The Binnacle Severn's Weekly E-Newsletter
Vol.08-09 Issue 1-23-2009
#20 Binnacle 08-09
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Accessing Grades in NetClassroom
Itching to see your student's 1st quarter/2nd semester grades? Please know that teachers are busily finalizing information so that you'll be able to log into NetClassroom by the end of next week. Simply go to QUICKLINKS on our website and then to NETCLASSROOM ACCESS. As you'll recall, the School only publishes report cards online now, saving paper and other resources. |
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The Week Ahead
Back-to-back basketball games at home tomorrow, Saturday, January 24! The Admiral's Collection will be there starting at 3pm. C'mon out and cheer on our Admirals! Edward St. John Athletic Center.
MONDAY, January 26
Chinese New Year - The Year of the Ox Middle School Pennies for Patients Coin Drive 11 - 12:30p Admiral's Collection Shop Open 4:00p JV Girls Basketball vs Bryn Mawr @ Home 4:00p Middle School Girls Basketball vs Holy Trinity Episcopal @ Bowie City Gym 5:30p Varsity Girls Basketball vs Bryn Mawr @ Home TUESDAY, January 27 Cookies for Cans Drive - Before School Middle School Pennies for Patients Coin Drive Balfour Reps Here to Measure Seniors for Cap & Gown 3:30p Varsity Boys & JV Swimming vs Mt. St. Joseph's Catonsville Community College 4:00p JV Girls Basketball vs Maryvale @ Home 4:15p JV Boys Basketball @ Gilman 5:30p Varsity Girls Basketball vs Maryvale @ Home - SENIOR RECOGNITION DAY 6:00p Varsity Boys Basketball @ Gilman WEDNESDAY, January 28 Cookies for Cans Drive - Before School Middle School Pennies for Patients Coin Drive Balfour Reps Here to Measure Seniors for Cap & Gown 11-12:30p Admiral's Collection Shop Open THURSDAY, January 29 Middle School Pennies for Patients Coin Drive 2:30-3:30p Admiral's Collection Shop Open 3:45p Middle School Boys White Basketball @ Beth T'Filoh 4:45p Middle School Boys Maroon Basketball @ Beth T'Filoh 5:15p Admiral's Cup Golf Outing Planning Meeting FRIDAY, January 30 Middle School Pennies for Patients Coin Drive 4:00p Middle School Girls Basketball vs Rockbridge Academy @ Home 4:00p JV Boys Basketball @ Pallotti 5:00p JV Girls Basketball @ St. Mary's 5:45p Varsity Boys Basketball @ Pallotti 6:30p Varsity Girls Basketball @ St. Mary's SATURDAY, January 31 7:00P Upper School 4x4 Basketball Tournie - Edward St. John Athletic Facility and Memorial Gymnasium |
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8th Grade Parents: Take Note
ECHO HILL TRIP Ask your 8th grade student for the Echo Hill Health and Registration forms and Permission Slip - they were distributed to students this morning. Completed forms and your check must be returned to Mrs. Gina Limon no later than Friday, February 13. The trip is planned for April 15-17. UPPER SCHOOL SHADOWING All current members of the Class of 2013 will spend one morning next week shadowing a freshman. So that they may get a true feel for what it's like to be a Severn Upper Schooler, each 8th grader will attend an advisor meeting and 2 regular classes. They will meet with students and teachers for question and answer sessions before returning to their normal schedule in time for lunch. |
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Cookies for Cans: Supporting Area Food Pantries
by Terry Duncan '11 I came across an article in the Capital Gazette on December 18 titled "Food Pantries Look Past Holidays with Worry." In this article it is plain to see that the county food banks are seriously concerned about a food shortage for the needy citizens of our community. The food drives in schools, churches, and neighborhoods before and during the holidays helped to alleviate the short-term surge in demand for non-perishable food, but now the food banks are facing a post-holiday lull that needs to be filled. With the help of my brother Ian '09, we have put together a community service food drive called Cookies for Cans. When students and faculty bring in non-perishable food items to the lobby before school on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Ian and I will trade the food item for a home baked cookie. The food donations will then be dropped off at local food pantries and shelters where the donations will be thoroughly appreciated. Won't you help, please? |
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Valentine Grams to Benefit Schools for Schools
