You think you had it cold over break? Think again.
Rokuskie (‘14) experiences extreme temperatures at Boy Scout camp; credits CA for helping him through
The snow shelter that
Rokuskie slept in during
his nights on the frozen
lake. This traditional
shelter is called a
quinzie.
The key is to layer.
Over the holiday break at a Cold Weather
Camping Program at the Boy Scout
Northern Tier Adventure Base in Ely, MN,
(on the Canadian border), Barrett Rokuskie
(‘14) experienced artic temperatures,
including one night that dipped a halfcentury below zero.
Mi quinzie, su quinzie
Barrett and his crew built snow structures called quinzies, essentially snow
caves, for shelter.
“The process of making one started with
piling snow in a dome shape until it was
about six feet high; this took me and one
other person about six hours. After the
snow was piled up, it had to freeze back
together for a few hours. I then started
hollowing out the inside of the pile using a
small shovel until it became big enough to
fit a few people and our gear inside. The
shelter itself made about a 30-degree
difference in temperature.
“In temperatures this cold, nearly
everything freezes, even things you never
would have thought could freeze. One day
my feet were especially cold, so I decided
to put some foot warmers in my boots.
When I pulled the warmers out of the
package, they were frozen. If I left my water
bottle outside for more than 10 minutes, the
lid would freeze, and in order to open it
again it had to be put in boiling water.”
Burned 6,000 calories a day
Even cooking was not easy.
“When we got to the lake, the first thing
we did was drill a hole in the ice for water.
We continually took water from this hole to
boil and cook the freeze dried meals we
were given. Because we were moving all
day, most of the food we ate was extremely high in calories. On average, we
burned about 6,000 calories a day from
moving and trying to stay warm. In order to
subsidize this huge loss, I ate around 5,000
calories every day. Most of the food was
prepared in what is called a snow kitchen.
This was a countertop made out of snow
that we built on our first day. This allowed
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us to keep standing while also cooking at
the same time.”
Man’s best friend
In these conditions, the crew relied on
sled dogs for assistance.
“We mostly used the dogs to haul
extremely heavy gear and food that would
not fit onto our sleds. During the day, the
dogs would go out, and sometimes we
would get to go along with them. Riding on
the sled was actually easy because the dog
commands are more of suggestions, and
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You’ve got to keep moving
“We stayed outside in subzero temperatures the entire time that our crew was on
the ice, in fact, it got down to minus 50 F
one night,” said Rokuskie, who attended
the camp Dec. 27-Jan. 2. “In order to stay
warm we used the layering system; one
base layer, a warmth layer and a layer to
block out wind chill. We also were issued
high-quality boots called Kamiks that were
designed to retain heat and had liners that
were pulled out every night and put into
your sleeping bag with you in order to dry
and not freeze.
“Our sleeping bags were rated to minus
20, but I also lined mine with a zero-degree
sleeping bag, which made it much warmer.
Before bed every night, we would boil
water and put it in water bottles that we
would place in our sleeping bags.”
Rokuskie said his crew (three adults and
five Scouts) quickly learned if they were
outside of their sleeping bags, they had to
keep moving. “At minus 25 if I stood still
for five minutes I couldn’t feel my fingers
and toes. Our group did anything we could to
stay moving; in fact, one day we decided to
make a soccer field by clearing a huge amount
of snow off the top of the frozen lake.”
Barrett Rokuskie, below,
in his winter gear just
before heading out on a
dog sled run.
Mike Ehrhardt, Head of School
Operating from “position of strength,” CA
ready for new year
Head of school delivered his first State of the School address to PTAA Jan. 22
Dear Cary Academy Community,
At the recent annual PTAA general meeting, I shared
some information regarding the State of the School. As
always, this address is a time to share some of the
highlights from the past year and look toward the future.
