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The Havergal
FALL 2012
Supporting
Student
Success
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
Havergal College and The Havergal College Foundation
Annual Report 2011-2012
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF
ADVANCEMENT & COMMUNITY
RELATIONS
Table of Contents
Louise Yearwood
DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS
Young Um
COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE
Susan Pink
2 Havergal Snapshots 15 Learning Through a Guided
4 Havergal’s Chair of the Inquiry Framework CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Susan Pink
Board of Governors 16 Feature Story: Supporting Young Um
Louise Yearwood
5 Grace Woroch, School Student Success and others as credited
Captain 2012-2013 20 The Changing Needs of CONTRIBUTORS
6 Understanding the Whole our Infrastructure Helena Follows
Christine Lawson
Girl 22 Community News Heather McLean
Ann Peel
7 HC Summer Institutes for 23 Old Girls News
Teaching and Learning DESIGN
27 Havergal College and The Cathy Little
8 Havergal Student Awards Havergal College Foundation CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHY
2011-2012 Annual Report 2011-2012 Susan Pink
Jackie Suongas
11 The Green in Green & Gold 52 2012 Survey Results Caley Taylor 1996
Carol Tsang
12 Institute at Havergal
SPECIAL THANKS to all members
of the Havergal community who
participated in interviews, submitted
articles, contributed photographs
I can be effective and reviewed articles.
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ON THE COVER. Left to right: Samantha Blackstein (Grade 3),
Ellen Ferris (Grade 12) and Anna Hardie (Grade 8)
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE
A Continuum
of Excellence
By Dr. Susan R. Groesbeck
T
he 2012-2013 school year is off to a rousing start. This fall issue of The Torch
Already we have enjoyed a wonderful Grade 12 Mother- includes a feature article on how
Daughter Luncheon; Celebration Saturday, in support we support students to reach their
of our community partnerships; and Reunion Weekend, with full potential. It also includes our
more than 300 Old Girls returning to Havergal to rekindle old Annual Report (see page 27); I
friendships and re-live old memories. And all this in just the first want to take this opportunity
two months! Other Havergal signature events—including Carol to thank our community for
Service, Founders’ Day and Graduation—will be joined by a major their generous and unwavering
fundraising Gala on May 4, 2013, at the historic Carlu in downtown support for Havergal’s culture
Toronto. If you have not been to this fabulously renovated event of philanthropy. As the school
space—formerly known as Eaton’s Seventh Floor—you are in for contemplates its future plans and
a treat. The net proceeds from this special evening will support the need for enhanced teaching and
a number of key school initiatives in both the Upper and Junior learning spaces, our community’s
Schools. It will be a night you won’t want to miss, and I hope to see ability to support these aspirations
many of our readers there! will be critical to its success. It
is an exciting time in Havergal’s
There are several other major projects underway this year,
distinguished history and, indeed,
including an accreditation process in which Havergal will
in the history of education.
participate in the spring of 2013, run by the Canadian Accredited
Independent Schools (CAIS). The process is conducted As you know, I will be “graduating” at the end of this year, and so
by a group of senior administrators and educators from other the Class of 2013 has a special place in my heart. My last year will
CAIS member schools from across Canada. The CAIS team will be a poignant one, and I can assure you that I will be savouring
engage in an extensive review of all our operations; we will learn every last minute of rich conversation and special moments with
from the best practices of other schools as well as share with them our wonderful students, faculty, staff, Old Girls and parents.
what Havergal does best. The results of this accreditation process,
Havergal College is an extraordinary institution—a proud
added to the results of the strategic surveys the school conducted in
continuum of community members both near and far. Like a
March 2012, will provide an enormous amount of data upon which
family heirloom, it is both our pleasure to enjoy it and our
to draw as we begin discussions for Havergal’s next strategic plan
corporate responsibility to preserve it for the next generation.
2014-2019.
Havergal’s Gala Event
2013
May 4, 2013
Please mark Saturday, May 4, 2013, in your calendars for the Havergal Gala, being held at the spectacular Carlu in downtown
Toronto. With the assistance of events professional Jennifer Bassett (Class of 1993), our committee of talented and dedicated
Havergal volunteers, led by co-chairs Loree Meneguzzi and Laurie Ogilvie Melbourne (Class of 1990), are planning a night you
won’t soon forget! Delectable food by Master Chef Mark McEwan, outstanding musical entertainment by Sean Jones and a
red-hot live auction (including a tuition raffle!) round out this fantastic evening.
Net proceeds will support the Outdoor Naturalized Learning Space in the Junior School and the Aquatic Centre, Science Labs
and Teaching Specialist Office in the Upper School.
Tickets are available for purchase through Bassett Events at 416-616-4660: a single ticket is $500; a table of 10 is $5,000.
For sponsorship information, please contact Jennifer Bassett directly at jbassett@bassettevents.ca.
