No School Next Week: Ski Week
Please note that The Grauer School will be hosting our annual Ski Week next week (Monday, February 15-Friday, February 19). There will be no classes for students during this week. In recognition that many of our families are still planning to travel both in and out of state during that week, we will be hosting a virtual, e-Learning week during the week of February 22-26. We are planning to test all faculty, staff, and students for COVID-19 on Wednesday, February 24. You can read more details in the Principal's Column below.
Re-Enrollments for 2020-2021: Due Friday
Over the past 30 years, The Grauer School has become the region’s leader in balanced, humanitarian college preparation. Our faculty and staff work tirelessly to prove daily that our students really do mean the world to us. We appreciate your generosity and support as we strive to accomplish this mission. We know that you have lots of school choices and we value and appreciate you entrusting your child to The Grauer School.
Believe it or not, it is re-enrollment time for the 2021-2022 school year. We look forward to the next school year and hope to have your child joining us again next year. Please note that our Re-Enrollment Contracts were mailed home several weeks ago and that the signed contracts and re-enrollment deposits are due this Friday, February 12.
We appreciate your adherence to this deadline as we strive to inform our new applicants of their admissions status by early March and need to know how many spaces are available in each grade. If you have any questions about our Re-enrollment process, please feel free to contact Olivia Kleinrath, Senior Admissions Associate, or Dana Abplanalp-Diggs, Principal. If you have any questions regarding our financial aid application, please contact Dr. Tricia Valeski.
New Student Clubs
Grauer students are invited to join the following new clubs:
High School students can join the High School Book Club, which will meet every other Tuesday at 3:15-4:00pm via Zoom. The club will decide on a book to read as a group, and meet to discuss its story and themes and to share opinions. Please click here to fill out a form to express your interest in the Grauer High School Book Club, and you'll receive information about how to join the meetings.
Students in all grades can join the Stock Market Club, which meets on Fridays at 12:15-1:00pm in Nick Scacco's classroom. Student teams will compete in the SIFMA Foundation Stock Market Game, which is an 8-week competition that is an online simulation of the global capital markets. Contact Nick Scacco if you'd like to join the club.
Students in all grades and at all skill levels can join the Chess Club, which meets on Mondays at 3:00-4:00pm at the tables outside of Jessi Brown's and Nick Scacco's rooms. You can join whether you've never played chess and want to learn the game or you're a chess master. Contact Liam Murphy if you'd like to join the club.
February PA Meeting Highlights
The Grauer Parent Association would like to thank all of the parents who joined this month's PA Meeting. If you missed it, click here to take a look at the highlights. Moving forward, we will be sharing the PA agenda in the newsletter the week before each meeting, as well as meeting notes the week after. We appreciate our parents' involvement, and always enjoy new faces and fresh ideas! Questions? Please contact PA President Akemi Dyer.
Grauer Literary Society Meeting: February 24
The next meeting of the Grauer Literary Society will be on Wednesday, February 24, at Noon on Zoom. The book that will be discussed is The Guest Listby Lucy Foley. All current parents, alumni parents, and Grauer community members are welcome to join - just email Sheila Wirick to be added to the mailing list.
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Attendance Line
Is your child going to be absent? Please contact Tracy Ahrens, our Attendance Officer, in our Main Office prior to 9:00am to let us know that your child will be absent for the day. Tracy can be reached via our Attendance Line at (760) 944-6777 or by e-mail at tracyahrens@grauerschool.com. Also, if you need to arrive late due to an appointment or leave early, we request that parents call or e-mail Tracy to let her know so that she can excuse each student accordingly. Thank you, we appreciate your helping us account for our students daily.
CALENDAR
View the 2020-2021 Grauer Academic Calendar Overview: Click here
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Monday, Feb. 8-Friday, Feb. 12
~ The High School ASB/Leadership Class presents: Spirit Week 2.0 Friday, February 12
~ Due Date for Annual Re-Enrollment Fees & Forms
~ The High School ASB/Leadership Class presents: Valentine’s Gram delivery
~ Grauer Parent Association presents Teacher Appreciation Day Monday, Feb. 15-Friday, Feb. 19
~ Annual Ski Week (No Classes) Monday, February 22-Friday, February 26
~ Virtual, e-Learning Week with COVID-19 Testing for all faculty, staff, and students
~ COVID-19 Testing for all faculty, staff, and students (see Principal’s Column) Wednesday, February 24
~ Grauer Literary Society Meeting, Noon (Zoom) Monday, March 1
~ On campus classes resume Monday, March 29-Monday, April 5
~ Spring Break (No Classes)
Upcoming Events
Choice Lunch: Sign Up For School Lunches
Choice Lunch has introduced a variety of new lunch choices to mark the beginning of 2021, including vegetarian, gluten-free, and kid-pleasing options - click here to view the large menu of delicious lunch options! You can sign your child up for school lunches at any time. Lunch is delivered through contact-free delivery every day. To learn more, click here to view an information brochure from Choice Lunch. If you have any questions, click here to view contact information for Choice Lunch, or contact Tracy Ahrens.