Our students continue to set the bar in the Triangle
for qualitative outcomes that can be measured through
standardized testing, such as the SAT. Our college
acceptances demonstrate that our students are taking
advantage of a wide range of exciting post-secondary
options, both locally as well as nationally. We are
particularly proud of our 84% acceptance rate at
UNC-Chapel Hill, which exceeds state public and
private school averages by a wide margin.
More importantly, our students are taking full
advantage of the rich learning environment at Cary
Academy through participation in extracurricular
activities, athletics and service projects. As we know
from our own experiences, these opportunities allow
for real-life skill development that serves as an
essential complement to the good work happening in
our classrooms.
Highlights from past year
Just a sampling of the many great things happening:
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Our Science Olympiad team had the highest
participation in the region last year, and our MS
robotics program continued to win awards and
hosted its first regional tournament this fall.
Students in our performing arts department earned
accolades in a variety of honors competitions and
from audiences near and far. Members of our MS
and US chorus performed twice with The Tenors at
the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts. Our
orchestra traveled to Washington, D.C. to play three
selections at the Kennedy Center.
More than 80% of Cary Academy students in
grades 7-12 participated in our interscholastic
athletic program last year. Our boys’ swimming and
tennis teams finished as state runners up last
winter and spring, and our boys’ cross country team
earned that distinction this fall. Three CA dancers
earned places at the National High School Dance
Festival. Two CA athletes in volleyball and girls’
basketball signed national letters of intent to play
at the collegiate level.
Students in both our MS and our US were
honored locally and nationally for their extensive
volunteer work.
Diverse student body
As an institution, Cary Academy continues to
thrive. We measure the health of the organization in
several ways:
Applications to Cary Academy remain strong.
Increasingly, a higher percentage of students are
accepting an offer of admissions, pushing up our
yield rate. When combined with our low 5%
attrition rate, we have needed to offer fewer
acceptances than years’ past.
Cary Academy is increasingly attracting a
more diverse student body. Overall, students of
color make up nearly 30% of our enrollment. That
number stands at 37% in the sixth grade this year.
We like to believe that this is a reflection of the
inclusive nature of the Cary Academy environment.
The school’s commitment to socio-economic
diversity remains strong as well. In January of this
year, Jim and Ann Goodnight have given an
additional $5 million to the school’s endowment for
financial aid, ensuring that we can attract the best
possible students, regardless of ability to pay.
Financially, Cary Academy operates from a
position of strength. The school remains debt free,
which is a rarity among our independent school
peers. Our endowment of $35 million (much of
which is restricted toward financial aid and
professional development), helps bridge some of the
gap between the cost of a Cary Academy education
and our tuition. Annual fundraising is also a crucial
component in creating a vibrant and forwardthinking school. Despite steady progress each year,
our results still do lag behind our independent
school peers. This year’s annual Cary Academy fund
is well ahead of last year’s pace, which will allow us
to be even more aggressive in creating world-class
programs for our students. Thank you.
Field house in 2014
Moving forward, the school is at a very exciting
juncture. I’d like to highlight three important initiatives
for next year:
1. Cary Academy field house. A field house has
been a part of the long-range facilities plan for Cary
Academy for some time. We expect to break ground
for this facility at the end of this school year. It
should be ready for use by October 2014.
2. New laptop rollout and upgrade to Office 365
for online data storage. Our Information Services
team has selected the Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga for all
students next year. The school also will move all
students into Office 365, making files, calendar and
email available in the cloud and on any Internetconnected device. Sharing and collaboration should
be made much easier with this new setup.
3. Strategic plan. Next fall we will embark on the
development of a three-year strategic plan that
will help guide the next stage of development for
Cary Academy. I expect the plan to develop
alongside a new facilities master plan that will
examine our current use of space and make plans
for new development to match the ever-changing
program at the school.
Proud to be a part of CA
At the conclusion of the State of the School
presentation, I shared with parents the school’s
commitment to affordability. The largest expense for
Cary Academy is faculty and staff salaries. Our
employees are our greatest asset. We seek to create a
positive, professional work environment for our staff
and compensate them fairly. Accordingly, tuition
information for next year has recently been sent to
families in their re-enrollment contracts. We are proud
that our tuition remains at the lower end of our peer
group in the Triangle and Charlotte.