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1. Students on the Global Experience Program excursion to South
Africa in August.
2. This summer’s Headstart French class on their way to the outdoor
classroom.
3. Welcoming Junior School students back to school on September 4.
4. Middle School students on the first day of school.
5. Boarder Welcome Reception with Residence Head, Meghan
McGregor (left).
6. Parent volunteers at the new Mini G&G Shop at the Junior School.
7. A Junior School student explores the Wonder Wall, created by STEM
teacher Darryl Reiter.
8. House Captains host House Lunch in early September.
9. Daughters and mothers have fun at the Middle School Mother
Daughter Games.
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10. Havergal’s U-20 Soccer Team plays BSS on September 24.
11. Grade 11 students embark on the Outdoor Education Trip to
Algonquin Park.
12. Grads enjoy time with their moms at the annual Mother
Daughter Luncheon.
13. Middle School students and the Havergator karaoke at
Celebration Saturday.
14. Prefects perform the new school cheer at Celebration Saturday.
15. Grade 4 students sing Festival Alleluia at the annual Harvest
Festival.
16. Principal Sue Groesbeck at the Old Girls Reunion Cocktail Party
on September 29.
17. Upper School students support Pakistani schoolgirl activist
Malala Yousafzai.
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Snapshots of Life at Havergal
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HAVERGAL PROFILE
Havergal’s Chair of the
Board of Governors By Young Um
F
or Ann Kerwin, Havergal College will always be her school. Mrs. Kerwin reconnected with the Havergal community in
2009. She embraced a leadership role as a new member of
“Havergal gave me the opportunity and the environment
Havergal’s Board of Governors following a conversation with
in which to grow as a teacher. I’m grateful for having had
then incoming Chair of the Board of Governors, Eden Oliver
the chance to work with the most outstanding educators and to
1978, whom Mrs. Kerwin taught as a student.
learn from and mentor incredible students,” says Mrs. Kerwin,
who was a Social Sciences teacher at Havergal from 1971 to Ms. Oliver recalls how her former teacher helped her to discover
1981. “The school environment encouraged me to take risks, to her love of political science. “She challenged me to be better at
be creative and to welcome challenges and opportunities with whatever I was doing. She gave me the sense that she believed in
enthusiasm.” me,” she says. “She challenges us to do our best work and supports
us in meeting the challenge.”
An experienced leader in the not-for-
profit sector in Canada and England, Since then, Mrs. Kerwin has served as
Mrs. Kerwin has always been involved Havergal’s Vice Chair of the Board and
in making a difference in her Co-Chair of the Leadership Council. As
community. More recently in Toronto, the school’s recently appointed Chair
she has served as Chair of the Women’s of the Board of Governors, she will lead
College Hospital Foundation Board, school governance at Havergal for the
Vice Chair of the Board of Bridgepoint next two years. “I feel really fortunate to
Health Foundation and Director of the be back in the education sector and at
Badminton and Racquet Club. Havergal, but this time, from a different
perspective,” she adds.
For Mrs. Kerwin, giving back is actually
getting back. “Philanthropy is all “As a Board, we will work with all our
about making real connections with school constituencies to build on the
people and sharing your vision and remarkable platform that Dr. Groesbeck
commitment,” says Mrs. Kerwin, who has developed. Her instincts for
is married to Edward, mother to two educational excellence and her ability to
daughters and grandmother of three. lead the charge are exemplary, serving
“Philanthropy is like a dream catcher. Havergal well,” she says. “Dr. Groesbeck
It enables us to pursue our dreams and and the principals before her have each
our passions.” been agents of change who have made wonderful contributions
that have benefited the whole school community.”
Throughout her professional career as a faculty member and
administrator at Havergal and at the Bishop Strachan School, The Board of Governors is charged with a huge responsibility
Mrs. Kerwin has remained a passionate advocate of challenging that goes beyond school policies. “We’ll be hiring the school’s
and rewarding education for young women both within the next principal, working on the new five-year strategic plan,
school environment and the community. She retired eight years preparing a plan to develop our facilities in order to provide
ago from a career that she absolutely loved. “I learned more from the best educational environment for learning, and planning to
my students than what I imparted to them. Many of my former ensure we continue to attract outstanding faculty and staff,” she
students are my friends to this day,” she fondly recalls. says, acknowledging that her new role will be both challenging
and rewarding. “I am very fortunate to have highly experienced
“It’s valuable to everyone that we’re preparing young women
and talented Board members on the Havergal team—the
for the future. At Havergal, we provide a superior education
winning team.”
for young women in this country, if not internationally,” she
says. “Through the Institute at Havergal, we are taking students The entire Havergal community is fortunate to have Mrs. Kerwin
beyond the school and enabling them to be global decision take on this leadership role, guiding the Board and helping to
makers and leaders.” shape Havergal’s future.