Valentine’s Grams: Distributed Friday
The High School ASB/Leadership class will be selling Valentine’s Grams again this year. This is one of our most popular fundraisers of the year! Students may purchase a student-designed card with an organic lollipop for $3 (or 2 for $5); the Valentine’s Grams will be delivered to students this Friday, February 12 to help spread love and positivity on campus. This year, as we recognize that not all of our students are currently on-campus, students may also send a digital Valentine’s Gram that will be sent via e-mail. Students may purchase Valentine’s Grams at lunch; parents and at-home learners may arrange to purchase Valentine’s Grams virtually by contacting Selah S. (’21) . We appreciate all of your support!
Faculty & Staff Appreciation Luncheon: Friday
The Grauer School Parent Association (PA) is excited to host its annual Faculty & Staff Appreciation Luncheon this Friday, February 12. Thanks to the generosity of our Grauer Community, we are able to provide our teachers with individual picnic lunches, filled with local culinary delights and gift cards. Thank you to all who contributed! If you have questions, please reach out to PA President Akemi Dyer or Grauer Development & Events Manager Lindsay Zickler. We appreciate your support of our amazing teachers!
Summer Camps At The Grauer School
The Grauer School’s summer school programs are designed to provide year-long learning, enrichment, remediation, and of course, fun! Whether we are on-line or on-site, we specialize in helping students explore their academic and creative interests in our relationship driven, college preparatory environment. We offer both week-long enrichment camps for middle and high school students as well as for-credit academic classes to students throughout San Diego County, not just current Grauer School students. This year’s summer sessions are scheduled to run from June 21 through July 9 and July 12 through July 30. Standard enrollment begins April 19 and closes June 14.
In addition to our middle school and high school offerings, The Grauer School will again be hosting the Loly Lutti Pottery Camp (visit lolylutti.com for more information and registration) as well as KidzToPros (kidztopros.com) for our younger campers - click here to view a KidzToPros flyer with more information. Keep an eye out for our 2021 Summer Session schedule and offerings on our website at grauerschool.com/summer, which will be coming soon!
Use Amazon Smile To Benefit The Grauer School
Did you know that you can generate donations while shopping for your valentine, at no extra cost? Simply start your shopping at smile.amazon.com/ch/33-0708902 to confirm "The Grauer School Foundation for Education" as your charity of choice, and AmazonSmile will donate a portion of your eligible purchase price to our school. We appreciate it!
Visual Arts Department Presents: Modes Photography Contest
The Visual Arts Department invites Grauer students, faculty, and staff to enter their Modes Photography Contest. You can submit time-lapses, panorama, slomo, and wide-angle/fisheye photos. You can click here or use the QR code with your mobile device to submit your photos. Contact Grace W. '21 for any questions.
Weekly Columns
Principal's Desk
Ski Week and Post-Ski Week Testing
Please note that The Grauer School will be hosting our annual Ski Week next week (Monday, February 15-Friday, February 19). There will be no classes for students during this week. In recognition that many of our families are still planning to travel both in and out of state during that week, we will be hosting a virtual, e-Learning week during the week of February 22-26. We are planning to test all faculty, staff, and students for COVID-19 on Wednesday, February 24.
As Stuart shared in the "Pandemic Update: Family Pledge" e-blast sent last week, we would sincerely appreciate families refraining from planning additional travel during our post-Ski Week virtual, e-Learning week. Please: Do not extend your vacation stays. We need you to stay in stable groups and at home during those after-vacation weeks. When we take these time-consuming and costly safety measures for your family and you do not stay in stable groups at home, as our teachers do, it is disheartening, unsafe, and it weakens our classroom learning. We appreciate your joining our teachers in this critical safety and confidence measure as we all work collectively to keep our students engaged in on-campus learning.
