Belarus was a standout with Kirill Gotovets ’10and Denis Dalidovich ’11 delivering a fascinatingtalk on their home country. The Belarusian duospoke about the culture, language, economic devel-opment, and the geography of their homeland.Another popular spot on the grand tour aroundcampus was the Johnson Gym. Senoras EliaBruggeman, Leita Gjersvig, Isabel Rodriguez,and Merry Mendoza and Senorita MichelleCosta were helped by SSM students from Mexico,Brazil, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Costa Rica ina festival of food, piñatas, music, games, and more!

All in all, citizens and residents of nearly three dozen nations participated. “Geographic, linguistic,and ethnic diversity is a part of our precious, power-ful, and resonant community, and this is our day to learn about, share, and celebrate all we are,” saidJan Gould Martin ’75, SSM Global EducationProgram Director.

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Christine Dubuc ’10 and Vanessa LeGault-Cordisco ’10of Quebec show their Canadian spirit.Below: Sawako Yoshioka ’10 and Nanoha Sato ’11(Japan), Saul Rosales ’09 (Columbia) and BillyBruggeman ’09 (Mexico) gather in the gym for theClosing Ceremonies.

Eun Hye Choi ’12 and Soo Bin Kim ’10dressed in their colorful and traditional

Korean hanboks welcomed visitors to the Korean presentation in

Newhall Auditorium.

The Shattuck-St. Mary’s community marked its fourth International Day with song, dance,action and joie de vivre.

“This day makes real the sense of place – the here and there; the now and then – for our entire community. But that’s just a small part ofInternational Day. It’s a remarkable opportunityfor leadership. On this day, international studentstake the full lead, and the stranger in a strangeland becomes a leader in their adopted land.That’s good for everyone, and that informs ourschool and our world,” said Matt Ruby, Directorof Studies.

Designed by the International Club as an interactive experience, the event was planned andled by the members of the International Club andits co-presidents, Shu-Ting (Tina) Hsieh ’09(Taiwan) and Kyeong Ho (Kenneth) Moon ’09(Korea), and the Club’s advisor, AndrewGarlinski ’98, International Student Coordinator.

After a welcome from Head of School NickStoneman, international students began with thetraditional SSM parade of nations, entering withtheir flags as their anthems were played by Shin(Mark) Lee ’11 (Taiwan) and Mrs. DionePeterson, Choral Director.

Following the opening ceremonies, internationalstudents, faculty, and staff offered a variety of sta-tions – from Korean television and movies, to abaklava and a Greek travelogue, to French crepes!China presented a creative translation game withbaseball caps with the school name across the hatbacks and Mandarin characters on the sides:Drama! Art! Ice Hockey! Music! Academics!Soccer! SSM parents Rob and JanaMacQueen (Ellie and Zac) donated thecaps and also sponsored a winners’ pizzadinner. Canada presented hockey for allin the rink, and England continued thecompetition with rugby in the DaneFamily Field House. The Africannations shared music and language,while Scandinavia and Spain and somany others freely offered their cultureand geography.

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Greetings from green Faribault!Spring is upon us (at last!) andwe’ve now run the ‘Friday’s AreDifferent’ (FAD) schedule 11

times over the course of winter andspring terms. In this edition of the

Review I’d like to give you a report onthe Upper School evaluation of this program.

We started FAD in order to provide studentswith ‘college preparatory’ opportunities tomake choices in support of their class work andother intellectual endeavors. I am very pleasedwith the outcome. Faculty have designed out-standing programming and students have done a marvelous job taking advantage of the opportunities and staying on task.

In a recent student survey, the two things thatstudents valued most about FAD was the

reliability of extra help and the chance tolearn about newthings. 85% of stu-dents reported thatthis schedule support-ed their class work better

than our previous schedule. In terms of learningnew things, we have devoted 50% of the program-ming to enriching our students’ intellectual lives.84% of students rated the quality of these enrich-ment sessions as either ‘very good’ or ‘excellent’.The most reported ‘highlights’ on the survey wereDr. Libby’s lectures (D-Day, Project Valkyrie, andthe battle of Thermopylae), science labs (DNAextraction, blood typing, major appliance decon-struction), examining the mathematics in the“Num3ers” program, debates and discussions in thehistory department (e.g. the Kennedy assassination,the war in Iraq, causes of the current recession) andthe Slaughterhouse Five discussion in the Englishdepartment.

