to the Hawken Middle School Wrestling team, which won its December 13th match against US by a score of 44-40. This historic match marked Hawken`s first-ever wrestling victory over US at either the Middle or Upper School level, signifying a landmark moment in this rivalr ...

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• Tax Benefits for End of Year Charitible Contributions
  News • 12/6/2005
  On September 23, 2005, President Bush signed into law new tax incentives for charitable gifts. Many of the new provisions relate to Hurricane Katrina relief, but Congress also included additional incentives to help support all charitable organizations. These new provisions may offer you a terrific o ...

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• 4th Graders Create Time Capsule
  News • 11/29/2005
  What parts of our culture will seem ancient in 10 years? The 4th Grade is answering that question by creating a time capsule that they will open as graduating seniors in 2014. The time capsule, which was compiled by the 4th Grade during their annual study of ancient cultures, traveled on Monday to t ...

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• Reading is a Challenge...and a Cultural Imperative
  News • 11/28/2005
  How do parents and teachers encourage students to read? Not only for content and comprehension, but for enjoyment? It`s a tough question, one being tackled by some area schools that substitute newer, contempory fiction for the classics on required reading lists. This move is not without controversy. ...

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• All Revved Up
  News • 11/22/2005
  Donna Pacchioni gets revved up about riding the open road on her BMWF650 motorcycle. The Director of Finance and Administrative Services at Hawken has been riding with her husband Joe since the mid-1970s. But she`s gone from gripping his waist to gripping the shifters - Donna has been riding her own ...

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• Middle School Mid-Semester Grades & Comments To Be Mailed Home
  News • 11/4/2005
  Mid-Semester Grades and Comments were be mailed home to parents on Friday, November 4. Upcoming Parent-Advisor Conferences are on November 10-11. These mid-semester grades and comments are a chance for all concerned to take a timely look at a child`s progress since the start of school. Understandabl ...

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• Fall Athletics Highlights
  News • 11/3/2005
  Upper School The Men`s Varsity Soccer Team lost a heartbreaking double overtime shootout in the District Semifinals. Nonetheless, they were Chagrin Valley Conference (CVC) Champions. Misha Carrel-Thomas `07 was named CVC MVP, and Dani Guilvezan Coach of the Year. Women`s Varsity Soccer won the CVC C ...

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• Science Chair Honored by Yale
  News • 11/3/2005
  Both dedicated and beloved, it came as no surprise when Yale recognized Upper School Physics and Debate teacher Bob Shurtz with the 2005 Yale Teaching Award. He was nominated by Hawken alum Michael Waxman (`05) who had Mr. Shurtz for three classes and acted as co-captain of the policy debate team. D ...

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• Hawken Graduate Takes Lead in Vassar College`s Romeo and Juliet
  News • 10/25/2005
  Hawken graduate Gwendolyn Ellis `04 was recently cast as the lead in Vassar College`s fall production, Romeo and Juliet . A veteran to theater productions, Gwen has been involved in theater since eighth grade, when she was part of the Hawken Middle School production of Peter Pan. Speaking highly of ...

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• Photographer Alum Featured in Magazine and Exhibition
  News • 10/13/2005
  Work by photographer and Hawken alum Sara Guren `96 is featured The exhibition Sharing Our Vision , a collaboration between Northern Ohio Live and the Photographers of the North Coast Chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers. In celebration of the magazine`s 25th Anniversary, members o ...

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• Cleveland `Most Liveable` U.S. City
  News • 10/6/2005
  Emily Hamlin Plain Dealer Reporter The winters may be rough, but a recent survey says Cleveland is one of the best places in the world to call home. A London-based industry analyst group says Cleveland is the most livable city in the country and the 26th best on the planet. Mayor Jane Campbell says ...

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• Save Our Stream Awarded Praxair Foundation Grant
  News • 10/6/2005
  Angela Primbus, Evin McMullin and Amanda Weatherhead, founders of the Save Our Stream organization have received an $8,500 Praxair Foundation, Inc. award for their continuing work and future plans to save the Ohio brook trout and to educate the public on the preservation of their stream habitat. Pra ...

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• Hawken`s Amnesty International Student Group Hosts Congresswoman
  News • 10/5/2005
  Congresswoman and former Hawken Trustee Stephanie Tubbs Jones discussed voting and civil rights with the Upper School community on October 17. She was invited to Hawken by the Student Amnesty International Group. In 2002, Congresswoman Tubbs Jones co-sponsored the original Help America Vote Act (HAV ...

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• Faculty Endeavors
  News • 9/20/2005
  Ever wonder how Hawken faculty members spend their leisure time? Some spent the past few months engrossed in professional development quests -- activities that will make a direct impact upon what happens in the classroom. Performing Arts Chair Dan Call spent one week in Canterbury, England living in ...

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• Hawken Parent Makes a Difference for Ohioans with Diabetes
  News • 9/20/2005
  Diane B. Weiner, mother of Andrew `08, Jess `11, and Michael `05, is helping to make a difference in the crusade against diabetes. She is an advocate for the Diabetes Cost Reduction Act (DCRA)/Senate Bill 113 in Ohio. Senate Bill 113, re-introduced in March 2005 by Senator Jeff Armbruster, seeks to ...

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• Hurricane Katrina Reaches Hawken
  News • 9/8/2005
  Hurricane Katrina hit closer to home than many realized, directly affecting Hawken students enrolled at Tulane University in New Orleans. Marissa Williams `05, Matt Belman `03, David Demsey `02, and Allison Shapero `02 were already prepared for the school year in New Orleans before Katrina hit. Leav ...

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• Trip to Nicaragua Combines Service and Exploration
  News • 7/25/2005
  In June, nine Hawken Upper School students traveled to Nicaragua to participate in a service project that would change their lives as well as the lives of others. The group, led by Middle School science teacher Bob Wiemer and Lower School Spanish teacher Rosalinda Bolanos, worked to build the walls ...

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• Hawken Receives Record Number in Donations
  News • 7/18/2005
  In the fiscal year that ended June 30, nearly 2,000 members of the Hawken community contributed more than $7,100,000 to the Annual Fund, capital projects, financial aid, enrichment programs, and the endowment. The amount greatly exceeded the $3.8 million in contributions made in 2004 and in the past ...

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• Exhibition Showcases the Work of Former Art Teacher Joseph Motto
  News • 7/7/2005
  The work of artist Joseph Motto, instructor of Art and Modeling at Hawken from 1915-1928, will displayed in a retrospective exhibit hosted by the Cleveland Arts Foundation from July 8 through September 9 at the Beck Center in Lakewood. Motto`s sculpture of Pan holding a frog, which usually can be se ...

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• Students Recognized for Scientific Achievement in D.C.
  News • 6/20/2005
  Hawken Middle School students, Alec L. and Atreya R., first-place winners of the Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association ExploraVision Awards Program in the 7-9 grade category, were recognized for their achievement at a gala awards weekend in Washington D.C. held June 8-12. The two students co ...

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• Upcoming Retrospective on Joe Motto, First Art Teacher at Hawken
  News • 5/31/2005
  Hawken`s first art teacher, \"Cleveland School\" sculptor and ceramicist Joe Motto (1891 - 1965), will be the subject of a retrospective exhibition sponsored by the Cleveland Artists Foundation and entitled Joseph Motto: A Jazz Age Journey from Cleveland to Florence , from July 8 - September 10, 200 ...

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• Hawken School - "Eating The Colorful Way"
  News • 4/25/2005
  Here are a few helpful suggestions to assist you in selecting fruits and vegetables for good health: * Purchase your fruits and vegetables twice a week to assure you get the freshest available. * If you are buying produce to eat today, buy ripe. For tomorrow or the next day, look for items that need ...

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• National Experts Lead Multiple Intelligence Workshops
  News • 2/28/2005
  On Monday, February 28, and Tuesday, March 1, faculty members in the Lower and Middle Schools met with Dr. Harvey Silver and Mr. Richard Strong, as part of a continuing effort to learn more about varied learning styles, multiple intelligences, and teaching strategies that will increase the effective ...

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• Congratulations, Class of 2020!
  News • 8/15/2000
  Congratulations to members of Hawken's Class of 2020, who celebrated Commencement on Saturday, July 25 at a ceremony held on the Great Lawn at the Gates Mills campus, where graduates were able to receive their diplomas in front of their peers and families while also adhering to physical distancing g ...

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• The Hawken Players' Society Presents "Present Laughter"
  News • 11/5/2014
  Thursday 11/6, Friday 11/7, and Saturday 11/8 at 7:30pm; Saturday 11/8 and Sunday 11/9 at 2pm; Kennedy Auditorium, Hawken Upper School Campus 12465 County Line Road, Gates Mills.  

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• Character Development Program Earns Award, International Recognition
  News • 12/3/2013
  Hawken Middle School received a “Promising Practices” award from the Character Education Partnership and has been asked to present a paper on character education in Oxford this January.

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• Hawken Receives School of Excellence Award in Debate
  News • 7/1/2013
  Hawken debaters capped off an exceptional year of competition at the ;2013 National Forensic League National Speech &; Debate Tournament in Alabama at the end of June.

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• Junior Performs as Finalist in National Shakespeare Competition
  News • 5/3/2013
  Aric Floyd '14  performed a Shakespearean sonnet and monologue as one of 10 finalists at the English-Speaking Union  National Shakespeare Competition  held on April 22 at Lincoln Center in New York City.

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• Hawken Wins State Title in Knowledge Master
  News • 12/11/2012
  The Hawken Middle School 7th-8th ;grade team came in first in the state of Ohio in the Fall Knowledge Master Open on December 5. This computerized academic competition asks students to work as a team to answer 200 questions on topics that include history, math, science, current events, language arts ...

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• Hawken Joins Elite Global Online Academy
  News • 9/27/2012
  Hawken School is proud to announce its membership in the Global Online Academy, a not-for-profit consortium of elite, international independent schools with a mission to develop 21st century skills by replicating, in shared online classrooms, the intellectually rigorous programs and excellent teachi ...

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• Hawken Welcomes Exchange Students
  News • 8/7/2012
  Since 2008 Hawken Upper School has hosted exchange students from countries such as Botswana, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Lithuania and The Republic of Macedonia. This year, we welcome Melinda Shou from Germany and Abbie Petts from ;Queensland, Australia for the 2012-2013 academic year. Both ...

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• Senior Earns Trip to Europe in Science Competition
  News • 5/30/2012
  Senior Ani Dasarathy was one of 12 students nationwide selected for an all expense paid June trip to CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland and France. Competing at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) with his project titled “PT-Symme ...

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• Tennis Duo State Champs; Track Advances
  News • 5/29/2012
  Congratulations Dan Lubarsky ’12 and Siddarth Ahuja ’14 , OHSAA Division II Tennis Doubles STATE CHAMPIONS! Dan and Sid outlasted the returning State Runners-up from Lima Central Catholic 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-3), 7-5 to claim Hawken’s first State Championship in Boys Tennis. It was an ...

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• Senior Wins Grand Prize at NEO Science and Engineering Fair
  News • 3/16/2012
  Ani Dasarathy ’12 , was a Grand Prize and 1st place winner in the field of Physics at the prestigious 59th Annual Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair , held March 12-15 at Cleveland State University. This is the fourth consecutive year Hawken School has had one of the Fair’s f ...

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• Mather House Works to Improve Watershed
  News • 2/16/2012
  As part of their service commitment to the issues of Environment and Sustainability, the members of Hawken’s Mather House are working to improve water quality in the Lake Erie Watershed by partnering with the Doan Brook Watershed Partnership. The Doan Brook watershed encompasses about a 12 squ ...

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• '06 Alum Visits TheWorld.org Class
  News • 1/11/2011
  Caitlin Clements ’06 visited Ken Clark’s TheWorld.org senior elective class today to speak about her experience working in Kigali, Rwanda. Her interest in Rwanda was initially sparked when she took Mr. Clark’s Genocide class as a senior at Hawken. While a student at Yale University ...

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• Michael Ma '84: World Changer
  News • 5/19/2008
  In the 24 years Michael Ma '84 has worked for the government, most of that in the U.S. State Department, as a foreign service officer, he's always battled the nagging feeling that life was better on the other side, the corporate world, that is. But when he surveys his career, those feelings are quic ...

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• Graduate Receives US Squash Award
  News • 3/1/2014
  Earlier this month, ; US Squash ;presented the 2013 W. Stewart Brauns, Jr. Award to ;Hamilton F. Biggar, III '66.

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• Hawken to Open New Lower School Building
  News • 8/7/2013
  In February 2013, Hawken began work on a renovation and expansion of its Lower School building. The new building opens with a Grand Opening Celebration on Sunday, August 18, in time for the start of the 2013-2014 school year.

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• Two Debaters Make History at State Tournament
  News • 3/5/2012
  Hawken School claimed both final round participants in this year’s Lincoln-Douglas category of the Ohio High School Speech League’s Speech and Debate Tournament, held March 2-3 at Jackson High School. Ani Dasarathy ‘12 won the state championship and Aric Floyd ‘14 was state r ...

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• Early Childhood Center Construction Workers Visit Kindergarten Classroom
  News • 4/27/2011
  Kindergarten students peer through the portholes, captivated by the sights and sounds coming from just a few feet away on the other side of the wall that separates the world of their classroom from the seemingly vast expanse beyond. When the activity ceases, some model what they had observed by crea ...

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• Second Annual STEMM Symposium Showcases Student Research
  News • 12/16/2010
  On Thursday, December 9, members of the Hawken community gathered for the second annual Dr. Bob Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium, where they witnessed the powerful manifestation of Hawken's STEMM Pathways, a program of guided research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Medicine. The even ...

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• Graduate Speaks at Prestigious TEDMED Event
  News • 4/11/2012
  It may seem a long way from the Gates Mills campus to a position of invited speaker at the prestigious TEDMED conference at the Kennedy Center, but Dr. Jake Scott ’94 , arrived April 11, 2012, and the audience received him with a standing ovation. Jake, a radiation oncologist and cancer theore ...

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• Film Star Visits Middle School Theater Production
  News • 3/6/2012
  Hawken students had the opportunity to meet Peter Ostrum, who played the character of Charlie Bucket in the 1971 movie version of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory , prior to their March 2 performance of Willy Wonka Jr. Ostrum held a private question/answer period for the Hawken middle school p ...

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• Early Childhood Center Groundbreaking Aptly Child-Centered
  News • 3/3/2011
  Ingalls Gymnasium at Hawken’s Lyndhurst campus was the setting for yesterday’s historic groundbreaking of Hawken's New Early Childhood Center. While attendees included Board members, families, students, faculty, and friends, Director of the Lower School Brad Gill spoke quite literally i ...

