Student Circular Feb27

HS Student Circular International School Manila February 27, 2009

For the week of March 2 - 7 Monday, March 2 IB 11 EE Proposal DUE IBS2 BM Bake Sale (outside canteen) 2.30-3pm CAS Homeroom Tuesday, March 3 GEO Field Trip Gr. 9 (Taal Volcano) IB 11 Econ Comm DUE 2.30-3pm CAS Homeroom Wednesday, March 4 Student Late Start 10.55 Grade Level Assembly 11.30-12.00pm Cooking Club Bake Sale 2.30-3pm CAS Homeroom Thursday, March 5 IASAS Art/Music (ISKL) IASAS DDDF (SAS) 9-11am Step Teen Parenting (1057) 2.30-3pm CAS Homeroom Friday, March 6 IASAS Art/Music (ISKL) IASAS DDDF (SAS) 2.30-3pm CAS Homeroom Saturday, March 7 IASAS Art/Music (ISKL) IASAS DDDF (SAS) CCV Field Trip GK Field Trip

REMINDERS: PHOTOS Students who ordered photos please don’t forget to send payment. The HS Office will only accept check payments. Please make the check payable to PHOTO CONCEPTS STUDIO. SENIOR CLASS RINGS Order your 2009 Class Rings now!! Last order will be accepted on March 15, delivery of the rings will be in April. Wear it and be proud you are a Senior! For those who already ordered, please check the HS Office to see if you’re rings have arrived.

Dates to Remember: Mar 10: PTA General Meeting HS Parent Coffee (LT) Mar 10: CAS Homerooms Mar 10-13: HS Select Ensemble Auditions Mar 12: IASAS Cul Con Awards Banquet (LT) Mar 14: SBP Field Trip Mar 16-20: Semester Break

LET’S GO GREEN:

Poetry for our planet A competition for all ISM students To celebrate our earth, ECo are inviting you to write a poem on the topic of Environment. This can be an ode, an elegy, an epic, a limerick… it’s totally up to you. The winning poem will be published in the yearbook! Please submit all entries to:[email protected] By Monday March 9th I dream of a better life, And to myself I say: “If we had been more concerned about this planet… …would earth have turned out another way?” (Grade 6 student, 2004)

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From the ATAC Office: 2nd Season HS Sports awards: Congratulations to the following athletes who were presented with major awards at the awards evening held last Tuesday in the HS gym. Thank you to all athletes, coaches and parents who attended this evening. It was a fine night of celebration for our 2nd season athletes and well done to all athletes who received an award from their coaches. TOUCH: MVP-Pats Limcaoco 4yr award: Sara Jane Ahmed RUGBY: MVP-Noriyuki Fukuyama BASKETBALL: MVP-Boys: Jin Bae Kim MVP-Girls: Christine O’Keefe

SWIMMING: MVP-Boys: George Go 4 yr award: George Go MVP-Girls: Angie Oo 4 yr award: Ina Guingona TENNIS: MVP-Boys: Josh Ho, Marco Del Rosario 4yr award: Marco Del Rosario MVP-Girls: Kimberly Sicat, Christina De Leon

3rd Season Sports: MS/HS - Badminton, Track and Field and Softball All 3rd season sports are now in full swing with students and coaches making a very smooth start to the season after tryouts week concluded. I would like to remind all participating students to complete the ATAC on-line registration. 3rd season has a number of interruptions and as such students and coaches can lose the flow of the season easily. Please stay in contact with your coach regarding practices and weekend matches/meets as they relate to your particular sport this season.

ISM Goodwill Gymnastics Meet 2009 Our varsity gymnastic team of 24 girls will be proudly representing ISM this Saturday at the ISM Goodwill Gymnastics Meet. Meet starts at 8am and runs all day and with over 200 gymnasts competing in bars, beam, floor and vault you are sure to see some great action. Please stop in and see the MS gym transformed into a gymnastic facility with gymnasts twisting/tumbling and paparazzi parents a plenty. This day is the biggest on the calendar for our gymnastics team and the gymnastics parent booster club who assist greatly in the set-up and organization of the meet. Also on debut will be ISM’s new state of the art Olympic gymnastics floor which was installed last weekend in time for the meet. Hope you can come on Saturday to cheer and support our ISM gymnastics team.