4 HAVERGAL COLLEGE
HAVERGAL PROFILE
Grace Woroch
School Captain 2012-2013
By Susan Pink
W
hen not in class, School Captain Grace Woroch
trades in her knee socks, kilt and blazer for her
cleats, shin guards and jersey. A soccer player since
the age of five, Grace likes being a part of a team. “Playing
soccer gives me a nice break from academics and helps me to
focus on my studies,” she says of her passion for the sport.
For Grace, playing soccer has been a constant in her life. By
the age of 11, she had lived in three different countries. Born
in Seattle, her family moved to Singapore when she was five
and then to Toronto when she was 11. In each place, she found
comfort and familiarity on the soccer field.
A player on Havergal’s soccer teams from Grades 7 to 11,
Grace is taking a break from Havergal athletics this year to
play centre mid-field on the Ajax Football Club, which is a
part of the competitive Ontario Youth Soccer League. Her
goal after graduation is to play collegiate soccer in the United
States, where she plans on studying math and science.
“Sport is a big part of my life,” Grace says. “One of the reasons
I chose to come to Havergal College was because of its athletic
programs and beautiful playing fields.” A favourite place on
campus for Grace is the Labatt North Quad, in the heart of
the Upper School. “In the spring, we have Footloose Fridays at
lunch. We sing, perform and hang out in the Quad. It gives us
a chance to enjoy our friends and it reminds us that summer is
coming.”
This year, Grace and the Prefects want to help students to
learn how to slow down and enjoy life. The motto for the
year is “One-Two, One-Three, Dare to Be!” and it challenges
students to live in the moment. “Everyone tells us to think
about how our decisions will impact us down the road, but we
want to remind students to put on the brakes and enjoy each
day—here and now,” Grace says.
As a testament to the school’s motto, Grace is going to
spend her year as School Captain enjoying quality time with
her friends, playing soccer, participating in co-curricular
opportunities and singing with the Chamber and Senior
Choirs. Each year, she looks forward to Carol Service, her
favourite event at the school.
“The idea of representing Havergal as School Captain is an
honour,” Grace says. “I hope the Prefects and I can show the
world how great Havergal and its students are.”
FALL 2012 THE TORCH 5
FACULTY
Understanding
the Whole Girl?
By Sarah Bruce
I
optimistically embraced the school’s Strategic As these terms were not clearly understood by
Plan, “A Culture of Capability 2009-2014,” and, students, the Academic Leadership Team produced
in particular, the Whole Girl strategy. To me, the two new posters, which can be found around the
recognition of the Whole Girl means that as a school school, that summarize global capability as “I can be
we purposefully monitor the progress and well-being effective anywhere, anytime and with anyone” and
of each girl’s body, mind and spirit. To fulfill this, we self-efficacy as “I believe I can engage, accomplish,
place a strong emphasis on providing a wide variety contribute.”
of opportunities for each girl to explore and discover
As we near the end of our current Strategic Plan, we
Sarah Bruce, what it is that brings her personal fulfillment. As
continue to reflect upon our work, to evolve our
Head of Upper School well, we provide many opportunities for each girl
learning and to celebrate our achievements. I hope
to reach her full potential in her chosen pursuit. My
parents will share in their daughters’ journey as they
perception of the term well-rounded also means that
build their sense and understanding of wholeness,
we help each student to balance the importance of
self-efficacy and global capability.
all components of her well-being without sacrificing
one of the other areas. In other words, the term
Whole Girl entails helping each girl to feel whole.
As the Strategic Plan came to life, I learned that
this understanding of Whole Girl is not shared by
e l i e v e I can.. .
all of members of our community. Some students
interpret Whole Girl to mean that they must be good
I b engage.
at everything. We learned from other girls that the
sh.
Whole Girl strategy placed additional pressure on
accompli te.
contribu
them to be perfect; to reach one’s potential and be
well-rounded implied for them that they had to be
the best at everything.
With this in mind, this academic year we will be
exploring with our students what Whole Girl and
well-rounded means to them and what makes them
feel whole.
To help bring our mission of “preparing
young women to make a difference” to life, I can
the Strategic Plan articulates the school’s be
desire to develop each girl’s global capability anyw effective
and self-efficacy. These terms also took here,
some exploring before the girls could see anyt
and w ime
what matters—that it is their approach
to life that is most important, as well as
it
anyho
their belief in their own abilities and
capabilities—and that there is neither a
checklist for becoming globally capable ne.
and self-efficacious nor is there one way
of doing something.
6 HAVERGAL COLLEGE
FACULTY
Havergal College Summer Institutes for
Teaching and Learning
By Seonaid Davis
H
avergal’s Summer Institutes for Teaching understand how to use assessment for, of and as
and Learning have a long history of offering learning to improve student success.
rich and diverse learning experiences to
Peter Cobb, an experienced educator interested
educators from around the world. In the summer of
in the moral and ethical development of children,
2012, Havergal hosted seven seminars. Each seminar
looked at how education is changing in the 21st
focused on a different aspect of the question “what
century and why we need to change along with it. He
is the story of learning in this place?” and explored
helped educators consider how to change the story of
a different aspect of current educational theory or
learning to be one of co-learning and collaboration.