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• Beloved Former Teacher Zoann Dusenbury Passes On
  News • 3/13/2009
  It is with great sadness that Hawken announces that Faculty Emeritus Zoann Little Dusenbury passed away on February 26, 2009, in the company of her children, at Judson Park as a result of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

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• Speech and Debate Wins Three State Championships
  News • 3/4/2013
  Tim Perevozchikov '14 and Ron Lubarsky '14 were named state champions in Public Forum Debate at the Ohio High School Speech League Speech and Debate State Tournament held March 1-2 at Boardman and Canfield High Schools. Perevozchikov and Lubarsky were the number one seeds, and won 29 out of 30 tourn ...

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• Graduate Premieres Film at Cleveland Film Festival
  News • 3/7/2008
  As Ohio goes...for governor, so goes the presidential election? It's just one of the premises explored in a new documentary that Hawken graduate Spencer Young '92, Jason Zone Fisher, son of Ohio’s Lt. Governor Lee Fisher, and his college friend John Intrater will premiere at the Cleveland Internatio ...

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• 46 Speech and Debate Hawks Qualify for State Tournament
  News • 2/24/2024
  The Hawken Speech and Debate Team has qualified twelve students to the NSDA National Speech and Debate Tournament June 16-21, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa.  

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• Birchwood Students Win Big at Prestigious Science Fair
  News • 4/1/2021
  This year’s 67th annual Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair was virtual but lacked nothing in terms of ingenuity from the students who participated. Nearly 700 projects from over 80 schools were submitted in competition for over $20,000 in prizes. Birchwood School’s 7th and 8t ...

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• U.S. Senate Candidate Visits Former Teacher and Hawken Students
  News • 10/9/2015
  ... groups, and each group was tasked with writing a news story in half an hour. Below is one of those pieces, written by students Tommy Dell, Tim Holman, and Peter Kaiser. "I think this is an example of what Hawken means by real-world learning," Dubow said.   U.S. Senate Candidate Visits Hawk ...

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• Centennial Weekend is Almost Here!
  News • 5/4/2015
  Hawken School has planned an impressive array of community-wide events May 15-17 to celebrate the School's 100th anniversary.

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• Jazz Legends to Visit Hawken
  News • 4/21/2015
  In what has become a yearly tradition, Hawken students will work with two jazz legends this week, and then perform with them in a concert on Saturday.

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• Graduate Shares Supreme Court Experience
  News • 5/5/2014
  1984 graduate Roberta (Robbie) Kaplan returned to Cleveland last week to share her Supreme Court experience at a morning assembly for Hawken's Upper School, and at a noon luncheon broadcast live from The City Club of Cleveland.

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• Student Discovers Advocacy through Two-Year Program
  News • 4/13/2012
  ... The AVI CHAI Foundation and The Cleveland Jewish News. The program gives selected Jewish junior and seniors opportunities to refine their skills as future generation Israel advocates within a unique and mixed framework of guest speakers, seminars, and editorial opportunities. It culminates with ...

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• NPR Broadcaster and Renowned Musician Visits Hawken
  News • 2/23/2010
  ... so a respected national-level journalist and is a newscaster and reporter for NPR in Washington, DC. Duties at NPR include anchoring newscasts, reporting breaking news, directing live newscasts and producing in-depth stories on the arts. Brown has also written and produced dozens of pieces on tr ...

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• Seventh Grade Revives Cultural Garden
  News • 5/19/2009
  ...who will continue the good work and progress initiated by this year`s seventh graders, who were honored and proud to have the president of the Cultural Gardens Federation Paul Burek join them for their celebration. We look forward to more garden news as the baton gets passed on to the Class of 20 ...

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• Walk-n-Roll for RSD: Senior to Appear on WEWS, WKYC
  News • 6/10/2008
  ... Leader of the Ohio Branch of RSD in Motion Recent News: Colleen will appear on WKYC`s Good Company on Wednesday, June 11 at 10:00 a.m. and on WEWS` News at Noon on Thursday, June 12 to talk about RSD and to promote the Walk-n-Roll. The following was written by Colleen. Read on for more informati ...

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• Eighth Grader Featured in Cleveland Jewish News
  News • 12/12/2007
  ... R BROWN, Editor, Family Section, Cleveland Jewish News Some girls really love soccer. Julia Costantini loves it so much she wants everyone to be able to play. Julia has played since second grade, and she`s now on two premier teams, Shaker Travel and Shaker Premier Football Club. Last season, she ...

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• At the movies with Robert Hawkes
  News • 11/17/2006
  ... t legislate our prejudices out of existence - not news, surely, but something we need to keep in mind. The trouble is that it`s all just too puerile, self-gratifying, and oblivious to be actually effective as satire. As potty humor, it`s a winner. It`s a winner also as an exercise in the humor o ...

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• Coach Holtrey Honored for Extraordinary 45-Year Career
  News • 2/12/2014
  Graduates, parents, students and fans came together during HawkFest weekend to pay tribute to swim coach Jerry Holtrey as his incredible 45-year career comes to a close.

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• Holtrey to Retire from Storied Career
  News • 10/23/2013
  The ;2013-2014 season will mark the end of Coach Holtrey's remarkable 45-year Hawken coaching career, one which garnered him national recognition for his record-breaking accomplishments.

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• Track and Tennis Athletes Win State Championships
  News • 6/20/2012
  ... 3th in the D-II long jump. In other spring sports news, Middle School track teams did well in the inaugural CVC invitational. With 18 schools present, the boys team took an astounding 2nd place finish. The girls finished an impressive 9th. Individual champions including Israel Moorer ’16 i ...

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• Swimmers Recognized by Plain Dealer, News Herald
  News • 4/4/2012
  ... h Jerry Holtrey received Coach of the Year by The News-Herald , which noted him as “a true legend in area high school sports.” The News-Herald also awarded Sarah Koucheki ’13 Swimmer of the Year for the third year in a row. Sarah’s performance in the Division II 100-yard ...

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• HAWKEN GIRLS SWIMMING WINS 14th CONSECUTIVE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, MOST IN OHIO IN ANY SPORT, 22nd CHAMPIONSHIP OVERALL
  News • 2/26/2012
  ... wks impressive win win here , and coverage in the News Herald here . The girls swim team did not dissapoint as they excelled to another state championship. Sarah Koucheki '13 defended both of her state titles in the 200 individual medley and the 100 butterfly. Carrie Bencic '13 won both the 200 ...

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• Entrepreneurship
  ... tute for Teaching. Hawken Entrepreneurship in the News Click to read about Hawken, featured in the Wall Street Journal Businesspeople, Educators Seek Ways to Teach Students Entrepreneurship Click to read about Hawken, featured in EdSurge News More Than a Lemonade Stand: How 12-Year-Olds Learn to ...

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• Alumni Home
  ... a new address or an update to share? Do you have news that you would like to share with us? Email alumni@hawken.edu  to submit news, update your address or just say hello! Want to get involved? If you're interested in learning more about ways to get involved with Hawken, contact the a ...

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• STEMM Hawks Garners Accolades at NEOSEF; Junior Named Grand Prize Winner
  News • 3/15/2024
  Twelve Upper School Hawks did a stellar job representing Hawken School’s STEMM Program at last night’s 71 st Annual Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF), where students presented their projects to esteemed experts in their respective STEM fields. Our Hawken representat ...

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• Hawken Speech and Debate Team Named State Champions!
  News • 3/11/2024
  The Hawken Speech and Debate Team competed at the Ohio Speech and Debate Association state tournament February 29 - March 2, at Wooster High School. The Hawks emerged as Team State Champions! This is the team's fourth team state championship, having won previously in 2014, 2016, and 2021.

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• Speech and Debate Hawks Take First and Second Place at State Tournament
  News • 3/9/2023
  Congratulations to  Abhi Chundru ‘23 and the team of Mehul Lakhanpal ‘23 and Julien Benchek ‘23 on being named STATE CHAMPIONS at the Ohio Speech and Debate Association State Championship held March 2 - 4 at Austintown Schools. Abhi won in Congressional Debate – House, a ...

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• Birchwood School Third Grader Behind Civil Rights Icon's Visit
  News • 2/23/2023
  Birchwood School of Hawken welcomed the Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr., a genuine Civil Rights living legend, on Tuesday, Feb. 21, thanks to the charm of one of its third-grade students. When Moss Jr., 88, met the young Woodrow Johnson, the pair hit it off and Moss asked to visit the boy’s school. Joh ...

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• Birchwood Scholastic Award Winners
  News • 1/11/2023
  Birchwood School of Hawken proudly announces that eight of its students earned regional writing recognition from the prestigious Scholastic Art &; Writing Awards. All of the Birchwood winners are in the eighth grade. Taught by language arts subject specialists Lorraine Tzeng and Jennifer Seward, the ...

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• National Hispanic Heritage Month
  News • 9/16/2022
  ... tage Month was something that I just heard in the news of the United States now and then. I like to highlight that I do not tend to use the word “American,” because in straight terms I am an American too. I was born in the southern hemisphere of the continent called America . Also, i ...

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• Birchwood Students Advance to the National Contest of National History Day
  News • 5/3/2022
  The National History Day competition for the 2021-22 school year once again was held virtually at the regional level and the state level. In spite of the challenges that a virtual competition posed for the students, they produced some extraordinary projects and were recognized for the caliber of the ...

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• Record Number of Birchwood Students Headed to State Science Day
  News • 4/1/2022
  This March the results of District 5 Science Day were announced, culminating in a record number of Birchwood students qualifying for the State Science Day in May for the second year in a row.   Superior Rating and State Science Day Qualifiers Andrew Khawam (5th grade) for “How much will a ...

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• New Lower School Director Announced
  News • 3/29/2022
  Following a national search, Head of School Scott Looney recently announced the appointment of Molly Toussant as Lower School director. Molly will assume this position effective July 1, 2022.

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• Power of the Pen Regional Champions
  News • 3/29/2022
  Congratulations to Birchwood’s 7th and 8th grade teams who won a team award and several individual and special awards at the Power of the Pen Regional competition. These students are coached by Lorraine Tzeng, Jennifer Seward, and Maysan Hadar.  Team Awards      & ...

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• Thirty-One Students Heading to National History Day State Competition
  News • 3/15/2022
  On March 5, 2022, sixty-nine 6th, 7th, and 8th graders competed in the regional level of the National History Day competition with outstanding results. Students began work on their research projects in the fall and submitted them virtually at the end of February. The projects were evaluated by a tea ...

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• Eighteen Students Receive Regional Scholastic Writing Awards
  News • 1/10/2022
  Eighteen Birchwood 8th grade students received awards and recognition from the 2022 Regional Scholastic Writing Awards competition. They were selected from hundreds of local participants from area schools in 7th through 12th grade. Four students received the Gold Award which qualifies their work to ...

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• Birchwood Team Headed to Future Problem Solving International Competition
  News • 5/18/2021
  Birchwood students participated in the virtual State Bowl of Future Problem Solving in April. Their ingenuity in tackling massive problems such as youth in competitive sports, wearable technology, human environmental impact, and personalized medicine earned them many awards and an invitation to the ...

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• Jennifer Song is Named as a Finalist in NPR’s Student Podcast Contest
  News • 5/11/2021
  NPR’s annual call for entries to its student podcast contest garnered over 2,600 entries from 47 states and the District of Columbia. After listening to each entry, 15 high school and 12 middle school finalists were announced on May 9th. Eight grader, Jennifer Song’s entry entitled, R ...

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• Speech and Debate Team Wins State Championship
  News • 3/9/2021
  The Hawken Speech &; Debate Team has done it again, winning the team state championship at the 2021 Ohio Speech &; Debate Association State Tournament. This is Hawken’s third state championship in the last six years.

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• Boys and Girls Clinch State Swimming Championship; Williams ’21 Named State Diving Champion
  News • 2/27/2021
  What an exciting end to the 2020-21 swim season for Hawken swimmers and divers, with both the girls and the boys swim teams clinching the state swimming championship and Angus Williams ’21 winning the state championship in diving earlier this week!

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• Stay in Shape Saturday - Featuring Julia Newman '20
  News • 5/2/2020
  Student-athletes are among the many groups that have been significantly impact by this crisis. With school campuses and many centers of athletic activity closed, these dedicated athletes do not have an opportunity to get the same amount of exercise. This submission highlights one of Hawken’s s ...

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• Fisher House Opens in Cleveland with Support from Hawken Lacrosse
  News • 4/11/2020
  From 2008 to 2016, Hawken Boys Lacrosse partnered with Burning River Lacrosse to hold eight Fisher House Charity Lacrosse events, and for seven of those events, Hawken was the host and a primary partner and sponsor.

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• Chess Hawks Impress at Greater Cleveland Tournament
  News • 3/12/2020
    Thirty-three Hawken Lower, Middle, and Upper School chess players shined among the 260 students who participated in the final Greater Cleveland Scholastic Chess League tournament on Saturday February 29.   Highlights:   K-3 Reserve (U500): Charlie Howley ’30 and Annalisia Hond ...

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• Twenty-six students Qualify for State Competition
  News • 3/9/2020
  On Saturday, March 7, with brisk temperatures but sunny skies, 61 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade Birchwood students traveled to University Circle to compete at the district level of the National History Day competition held at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland History Center. With ...

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• Speech and Debate Wins Championship Awards at Districts
  News • 2/24/2020
  The Hawken Speech and Debate team had a fantastic weekend at the National Speech and Debate Association North Coast District tournament that was held earlier this month at St. Ignatius High School.

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• Hawken Fall Sports 2019 Review
  News • 12/3/2019
  Read more about how all our fall teams performed!

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• Hawken Hires New Head Swim Coach
  News • 7/17/2019
  Hawken School Director of Athletics Jim Doyle recently announced that Tim Hable will take on the role as head swimming coach for Hawken and for the Lake Erie Silver Dolphins (LESD) beginning August, 2019.

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• Alumni Return to Campus to "Give Back"
  News • 3/11/2019
  On Friday, March 8, 55 alumni from all over the country returned to Hawken to teach classes to the entire Upper School. This biennial event celebrates Hawken alumni and exposes our students to their rich and varied careers.

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• Stepping out of the Storm
  News • 10/8/2018
  PowerUp Puerto Rico! is now paying off for the students and teachers forced to restart after Hurricane Maria.  An elementary school in San Juan, Puerto Rico recently installed new air conditioning units.  Another elementary school in nearby Guaynabo is soon to build a new playground. Both ...

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• Birchwood Student Named in Top 300 Broadcom Masters
  News • 9/18/2018
  Congratulations to John,  an eighth-grade student at Birchwood School of Hawken and resident of Richfield, for being named one of  2018 Top 300 Broadcom MASTERS for his project on predicting Geomagnetic Storms with GPS. He was recognized on September 5 th  when The Broadcom Foundation ...

