The Greenhills boys’ soccer team beat Hamtramck Frontier 4-2 Wednesday to advance to the Division 4 state finals. The Gryphons will face Muskegon Western Michigan Christian in the state finals at 3:00 p.m. Saturday at the Pat Patterson Athletic Complex in Kentwood, Mich (See directions below). Those who can’t make it to the game can watch the finals live on FoxSportsDetroit.com and MHSAA.tv. A live audio broadcast will be available at MHSAANetwork.com. In other exciting athletic action, the volleyball team takes on Whitmore Lake in the district finals Friday at 3:00 p.m. at Whitmore Lake High School. In the district…
The slogan for Ben Eisendrath’s home and restaurant grill company, Grillworks, is “Argentine Inspired, American Made.” His elaborate live-fire grills, which are manufactured in northern Michigan and have been featured in Bon Appetit and the New York Times, form the centerpiece of restaurants by such A-list chefs as José Andrés, Dan Barber, and Danny Meyer. In a conversation with the alumni office, Ben shared more about his path since Greenhills, how changing the way we grill became his mission, and his stealth foodie forays around the world. What do you remember most about your Greenhills experience? I moved to Greenhills…
About 140 people came to Greenhills for a recent college admissions workshop, hosted by the College Counseling office and featuring admissions representatives from 13 colleges and universities from coast to coast. The workshop featured 13 sessions for students and parents, each led by one of the admissions officers, who flew in for the event from nearly every corner of the country. During the sessions students and parents broke down applications from three fictitious students applying for admission to the equally fictitious Westbrook College. Participants learned some of the things admissions officers look for in an application, and some of the…
At around nine o’clock of a winter evening, Greenhills senior Zoe Chrissos sent me an email, asking for suggestions about a supplemental college application essay she had drafted, with a 100-word limit and the clock ticking. Zoe was in the habit of seeking writing feedback from me as her college counselor and, equally appropriately, from other Greenhills mentors. Her draft stood at 108 words. A superlative writer, Zoe produces discursive, anecdotal, lively prose that she has trouble fitting into college-prescribed word limits: her drafts of suggested 250-word essays tend to come it at 380 or so, while her 500-word efforts…
Whether it was a long trek to Barbados or just a short hike to the U-M campus, the following eight faculty members spent time this summer soaking up experiences to share with their students. Nadine Hall History, Diversity, Admissions This summer Nadine participated in a Gilder Lehrman Teacher Seminar at the University of West Indies in Barbados. The Gilder Lehrman Institute is renowned for its scholarly seminars for K-12 educators. The one-week competitive application seminar was entitled “Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Caribbean,” and explored the slave trade as it developed in the Americas. Directed by Philip Morgan,…
…playing frisbee, your friends might still have their minds completely tied up by that one nagging application question. Sixth grade buddies provide the perfect escape from all those worries. When you’re playing Battleship or making paper airplanes with a sixth grader, who knows what they’ll be talking about? We can think of one thing they won’t be talking about: common app essays. Over the course of the year, sixth graders will meet with their senior buddies once every two weeks for a variety of fun, teamwork-based events. We’ll carve pumpkins, build paper airplanes, and hopefully decorate sugar cookies in December….
Greenhills recently won a $500 grant from Michigan Energy Works. The money will be used to purchase two bins for an Intro Biology composting project. In the grant application, science teacher Martha Friedlander wrote: “We study cycles of nutrients in Introductory Biology and link that to an inquiry-study of compost and what variables influence composting efficiency. After researching what these variables might be, students set up experiments to seek answers to their driving questions. At the same time, the school needs to have larger or more compost bins to accommodate the volume of fruit and vegetable waste we create in…
…will win the everlasting respect of their English teachers and the intellectual admiration of their peers. MAGNETIC POETRY COMPETITION April 23 (MS & US lunch) Four students from each grade will compete in a bracket-style poetry competition. Using Magnetic Poetry Kits, students will work in teams of two to create poems on small metal sheets in timed rounds of elimination. English teachers will score poems to determine who will advance to the next round. The winning team will receive iTunes gift cards. 24 HOURS OF POETRY April 24 12:01 a.m.-11:59 p.m. (online) On April 24, beginning at midnight, there will…
Tenth-grader Andrew Gitlin recently won several awards at the 2012 National Academic Games Tournament held in Wheeling, W.V., April 27-30. He competed against hundreds of 9th and 10th graders from across the country in the Junior Division. Individually, Gitlin placed first in Equations, first in Onsets, second in Linguishtiks, ninth in Presidents, and second overall (“individual sweepstakes”). His team of five students from Michigan placed first overall (“team sweepstakes”). This was Andrew’s fifth consecutive year competing at the National Academic Games Tournament. According towww.academicgames.org, these tournaments challenge students to use higher order thinking skills in the subjects of language arts,…
…Greenhills a $5,000 grant for its efforts to improve energy efficiency in the school building. Greenhills’ plan includes the use of occupancy sensors to control HVAC air flow, a boiler tune-up and an infrared scan of the building to detect problem areas. Emile Lauzzana, Energy Works Director, says, “This is a great opportunity to help our schools when they need it most. Investing in energy efficiency improvements saves energy and improves the comfort and quality of learning spaces for students, teachers and staff, while reducing the carbon footprint of the facility.” To learn more about Energy Works Michigan, visit www.EnergyWorksMichigan.org….