As I enter into the spring of my first year at Cary
Academy, let me conclude by saying how proud I am
to be a part of such a wonderful community. I have
undertaken this year to meet individually with all
140 of our employees. As of early January, I had
completed more than 100 of these meetings, and I
can say that with each additional conversation, I feel
more energized and committed to this school. There
is tremendous talent here, and with the continued
and increasing support of our families, the future is
bright indeed.
Sincerely,
Michael Ehrhardt, Ed.D, Head of School
A hedgehog and a marmot walk into a German class…
…and a fun exercise ensues that aids Upper School German students in improving their language skills.
this theme. Each
weekend, one student
from each of her
classes gets to take
home their class’
stuffed mascot. The
extended stay-overs
are documented in pictures, and the following week the students
present a spontaneous speech in German, accompanied by the
pictures, detailing their adventures.
“Good assessment” tool
The mascots are: Noah the marmot for Advanced II (seniors),
Niko the hedgehog for Advanced I (primarily juniors) and Die Maus
(a cartoon character from Germany) for the sophomores. (In the
past, Burgbacher has used Wolfie the daschund for the freshman,
but it is not being used this year.)
“The students take the mascots everywhere,” said Burgbacher.
“They’ve been on class trips, family trips, Myrtle Beach and one
even went to Turkey.”
You think you had it cold
they end up following the trails to wherever
we need to go. The dogs are like people in
that they all have their own personalities.
Some are nice, some are mean, and some
just don’t get along with others. The
constant swapping of the dogs was
necessary in order to keep the pack order
correct and to ensure that some dogs
weren’t getting too tired.”
CA helped him prepare
This is Barrett’s third high adventure trip
for Boy Scouts. The other two were: a
one-week scuba diving trip off the
Bahamas and a 10-day backpacking trip in
New Mexico.
The students’ presentations on their weekends with the
mascots are a “good assessment” said Burgbacher.
“It’s spontaneous speaking that focuses on the past tense. As I
project the pictures they took and posted to our blog or our Haiku (an
online education platform) page, they tell the class about the pictures.
They students have to use vocabulary but also extended narration
and description, which are higher-level proficiency markers.”
The rest of the class is not left out of this graded assignment, as
each student is required to listen and ask one question.
Chillin’ at the beach
In the fall, Blythe Layne (’14) took Niko to the beach with Riana
Schleicher (‘15) and Lydia Eisenbeis (‘16). “They, by chance, both
take German, so they didn’t complain when I had to take him on
bike rides, and down to the beach with us.”
Layne took pictures of Niko on the beach, on a
boat, at Bojangles’ restaurant, on a tandem bike, at
Fort Macon and in the car.
Layne enjoyed her time with Niko and sees the
class project as a wonderful idea. “I think that
Niko has helped out class a lot, because we have
a revision unit on past tense every week, and
you don’t have to think too much about it. So, no
matter what our unit is in class, we are always
revisiting past tense. Niko also forces you to look
up a few new words, so that you can describe
your weekend correctly, and you’re more likely to remember them
because you looked them up on your own. It also creates another
way to bond as a class, because we hear about how all our
classmates spend their free time.”
Schleicher took Niko to Washington D.C. for the junior class trip
in August.
“(Talking about the time with the mascots) tests your ability to
talk freely about a certain subject as though you were a native
speaker, without sounding inhibited by a language barrier,” said
Schleicher. “You can’t get away with simple sentences; instead,
you have to explain everything in detail using connectors and more
complex ways of forming sentences.”
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“I’m now qualified to receive the Triple
Crown for doing all three of the BSA high
adventure camps across the country. In
(New Mexico) we hiked more than 100
miles, and in the Bahamas we constantly
maintained and navigated a sail boat, but
this was by far the hardest and most
challenging high adventure camp I have
done yet.”