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• What Motivates A Child to Learn?
  News • 8/1/2018
  MOTIVATION AND RESEARCH If you want to learn anything, you must be motivated. Motivation is at the center of learning, and accordingly, if we want our children to be well educated, they must be motivated to learn. One can give their kids the best schools, the best teachers, and the best tutors, but ...

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• History Day Competition Pride and Success
  News • 3/3/2018
  On Saturday, March 3, 38 sixth- through eighth-graders competed in the district level of the National History Day competition. Held at the Cleveland History Center and Case Western Reserve University, it proved to be an exciting day! With very strong competition this year, 19 students still qualifie ...

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• Jonathan “Jock” Collens '31 Passes
  News • 10/25/2016
  It is with great sadness that we share with the Hawken community that Jonathan "Jock" Collens '31 passed away on October 24.

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• Middle School Builds Community at Grade-Level Retreats
  News • 9/9/2016
  Just ask any Middle School student what experiential learning is, and they are likely to cite examples from their grade level retreats held last week.

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• New Head Swim Coach Appointed
  News • 8/17/2016
  Following a national search for a new Head Coach and Aquatics Director, Hawken is happy to announce that Todd Clark has been selected to assume this position effective August 20, 2016.

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• Burton D. Morgan Foundation Awards $100K to Support Entrepreneurship Education
  News • 2/25/2016
  Hawken School has been named the recipient of a $100,000 grant from The Burton D. Morgan Foundation to support the Educators Workshops for Entrepreneurial Studies.

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• Best Selling Author Entrances Middle School Students
  News • 10/30/2015
  Award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney knows the power of music, art and conversation to move and engage an audience.

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• Student Video Documents Trip to Nicaragua
  News • 6/23/2015
    Hawken senior Alex Ashley recently released a video that documents Hawken's life-changing service work in Nicaragua.

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• Hawken Helps Bring Technology to Small Town in Nicaragua
  News • 2/20/2015
  Eighteen months ago, 17 Hawken students and three chaperones travelled to Nicaragua to help build a school in a small town of Tipitapa called Villa Japón.  For two weeks, we laid the foundation for three classrooms in a community once devastated by Hurricane Mitch.

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• 29 Students Qualify for State Speech and Debate Tournament
  News • 2/9/2015
  Hawken speech and debate has qualified an impressive number of 29 students for the state tournament in March. Even more impressive is the depth of the qualifiers: 8 are seniors, 12 are juniors, 5 are sophomores, and 4 are freshman.

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• HPS Presents "Blood Brothers"
  News • 2/4/2015
  February 13-22, Hawken Upper School will present  Blood Brothers  by Willy Russell,  a heartbreaking musical about twins separated at birth and reunited as children.

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• Students Impress with STEMM Projects
  News • 11/20/2014
  Hawken students took part in the 6th annual Bob Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium on November 17, presenting their projects before a panel of expert judges, parents, faculty and fellow students. Dhweeja Dasarathy '17  earned first place for her project "Novel Diagnostic method for Skeletal Musc ...

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• Congratulations Hall of Fame Inductees! #HawkenHOF
  News • 10/8/2014
  Hawken School congratulates the Class of 2014 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees: Eric D. Hamilton '82, Jerry Holtrey, Alyssa Kiel '05, O.J. McDuffie '88, Melanie Valerio '87, and Cliff Walton.

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• Hawken Announces Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees for 2014
  News • 8/8/2014
  Hawken School congratulates the Class of 2014 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees: Eric D. Hamilton '82, Jerry Holtrey, Alyssa Kiel '05, O.J. McDuffie '88, Melanie Valerio '87, and Cliff Walton.

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• Tennis Team Third in State
  News • 6/18/2014
  Boys tennis finished their season as Region Champions and finished at 3rd in the state in Division II play.

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• 8th Grade Duo Lead Team to Soccer National Championship
  News • 3/24/2014
  Hawken 8 th ;graders Julia Aliazzi and Jordan Taylor , playing for the U15 La Masia Hawks, took first place in the 2014 Chicago Regionals of the Copa Coca-Cola Soccer Tournament. ; ;With the win the team advances on an all-expenses paid trip to the National Finals in Los Angeles, April 19-20, and a ...

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• Girls Swim to 16th Straight State Title; Boys Are State-Runner Up
  News • 2/22/2014
  Hawken's boys and girls swim teams both brought home state titles to honor the end of Coach Holtrey's amazing 45-year Hawken career.

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• Debaters Win Stanford Tournament; Practice with Alumni
  News • 2/18/2014
  Seniors Tim Perevozchikov and Zach Kirsch emerged as Public Forum tournament champions at the prestigious 28 th  annual Stanford Invitational Speech &; Debate Tournament held February 8-10 at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California.

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• Boys and Girls Soccer Teams Win Regional Championships
  News • 11/4/2013
  Both the boys and girls soccer teams won their Regional Championship games on Nov. 2 and advance to the State Semifinals.

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• School Spirit Shines for HawkFest
  News • 10/4/2013
  A weeklong show of school spirit culminates today with HawkFest and continues tomorrow with Fall Family Fair.

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• Girls Golf Advances to State Tournament
  News • 10/2/2013
  The girls golf team took top honors in the Division II district tournament on October 1 and advance to state! ;

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• Cupola Installed Atop Lower School Expansion
  News • 8/9/2013
  Watch a 50-second YouTube video that captures the cupola installation on Hawken's new Lower School renovation and expansion.

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• Connections Explored Between Education, Income and Opportunity
  News • 4/15/2013
  Sixth grade students experienced a unique opportunity as they spent two days at the Gries Center ;immersed in a real life dilemma—living on a minimum wage income.

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• Students Preview Acacia Metropark for Project
  News • 4/12/2013
  Sixth grade students toured Acacia Reservation in Lyndhurst as they work on park plans aimed at preserving natural habitats while adding recreational features.

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• Entrepreneurship Students Earn Paid Internships
  News • 3/8/2013
  Hawken Entrepreneurs have completed a four-week project with local startup company BoxCast, an online live streaming product and service in the JumpStart portfolio. BoxCast founder Gordon Daly asked three teams of students to "get out of the building" and figure out how to effectively market his ser ...

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• Organization for Homeless Families Aided by Students
  News • 2/27/2013
  For many years, Hawken families and Middle School classes have aligned with Family Promise of Greater Cleveland - ;the former Interfaith Hospitality Network - ;to help families who have lost housing and employment regain financial independence and return to productive, resourceful living. Sixth grad ...

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• Insight Week Offers Range of Experiences
  News • 1/25/2013
  Middle School students returned from winter break to a change in routine as they engaged in Hawken’s third annual Insights Week. ; Born out of the academic passions of the middle school faculty, students were immersed in innovative and engaging interdisciplinary courses composed of students fr ...

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• Antiques Show Raises Funds for White House
  News • 6/11/2012
  Hawken School hosted its 27th Annual White House Antiques Show on Memorial Day at the Upper School Campus. The event featured well-respected dealers from all around the country selling such items as Period 18th through 20th Century European and American furniture, Mid-century (fifties) pieces, as w ...

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• Students Request Donations for Veterans
  News • 5/6/2012
  The Hawken 11 th grade United States History Intensive is supporting the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center by volunteering at the second annual VA 2K walk on Wednesday May 16, 2012. Students are asking the Hawken community to help by donating the items listed below to ben ...

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• Upper School Conducts Service and Enjoys Giant Relay
  News • 4/27/2012
  Hawken’s Upper School took the day to perform community service both on campus and farther afield. The wide variety of service projects included, in part, sprucing up the Lower School playground; volunteering at non profits such as Community Greenhouse Partners, Ohio City Farms, Doan Brook Wat ...

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• Graduate Published in Equal Justice Journal
  News • 4/16/2012
  Cecile Murray ‘s ’11, submission to the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network’s 10Ideas for Equal Justice Journal was selected for upcoming publication. The Journal selects the best 10 policy ideas in six topic areas for publication. Cecile’s submission, under the topic area of ...

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• Basketball Team Donation Makes Plain Dealer
  News • 2/3/2012
  In a column by Tim Rogers in today's Plain Dealer the following item appeared. Congratulations, team! We're proud of you! Paying it forward: For the past six to seven years, members of the Hawken School team have made weekly visits to the Metzenbaum School for the mentally and developmentally disabl ...

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• Hawken Wins Two 1st Place Trophies at Academic Tournament
  News • 10/17/2011
  ... e 21 – 2 in their matches. In late breaking news, Hawken’s A team also won its division at the Corey Salem Tournament at Copley High School on Saturday, October 15, with a record of 7-0. That team consisted of Eric Xiao ’12, Adil Menon ’12, Ani Dasarathy ’12, and Jo ...

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• Charlise Lyles ’77 to Speak at Gries Center
  News • 9/21/2011
  Noted author and 1977 Hawken graduate Charlise Lyles will return to Cleveland on September 26 to share her experiences and insights with the Hawken community. Born and raised in Cleveland, Lyles is a seasoned journalist who devotes her efforts to educational equity. She is the co-founding editor of ...

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• End of Season Athletic Highlights
  News • 6/6/2011
  Congratulations to the following Hawks for noteworthy accomplishments in their respective spring sports: Ally Markovich ‘13, who finished in 5th place D-III 1,600m at the State Track Meet on Saturday. Emily Heyd ‘13, Markovich, Rachel McKay ‘13, Kerrin Sunshine ‘12 for placin ...

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• Eighth Graders Pause for Reflection at Closing Exercises
  News • 6/3/2011
  The eighth grade class bid farewell to their middle school years and the Lyndhurst campus at the Closing Exercises held on Thursday, June 3rd in the Ingalls Gymnasium. After welcoming addresses by Alison Jin, Samaresh Rao and Timothy Foster, Parker Selman, the Muriel Bell Award winner, offered a mus ...

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• Middle School Chinese Teacher Awarded Fellowship
  News • 4/20/2011
  Congratulations to Mandarin Chinese teacher William Hahn, who was one of only a dozen educators to receive a fellowship to attend a program administered by the American Council for International Education. William will travel to the city of Changchun to attend the six-week long program, which cente ...

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• Speech and Debate Team Makes History at North Coast Districts
  News • 3/8/2011
  Congratulations to the Hawken Speech and Debate Team for their numerous successes in recent weeks. On February 4 and 5, they participated at the Cleveland District State Qualifying Tournament at Vermilion High School, where Margret Erlendsdottir '11 was named first alternate in the International Ext ...

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• Sixth Graders Link Math to Real World
  News • 1/20/2011
  "Do you like to solve puzzles, design games, or disassemble things to see how they work?" "Do you like to create models or sketch plans?" "Do you like to work in teams or by yourself?" These were questions posed to students by Eva Vargas, a civil engineer who is currently redesigning runway patterns ...

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• Student Musicians Selected for Honors Orchestra
  News • 1/15/2011
  Benjamin Francisco '13 , cello, and Gabe Napoli '13 , violin, have been selected to perform with the Honors Orchestra for the 2012 American High School Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall in February. Participation in the Honors Orchestra is limited to the highest rated high school performers ...

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• Schlickmann to Head Advancement at St. Edward High School
  News • 1/10/2011
  Assistant Head of School for External Affairs Devin Schlickmann has accepted the position of Vice President for Institutional Advancement at St. Edward High School in Lakewood. He will assume his new position on May 2, 2011. Since his arrival at Hawken in 2008, Devin has reorganized and elevated Haw ...

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• Strong Performances Distinguish Fall Music Concert
  News • 12/9/2010
  Presenting one of the strongest initial concerts of the school year in recent memory, middle school singers and instrumentalists wowed a capacity crowd in Ingalls Gymnasium at their fall concert in November. The string ensemble under the direction of Ms. Liesl Langmack was remarkably synchronized du ...

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• Art Students Critique Stereotypes in Advertising
  News • 11/22/2010
  In the eighth grade, students frequently revisit their grade-level essential question, "How Can I Make A Difference in the Global Community?" For example, in humanities classes they study issues of inequality, prejudice, and social injustice. As a means of incorporating the essential question into a ...

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• Fall Sports Highlights
  News • 10/19/2010
  Hawk spirit continues to soar as our athletics department concludes a very successful and exciting fall season. Note the following highlights and accomplishments in each sport: The girls tennis team currently holds a #7 ranking in the State-wide Division II Coaches’ Poll. They played Chagrin F ...

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• Awards Day 2010
  News • 6/8/2010
  The upper school student body gathered in the Kennedy Auditorium on Friday, June 4 to recognize fellow students for their stellar academic performance, artistic talent, athletic prowess, and commitment to community service. Awards Day 2010 also marked the first annual Dobay Trophy for House of the Y ...

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• Hawken Mathlete Competes at Nationals in Orlando
  News • 5/24/2010
  For the first time since 1992, Hawken School was represented at the National Mathcounts Competition, which was held May 6-9 in Orlando, Florida. Earning his way to this contest, Elliot Glazer `14 had placed second in the state of Ohio and thus became one of a team of four students to represent our s ...

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• Senior Signs with Wheeling Jesuit
  News • 2/16/2010
  Senior Erin Sheplavy of Willoughby recently signed a national letter of intent to continue her soccer and academic careers at Wheeling Jesuit University. Erin looks forward to working with the Cardinals’ head coach, Carrie Hanna. Erin made great contributions to the Hawken girls soccer team du ...

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• Hawken Thespian Advances in Shakespeare Competition
  News • 2/5/2010
  Junior Lindsay Kopit ’11 is scheduled to perform a Shakespearean monologue at Playhouse Square on February 27. If the judges favor her, she could be on her way to New York City to compete nationally. Lindsay took first place in Hawken’s Shakespeare competition by performing one of Hermia ...

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• Middle School Expands Tablet Program
  News • 2/1/2010
  Middle School Director Steve Hopkins recently announce that after a very successful pilot program in our sixth grade this year, the One-to-One Tablet Computer Program will be expanded to the entire middle school next year. Tablet computers are laptops with additional features, such as a pressure-sen ...

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• In-Residence Theater Company Inspires Creativity, Innovation
  News • 11/23/2009
  Hawken Upper School students and faculty were treated to a unique performance by music and dance students at an assembly last Friday – the culmination of a project undertaken under the guidance of GroundWorks dancetheater , a Cleveland based contemporary arts organization that has been working ...

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• Upper School Art Teacher Joins Global Art Dialogue
  News • 11/2/2009
  Upper School art teacher Anne Kmieck recently returned from a trip to China, where she participated in the International Art Dialogue in Chinese Gardens with 16 other American and Chinese artists. The 14- day trip included 6 days at the Chinese gardens, where artists participated in formal and infor ...