It’s almost time to take a walk “Into the Woods” with the Greenhills Upper School Theater Department. The first performance of “Into the Woods,” a Stephen Sondheim musical, is slated for Friday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Campbell Center. Subsequent shows are 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 22 and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 23. The show weaves together several Brothers Grimm fairy tales, including Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. And, because no fairy-tale mash-up could be complete without one, there also is a witch. Tickets are available at http://www.seatyourself.biz/greenhillsschool. Enter the password “woods2014.” Tickets will also be…
…Hahr, Cameron Kabacinski, Jacob Kauppi, Robert Keller, Benjamin Kovacs, Ayla Kurdak, Peter Lastoskie, Joaquin Moeller, William Ng, Jackson Powers, Alex (AJ) Pynnonen, Patrick Quinn, Alexander Schneider, Aryan Seth, Sushruta Shankar, Olivia Shulman, Justin Tseng, Kalea Vendola, Alex Wu, and Alan Zhu. Parent mentors include Craig Angold-Stephens, Gopal Chamarthi, Kevin Kabacinski, Thomas Quinn, and Jau-Wen Tseng. The team is supported by University of Michigan Mentors Nick Eidsmoe and Michelle Wang. The team is sponsored by Ford Motor Company and ZF and coached by Greenhills teachers Alexander Monte-Sano and Charles Dershimer. More information about Michigan’s FIRST Robotics competition is available at http://www.firstinmichigan.org/frc/mi_district_structure.php….
…Alex Choi earned a certificate from mathematics honors society Mu Alpha Theta, while senior Cameron Perrin was honored by the U.S. Navy with a letter of congratulations, a certificate of achievement, a medallion, and $50 gift card for his work. More information about the competition is available at http://www.sefmd.org/. Altogether, 14 Greenhills students participated in the competition. Here is a complete list, with their respective projects: First Name Last Name Grade Title Alex Choi 10 A Graph Theoretical Approach to the Financial Market Julia Friedman 12 Correlates of the Aspiration-Expectation Gapin African American Adolescents Aarushi Ganguly 9 Bayesian probablity technique…
…teachers and the intellectual admiration of their peers. FINE ARTS EXHIBIT & MCDOWELL SHOWCASE April 22 6 p.m. (theater hallway & theater) The community is invited to see what Greenhills visual artists have produced this year and to hear McDowell winners read from their winning poems, stories, plays, essays, and articles. Join us for a celebration of the hard work, talent, and creativity of middle and upper school students. MAGNETIC POETRY COMPETITION April 23 at MS & US lunch Four students from each grade will compete in a bracket-style poetry competition. Using Magnetic Poetry Kits, students will work in teams…
…College, Brown, Cornell, Emory, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Smith College, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Randolph, daughter of Greenhills English teacher Mark Randolph, was one of only 33 students across Michigan selected for the award, and the first Greenhills student ever to apply for the scholarship. She’ll be attending a special writing class at Brown University this summer. Awardees will be honored May 10 at a reception in Ypsilanti featuring a talk by the 2014 Joyce Ivy Foundation Leader of the Year, Lisa Payne, the vice chair and chief financial officer of Taubman. More information is available at www.joyceivyfoundation.org….
…the Lawnmower as the team enjoys competing with and against robotics teams from around the world. For more details about the First Robotics Competition (FRC) event and schedule visit here: https://www.firstchampionship.org/detroit Thanks to everyone- Parents, Mentors, Staff, Administration and our Faculty Colleagues, and our sponsors Ford, NITS Solutions, and Amesite, for supporting the team. Best to everyone, Alex and Charles Team photo taken by Christian Latoskie Pictured: Andrew Angold-Stephens, Stuart Atkinsmith, Shivan Amin, Clara Ballard, Katie Ballard, Lawrence Bitzer, Sydney Cha, Tina Chao, Max Colis, Sandro de Oliveira, Graham Dittmar, Catherine Ferrey, Emily Gitlin, Amon Green, Kenya Hall, Sean Henry,…