On Wednesday, February 24, out of an abundance of caution, we will test all faculty, staff, and students for COVID-19 according to the following schedule:
Period 1, 9:00-10:30am~ Grades 7, 8, and 9 (we will be canceling period 1 classes for these students)
Period 3, 10:30am-Noon~ Grades 10, 11, and 12 (we will be canceling period 3 classes for these students)
As we recognize that it is next to impossible for students to travel to campus for testing and try to attend a Zoom class at the same time, we will be canceling the applicable class block for students during their assigned testing times (see above). As always, students with Grauer siblings may come at an earlier or later time in order to facilitate only one trip to campus—we are just doing our best to try to spread out our testing efforts so that our students do not have to wait in line. We strongly recommend that you try to come sometime within the testing window rather than showing up right at the testing start time. With that said, we will be closing sample collection at noon so we can transport our samples to UCSD’s EXCITE laboratory for testing.
We sincerely appreciate all of your support of our COVID-19 testing program and your efforts to keep our campus safe and our students on-campus during this pandemic.
Deans' View
A Screen Free Ski Week?
The 21st century is truly remarkable, with the digital revolution opening up innumerable ways to experience our lives and to share those experiences with others. We would not have been able to continue engaging in relationship-driven education throughout the pandemic without it! However, even the most welcome freedoms can become a prison. If you’re like me, you might find yourself longing to not look at a screen for change.
While it has been previously asserted that it takes a full week away from our seemingly omnipresent digital technology for our bodies to reset, why not challenge ourselves to cut back? Ski Week, a break named after an activity, is the perfect time to experiment with some limits:
Establish a daily screen free time window. Breakfast to lunch may be a great option, for, as a favorite lyric of mine cautioned, good news always sleeps till noon.
Establish a long screen free block on a specific day. My family is thinking about trying 9am-5pm next Wednesday at least.
Establish screen time as a reward, not a right. Create a task list (and they don’t all have to be chores) that has to be accomplished before the devices come out.
Have a ready alternative for when you default to screen time. (I’ve become increasingly enamored with puzzles and collages.)
Eliminate one or more social media apps.
Above all, this will always be a work in progress for all of us. The goal is not necessarily to succeed, but to never stop striving for balance.
“The Rosie Policy” was established years ago at The Grauer School, to allow any student to take Rosie, the campus dog, for a walk at any time of the day, no questions asked. Dogs give real love, the kind that makes for a great school, and students need a Rosie Policy now more than ever.
All interested Middle School and High School students are welcome to join the Archery program with Coach Trevor Olson, Coach Paulina Davis-Fisher, and Student Coach Alexa K. '23. No experience is necessary, so if you're interested in joining a great sport with a great team, this opportunity could be for you!
Program Details:
Archery Season: February 1 - April 30
Practice/Training Days for High School: Mondays and Wednesdays Practice/Training Days for Middle School: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Time: 3:15 - 5:00
Cost: There will be no cost for Archery this season. Dr. Grauer insisted that the school covers all expenses to make sure archery is accessible to everyone.
We look forward to seeing you on the range!
CIF Sports Update From Horizon Prep
We're sharing an update message about CIF-sanctioned sports from Coach Matt Roy at Horizon Prep: "As a result of the stay at home order being lifted, CIF high school sports will be allowed to begin across San Diego County! Based on the guidelines established by CIF, the list below reflects the current allowances for each of our CIF sports. Please note that due to the current color tier of purple, team registration is only open for Golf, Tennis, and Track & Field at this time. For all other sports, only registration for team training is available at this time. All registration and paperwork (including a sports physical) must be turned in to the Athletic office before an athlete may begin an official practice for any sport. CLICK HERE to register now.
Season 1 Sports - Football and Girls Volleyball: We are currently not in the proper tier to begin official practices or games. These sports will continue to train and condition with the hopes of being able to play before the end of the Season 1 sports season. In order to participate in the next session of training for football or girls volleyball, athletes must sign up.
Season 2 Sports - Golf, Tennis, Track & Field: These sports may begin practice and competition on March 1. Register today!
Season 2 Sports - Boys and Girls Basketball: We are currently not in the proper tier to begin practices. Basketball will begin training and conditioning starting March 1.
