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Guys and Dolls at Poughkeepsie Day School |
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December 2011
Contact: Sandra Moore (smoore@poughkeepsieday.org; ext 110)
Poughkeepsie Day School will mount a high school production of the Tony Award-winning musical,Guys and Dolls, December 8 and 9 at 7 pm and December 10 at 2 pm, in the school’s James Earl Jones Theater (Elizabeth C. Gilkeson Center, 260 Boardman Road, Town of Poughkeepsie).With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, the musical is based on two short stories by Damon Runyon. Set in a fictional city closely resembling New York in the 1940s, the musical features such standards as “Luck Be a Lady,” “If I Were a Bell,” “Adelaide’s Lament” and many more. The play premiered on Broadway in 1950, winning a Tony award for Best Musical that year, and the 1955 film adaptation starred Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. Fun for all ages, the production is free and open to the public. For more information and directions:www.poughkeepsieday.org.
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Poughkeepsie Day School Elects New Trustees |
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August 2011
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Four new parent trustees—Elizabeth Gundek, LaGrange; Andrea Klein, Stormville; Nadine Raphael, Wappingers Falls and Mark Stapylton, Rhinebeck —were elected to the Poughkeepsie Day School board of trustees at the annual meeting of the school’s corporation. Parent trustee and former board president Julie Stevenson, New Paltz, was re-elected and Mark Metzger, Poughkeepsie, was selected as the newest member of the board's committee on trustees. Ms. Gundek, a former sales and marketing professional for the Chicago branch of ELI, a workplace legal training firm, based in Atlanta, is an active PDS Parents Organization (PDSPO) volunteer. She also is a board member and director of marketing for Half Moon Theater; an elder in session at Freedom Plains United Presbyterian Church; a troop leader, volunteer community chair, and community cookie chair for the Girl Scouts; and trustee of the Poughkeepsie Tennis Club board. Active in the PDSPA since 2004, Ms. Klein has organized the welcome-back –to-school picnics, faculty appreciation brunches and chili dinners as well as assisted with the admissions buddy program. Most recently, as the high school parent rep coordinator, she sponsored and coordinated twice-yearly high school parent-faculty get-togethers. Ms. Klein previously worked in the Human Resources department of PepsiCo Food Service International, a division of PepsiCo. Ms. Raphael is a development officer at the Locust Grove Estate in Poughkeepsie, where she previously served as a volunteer docent and archivist. She is a former vice president and production manager of commercials and industrial films for Horizon Studios and editor/production manager for the International Center for Educational Advancement, a division of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, both located in New York City. Managing partner of Hall & Partners, a marketing research and consulting firm that serves Fortune 500 companies, Mr. Stapylton has more than 25 years of experience in marketing, business and communications strategy. A former senior vice president of Harris Interactive and vice president for corporate research at Young & Rubicam, his professional memberships include the American Marketing Association and the Marketing Science Institute among others. Ms. Stevenson has been a PDS trustee since 2001 and the chair of several board committees in addition to serving as board president for four years. Currently chair of the school’s board development committee, she runs La Luna Farm, a horse boarding and training facility, and teaches riding. Ms. Stevenson is a former adjunct professor at SUNY New Paltz, who also taught elementary grades at the San Francisco School in CA and served on its board. Mr. Metzger co-founded the law firm of Goldstein & Metzger after 10 years as a solo practitioner. A former elementary and secondary school teacher in the Colonie (NY) Central School District, Mr. Metzger has served on the boards of the Association for Retarded Citizens (Dutchess County); Dutchess County Bar Association Pro Bono Program; Arlington Education Foundation (founding member) and the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County, among others. A past president of the Arlington Central School District board, he is a member of the New York State and Dutchess County Bar associations and other professional associations. |
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Poughkeepsie Day School Appoints New Enrollment and Marketing Director |
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July 14, 2011
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Josie Holford, head of Poughkeepsie Day School, has announced the appointment of Carol Bahruth, of Poughkeepsie, as the school’s new director of enrollment and marketing. She succeeds Jill Lundquist, who retired on June 30 after 13 years as the director of admissions at the pre-k through grade 12 independent school. Ms. Lundquist, of Barrytown, was honored for her dedicated service to the school at a special, end-of-year luncheon.
