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Cary Academy is a learning community committed to discovery, innovation, collaboration and excellence.
Ninety-nine members of tight-knit Class of 2008 graduate
Memory of Johnnetta Overton evoked during ceremony
Johnnetta Overton remembered
An event that drew this class even closer
was the death last year of classmate
Johnnetta Overton in a car accident. All the
graduates wore a silver ribbon on the upper
left sleeve of their blue robes in her memory.
Julia Niemi (’08), speaking on behalf of
her classmates, delivered a short speech
in remembrance of Overton.
“The classrooms seem a little dull without Johnnetta,” she said. “We think of her
when someone smiles or laughs. She’s
still stepping and cheering at basketball
games. We all carry Johnnetta’s memories
with us.”
To a hearty round of applause, founder
Dr. Jim Goodnight presented the Overton
family with an honorary diploma for
Johnnetta.
The night before, during the
Baccalaureate Ceremony in the theater,
Overton’s father, John, toasted the Class
of 2008 and spoke about his daughter.
“We spent time with Johnnetta… but
her body was temporal … her spirit is eter-
world and providing sage advice on how to
combat these challenges.
He laid out a three-fold strategy for success in the future. “First you will need an
entrepreneurial mindset and soft skills acumen. Second, you will need to develop
conceptual intelligence, the foresight to
anticipate change. Third, you will need to
develop personal branding.”
mindset…
“…an entrepreneurial
conceptual intelligence…
personal branding…”
nal,” he said. “Johnnetta touched every
one of us in an indelible way.
“You are on a journey to discover your
purpose in life and your specific function,”
he told the students. “Some of the
answers that plague humanity sit right
here in this room. Do not allow anyone
else to define you by their impositions.
Everything you are is within you.”
Advice on future in a global economy
Dr. James Johnson, Distinguished
Professor of Entrepreneurship at the
Kenan-Flagler School of Business at UNC,
delivered the keynote address, speaking to
the career challenges in a global economic
Head of School Don Berger, speaker Dr. James
Johnson and founder Dr. Jim Goodnight
Expounding on his second
point, Johnson urged the students to “leverage the Internet,
become a Google-search junkie,
and monitor the changes in the
global marketplace.”
To help develop their personal
brand, he told the Class of 2008
to think differently, to discover what
makes each of them stand out and what
adds value. “Then devise a way to market
yourself,” he concluded.
Fun and reflection on the quad
After the ceremony, the newly minted
graduates joined friends and family on the
quad for fellowship and food.
As his friends and classmates mingled
around him, Adam Mobarek (’08), who will
attend Campbell University, thought about
his time at CA and his
classmates.
“This is a really
close-knit group,” he
said. “I can’t define it
like Ben (Goldhaber, one
of the student speakers)
said. You spend every
day together for, in my
case, four years, and
you grow up together.
I’ll miss everything.”
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Community. Family. These words and
many others that denote closeness can be
used to define the Class of 2008.
Everywhere on the afternoon of May
23, before and after Cary Academy’s ninth
commencement exercises, the 99 graduating seniors demonstrated this closeness
as they hugged one another, slapped
backs and hands, and shared laughs. And
many talked about the unusual attachment
they felt for each other.
“I am going to miss this community,”
said Rachel Yip (’08), who plans to stay in
touch with her classmates even while
attending Emory University.
“A lot of us have grown up together;
there is a sense of community,” said rising
UNC freshman Cameron Lee (’08). “We
have a support system and it won’t be the
same in college. Even with our differences, there’s always been camaraderie.”
Student speaker Ben Goldhaber (’08)
addressed this fondness in his remarks
during the commencement exercises.
“This class has an amazing energy,” he
said. “I can’t define it, but I’ve felt it. Our
school has emerged into a genuine community.”
Using a line from Winnie the Pooh,
Goldhaber concluded to his friends, “Promise
me you’ll never forget me, because if I
thought you would, I’d never leave.”
Don Berger, Head of School
Summertime is not downtime
The summers for the Head of School keep him busy
I am often asked by
parents, when May
begins to wind down
and many families start
to think about summer vacations, if the summers
slow down for me. To a certain extent they do, but
this question got me thinking recently that many of
you probably don’t know what I do during the summers at Cary Academy.