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• Top Scholar to Speak at Hawken and CWRU
  News • 10/9/2009
  John Fleming, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, will be visiting Hawken on Wednesday, October 14. During his time on campus, he will be a guest in ninth grade humanities classes and present a lecture to all Upper School students and faculty. The recipi ...

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• Entrepreneur Activist Inspires Students to Fill a Need
  News • 10/6/2009
  Courtesy of the Hawken Parents` Association, Upper School students participated in an assembly featuring Zac Ponsky, described by Ed Dolinsky of Coldwell Banker Hunter Realty as "one of those rare individuals that knows how to give back to his community... and a hero to a great many people from Nort ...

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• Hawken Welcomes Exchange Students from Maru-a-Pula
  News • 9/15/2009
  ... ior to selection time. So when she heard the good news, her only thought was "I am going!" And while Valentina has traveled over the years, this is her first visit to the United States. "I was having lunch with my cousin when I first heard the news that I had been chosen; I was so overwhelmed be ...

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• Trip to Nicaragua Combines Service and Exploration
  News • 7/13/2009
  In June, ten Hawken Upper School students traveled to Nicaragua to participate in a service project that would change their lives as well as the lives of others. The group, led by Sara Mierke and Chad Komicki, was one of three groups helping the community of Piedra Colorada in the Matagalpa region.

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• 8th Grade Speakers Reflect on Lessons in Character at Closing Exercises
  News • 6/12/2009
  The 69 members of the eighth grade class bid a fond farewell to the Lyndhurst campus and their lower and middle school years at the Closing Exercises held on Wednesday, June 10 in the Ingalls Gymnasium. Addressing faculty, family, and friends, Russell Cohen and Gabe Napoli offered the welcoming addr ...

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• Awards Day 2009
  News • 6/5/2009
  Nearly 100 awards were bestowed upon Upper School students at The 2009 Awards Day ceremony held in Kennedy Auditorium on Friday, June 5. Students were recognized not only for stellar academic performance, but also for their artistic talent, athletic prowess, and commitment to service. While many stu ...

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• Student and Faculty Playwrights Celebrate Festival of Student Plays
  News • 5/4/2009
  What can happen in a two-minute play? The answer, it turns out, is: almost anything. If you need proof, come see this weekend’s Spring Theatre production at the Upper School, comprised of thirty plays written by Hawken students and faculty. In a schoolwide playwriting contest held throughout March a ...

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• Ken Berman`73 Exhibited in State Museum of Pennsylvania
  News • 4/28/2009
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ken Berman Exhibited at The State Museum of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa. - Artist Ken Berman has been selected to exhibit his painting "Looking Backwards" in Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2009 at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, June 28 through September 20, 2 ...

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• Middle School Mathletes Make High Marks for Hawken
  News • 4/1/2009
  On Saturday, March 14, while most Hawken students were enjoying their first day of Spring Break, four middle school students made their way to Columbus State College to compete in the 25th annual State Mathcounts Tournament. Earning this privilege with a second place performance at the regional meet ...

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• New York Times Columnist Entertains While Talking Tech
  News • 3/13/2009
  It was David Pogue’s birthday when he visited Hawken March 9, but it was upper school students and faculty who were treated to a surprise. Kennedy Auditorium was transformed into a veritable comedy club as the personal-technology columnist for The New York Times demonstrated features of cutting edge ...

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• Mr. Shurtz Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to Physics Teaching
  News • 2/23/2009
  Bob Shurtz, Upper School Physics teacher, was presented with a Distinguished Service Citation from the American Association of Physics Teachers at their Winter Meeting held recently in Chicago. Established in 1953, the Distinguished Service Citations are presented to members of AAPT in recognition o ...

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• Lower School Teachers Initiate New Progress Report
  News • 2/23/2009
  Parents of students preschool through grade two were introduced to a new progress report during parent conferences held earlier this month.

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• Upper and Middle School Knowledge Master Teams Place 1st and 2nd
  News • 1/12/2009
  The Hawken Upper and Middle School Knowledge Master Teams won big earlier this month in the 2008 Knowledge Master Open Fall Tournament, with each team earning high rankings both state-wide and nationally. Held semi-annually in the spring and fall, the contest consists of 200 multiple choice question ...

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• `Prodigal Son` Comes Home
  News • 5/19/2008
  For a time, the life of an academian had its appeal for Oliver Buck (a.k.a. Oliver Zeltner `92), but in the end, it wasn`t enough. His university career after graduating from Hawken had been spotted with stints away from the classroom to play music. He`d gone to NYU for 2 years, but left for four ye ...

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• Hawken`s 82nd Alpha Company
  News • 5/6/2008
  ... what seems a world away, who relish that kind of news: our troops in Iraq. For them it`s a reminder of Mom and Dad, Brother and Sister, Wife and Husband, a welcome diversion from suicide bombs and carnage and a group of Hawken students have committed themselves to deliver those pieces of home a ...

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• Kleening Up the Awards
  News • 4/21/2008
  The Lake Kleenerz, a group of Hawken students who have committed themselves to raise awareness about the quality of Lake Erie waters, recently won the Seaworld/Busch Gardens Fujifilm Environmental Excellence Award and $10,000 to help continue their efforts.

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• The Gries Center at University Circle: Where Are We Now?
  News • 4/21/2008
  Hawken`s University Circle initiative is moving ahead with a number of exciting developments. Purchase of House Finalized After a series of transactions, the former Ferris House on Magnolia Drive recently became the official property of Hawken School. The transfer of ownership puts into motion a whi ...

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• Eyes Wide Open: Botswana and Haibara
  News • 4/18/2008
  It`s not a stretch to say that a group of Middle School students and a group of Upper School students will never look at world studies the same way. During spring break, a Middle School contingent traveled to Haibara, Japan marking the School`s 20th year of participating in an exchange with the regi ...

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• Debate Team's Winning Words
  News • 1/24/2008
  The Hawken Speech and Debate team recently faced most of the top speech and debate teams in the state in a two-day tournament in Sylvania, Ohio. Congratulations go to: Senior Sam Skove, who was a semi-finalist in Oratorical Interpretation. Junior Alex Ferris, an octafinalist in Lincoln Douglas Debat ...

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• BCA is casting Bauer as executive director
  News • 1/8/2008
  The following appeared in the Sun Courier on December 27, 2007.

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• Hawken to Open Extension Campus at University Circle
  News • 12/6/2007
  Hawken School has announced that it will expand its Cleveland presence by establishing an urban extension campus dedicated to experiential service learning in University Circle. A generous gift from Sally and Bob Gries will help Hawken School move forward with its investment, which will be named the ...

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• Hawken Student Donates $13,000 for Kids in Need
  News • 11/11/2007
  You`re never too young to become a philanthropist and want to help others in need, as one Middle School student with a big heart discovered recently. While planning his Bar Mitzvah this past spring, seventh grader Dane Adelman spoke with his parents, Jodi and Joel Adelman, about how he didn`t really ...

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• Upper School Teacher Returns Where Passion to Teach Ignited
  News • 10/24/2007
  Peel banana, peel peel banana. Mmmmmmm. Wake up thinking that and you`d think the years of Chiquita jingles had gotten to you. But if you`re Upper School Humanities teacher Julia Griffin and you awake with banana chants ringing in your head (as she recently did) you`d have a smile across your face, ...

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• One Hawken grad`s triumph over cancer
  News • 6/29/2007
  ... cancer recently appeared in the Cleveland Jewish News. The 2004 Hawken grad shared what he took from the experience and why it made him the person he is today. Athlete`s winning attitude helps beat childhood cancer By Ellen Schur Brown, Editor, Family Section Kevin Weiss, a junior at the Univer ...

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• Cavs in the Finals? Thank Scott Looney
  News • 6/26/2007
  Clevelanders everywhere hailed LeBron James as the reason for the Cavs` turnaround and the team`s first trip ever to the NBA Finals. But consider this: King James might not be the reason at all. Blasphemy, you say? Don`t be so quick to judge. The team`s rise from the ashes might just be due to the f ...

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• Hawken grad, board chairman makes nat`l headlines
  News • 6/13/2007
  Hawken Board of Trustees Chairman Kip Horsburgh`s support of the Cavs as the team attempted to bring home Cleveland`s first-ever NBA title landed the 1965 Hawken grad in papers across the country on Tuesday, featured in an Associated Press article. Here`s what he had to say as the Cavs readied to fa ...

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• Awards Day 2007
  News • 6/5/2007
  Madeleine Bruml received the Alumni Association`s highest student honor, the Charles B. Bolton Award, at Awards Day ceremonies on Friday, June 1. The daughter of Cindy and Bob Bruml `72 and sister of Andrew `04 and Elizabeth `10, Madeleine, a Hawken lifer, was chosen for her involvement with alumni ...

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• Alumni of Color Event May 19
  News • 5/10/2007
  Two Hawken alumni, Scott Hamilton and Wayne Lawrence, are coordinating an event that brings alumni of color from the Cleveland Council of Independent Schools together to help raise funds for minority scholarships and, in the process, reengage graduates with their respective schools. The four-school ...

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• Alumna `rocks autism`
  News • 4/13/2007
  When a disorder affects one in every 150 people in the United States, reaching near epidemic status, you`d expect an action plan to remedy the crisis. But autism, for the past 10 years, has largely been pushed in a corner, sorely lacking in research funding and awareness, advocates say. The tide is ...

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• Hawken appoints Upper School Director
  News • 2/7/2007
  After a nationwide search that yielded \"exceptional candidates,\" Head of School Scott Looney announced that J. Ross Peters has been selected as Hawken`s new Upper School Director. Peters is currently the Assistant Head for Academic Affairs at Asheville School, a day and boarding school in Ashevill ...

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• Hawken parent to explore effects of toxic environments
  News • 1/26/2007
  Hawken parent Robin Selznick Hoffman will speak on the topic \"Where is the Science? asked the Canary: A Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Saga and It`s Teachings about Safe and Non-toxic Environments\" at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens, during Wellness Weekend, on Saturday, February 3 at 10:00 a.m. an ...

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• Hawken grad helps rebuild lives in Iraq
  News • 12/19/2006
  From Hawken grad Jeff Bricker`s vantage, Iraq is a lot more than bombs and bloodshed. It`s a place of rolling hills, lush, fertile valleys and boundless potential. For over a year and a half, Bricker`s lived in a suburb of Erbil, the capital city of the mountainous Kurdistan region of Iraq, working ...

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• Sounds of a struggle
  News • 12/15/2006
  \"Remember Sharpeville. `Bullet in the back` day. Because it epitomized oppression. And the nature of society.\" Hawken eighth graders may not ever soon forget those words. "Remember Sharpeville" is South African poet Dennis Brutus` memorial to the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, when South African po ...

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• Al MacCracken `54: A career serving Hawken
  News • 11/20/2006
  When Hawken alums reflect on teachers who made a difference, Al MacCracken`s name comes up frequently. MacCracken, himself a member of the Class of 1954, joined the Lower School faculty in 1963. Though he left Hawken in 1970 to earn graduate degrees in educational administration and French, followed ...

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• Alumnae `a part of it` in NYC Marathon
  News • 11/17/2006
  ... he 38,000-voice choir roared. Start spreading the news I`m leaving today I want to be a part of it New York, New York The journey for which some of them had been preparing for months had begun. Welcome to the New York Marathon, a 26-mile odyssey through five New York boroughs. And in the thick o ...

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• Workshop explores new ways of Spanish instruction
  News • 11/9/2006
  Local, and a couple of Columbus, educators from high schools and colleges convened recently at Hawken`s Upper School for a workshop hosted by Hawken Spanish teachers Joaquin and Fernando Soldevilla. This is the third year the brothers have organized the professional development event for Spanish tea ...

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• Linking students with the community
  News • 10/23/2006
  Hawken School recently hosted its first-ever community service fair. Over 40 local agencies, organizations and businesses from Cuyahoga, Geauga and Lake counties participated. Hawken`s community service director Nadja Deighan hopes that the event is a way to jumpstart a worthwhile community service ...

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• Brooke Buckley `94: Changing lives
  News • 10/20/2006
  \"It`s uncanny how close +óGé¼-£Grey`s Anatomy` [the hit ABC drama] is to my life,\" laughed Brooke Buckley `94, a general surgery resident. "The people aren`t as beautiful, and the locker rooms aren`t co-ed, but the humor, the emotions that they try to deal with in that show are very much like our ...

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• Cardboard constructions
  News • 10/20/2006
  Math and science teacher Kelly Clark looks stately as she slowly perches herself in what resembles a throne, gently resting her arms on the side rests. The throne sits high off the ground; Clark`s feet barely touch the floor. She scoots back and smiles. You`d almost swear, you`d had a glimpse of roy ...

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• Men`s varsity soccer: reclaiming the prestige
  News • 10/19/2006
  ... ave to face a couple of formidable opponents. The News-Herald recently featured senior Misha Carrel-Thomas` and the soccer team`s trek to the top. Read on for the story. Round-trip ticket to cash in Chris Lillstrung Misha Carrel-Thomas experienced the thrill of playing on high school soccer`s gr ...

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• Forum to help in getting the most out of school sports
  News • 10/10/2006
  In 2005, the father of a high school football player didn`t think his son was getting enough playing time. So, he shot and wounded his son`s coach. Sounds absurd, but more and more, parents are morphing into belligerents when their children hit the playing field, punching referees and scuffling with ...

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• Help Hawken junior race for the cure
  News • 9/19/2006
  Life. For junior Samantha Kadis, that`s what matters most. She`s been working for a while now trying to pull together a Hawken team for The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation`s Race for the Cure on Saturday, October 14 at 8:30 a.m. at Voinovich Park. But she needs your help. "It took me until I ...

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• `Grueling` trip for team from Hawken builds hope
  News • 9/18/2006
  Shorts, sandals and sunscreen-the typical gear of summer. But 18 Hawken Upper School students, faculty/staff, alumni and parents this summer got a few more markedly different accoutrements... shovels, cement and brick. For two weeks in July, the group helped in a school building project in the small ...

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• Caitlin Clements Receives Bolton Award
  News • 6/25/2006
  More than 100 awards were bestowed upon Hawken Upper School students at the 2006 Awards Day ceremony. Ranging in subject from academics to extracurricular activities and community service, the breadth and variety of awards conferred the diversity of interest and range of talent of Hawken students. T ...

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• Year-End Celebrations and Graduations: Listen!
  News • 6/14/2006
  Students, faculty and staff marked the end of the 2005-2006 school year with graduations, award ceremonies and celebrations. Memorable words were spoken at each event and links to some of the speeches can be found below. A May 23rd luncheon was held to thank parent volunteers for their service to Ha ...

