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 This is the last call to order DVDs of any 2010 events including:

• Commencement 2010
• Spring Dance Performance
• Ashley Daigle's Senior Project Performance

If you are intestered in other 2010 events please email communications@sbschool.org before July 1, 2010. 

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Friday, June 4, 2010 was Stoneleigh-Burnham School’s 141st commencement exercises. And what a fine day it was. The usual weather watching all week has preceded the occasion, as we all watched, hopeful as predictions of rain and thunderstorms migrated through the 5-day forecast. It seems appropriate that this class that began it’s year with the threat of the H1N1 virus and came into the final week of school with no power due to a mighty spring storm, would get a perfect day to graduate. Click here to read the full blog post.

Click here to view all the photos from the weeks events. 

In Geissler Gallery on June 3, 2010 Stoneleigh-Burnham took time to recognize many individuals for their hard work throughout the school year. Please see the list of awards presented below.

English Awards

• Ninth Grade English: Nafisatou Mounkaila
• Sophomore English: Emily Hewlings
• Junior English: Seung Yun Theresa Oh
• Senior English: Bryna Cofrin-Shaw

History Awards

• Ninth Grade History: Avery Roy
• Sophomore History: Emily Hewlings
• Senior History: Bryna Cofrin-Shaw
• Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony Award in the Humanities: Manuela Uribe

Math Awards

• Ninth Grade Mathematics: Wanting Vivian Weng
• Sophomore Mathematics: Jiayi Selma Liang
• Junior Mathematics: Chen Yao Lydia Feng
• Senior Mathematics: Yi Rebecca Gao

Language Awards

• Ninth Grade: Nafisatou Mounkaila
• Sophomore: Claire Callahan & Colleen Balk
• Junior: Manuela Uribe

Sciences Awards

• Ninth Grade: Courtney Hartford
• Sophomore: Mia Anthony
• University of Rochester Award (Bausch & Lomb Science Award): Kristina Athey
• Sally Davis Senior Science Award: Do Yeon Kim

Visual Arts Awards

• Sophomore: Dasom Yoon
• Junior: Ying Phoebe Zhang
• Art Department Book Award: Chiao-Wen Lisa Cheng
• Rhode Island School of Design Book Award: Kimberly Balk

Performing Arts Awards

• Underclass Vocal Music Award: Zoë Mancuso Dunkelberg & Seung Yun Theresa Oh
• Underclass Instrumental Music Award: Jane Lee
• Underclass Theater Award: Zoë Mancuso Dunkelberg
• Underclass Dance Award: Avery Roy
• Senior Vocal Award: Skyisha McCarter & You Whoa Catherine Oh
• Senior Instrumental Music Award: Do Yeon Kim
• Senior Dance Award: Ashley Daigle
• Performing Arts Award: Bryna Cofrin-Shaw

ESL Awards

• Department Prize: Shih-Ju Theresa Oung

Debate Awards

• Most Valuable Debater: Kathleen Bordewieck & Bryna Cofrin-Shaw
• Most Improved Debater: Sophie Dorsch

Athletics Awards

• Most Improved Athlete: Laura Newton
• The Bonnie Benn Jesser Award: Kimberly Balk
• Most Valuable Athlete: Bryna Cofrin-Shaw
• Most Improved Rider: Kristina Athey
• Stoneleigh-Burnham Perpetual Dressage Award: Julia Short
• Riding Sportsmanship Award: Tess Drouin Reed
• Horsemastership Award: Sophie Dorsch

Lion's Club Scholarship

• Leah Zraunig

National Honor Society

(New Juniors – Provisional Members)

• Chen Yao Lydia Feng
• Seung Yun Theresa Oh
• Ying Phoebe Zhang
• Shiyun Zheng

(New Seniors)

• Do Yeon Kim
• Laura Newton
• Dylan Tomalin

(Previously Inducted)

• Bryna Cofrin-Shaw
• Yi Rebecca Gao
• Elisheba Odei
• Yinzi Jet Wang

Academic Growth Awards:

• Qian Wen Connie Chen 
• Skyisha McCarter

Student Council Awards

• Faculty Appreciation Award: Judith Nuño
• Student Council Award for Community Service: Manuela Uribe
• Student Council Citizenship Award: Nafisatou Mounkaila

Dartmouth College Club Book Award: Kristina Athey

Wellesley College Club Book Award: Courtney McKnight

Smith College Club Book Award: Manuela Uribe

Mt. Holyoke College Book Award: Seung Yun Theresa Oh

Four-Year Senior Recognitions:

• Soo Yeon Morgan Bae
• Kimberly Balk
• Chieh-Ling Lisa Chen
• Chiao-Wen Lisa Cheng
• Ashley Daigle
• Do Yeon Kim
• Skyisha McCarter
• Elisheba Odei
• Laura Newton
• Leah Zraunig

Five-Year Senior Recognition:

• Sophie Dorsch

Six-Year Senior/Founder Recognitions:

• Kathleen Bordewieck
• Bryna Cofrin-Shaw
• Julia Short

Class Awards

• Ninth Grade: Nafisatou Mounkaila
• Sophomore: Colleen Balk
• Senior: Irina Ira Bouchard
• Junior Leadership Award: Charlotte Charli Brown

Mary A. green Award: Jamie Beauchesne

This year saw the creation of a new committee at Stoneleigh-Burnham School. The Community Alliance is a group of faculty, administrators and students charged with grappling with the tough questions that arise in a small multicultural community like that at Stoneleigh-Burnham. Formerly the Diversity Committee, the Community Alliance was formed at the end of last year with the goal in mind of including the student voice in conversations about culture, difference and other social justice issues. In the fall, interested students were asked to submit an essay stating why they were interested in joining. Six students representing the middle and upper school were invited to join.