IASAS Cultural Convention: Next week is Cultural Convention week and our students and advisors will be heading off to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur to attend the Dance/Drama/

Debate/Forensics

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the

Art/Music Festivals. All students and advisors have been working really hard to refine and hone their individual and groups skills in these multi disciplinary events. As we all well know from hosting last years DDDF event it is fantastic week of student involvement and is a highlight of the school year to host this event. We wish all involved a great experience next week. All cultural convention participants are invited to the send off lunch on Tuesday March 3rd at Little Theatre. Please come to the LT immediately lunch begins

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Invitation to watch next week’s within class-time Strings Solo Recital! Third Quarter is coming to an end and all HS/MS String students have diligently been working on their chosen piece for their upcoming Solo Recital these past weeks. We are inviting you parents and we’re hoping you have free time to watch and support your students perform at the AMR venue on the following within class-time schedules: Mar.2 Monday Pd.4 (12:05-1:15pm) HS Intermediate Recital Performers: Mun Kyung, Zaina, Jose, Afifah, Nanami, Mari Toni, Jae Woo, Michelle, Shihoko, Jun Ha & Chris (48:08 approx. perf. time) Mar.2 Monday Pd.5 (1:20-2:30pm) Orchestra Recital1 Performers: Jaehyun, Franz Louie, Miharu, Sea Ri, Suji, So Youn, Myeong Jin, Rafael & Jennifer (75:15 minutes approx. perf. time) Mar.4 Wednesday Pd.3 (12:20-1:20pm) Orchestra Recital 2 Performers: Roger, Maita, Arcee, Noriyuki, Christine, Jae Yoon, Jun Hyun & Subin (37:12 approx. performance time) Mar.6 Friday Pd.2 (09:20-10:10am) Orchestra Recital 3 Performers: Caitlin, Stella, Jeff, Young Sun, Yuan, Tim & Anna (42 minutes approx. perf. time) Mar.9 Monday Pd.2 (01:20-02:30pm) Orchestra Recital 4 Performers: Katherine, So Yoon, Angelica, Rina/So Youn, Patrick & Chia Wei (33:25 minutes approx. perf. time)

AMIS HONOR BAND: On behalf of the ATAC, Fine Arts and Music Department I would like to send out a huge thank-you to all the families that recently housed for the AMIS Band Festival. Your willingness to be involved in this program was integral to it’s success and assists enormously in making this sort of festival come alive at our school. We received fantastic reports from the student delegates and the advisors from all schools as to how comfortable and welcoming ISM families made the visiting musicians feel during their stay. Once again many thanks to the following families: 1. Mr. & Mrs. Yutaka Umetsu, parents of Yuri Umetsu 2. Mr. & Mrs. Seong Moon Sohn, parents of Myung In Sohn (and to their guardian Ms. Gina San Juan) 3. Mrs. Barbara Thomanek, parent of Sean Thomanek 4. Mrs. Maria Cristina Gotianun, parent of Alex Gotianun 5. Mr. & Mrs. Max Wilkerson, parents of Christian Wilkerson 6. Mrs. Helen Li, parent of Aaron Tan 7. Mrs. Minae Chung, parent of Hyun Jun Ra 8. Mrs. Melanie Kelleher, parent of Mackenzie Roop 9. Mr. & Mrs. Young Jin Kang, parents of Eun Jee Kang 10. Mrs. Vicky Lee, parent of Kyung In Lee 11. Mr. & Mrs. Mark Pekin 12. Mrs. Emilia Vorbeck, parent of Gabriel Vorbeck 13. Mr. & Mrs. Mario Salazar, parent of Mariella Opena Salazar 14. Mr. Robert Lee, parent of Conrad Lee 15. Mr. & Mrs. Keun Woo Park, parents of Jae Youn Park 16. Mr. & Mrs. Seung-Chul Lee, parents of Jin Young Lee 17. Mr. & Mrs. Juan Adames, parents of Hiram J.M. Adames 18. Mr. & Mrs. Alfredo Saban, parents of Beatrice T. Saban 19. Mr. & Mrs. Lu, parents of Mabel Lu 20. Mr. & Mrs. Okuyama, parents of Momoko Okuyama 21. Mrs. Penny Tan, parent of Paolo Tan 22. Mrs. Duangporn Blazy, parent of Charly Kevin Blazy 23. Mr. & Mrs. Broch, parents of Paul David Broch 24. Mrs. V. Fie'Eiki, parent of Ronald Philemon Fie'eiki Page 3 of 7