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• Jim Berkman Accepts Head Position at Boston University Academy
  News • 5/31/2006
  Hawken`s current Head of School, James S. Berkman, has been named head of Boston University Academy (BUA), effective July 1. Last spring, Berkman announced that this would be his eighth and last year at Hawken. He stressed how much he enjoyed his time at Hawken, but explained that he was ready to lo ...

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• Middle School Teacher Honored
  News • 5/11/2006
  Middle School science teacher Bob Wiemer has been named the first recipient of the Mary \"Stevie\" Eaton Award, established last year by the Cyrus Eaton Foundation in honor of Mrs. Eaton and her long devotion to Hawken School. Mrs. Eaton, who died in 2003, taught reading and study skills at Hawken`s ...

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• What I Did on My Spring Break
  News • 4/13/2006
  Much of the Hawken Community spent spring break abroad on varied and exciting adventures. London The Hawken Chorale travelled to London for a series of performances. The group of 26 Upper School students will give three concerts of sacred music in the greater London area, including a performance in ...

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• Retired Teacher Heads South to Help Katrina Victims
  News • 3/8/2006
  ... out their future. "When there was so much initial news about the devastation," he says, "I told my wife I was afraid most people would forget about the damage and the hurricane victims by end of year." McCahon didn`t forget. This January he packed up his car and headed south with one goal in min ...

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• A Stirring Success
  News • 3/7/2006
  Thursday January 19th, 2006. Do you remember what you did that day? Seniors Samir Pendse and Alex Rosenthal were involved in a test. A test of taste. That`s right folks, both of these Hawken students, Samir a well respected senate member, and Alex a member of the disciplinary review board, were taki ...

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• Pathways Students Tour Case Law School, Cleveland Clinic
  News • 3/3/2006
  Through Hawken`s new Pathways Program, Upper School students were recently afforded extraordinary opportunities to personally experience the fields of law and medicine. On the morning of March 1, 10 students spent time at Case Western Reserve University School of Law speaking with two lawyers, a law ...

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• Swimmers Make History, Qualify for States
  News • 2/22/2006
  The Women`s District swimming championship was held last weekend. Hawken took the top three spots in many events, a school first. In the 200 medley relay event, Hawken took 1st place. Erica Dorfman, Rachel Borden, Louise Gliga, Sarah Dorenkott qualified for state with this finish. In the 200 freetyl ...

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• Internet Safety on Everyone`s Mind
  News • 2/14/2006
  ...`t working or isn`t being respected by the kids. Hawken parent Dr. Gigi Cates asked parents to remember that using the computer and the internet is a privilege, not a right. children safe. Want to know more? Read the Internet safety newsletter published by the Hawken Technology Department last ye ...

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• Hawken Teachers Embrace Smart Board Technology
  News • 11/28/2005
  ... a November 27, 2005 article by Mark Scott of the News Herald tilted \"New technology helping to bring students on board.\" Smart Board is the brand name for touch-sensitive, high-tech whiteboards that are popping up in classrooms across the nation and in Northeast Ohio. \"At first, it was very ...

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• Alum Elected Elon University Freshmen Class President
  News • 11/3/2005
  Hawken students continue their leadership roles at colleges across the country, as Alex Nickodem `05 demonstrates. A freshman at Elon University in North Carolina, Alex was elected Class President just one week after classes began. His experience with student government began at Hawken, where he was ...

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• Alum Chosen for Penn`s Steering Committee
  News • 10/27/2005
  Philip Berkman `02 was one of two students selected in September to represent the undergraduate student voice in a 24-acre campus expansion at the University of Pennsylvania. Berkman has relevant background in urban planning and has showed original ideas that demonstrate a serious commitment to the ...

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• Student Advocates for Indigenous People
  News • 9/30/2005
  Last year in World Cultures class, Aaron Kohn was inspired. The lifestyle of the indigenous peoples known as the Bushmen, in the 1984 movie The Gods Must Be Crazy was popular, but inaccurate in its portrayal of the Bushmen`s lifestyle. They are actually going through a cultural genocide. The San peo ...

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• Head of School Details Katrina Aid Efforts
  News • 9/9/2005
  Dear Hawken Community, The shocking images of devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina over the last two weeks have, for many of us, defied imagination. As we watch from a distance, it is difficult to grasp the scope of challenges that have only just begun for thousands of hurricane victims who, afte ...

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• Hawken Senior Wins Gold at International Physics Olympiad
  News • 7/12/2005
  Eric Mecklenburg `05 has achieved academic excellence by winning a gold medal at the 36th Annual International Physics Olympiad in Salamanca, Spain held July 3-12. One of only five students representing the United States at the event, Eric competed with representatives from 74 countries in the compe ...

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• Orthopedic Surgeon Visits Science Class
  News • 5/18/2005
  After weeks of studying bones, joints and muscles, sixth grade science students were enthralled by a presentation from Dr. William Waskowitz, an orthopedic surgeon, on Friday May 13. Dr. Waskowitz was in town to attend the Hawken \"Grandparents and Special Friends Day\" with his granddaughter,which ...

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• HPS Presents "The Will Rogers Follies: A Life in Revue"
  News • 2/11/2014
  Make plans to attend The Hawken Players' Society production of "The Will Rogers Follies: A Life in Revue," ; Fri &; Sat Feb. 14-15, 21-22 at 7:30pm, and Sun Feb. 23 at 3pm at Gates Mills.

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• Hawken Announces Stirn Hall
  News • 12/14/2013
  Hawken School has received an $8 million challenge grant from The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation for the renovation, expansion, and construction of a new $24.5 million Upper School academic building on the Gates Mills campus.

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• Senior Nominated by Congress to West Point
  News • 3/11/2014
  Hawken senior Chris Tatsuoka was one of only two Ohio students nominated by Ohio's 11th Congressional District to the ;United States Military Academy of West Point for the 2014-2015 academic year.

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• Lucier Family Writing Center Dedicated
  News • 7/15/2012
  Hawken trustee Jeff Lucier beamed with pride as his wife Susan, four daughters, extended family, fellow board members, faculty, and students gathered in May to dedicate The Lucier Family Writing Center. Established in 2007, the purpose of the Center is to promote individualized instruction of writi ...

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• Lower School Lego Robotics Team Advances
  News • 12/12/2011
  "Two Lower School Lego teams competed at a tournament on Saturday December 10 and both teams did really well," reports coach, Mr. Todd Webster, Lower School science teacher. "The theme this year for the First Lego League Events was about food safety, food contamination, and other related issues. Eac ...

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• 14 Students Receive Scholastics Art Awards
  News • 1/23/2014
  Twelve Upper School and two Middle School students received Scholastic Art &; Writing Awards in early January.

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• Hawken Graduate Looks to Bring Resurgence to Local Economy
  News • 1/28/2008
  David Yen '76 just might have the answer for Cleveland's lagging economy: China and its booming economy. He and his father, Anthony Yen, brought the reality for area partnerships with the country one step closer when they recently invited and hosted China's U.S. ambassador, Zhou Wenzhong, for a two- ...

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• STEMM Hawks Garner Accolades at NEOSEF; Two Juniors Named Grand Prize Winners
  News • 3/14/2025
  Eleven Hawks did a stellar job representing Hawken School’s STEMM Program at last night’s 72nd Annual Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF), where students presented their projects to esteemed experts in their respective STEM fields.

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• Mastery Transcript Goes National
  News • 5/20/2024
  In 2015, as part of the design work to create the Mastery School of Hawken, Head of School Scott Looney created the model for the Mastery Transcript , a new digital transcript that assessed academic credits through faculty review of digital portfolios of student’s best work, rather than seat t ...

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• Our Leadership Program: Building Character in 7th & 8th Graders
  News • 11/1/2023
  By HELENE DEBELAK Director of Curriculum Character development is a vital aspect of our mission at Birchwood School of Hawken and the Leadership Program for seventh- and eighth-graders is the capstone opportunity for students to showcase the habits they have built over their years at Birchwood.  ...

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• Twenty-Two Students Win at National History Day State Competition
  News • 4/25/2023
  On Saturday, April 22, 2023, twenty-two Birchwood students traveled to Ohio Wesleyan University for the state level of the National History Day competition. With over 400 students from 40 different schools, the competition was challenging but the results were outstanding, with 15 Birchwood of Hawken ...

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• Hawken STEMM Students Receive Accolades, Including Two Grand Prizes
  News • 4/17/2023
  It’s been an extraordinary season for Hawken STEMM students, who garnered many accolades in recent competitions, with some receiving recognition through published research and more.    

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• Reflections on the death of Tyre Nichols
  News • 2/1/2023
  ... Parents and Teachers What to Say to Kids When the News is Scary 16 Resources on Talking to Students About Police Killings and Racism How to Talk to Kids About Gun Violence The Teacher’s Role When Tragedy Strikes Resources for Discussing Police Violence, Race, and Racism with Students Pleas ...

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• Birchwood Students Win Big at Prestigious Science Fair
  News • 3/30/2022
  This year’s 68 th annual Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair was virtual but lacked nothing in terms of ingenuity from the students who participated. Nearly 700 projects from over 80 schools were submitted in competition for over $20,000 in prizes. Birchwood School’s 7 th and ...

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• Holocaust Day of Remembrance
  News • 1/27/2022
  ... rmath of such evil, hate crimes continue to flood news stories and headlines. A recent 2021 CNN article reported that US hate crimes surged to the highest levels in 12 years. Victims reported they were targeted due to their race, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or gender.    ...

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• Ingenious, Indigenous Solutions to Modern Problems
  News • 10/11/2021
  ... looks-to-what-tribes-have-known-all-along https://news.stanford.edu/2019/08/27/traditional-fire-management-help-revitalize-american-indian-cultures/ 2 – Stewards of Biodiversity Despite making up only about 5% of the population, indigenous communities shelter an astounding 80% of the world ...

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• Hawken Dedicates Veterans Memorial
  News • 9/24/2021
  The long-awaited dedication of the Hawken Veterans Memorial took place on September 23 on the Great Lawn at the Upper School campus in Gates Mills.

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• Record Number of Birchwood Students Headed to National History Day
  News • 5/3/2021
  On April 26, the results from the state level of the National History Day competition were announced. Sixteen students and their nine projects will advance to the national level of the competition in June, the largest number of Birchwood students ever to advance to the national level as a result of ...

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• Twenty-seven Students Headed to State History Day Competition
  News • 4/3/2021
  On Saturday, March 27, Birchwood students competed in the regional level of National History Day. After months of research and perfecting their papers, performances, projects and presentations, students submitted their work to a panel of judges to be evaluated on the historical quality of their rese ...

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• Birchwood Students Win State History Day Competition
  News • 5/4/2020
  On Monday, April 27, 2020, the awards ceremony for the state level of the competition was held virtually in Columbus. Although everyone missed being together in person, many joined the Birchwood watch party on Zoom to cheer on the Birchwood students. It was wonderful to learn that ten Birchwood stud ...

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• Stay in Shape Saturday - Featuring Danny Ecker '20
  News • 4/25/2020
  Student-athletes are among the many groups that have been significantly impact by this crisis. With school campuses and many centers of athletic activity closed, these dedicated athletes do not have an opportunity to get the same amount of exercise. This submission highlights one of Hawken’s s ...

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• Stay in Shape Saturday - Featuring Danielle Turi '20
  News • 4/18/2020
  Student-athletes are among the many groups that have been significantly impact by this crisis. With school campuses and many centers of athletic activity closed, these dedicated athletes do not have an opportunity to get the same amount of exercise. This submission highlights one of Hawken’s s ...

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• Patrick Reineke wins (106 lbs) North Coast Classic
  News • 12/16/2019
  Patrick Reineke earned the gold medal at the North Coast Classic at Independence by going 8-0 on the weekend. Reineke dominated his way through the bracket with 4 pins, 2 technical falls, and a major decision in the finals. He looked sharp out on the mat using a plethora of attacks and looks to cont ...

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• Ella Gilson '21 wins Div II Girls Cross Country State Title
  News • 11/4/2019
  It was a great day for Hawken Athletics and Hawken Cross Country over the weekend.  Ella Gilson '21 won her second (back to back) State Cross Country Title and Juliana Metz '21 finished 10th making her (back to back) All Ohio! Ella vs Grace Hartman from Dayton Oakwood.  The head to head co ...

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• Birchwood Founders are Recognized for Excellence in Education and Their Dedication to Cleveland
  News • 4/24/2019
  On Tuesday, April 23, Birchwood School of Hawken co-founders, Chuck and Helene Debelak, traveled to Fenn Tower where they were recognized as one of Cleveland State University’s Fascinating Alumni. It is their dedication to each student “becoming” (a phrase often heard around Birchw ...

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• Birchwood Students Astound at National History Day Competition
  News • 4/8/2019
  On Saturday, March 16, with cold temperatures and a brisk wind blowing, 54 Birchwood sixth, seventh, and eighth graders were undaunted as they competed at the district level of the National History Day competition held at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland History Connection. With a m ...

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• West Geauga posts 48-34 win over Hawken in early CVC conference game
  News • 12/11/2018
  GATES MILLS, OH -- West Geauga held Hawken to 20 pts in the first half and stopped a Hawks' 3rd quarter rally to earn a 48-34 CVC girls basketball victory on Saturday afternoon at Hawken’s Red Gym.

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• Middle School Students Blend Art and Science in Biomimicry Projects
  News • 11/24/2015
  Seventh graders displayed what Middle School Director Becky Hausammann described as “inventiveness and exuberance” last week at the Biomimicry Exhibition held last week for parents and friends in Lincoln Lobby.

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• Hawken Entrepreneurs Do School Differently
  News • 10/25/2015
  Ask any student enrolled in the Hawken’s Entrepreneurial Studies class held at the Gries Center and they’ll tell you: It doesn’t feel like school. Yet they are learning by leaps and bounds.

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• Hawken Mourns Passing of Elouise Bouie
  News • 3/26/2014
  It is with great sadness that we report the sudden death of Hawken bus driver Elouise R. Bouie. ;She was hospitalized unexpectedly on Thursday March 13, and passed on Tuesday March 18.

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• Mather Students are "Watershed Heroes"
  News • 11/29/2013
  Mather House students were honored as “Watershed Heroes” by the Doan Brook Watershed Partnerships ;at their 10 th ;Anniversary Annual Meeting and Celebration held at the Shaker Lakes Nature Center on Tuesday November 12.

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• Hawken Students Publish Research on Amazon
  News • 11/25/2013
  We all remember doing research papers when in School. ;But true to Hawken's commitment to real-world experience, juniors and seniors in the history seminar "Delusion and Superstition: The Salem Witch Hysteria of 1692" ;are publishing their research on Amazon.com.

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• Hawken Middle School Retreats, Reflects, and Relaxes...Together
  News • 9/15/2013
  With new classes, new schedules, new friends, and new trends, the students at Hawken Middle School face a lot of new in the first few weeks of school. So, it makes sense that students in grades 6-8 spend the second week of school on "retreat," taking a step back from the "new" to connect with their ...