Season 2 Sports - Boys Volleyball, Girls Sand Volleyball: Both of these sports are TBD. More information to come on these sports as it becomes available.
Last Week In The Garden
The Grauer School took delivery of three beautiful Torrey Pine trees last week. "Pinus torreyana" - named after John Torrey, an American botanist - are America's rarest pine tree. They are also endangered and grow only along the San Diego County Coast and on the Santa Rosa Island (Channel Islands National Park). We are proud to have them add both beauty and conservation to our campus. Thank you to Simon Checa for planting these trees!
Gardeners thinned and weeded the Natives Verge Garden. With the bountiful rain, the plants are thriving! Thank you to alumni parent Jesse Giessow for help with identifying weeds vs. native seedlings. We are very happy to report that, with the help of our village of students, staff, and parents, the two old tree stumps have finally been completely removed. Thank you to everyone who had a hand in removing these stumps, phew! All of the stone fruit trees received their second application of dormant oil spray last week. This process will help prevent borers and fungus.
The Holistic Health group, along with others, harvested bags and bags and bags of greens - collard greens, beets, cilantro, two types of lettuce and multiple varieties of kale. This beautiful produce was shared with all, both raw and in a prepared salad for staff, and was also turned into some other fabulous dishes. Sally Grauer made Spiced Chickpea Stew With Coconut and Turmeric, using collard greens from the garden. It tasted delicious and was snapped up quickly by the teachers and staff. Those who joined the Holistic Health group made a variety of Vegan Collard Green Burritos. While everyone enjoyed a different combination of stuffing ingredients, the burritos are a lovely example of what you can do with a blanched collard green. We still have plenty of collard greens in the garden. If you'd like to try these recipes, please stop by the garden on Thursday.
This Week In The Garden
Today, it was already time for the monthly Pond Cleaning. Thank you, Molly, for keeping the fish and turtle happy, not to mention keeping the pond looking and functioning beautifully after all the rain and fallen leaves. Grauer Gardeners weeded the Monarch Waystation and flower patch in preparation for planting after ski week. Students in Nick Scacco's class will be planting in both the Monarch Waystation and the flower garden after returning from Ski Week.
Please join us this Thursday, February 11, when we will be applying a fresh coat of paint on the garden arbors. And, all are welcome to harvest collard greens, lettuce and kale from the garden.
Events & Activities at The Grauer School
High School ASB Presents Spirit Week 2.0
The High School ASB/Leadership class is presenting Spirit Week 2.0 at The Grauer School this week. Monday was Pajama Day, and the Music Department presented an acoustical concert featuring students from the Advanced Music class at lunchtime. Tuesday was Duplicates Day with lots of groups dressed up in identical clothing. The remaining days for this week are: Movie Character or Celebrity Day (Wednesday); Throwback Thursday (Decades) Day; and Meme Day (Friday). This is always a fun week for our students and staff! Be sure to follow us on Facebook @thegrauerschool and Instagram @grauerschool to see more Spirit Week photos.
Grauer Surf Team Competition
From Brian Dugan, Surf Coach:
With the cancellation of the fourth Scholastic Surf Series (SSS) contest, The Grauer School surf team organized a bit of friendly competition amongst themselves at Boneyards in Encinitas this past Saturday, February 6. Just like the normal Team vs. Team competition with SSS, surfers earned points for their two-person teams based on their placement at the end of each of three heats: shortboard, longboard, and board transfers. The third category required surfers to begin surfing a wave on one board before switching to another board mid-wave. It's as difficult as it sounds, but the surfers did not disappoint and pulled off some crazy maneuvers.
The team scored some small and challenging waves. In the end, all Grauer teams were close to victory, but Sage S. '23 and Mo H. '22 took home the win along with gift cards to Gelato 101! A big thanks to Arthur P. '23, Tate S. '23, Erik H. '21, Kevin M. '21, Case C. '21, Tristan R. '22, and Embry R. '23 for coming out and creating some top-notch competition. Congrats to all of our surfers on a successful competition!
Lunchtime Concerts by Grauer Music Department
The Grauer School's campus was filled with music on Wednesday, February 3, and Monday, February 8, when the Music Department presented lunchtime concerts coordinated by Music Teachers Isaac Langen, Tom Hopper, and Courtney Conway. Music students in all grades performed songs in a variety of genres outside Meyer Hall. The Lunchtime Concerts were a huge treat for all the students and staff who enjoyed the live music performances by these talented Grauer students!