Ms. Holford said, “The depth and breadth of Ms. Bahruth’s expertise in education, design, training and business serve as an exceptionally rich background for her work at PDS. Since 2002, she has been closely involved in the life of the school as a parent, volunteer and trustee, and with her children entering first and seventh grades in the fall, she truly understands how PDS connects joy to learning. I am excited to work with her as we continue to build and shape the school for the future.”
Ms. Bahruth is a magna cum laude graduate of the State University of New York, Albany, with a B.A. in English and Education. She received an M.S. in Technical Communications, summa cum laude, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and holds an Advanced Certificate in Interactive Media Development from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from The George Washington University, School of Business & Public Management. A former high school and college English teacher, Ms. Bahruth spent 25 years with IBM in such positions as program manager, lead designer and developer for global new hire orientation; multimedia designer and developer for large systems; education customer representative and planner; software designer and tester; and information developer for user and programmer guides. In addition to her volunteer service at Poughkeepsie Day School, she has sat on the boards of the YWCA and led educational programs at EXITE Camp for Girls ProjectView Minority Recruiting as well as coached AYSO soccer and Little League softball.
Poughkeepsie Day School, established in 1934 by members of the Vassar College faculty and local community, enrolls 300 students from throughout the Hudson Valley. This fall the school will welcome 10 new students from China, the first group of high schoolers to be enrolled in its newly launched international program. For more information, call 845-462-7600, ext. 201, or e-mail admissions@poughkeepsieday.org.
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Poughkeepsie Day School Teacher Receives National Recognition |
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June 2011
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Jacob Lahey, 7th and 8th-grade history teacher at Poughkeepsie Day School, was among 80 educators selected as an NEH Summer Scholar from a national applicant pool and given a stipend to attend one of 20 summer study opportunities supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities this month. The Endowment is a federal agency that each summer supports Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops so that teachers can study with experts in humanities disciplines.
Lahey participated in a workshop, entitled “Crafting Freedom: African American Artisans, Entrepreneurs, and Abolitionists of the Upper South,” at African American historic sites throughout the Piedmont region of North Carolina and on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The workshop director, Laurel C. Sneed, who facilitated the workshop, is executive director of the Apprend Foundation, dedicated to improving dissemination of knowledge about African American history among K-12 teachers and their students through teacher seminars, public programs and the development of new media. A website of resources on nine black “freedom crafters” called the Crafting Freedom Website (www.craftingfreedom.org) served as a focal point of the workshop.
Sixteen-hundred teachers--who, in turn, will share their knowledge with more than 280,000 students this fall--attended the ''Crafting Freedom'' workshop and 19 other NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops, centered around such topics as Benjamin Franklin; Fort Niagara; Emily Dickinson; Philadelphia and the Early Republic; the Industrial Revolution; James Madison; African-American History in Massachusetts; Duke Ellington; the Chicago Lakefront; the abolition, women’s rights, and religious revival movements in upstate New York; mining in the far west; Abraham Lincoln; the Hudson River; Zora Neale Hurston; Fort Ticonderoga; California history; and the Underground Railroad. |
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Playwright Rob Handel to Address Poughkeepsie Day School Graduates |
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June 2011
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Award-winning playwright and alumnus Rob Handel ‘86 will be the featured speaker at Poughkeepsie Day School’s Class of 2011 Commencement on Wednesday, June 8. Head of school Josie Holford and Stan Lichens, president of the school's board of trustees, will award diplomas to the 26 seniors, who hail from Dutchess, Ulster and Putnam counties. Since the Town of Poughkeepsie independent school graduated its first high school class four decades ago, this rite of passage has been witnessed by all students and faculty, in addition to the graduates' families and friends. And once again, each senior will participate in the ceremonies through a speech, reading or performance. In addition, the school’s jazz ensemble will perform. The event begins at 10:00 am in the school’s gymnasium.
Mr. Handel is a founding member of the playwrights’ collective 13P, which has won two Obie Awards, and heads the dramatic writing program at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. His plays Millicent Scowlworthy and Aphrodisiac are published by Samuel French. Honors include a 2007 Helen Merrill Award and the 2010 Whitfield Cook Award for A Maze, which will be produced this summer by New York Stage and Film at the Powerhouse Theater. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, he taught at The New School, Purchase College, and the University of Missouri–St. Louis. A graduate of Williams College, with an MFA from Brown University, he is a resident playwright at New Dramatists.