Seonaid Davis, practice. The Institutes, open to all educators, are
Director of intended to support our own curriculum initiatives Ralph Sneeden, from Philips Exeter Academy, along
Curriculum & Faculty and to meet the professional development needs of with David Sumner, Laura McRae, Paul McCulloch
Development our teachers. and Ruthanne Wrobel from Havergal co-hosted the
Learning Through Dialogue seminar. Participants
In the Cultures of Thinking seminar, Mark Church,
went back to school and experienced different
who is associated with Harvard’s Project Zero
models of learning including the Harkness method,
initiative, “Making Thinking Visible,” explored what
the Socratic seminar and the tutorial.
it means to be focused on developing a culture of
thinking in a school. Mark asked participants to Jay McTighe, an educational consultant and
consider what kinds of thinking students use when author, and I led educators through a four-day
learning for understanding and what opportunities workshop exploring the question: “What is
there are for students to develop and explain their important to understand and how do we teach for
ideas to each other. understanding?” Educators left the seminar with a
well-designed curriculum unit, which focused on
Valérie Lanctôt-Bédard and Jean-Phillipe Bouchard,
what was most important for students to know, do
experienced communication trainers, led the
and understand.
Authentic Dialogue: Developing Authenticity and
Respect seminar. These presenters helped participants Havergal teachers Britney Coleman, Laura Logaridis,
to understand their own communication patterns Leslie Siegrist and Katie Tranter led a large group of
and to learn how to communicate in ways that create educators through a two-day seminar focused on
a successful learning and working environment. examining the best practices in the early years. They
highlighted the inquiry-based learning model being
In the seminar Implementing Growing Success:
successfully implemented in our kindergarten classes.
Assessment in Ontario, Damian Cooper, a writer and
consultant in the field of assessment practice, focused We are already planning for next year’s Summer
on the big ideas in assessment theory and practice Institutes. More details will be available in the spring
and provided specific strategies to help teachers of 2013 at www.havergal.on.ca/PD.
FALL 2012 THE TORCH 7
STUDENT AWARDS
Havergal Student Awards
2011-2012
The Havergal community congratulates the following students for their achievements and accomplishments for the
2011-2012 school year. Special awards ceremonies were held on June 11, 2012, for the Junior School and October 11, 2012,
for the Upper School to honour and acknowledge the many award recipients.
JUNIOR SCHOOL GRADE 6 PRIZES AND AWARDS • Mathematics - AP Calculus & Vectors: Sarah Leong
• The Lady Hulbert Holmes Award: Alexandra Rozenberg • Mathematics - AP Statistics: Jennifer Chen
• The Ismay McCarrick Award: Anna Wellner • Social Sciences - Economics: Emma Bogler
• The Mohan Award: Natalie Marrone • Social Sciences - Education Toward A Changing World:
• The Laurene Watson Award: Isabella Meneguzzi Ami Takagi, Sara Willoughby
• The Levy, Revel, Wilkinson Award: Danya Assaf and Abigail Tien • Technology Education - Computer & Information Science:
Sydney Lau
PRIZE FOR HIGHEST GENERAL PROFICIENCY
• Grade 7: Elizabeth Farkouh UPPER SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS
• Grade 8: Sarah Alexis Gritis • The Wendy J. Thompson Scholarship - Grade 7:
• Grade 9 (Class of 1937 MacDonald Memorial Prize): Audrey Green, Gillian Smith
Caroline Marshall • The Wendy J. Thompson Scholarship - Grade 9:
• Grade 10 (Class of 1937 MacDonald Memorial Prize): Jennifer Chan, Cecilia Li, Julia Mastroianni, Skye Preston,
Bryn Ferguson Elizabeth Tam, Mengxuan Zhang
• Grade 11 (The Luella Gertrude Lovering Memorial Prize): • The Frances Ridley Havergal House Entrance Scholarship:
Emma Bogler, Miranda Taylor Taylor Bowes
• The Robin Urquhart Beddis & Jean Macpherson Urquhart
UPPER SCHOOL ACADEMIC AWARDS Scholarship: Alice Jeon
• The Ancerl Prize for Music: Carling Pang
• The O’Rorke Middle School Music Award - Band: UPPER SCHOOL SPECIAL AWARDS