Like the rest of the staff here, I stay busy as a
12-month employee. The halls may empty, but there
is always work to do. What
follows is a listing of my
summer activities that I
hope enlightens you about how
I spend my time at CA from June
through early August:
Another area that gets my attention in the summer is our strategic plan, on which I evaluate our
progress. Along with my administrative team, I
decide on what elements of the plan should
receive the focus of our time and energy in the
coming year.
follow-up to our yearlong multicultural study.
Even though I have read widely on diversity
issues over the years, I need to stay current. The
books I plan to read are: Blood Done Sign My
Name by Tim Tyson, Covering by Kenji Yoshino,
and White Like Me by Tim Wise.
Like your children (and many of you as well), I do
a good deal of summer reading since I do have
more uninterrupted time. A large chunk of my
reading list this summer will include works
exploring diversity issues. This will serve as a
I do plan to read for personal enjoyment this
summer. Parents, colleagues and friends have
recommended books to me over the months,
and I have noted them. On the list for this summer are The Lost, a book on the Holocaust by
Daniel Mendelsohn; Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli;
The Rule of Four, by Caldwell and Thomason;
and Green to Gold, by Esty and Winston.
“There is always work to do…
to ensure that the coming school year is
As you can see, the summers
for me are not exactly
quiet. Rest assured, I,
and all the staff at Cary
Academy, work during
the summer to ensure that the coming school year
is the best we can make it.
the best we can make it.”
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Each summer I perform annual evaluations for
my direct reports, i.e. the seven division leaders,
the dean of faculty, the director of diversity, and
the director of athletics. These comprehensive,
one-on-one evaluations include a review of their
accomplishments during the past year, discussion of their opportunities for growth, evaluation
of their work toward achieving their annual
goals, and goal setting for the coming year. Each
direct report sets four to six annual goals. These
goals serve as the primary focus of the year’s
evaluation in addition to an evaluation of the
direct report’s normal duties.
I have yearly goals, too, and also establish these
during the summer. They are linked to the
school’s strategic plan, the bi-annual community
survey results, and opportunities for my professional and personal growth.
Each summer I also work with my
administrative colleagues to
review safety and security procedures, update our safety and security manual, and make school-wide
plans in this area.
Now that’s an exchange rate!
More than 200 students participated in this year‘s seven exchange trips. One group
visited China, one France, one Austria, three Spain and one Ecuador. If you didn’t read
the blogs posted last month, you can still read about each trip here:
http://cainaustria08.blogspot.com/
http://cainspain-seville2008.blogspot.com/
http://cainchina2008.blogspot.com/
http://cainfrance2008.blogspot.com/
http://cainecuador2008.blogspot.com/
http://cainspain-cadiz2008.blogspot.com/
More than 200 CA students went on exchange
trips this year. School administrators feel
strongly that this was the largest exchange
trip in the entire US! The students posed in
the SEA for a group shot before departing.
Class of 2008 to attend 47 colleges
The seniors in the Class of
2008 made their college decisions
before the May 1 decision
deadline. The 99 graduating seniors
received offers of admission
from more than 125 colleges
and universities across the US
and abroad.
Ultimately, the seniors
selected 47 different colleges.
Approximately half will stay in
the Tar Heel state. The others will
head out of state to colleges
across the U.S. in Arizona,
Indiana, California and Missouri
as well as the United Kingdom.
In addition to the offers of
admission, the Class of 2008 has
been offered approximately 2.5
million dollars in merit (non-need based) scholarship monies.
For a list of the scholarship offers about which the College
Counseling Office has been notified, please visit
The Class of 2008
http://web1.caryacademy.org/college/Scholarships.Classof2008.htm.
LIST OF COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES FOR CLASS OF 2008
Bold =matriculant. If more than 1 matriculant, the number is indicated in parentheses.