We also wanted to share a short video from the Period 6 Music class, where the students were learning to sight-read music notes through an exercise on the handbells this week. The class played their song in the treehouse to hear how the acoustical properties of that location interacted with the music from the handbells. Click here to view the video.
Life Science Class: Creating Biomes
From Nick Scacco, Life Science Teacher
7th Grade Life Science students have learned about how photosynthesis and respiration work together to balance the amount of CO2 and O2 in the atmosphere. The class built miniature biospheres in class last Friday, February 5, using large jars with lids as the biosphere containers. The students were given the option to build either an aquatic system that would be filled with water or a terrestrial system that would be filled with soil. If they chose a terrestrial system, they could add desert or tropical plants. They also included small invertebrate decomposers in the system, as well as decorative elements. We added water and sealed the biome jars this week, and we will continue to check on them during the second semester. The biomes can last for several years - I currently still have a sealed system in my classroom that was created two years ago by current 9th graders Sarai S. '24, Karina A. '24, and Tahlia F. '24.
Advanced Biology Class: Testing Sunscreen
From Dana Abplanalp-Diggs, Advanced Biology Teacher:
Over the past two weeks, the Advanced Biology: Human Anatomy and Physiology class has been studying the integumentary system. After learning more about skin cancer and the importance of wearing sunscreen, the students completed a laboratory activity where they developed their own experiment to test the effectiveness of various types of sunscreens. Some students elected to test different brands of sunscreen with the same SPF, other groups elected to look at differences between different SPFs, and other groups looked at the effectiveness of lotion sunscreens vs. spray sunscreens.
PB&J Protocols in Chemistry Class
From Paulina Davis-Fisher, Chemistry Teacher:
The 10th Grade Chemistry classes had a chance to brush up on their procedural writing skills by writing out a protocol on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Students had to include detailed steps which would then be used to instruct me in making this delicious snack in front of the class. When certain details were left out, such as untwisting the tie to open a bag of bread, how to extract the slices of bread from the plastic bag, or using a knife to scoop out the peanut butter from the jar, this simple task turned into a hilarious mess.
Cheese-Tasting Picnic in French Class
From Frida LeBreton-Greiner, French Teacher:
Last Friday, the 7th grade Introduction to French class gathered on the field for a very special picnic: a cheese picnic. Students were excited to learn about French/Swiss cheeses and even more excited to try them all including the most intriguing, blue cheese. The class set up all the beautiful cheeses on large wooden cutting boards with 3 baguettes and discovered the names of the cheeses: Camembert, Brie, Gruyère, Emmental, fresh goat cheese, le Petit Coutançais, Reblochon, and Roquefort. They were of different shapes, colors, textures and smells. Students learned that there are a very large variety of cheeses in France, made from either cow milk, goat milk, or sheep milk. They were amused to hear the famous quote by former French president, Général Charles de Gaulle, who remarked in 1962: “How can you govern a country which has 258 varieties of cheese?” In 1944, he successfully coordinated the preparation and liberation of France from the Nazi regime with allies, but he could not deal with domestic social unrest and blamed it on the cheeses.
French are truly passionate about cheese. They have been eating it for a very long time and the art of making cheese was crafted and perfected by the monks. The first cheese is believed to have appeared in the 7th century in Northern France. The class talked about 3 main categories of cheeses (hard paste, soft paste and blue cheeses) and students learned that cheese is traditionally consumed after the main course and before dessert. Cheese is served already started, so guests will feel welcome to cut another piece. French people are also passionate about slicing cheese according to a national convention, as you can see in the diagrams below. Round cheeses are cut like pies; cylinder cheeses are sliced, and blue cheeses are cut in wedges. But what really got the students attention was the famous Roquefort and its blue coat. They learned that the blue cheese is matured in caves (as many as 6,000 per cave), and a fungus starts growing within days and turn the white cheese into blue cheese. Students named it the “cave cheese” and they all wanted to try it. What a group of adventurers!
Counselor's Corner
From Shelley Boniwell, Associate Director of Counseling - follow the Grauer School Counseling Office on Instagram @gscounseling:
Summer 2021 Programs
Students and parents can view a spreadsheet list of summer educational programs for the upcoming summer of 2021, and this list will be updated as more opportunities come in. Click here to view the list of Summer 2021 opportunities. There may be brochures with more information for some of these programs in the Counseling Office. Please contact Shelley Boniwell if you have any questions.
