 |  | Latin Students Help Celebrate Chicago's Birthday
3/4/2010
Members of Latin's band performed at the Chicago History Museum on Thursday, March 4 as part of a celebration for the city's 167th birthday. This is the third year Latin's band has been invited to play this event. Mayor Richard M. Daley, the guest of honor, spoke to the crowd about how Chicago was founded and built by immigrants and how education was critical to the city's growth. His speech was followed by two students who read award-winning essays on Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable.
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 | Green Cup Challenge
2/10/2010
For the second year, throughout the month of February, Latin School is participating in the Green Cup Challenge. The Green Cup Challenge is an interschool energy challenge that invites schools across the nation to measure and reduce campus electricity use and GHG emissions.
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 | LIFE Takes on Climate Change
2/10/2010
Stephen Schneider, one of the world’s leading climatologists and member of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, spoke to upper school students about the politics of global warming on January 19.
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 | Newberry Award Winner Visits Latin
2/8/2010
Latin was extremely fortunate to host Rebecca Stead, author of the 2010 Newbery Award winning novel When You Reach Me on Friday, February 5. Stead, who has won much critical acclaim since publishing her first children’s novel First Light in 2007, spoke to lower and middle school students about her books, ideas and writing.
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 | Lower School Drum Beats
2/1/2010
Lower School students had a unique opportunity to learn about drumming in many different cultures during an assembly with the group Pulse Beat Music on January 29.
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 | Romans Celebrate Victories at Loyola
1/26/2010
Roman spirit filled Loyola University’s Gentile Center Friday night as our girls and boys varsity basketball teams won against rivals Northside College Prep and Francis W. Parker School during Latin’s annual basketball night.
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(monthly e-newsletter) Fall 2009
The Written Word at Latin
Instilling Passion, Fostering Talent
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Spring 2009
Considering Our Footprint
Latin's Growing Environmental Consciousness |
Chicago Magazine featured prolific Chicago writer and Latin School English teacher Billy Lombardo in its Feburary 2010 issue.
A Wall Street Journal technology blog recently highlighted Latin for being among a handful of universities and schools around the country that have set up their own iPhone App as a resource for parents and students.
Congratulations to Shelby Brody, Class of 2011, for being featured in Chicago Magazine's "8 Teen Dreams" about talented Chicago area teenagers. Also look for our article about Shelby and her writing in the fall issue of Latin Magazine this November.
The Chicago Sun-Times featured upper school student Ben Quazzo as one of the city's next great high school tennis players. Read the Sun-Times story here.
The Great Falls Tribune recently included a story about Latin students who traveled to Great Falls, Montana for their Project Week adventure.
The Chicago Sun-Times featured Latin's outstanding sports program and talented athletes in its December 10 Prep Sports section. Check out the article and feel some Roman pride!
The U.S. Ski Team visited Latin's lower school recently. To read more about the assembly, check out the story in the Chicago Sun-Times.
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