Florida State University
Pomona College
University of Central Florida
American University (2)
Franklin and Marshall College
Princeton University (2)
University of Chicago
Appalachian State University
Geneva College
Purdue University
University of Colorado, Boulder
Arcadia College
George Washington University
Rensselaer Polytechnic University
University of Florida
Babson College
Georgetown University
Rhodes College
University of Georgia
Bentley College
Georgia Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Belmont University
Gordon College
Rutgers University
University of Maryland (2)
Boston College
Goucher College
University of Miami
Bowdoin College
Guilford College
Sewanee: The University of
the South
Brandeis University
Haverford College (2)
Skidmore College
University of Notre Dame
Bryn Mawr College
Howard University
St. Mary's College of Maryland
University of Pennsylvania
Calvin College
James Madison University
Stanford University
University of Richmond
Campbell University (2)
Johns Hopkins University
SUNY Stony Brook
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Carnegie Mellon University
Macalester College
Stevens Institute of Technology
University of Southern California
Case Western Reserve University
McDaniel College
Swarthmore College
University of Virginia
Clark University
Mercer College
Texas A&M
Ursinus College
Clemson University
Meredith College
Tufts University
Vanderbilt University
College of Charleston
New York University
Tulane University
Virginia Tech
Columbia University
North Carolina A&T
UNC-Asheville
Wake Forest University
Connecticut College
North Carolina Central University
UNC-Chapel Hill (24)
Covenant College
North Carolina School of the Arts
UNC-Charlotte (2)
Washington University in
St. Louis (2)
Davidson College
North Carolina State University (10)
UNC-Greensboro
Wellesley College
Drew University
Northeastern University
UNC-Wilmington (6)
Wesleyan University
Drexel University
Northwestern University
University of Advancing Technology
Wittenberg College
Duke University (6)
Oberlin College
University of California, Berkeley
Wofford College
East Carolina University (2)
Oglethorpe
University of California, San Diego
Worchester Polytechnic Institute
Elon University (2)
Oxford College of Emory University
Emory University (2)
Pepperdine University
University of California,
Santa Barbara
University of Michigan
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Agnes Scott College
GOLF
TOURNAMENT REGISTERS RECORD
The golfers at Cary Academy’s 11th
Annual Scholars’ Golf Classic stepped up
to the tee box and delivered —big time.
The tournament raised $82,475—a
record—for need-based scholarships at
the school.
With a shotgun start, 64 teams spread
out over all three courses at Prestonwood
Country Club May 12. It was an overcast,
chilly, breezy day for golf, but everyone
had fun.
For the 10th out of 11 years, R.N. Rouse
and Co. Inc. served as the grand sponsor
of the event.
The money raised will go to the
Scholarship Fund, which enables the school
to extend the benefits of its education to
an economically and socially diverse population.
The winning teams from the day’s action were:
FAIRWAYS
First Place
Lifetouch/Hunt Ward Photography
Hunt Ward
Ben Taylor
Fred Owen
Eddie Crowder
First Place
Second Place
Atlantic Tire & Service
Dennis Pitts,
Joe Kapsch
McNeely Associates
Ben Baker
Bakul Modi,
Anthony James
CA parent
Davis Morgan
Matthew Gibbon,
Second
Place
CA parent
Pinnacle Masonry
Third Place
Danks Burton
Wayne Holt,
Gary Bryant
CA parent
Brad Johnson
Terry Evans
Robin Rose
Joey Bradley
MEADOWS
Shawn Callahan
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Third Place
Charlie Abadie,
CA parent
Sam Rossa,
CA parent
Scot Rademacher
Dwayne Smith
Checking the line
Craig Wheaton won the
putting contest
PRIZE WINNERS
Putting Contest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Craig Wheaton
Highlands
Longest Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jason Bowie
Most Accurate Drive . . . . . . . . Kevin MacMahon
Closest to Pin . . . . . . . . . . Jason Wilburn (7’ 0”)
Meadows
Longest Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daphne Rhodes
Most Accurate Drive . . . . . . . . . . . John Boswell
Closest to Pin . . . . . . . . . . Gary Rhodes (6’ 10”)
Fairways
Longest Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Green
Most Accurate Drive . . . . . . . . . Shawn Callahan
Closest to Pin . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob Egan (9’ 3/4”)
One of the 64 teams that played
Swing away!