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• Students Excel at BioInnovation Academy
  News • 9/3/2013
  Anthony Charles, Jonathan Simmons, and Jasmine Walker, all members of the Class of 2016, were selected to participate in the inaugural BioInnovation Academy this past summer.

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• Student Entrepreneurs Land Internship
  News • 12/7/2012
  Honors Entrepreneurial Studies students Madi Thomas '13, Annie Schirm '13, Ben Bornstein '13 and Sawyer Opalich '13 earned a paid internship at Hawken parent David Levine's company Mr. Beams , an e-commerce sensation that sells Amazon's most popular LED emergency lighting systems. The four seniors a ...

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• Sisters Receive Bronze at World Competition
  News • 9/27/2012
  Grace Huang ’13 and Jessica Huang ’15, members of the nationally recognized, Medina based competitive jump rope team, The Heartbeats, achieved recognition in National and World competitions this summer. Grace and Jessica placed 7 th and 11 th respectively in Single Competition at the Nat ...

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• Middle School Academic Challenge Ends Successful Season
  News • 7/19/2012
  By the time the 2011-2012 school year had ended the Hawken Middle School Academic Challenge team had impressive record. They had come in first place in two regional tournaments, tied for first place in the state tournament and come in 17 th out of 72 top-ranking teams in the nation in the NAQT invit ...

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• Lower School Ends Year With Awards
  News • 5/31/2012
  The Lower School gathered for their final assembly of the year and amongst a host of presentations and performances two significant student awards were presented. The LaVelle Pelton Esgar award is given annually to the 4th grade student in the Hawken Lower School who, in the opinion of the lower sch ...

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• Middle School Academic Challenge Teams Head to Two National Tournaments
  News • 3/12/2012
  The Hawken Middle School Academic Challenge teams have qualified for two national tournaments, after impressive February and March tournament play. On February 19, Hawken teams C and A placed first and second respectively at the prestigious Solon Middle School Tournament. Against some of the best st ...

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• Students Dine on Minimum Wage: Feeling the Pangs of Poverty
  News • 3/6/2012
  Hawken sixth graders discovered that full-time employment for many means living in poverty. Connecting with designated websites on their tablets, students researched the current Federal Poverty Guidelines and ascertained that the annual income of two adults earning minimum wage would require a famil ...

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• Varsity Lacrosse News
  News • 1/19/2012
  Hawken lacrosse midfielder and senior captain John Rayburn will attend Roanoke College (VA) in the fall of 2012. Roanoke was a NCAA Division III national semi-finalist in 2011 and is ranked #4 in pre-season national polls. John has enjoyed a stellar three-year varsity career as a midfielder and face ...

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• Advanced Acting Intensive to perform "Laramie Project"
  News • 12/8/2011
  The Upper School Advanced Acting Intensive, in association with the Hawken Players’ Society, will present Moises Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project’s controversial exploration of the human condition, The Laramie Project. The production will run December 15-18 in the Kennedy Auditorium ...

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• Beloved Former Teacher James Bresnicky Passes On
  News • 11/29/2011
  James P. Bresnicky passed away on November 21, 2011. Mr. Bresnicky began his 28 year career at Hawken in 1964 and taught Latin at the Upper School. He earned degrees from Stonehill College, Duquesne University and John Carroll University. When not teaching, Mr. Bresnicky (“Brez”) dabbled ...

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• Mark Twain Statue Stops at Gates Mills En Route to Cultural Gardens
  News • 9/23/2011
  A 1935 bust of Mark Twain traveled to the Gates Mills Campus on Friday, September 23, for finishing touches to a conservation and a rededication that has been a long time in the making. The bronze statue was originally a part of the American Cultural Garden, one of 26 gardens that line Martin Luther ...

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• Academic Challenge Teams Compete in Chicago
  News • 7/5/2011
  In June, Hawken Middle School was once again invited to the Chicago phase of the National Academic Challenge Tournament. There has only been a National Middle School Tournament for 4 years and Hawken has been invited all four times. Hawken Academic Challenge teams A and B have already dominated at b ...

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• Cum Laude Society Inducts New Members
  News • 4/28/2011
  Thursday, April 28 marked the 2011 Cum Laude Induction ceremony, where current members of The Cum Laude Society from the Class of 2011 welcomed 20 additional juniors and seniors to join the ranks while classmates, faculty, and family gathered in the Kennedy Auditorium looked on. The 2011 inductees h ...

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• Cambodian Survivor Shares Tales of Horror and Hope
  News • 4/27/2011
  She still recalls vividly the sounds of starvation that surrounded her as a young child – and the profound sense of guilt she carried with her after stealing food from an old woman. And so she writes to try to make sense of it all. Loung Ung, author of First they Killed My Father , visited the ...

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• Fisher House Lacrosse Showcase Raises Funds and Spirits
  News • 4/25/2011
  Saturday’s sunny skies brought hundreds of lacrosse fans to Hawken’s campus to support this year's Fisher House Lacrosse Showcase. Proceeds from the event topped $50,000, bringing the four-year total to nearly $175,000. Fans enjoyed an afternoon of entertainment featuring a series of com ...

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• Lyndhurst Campus Service Highlights
  News • 3/17/2011
  Below are some of the service learning activities experienced recently by students in our Lower and Middle Schools: • Sixth graders recently participated in an experiential, interdisciplinary unit that helped them understand how the distribution of wealth affects the living standards of familie ...

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• Monique DeVane to Head California School
  News • 10/27/2010
  Congratulations to Associate Head of School Monique Devane, who last week was appointed the next Head of School at The College Preparatory School in Oakland, CA beginning July 1, 2011. Monique has served as Hawken’s Associate Head of School since 2006, advancing curriculum, program and faculty ...

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• Help for Haiti
  News • 7/13/2010
  Brian Horsburgh `06 was getting ready to wrap up his job as a hospitality host for VISA when a colleague at the Winter Olympics asked him if he was interested in going to Haiti when the games were over. It was a casual conversation, but a week or so later a Facebook message from that same ticket man ...

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• Hawken Junior Spends Semester in China
  News • 5/10/2010
  Stephen Hopkins '11 at Hawken School, left for China on February 25th, 2010 to participate in the National Security Language Institute’s (NSLI) program designed to identify high schoolers who had an interest in learning languages considered key to the United States’ future. Stephen is on ...

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• Hawken Junior Spends Semester in China
  News • 5/10/2010
  Stephen Hopkins `11 at Hawken School, left for China on February 25th, 2010 to participate in the National Security Language Institute`s (NSLI) program designed to identify high schoolers who had an interest in learning languages considered key to the United States` future. Stephen is one of seven s ...

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• 7th Graders Welcome Evan Corns, Historian
  News • 4/21/2010
  The entire 7th grade class was treated to a preview of Gettysburg just days prior to their visit to the battlefields with a visit from Mr. Evan Corns, grandfather of Evan Hill `15. Introduced by Evan as "a successful businessman and great historian," Mr. Corns, who received his M.A. in American Hist ...

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• Senior Wins Grand Prize at Regional Science Fair
  News • 3/23/2010
  Peter Mintun ’10 was honored for being one of the two Grand Prize Winners in the Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair at an awards ceremony on Thursday, March 18 at Cleveland State University. As a grand prize winner, he qualifies for entry in the International Science and Engineering F ...

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• Sixth Grade Pilots Tablet Program to Promote Engaged Learning
  News • 8/31/2009
  The start of the new school year brought more than the typical dose of excitement and anticipation for this year`s sixth graders with the introduction of Hawken`s one-to-one tablet program. The new program, which is being piloted in the sixth grade this year and will expand to all middle and upper s ...

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• Senior Explores East Cleveland Through Artistic Dialogue
  News • 5/26/2009
  Media and its influence have always fascinated Aaron Kohn, so it's no surprise that for his senior project at Hawken School he decided to explore the intricacies and the value of story telling. But what might surprise some is that he decided to do it in East Cleveland. As a child, Aaron’s parents dr ...

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• Seventh Grade Revives Cultural Garden
  News • 5/21/2009
  ...who will continue the good work and progress initiated by this year’s seventh graders, who were honored and proud to have the president of the Cultural Gardens Federation Paul Burek join them for their celebration. We look forward to more garden news as the baton gets passed on to the Class of 20 ...

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• Middle School Academic Challenge Team Shines at Local Tournament
  News • 5/14/2009
  Are you smarter than a middle schooler? Take the Middle School Academic Team Challenge by answering this question: “It is the third person, singular, perfect, indicative form of the Latin verb meaning ‘to declare an oath.’ What is this legal term for a written statement of fact, made voluntarily, an ...

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• Coach Alec Lai `09 Leads MS Academic Challenge Team to Victory
  News • 5/13/2009
  Are you smarter than a middle schooler? Take the Middle School Academic Team challenge by answering this question: "It is the third person, singular, perfect, indicative form of the Latin verb meaning +óGé¼-£to declare an oath.` What is this legal term for a written statement of fact, made voluntari ...

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• Hawken Welcomes Students from Haibara, Japan
  News • 4/1/2009
  Hawken welcomed six Japanese students and two adult chaperones from Haibara, Japan last week as part of the Hawken-Haibara exchange program, now in its 21st year. Last year, 12 Hawken students visited Haibara, and many of those students are now serving as host families to the Japanese visitors. Whil ...

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• Senior Alec Lai Wins Grand Prize at North East Ohio Science and Engineering Fair
  News • 3/13/2009
  Alec Lai '09 was presented top prize in the North East Ohio Science and Engineering Fair at a special awards ceremony held at John Carroll University on March 5 with his entry entitled: “Thermal Optimization of Deep Boreholes for Minor Actinide Waste Disposal.” This entry not only won First Place in ...

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• Hawken Places Third in Nation for Number of US Physics Team Competition Semi-finalists
  News • 3/13/2009
  Congratulations to Omar Diab '10, Michael Eby '10, David Gerson '10, Brian Huser '09, and Quentin Smith '09 for making it to the semi-final round in the U.S. Physics Team competition. These students placed among the top 150 physics students in the nation out of the more than 3,000 who took the preli ...

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• Mr. Breisch Pilots Course on Homelessness
  News • 2/25/2009
  Like many senior electives, Jack Breisch`s Homelessness class evolved from a personal passion. Mr. Breisch, as his students call him, credits his experience as a long-time volunteer at Trinity Cathedral in downtown Cleveland and a man named Ernest for negating his stereotype of homeless people and i ...

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• Hawken Partners with Cleveland Clinic to Promote Wellness
  News • 12/17/2008
  Kids: Instead of French fries, try a side of carrot raisin salad. Trade that ice cream for some fruit cocktail. And parents, be patient and cover your ears for just a short while. Because according to Cindy Moore, Director of Nutrition Therapy at the Cleveland Clinic, it can take somewhere between 8 ...

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• Fall Elective to 'Dig' Into Cleveland History
  News • 8/20/2008
  As Hawken readies for the opening of the new Sally & Bob Gries Center at University Circle, history and humanities teachers Ken Clark and Jim Newman, respectively, will lead a class of students on an archaeological dig and a look back at how Clevelanders lived in the early 20th century, near the tim ...

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• 'Prodigal Son' Comes Home
  News • 5/19/2008
  For a time, the life of an academian had its appeal for Oliver Buck (a.k.a. Oliver Zeltner '92), but in the end, it wasn't enough.

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• Lower School Celebrates Cinco De Mayo
  News • 5/8/2008
  The Spanish K-2 classes recently celebrated Cinco De Mayo in a fiesta of art projects, songs and poetry. Cinco De Mayo celebrates the 1862 victory of an outnumbered Mexican army of fighters over the vast army of Napoleon III of France on, of course, May 5. In honor of the day, Hawken students danced ...

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• Eyes Wide Open: Botswana and Haibara
  News • 4/21/2008
  It's not a stretch to say that a group of Middle School students and a group of Upper School students will never look at world studies the same way.

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• Hawken Wins Big on Academic Challenge
  News • 3/18/2008
  Hawken's Academic Challenge team this past Saturday scored to date the highest any other team has scored during this season of the Academic Challenge on WEWS. The team's win over Oberlin and Fairless puts Hawken in a very good position of returning at the end of season for the championship. The thre ...

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• Panel Addresses Pros, Cons of Buying Homegrown Foods
  News • 2/29/2008
  Let`s hear it for the good ol` United States of Obliviousness. Or perhaps, let`s not. Yes, let`s definitely not if you`re talking to Darwin Kelsey, Executive Director of the Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Conservancy. He`ll emphatically tell you to reserve that allegiance for a more cognizant, more eng ...

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• The SLDC Experience
  News • 12/20/2007
  By Annie Krol, Hawken senior We left on a cold Wednesday morning. The six of us included our head chaperone, Mr. Cleminshaw, as well as five students: Seniors Annie Krol and Rebecca Evans, junior Terrence Embry, and sophomores Kelynn Carter and Montreaux Rogers. Our purpose was to come to the Studen ...

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• Hawks Soar to State Soccer Finals
  News • 11/11/2007
  After an exciting 3-2 win on Tuesday over Kidron Central Christian in the Division III State semifinals, the men`s varsity soccer team traveled to Columbus on November 9 to face Springfield Catholic Central at Crew Stadium for the State championship. An impressive five busloads, a school van and sev ...

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• Middle schoolers get thrill of a lifetime at NYSE
  News • 7/17/2007
  A group of budding Hawken Middle School student investors could have been one of the last groups to be witness to all that is the New York Stock Exchange-the rush, the clamor and the excitement. That`s because experts say that given the rapid development of technology, the exchange as it is known to ...

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• `Perceiving, believing and understanding life`
  News • 5/27/2007
  Ever expounded on the intricacies of Shakespeare? Ever done that in Spanish? It`s not as absurd a thought as you might think. While a class of Hawken students can`t say they`ve explored Shakespeare in Spanish, they have tackled the prose, poetry and drama of some of Spanish literature`s equally resp ...

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• Million-dollar field project to honor Cliff Walton
  News • 4/13/2007
  Hawken School has unveiled a $1.95 million plan to turf two of its Upper School athletic fields and equip the improved football field with lights, naming it Walton Stadium at Humphrey Field in honor of longtime football coach Cliff Walton. The project, which received nearly $1.3 million in funding i ...

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• Community celebrates Hawken at Winter Luncheon
  News • 1/19/2007
  Hawken graduates, teachers and family members gathered on December 23 for the 81st Annual Alumni Winter Luncheon. The afternoon of dining, visiting and bestowing honors took place amidst a backdrop of fine food and a stunning exhibit of art featuring works by Charles Herndon `64, Sara Guren `96, Ted ...