Faculty review of FAD has resulted in a decision tocontinue. Scheduling special events on Fridays hasdramatically reduced interruptions to regular classesand made class time more consistent and reliablefor teachers and students. Additionally, since moststudent travel (athletics, musicians, trips home)occurs on Fridays, there has been a significantreduction in the number of ‘partial classes’ andcatch-up work that slow down class progress.Faculty identified two caveats for the schedule.First, that we stay focused on providing sufficientscheduled class time. Second, it would be difficult

to maintain a weekly pace of high quality offeringsgiven the required time and effort. With all of this inmind, we will refine the FAD schedule as follows:

• Offer the FAD schedule approximately everyother week with regular classes on the otherFridays.

• Create an academic period after lunch onFridays. Departments will assign the use ofthese periods to best support their curriculum.

• Improve the system for turning in work onFridays to help students make better use ofThursday night study hall.

We’ve successfully completed this first phase of FAD. The next phase will involve developing com-munity service, artistic, and professional internshipopportunities on Friday afternoons. We already havestudents leaving campus on Friday afternoons for the Bioscience and Pre-conservatory Programs and are developing the relationships to extend these programs and create new ones. Watch for more onthis and please send me your ideas and resources. Thank you for the privilege of educating your children.

Matt RubyDirector of Studies

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From the Director of Studies Matt Ruby

Update on the New Friday Schedule: “Fridays are different making a comeback for next year!”

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Winter Term High Honors. The following students are awarded gold SSM pins for earning a grade-point average of 3.85 or higher with no grades below a B- for winter term:

Grade 6: Micaela Hayton

Grade 7: Brianna Bruggeman, Xavier Buhman, Ellie MacQueen, Eden Murray, Ellen (Ellie) Ray

Grade 8: Hee Yun (Delaney) Choi, Kevin Draeger, Jack Dudley,Andrew Farny, Margaret (Maggie) Hausmann, Rae Hohle, Jun Ha (Rachel) Jung, Sang Yun (Nick) Park, Daniel (Bo) Pieper, Seung Wan (Wendy) Shon, Daniel (Danny) Tirone

Grade 9: Alexandra Bender, John Draeger, Kimberly Drake, SydneyEberwein, Kathleen Holder, Ching-Wen Huang, Ting Chiang Huang,Jordan Jancze, Lily Jilk, Hyun Joon Lee, Jun Ho Lee, Hope Lundberg,Johanna Ruby, Xiaohan Sun, Meagan Tickle, Dana Trivigno

Grade 10: Nicholas Blackmer, Tyler Bruneteau, Margaret Byrne, Denis Dalidovich, Lauren Eberwein, Travis Eckman-Rocha, HayleyEngel, Ariel Flotte, Brett Habermehl, Waitin Kam, Katherine Kiewel,Erin Krichiver, Yang Liu, Max Morice, Sean Murphy, Sang Won Park,Dennis Sanchez, Woo Taek Shin, Thomas Skelly, Trevor Stewart, Kayla Sullivan, Peter Traber, Terra Traub, Nicholas Weberg, McKenzie White, Sun Young Yim

Grade 11: Seo Hyun Cho, Won Ho Chung, Peter Clements, KellieDineen, Christine Dubuc, Lauren Eberwein, Geoffrey Ferguson,Castrenze Fricano, Alyssa Gagliardi, Michael Gandier, Ethan Harlow,Kiryl Hatavets, Derek Huang, Julianna Jack, Lauren Joarnt, AmandaKessel, Soo Bin Kim, Yoo Rim Kim, Daniel Ko, Jong Won Lee, Vanessa LeGault Cordisco, Heidi Martin, Benjamin Monge, MagdalenaMullerperth, Kristina Nordstrom, So Yean Pak, Paul Parisot, MadelinePeterson, Hung Yuan Shih, Seung Hee Shon, John Smereczniak, Rebecca Stoneman, Joseph Tennyson, Hsin Han Tsai, Guanhao Xiong,Jiawei Xu, Junfeng Zhuang, Joel Zimmerly