HIGHLANDS
First Place
SAS
Jim Goodnight
Ray Rouse
Jim Davis
Paul Kent
Second Place
R.N. Rouse & Co. Inc.
Jim Rogers
Mike Jones
Jim MacFarland
John Wilkins
Third Place
Revels Turf & Tractor
Turner Revels
Neal Duff
Cory Niehaus
Jason Wilburn
SCORE IN MONEY RAISED
ENDOWMENT CIRCLE
Atlantic Tire & Service
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Davis-Kane Architects, P.A.
Precision Walls Inc.
Preston Development Co.
St. Moritz Building Services Inc.
SAS
SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORTER
Cary Nephrology
Cherry Huffman Architects, PA
FACULTY FRIENDS
Aon Risk Services
Baker Roofing Co.
Baldwin Peak by Turnberry Development
Bank of America
Bonitz Flooring Group
Brady Trane Sales
Capital Associates
Cary Car Care
CEI - The Digital Office
Contract Steel Sales Inc.
Michael G. Curran Family Foundation
Ernst & Young
Financial Directions Group Inc.
HP Education
Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP
Langdon & McKenzie Inc.
McGuireWoods, LLP
National Rebar Fabrication
New Horizons Computer Learning Center of RTP
PBM Graphics Inc.
Pinnacle Masonry
R.L. Ussery Inc.
Ready Mixed Concrete Company
Revels Turf & Tractor
SPS Corporation
Stock Building Supply
The Szulik Family
TGS Engineers
Tech Electric Company
Thalle Construction
Thomas Concrete
Time Warner Telecom
Wachovia Bank, N.A.
BLUE TEE/GREEN SPONSOR
George Finch/Boney & Associates, P.A.
Brodie Contractors Inc.
Johnson’s Jewelers of Raleigh
(poker contest sponsor)
Morgan Stanley/Stephen Hodgdon
Progress Energy
Rebarco Inc.
SAGE Dining Services
Sears Contract Inc.
CARY ACADEMY FRIENDS
Charlie Abadie
Allied Fire Protection Inc.
Joe Barefoot
Walt Brown
Cary Academy
CMC South Carolina Steel
Jeff Clark
Bill Cotter
Brian Crockett
Cecilia Davis
Mike Dunn
Steve Eubanks
Neil Frank
Matthew Gibbon
John Goehrke
Bruce Hamilton
Ken Hammer
Andy Hartsfield
Billie Higgs
Wayne Holt
Jose Kofman
Lifetouch/Hunt Ward Photography
McNeely Associates, PA
Mitch McGuigan
Bakul Modi
Leo Nemetz
Debra Pawl
Scott Rademacher
Charles Reuben
Sam Rossa
Rob Wilson
FRIENDS/NON-PARTICIPANT
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Friday
Any day is a good day for golf
For the 10th year R.N. Rouse & Co. Inc. served as
the tournament grand sponsor. At the banquet
following the tournament, Director of Advancement
Lynne Fountain presented CEO Ray Rouse with a
commemorative plaque for a decade of service.
A special thanks to our host, Prestonwood Country Club,
and our other sponsors who helped make the 11th annual
Cary Academy Scholars’ Golf Classic a success.
We appreciate your support!
42nd Street Oyster Bar and Seafood Grill
Biaggi’s Restorante Italiano
Carolina Custom Golf
Chapel Hill Restaurant Group
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Cold Stone Creamery
Danny’s Bar-B-Que
Edwards Mill Bar and Grill
Embassy Suites Cary
Embassy Suites Raleigh–Crabtree
Harris Wholesale
Jenx and Co.
Johnson’s Jewelers of Raleigh
LeBleu Five Gallon of Raleigh
Magnolia Grill
Maximillians
Millennium Hotel–Durham
Neo-China Restaurant
Prestonwood Country Club
Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley
Rocky Top Hospitality
Second Empire Restaurant & Tavern
Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center
Skin Sense Spa
Sysco Systems
Tavola Rossa Ristorante Italiano
The Peanut Roaster
Umstead Hotel and Spa
University Ford
Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club
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GRAND SPONSOR
R.N. Rouse & Co. Inc.