To prepare for all three adventures,
Rokuskie put in the training at CA.
“I am a two sport varsity athlete
(wrestling and lacrosse), and that definitely
helped me. I also owe a lot of thanks to
Coach Eric Moore for helping me in the
weight room to train for all of these trips,
because without that, I don’t think I would
have been able to complete any of them.
With that said, most people who are
physically prepared for a trip like this often
don’t succeed because along with the
physical aspect comes a mental aspect.
When it is minus 30 outside, the last thing
I wanted to do was go outside and run
around to stay warm, but I had to; that’s
just the way most of these trips are. They
all test your physical and mental capacities,
and if you aren’t prepared, then it will
certainly show.”
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Flat Stanley, meet your German cousins Noah, Niko, Die Maus
and Wolfie.
Flat Stanley (a children’s book character) has been used for years
by elementary teachers as a project to facilitate letter-writing and
blogging by schoolchildren as they document where Flat Stanley
has accompanied them.
Since 2011,
Upper School
German
teacher
Wendy
Burgbacher
has played on
a variation of
Upper School artists collaborate on stained glass projects
Students put in hours of work on nature pieces of hummingbirds, magnolias
Upper School students of art instructor
Margo Smith have created two terrific
examples of stained glass art — and both
works have found homes at Cary Academy.
Hummingbird art
Ashley Miller (‘16) and Rachel Maydew
(‘16) especially crafted a stained glass
hummingbird piece for Director of
Admissions Denise Goodman. It now
hangs in her office.
“Rachel and Ashley were finishing a
project and did not know what to approach
next,” said
Smith. “Denise
mentioned that
she would love
a stained glass
piece for the
Admissions
Office to be
able to show all of the visiting families.
Rachel and Ashley are extremely talented,
so I asked them if they were up to this
challenge. Everyone in my studio glass
class helped them with the grinding of
this piece by grinding two to three pieces
per day.”
Seven years in the making
Jackie Reilly (‘17), Kaelin Rost (‘17) and
Jennifer Landguth (‘15) created a mosaic
piece for Head of the Upper School
Heather Clarkson. The piece now hangs
in her office.
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“This piece was started about seven
years ago as a collaborative project, but
never really got off the ground,” said
Smith. “It was sitting on a table in my
room, and Heather asked about it. After
she left, the girls approached me about
finishing it for Heather. Other students
offered assistance along the way if they
were in between pieces.”
“We spent a month working on it one
hour a day, and the scene was a pattern
(Smith) had drawn years ago of magnolias,”
said Landguth.
Senior swimmer has drawn on deep well of talent for years
McArdle (’14) is integral part of CA team, earning all-conference honors for three straight seasons
strokes — butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle.”
Balanced she is, and her record at CA
proves it. Her freshman year she was part
of the 4x100 freestyle relay that set the
school record, which still stands today.
“I have been named TISAC All-Conference
for my ninth, 10th and 11th grade seasons.
At the NCISAA swimming championships
my 11th grade year, I was runner-up in the
500 freestyle.”
Always been a water baby
“I started swimming when I was six
years old for the Homestead Heights
Hammerheads, a summer league team
in Durham. This summer will be my 12th
year on this team. The summer before
my freshman year, I was awarded the
Golden Hammerhead Award. It is given
to one swimmer who encompasses
leadership, sportsmanship, team spirit
and swimming accomplishments. I have
been on my current team, Duke Aquatics,
for five years now.”
Though she tried other sports, it’s only
been swimming for McArdle since she
came to CA. “I’ve played/participated in
basketball, softball, gymnastics, dance and
soccer, but after sampling many sports, I
narrowed my focus to swimming when I
entered Middle School at Cary Academy.”
“Dynamic person and leader”
McArdle, said Head Swim Coach and
Athletic Director Kevin Jones, is one
of those athletes a coach loves to have
on his team.