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• Alum`s distinct passions merge
  News • 10/22/2006
  The age in which David Hellerstein +óGé¼-£71 attended Hawken was marred by unrest. The United States was embroiled in an unpopular Vietnam War, the threat of the draft looming over the heads of young men everywhere, and social upheaval was at an all-time high. Hellerstein needed clarity. Now a noted ...

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• Natalie Hawwa `00 and Britt Cosgrove `00: The Roommates
  News • 10/20/2006
  When Natalie Hawwa `00 and Britt Cosgrove `00 met as kindergartners on the Hawken playground, they knew they were on to something good. "We`ve been best friends ever since." says Cosgrove. "We planned as seniors to finish college, move together to New York and work in fashion." Fast forward six year ...

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• Three Hawken students named `Young Heroes`
  News • 10/20/2006
  Hawken students Evin McMullen, Angela Primbas and Aaron Kohn have been named winners of the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes. The Barron Prize, a national award based in Boulder, Colorado, honors outstanding young leaders from across the U.S. who have made a significant positive difference to pe ...

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• At the Movies with Robert Hawkes
  News • 4/13/2006
  Coincidentally with the approach of Easter, a friend persuaded me finally to have a look at Mel Gibson`s The Passion of the Christ , a film which I had avoided, on the occasion of its first release, because I found the surrounding \"controversy\" and other hoopla so transparent a marketing ploy that ...

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• Lauren Rich Fine `77 Featured in Plain Dealer
  News • 3/20/2006
  ... Hawken parent, is a top financial analyst for the newspaper industry. Her work and her choice to live in Cleveland were featured on the front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer `s business section. Read the article, written by Janet Cho, below. Bullish on Cleveland Two New York career women find ...

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• Alum Heads Online Coaching Academy
  News • 3/9/2006
  ... l success, usually through phone calls and e-mail newsletters. Arndt takes it to another level by showering his clients with gifts, greeting cards and dinner invitations. The International Coach Federation, an industry accreditation association, has 9,600 members -- more than triple its numbers ...

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• At the Movies, With Robert Hawkes
  News • 3/9/2006
  Academy Awards 2006 One hates to pay much attention, really, and certainly not enough actually to watch the ceremonies, an activity which my friend`s son quite rightly characterizes as "like reading People magazine." After all, the Academy`s credibility as an arbiter of good taste and judgement has ...

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• Alum Works to Counter Pet Overpopulation
  News • 3/7/2006
  The little cat surely didn`t know what hit her. And she most certainly would not have liked anything that happened during her anesthesia-induced nap - especially being tied spread-eagle on a stainless-steel operating table. She looked silly, and, as everyone knows, cats prefer dignified poses. But t ...

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• Fifth Grade Foreign Language Selections for 2006-2007
  News • 2/1/2006
  A reminder to fifth grade parents to return your child`s 2006-2007 Middle School foreign langauge selection during the upcoming parent conferences (2/2-3). Along with this, you might want to read the following letter from the Middle School Foreign Language Department that explains the rationale behi ...

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• Investment Club Makes Gains...and Friends
  News • 1/23/2006
  The Middle and Upper School Investment Club was featured in the Finance section of the January 16-22 issue of Crain`s . The young club has made big strides toward becoming a popular and practical way to teach students about money, saving and wise financial choices. Investment club coaches students o ...

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• Middle School Students Matriculate
  News • 6/8/2005
  Hawken Middle School celebrated its Closing Exercises Wednesday, June 8, in the Ingalls Gymnasium. A procession of trustees, faculty, staff, and the Class of 2009 was greeted by music from John Krol (piano), Ahren Stock (trumpet) and Liesl Langmack (violin). In his welcoming address, Andrew Macklis ...

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• Students Master Stock Market
  News • 5/24/2005
  The next time you want some stock advice, you might call up this little investment club in Lyndhurst. The members have grown accustomed to earning double what the market indexes are returning. Never mind that none of them is even old enough to drive a car. Eleven eighth-grade students from Hawken Mi ...

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• Emeriti Faculty Brandt, Gross and Tottenham Honored
  News • 5/6/2005
  Hundreds of members of the Hawken School community, including graduates, parents, faculty and friends, gathered Friday, May 6, at the Gates Mills Campus to pay tribute to Frank Brandt, Jim Gross and John Tottenham, three of the School`s finest teachers who, after a collective 90-plus years of servic ...

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• Debate Team Wins State Championship
  News • 3/3/2014
  Hawken's Speech and Debate Team emerged as state champions in the ;Ohio High School Speech League Speech and Debate State Finals held at Wooster High School, February 27 - March 1, 2014. ;

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• Panel Addresses Pros, Cons of Buying Homegrown Foods
  News • 2/29/2008
  Let's hear it for the good 'ol United States of Obliviousness. Or perhaps, let's not. Yes, let's definitely not if you're talking to Darwin Kelsey, Executive Director of the Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Conservancy. He'll emphatically tell you to reserve that allegiance for a more cognizant, more eng ...

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• Leadership Program for 7th & 8th Graders: Tending the Blossoms of Character
  News • 9/1/2024
  By HELENE DEBELAK Director of Curriculum Founder-in-Residence Character development is a vital aspect of our mission and the Leadership Program for seventh and eighth graders is the capstone opportunity for students to showcase the habits they have built over their years at Birchwood School of Hawke ...

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• Birchwood Students Soar at National History Day Competition
  News • 3/7/2023
  On Saturday, March 4, 2023, despite blustery winds, 51 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders ventured out to the Cleveland History Center in University Circle to compete in the regional level of the National History Day competition. Due to the pandemic, this was the first in-person History Day competit ...

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• The Natural Learning Model – Experience as it Applies to Language Arts
  News • 5/1/2022
  by Jennifer Seward Engaging in the writing process is an ideal example of the “experience” arm of the Natural Learning Model, which is deployed in every classroom at Birchwood, from preschool to grade 8. The model has three arms: knowledge, or the accumulation of information in a subject ...

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• Boys Golf win a key CVC Match
  News • 9/9/2021
  The win puts the Hawks tied for first place at 6-1 in the CVC.

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• Stay in Shape Saturday
  News • 4/12/2020
  Student-athletes are among the many groups that have been significantly impact by this crisis. With school campuses and many centers of athletic activity closed, these dedicated athletes do not have an opportunity to get the same amount of exercise. This submission highlights one of Hawken’s s ...

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• Hawken Announces Partnership with Positive Coaching Alliance
  News • 2/28/2014
  Hawken School is excited to announce a partnership with Positive Coaching Alliance, a national non-profit developing “Better Athletes, Better People” by working to provide youth and high school athletes a positive, character-building sports experience.

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• Surprise Feature to be Unveiled at Lower School
  News • 8/13/2013
  What's Better than a Bubble Wall? ;The Early Childhood Center's bubble wall may still be a favorite, ;but the Lower School expansion has it's own, special feature! ;Come find out what it is as Hawken unveils ;it's stunning Lower School renovation and expansion.

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• 7th Grader Raises Funds, Awareness for E Prep
  News • 3/12/2013
  “Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.” Mike Singletary And that’s exactly what the scholar athletes at E Prep are getting ready to do. “This generous gift will be used to launch and sustain our boys and girls basketball teams,” Chri ...

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• Third Graders "Make a Difference"
  News • 2/7/2013
  Third graders have been involved in an ongoing project called “Make A Difference,” which started in music class early in the school year. As music teacher Jodie Ricci guided students through songs about caring, community, empathy, and making a difference, classroom teachers encouraged st ...

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• Rope Jumper to Compete on Team USA
  News • 3/28/2012
  Grace Huang ’13 will compete on Team USA at the competitive jump rope World Competition to be held in Florida this August. This World Competition is the closest thing to international level, Olympic type competition in the team sport that combines jump rope skills with gymnastics and breakdanc ...

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• A Word with the Alderman
  News • 1/19/2012
  by Lauren Lumpkin '14

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• Holocaust Survivor Tells Story of Survival
  News • 10/6/2009
  Margo Uhrman’s grandparents, Morris and Jeanette Bir, were guests at Ken Clark’s senior elective class, 20 th Century Genocide and Holocaust . Mr. Bir shared his experience of WWII, beginning with the invasion of Poland in 1939. He recalls the first day of school as a 10-year-old boy in ...

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• First and Ninth Graders Plant Circle W Garden
  News • 5/19/2008
  Who knew you could order 5,000 worms online? A group of first graders do now. They also know what it looks like when those worms help in composting scraps of food and other raw materials for fertilizer. "Disgusting," was the account of one. "Smelly," is how another took it, holding her nose. The Low ...

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• Seniors Win Spot in Governor's Youth Art Exhibition
  News • 4/3/2008
  Seniors Ashley Southard and Lauren Vandevier were selected out of 12,000 semi-finalists from the entire state to exhibit their art work in the Ohio Governor's Youth Art Exhibition in Columbus. In its thirty-eighth year, the Ohio Governor's Youth Art Exhibition "is dedicated to the educational and ar ...

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• To Spain and back: one student`s chronicle
  News • 9/18/2006
  This summer Hawken School provided me the opportunity to travel to and study in Salamanca, Spain. On June 9, just after school had finished, 21 anxious students gathered in Cleveland`s John Hopkins Airport. After an exhausting 24-hour trip, we finally arrived in the city of Salamanca to meet our hos ...

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• Swimmer Featured in Plain Dealer
  News • 3/9/2006
  Hawken School senior Sarah Dorenkott recently capped her career as one of Ohio`s most accomplished swimmers. Dorenkott won Division II state championships in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle races Feb. 24-25 at Canton`s Branin Natatorium, and swam on first-place medley and 200 freestyle relay teams. S ...

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• Practicing Character: Self-Control
  News • 4/2/2025
  ...tists agree that self-control is a cornerstone for success. It plays a vital role in individual achievements and in creating supportive and productive relationships. It is one of the most important virtues we can instill in our children.  The good news is that self-control can be learned.
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• Kleinman Wellness Center Opens!
  News • 12/15/2021
  Since the grand opening in November, over 100 students have utilized the center each day, whether for in-season team training, off-season training, or general fitness. In addition to large numbers of upper school students, the impact will be far reaching, as middle school speed and strength sessions ...

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• Hawks win on Senior Night!
  News • 2/10/2020
    Hawken (53) Richmond Heights (24)   Hawken 13-9 (10-6): Kutash 13, White 12, Chin 9, Dori 8, Kuri-Poor 2, Oyen 2, Pollard 2, Giglio 2, Slotta 1 Richmond Heights: Hendon 10, Idiri 10, Gates 4   Hawken: 14 13 14 12 - 53 Richmond Heights:  9 6 5 4 - 24 FT Hawken: 6 of 11 Richmond ...

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• Upper School Awards Day Held June 5th
  News • 6/9/2015
  Hawken Upper School took time to celebrate the hard work and dedication of its students at Awards Day on Friday, June 5th.

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• Upper School Honors Students at Awards Day
  News • 6/9/2014
  As the 2013-2014 year came to a close, the Upper School took time to celebrate the hard work and dedication of its students.

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• Lower School Expansion Opens
  News • 8/21/2013
  The doors to Hawken's newly renovated and expanded Lower School opened on Sunday, August 18, to looks of delight and awe from the Hawken community. ;

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• 23 Students to Participate in State Debate Tournament
  News • 2/27/2013
  An impressive number of Hawken students are heading to the Ohio High School Speech League State Debate Tournament this weekend, including 5 seniors, 9 juniors, 5 sophomores and 4 freshmen. Good luck to the students below! 2-Person Policy Debate Arthur Erlendsson '13 ;and ; Adam Wolf '13 Marty Zhu '1 ...

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• Debate Team Continues Winning Streak
  News • 1/14/2013
  The Hawken Speech and Debate team traveled to three tournaments in December. Alison Jin '15 placed 3rd in Original Oratory at a tournament at Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy. At Stow High School, Megan Cerbin '14 placed 4th and Larry Fulton '15 placed 1st in Congressional Debate. ;Michael Meany '1 ...

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• 5th Graders Construct Business Plans
  News • 5/7/2012
  Sometimes the best thing to know in constructing a successful business plan, is what should be left out. This is one of the real life lessons four groups of Hawken 5th graders learned as they prepared for Lemonade Day, a program with 1300 Northeast Ohio student participants dedicated to teaching chi ...

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• End of Year Athletic Highlights
  News • 6/3/2011
  Congratulations Ally Markovich, Region Champion, 1,600m! Her winning time was 5:08.79, the 3rd best in state D-II. Hawken’s girls 4x800m also qualified for States –congrats to Emily Heyd, Ally Markovich, Rachel McKay, Kerrin Sunshine! The girls 4x800m runs Friday at Ohio State, and Ally ...

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• 7th Graders Welcome Evan Corns, Historian
  News • 4/21/2010
  The entire 7 th grade class was treated to a preview of Gettysburg just days prior to their visit to the battlefields with a visit from Mr. Evan Corns, grandfather of Evan Hill ’15. Introduced by Evan as “a successful businessman and great historian,” Mr. Corns, who graduated recei ...

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• Hawken for Haiti Relief Effort Launched
  News • 1/26/2010
  Hawken School has just launched a school-wide initiative to support victims of the earthquake in Haiti, with all funds raised to be donated to two organizations: medWish and Partners in Health .

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• Entrepreneur Activist Inspires Students to Fill a Need
  News • 10/6/2009
  Courtesy of the Hawken Parents’ Association, Upper School students participated in an assembly featuring Zac Ponsky, described by Ed Dolinsky of Coldwell Banker Hunter Realty as “one of those rare individuals that knows how to give back to his community… and a hero to a great man ...

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• Sixth Grade Pilots Tablet Program to Promote Engaged Learning
  News • 8/31/2009
  The start of the new school year brought more than the typical dose of excitement and anticipation for this year’s sixth graders with the introduction of Hawken’s one-to-one tablet program. The new program, which is being piloted in the sixth grade this year and will expand to all middle ...

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• Hawken to Host Lacrosse Fundraiser
  News • 4/21/2009
  Hawken School will be teaming with lacrosse players from across northeast Ohio this Saturday, April 25, as the school hosts the 2009 Fisher House Charity Lacrosse Showcase. The ‘showcase’ is an all day series of high school and middle school lacrosse games held to raise money and awareness for the F ...

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• Speech and Debate Team Wins Award Honoring Late Faculty Member
  News • 2/7/2008
  Hawken's Speech and Debate Team recently competed in the Cleveland District of the Ohio High School Speech League's District tournament, winning district champion in Public Forum debate and Policy Debate and winning best overall school in Lincoln Douglas Debate. The team also placed second overrall ...