Sweet, sweet music
US choruses record best-ever performance
At the 2008 Heritage Choral Festival competition on April 18-19, the Upper School
choruses blew the judges away and earned the best ratings and rankings they have ever
earned at a festival/competition. In addition to the school winning the Sweepstakes
Award, each individual chorus earned superior ratings and received invitations to participate
in the 2009 Heritage Festival of Gold.
Each CA choral group performed three choral selections that were adjudicated for comments, rating and ranking. CA competed in the following categories and earned the following:
Cary Academy Ensemble—15 students all in 11th and 12th grades; Superior rating—2nd place
Cary Academy Women — 28 students in 9th –12th grades; Superior rating—1st place
Tennis team wins
state championship!
Cary Academy Men—20 students in 9th –12th grades; Superior rating—no other men’s choirs
The varsity boys’ tennis team is
Sweepstakes Award —To win the Sweepstakes Award a school had to have two or more
choirs participate in the festival and earn the highest average among all the choirs.
now the 3A NCISAA state champion!
Cary Academy Singers — 43 students in 9th –12th grades; Superior rating— 1st place
Cary Academy Men won the Adjudicators Award— To win the Adjudicators Award, the
choir had to earn a score of at least 95 or higher from every judge. The CA men were
the only choir to win this award.
Cary Academy Men won the Outstanding Choir Award —To win the Outstanding Choir
Award, the choir had to earn the highest average among all the choirs who participated
in the choral festival.
The team defeated Charlotte
Country Day School 5-4 to win the
championship on May 17 at Durham
Academy. Taylor Meyer (‘08), James
Atkinson (‘10) and Zach Sarnoff (‘09)
made the all-state team.
Maestro Awards — These are individual awards that are offered to specific soloists IF the
adjudicators feel the soloists are worthy of the award. Two students earned Maestro
awards for the solos they performed. They are: Joe Johnston (‘09), for solo in CA
Singers selection Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit, and Seth Johnson (‘09), for solo in Men’s
selection Auctioneer.
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With more than 800 tablet PCs and
200 phones to support throughout Cary
Academy, it’s no wonder the Information
Services Department is so busy.
The IS Department, headed by Director
Dmitry Manakhov, is charged with handling
and organizing CA‘s technology and keeping
it running smoothly. The department is also
preparing to launch CA‘s new Web site by
the beginning of the next academic year.
The new site will feature a personalized
home site, news content, alerts and blogs.
The IS Department has been responsible
for publishing, editing and creating about
1,200 Web pages that will go into the new
site, said CA webmaster Bob Vinicombe.
“We‘ve got our hands full,” he said.
Along with creating the new Web site,
IS has had to deal with the pedestrian dayto-day technical issues that CA faces. “The
department has worked very well over the
years to contain issues and resolve them
with as little impact to the school community as possible,” said Eric Moore, one of CA‘s
information services consultants.
Many questions the department answers
involve failed power supplies and installing
and removing software on the tablet PCs.
“Most of the time we‘re busy with tabletrelated problems,” Manakhov said.
With an IS technician in both the Upper
and Middle Schools (Assistant Director
Rick Harris and senior consultant Kevin
Rokuskie, respectively), response time
for these technical
issues has improved,
Moore said.
Although much of its
work occurs behind the
scenes, Manakhov said
that if the IS
Department didn‘t exist
the school would have to go back to pencil
and paper. “We would not be able to be the
school we are if we didn‘t have this department,” Manakhov said. “I can’t imagine a
school like ours with no IS department of
some sort.”
Moore believes that the smooth operation of the department helps CA achieve its
goals of discovery, innovation, collaboration
and excellence. “I don’t think the school
could be as innovative and achieve the level
of discovery it currently does without the
breadth and depth of support from the IS
team we now have,” Moore said.
With nine staff members, it’s hard to
define a typical day in the IS department.
Everyday duties of each person in the
department differ depending on their job.