The Upper School Schools for Schools club is selling Valentine Grams! Students can buy as many as they like for $1 a piece at both lunches during the weeks of January 26-30 and February 2-6. The next week the special messages will be distributed to the intended in morning Advisor meetings. Students, be sure to send all of your friends Valentine Grams to let the  m know they’re loved, plus it goes to a great cause. All of the money raised by the S4S club goes to the Invisible Children Fund and helps support our partner school in Uganda, Sir Samuel Baker Secondary School. We are helping to rebuild schools like this that have been destroyed by the ongoing warfare in Uganda. Recently, Schools for Schools received a letter and Christmas card from the east coast roadies thanking the club for their generous donation of over $5,000 and the screening of "Go," the Schools for Schools documentary, that was shown to the Upper School this fall. If you would like to donate to Schools for Schools feel free to contact Meredith Caldwell '09, Leanne Hug '09, or the faculty advisor for Schools for Schools, Dr Aegina Martin. |
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Hoop Madness: Team Registration Opens on Monday
Registration for all Upper School student and teacher teams participating in Hoop Madness starts Monday, January 26 and will go until Thursday, the 29th. Members of the Admirals After Hours committee will be outside Bauer Dining Hall during both lunch periods to register the teams. A team captain or designee must bring their team name and the signatures of all six team members to register. Each team will get their own colored t-shirts to decorate or customize (appropriate for a school event) at registration. Hoop Madness takes place next Saturday, January 31 from 6:30 to 10 p.m. at the Edward St. John Athletic Center and is free and open to all Uppers School students and faculty. |
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Severn Baseball Apparel: Order Now
Now is the time to order Severn baseball apparel - and anyone may order any item - is quickly approaching. Wednesday, January 28 is the last day to place your order for high quality Severn baseball sweats, and shirts. Contact Elaine Soderlund, Admiral's Collection Team Practice Apparel Coordinator if you have any questions. Click here to download the order form. |
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Burns & Farnham Cited for Athletic Prowess
Congratulations to both Caroline Burns '09 and Kendall Farnham '10 for being recognized for their athletic ability this week. Caroline was named an Honorable Mention Athlete of the Week in The Capital and Kendall is noted as an Athlete Worth Watching in What's Up Annapolis magazine. Caroline Burns (as printed in the 1/20/09 Capital) Burns swam her way to four victories last week despite the Admirals' 0-2 mark. Burns picked up victories in the 100 freestyle (56:63) and 100 backstroke (1:00.4) against St. Mary's on Monday. She shaved her time in the 100 freestyle by 1.35 seconds against McDonogh two days later, cruising again to victories in both events. Kendall Farnham (as published in the January 2009 edition of What's Up Annapolis) Farnham is an All-County performer in two sports, swimming and cross-country; the former is her main sport that she hopes to continue in college. She began swimming at age six in Japan, where she and her family lived for several years. Her father, Austin Farnham, is an engineer and business entrepreneur who took on a venture in Japan. “In Japan they really worked with me, fixing my feet and fixing my arms and working my techniques for the butterfly,” said Farnham. “So, when I got here, I already had the technique and built my endurance.” By the time Kendall was in fourth grade, the family was back in the states and the young lady joined the SPY club swimming team. Farnham has been with SPY ever since and is a junior at Severn, swimming the butterfly and 200 Individual Medley for coach Carolyn Cosentino. It’s with SPY, under the tutelage of coaches Christee Ballard and Jim Hutchinson, that she has developed and honed her skills. “We have eight practices a week and travel to meets in Raleigh [North Carolina] for three days and districts, states, and nationals later in the spring,” said Farnham, who loves to eat, especially animal crackers. “Your team is like your family. I spend a lot of time with my teammates.” She says she is one of the shorter butterfly athletes at 5’6”. Her 100-meter fly is top 10 collegiately speaking, but Farnham says she needs to work on her 200-meter fly. Farnham says swimming for SPY as compared to the Admirals’ school team “is incomparable,” competitively speaking. She took 10th place in the Nationals among 100 swimmers. Academically, Farnham, whose younger sister Margot is a freshman on the Severn swim team, is really into math and science and is leaning toward following in her dad’s footsteps by studying engineering in college. She is interested in Princeton and Duke. She carries a 4.01 grade-point-average and will soon take the SAT. She is the daughter of Austin and Reneé Farnham.
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Community Service Opportunities
Clcik 'read more' for information on: Special Olympics – Polar Bear Plunge help needed on Sunday.