In February the Alliance hosted a Morning of Awareness; a morning of workshops offered to the whole school to discuss the question "What is culture?" The event was a huge success and will be repeated next year in January. This spring the Alliance presented Head of School Sally Mixsell with a proposal of the group's priorities for next year, all centered on community building. 

At its final meeting the group had to say goodbye to some members who will be moving on next year, including senior Monika Santelli. Each member shared what he or she had taken away from the work of the committee this year. The message that was repeated over and over again was that each had been forced to check in with his and her own assumptions about culture and difference. 

Mathematics contest prizes for the 2009-2010 school year were announced at the final housemeeting of the year in Geissler Gallery on Tuesday, May 25. The SBS Mathematics Department conducts an annual mathematics competition consisting of three separate tests covering a wide variety of topics. Each test poses seven challenging problems not seen in the classroom. The contest is divided into two levels, and the students with the highest total points are awarded certificates.

Junior Division Mathematics Contest Runner-up: Melanie Xinying Mu

Junior Division Mathematics Contest Winner: Anita Weiyan Liao

There was a tie for first place in the Senior Division.

Senior Division Mathematics Contest Winner: Do Yeon Kim

Senior Division Mathematics Contest Winner: Jet Yinzi Wang

Each year students in the upper school compete in a graded creative writing contest. The assignments at each grade level offer a welcome departure from analytical writing, and the stories and essays we choose to recognize here today represent some of the best writing of the year. Ernest Hemingway said that, “prose is architecture, not interior decoration.” Thefollowing students showed not just that they have something to say, but they know how to say it, how to construct a memorable and affecting piece using the architecture of language.

For the short story contest this year, the 9th graders were asked to create an unrealistic world in which realistic characters and emotions can take place. We chose a runner up and a winner who did just that; creating worlds set on land, under water, and out in space.

Honorable mention: “The Land of Many Lands” by Jo MacIntyre

First Place: “Untitled” by Sadie Waring

The sophomore short story focused on character development; particularly on creating a believable character who was different from the author. This year’s runner up and winner both chose to write from a male perspective; one in the simple voice of a child, and one in the voice of a distraught man.

Honorable mention: “The Paper Route” by Claire Callahan

First place: “Passing” by Emily Mangan

The junior essay contest is a rite of passage. Students must write a personal narrative about the things they carry,and the results of this prompt produce the best writing of the year. This essayis my personal favorite. We chose 2 runner ups and a winner, and they all wrote about some of the biggest themes in life: love, loss, friendship, growing up,and holding on.

Honorable Mention:  “Undertow” by Zoe Mancuso-Dunkelberg

Honorable Mention: “Things Have Changed For Me, But That’s OK, I Feel The Same” by Portia Ra

First Place: “MNS” by Rissy Dowrey 

The senior essay was prompted only with a deceptively simple question: Where do we go from here? The 3 essays we chose to recognize each experimented with style and structure in very different ways.They share a common theme of relationships: relationship to self, to place, to others.

Honorable Mention:  “Opening” by Kim Balk

Honorable Mention: “F of S equals the sum of S and J raised to the power L plus V plus B” by Sophie Dorsch

First Place: “Things I could not Find” by Jet Wang

The admissions office would like to acknowledge and thank the members of the Blue Key Society for their service to SBS this year and announce theBlue Key members for the 2010 - 2011 school year.

Membership in Blue Key is by nomination of the faculty.  This makes it an honorary society and the only honorary society at Stoneleigh-Burnham

Blue Key is best known for giving tours to prospective families, but they also give tours to visiting faculty, educational consultants, and various other VIPs throughout the year.  They may also be called on to represent the school at events off campus, and some continue to give tours over the summer.  The value of their service to Stoneleigh-Burnham is impossible to calculate.

New Members:

• Franny Eremeeva
• Kaci Kokoski
• Sophia Orellana
• Maah Otchere
• Piper Miller
• Jane Logan
• Aminata Barry
• Anna Swartzentruber
• Kate Strousse
• Nafisatou Mounkaila
• Courtney Hartford
• Emily Hewlings
• Colleen Balk
• Icey Wang
• Tess Reed
• Courtney McKnight
• Pheobe Zhang
• Manuela Uribe
• Jane Lee

 Returning Members:

• Alissa Ames
• Ashley Chung
• Avery Roy
• Rachel Gledhill
• Charli Brown
• Kristina Athey
• Claire Callahan
• Hannah Reynolds
• Emily Mangan
• Lizzy Galluzzo
• Shiyun Zheng

Friday - Sunday, June 11 - 13
Reunion 2010

Tuesday - Saturday, June 22 - 26
Intensive Riding Camp

Sunday - Saturday, June 27 - July 10
Bonnie Castle Riding Camp - Session 1

Sunday - Saturday, July 4 - 10
The Sorvino Dance Intensive - Session 1

Sunday - Saturday, July 11 - July 24
Bonnie Castle Riding Camp - Session 2

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