The field hockey team began off-season training for its first match of the 2022-2023 fall season against Huntington Beach High School on Aug. 25. During the 2021-2022 fall season, the squad finished 14-2 overall and 5-2 in Sunset League play. Although three Division I commits have graduated since last season, Captain Dylan Perkins ’23 said the squad’s enthusiasm will guide...

The Environmental Club held a beach clean-up event at Santa Monica Pier on May 21. Around 30 students attended the clean-up, with both middle and upper school students earning community service hours from the event. Environmental Club Co-Leader Chloe Appel ’23 said the Environmental Club wanted to host the event because it gives students the opportunity to help the environment...

The Admission Office enrolled one of the most geographically and culturally diverse classes in the history of the school this year, according to Assistant Director of Admission Meagan Salmon. From 1263 applicants, Salmon said 340 new students will join the school for the 2022-2023 school yearIncoming students were drawn from 129 sending schools, of which 51% of students come from...

When asked by her fourth grade teacher to write about her favorite weekend activity, Shoshana Bernstein ’22 chose to describe how she enjoyed cooking with her moms. The teacher, assuming Bernstein had made a spelling error, told her to change the word “moms” to “mom.”“There’s not supposed to be an ‘s’ there,” the teacher said. As the daughter of same-sex...

Since the school first closed because of COVID-19 on March 11, 2020 over two years ago, the community has undergone several stages of lockdown, online learning and safety protocols. With just over one million deaths in the United States as of May 21, according to The New York Times, the school community has endured the pandemic alongside schools across the...

Advanced Placement (AP) Coordinator, Co-Chair of the Upper School Faculty Academic Committee (FAC) and former Science Teacher Krista McClain will leave the school after 13 years of teaching and one year of remote administrative work. McClain left campus last year to move to Seattle with her family. During her time at the school, she taught Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, AP Chemistry...

Singer and songwriter Madison Beer spoke to students about her mental health journey in Ahmanson Lecture Hall on May 16. The Bring Change to Mind (BC2M) Club hosted the event in light of Mental Health Awareness Month. BC2M is a national organization that strives to destigmatize mental illnesses by inspiring productive discourse about mental illness. During the assembly Beer discussed...

Executive Assistant to the President Ann-Marie Whitman will retire after working at the school for 32 years. President Rick Commons said Whitman's work at the school positively impacted the community."[Whitman] is superbly effective in responding to the needs of the many who depend upon her, but her influence is much more than functional," Commons said. "It is profoundly wise and...

HW Venture hosted product design engineer and alumnus Rhett Gentile '13, to speak about his current job as a mechanical enginee during Conference Time on May 16. Gentile helped develop speakers for the current MacBook Pro. He and his team of collaborators perfected the six-speaker sound system that is able to reach half an octave lower than before, creating a...

Upper School Latin Teacher and World Languages Department Head Derek Wilairat will depart from the school after nearly 16 years of teaching across both the Middle School and Upper School. Wilairat joined the Middle School faculty in 2006 before transitioning to the Upper School in 2008. During his time at the school, Wilairat taught Latin at every level and served...