If you are interested people are needed to clean up the beach on Sunday. The Sunday Sweep is from 10 AM-2 PM on Sunday January 25. At the Sunday Sweep, staff and volunteers patrol Sandy State Park making sure any items left behind (banners, clothing, trash) are gathered, leaving the Park in good condition. The next event for Special Olympics takes place on February 7 & 8 as athletes compete in the 2009 Bowling Tournament in Dundalk (Baltimore County). Volunteers at the bowling competition will serve as Lane Mangers making sure athletes bowl in roster order and calling for assistance if the electronic scoring system isn’t working. Students for this volunteer opportunity should be able to work in pairs in leadership positions. Please contact Janet Novak at jnovak@somd.org if interested in either of these opportunities. Starbucks Joins Call for National Service and Asks, “Are You In?” Starbucks and HandsOn Network Affiliates are partnering to raise one million hours of service across America. Annapolis (January 21, 2009). Starbucks and HandsOn Network affiliate, the Volunteer Center For Anne Arundel County, are joining to launch the “I’m In!” campaign, an initiative to make it easy to participate in the President-elect’s call for national service. In participating Starbucks stores across the nation, the American public will have an opportunity to pledge five hours or more of community service toward a local volunteer opportunity of choice. Starbucks will honor each person who pledges with a free tall brewed coffee beginning Wednesday, Jan. 21 through Sunday, Jan. 25. The goal of the effort is to raise pledges in excess of one million hours of service from all over the country. “Five hours is just 25 minutes a month for a year, two afternoons at a food bank creating care packages, a day reading to children at a hospital or in a park planting trees,” said Vivek Varma, senior vice president of Global Affairs, Starbucks Coffee Company. “We hope to help spark a new spirit of volunteerism by exceeding a million pledge hours and HandsOn Network is the perfect partner to allow our customers to join us in a renewed national commitment to community service.” “HandsOn Network is excited to join forces with Starbucks. We have witnessed the partnerships between corporations and nonprofits grow more creative and this type of collaboration is a powerful way to reach scale and truly create a movement. Starbucks is the catalyst to reach millions of volunteers and HandsOn equips, activates and provides the much needed resources to help America fulfill the commitments made from this initiative,” said Michelle Nunn, chief executive officer. “HandsOn has over 270 HandsOn Action Centers located in the United States and works with over 31,000 nonprofit organizations. A quick online questionnaire can steer consumers toward a fulfilling volunteer opportunity.” How to Participate at Your Local Starbucks · Visit Starbucks: You can join the “I’m In” campaign, part of the Starbucks™ Shared Planet™ commitment to community involvement, when visiting a local participating Starbucks beginning Wednesday, Jan. 21 (and continuing through Sunday, Jan. 25). Stop by the “I’m In” display featuring community pledge cards, pick up the card, and fill it out with your five-hour commitment to volunteer. · Pledge Five: Place the “I’m In” sticker from the pledge card on your lapel, signifying your pledge, and take the card with you as a reminder to keep the effort going. As a thank you, each customer who pledges five hours of their own time will receive a complimentary tall cup of brewed coffee. · Track Success: Customers can log on to pledge5.starbucks.com to record pledge hours, find local volunteer opportunities via the HandsOn Network, track hours pledged-to-date, and receive updates on the campaign. About HandsOn Network HandsOn Network is a national nonprofit whose core mission is to equip, mobilize and inspire people to take action that changes the world. More information on the organization is at http://www.handsonnetwork.org/ About Starbucks Since 1971, Starbucks Coffee Company has been committed to ethically sourcing and roasting the highest quality arabica coffee in the world. Today, with stores around the globe, the company is the premier roaster and retailer of specialty coffee in the world. Through our unwavering commitment to excellence and our guiding principles, we bring the unique Starbucks Experience to life for every customer through every cup. For more information on Starbucks™ Shared Planet™ please visit www.starbucks.com/sharedplanet. To share in the experience, please visit us in our stores or online at www.starbucks.com |
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Annual Admiral's Cup Golf Outing: Register Now!
Be sure to mark your calendar for Severn's annual golf outing, The Admiral's Cup, on Monday, April 27 at Chartwell Country Club. Hosted by the APA's Athletic Committee, this year the event is co-chaired by Brian Bach (Tim '10), Brian Bieman (Brian '12), Mike Dennin (Mike '13 & Brian '14), and Peter Evans (Sophie '12). All proceeds from this event directly benefit the athletic program at Severn School. Gather together your foursome and register now. There are also numerous sponsorship opportunities to support this terrific event. Download the information and registration flier now. |
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Directory Corrections
Julian Bartholomee ‘15 Replace adbart65@comcast.net with adbart65@verizon.net Madeline Myers ‘15 & Justyn Myers ‘15 Replace marcom90@comcast.net with marcom90@verizon.net Replace marciazercoe@comcast.net with marciazercoe@verizon.net Sarah Swanger ’12 Add phone 443.875.5001 |