In addition to completing the school's demanding college-preparatory program, each Poughkeepsie Day School senior was required to participate in a four-week, off-campus internship in May. This year, placements ranged from the Bardavon Opera House in Poughkeepsie to the Press Office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg in Manhattan to the National Trust of Northern Ireland. A formal presentation detailing students' internship experiences will be held for their families the evening prior to graduation.
The graduates are: Marissa Pipman Allis, Amelia Francesca Elizabeth Biasiny, Rachel Kira Campbell, Emily Ruth Judson, Dylan Patrick Murphy, Meredith Ann Self and Sophia Elizabeth Thornton Wallach, Poughkeepsie; Ian Ettinger, Olivia Guarino Lichens, William Frederick Mosto, Madeleine Amanda Owen-Dunow and Max John Owen-Dunow, Rhinebeck; Maxwell Parish Hegley, Staatsburg; Fatima Iqbal Hosain and Jaffer Hasan Naqvi, Hopewell Junction; Cara Marie Iacoponi, Wappingers Falls; Preston Cosslett Kemeny, Garrison; Calle Scott Knight, Beacon; Joseph Edward Krzyzewski, Pawling; Natalie Grace McKeon, Red Hook; Brittany Rose O’Halloran, Kerhonkson; Gabriel Yoshina Schnider, Accord; Emma Caroline Slade-Baxter and Jacob Edward Slade-Baxter, Highland; Alexander Forrest Tibbetts, Hyde Park and Caroline Turner, Cold Spring. |
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Poughkeepsie Day School Launches International Student Program |
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April 2011
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Josie Holford, head of school at Poughkeepsie Day School, has announced the official launch of an international student program. In keeping with its commitment to help children develop the skills needed to thrive in a global community, the town of Poughkeepsie independent school expects to host eight to ten high school students from China this fall.
The school has partnered with The Cambridge Institute, and has created a variety of informational materials for prospective students and host families, including an online international student admission section on the school website. The school has appointed current school parent Kathleen Jennings as the on-campus program coordinator and China liaison, who will secure and coordinate student housing placements with area families as well as work with the high school head, Elizabeth Vinogradov, and faculty to oversee student orientation.
Ms. Holford said, “Through this collaboration we are assured of strong student candidates who appreciate our educational philosophy and who will add a great deal to our learning community. And we are confident that Kathleen Jennings’ experience living in China as well as her expertise as a Mandarin speaker will help make the students’ transition to PDS smooth. We are very excited that our student community, as well as our international guests, will be exposed to new experiences and new perspectives and make new friends.” Poughkeepsie Day School has a long history of welcoming students from around the globe, and previously has hosted students from Brazil, France, Germany, Korea, Vietnam and Spain. The school is registered with SEVIS, the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, and is authorized to issue I-20's to international students so that they may acquire an F-1 Visa. The school’s new international student initiative is a direct extension of the school’s China Studies curriculum, introduced last fall. This year-long elective course, designed primarily online and accessible to students in all high school grades, culminates this summer with a student trip to China, at which time the PDS delegation hopes to meet with students planning to enroll in September. In preparation for the course, lead teacher and history department chair, Bernadette Condesso, traveled to China last August on a Poughkeepsie Day School professional development grant as part of a teacher tour designed to establish contacts with schools in Beijing; deepen insight into modern Chinese culture and society; and enhance her knowledge through collaborative workshops with teachers in China. For more information about the program and hosting opportunities, contact the admissions office at 845-462-7600, ext. 201, or admissions@poughkeepsieday.org. |
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Last Call for “Embracing Innovation” Workshop Proposals |
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March 14, 2011
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Kindergarten through grade 12 educators in area public and private schools are welcome to submit workshop proposals for the upcoming conference, "Embracing Innovation in a Time of Disruptive Change," to be held at Poughkeepsie Day School on Friday, April 15. The all-day event is co-sponsored by the Independent Curriculum Group (ICG) and the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS).
The conference will address the latest theories and practices related to neuroscience, cognitive processes and the digital environment. It will kick off with a keynote address, “Learning in a Networked World: For Ourselves and for Our Students,” by Will Richardson, author of the highly ranked and internationally read edublog, Blogged-ed, and of the book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Founder and principal of Connective Learning, LLC, Richardson promotes the implementation of read/write technologies in K-12 classrooms. He is also an advocate for school reform that encourages the integration of technology in learning. Recently named to the National Advisory Board for the George Lucas Education Foundation, he is co-owner of Powerful Learning Practice, a company that delivers job-embedded, year-long professional development to schools worldwide around the pedagogies of Web 2.0 tools.