Samantha Clarizio • The Boarder Cup: Joy Chen
• The O’Rorke Middle School Music Award - Strings: • Havergal Community Committee Prizes - Grade 7:
Emily Anderson Stephanie Higgs, Evelyn Tokatlidis
• The O’Rorke Middle School Music Award - Vocal: Victoria Tam • Havergal Community Committee Prizes - Grade 8: Aleza Waheed
• Dorothy Bevan Prize for Junior Mathematics in Grade 10: • Havergal Community Committee Prizes - Grade 9: Karishma Singh
Ashley Koo • Havergal Community Committee Prizes - Grade 10:
• Dorothy O’Dell Memorial Prize for Mathematics in Grade 11: Meghan Meneguzzi
Jill Harrop, Anita Xu • Havergal Community Committee Prizes - Grade 11: Ariel Shetzen
• Class of 1937 Proficiency Prize in Science: Mikaela Preston • Old Girls Prizes - Grade 9: Tessa Buchan
• Dorothy Symons Scholarship in Canadian Studies: • Old Girls Prizes - Grade 10: Nicolette Carnella
Bryn Ferguson • Old Girls Prizes - Grade 11: Jamie Albaum
• The Louise Cholette-Rees Award: Emma Schafler • The Institute at Havergal’s Student Innovation Award:
• Elaine McGillivray Prize for French in Grade 10: Jennifer Chen, Julia Hou, Lucy Luo, Cynthia Zhou
Samantha Cardinale (FSF2D), Maggie Lan (FSF2D), • The Class of 1956 Mary Dennys Award: Victoria Walter
Caroline Marshall (FSF2D1) • The Havergal Award for Exceptional Academic Standing:
• Constance Pudan Prize for French in Grade 11: Emma Bogler, Miranda Taylor
Jamie Wood (FSF3U), Bryn Ferguson (FSF3U1)
• The Marcelle De Freitas Prize for Modern Languages:
Jamie Albaum, Alice Jeon
• The Yale Book Prize: Victoria Chan
SENIOR YEAR ACADEMIC PRIZES
• The Arts - Band: Alice Jeon, Victoria Walter
• Languages - French: Emma Bogler, Natasha Michaeloff
• Languages - Latin: Sonia Kim
• Languages - Mandarin: Melanie Ho
• Languages - Spanish: Emma Bogler, Natasha Michaeloff
8 HAVERGAL COLLEGEUpper School Honour Roll and Award of Distinction
In Grades 7 and 8, students who earn a weighted average of 80% and above are placed
on the Honour Roll. Students who earn a weighted average of 90% and above are given
an Award of Distinction. To achieve a position on the Honour Roll in Grades 9 to 12,
students must attain several grades in the 80s: Grades 9 and 10 — six subjects out of eight
in the 80s; Grade 11 — five subjects out of seven or eight in the 80s. To attain an Award of
Distinction, a student must have the same number of grades as above in the 90s.
(H = Honour Roll; D = Award of Distinction)
AGNES HANSEN HOUSE Victoria Bilbily – D Jennifer Chen – D Jacqueline-Ann Samantha Cardinale – D
Jamie Albaum – D Davis Blakely – H Courtney Cheng – D Chesney – H Lauren Cardinale – H
Claire Barclay – D Madison Bluestein – H Chelsea Cheng – D Lindsay Cunningham – H Charlotte Caswell – H
Jessica Barford - H Alexa Breininger – D Hailey Chin – D Carolyn Day – H Myra Corona – H
India Bruhn – H Tessa Buchan – D Christine Choi – D Alexandra Dent – D Stephanie Currie – D
Emma Buckles – H Rose Chaykin – H Yunji Choi – H Kaitlin Derbyshire – D Elizabeth Currie – D
Emily Chin – D Jessica Chen – H Lauren Chun – H Natasha Dhingra – D Julia Duder – D
Katherine Chin – H Stephanie Cheung – D Sally Chung – H Calla Elia – H Sara Fuller – H
Sarah Chin – D Melanie Cheung – D Sarah Crull – H Lauren Ellis – H Rachel Gotlieb – H
Clare Coburn – H Sonja Chu – H Olivia Dembroski – H Laura Foran – H Holly Guo – D
Alyssa Dais – H Emily Kate Cummings – H Jessica Edward – H Kaitlyn Francis – D Gladys Hui – H
Bryn Ferguson – D Alexandra Cunningham – H Alexandra Ensor – H Jessica Francis – D Cyra Humber – H
Skye Gibson – H Elizabeth Farkouh – D Marguerite Fisher – D Bay Gerlings – H Alexandra Hunter – D
Bronte Harvey-McKean – H Leyla Godfrey – H Stefi Fountas – H Sara Gilchrist – D Taylor Ivey – H
Bronwyn Hersen – D Priscilla Goh – H Miriam Gladstone – D Kate Gilchrist – D Hodan Jibril – D
Rebecca Hoffer – D Sarah Alexis Gritis – D Alexandra Harrison – D Jillian Gooding – H Alexis Karsli – H
Megan Hoffer – H Jaimie Kidson – D Madalyn Hay Kellar – D Alison Hacker – D Sun Young (Sally) Kim – D
Jessie Isberg – H Si Yeun (Kelly) Kim – D Sarah Hui – D Erin Hacker – H Yulhee Kim – D