Community Service
From Jessi Brown, Humanitarian Service Coordinator:
Looking for ways to volunteer during the school year, either in person or virtually? Remember that you have a great resource right at your fingertips. Log into your MobileServe account, click on "EVENTS" in the side menu bar, and then click on "DISCOVER." You can enter keywords or just enter your location to find opportunities close to you. This is a great way to discover opportunities that are perfect for you!
Grauer Donation Drive For COVID-19 Patients In San Diego
Many COVID-19 patients in San Diego County are dealing with isolation while they're in the hospital. UC San Diego Health is accepting donations to help their patients who are isolated while they are battling the disease. Donations requested include new books, magazines, decks of cards, sudoku books, crossword puzzles, and arts and crafts projects. You can click here to view a "Wish List" on Amazon as examples of things most requested by patients. Items not on the wish list that can also be accepted are new books, magazines, and knitted/crocheted lap blankets (approximate size: 36”x36”). Contact Student Lead Sean F. '23 or Faculty Lead Nick Scacco with any questions about this donation drive.
Grauer students have a choice of two different ways of donating items:
Drop off donations into a bin located in Meyer Hall through March 12. When you enter the donation information in MobileServe, you can either specify your parent as the supervisor so they can approve your hour of service or simply upload a photo and it will verify automatically.
Order donations through Amazon to be delivered directly to UC San Diego Health. Click on the Wish List link, add items to your cart, and then choose “Volunteer Services Gift Registry” as the delivery address when you check out. You can create an entry in MobileServe for your Amazon donation, and specify your parent as the supervisor so they can approve your hour of community service.
Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation
Garden/Landscaping volunteers are needed at the Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation in Carlsbad. They are in need of volunteers to constantly help upkeep their native gardens, which includes removing weeds and overgrowth, trimming, moving mulch cover, and other tasks. No landscaping experience is required, just people who like to be outdoors and are in need of hours, or looking to give back. We provide all the tools. Contact Emily Watts if you're interested in volunteering.
Community Resource Center
Students can volunteer at the Community Resource Center store in Encinitas on Fridays or Saturdays. The service opportunity involves receiving donations, assisting customers, sorting donation items, creating visually appealing merchandise displays and most important, having fun working with great people and helping CRC to generate revenue to help low-income families and victims of domestic violence. Click here to complete a volunteer application.
Middle School Fridays
From Patricia Young, Middle School Fridays Coordinator:
Middle School Friday activities will continue to be optional and will run from 1:00-2:00pm on Friday afternoons. Each week, we plan to offer opportunities for Friday fun, whether they are on-campus or remote via Zoom.
The activities for this Friday, February 12, are:
Archery with Paulina Davis-Fisher at 1:00-2:00pm on the field. All Middle School students are welcome to come and try out Archery if you haven't tried it before, and members of the Middle School Archery team can come for an extra practice session.
Dungeons & Dragons Club with Liam Murphy at 12:30-3:00pm on campus. Meet on the roof of the Justice Center, bring your computer, and email Liam if you haven't played before and you would like to join the group!
Student Spotlight
Parents, please let us know if your child is doing something newsworthy so we can congratulate them in our Student Spotlight section! Please send submissions to newsletter@grauerschool.com.
Winter Photography Contest Results
Advanced Arts students and the Visual Arts Department presented a Winter Photography contest in December and January. They would like to thank all of the students and teachers who entered the contest for their submissions. Grauer students voted on the photos in the contest, and you can click on the image with the play button below to view the contest results in a video created by Grace W. '21. Congratulations to Kai D. '24, the overall contest winner with the most number of votes, to students Carson B. '24, Aviya A. '24, and teachers Trevor Olson, Johnny King, and Paulina Davis-Fisher for earning Honorable Mentions for their photos.
Grauer Student Actor
Congratulations to Grauer Senior Jason W. '21 for performing the role of Snoopy in the musical, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" through JCompany Youth Theatre on January 9 and January 10. The show took place outside on the field in the back of the Jewish Community Center, and it was presented in a safe socially-distanced way with everyone wearing masks and viewers seated in family pods. You can click here to download the show for free so you can watch Jason's performance as Snoopy.
Happy Birthday!
Zoe Br. '26 - February 11
Leyton G. '26 - February 14
Gavin N. '26 - February 20
Embry R. '23 - February 21