25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

Mrs. Karen Christensen, parent of Greer Christensen Mr. & Mrs. Miguel Tambunting, parents of Ines Tambunting Mrs. Ilhyun Nam, parent of Hyung Jun Kim Mr. & Mrs. Barry, parents of Bassy and Mina Barry Mrs. Jeong Lee, parent of Ji Min Kim Ms. Caroline Brokvam Ms. Margie Endelman Mrs. Namsuk Park, parent of Chae Young (Jennifer) Lim Mr. & Mrs. Chun Ping Li, parents of Bianca Li Mr. & Mrs. Lopez, parents of Leonard Lopez Mr. & Mrs. Caudill, parents of Eve Caudill

From the MODERN LANGUAGE DEPT: Summer Language Study / Home-stay / Travel Program to SPAIN The ISM High School Modern Language Department is pleased to announce its Summer Language Study / Homestay / Travel Program to Spain from June 6th to July 4th 2009 for students aged 13 to 19 years old. The program aims to develop students’ language proficiency and to broaden his/her cultural knowledge. This program is being offered in cooperation with Escuela Internacional Madrid (TANDEM), a school in Madrid and San Sebastian, Spain. Students will continue learning and, more importantly, will practice Spanish through total immersion in the classes and during the home-stay. The school finds families for students to stay with, assists in locating appropriate local resources for the group’s activities, plans outings, maintains a list of local medical and emergency resources, and helps with the orientation for group leaders. The language course proposal is to have 4 class sessions (45 minutes each) of language and culture from Monday to Friday, from 09.30 to 13.00 each day (with a break from 11.00 to 11.30). The classes will include language and culture subjects as well as adequate preparation for the cultural visits. Students will complete a placement test in order for the school to form groups based on the level of Spanish. Last year, 15 students from ISM traveled to Spain and all of them reported dramatic improvements in their acquisition of the Spanish language as well as outstanding experiences with their home-stay families and one another during their time in Spain. If you are interested in receiving more information about this summer course, please contact Laurie Atilano or Samantha Ramos in the High School Office, or email Adriana Vargas at [email protected].

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CONGRATULATIONS: NAME OF STUDENT

COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY

Richard Abasta

McMaster University, Simon Fraser University, York University

Kamran Heinrich Ahmad

University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh, University of Durham, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Sarah Jane Ahmed

Loyola University Chicago, Concordia University

Mark Jedric Ang

De La Salle University Manila, University of the Philippines

Daisy Birchenall

Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University Manila, University of Dundee, University of Leeds, University of the Philippines, University of Stirling

Antonio Brias

Curry College, University of Maine, Manhattanville College, Salve Regina University

Antoinette Brillantes

Syracuse University (Accelerated Liberal Arts)

Gil Buenaventura

Saint Mary's College of California

Peter Burton

University of Dundee, University of Leeds, Nottingham Trent University

Isabel Chamberlain

Mills College, Saint Mary's College of California

Brandon Chin

Coventry University

Ji Won Choi

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Syracuse University

Louie Chua

University of San Francisco

John Jacob Benjamin Co

De La Salle University Manila, Ateneo de Manila University

Jaime Constantino

Ateneo de Manila University, University of the Philippines

Jan-Michael Nadora Cruz

De La Salle University Manila

Jasmin Dargani

Lesley University, Pace University, Loyola Marymount University

Suzannah Davis

Bangor University, University of Exeter, University of Sussex, Lancaster University, University of Stirling