Manakhov himself spends much of his
time answering e-mails, attending meetings and talking to members of the CA
community. Other
members of the staff
include: coordinator
Kris Wetterling, systems engineer Peter
Todd, consultant Mike
Roy, and database and
backup administrator
Marita Gonsalves.
For IS, collaboration with other CA
departments is key, Moore said. “Even in
the event of a large-scale tech issue the
IS Department works in a collaborative
environment to resolve the issue as
efficiently and effectively as possible,”
Moore said. “We have exceptional departmental and project leadership to keep the
campus running.”
—Carolyn Gray, Intern
…if the IS Department
didn’t exist the school
would have to go back
to pencil and paper.
committee of three people. Ritter received a
monetary award and a trophy for being selected
the winning candidate.
The seventh grade gathered in the cafeteria the
morning of May 23 to bag meals for the second
year in a row for Stop Hunger Now, a relief
organization. Working in teams, the students
filled, bagged and boxed 10,944 nutritious, dry
grain meals that will be shipped internationally
for hunger and malnutrition relief.
On May 21, Robert Reichel (’14) served as
Head of the Middle School for the day.
Middle School language arts and social studies
instructor Sarah Ritter received the Michael G.
Curran Family Foundation Leadership in
Teaching Award
from the Cary
Chamber of
Commerce on
May 12. The
award came
during the
Chamber’s
annual Honor
A Teacher night.
Each candidate up for the award had to submit
a resume and brief essays on teaching. All
candidates were interviewed individually by a
Lauren Kalin (‘11) will serve as a Senate page
June 30-July 3. After her one-week stint in the
Senate, Kalin will then page for another week
in the House of Representatives.
Georgia Van de Zande (‘11) has been appointed to serve as a Senate page for the 2008
session of the General Assembly.
Charlotte Kelley (‘11) performed with Carolina
Ballet in Sleeping Beauty at Memorial
Auditorium, May 15-18. Kelley, a student in the
Professional Division of the Raleigh School of
Ballet, recently returned from the Southeastern
Regional Ballet Association Festival where she
participated in three days of master classes
and performances with her performance
company, Raleigh Dance Theatre. She is also
attending a five-week Summer Intensive
Program at Boston Ballet, June 28-Aug. 2.
Cary Academy‘s own rock and blues band,
Citizen, captured first place at Jamfest, the
town of Cary’s annual rock competition, on
May 3. Held at Bond Park‘s outdoor Sertoma
Amphitheatre, Jamfest featured six area bands
vying for a first prize that included $500 and a
booking at Cary‘s upcoming Lazy Daze Festival
in August. Citizen features junior Seth Johnson
and sophomores Alex Rosenthal, Austin
Cooper, Aaron Harrington and Alex Nemetz.
Matt Lee ('12) took first place in the annual
Regional Korean Math Competition sponsored
by the Korean-American Scientists and
Engineering Association on April 19 and will be
waiting for results in states. Lee has been the
winner of the Triangle Regional Competition for
the past three years and has advanced to
states each time. Last year, Lee earned first
place in North Carolina to advance to nationals.
Sooyeon Lee ('14) took the EXPLORE program
test (administered annually to thousands of
eighth-graders by ACT) sponsored by the Duke
University Talent Identification Program. She
received an overall score of 99% and was invited to the 28th Annual 7th Grade North Carolina
Recognition Ceremony to receive an award.
This is the first time a Cary Academy student
has earned this honor as a sixth-grader.
Lauren Pederson (’12) has received the Girl
Scout Silver Award by excelling in leadership,
community service, career planning and
personal development.
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Alumni: Contact [email protected] with your updates!
Class of 2002
Kamla Kasichainula graduated from UNC’s
journalism school with a concentration in advertising in 2006. She now lives and works in Los
Angeles as a media planner.
Class of 2003
Kaleah Overton graduated from Agnes Scott
College in 2007 and is in Atlanta working for
BearingPoint, a management and technology
consulting firm.
Ashton Ward Clawson and her husband,
Brandon, will both graduate from Brigham
Young University in August after she completes
her honors thesis. Ashton will graduate with
honors with a journalism major and business
management minor.
