Lectures, Performances, and Presentations

Upper School history and social studies teacher Jill Acker is presenting a workshop on Latin’s international Model UN experience at the 2006 UNA-USA Model United Nations Summit and Leadership Conference in New York City at the end of June. Jill will be on sabbatical for the 2006-07 school year.

Upper School creative writing teacher and service learning director, Billy Lombardo, was a featured guest on the March 8th edition of Hometown Voices on WGN radio (720 AM), broadcast live from the Polo Cafe in Bridgeport. Billy read a section from "The Wallace Playlot." Earlier that week, Billy read with Alex Kotlowitz during Fremd High School's Writers Week activities. He also participated in Palatine High School's Writer's Day on April 26. Billy did several other readings this spring, including a turn at The Acorn Theater in Three Oaks, Michigan, on June 11th.

Upper School science teacher Michael Pereira gave a talk at the Fourth International Tree Squirrel Colloquium and the first International Flying Squirrel Colloquium in India. His talk was part of a symposium on flying and ground squirrels within the international conference held at the Periyar Tiger Reserve, Thekkady, Kerala, between March 22 and 29. This symposium was written up in The Hindu, India’s national newspaper, on March 12.

Assistant Director Development for Annual Giving Kirsten Mallik sang Bach’s B-Minor Mass with the Chicago Chorale on April 8 at Rockefeller Chapel in Hyde Park.

Russell Harris' award-winning oil painting

Honors and Certifications

Middle and Upper School Visual Arts teacher Russell Harris won first place in a show of faculty art at The Great Frame Up. The faculty show, “The Talent That Teaches,” was held in conjunction with The LISA show (Life Is Simply Art), at the State Of Illinois Building in May. Russell’s piece was selected from more than 30 entries in this juried show.

Middle and Upper School Visual Arts Department Chair Betty Lark Ross was awarded an Illinois Humanities Council Grant to attend a "True Learning, True Teaching" seminar called Framing Nature: the History of Outdoor Photography, held at Starved Rock State Park in Utica, IL, in late July.

Latin’s Travel Grant Committee, comprising Richard Dolezal and the division directors, awarded seven summer travel grants to the following teachers: Deana Jaeschke Clapp, Scott Eastman, Brenda Van Halsema Friedman, Saul Fript, Lori Kloehn, Sally Ott, and Tim Sheehan. Congratulations!

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