Grade 12: Margaret Archbold, Brandon Beneduce, Francesco Capone,Julian Cardona, Hyun Young Choi, Chelsea Cline, Jessica Cohen,Alexander Fallstrom, Keegan Gunderson, Natasha Hellen, Shu-TingHsieh, Emily Hughes, Emilie Huser, Garrett Jensen, CourtneyLangston, Hyun Bin Lee, Chun-Jen Lin, Jian Luo, Blake Matejcek,Yoon Gi Moon, Benjamin Murphy, Sebastian Nilsson, Taylor Ochs,Hanna Park, Esther Paulsen, Mellaney Peper, Samantha Peterson, CJ Rhoades, Rebecca Ruegsegger, Lucas Sorensen, Charles Wilson

Post Grad: Nathan Sinz

Academic HonorsWinter Term Honors. The following students are awarded silver SSM pins for earning a grade-point average of 3.25 to 3.85 with no grades below a B- for winter term:

Grade 6: Shelby Miller

Grade 7: Liam Biard, Shannon Blackmer, Noah Cloak, William Flotte

Grade 8: Spencer Carter, Jake Curwin, Zachary MacQueen, Ian McCoshen, Kelly Murray, Erin Olson, Truman Reed, Andrew Sprang, Noah Westphal

Grade 9: Alex Birk, Theodor Blueger, Rogelio Cadena, MichelleChan, Alexis Crossley, Oscar Dansk Samuel Fejes, Kyle Hayton,David Johnson, Brittany Lau, Sebastian Lemm, Ya Ting Liang, John Lujano, Summer O’Connor Taylor Parkinson David Pieper, Kirk Reeve Ryan Schwalbe, Nicole Simonelli, Zachary Stepan,Benjamin Tegtmeyer, Jorie Walters

Grade 10: Sarah Anderson, Camille Biard, Taylor Blair, ChristianBlandon, Jessica Brown, Mikhail Bushinski, Megan Cox, Hans Drawbert,Eric Faust, Timothy Flaherty, Anthony Frankenfield, Hollie Gray III,Benjamin Greiner, Brycen Howard, Julianna Johnston, Makenna Keil,Yong Joon Kye, Bianca Leacock, Sang Il Lee, Shin Lee, Nairu Li, Rachelle Little, Christina Lompado, Keegan Lowe, Daniel Melong,Alexander Nilsson, Archie Ogani, Jide Oluyedun, Sung Woo Pak,Alexandra Pantze, Katherine Reed, Chance Rhoades, Nikolas Robinson,Benson Roush, Nanoha Sato, Breanna Simon, Bryan Sinz, John Thesing,Tadas Tsibulskis, Ellen Williams, I Chen Wu, Hsin Chen Yang,Seung Ha Yoo, Da Yu, Shanquan Zhang

Grade 11: Jesper Aasa, Elizabeth Althoff, Gideon Asante, Joseph Basaraba, Nickolas Bruneteau, Maxwell Cainkar, Jason Clark,Sung Won Choi, Megan Crosby, Adam Glanzer, Jacob Grawey,Faith Greiner, Tiana Hamilton, Brian Harrison, Kinzey Johnson, Kelly Kiewel, Joshua Little, Justin Lutsch, Madison Marzario, Chloe Mayo, Martin Moen, John Mulligan, Logan Murray, Caleb Neal,Jeremiah Olson, Adekunle Oluyedun, Elena Orlando, James Polk,Kathleen Rogan, Adrianna Simonelli, Yi Hsuan Tsai, Aristotle Vrohidis,Guan Wang, Kaeli Weber, Jingru Wu, Xiaolin Yin

Grade 12: Alyssa Ables, Trent Brown, William Bruggeman, Dru Burns,Felipe Carrasco, Eun-Young Cho, Brianna Decker, Kyle Forte, KristineHorn, Akil Howard, Mohamed Ibrahim, Madeline Justin, Roben Kolz,Sanghyuk Lee, Justine Lenter, Sloane Levin, Ker-Wei Liu, Zhou Long, Eric Martin, Mikinna Martin, Kyeong Ho Moon, Mark Nasby, Tzu-YangNi, Andrew O'Leary, Joseph Roelle, Saul Rosales, Kevin Tuohy, RodolpheVallee, Elizabeth Wilson, Emily Young

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Outside the Minnesota History Center a group ofjuniors enjoy the scenery,

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Johanna Ruby ’12as Aunt Em.

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Winter Family WeekendThis year Winter Family Weekend was held on February 6-8, 2009! As always there weremany fun-filled activities planned. Below is a sampling of the events that occurred during spirit week and during the weekend. Mark your calendars for our next family gathering. It is Fall Family Weekend and is scheduled for October 2-4, 2009!