“When I took over the swim team four
years ago, I was fortunate enough to have
Gabrielle as a ninth-grade swimmer. She
has been one of the major pieces of the
foundation from which we have built our
team’s success, accumulating a 49 -10
record and a conference championship.
Gabrielle is not only an
outstanding swimmer,
but a dynamic person
and leader. As one of this
year’s team captains,
Gabrielle’s poise, work
ethic and attention to
detail have made her a
tremendous role model
for other members of
the team. With this being
Gabrielle’s senior year,
it’s going to be tough
losing her, but I can’t
thank her enough for
what she has done for
the girls’ swim program
at Cary Academy!”
State runner-up
in 500 free
McArdle said she does
not have a favorite stroke, but has swum
“pretty much every stroke and all three
relays” during her time at CA. “It just
depends on where the team needs me for
that meet. Since I am pretty balanced in all
four strokes, I enjoy the individual medley,
which is a swim that includes all four
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Cary Academy January / February 2014
Since the seventh grade, Gabrielle
McArdle (’14) has given her all to the CA
swimming team, lettering every year.
But this commitment to the Chargers is
not unusual for McArdle who has been
swimming competitively since a young age.
Plans to club swim in college
The senior has not made a decision on
college yet. “I went through much deliberation on whether to go to a smaller school
to swim, but I decided I wanted to go to a
large university with D1 sports where I will
not varsity swim. However, I plan to club
swim. I am not totally set on a major yet,
but know I want to do something in the
sciences and will minor in Spanish.
“I really enjoy science, math and
Spanish,” she continued, “which is why I
think I want to
pursue a career
in the medical
field. I love how I
can always relate
science and
math curriculum
to everyday life.”
McArdle is
grateful for what
her years of
competitive
swimming have
given her.
“Swimming is
not only a great
way to stay
physically fit, but
it has taught me
time management, personal
discipline and commitment, and goal
setting. Swimming six days a week and full
weekend meets has enabled me to form
priceless relationships with my teammates, which I cherish the most.”
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Class of 2002
Alumni: Contact [email protected] with your updates!
Class of 2007
Cary Academy Class Agent Listing
Teresa Porter was recently featured on the
Ruth Hendren, a graduate of the University
Huffington Post for her photography blog
of Colorado, is living in Denver with fellow
post So You’re Feeling too Fat to be
2007 alum Lillian Cherry near downtown.
Photographed. The post can be viewed
She is working on the staff of the Rocky
here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Mountain Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes
teresa-s-porter/so-youre-feeling-too-fat-to-
Research Foundation as a development
be-photographed_b_4351360.html
coordinator.
Class of 2005
Travis Wright Colopy had a very busy year
During the past year Alex Hammer has
in 2013. After completing his broker license
been volunteering at the John Avery Boys
he joined Prudential Real Estate. During the
and Girls Club in Durham. She mentored
spring, he started sponsoring Fit & Able
middle school students this summer and
events and in June joined Fit & Able
has continued to work with them on Fridays
Productions Inc. to help stage the National
during the school year. The Boys and Girls
Class of 2002 Meagan Singer, [email protected]
Class of 2003 Jeremy Allen, [email protected]
Class of 2005 Kelly King, [email protected] •
Alyse Finkel, [email protected] • Jennifer Guy,
[email protected]
Class of 2006 Lianne Gonsalves, [email protected]
Class of 2007 Sam Fuchs, [email protected] •
Sarah Helfer, [email protected] • Morgan Smith,
[email protected]
Class of 2008 Jackie Lee, [email protected] •
Elizabeth Atkins, [email protected]
Class of 2009 Jennifer Cash, [email protected] •
Michael Kahn, [email protected]
Trails Day celebration of the Town of Cary
Club honored her
completing 70 miles of Greenways trails. In
this fall as the
2014 he will be staging 55 events in Cary
Volunteer of the
including the new Corporate Games Cary
Year (pictured).
series. The Games’ slogan is Fitness is the
She has accepted
Game. Are you ready to play? Check out the
a position with
Class of 2011 Alisha Jarwala, [email protected] •
Nicole Kofman, [email protected]
Fit & Able events for 2014 at CaryGames.
