April 20, 2012Dear Reader,

Six issues, 140 pages, 20 minutes of video, and 246 articles later, my time in the Bat Cave is done. No more pestering people for articles, no more updating El Batidor’s Facebook page, and no more letters from the editor to write. My time has

This has been one of the greatest, most challenging, and rewarding learning experiences I have ever had. I say this because I was forced to actually learn from my mistakes. There was no rulebook to follow; the fonts, the content, the length, and the promo videos were all up to me. I learned the hard way that Cate students don’t like crossword puzzles or “Color by

more questions than answers throughout my time at El Bat.

I changed the paper back to its old 11” X 13.5” format and added 10 pages to the issue. Now, for my last issue, I don’t really have a choice. I have to go home, whether I like it or not. But that doesn’t necessarily mean I can’t leave BIG and go home, so I’ve decided to up the ante.

yet another form of creativity on this campus. Sincerely,

P.S. I want to cry.

Fernando Hurtado

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Head Photographer: Ethan Chan ‘13, Opinion: Denali Tietjen ‘12, Features: Adam Werksman ‘12, Artist-­in-­Residence: Isabella Thomas ‘12, Business Manager: Rico Fung ‘12Middle L to R-­

El Phat: Charlotte Bowles ‘12, Artist-­in-­Residence: Lisa Huang ‘12, Sports: Vanessa Lizárraga ‘12Bottom-­

Editor-­in-­Chief: Fernando Hurtado ‘12

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Video Manager: Pom Bunsermvicha ‘12, Entertain-­ment/Copy Editor: Johannah Farner ‘12, Layout Editor: Jane Park ‘12

Ben Williams, Headmaster

It is hard to believe that just two years have passed since we in the

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Zoey was always at his side;; who better to demonstrate the art of affection than a Labrador?

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I will not pretend that this evolution in our relationship with Co-­

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For the value you placed on artistic expression,

we dedicate this issue to you, our teacher and

our friend, Colin Day.

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conversations will identify the criteria by which

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students will be headed out to the wilder parts of the earth on service projects;;

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revisit days! Perhaps you were involved as a

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two revisit days?

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pitchers for the baseball team in our prospec-­

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s’mores at lunch!

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Ryan Ferris Keem ’12"A man who dares to waste one hour of time during Willem Week has

not discovered the value of life."

---Charles Darwin

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the

mind on the Willem." ---Buddha

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It

takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the Willem

direction." ---Albert Einstein "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single

word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope, Willem." ---Winston Churchill

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one, as long as that

one person is Willem." ---Mother Teresa

"Let’s paint some happy little trees." ---Bob Ross

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development than the dominant due to the fact

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be an apt description of what we hope the season turns out to be in the

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especially loves to see this as an outcome from a player who has become an honest and driven competitor from his four years in the tennis pro-­

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Corktree Wine Cellars

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El PhatCut around the dotted lines so you can be Daniel Shin!

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School House

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Want this view from your room?

Kaitlyn Gulock ’13

With 9 Tony Awards, 12 nominations, and the 1976 Pulitzer

longest-running Broadway musical ever, “A Chorus Line” is com-

ing to Cate. This candid musical is about performers trying out for a

chorus line, though their auditions aren’t like ones conducted by Mrs.

Block. As the director (played by Fernando Hurtado '12 on Thursday/

Saturday and Scott Sinclair '12 on Friday) asks questions of the aspir-

ing stars, the more information we learn of the characters. We get an

dancers, revealing complex family stories and humorous anecdotes

about the hardships of puberty. If you’re wondering what all of your

friends have been working hard on in the Hitchcock Theater almost

every night for the past couple months, come out and see “A Chorus

Line.” Why not go out with your parents to dinner and a free show?

WARNING: This show has been given a PG-13 rating.

How will you rank your dorms? (Psst! Rumor has it Savage will

become a dorm next year—for boys!)

Special thanks to our photographers, Shanise Djuhari ‘13 and Maddie Schrager ‘13, and Jarred Ray.

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