Scheduled workshops currently include: “Science 2.0;” “Technology, Passion and Learning: One Teacher’s Journey into the Digital World of 21st Century Learning;” “From Instinctive Aggregator to Critical Creator: The Google Generation and the Research Assignment;” and ““The Tale of Two Kindergarten Teachers and the Power of A PLN.” |
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Poughkeepsie Day School Hosts “Embracing Innovation” Conference |
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February 15, 2011
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Poughkeepsie Day School will host a cutting-edge conference for public and private school educators from the Hudson Valley, New York City and tri-state area on Friday, April 15. The all-day event, “Embracing Innovation in a Time of Disruptive Change,” is co-sponsored by the Independent Curriculum Group (ICG) and the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS), and is open to K-12 teachers and administrators.
The conference will address the latest theories and practices related to neuroscience, cognitive processes and the digital environment. It will kick off with a keynote address, “Learning in a Networked World: For Ourselves and for Our Students,” by Will Richardson, author of the highly ranked and internationally read edublog, Blogged-ed, and of the book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Founder and principal of Connective Learning, LLC, Richardson promotes the implementation of read/write technologies in K-12 classrooms. He is also an advocate for school reform that encourages the integration of technology in learning. Recently named to the National Advisory Board for the George Lucas Education Foundation, he is co-owner of Powerful Learning Practice, a company that delivers job-embedded, year-long professional development to schools worldwide around the pedagogies of Web 2.0 tools.
Scheduled presentations currently include: “Science 2.0;” “Technology, Passion and Learning: One Teacher’s Journey into the Digital World of 21st Century Learning;” “From Instinctive Aggregator to Critical Creator: The Google Generation and the Research Assignment;” and “Failure Incorporated: Challenging School Culture to Embrace Failure as an Essential Component in Learning.”
Teachers who would like present an interactive workshop during the conference are encouraged to submit proposals by March 15. Conference details as well as registration and proposal forms can be found online at www.poughkeepsieday.org. |
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Poughkeepsie Day School Head Published in Parents League Journal |
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February 11, 2011
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Poughkeepsie Day School’s head of school, Josie Holford, has published an article, “Envisioning the New School,” in The Review, the annual journal of The Parents League of New York.
Since its establishment in 1968, The Review has featured a select group of articles on parenting and education and has included pieces by T. Berry Brazelton, Ned Hallowell, Jane Healy, Michael Thompson, Wynton Marsalis, Leon Botstein, Jane Goodall and Alice Waters, together with articles by parents and educators in New York’s independent schools. In the article, Ms. Holford discusses the increasingly unpredictable and lightening-speed nature of our ever-expanding digital world, and argues that schools must examine carefully what they do and why they do it, in order to help their students meet current and future academic, interpersonal and career challenges successfully: “For over a decade there has been lots of excited talk about the 21st century learner and the need to re-imagine education and redefine rigor for the new age. Unfortunately, however, schools have proved very pliable to the pressures that say more is better—more tests, more AP courses, more curriculum content. Taking on more seems easy, changing the game is so much harder. The needs of childhood are timeless, we tell ourselves, oblivious to the fact that we have already piled more expectations into kindergarten than are reasonable or justifiable by any established and rational theory of child development.” In a recent interview, Ms. Holford, who is a member of the board of directors at the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS), referred to Poughkeepsie Day School’s mission, of “developing educated citizens with a passion for learning and living,” and its ongoing commitment to innovation and critical thinking as values she has embraced and cultivated during her headship at the Town of Poughkeepsie independent school. She added, “Last fall, PDS hosted a screening of the acclaimed documentary, Race to Nowhere, attended by educators and parents from throughout the Hudson Valley, who engaged in thoughtful dialogue about what schools should and should not be doing to benefit our young people. It’s a discussion we plan to continue when we host a national conference on this subject, in conjunction with the Independent Curriculum Group (ICG) this coming April.” The Parents League of New York provides families with a variety of educational resources, including advisory services related to summer camp and school placement. For more information about The Review and the League, visit: http://www.parentsleague.org. |
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Poughkeepsie Day School Mounts Dracula |
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February 7, 2011
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Poughkeepsie Day School will mount a high school production of Dracula, by John Mattera, based on the novel by Bram Stoker, Thursday and Friday, February 10 and 11 at 7 pm, and Saturday, February 12 at 3 pm, in the school’s James Earl Jones Theater, 260 Boardman Road, Town of Poughkeepsie.