Hansa Jain – H Dana Lamb – H McKinley Inglis – H Madeleine Harlow – D Samantha King – D
Caroline Jyu – D Margaret Lan – D Madison Kennedy – H Erica Harper – D Daniela Krcmar – D
Nika Khajehdehi – H Madeleine Lao – D Diane Kim – D Hailey Harrison – H Ekaterina Krylova – H
Na Kyung (Michelle) Tesa Laslavic – H Daria Kosheverova – D Jessica Ip – H Margaret Leon – D
Kwon – H Tiffany Yee-Ho Leung – D Alexandra Lee – D Talia Jacob – D Nicole Leung – D
Shannon Lacombe – D Madeline Lisus – D Jihyun Lee – D Nicole Jauernig – D Diana Li – H
Sierra Lane – H Erin Macdonald – H Sarah Leong – D Samantha Johnston – D Hannah Lomax – D
Erica Laver – H Katherine Matthews – D Carly Levin – H Charlotte Johnston – H Sarah MacDonald – H
Danielle Laver – H Erin McQueenie – H Siena Lindsay – D Alexandra Katsiris – H Katherine MacDonald – H
Meaghan Lee – H Mikaela Meijer – H Susan Liu – D Sara Kernerman – H Ellen Mandala – H
Jocelyn Lee – D Danielle Meschino – D Wai Ting (Clarissa) Luk – D Kylie Kim – H Roslyn McCall – H
Gladys Leung – H Michaela Milgrom – D Dana Lyons – H Ji Hyun (Jenny) Kim – D Stephanie McCall – D
Tiffany Lew – H Avalon Morell – D Emma Macintosh – D Sydney Kirkland – H Mira Mukherjee – D
Hilary Lloyd – D Urvashi Naraine – D Victoria Mastroianni – H Nga (Lina) Ko – D Kamila Mukherjee – H
Jacqueline Lu – D Edmee Nataprawira – D Eileen Nash – H Sara Lakhani – D Taylor Murrell – D
Margo Macdonald – H Ivey Norton – H Tory O’Driscoll – D Michelle Lam – D Camille Mutukistna – H
Phoebe MacDougall – H Jane Park – D Taylor O’Driscoll – D Alysha Law – D Brontë Mutukistna – H
Madeleine MacDougall – H Alexis Perlman – H Isabelle Ortner – H Sarah Lawson-Schalles – H Sydney Page – H
Catherine Manuel – D Alexandra Prosterman – D Ayse Ozsan – D Hye-Won Lee – H Skylar Page – H
Julia Mateus – H Gillian Reive – H Mila Popovic – D Lucy Luo – D Jasmine Patel – H
Brittany Morrison – D Karen Rhamey – D Taylor Poulton – D Belinda MacBain – H Jillian Quinn – H
Nadia Munk – D Claire Rhamey – H Mikaela Preston – D Paige Machat – H Rebecca Quinn – H
Jessica Munk – D Danielle Robertson – H Katrina Schumacher – H Vanessa Machat – H Nicole Rago – H
Shaelyn Newmarch – H Emma Seger – H Breeann Simpson – D Hayley Machat – H Elise Reiter – H
Nina Ngo – D Anna Shinn – D Carly Simpson – H Julia Malowany – D Helen Schweitzer – H
Laura Osborne – D Heather Sigurdson – H Megan Simpson – H Pamela Mathers – H Hannah Sennik – D
Kathleen Pittini – H Taylor Simon – D Rebecca Smith – H Jenna McMillan – H Shannon Smith – D
Ashley Romundt – H Sierra Singh – D Elizabeth Sterling – D Sheridan Miller – H Judith Stephenson – D
Amanda Rondinone – H Rozana Taghi-Ganji – D Olivia Stinson – D Angelina Pan – D Charlotte Sugden – D
Sophie Seidelin – D Ami Takagi – H Meaghan Sweeney – H Florence Pang – D Rachelle Tam – D
Ariel Shetzen – H Victoria Tam – D Eryn Tong – D Carly Reid – H Alicia Thoms – H
Genevieve Simone – H Alyx Vinieris-Giancola – H Emily Uba – D Melika Shafiee – H Vanessa Townsend – D
Jacqueline Simone – H Emily Wheeler – D Katharine Wells – D Julia Stock – D Emma Turner – H
Miranda Taylor – D Jennifer Yeung – H Sydney Wells – H Jennifer Walker – D Emma Webb – D
Lauren Thomas – H Hanna Yoon – D Sidney Wilson – D Katherine Walker – H Hannah Wilson – D
Evelyn Tokatlidis – H Sarah Zhao – H Rickie Xian – D Sara Willoughby – D Maya Wilson – H
Caitlin Wong – H Rachel Zigelstein – D Emma Young – H Zihui (Annie) Yang – H Madeleine Wood – H
Grace Woroch – D KatherineZechner – H Rachel Zaltz – H Samantha Yip – D
Rachel Xian – D ELLEN KNOX HOUSE
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10 HAVERGAL COLLEGEHAVERGAL COLLEGE
The Green
in Green & Gold
By Susan Pink
with contributions from Lisa Anderson, Barb Macintosh and Eva Siatkowski
A
t Havergal, we are striving to raise awareness about the • Paper: we have reduced printing at the school significantly
significance of sustainability. This includes changing the with the introduction to the PaperCut software program. The
way we think and operate in terms of the environment. software tallies our printing costs, which reminds us to be
Our focus is to continue to increase our knowledge and to more selective about printing documents.
