News Tribune: “Tarriers’ success will depend on whether they can find ways to use their quickness and athleticism to their advantage.”
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
The News Tribune published its fall preps football preview today and the sports reporters had some nice things to say about CWA’s football program. Take a look at this article before heading out to the first game of the season tomorrow night. CWA faces Tacoma Baptist at home on Friday, September 3, at 7pm. Read the rest of this entry »
CWA’s college counselors work closely with students to identify a list of schools that may be a good fit for them and then help them craft applications to each school. The advice they give every student is different, but it’s a pretty safe bet that they always tell students they should never, under any circumstances, apply to just one school. “The thing was, there was only one school I wanted to go to,” says senior Ben Mishkin. “So I figured, why apply anywhere else? I think I just about gave everybody heart attacks, especially my parents, my college counselor (Katie Ryan) and my advisor (Wes Wesby).” Ben gambled big and he came up a winner. The one and only school to which he applied is St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, and he got in. 
At the end of every school year, CWA administrators recognize faculty and staff members as they celebrate the completion of their fifth, tenth and fifteenth years at Charles Wright. At today’s employee recognition event, 25 faculty members will be recognized as they reach major milestones in their careers. A total of 14 faculty and staff members are finishing their fifth year on campus. Six others are finishing ten years. Richard Kalustian, a Middle School science and math teacher, has reached 15 years. Helen Bingham Rowles, now teaching fifth grade, is celebrating 20 years. Phyllis Kriese has been at the receptionist’s desk in the Upper School for 30 years. Lower School music teacher Judy Herrington has been teaching here for 35 years. Steve Daniels, the eighth grade earth science teacher, is completing a remarkable 40th year at CWA.
This evening CWA Headmaster Rob Camner emailed faculty, staff and board members to share the sad news that Bob Minnerly, his predecessor, passed away today. Minnerly served as CWA’s Headmaster from 1986 to 1996.
CWA claimed the state boys tennis team championship this weekend, the school’s third title in four years. CWA also won the state title in the 4×100 meter girls relay for a second consecutive year and won the boys doubles tennis championship. 
Lots of high school students like to be fashionable. Jenny Lee likes fashion itself, so much so that she’s about to devote four years of her life to learning the art and business of fashion design at one of the nation’s leading art and design colleges, Parsons The New School for Design. Like many of her classmates, Jenny first looked broadly at colleges. “Everyone wants to have that normal college experience,” she says. “Then, a year ago, I was watching the fifth season of “Project Runway” and it just snapped in my mind – ‘This is what I want to do.’ So, I’m not going to have the normal college experience.” 
Charles Wright students learn about colleges all sorts of ways. Some schools are introduced to them by friends or relatives, others are recommended by their college counselors or teachers, and a few pop up in school directories. Ali Lamb may take home the prize for the most unusual story about how she discovered her perfect college. 
Darcy Walker grew up with the image of one college campus in her mind. When she was in elementary school, her older brother graduated from the University of Oregon. She visited him often when he was in school and so the Eugene campus just naturally came to epitomize for her what college was all about. “When it came time to apply to colleges, I was just dead set on U of O,” she says. “Since my brother is a lot older than me, it didn’t bother me that I was following in his footsteps.”