In this gothic horror classic, the mysterious Count from Transylvania arrives in England and moves into the abandoned estate. Unable to expose himself to daylight, Dracula, the vampire, haunts his neighbors throughout the night in his never-ending quest for fresh blood. The arrival of the vampire specialist Professor Van Helsing, sets the stage for a battle of good over evil. But Van Helsing has never had to contend with the likes of this formidable centuries-old villain. In this adaptation by Poughkeepsie Day School’s drama director Laura Hicks, fans of vampire stories will find much to enjoy, but the production is not suitable for young children.
Says Ms. Hicks, “Perhaps what makes this particular PDS production unique are the student-designed elements: For the first time ever, lights, set, sound, costumes, props and make-up were designed by a separate creative team made up of students in grades 11 and 12.” The performances are free and open to the public. For directions to Poughkeepsie Day School, visit www.poughkeepsieday.org.
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Poughkeepsie Day School Middle Schoolers Published in Online Magazine |
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February 7, 2011
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Poughkeepsie Day School middle school students Angela Arzu, of Wappingers Falls, and Kenneth Brofman and Claire
Houston, both of Hopewell Junction, were recently published in Teen Ink, a literary magazine featuring poetry, articles and novels authored by teens, as well as photography, reviews and information of interest to students thirteen through eighteen years of age. Pieces by the three students are included in the current online version of the magazine (http://teenink.com/), and several are candidates to be published in the upcoming print version of the magazine.
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Poughkeepsie Day School Meets Diversity Challenge |
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January 20, 2011
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Poughkeepsie Day School’s head of school, Josie Holford, recently announced that the school community has successfully met the 2010 Diversity Challenge goal of raising $25,000 by December 31, 2010 in support of need-based financial aid for students enrolled in the Town of Poughkeepsie independent school.
“Diversity is a core value embodied in the school’s mission,” said Ms. Holford. She added, "Respect for diversity and openness to difference is a source of strength and a means of growth and speaks to who we are as a school. In striving to be an inclusive and culturally competent community, we honor multiple perspectives just as we seek the common ground that unites all people. As our local and national populations continue to evolve and the Internet continues to connect people and cultures with astonishing immediacy, the ability of our students to successfully interact in diverse environments depends on developing wider perspectives and an understanding of differences. We are truly grateful to everyone who contributed to this Challenge.”
The Diversity Challenge was established in 2005 by an anonymous donor who understood the benefits that accrue to a school community with a student body that is racially, culturally and socio-economically diverse as well as gender-balanced in classrooms. Each year, since then, the donor has offered to contribute $25,000 for need-based diversity scholarships if the PDS community could raise an additional $25,000 for this purpose. Since its inception, this initiative has raised more than $350,000 and funded more than 100 awards, significantly increasing the diversity of the PDS student body and enriching the educational experience for all.
For more information on the Diversity Challenge, contact Bryan Maloney, director of development, at 845-462-7600, ext. 113; bmaloney@poughkeepsieday.org.
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Poughkeepise Day School Offers Online Poetry Course |
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December 8, 2010
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Poughkeepsie Day School will offer a spring semester online poetry class for students in grades 8-12 from the mid-Hudson Valley and beyond. Participants will study classical and contemporary works, learn about poetic conventions, write and share their own poems with peers and, ultimately, have their work published. Students who successfully complete the course will earn ½ (one-semester) credit.
The class, which is slated to begin in late January, will be taught by Trace Erdahl-Schillinger, chair of the English department at Poughkeepsie Day School, who is a veteran teacher, published poet, advisor to the school’s award-winning magazine, Scarlet, and doctoral candidate in the teaching of poetry at Teachers College, Columbia University.
To find out more about this online opportunity and to register, visit: http://www.poughkeepsieday.org/onlinepoetry. Class size is limited to 12 students, and spaces are being filled on a first-come, first-served basis. The deadline for registration is January 21 with a 10% discount given to students who enroll on or before December 17.