develop actions for sustainability, particularly in the areas
• Reduction of carbon footprint: for the past few years, we
of energy, waste and water. Through creating awareness of
have moved to electronic progress reports and other forms
the issues, and specific actions to address them, community
of electronic communications, including the Parent and
members are encouraged to develop a greater appreciation of our
Student Portals, the Back to School webpage and the Family
natural world and to learn how to preserve it.
Handbook. These initiatives have reduced the environmental
Here are a few examples that support our approach to impacts of printing and distribution.
sustainable practices associated with energy, waste and water
• Electric hand dryers: we are gradually replacing paper towel
consumption at Havergal.
dispensers in bathrooms with electric hand dryers to reduce
Energy: the amount of paper waste produced.
• Student-led small-scale alternative energy project: a group of
• Composting: in the spring of 2012, Grade 12 student
students in the Upper School are investigating an alternative
Samantha Bennett rallied to implement a composting
energy source to offset some of the school’s current electricity
program at Havergal. In the first five months of the program,
resources.
we diverted six tons of waste from landfills.
• Energy-efficient lighting: when renovating spaces at the
• Battery collection: each year, we deliver enough batteries
school, we replace light fixtures with energy efficient LED
to the city’s toxic waste stations to fill a 20-gallon barrel,
lighting whenever possible. Most recently, we included LED
diverting 20 gallons of toxic waste from landfills. These
lights in the newly renovated Grade 10 bathroom and IT area.
batteries come from the homes of faculty, staff and students.
• Anti-idling campaign: in accordance with the City of
• Water bottles: we have installed water filtration taps in offices
Toronto’s idling control by-law 775-2010, we remind drivers
and dining rooms and water bottle filling stations throughout
not to idle their cars by posting no-idling signs in pick-up
the Upper School to encourage people to bring in their own
and drop-off areas.
refillable bottles to school.
• Earth hour is not just once a year: every day from 1:30 pm
to 2:30 pm, the Junior School turns off its lights (wherever
Water:
• No drips: Junior School girls are reminded not to leave
possible) to save energy and increase awareness about energy
washroom taps running. We also installed touchless taps in
consumption. In the Upper School, we take advantage of the
the newly renovated Grade 10 bathroom so the faucets turn
natural lighting in our classrooms (when possible).
off automatically.
• Bicycles at Havergal: to support the many cyclists of the
• The Junior School Water Challenge: last year, Junior School
community, we installed new bike racks to promote and
students learned about water usage and how our choices
encourage bicycling.
impact our fresh water supply. Students Alex Rozenberg and
Waste: Corie Shyba designed special shower rings to remind us to
• Recycling: in addition to blue and green box recycling, we take shorter showers.
encourage students to repurpose and reuse materials for art For more on sustainability at Havergal and to learn about our
and other projects. Last year, the Junior School Havergreen outdoor classroom initiatives, visit us online at
Girls implemented a Good On One Side (GOOS) scrap paper www.havergal.on.ca/sustainability.
notebooks awareness campaign.
FALL 2012 THE TORCH 11INSTITUTE AT HAVERGAL
The Meaning of Havergal’s
Community Partnerships:
Students’ Viewpoints
By Alice Jeon and Jamie Albaum
Looking back on another successful Celebration each one fosters the importance of reciprocity. In
Saturday, we thought we’d shed some light on who a community partnership, Havergal students have
our community partners are and the roles they the ability to share in the lives of young people in
play in our lives. We’re writing this article because Toronto.
Celebration Saturday is not a fun fair; it is an event
Our relationships with our partners are essentially
that honours the value of community partnerships
friendships: we work together and rely on each
and the significant impact these relationships have
other to ensure mutual benefits. For this reason,
on the people involved.
Alice Jeon and everything that we accomplish with our community
Jamie Albaum, The value of community partnerships in our partners is so much more rewarding.