Teach for America
Class of 2012 Kelsey Miller, [email protected]
com and FitandAble.com.
for the next two
Class of 2013 Elizabeth Walton, [email protected] •
Rachna Kuchibhatla, [email protected]
years. Following
In February 2013 Glen Wright Colopy
May she will be moving to St. Louis to
returned to England to work for a University
teach elementary school.
using statistics and predictive algorithms to
Class of 2010 Emily Bissett, [email protected] •
Mary Karasek, [email protected] • Tiffany Petrisko,
[email protected]
graduation in
of Oxford hospital as a clinical informatician,
Cary Academy January / February 2014
Class of 2001 Rose Brown Doyle, [email protected] •
Courtney Singer, [email protected]
Class of 2004 position is vacant
Class of 2010
Class of 2006
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Class of 2000 Darcy Zorio, [email protected] •
Ann Gulley Katsiak, [email protected] • Kathleen
Foley-Mason, [email protected]
Class of 2012
submitted winning video essays explaining
their personal struggles with acne and their
experience getting treatment from a
dermatologist or other medical professional.
better link genetic information with clinical
Jake Owen’s eight-page article Auto Gallery
Applicants also had to submit two letters of
outcomes, particularly in leukemia and
2013 and photographs was the featured
recommendation and information about
melanoma patients. In May he received his
article in the prestigious Performance Tuner
school and community activities.
second master’s degree from Oxford. This
Magazine Nov/Dec issue. Owen, in addition
past fall he started his D.Phil. at Oxford’s
to being in his second year of college,
Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare
also is an active professional photographer
Innovation and was selected to run for the
and writer contributing to the California
Oxford Blues and will race against
auto scene.
that appeared on a fan site for World of
Warcraft. In the article he talks about
balancing gaming with school work and real
life social issues. He attributes learning this
Cambridge in December.
Charles Hendren and Anna von Kantzow
Alex Velto was interviewed for an article
Class of 2013
are engaged and living in Stockholm.
Emily Aarons has won an I Acanya
Charles transferred in August from New
Succeed scholarship sponsored by Medicis,
York where he was working with Boston
maker of the acne treatment Acanya. The
Consulting Group (BCG). He is still with
scholarships, each worth $48,000 over four
BCG in Stockholm.
years, went to three students who
to the restrictions his parents put in place
when he first started playing. The article
can be viewed at: http://wow.joystiq.
com/2014/01/16/
growing-up-in-wow-one-third-of-a-lifetimeshared-with-azeroth-t/
Portrait of the artist as an animal lover
Junior painting pet portraits to raise funds for animal rescue organization
As winter started, Cary
Academy student and artist
Isabelle Blank (’15) began looking
Blank raises money for HEART by creating commissioned pet
portraits and donating all proceeds to the organization.
“By the end of January, I will have done about seven portraits
for ways to help the local rescue
and raised $350,” said Blank, who charges $50 for each oil pastel
organization where she volun-
portrait. “In the summer, I plan to do a portrait a week and
teers. Why not use her talents as
raise money that will help the rescue tremendously. It’s a small
an artist, she thought?
organization, and this ongoing fundraiser that I’ve initiated is a
huge help.”
Have a HEART
Thus was born a fruitful
partnership with Raleigh-based
Volunteer and customer
Blank, whose family got its latest rescue dog, Winnie, from
Heaven and Earth Animal Rescue
HEART last December, said the idea to help out by painting came
Team (HEART).
to her during one of her volunteer stints.
“I volunteer at the rescue events on Saturdays, and one day, I
was thinking of ways I could help raise money for the rescue so
that the rescue would be able to save more animals. I had just
done an oil pastel portrait of my dog and myself in art class (at CA),
and I thought that I could put my passion for art to use in helping
the community.”