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• Upper, Middle School Teams Tops in Academic Challenge
  News • 12/14/2007
  Two teams, one comprising Upper School students, the other Middle School students, placed first statewide and, out of over 700 schools competing nationally, scored in the top 10 percent in the Knowledge Master Open (KMO), a feat both teams accomplished last year. Hosted by the Colorado-based company ...

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• Hawks get a win on Senior Night!
  News • 9/9/2021
  Hawken scores their season team low with a  score of 176.

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• Another win for Girls Basketball!
  News • 1/28/2020
  Hawken   Girls   Basketball   Hawken 62 Garfield Heights 40   Hawken 11-4(8-3): White 23, Dori 13, Cicerini 11, Courtad 8, Bollinger 4, Kuri-Poor 2, Kutash 1  Garfield Heights: Leonard 23, Wells 7, Warren 3, Malbury 3, Rollins 2, Gills 2   Hawken: 16 16 14 16 - 62 Garf ...

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• 8th CVC victory for Girls Basketball!
  News • 1/21/2020
  Hawken Girls Basketball   Hawken (43) Geneva (30)   Hawken (10-4, 8-1): White 25, Kutash 6, Dori 5, Courtad 3, Bollinger 2, Cicerini 2 Geneva: Shehadah 7, Brown 7, Golubetsky 6, Blackwood 3, Clar 2, Hardis 2   Hawken: 16  6  9  15 – 46 Geneva: 4  6  9
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• Girls go 7-1 in CVC with win over Berkshire
  News • 1/21/2020
  Hawken Girls Basketball   Hawken (46) Berkshire (36)   Hawken (9-4, 7-1): White 19, Dori 12, Courtad 6, Slotta 3, Giglio 2, Kutash 2, Wolf 2 Berkshire: Kastor 18, Boyk 8, Czenaj 4, Chapman 2, Schafer 2, Triskett 2   Hawken: 16  6  9  15 – 46 Berkshire: 6  9&# ...

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• Hawks fall in OT thriller to Chagrin Falls
  News • 1/15/2020
  In arguably the best game they have played in their season so far, the Boys Basketball team dropped a tough one in overtime to CVC rival Chagrin Falls. Hawks were up 19 in the early 2nd half, Chagrin bounced back to tie the game up 61-61 going into overtime.  The Hawks battled through injury in ...

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• Big CVC win over Beachwood!
  News • 1/15/2020
  Hawks have 3 players finish with double-digit points and pick up the conference win, 52-30! Very balanced team-effort on offense.  This gives the Hawks a 6-1 record in the CVC! Hawken 52 Beachwood 30   Hawken (8-4, 5-1) – 8  12  16  16 – 52 Beachwood (5-6, 2-5) & ...

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• Hawks get first win of the season!
  News • 12/23/2019
  Boys Basketball   Hawken (51)  Edgewood (40)   Hawken (1-5, 1-4): Coyne 12, Ross 10, Ng 7, J. Suggs 6, Johnson 4, Gilbert 4, Jared 4, Buchanan 4 Edgewood (4-2): Rapose 13, Kampi 12, Katon 9, Cobert 6   Hawken: 16  15  12  8 - 51 Edgewood: 20  5  7  8 ...

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• Hawks hit key 3's in the final minutes to secure CVC win!
  News • 12/23/2019
  Girls Basketball   Hawken (47) Orange (41)   Hawken (4-2, 3-2): White 16, Dori 15, Pollard 8, Cicerini 4, Bollinger 2, Courtad 2 Orange : Lawson 13, Sanford 13, Hudson-Turpi 11, Laisure 4   Hawken: 17  8  4  18 - 47 Orange: 2  12  10  16 - 41   FT Ha ...

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• Boys Basketball drop CVC game to Orange
  News • 12/18/2019
  Boys Basketball   Orange (60) Hawken (41)   Orange: Minor 12, Pyner 12, Walters 10, Hughes 8, Hoffman 6, Saliba 4, Jacops 4, Moss 2, King 2 Hawken (0-5, 0-4): K. Suggs 9, Coyne 8, J. Suggs 5, Gilbert 4, Ng 4, Ross 3, Buchanan 3, McMullen 3, Coviello 2   Orange: 20 12 15 13 - 60 Hawken ...

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• Hawks win their 3rd over the weekend!
  News • 12/16/2019
  Girls Basketball   Hawken (64) Edgewood (41)   Hawken (3-2, 2-2): Dori 18, White 16, Courtad 15, Bollinger 6, Cicerini 4, Slotta 3, Pollard 2 Edgewood : Neczeparenno 12, Kanjckj 11, Farr 5, Melarango 5, Pendleton 4, Bailes 2, Steighner 2   Hawken: 17  21  14  12  - ...

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• Eli Buchanan '21 scores a team high 27 in loss to West G
  News • 12/11/2019
  Boys Basketball   West G (75) Hawken (68)   West G (2-1,1-1) : Bisslor 26, Irwin 22, Barnhart 16, Pitcock 6, Courret 3, Ha 2 Hawken (0-3, 0-2) : Buchanan 27, Coyne 14, Ng 7, J Suggs 6, Johnson 5, Jared 4, Totte 3, Ross 2   West G: 15 30 11 19 - 75 Hawken: 16 22 15 15 – 68   ...

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• Hawks fight hard in loss to WRA
  News • 12/11/2019
  Girls Basketball   WRA (46) Hawken (34)   WRA (4-0): Davis 22, DuVal 11, Hovan 7, Spano 5 Hawken (2-2, 1-2): White 10, Pollard 7, Dori 6, Bollinger 4, Slotta 3, Wolf 2, Courtard 2   WRA: 9  8  19  10  - 46 Hawken: 6   7   7  14 – 34 & ...

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• Middle School Knowledge Master Results
  News • 4/26/2011
  The Hawken Middle School Knowledge Master team competed in April with 603 other Middle Schools from around the world. In a field where the mean score was 1148, Hawken Middle School scored 1422, placing our team in 59th place of the 604 teams worldwide and third in the state of Ohio. The team answere ...

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• Mom-Daughter Cookie-Baking Team Wow With Uncommon Cookies
  News • 4/2/2008
  Jennifer Stovsky '18 and her mom Shannon are headed to New York to compete in the second annual AIRBAKE Extreme Cookie Challenge "Cookie-Off" at the famous toy store FAO Schwarz. The mother-daughter team was selected as a finalist in AIRBAKE's cookie contest with a recipie for "Not Your Mother's Oat ...

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• Hawken Junior Organizes Educational Forum About HIV, AIDS
  News • 12/17/2007
  ... rns of our lives and with the accumulation of new news it is far too easy to let HIV/AIDS education and knowledge slip from our view," said Upper School Director J. Ross Peters. "Thanks to people like...Aaron..., who has gone the extra mile in organizing this event, we express Hawken's determina ...

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• Hawken Ninth Grade Chess Team Places Third in Ohio Grade Level Championships
  News • 12/4/2007
  On Saturday, December 1, a freshmen chess team comprised of Stephen Hopkins, Roman Kowalysko, Joe Soltzberg and Dayne Sundman, competed in the Ohio Grade Level Championships at Solon Middle School, finishing third in the state this year with individual honors going to Stephen Hopkins, who placed sev ...

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• Senior Bound for Hoosiersville
  News • 11/29/2007
  After leaving behind the Red and Gray when she graduates in June, Brittany Strumbel will don the Crimson and Cream next fall as she joins Indiana University's women's swimming team. She recently signed a National Letter of Intent to join the Hoosiers. "Brittany is a great middle distance freestyler ...

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• STEMM
  ... second publication.   In other Hawken STEMM news, Hawken alumnus and founder of the Hawken STEMM Program,  Dr. Jacob Scott , paired up with Hawken faculty  Dr. Lacy Chick  and two Hawken AP Biology students,  Grace Shum ’23  and  Lillian Fu ’23,
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• Susi Meisel '78 Receives Volunteerism Award
  News • 1/20/2016
  The Alumni Office congratulates ; Susan Y. Meisel '78 on receiving the Hadden Award at The Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development. As the ;immediate past president of the Board of Directors there, she lead the organization through a time of critical transition. The Hadden Award honors the passio ...

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• Insights Week 2014
  News • 1/3/2014
  When classes resume after Winter Break on January 6, ;Middle School students will be immersed in five-day interdisciplinary courses composed of students from mixed grade levels.

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• Sixth Grade Knowledge Master Teams Rank High
  News • 4/6/2011
  Congratulations to the 6 th grade Knowledge Master teams for their success in a recent online, world-wide competition. Given that school enrollment for schools in our division must fall between 200 and 500 students, Hawken’s enrollment of 208 put the teams at a bit of a disadvantage, as they h ...

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• MS Students Share Insights at Open House
  News • 1/21/2010
  On Wednesday, January 13, middle school teachers, parents, and students were entertained and enlightened at the first annual Insights Week Open House.

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• Hawken Junior Wins Four Awards at Science Fair
  News • 4/25/2008
  Junior Alec Lai took home a total of four awards and $225 in prize money at the recent Northeast Ohio Science and Engineering Fair held at Cleveland State University. His project, the "Shape Effects on the Swimming Characteristics of Snake-Like Soft Robots" explored "how different wave shapes/forms ...

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• Sixth Graders Use Math and Technology to Design Parks
  News • 4/16/2008
  Introducing AA Waterside Park, just one of the lush, fresh concepts from Hawken sixth graders, who recently rolled up their sleeves and became park designers.

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• Hawken's Four All-Stars
  News • 4/10/2008
  Of ten girls swimmers that The Plain Dealer named Northeast Ohio all-stars, four were from Hawken. Freshman Alana Arnold, senior Jennifer Aronoff, junior Brittany Rospierski and senior Brittany Strumbel were named among the highest performing athletes in the newpaper's special high school winter spo ...

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• Contact Us
  ... -  Basic facts and information on the school News  -  Recent school activities, programs and accomplishments Publications - The Hawken Review, Annual Report, Noteworthy Publishings ADVERTISING, MEDIA & PUBLIC RELATIONS: Gina Zeman Walter Director of Strategic Marketing gwalt@h ...

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• Alumni Spotlight
  List of 2 news stories. Melvin L. Jones '88 3/12/2021 written by Lauren Butler Work hard. Be well spoken. Attend a good school. Do the right thing. On top of all of that, be stronger, faster, and more intelligent, because then you might be considered equal. This is the advice Melvin L. Jones, H ...

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• Students Earn Awards at Science Fair
  News • 3/22/2014
  Hawken students performed well at the ;61st Annual Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF) held at Cleveland State University on March 11.

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• Hawken Takes Second Place in Copley Academic Challenge Tournament
  News • 12/10/2012
  On December 8, Hawken’s Middle School Academic Challenge teams travelled to Copley for a tournament. Our 25 students were divided into four teams, and each played 7 matches throughout the day. After attending two practices weekly after school since September, our students were ready for the ch ...

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• Induction Ceremony Recognizes Academic Excellence
  News • 4/26/2012
  The Hawken community gathered on April 26, 2012 to recognize and induct new members of the Cum Laude Society. The Cum Laude Society recognizes academic achievement for the purpose of promoting excellence (Areté), justice (Diké) and honor (Timé) and allows for inducting 20% of th ...

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• Fall 2011 Intensives Offer Students Real World Experiences Near and Far
  News • 3/17/2012
  ... s a lighter side as well, including a daily class newsletter, the “AtNo;” a chemical murder mystery (Doc Smith was killed, not for the first time), and student-led Mole Day, when students performed exciting chemical demonstrations for one another.   Designing Solutions: Food Wha ...

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• Academic Challenge Teams Rank High in Regional Tournament
  News • 4/6/2011
  On Saturday, March 12, 2011, teams from many areas of Ohio gathered at John Carroll University for the second annual Ohio Regional Academic Challenge Tournament. Teams competed in three divisions – High School Varsity, High School Junior Varsity, and Middle School. Hawken School was represente ...

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• Hawken Senate Ratifies Integrity Code
  News • 2/15/2011
  After nearly a year of careful drafting, conversation, revision, and community process, the Hawken Upper School Faculty/Student Senate recently ratified the integrity code in a unanimous vote. What follows is an AffNo article written by Jocelyn Adams '11 about the Town Hall meeting held on January 1 ...

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• Excellence Celebrated at Upper School Awards Day
  News • 6/2/2013
  Hawken saluted the exceptional accomplishments of Upper School students on Friday, May 31. ;Awards were presented in math, science, English, the arts and more. ;This year's prestigious Charles B. Bolton Award was awarded to Isabella Todaro.

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• Alumni Give Back Day
  ... and 3) Faculty Partner: Julie Agar In the 24-hour news cycle and partisan fights, this class will pull back the curtain on how Washington D.C. actually works. We will walk students through the legislative process: from the development of a policy idea to building support and moving it on the Hil ...

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• Career Roundtable Unites Students with Alumni
  News • 2/24/2016
  The Hawken Alumni Board’s Outreach Committee gathered a group of alumni across various professions to meet with juniors and seniors, providing insight into their professions, including their education and career paths. Many students received thoughtful advice on internships and at least one st ...

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• Upper School Celebrates Excellence at Awards Day
  News • 6/5/2012
  Awards Day was held on Friday, June 1, 2012 to salute the exceptional accomplishments of Hawken Upper School students in math, science, English, the arts and more. This year's prestigious Charles B. Bolton Award was shared by two outstanding seniors: Jenna Foti and Liam Green. The Bolton Award, whic ...

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• Awards Day 2011
  News • 6/3/2011
  Rachel Brenner '11 received the Alumni Association`s highest student honor, the Charles B. Bolton Award, at Awards Day ceremonies held on Friday, June 3. The Bolton Award, which was first given in 1977, is the culminating honor on Awards Day and is among the most highly anticipated honors a senior c ...

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• Alumni Give Back Day 2017
  ... t a Chef's Table in the kitchen ( New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today ), multiple guest chef appearances at the James Beard House and the 1995 James Beard Awards Ceremony, and the Award of Achievement ( Northern Ohio Live Magazine ) among others before they sold the business to move to Michigan' ...

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• Students Excel in Language Exams
  News • 5/21/2012
  Upper School students participated in three major language exams this spring as a measure their profieciency and achievement in the study of foreign language. Congratulations to the students below for placing in the National Latin Exam , the National Spanish Exam , and Le Grand Concours . National L ...

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• Middle School
  ... r or, call on faculty members and others who have news or information to share with the community. While the “pod” structure of Hawken Middle School builds community within each grade level, Middle School Assemblies fosters connections between all grade levels, providing opportunitie ...

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• Time, Insights & Intensives
  ... the Chapel Talk speaker or call on those who have news or information to share with the community.   Time for clubs is also embedded into the school day. Each Hawken Middle School student is required to join a club; examples include Lego Robotics, Jazz Band, Chess, and more. These opportuni ...

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