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For the third time in four years, 40 of the nation's top high school baseball players will descend upon San Diego to play in the AFLAC All-American High School Baseball Classic, the country's premier high school baseball showcase. This year's game, featuring Austin Wilson '10, will be played Aug. 16 at 5 p.m. PDT in PETCO Park, home of the San Diego Padres, and will be nationally televised live on FOX Sports Net. Click here for the full story.
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Jazz vocalist Nora Rothman '09 will be performing Thursday, July 2, at Spazio in Sherman Oaks.
Nora will be joined by a quartet of musicians, including Upper School Performing Arts Teacher Shawn Costantino.
To purchase tickets, visit www.spazio.la.
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Here is an excerpt from the book's website:
Adam Werbach is the author of the upcoming book Strategy for Sustainability, to be published by Harvard Business Press in July 2009. Werbach is widely known as one of the foremost experts in sustainability strategy.
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100 Things Dodgers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, a book by Jon Weisman '85, has just been published by Triumph Books. Weisman is the founder and writer of the Los Angeles Times blog "Dodger Thoughts," the leading website providing commentary on the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Upper School English Teacher Adam Howard '93 and former Upper School Performing Arts Head Dan Fishbach '94 are featured in a production of Search and Destroy, a play by Howard Korder.
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Gavin McCourt '09 was selected in the 39th round of Major League Baseball's amateur draft on Thursday by the Boston Red Sox. McCourt just finished his senior season at Harvard-Westlake, earning 1st Team All-Mission League honors for the first time in his career. McCourt finished the season with a .388 batting average as the Wolverine lead-off hitter.
Gavin was a three-sport athlete during his time at Harvard-Westlake, also playing on the football and soccer teams.
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The University of California, Santa Cruz has honored Robin King '75 with its Excellence in Teaching Award.
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Robert Lynn has been named head water polo coach for Harvard-Westlake School. He replaces Larry Felix, who left the position in March. Lynn will oversee the boys’ and girls’ programs.
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Runner Lizzie Danhakl '07 was recently recognized as an All-American at the 2009 Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Marietta, Ohio. Locally, soccer player Maddie Lenard '09 also earned honors, including Athlete of the Year by the Chronicle, Harvard-Westlake's school newspaper.
Both Danhakl and Lenard were mentioned in a recent article in the Palisadian-Post.
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Shelby L. '09 was recently named a "Renaissance Teen With Purpose" by the Jewish Journal. Shelby was noted for turning her jewelry-making hobby into more than $70,000 for a Jewish World Watch campaign to provide solar cookers to women in Darfuri refugee camps.
To read the article, click here.
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