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Poughkeepsie Day School Mounts Tom Jones Production |
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November 30, 2010
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Poughkeepsie, NY – Poughkeepsie Day School will mount a production of David Rogers’ Tom Jones, based on Henry Fielding’s comic masterpiece, on December 9, 10 and 11 in the school’s James Earl Jones Theater. The play, a delightful romp through 18th century England, follows the adventures of an innocent foundling, and the lovers and enemies he leaves in his wake. Through no fault of his own, women fall instantly in love with Tom Jones and men want to fight him. Says director Laura Hicks, “This play brims over with farce and romance and enables a large cast to create dynamic characterizations and, in turn, an imaginative and fast-moving performance.” The book was made into an Academy award-winning film, starring Albert Finney, in the 1960’s. The curtain goes up at 7 pm on Thursday and Friday evenings and at 2 pm for the Saturday matinee. Performances are free and open to the public. For more information: www.poughkeepsieday.org.
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Poughkeepsie Day School Elects New Trustees |
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November 30, 2010
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Four new parent trustees—Carol Bahruth, City of Poughkeepsie (three-year term); Valery Einhorn, Rhinebeck (three-year term); Kyle Ramkissoon, Hopewell Junction (two-year term); and Kim Roellke, D.V.M., Poughkeepsie (three-year term)—were elected to the Poughkeepsie Day School board of trustees at the annual meeting of the school’s corporation. Two incumbent parent trustees were re-elected: Christine Chale, of Red Hook (three-year term), and Debra R. Pemstein (three-year term), Rhinebeck. Parent and Lagrangeville resident Elizabeth Gundek (two-year term) was selected as the newest member of the board's committee on trustees.
Over her 25-year career at IBM, Carol Bahruth (Lilliam K, Charles has held numerous positions from program manager to lead designer and developer for global new hires to multimedia designer and developer for large systems. Her volunteer activities include serving on the boards of the YWCA, EXCITE Camp for Girls and ProjectView Minority Recruiting Project and as a coach for AYSO soccer and Little League softball.
Valery Einhorn, an architect, served most recently as deputy vice president/chief architect for the New York City Transit Authority. Previously she was with the New York City Department of Buildings and the architectural and planning firm Llewelyn Davies/Davis Brody. A founding trustee of Mount Lebanon Shaker Village and a former board member of the Friends of Clermont, Valery serves on the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle board and co-chaired the school’s 75th anniversary gala.
A principal and founding member of IJC Partners LLC, a hedge fund recruitment company, Kyle Ramkissoon places senior candidates at hedge funds and investment banks. Previously he was a senior recruiter specializing in hedge fund searches at New York City firms Garrison Associates and The Response Companies. A member of the International Association of Financial Engineers, Mr. Kyle most recently served as treasurer for the school’s parents association.
Kim Roellke is a veterinarian in private practice and a consultant for the Carey Institute of Ecosystem Studies. She developed and supervises an internship for students at Marist and Vassar colleges; teaches a first-aid seminar area for area K9 units and has served as a career mentor in the Hyde Park schools. A member of numerous professional associations, Kim co-chaired the school’s 75th anniversary gala.
For more information on becoming a PDS trustee, or member of a board committee, contact Stan Lichens, board president.
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Poughkeepsie Day School’s Fall Festival Reimagined Celebrates Global Community |
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November 10, 2010
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Poughkeepsie, NY - Poughkeepsie Day School will host the first annual Fall Festival Reimagined on Saturday, November 20. Designed to be fun for the whole family in celebration of our global community and United Nations Universal Children’s Day, the festival features unique activities for children and adults alike.
The event begins at 10 am on the school’s campus (260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY) and will include a wide variety of indoor and outdoor attractions. They include: world carnival games from all seven continents; interactive human animation creation led by Children’s Media Project, culminating in personal “wishes for the world;” and a world café, including multi-cultural street food, courtesy of Poughkeepsie’s Twisted Soul restaurant. In addition, Imagination Lab will feature hands-on art activities led by local cultural organizations, including Mid-Hudson Japanese Community Association; Mid-Hudson Chinese Community Association; Asian American Youth Committed to Excellence: Indo Pakistani group; Association for Hispanics to Obtain Resources & Assistance; representatives from the local Indian community and there will be dozens of local food vendors and artisans. Performances will include the popular traveling troubadour Bindlestick Bill; the jazz ensemble Lollipop Guild and Friends; the school’s a cappella group Sidereal; and Django Reinhart-inspired Metropolitan Hot Club. In addition, there will be storytelling with Dutchess Arts camp resident tale-spinner Jonathan Heiles; an International Indie film screening; the school’s West African Drum Ensemble and Chinese ribbon dancers.