Class of 2004
Yuriko Tamura was initiated into the Tau Beta
Pi Engineering Honor Society at Stanford. She
will complete her B.S. in biomedical computation in June and then spend two extra quarters
to earn an M.S. in bioengineering.
Alison Titkemeyer has returned from three
months abroad in Brazil, where she shot
footage for a documentary on APAE, a school
for people (mostly kids) with mental disabilities.
She learned Portuguese for the occasion and
was in a very small rural town. Her last semester at the College of Santa Fe will be spent editing the film, which she hopes to enter it into
next year’s Full Frame Film Festival.
Class of 2005
Lillian Behrend was chosen as the recipient of
the Society of First Families of South Carolina
Scholarship in History this year.
Valerie Chen is in Liberia volunteering with a
global charity that is providing free healthcare
along the west coast of Africa.
Holly Metter is president of the Leadership
Institute at Harvard, a club that provides
professional leadership development seminars
for undergraduates, promotes collaboration
among student leaders on campus, and tutors
middle school students in confidence and
leadership skills. Over spring break she traveled
to El Salvador with Habitat for Humanity, and
this summer she will be working in a marketing
position in London for 10 weeks.
Steven Wilson will complete his undergraduate
work at the University of Oxford this summer
with a double major in
history and politics.
He has received an
unconditional offer to
attend graduate school
in political science at
Christ Church College,
University of Oxford in
the fall.
Steven Wilson at Oxford.
Class of 2006
Stephen Bolick is a sophomore at UNC and
has been accepted into the Kenan-Flagler
School of Business.
Anna Niles was accepted into the school of
nursing at UNC and began the two-year B.S.N.
program in May.
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notes
1500 N. Harrison Avenue
Cary, North Carolina 27513
Telephone: 919-677-3873
Fax: 919-677-4002
www.caryacademy.org
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mportant dates
Summer Quest
June 9-August 1
New faculty arrive
July 28
Faculty return
August 4
MS Meet the Team Night
August 7
6th grade orientation
August 12
First day of school
August 13
Parent Social
August 15
Meet the new PTAA board (plus key dates for 2008-09)!
Cary Academy June /July 2008
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It is my
pleasure to
introduce the
incoming
PTAA board including the officers and
committee chairs. This year’s nominating
committee has done an excellent job in
recruiting many fine parents to serve
on the PTAA. Thanks to the nominating
committee for all its hard work. The
following parents were elected to serve
as officers on the PTAA board:
Also serving on the board:
Howard Udell – Funding
Katy Allen – US Faculty
Sara Mizelle – MS Faculty
October 2008
October 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Middle/Upper School
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences
November 2008
August 2008
November 7 . . . . . Grandparents’/Special Friends’ Day
MS Fall Sports Practices Begin
November 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . End of 1st Trimester
Varsity and Junior Varsity Fall Sports Practices Begin
Middle School Meet the Team Night (TBD)
December 2008
August 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8th and 10-12th
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .New Student Orientation
December 4-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Holiday Shoppe
December 19 . . . . . . . . . . Cary Academy Homecoming
August 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Freshman Orientation
Naomi Lambert – President
August 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6th Grade Orientation
February 2008
Karen Green – Vice President
August 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . First Day of School
February 21 . . . . . . . . . PTAA Annual Benefit Auction
Mary Blondy – Treasurer
August 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Parent Party
Manju Karkare – Secretary
August 21 . . . . Upper School Meet the Teacher Night
Liz Eubanks & Rekha Rao – Members at Large US
Sue Harberberger & Rose Hollinshead –
Members at Large MS
Charlotte Laverick – Past President
September 2008
September 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Upper School Class Trips
September 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6th Grade Class Trip
September 12 . . . . . . . Cary Academy Family Fun Fest
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(starts 3:15 PM)
September 16 . . . . First PTAA Meeting for 2008-2009
Remember EVERYONE is welcome
and has a place in the PTAA. Catch our
community spirit — ParTicipAte Alliance!
— Charlotte Laverick, PTAA President
’07-‘08