The SoutheasternMinnesota Honor Bandconcert was held onJanuary 24, 2009 andincluded SSM students:Mark Lee ’11 (percus-sion), Johanna Ruby ’12(French horn), JimmyLee ’12 (trumpet) andSherry Yang ’11 (flute).

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Zhou Long ’09 and Derek Huang ’10advanced to the finals for the 2009 YPCSA(Young People’s Symphony ConcertAssociation) Competition, held February 1at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis as well as the finals of the Schubert ClubCompetition. Zhou Long ’09 took the topprize for the MNSOTA – “Mary West”competition in November. In addition to a cash prize, she performed with theBloomington Symphony on Sunday April26 at 3:00 at St. Michael’s Church inBloomington, MN.

The four string players in the Shattuck-St. Mary’s Pre-Conservatory class haverecently been advanced to the finals for the St. Paul String Chamber MusicCompetition and played at Sundin Hall on the campus of Hamline University onSunday April 26, 2009.

Xiaohan Sun ’12 competed onMarch 14 in the Thursday MusicalCompetition and was the State'sWinner for her age category. The Thursday Musical Young ArtistProgram offers students an opportuni-ty to compete for scholarships in theYoung Artist Competition. Winnersare recognized with monetary awardsand featured concert performances.Xiaohan performed in the Winners'Concert on Thursday, March 26 at the Bloomington Center for the Arts.In addition, Xiaohan advanced to the finals of the Schubert ClubCompetition.

Derek Huang ’10 won the six stateregional MTNA (Music TeachersNational Association) competitionand the Junior Division for theMNSOTA “Mary West” SoloCompetition. He competed in thenational finals in Atlanta, GA at theend of February. He also placed thirdin the La Crosse SymphonyCompetition in January and receiveda cash prize. Derek also advanced tothe finals of the Schubert ClubCompetition.

Magdalena Mullerperth ’10 was featured on WCCO (CBS affiliate) “Life to the Max” television program onNovember 29, 2008. The program profileshigh-achieving students from Minnesota.

This February, four of our top math students had excellent scores on the AME (AmericanMathematical Exam), and they qualified to take the next level exam, the AIME (AmericanInvitational Mathematics Exam) on April 1st. The students are Andy Luo ’09,Yoon GiMoon ’09, Henry Shih ’10, and Jacky Kam ’11.They did a great job on the first test and it is quite an honor to qualify for the second test.

Derek Huang ’10 has been selected to sit for the American Chemical Society’s nationalexam. He will join 13 other students from the Twin Cities for the national test, which willbe held at the University of St.Thomas on Saturday, April 25.

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Our Mathletes competed in the Wasioja conference and won eachof the five meets in their schedule and took first place in the con-ference. The invitation to the state meet had to be declined dueto SSM’s spring break. Derek Huang ’10 was the top scorer inthe Wasioja conference and, because of this achievement, Derekwas invited to the state meet as an individual.

Many of the Mathletes came to the special problem solving sessions onFriday mornings to prepare for theupcoming competitions. According to Mr. Irby, “They did a great job and were a joy to work with.”

Our Mathletes, in addition to manyother top math students, also participated in the AMC (AmericanMathematics Competition) in February. Two of the regularMathletes, Yoon Gi Moon ’09, Waitin (Jacky) Kam ’11, aswell as Jian (Andy) Luo ’09, and Hung Yuan (Henry) Shih ’10scored high enough to be invited to participate in the AIME(American Invitational Mathematics Competition).

Watch out for our budding Mathletes at the Middle School! Mr. Langevin and the middle school Mathletes enjoyed successas well. The team competed in the Wasioja North conference and took third place overall. Rae Hohle ’13 took 1st place andRachel Jung ’13 took 4th place in the final conference standings.

Derek Huang ’10, Jian (Andy) Luo ’09, SangHyuk(Eugene) Lee ’09, Yoon Gi Moon ’09, HyunYoung (Emily) Choi ’09, Waitin (Jacky) Kam ’11,Da Yu ’11, Woo Taek Shin ’11, Jenny Cho ’09,Yang Liu ’11, Mellaney Peper ’09, Sung WonChoi ’10, Joon Se Lim ’11, Kyeong Ho (Ken)Moon ’09, Sang Won (Billy) Park ’11, Hsin-Han(Edward) Tsai ’10, Shanquan (Amy) Zhang ’12,and Hyun Joon Lee ’12.