If anyone would like a pet portrait by Blank, contact
her at [email protected] and send a high resolution
picture of your pet.
As part of an MLK service activity, the Key
Club and NHS sponsored a book drive to
help Book Harvest NC, which benefits
low-income children in the Triangle. The
book drive collected 2,500 books from the
MS and US. Twenty-four Key and Beta Club
members volunteered at the main Book
Harvest collection and sorting event on
MLK Day at the Caroline Theater in
Durham.
Making the All-District Bands 2014 are Pranay
Tankala (‘17), clarinet; Ben Lipson (‘18),
trumpet; and Will Snider (‘18), snare
drum. Tankala is eligible to audition for
All-State.
On Jan. 18, seven Cary Academy
orchestra members participated in the
NCMEA Eastern Regional All State
Orchestra Audition. All seven
won the chair from this
competition. Eastern
Regional Symphony
Orchestra: Hannah Chow, 1st
violin section; Alex Qiao, 1st
violin section; Jacob
Henderson, 1st violin section;
Sena Park, flute section;
Hannah Scanlon, oboe section. Eastern
Regional String Orchestra: Julia Reich,
2nd violin section; Rachel Shelton, 2nd
violin section.
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To celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day the
Upper School gathered in the theater on
the afternoon of Jan. 17 for Tired Souls:
King and the Montgomery Bus Boycott,
performed by Mike Wiley. The Middle
School honored King on Jan. 31 in the SEA
with At the Table with Dr. King.
Visiting artist Bryant Holsenbeck of Durham
working the week of Jan. 13-17 with the
Upper School’s Art and Design classes,
helping them turn discarded plastic bottles
into art. Using approximately 3,000 bottles,
half of them collected by the CA community
and half
donated by
Holsenbeck,
students built a
waterfall and
created window
installations in
the lobby of
Berger Hall
(pictured).
Holsenbeck appeared thanks to a grant from
the PTAA.
i mpor tant
dat e s
Seussical
Feb. 12-14
PTAA auction
Feb. 22
End of T2
Feb. 28
Driver’s education spring class
March 10
Start of T3
March 17
PTAA/division head meeting
March 19
CA PTAA Auction 101
From
Charger Cup,
employee appreciation luncheons, to
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The auction is comprised of three main
components:
1. Online (Feb. 5-19) A variety of items
credit for next school year. The winning
ticket will be drawn on auction night and
you do not need to be present to win.
interview skills training, your PTAA
in an affordable price range will be available
You may purchase one ticket for $50 or
enhances the CA experience with more
for bidding from the convenience of home.
five for $200.
than 100 events each year. Your support
Think of it as Cary Academy’s very own
for our annual PTAA Auction — our only
eBay!
fundraiser — makes it possible to enrich
our community with these programs and
events. Here’s everything that you need
to know to help make this year’s auction on
Feb. 22 at Prestonwood Country Club,
2. Super Silent (Feb. 22) There will
be select items on display the evening of
for silent bidding from your mobile device.
3. Live Auction (Feb. 22) CA parent
Please check our PTAA Auction web site
often as we will be highlighting exciting
items for you to bid on, as well as answering your most Frequently Asked Questions.
Socialize & Celebrate — Our auction
provides a fantastic opportunity to bring
our community together for an evening of
Robin Eisenbeis has again graciously
dinner, dancing and fun … all to raise funds
donated her services. She does a fabulous
for Cary Academy’s PTAA! We hope to see
commitment to the PTAA by showcasing
job to ensure that everyone has a great
you there!
your business as a PTAA Auction
time bidding high and bidding often for the
Sponsor. You’ll receive exposure on all
live auction items.
the best ever.
Sponsors — Demonstrate your
marketing material, the PTAA Web site
and public recognition at the event.
In addition, there will be an opportunity
to try your chances at winning half-tuition
— DeAnnah Baker, PTAA President ‘13-’14