…of the Year by her peers. The girls’ team finished eighth at the championship. The volleyball team clinched the MIAC Blue Division Championship last Thursday with an undefeated conference season. Our girls’ field hockey team put up a great fight in their second post-season contest, but were extremely short-handed with only one sub. They lost 1-0 to an upper-division Marian team. The equestrian team finished in third place at their district. “There has been a lot to celebrate with all our fall sports teams,” says athletic director Meg Seng. Click here to read more about the tennis championship in Student&Athlete.com…
…her to California earlier this month, when she delivered 200,000 signatures to the MPAA (and attended the Ellen Degeneres Show), as well as to Washington, D.C., where she talked with legislators on Capitol Hill. She recently received a GLAAD Award from Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and attended a private screening of Bully that was hosted by Meryl Streep. Click here to read full article in the Los Angeles Times. Click here to read GLAAD Award story in The Hollywood Reporter. Click here to read ann arbor.com article and watch CNN video clip. Click here to watch Ellen Degeneres Show clip….
On Saturday senior Kasey Gardiner put the exclamation point on her perfect high school tennis career. Gardiner, who has never lost a match and who is headed to Wake Forest next fall, capped off her undefeated record by winning the No. 1 singles title at the Division 4 state championships in Holland. Colleen O’Brien ’14 also won the No. 2 singles title to help the Greenhills team finish in third place. Click here to read the full story in annarbor.com…
Tweet much? If so, take a second to follow Greenhills Head of School Carl Pelofsky. Pelofsky’s pithy observations aren’t confined to life at Greenhills. Poetry and fiction are frequent targets of discussion, as well–Pelofsky is, after all, an English teacher by trade. Life in Ann Arbor and the Michigan Wolverines are liable to make appearances, as well. But it takes two to tweet. You can share your thoughts with the Head of School if you join the conversation by following him at twitter.com/cpelofsky, or by clicking on the Twitter icon at the bottom of any page on the Greenhills website….
…also are helping raise money for a new well at St. Theresa Primary School in South Sudan. If they raise enough money to dig a well, their work could be the difference-maker that keeps some of St. Theresa’s students in school. Last year’s Walk for Water raised more than $4,400 and resulted in a new well for a primary school in Uganda. This year’s goal is $3,800. Organizing the effort are science teacher Ann Novak, Greenhills Media Specialist Jan Chernin, and Diversity Director Nadine Hall. For more information or to donate, check out the Walk for Water webpage at http://gh2owalk.weebly.com/….
…nonprofit organization called Hirah Health Systems, Inc. This organization is comprised of three group homes that house residents who have mental illnesses, are developmentally disabled, have a traumatic brain injury, or are physically handicapped. The goal of this organization is to “help the residents become self-sufficient by attaining their individual level of optimal independence and improved self esteem to be able to function successfully in the community.” My interest in computer science and curiosity spurred me to choose this as my senior project. I had never created a website or webpage before (or had any experience in the required programming…
Tuesday morning’s Annual Fund Kickoff Breakfast drew more than 100 community members to the Campbell Center, where their generosity got this year’s Annual Fund for Greenhills off to its strongest start ever. The gathering began at 7:30 a.m. with coffee and pastries and featured performances by Greenhills singers and musicians, as well as brief talks from Student Council President Anjali Purohit ’16 and middle schooler Ian Dopp ’20. Christopher Lee ’08, one of the Annual Fund’s alumni co-chairs this year, also spoke to guests, sharing how his Greenhills education prepared him for an academic career that began at the University…
Greenhills alum John Scott-Railton ’01 is featured in a Time.com article for giving voice to Egyptians during the current crisis. Tweeting up to 50 times a day (@Jan25Voices), Scott-Railton, currently a graduate student at U.C.L.A., has been tapped by mainstream media outlets such as NPR, the BBC and Wall Street Journal for analysis and help in finding Egyptians to interview. For more on Scott-Railton (including a video clip), click here….
Over the weekend Greenhills golfer Henry Do ’13 shot a 74 and 67 to win the Division 4 state title — the first individual title in Greenhills School history. The team (comprised of Do, Curtis Heisel ’11, Travis Hindle ’12,Sean Saint ’12 and Andrew Khouri ’13) finished second overall behind Auburn Hills Oakland Christian. Greenhills’ runner-up finish is its best finish as a team since winning the state title in 1994. Click here for full story in Ann Arbor.com….
…offense would get going again.” The team’s four seniors — Klein, Finnegan, Ryder Fried ’22, and Luca Bichakjian ’22 — took the court to start the game. Bichakjian made his mark from the start, maneuvering around a block to make a key shot barely a minute into the first quarter. Fried, meanwhile, anchored the Gryphons with the tough defense and canny ball-handling that have come to define his game this season. PCA was the bigger team, so the Gryphons had to lean on a combination of factors to maintain their lead: toughness, strategy, and guile. Alex Ye ‘24 and J.D….
…safety. He has led a number of award-winning projects for the business section and was a member of the six-person reporting team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Journalism for a series of stories on unsafe toys that helped focus public awareness on the issue, leading to major changes at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. He has reported in China, India, Europe and throughout the United States. Annual Day, January 25, is a student led and planned event. This year’s theme is “Finding Your Calling.” For more information about Michael and all our Annual Day speakers, visithttp://greenhillsschoolannualday.blogspot.com/…
…timeline,” he said. “It’s crazy to me that at 26, almost 27, I’m in my absolute dream job. The timeline to get there was not what I was expecting, but it was incredible and it’s what got me to where I am now.” And where he is now, he says, comes from where he was before. “Man,” he said. “Greenhills just prepared me so well for each next step.” By James Schapiro, Communications and Athletics Information Coordinator Click below to see a great example of Heitman’s work. “Thank you, not goodbye” pic.twitter.com/A2ybR2Fn37 — Detroit Lions (@Lions) March 18, 2021 …
…idea of providing break locations for Lyft drivers. This idea turned into Recharge, a company that provided break locations in luxury hotels for everyone. He raised $10 million as founder and CEO, and was listed in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in the Consumer Technology category. The idea was to pay by the minute to use a hotel to rest. Later, with backing from Y Combinator, an American seed-money startup accelerator, Bamfo launched a new company, Globe, Inc., which currently converts empty floors at the W, Four Seasons, and Marriott hotels into private offices competing with WeWork. As Covid restrictions ease,…
…alumna Fiona Chamness ’08 and her new poetry book Feral Citizens will be celebrated tonight with a poetry concert at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre at 7:00 p.m. Currently a junior at Oberlin College, Chamness compiled the book of poems with fellow Ann Arborite Aimee Le, now a junior at Dartmouth. Feral Citizens was published by Ann Arbor Neutral Zone’s Red Beard Press. Admission for tonight’s event is $5 for students in advance/$7 at the door; $10 for general public in advance/$12 at the door. For more information or to reserve tickets at advanced price: contact Jeff Kass @ 734-223-7443 oreyelev21@aol.com….
