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Volume 31

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Maring awarded Rascoff Fellowship

Juliet Suess | November 16, 2016

By Tammer Bagdasarian ’20 Math teacher Matthew Maring was awarded the Middle School’s Rascoff Fellowship for the 2015-2016 school year. Maring first came to the school in 1997 and has taught numerous...

Steve Chae holds his diploma after graduating. Printed with permission of Steve Chae/Spectrum

Chae Earns Master’s Degree

Juliet Suess | November 16, 2016

By: Lindsay Wu '20 Middle School Communications Department Head and English teacher Steve Chae earned a Master’s of Arts Degree in English this summer, after studying through the Bread Loaf School of...

Fraleigh poses for a picture. Emma Shapiro 20/Spectrum

Fraleigh Teaches Latin Classes

Juliet Suess | November 16, 2016

By: Emma Shapiro '20 Latin teacher Doug Fraleigh has started his first year at the Middle School. Before teaching middle school Latin, Fraleigh taught Latin, Greek, archaeology, civilization and Roman...

Gaffney compares her notes in the library. Valerie Valequez 20/Spectrum

Gaffney Starts as Librarian

Juliet Suess | November 16, 2016

By: Valerie Velaquez '20 Loretta Gaffney joined the middle school community this year as a new librarian. She previously worked at UCLA teaching classes in Young Adult literature and reading research. Gaffney...

Wagner Wright stands in the library. Zoe Redlich 20/Spectrum

Wagner-Wright Joins Library Staff

Juliet Suess | November 16, 2016

By: Zoe Redlich '20 Christina Wagner-Wright has begun work as a new librarian at the Middle School. Although this is her first year on this campus, she has worked in many libraries before. For example,...

Colin begins working with STEAM program

Juliet Suess | November 16, 2016

By: Andrew Gong '21 Juan Colin is the new STEAM room coordinator and robotics teacher. He currently teaches the eighth and ninth period robotics electives, both of which meet on even days. After school...

Munoz smiles proudly in the hallway. Matthew Allana 20/Spectrum

Munoz is Newest Member of Math Department

Juliet Suess | November 16, 2016

By: Matthew Allana '20 Esmeralda  is a new teacher at the Middle School this year. She has been teaching math for 18 years, the past 15 of which were at the Archer School for Girls. She currently teaches...

Goedde poses by desk. Jordan Murray 20/Spectrum

Goedde Starts Teaching at Middle School

Juliet Suess | November 16, 2016

By: Jordan Murray '20 History  Teacher  Celia  Goedde is beginning her first year at the Middle School. She has been working at the Upper School since 2010. She said that the school administration thought...

Strong teaches class Credits: Laura Kors 21

Strong steps in as history teacher

Juliet Suess | November 16, 2016

By: Laura Kors '21 Rebecca Strong has stepped in to teach Kyong Pak’s seventh and eighth grade history classes while Pak is on maternity leave. Strong has taught for 14 years at Marymount, Campbell Hall,...

Saenz poses at her desk in the English office Credits: Jeanine Kim20/Spectrum

Saenz joins the English Department

Juliet Suess | November 16, 2016

By: Jeanine Kim '20 English teacher Damaris Saenz has joined the faculty this year. She has taught English to middle and high school students for over 10 years. She has also worked at the graduate school...

Teachers Travel to Israel Over Summer

Teachers Travel to Israel Over Summer

Juliet Suess | November 4, 2016

By: Emma Limor '21 As part of the school’s Gunter Gross Global Fund faculty and staff members from both the Middle and the Upper School campuses traveled to travel to Israel. The trip ran from June 13-27. Participants...

No Red Ink grammar program to be used at Middle School

No Red Ink grammar program to be used at Middle School

Juliet Suess | November 4, 2016

By: Sarah Reiff '20 Middle School students will move on from traditional textbook grammar and will start using No Red Ink, an online program, to work on grammar work this year. After English teacher Julia...

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