Community Prefects lives rests on the broad understanding of what a
As this year’s Community Prefects, we would like to
partnership is. For us, a partnership is a symbiotic
thank everyone who came out to Celebration
relationship in which both sides support and benefit
Saturday and supported our community
from each other. Needless to say, this year, in the 12
partnerships.
community partnerships that the school supports,
“ As volunteers, we get as much out
of it as do the people we are working
with. We formed a partnership of our
own, in which we were both learning
from one another.
“ “ Working in a community partnership engages
us with our community. The buddies are the “
intended beneficiaries of the Best Buddies program,
but I can definitely say that I gained just as much
from working with them as my buddy did.
—Alice Jeon 2013, volunteer with Derrydown —Jamie Albaum 2013, volunteer with Best Buddies
Public School Community Partnership Community Partnership
Support the
Rebuilding of
HavergalCollege
Asomobi Lodge TEDxHavergalCollege on November 3 brought us a
in Costa Rica morning of wonder and ideas as inspiring thinkers joined us
to share their insights into “The World As We Don’t Know
In July 2012, Havergal It.” Priscilla Uppal shared with us that Plato was an Olympic
learned that the Asomobi Lodge was destroyed by medallist and encouraged us to remember the connection
an electrical fire. This lodge has hosted two Global between physicality and great thinking. Marina Nemat spoke
Experience Program excursions, where students learned of the fragility of civil society and how we must always be
about the cooperative structure of Costa Rica’s coffee prepared to protect and nurture our peaceful way of life.
business and worked on projects. To support Mark Kingwell reinforced this message with his invocation
the rebuilding, we urge you to purchase Havergal’s that we must demand the impossible of ourselves and others,
Women Making a Difference coffee at and not settle for ‘reality’ as we make decisions in life. All
www.havergal.on.ca/coffeeprogram/. those in attendance departed stimulated, never to see the
world in the same way again.
12 HAVERGAL COLLEGEStudents Act Now: Student Voice and Innovation
The Institute’s First Student Innovation Award Presented to WalletFarm
At this year’s Upper School Awards Ceremony, the Institute at Havergal presented the
first ever Student Innovation Award to WalletFarm founders: Julia Hou, Lucy Luo,
Cynthia Zhou and Jennifer Chen. These students produced felt wallets that resemble
cows and other farm animals to raise funds for World Vision.
The purpose of this new award is to honour students whose innovative thinking has
had an impact on a social problem, a business problem or any other problem for
which a novel solution can be found. The WalletFarm group impressed the award
selection committee with the complexity of their ideas to use micro-enterprise to
support micro-enterprise. Their model is sustainable both because the animals they
purchase provide immediate and longer-term revenue to communities, enabling families to support themselves, and because
of their commitment to working with younger students to share their learning and their approach to change.
If you know a student involved in an innovative project, please send in your nomination for next year’s Innovation Award to
the Forum for Change.
How Celebration Saturday Supports Our Community Partnerships
Celebration Saturday is a long-standing Havergal tradition begun by • provided graphic novels to support
Old Girls and dating back many decades. All the proceeds raised at the after school literacy program at
Celebration Saturday support Havergal’s community partnerships. Lawrence Heights Middle School,
Havergal’s student leaders work directly with our community where our students volunteer and
partners to identify opportunities to support our partnerships. work with their buddies on reading
In the coming months, Havergal’s Community Council student and homework.
members will allocate the funds raised at Celebration Saturday
• provided three shelves for the books used in the literacy program
among our community partnerships. For an understanding of how
at Lotherton Pathways, a table for the ANC program space and
we strengthen our programs, in 2011, funds raised from Celebration
three tents for community festivals.
Saturday:
• supported Moorelands Baby Bundles Program by providing
• provided marketing materials, costumes and equipment for
basic baby supplies and clothes to new mothers in Flemingdon
Appletree Farmers Market.
Park.
• enabled ArtHeart to run after-school programming two days per
• provided a small salary and professional development for
week by supporting a stipend for staff.
Siyawela Ark’s “local One Laptop Per Child hero” Portia to
• provided food and programming costs for five communal Best develop the OLPC program, which we introduced at the
Buddies events, where our students shared friendships and life Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity (NOAH) Arks.
experiences with their buddies.
• provided 60 pairs of running shoes, T-shirts, books and school
• sent one child to Camp Kirk, a camp for children with supplies for the Public School location where we volunteer at the
disabilities, for 14 days. Running and Reading Program as a part of Start2Finish.
• purchased a class set of 12 iPads and provided professional • provided spoken word workshops, art supplies, lunches and
development training for Derrydown teachers on applications snacks for Trails Youth Initiatives participants in our shared
and functionalities of iPads at Derrydown Public School. programming.
• provided supplies and resources for a shared project to explore • provided new textbooks for our partner, the Whittlesea GAP
Canadian citizenship for Grenoble Public School, which is located school, as a part of the Triangle of Hope program that supports
in Flemington Park, a community of new Canadians. the rapidly changing curriculum in South Africa.
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