Cristina de Leon

Loyola Marymount University

Alexandra Amanda Eduque

Barnard College

Michael Fong

Dominican University, Saint Mary's College of California

Ron Richard Chow Habla

Ateneo de Manila University, Bond University

Sung Yeon (Tammy) Joo

University of Arizona, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Liberal Arts & Sciences), New York University (Tisch School of the Arts), Northeastern University, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey at New Brunswick (School of Business), University at Buffalo The State University of New York

Jin Bae Kim

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sung Yun Kim

Syracuse University

Shao-Ting Ko

Fordham University (College of Business Administration), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Liberal Arts & Sciences)

Michelle La O'

University of Asia and the Pacific, Ateneo de Manila University, La Salle University, Saint Mary's College of California

Jennifer Labrie

Capilano College, Simon Fraser University

Jobo Lau

Loyola Marymount University

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Da Hee Lee

Pennsylvania State University-University Park, Purdue University, Temple University, Washington State University

Jun-Ho Lee

University of Michigan

Louie Angelo Lee

University of Pennsylvania

Sang Yun Lee

University of British Columbia

Julian Libihoul

University of British Columbia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Patricia Limcaoco

Stanford University

Carlos Lopez

Menlo College

Marine Charlotte Maupin

University of Dundee, Middlesex University

Maria Lourdes Margarita Mojica

Ateneo de Manila University, University of Brighton, University of British Columbia (Sauder School of Business), University of Durham, University of Edinburgh, University of Nottingham

Marie Elysee Murray

University of British Columbia, McGill University, Queen's University, University of Toronto

Arjun Nandkishore

Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Jeane Catherine Catherine Napoles

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Irvine

Gabriella Alexandra Navas

Glion Institute of Higher Education, Johnson & Wales University

David Nelson

San Diego State University

Jennifer Patricia Ng

Savannah College of Art and Design

Marianne Oh

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Yu Ohyama

Glion Institute of Higher Education

Rina Noelle Opinion

Ateneo de Manila University, University of the Philippines

Janina Marie Paredes

Menlo College, Saint Mary's College of California, University of San Francisco, Notre Dame de Namur University

Ana Perez O. Santillanes

Florida International University, The University of Tampa, University of Florida (College of Business Administration)

Maria Rebecca Pelaez Plaza

Ateneo de Manila University, University of Edinburgh, University of the Philippines

Antheia Brittni Rae

Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design

Saadia Rahman

University of British Columbia (Science, Faculty of), Concordia University, McGill University (Faculty of Science ), McMaster University (Faculty of Science), Queen's University (Faculty of Arts and Sciences), University of Toronto (Arts and Science, Faculty of), University of Waterloo (Faculty of Science), University of Western Ontario

Katz Razon

Saint Mary's College of California

Daisy Recto

Ateneo de Manila University, Randolph-Macon College

Kannah Marie Alvarez Salazar

Ateneo de Manila University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Engineering), University of Michigan (Engineering), Purdue University (School of Engineering), Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Haider Shakeel

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Zara Sibtain

Manhattanville College, Randolph College

Laura Smith

Queen's University, University of Western Ontario

Caitlin Marie Tan

Glion Institute of Higher Education

Kenley Aldridge Tan

De La Salle University Manila, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at New Brunswick

Kenichi Tsusaka (Cumagun)

Ateneo de Manila University

Solongo Tumurbaatar

Glion Institute of Higher Education

Peter Vargo

Liberty University

Anh Hai Vo

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Winnie Wong

Mills College

Mariama Wurie

Concordia University, McGill University, Queen's University, University of British Columbia

Amanda Yong Yu

Duke University

Sean Yoon

Syracuse University, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Wei Onn Yuen

Cornell University (College of Art, Arch., & Plan.)

Nissim Zeitoune

Curry College, Manhattanville College

Brian Zimmerman

University of South Dakota

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