Communications Department Head Jim Burns will retire after six years of advising The Chronicle. Burns said that while he will miss working with students on The Chronicle, he feels he is ready to move on."If you do something and you're really passionate about it, you should give it everything you have, and then you [should] let it go," Burns said....

When National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, she laid out a vision of hope and unity for the United States' next four years. Following the brazen insurrection against our nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6, she urged us to “step out of the shade aflame and unafraid.”...

Film composer Nick Chuba ’10 and his sister Olivia Chuba ’12, a costume design expert, joined Performing Arts Teacher Ted Walch in a discussion of the 2017 historical drama “Phantom Thread” during Cinema Sunday on Mar. 13. Nick Chuba focused on the film's score, composed by musician Jonny Greenwood. Olivia Chuba applied her knowledge of costume design to discuss the...

Head of Admission and Enrollment Aaron Mieszanski will leave the school to join executive search firm Spencer Stuart after this school year . The school recently began an accelerated search process to fill the Head of Admission and Enrollment role, welcoming current employees to apply. Mieszanski said he has been working in admissions for 14 years, so he decided to...

Los Angeles (LA)City Council Member Nithya Raman and her staff members toured the school and had lunch with students and faculty on the Lower Quad on March 14. Director of Community and Public Affairs Stacy Marble organized the event. Eleven students, six faculty members, Raman and three of her staff participated in the lunch. . Marble said the relaxed environment...

Candidates for Head Prefect gave speeches to juniors in Rugby Theater before the first round of the election March 18. Each candidate delivered a general address to students before answering both a prepared question and an unprepared question. All four Junior Prefects—Yoshimi Kimura ’23, Simon Lee ’23, Aiko Offner ’23 and Assistant Features Editor Harry Tarses ’23—are running for Head...

Prefect Council organized a St. Patrick's Day scavenger hunt including prizes and candy March 17. Prefects hid five pots of gold around campus: Each pot was filled with candy, and one pot contained an Amazon gift card. Students were told to notify prefects upon finding a pot of gold in order for Prefect Council to track the progression of the...

Reverend Anne Gardner hosted a memorial servicefor school archivist Allan Sasaki in St. Saviour’s Chapel on March 16. The event honored Sasaki’s life and career at the school, and several of his former colleagues shared personal stories about him and reflected on his community-wide impact.. Gardner opened by recounting Sasaki’s decades-long tenure at the school, which included teaching Spanish and...

President Rick Commons announced that the City of Los Angeles released the draft environmental impact report (DEIR) for the River Park project in an email to the school community March 10. Commons said the draft report concluded that the plan to replace Weddington Golf & Tennis could result in construction noise but would likely not have other significant impacts on...

Members of the Model United Nations (MUN) team competed in a tournament hosted by Marymount High School on March 14. Competitors took on the roles of United Nations delegates, representing various countries and resolving diplomatic issues. Leo Craig ’24 and Alex Lee ’24 won Best Delegate awards, Zoe Kramar ’24 won an Outstanding Delegate award and Assistant Arts and Entertainment...