Tickets are $10/per person and can be purchased in advance online or at the event. Each advance ticket purchaser receives a complimentary raffle ticket to win an iPad, Amazon Kindle or $100 gift certificate to Three Arts bookstore. For a detailed scheduled of the day’s events and to purchase tickets: http://www.poughkeepsieday.org/FallFestival ; 845-462-7600, ext. 109.
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Poughkeepsie Day School Hosts First Annual Fun Run |
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November 12, 2010
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Poughkeepsie, NY - Poughkeepsie Day School will host a 5 K Fun Run on Saturday, November 20. The run begins promptly at 8:00 am. Both runners and walkers are welcome. Check-in (including distribution of race packets with bibs and numbers) is between 6:30 am and 7:45 am at the school’s Elizabeth C. Gilkeson Center (260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie). The run starts and ends at Poughkeepsie Day School and measures 4.99 kilometers. For the safety and comfort of participants, no dogs, bikes or roller skates/blades will be allowed in the run. The fee to participate in the Fun Run is $25 per person. Advance registration can be completed online by credit card or at the door in cash. To find out more about the Fun Run as well as the day-long Fall Festival Reimagined event at the school, visit www.poughkeepsieday.org/FallFestival, or call 845-462-7600, ext. 109.
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Poughkeepsie Day School Seniors Receive Recognition |
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October 8, 2010
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Poughkeepsie, NY—Poughkeepsie Day School seniors Ian Ettinger, William Mosto and Max Owen-Dunow, all of Rhinebeck, are among only 16,000 students nationwide recently named Semifinalists in the 56th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, sponsored by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Classmates Fatima Hosain, Hopewell Junction, and Preston Kemeny, Garrison, were designated Commended Students.
National Merit Semifinalists have the opportunity to continue in the competition for approximately 8,400 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $36 million, that will be offered next spring. To be considered for a Merit Scholarship® award, Semifinalists must fulfill several requirements to advance to the Finalist level of the competition. About 90 percent of the Semifinalists are expected to attain Finalist standing, and approximately half of the Finalists will win a National Merit Scholarship, earning the Merit Scholar® title.
About 1.5 million juniors in 22,000 high schools entered the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2009 Preliminary SAT/national Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®). The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, which represents less than one percent of the U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state.
Poughkeepsie Day School has been developing educated citizens with a passion for learning and living since 1934. It enrolls a diverse student body of 300 in pre-k through grade 12 from 48 communities throughout the mid-Hudson Valley. Typically, 100% of the seniors who apply to college each year are admitted to at least one of their top three choices. For more information, contact the admissions office at 845-462-7600, ext. 201; www.poughkeepsieday.org.
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March 5, 2010
Contact: Sandra Moore, Director of Communications
Poughkeepsie, NY—Poughkeepsie Day School’s student-produced magazine, Scarlet, was recently selected to receive a rank of Excellent in the 2009 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines.
The magazine began as the culminating project of an interdisciplinary course for middle and high school students, taught by Trace Schillinger, which focused on examining the role of the media in affecting young girls’ sense of self, especially low self-esteem issues stemming from poor body image. Dare Brawley, a current senior at the town of Poughkeepsie independent school, has served as editor-in-chief of the magazine for the past two years.
Ms. Schillinger first presented the magazine at the national NCTE conference in 2008, where it received attention from educators at Portland State University (WA), who have since included a chapter about the distinctively feminist publication in a recently published textbook. Ms. Schillinger and Ms. Brawley were invited to attend the 2009 NCTE national conference as presenters to secondary school teachers of English interested in creating similar publications and also entered the third volume of the magazine in the separate NCTE competition. They plan to move the publication forward by creating an online curriculum for schools so that they can use the Scarlet model to create similar publications.
Ms. Schillinger said, “We deeply appreciate the recognition from NCTE. Scarlet is unlike anything else being produced in schools or in the marketplace today because of its unique mission and the process through which we work to publish it.”
Poughkeepsie Day School has been developing educated citizens with a passion for learning and living since 1934, and celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2009-2010. It seeks to promote curious and independent learners: critical thinkers who know how to ask questions and solve problems. Respect, responsibility and collaboration are among the hallmarks of the PDS school community. Typically, each year one-hundred per cent of the school's seniors who apply to college are admitted.
Click on a title below to read other releases from the 2009-2010 academic year.
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