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Articles from
July 2008
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Harvard-Westlake's Jonathan Lee '08 recently earned a silver medal in the International Chemistry Olympiad.
Current student Joshua O. '09 earned a gold medal in the International Physics Olympiad earlier this week.
Read more about these two young men by visiting The Chronicle online, Harvard-Westlake's award-winning student-run newspaper.
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Jesse Draper, who stars in the Nickelodeon show, The Naked Brothers Band, and Sharon Lee '02 have teamed up to produce a new webseries, VALLEY GIRL: The Jesse Draper Show.
According to the press release, "The first episode of VALLEY GIRL: The Jesse Draper Show will air July 28 at 9 a.m. EST on www.VALLEYGIRLONLINE.com, with a new episode each Monday to follow for 10 weeks.
Photo: Sharon Lee '02 (right) with Jesse Draper and one of their show's guests, Founder and CEO of Glam Media Samir Arora.
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Ali Riley '06 has been named to the New Zealand Olympic Committee's soccer team and will represent the Football Ferns in Beijing next month at the Olympic Games. Ali currently plays soccer for Stanford University.
Ali will be the third Harvard-Westlake graduate to compete in the 2008 Olympics, joining Dara Torres '85 (swimming) and Peter Hudnut '99 (water polo).
A brief biography of Ali can be found on the NBC Olympics website.
For more information, visit the Stanford Cardinal athletic site.
Photo credit: Stanford University athletics.
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Hip, Hip, Hooray! It's Monsoon Day!, a book by Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford '71, has won an Américas Award as a Commended Title for 2008.
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Danny Seo '96 is the new president of the Harvard-Westlake Alumni Association (HWAA), as of July 1. He takes over from Candice Pearson Pate '92, who served as president for the past four years. Read More
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Dara Torres '85 will make her fifth Olympic appearance this summer in the 50-meter freestyle event. Torres will be the first U.S. swimmer to compete in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008).
A brief biography of Dara can be found on the NBC Olympics website.
Congratulations, Dara!
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Six Harvard-Westlake students were named either semifinalists or finalists at the Moondance International Film Festival, which will be held August 29 through September 1, 2008 in Boulder, Colorado. Congratulations to Evan H.'07, Jessica L. 08, Xochi M. '12, Michael S. '09, Danielle S. '11, and Zelda W. '13.
In the "Short Films by Kids" category, all five finalists were Harvard-Westlake students!
For more information about the Moondance Film Festival, which calls itself "The American Cannes," visit their website.
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USA Water Polo announced today that Peter Hudnut '99 will be a member of the U.S. Olympic Team roster at the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
To read the press release, click here.
A brief biography of Peter can be found on the NBC Olympics website.
Photo Credit: Kirby Lee. Permission for use by USA Water Polo.
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