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FencingBelieve it or not, fencing at SSM is atwo-season sport! This year’s fencing team began its practice season during Fall Term, meeting three times a week at St. Mary’s Hall gym with coach MariaBenford. The competition phase occurredduring Winter Term which included fourmatches. SSM hosted the first match ofthe season at the St. Mary’s Hall gymagainst The Minnesota Sword Play onDecember 15, 2008 and participated intwo away matches at Blake School andthe Minnesota Sword Club. The seasonplay-offs were held at Blake School.

This year’s team included two girls andseven boys representing both our Upperand Middle Schools. The team recordwas two wins and two losses. RogelioCadena ’12 reached the boy’s individualsemi-finals in Saber. The SSM team had adifficult time in the playoffs due to ouryounger athletes, but we have a goodgroup to serve as next year’s foundation.

Girls SoccerKatie Reed ’11 was invited to the U.S.Soccer National Development Camp,held February 18-23, 2009 in Pomona,California. This camp is for the top girlsin the United States born in 1993 & 1994.

On the heels of Chelsea Cline ’09being named to the W-League 2008 All-League Team as a rising high school senior last summer, she has been namedto the 2008 NSCAA All-America Team.This is her second year in a row to winthis award. Chelsea was also invited toattend the U20-U18 US Women’sNational Team combined training camp at the U.S. Olympic TrainingCenter in Chula Vista, CA January 25 – February 1, 2009.

Figure SkatingBrittany Lau, ’12, competed in theSingapore National ChampionshipsMarch 6 -7, 2009 and is the SingaporeNational Junior Ladies Champion!

Girls Prep HockeyShattuck-St. Mary’s won its fourth 19-Under girls’ national title in five years,defeating Chicago Mission, 5-1, inRochester, N.Y. Goaltender BeccaRuegsegger ’09 had 38 saves, and theSabres scored a power play goal in eachperiod and two shorthanded empty-net-ters. Ruegsegger, who entered Shattuck-St. Mary’s as a sixth grader, saw the SSMgirls prep team win three straight nationalchampionships. Chicago Mission brokethe streak last year by defeating SSM inthe quarterfinals. SSM’s girls took thebronze in the 16-Under division, finishingthe tournament with a 3-2 record, 13goals and nine points. In the boys’ tour-nament, SSM’s 18-Under, 16-Under and14-Under teams lost in the quarterfinals.

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Hockey RecapSeason RecordsGirls Prep43-12-3

Girls U-1640-7-6

Boys Prep35-9-7

Boys Midget AAA23-21-7

Boys U-1644-5-4

Boys Midget AA30-17-3

Boys Bantam Tier 149-8-3

Boys Bantam A26-5-3

Outside SSMThe Midwest Amateur Gymnastics Association held itsIndividual State Championship Meet on March 28 inOwatonna, Minn. Congratulations to Erin Olson ’13who placed first All-Around in the Senior Division!Congratulations to Janelle Matejcek ’14 who placed fourth All-Around in the Junior Division!

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MinnesnowtaDays What? A Snow Day at Shattuck-St. Mary’s?

Classes Cancelled So Students Can Enjoy “Minnesnowta Days”

Minnesnowta Days was certainly a fun experience for all of us middle schoolers.We came together on a Thursday night in the Old Rink to watch Bantam A playhockey. Afterwards, we all had a skating party for awhile, which was fun.We atepizza, nachos, hot dogs, and drank hot chocolate. Then we gathered in the lobbyof the Sabre Cafe and had a dance, where we listened to music, partied, and hadsome fun. Afterwards, every-one settled down and got out the sleeping bags, andwe watched Ice Age until everyone fell asleep.So the next day we woke up and ate, then had our snow angel competition.Wethen headed to the bus, and boarded to go to a sledding hill near Faribault HighSchool. It was amazingly cold at the hill, but we all sledded for a long time.Eyebrows were frozen, and everyone was freezing, but happy. Reluctantly, we allleft, and the day ended.We headed back and warmed up, grabbed our stuff, andwent on with our day. It was a great amount of fun, and we’re sure we’d all do itagain any day.-Cal Perry ’13, and Matt McArdle ’13