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FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 4-6PM, Santa Fe University of Art & Design
Please mark your calendars to attend the closing reception on Friday, March 30 from 4-6pm.
The exhibition, with over 20 works from each student, is the culmination of a two-year rigorous art class and features a variety of media including drawings, paintings,  prints, and mixed media. Desert is extremely grateful to the support of Gerry Snyder, (Mack Snyder’s dad), who is Vice President, of  the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and helped facilitate the use of this beautiful space to exhibit this worthwhile work .  Please come and support these talented student’s efforts.

Also, we could use volunteers with gallery or museum experience to help install the exhibition from March 26-28. Please contact Sheila Miles, Chair Visual Arts, at  smiles@desertacademy.org  if you are interested in helping.

“MOONLIGHT IN MOROCCO” AUCTION AND GALA
Saturday, April 21, 2012 6:00 pm
“Moonlight in Morocco”  Auction and Gala Saturday, April 21, 2012 6:00 pm. Come join the Desert community and have a great evening!  We’ll have fantastic food, great auction items, and a very fun evening.  Still time to purchase your tickets!  Bring the form to school or call 992-8284 ext. 23 with your credit card.  Invite your friends and get ready for a great time! Volunteers for the evening of the event are still needed!  Are you available to help for part of the evening? Give Kay a call 992-8284 ext 23  Much more fun when you get involved!

PARKING – will be on Murales, at the two parking lots just past the fire station, only a 5 minute shuttle to Mansion Ridge Rd.  Here are thedirections:  From the Plaza, go north on Bishop’s Lodge Rd. and thenleft on Murales and go up the hill.  The parking lots are on your left and right just past the fire station.  The shuttle will pick you up from the lot on the south.  Please ride the shuttle as parking along Mansion Ridge Road is very limited.  There are 60 spaces in the two lots on Murales so if you can, please car pool.

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desertacademyauction.com

Tuesday, January 24
Reminder: Students are to be ready to be interviewed on January 24th at 5:30. They will be interviewed once from 5:30-6:30.  The Symposium is open to parents and community members from 6:30-7:30. Students may leave after their interview. Students may stay after school to help set up. If they stay after, they are to either be helping set up or working on something.

Wednesday, February 1, 7:00pm

Please join us for College Night for Parents of Juniors (and parents of sophomores welcome too!)
Wednesday, February 1st, 7pm in the big room. Come & find out about the college & financial aid processes. Questions?  Contact our college counselor, Jennifer Dryfoos at jdryfoos@desertacademy.org or 992-8284 x28

Please click the link below to access the January 20 E-minder.

Weekly E-minder January 20-27

Please click the link below to access the January 13, 2012 E-minder.

January 13 2012 E-Minder

Next Friday, January 20th, 9:30am
Desert Academy’s 2011-2012 1st Semester Honor Roll, High Honors, National Honors Society, and National Junior Honor Society Assembly will be held next Friday, January 20th at 9:30am. Honor Roll students have received a 3.5 grade point average or better, with no grade lower than a C.  High Honors students have received a 4.0 or above. (Please note, middle school students’ report card GPAs only reflect the high school classes that the student is enrolled in, and not their overall GPA, as middle school classes are not weighted.  For the ceremony, however, we will calculate the full GPA of all classes).

Students with an Incomplete in any subject are not eligible to qualify for the Honor Roll, NHS or NHJS.

National Honor Society (10-12th grades) and National Junior Honor Society (7-9th grades), have received a GPA of 3.4 or above, with no grade lower than a C, and have submitted a self-nominating form that includes the leadership and community service component of the nomination criteria. NHS and NHJS applicants are then reviewed by the committee and elected to the society corresponding to their grade. The full description of the NHS/NHJS nominating criteria and deadlines were sent in the e-minder in December and is posted on the website.

Parents and students will be notified of their Honor Roll status and the results of the NHS and NJHS. Everyone is welcome to attend this ceremony in honor of their students’ academic achievements for 1st semester. Please contact Tamara Rossi (trossi@desertacademy.org) regarding the Honor Roll and Jocelyne Comstock (jcomstock@desertacademy.org) regarding NHS and NHJS.

Saturday, January 21st, 5:00-8:30pm, Big Room
Join Desert Academy’s Chinese class to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Dragon! Learn to make dumplings dragon puppets & more! This will be a potluck style event, so please bring a covered dish to share. Please RSVP with our teacher Fu Mei-Tsai at: ftsai@desertacademy.org and include the number of people you will be bringing. All donations will be applied to our 2013 trip to Taiwan. P

Wednesday, January 25, 10:30am
On Wednesday, Jan. 25th, the Acting for the Stage class will present staged readings from four plays.  These will be performed at a special assembly for the high school at 10:30am in the Big Room.  Jasper Grossman and Gabby Medina will be performing a scene from Neil Simon’s, “Barefoot in the Park.”  Marley Medina, Sarah Nuamah and Ariana Montez are presenting a cutting of “Cotton Girls.”  It takes place at the top of a ferris wheel that gets stuck. Onima Heilbron, Forrest Sanchez, Cole Tolbert, Sophia Stroud, Luna Redondo-Campiglio, Valentin Traub and Jasper Grossman are doing “The Fox in the Fairway,” a farce by Ken Ludwig.  This play takes place in the clubhouse of an upper-crust country club during a local golf tournament. And finally, Mellie Nolen is directing her original one-act play that she wrote last year.  This has been a major component of Mellie’s IB Theater work.  The play is excellent.  The cast is Onima, Forrest, Sarah and Jasper.  All this great theater in less than an hour!  Parents are welcome to come.

RACE TO NOWHERE FILM SCREENING
DATE CHANGE: Monday, January 30 at 10:00am DA Big Room
Due to a scheduling conflict, we decided to change the screening of the documentary ” Race to Nowhere” to Monday, January 30 at 10:00am instead of next Wednesday January 18. We will screen the film for our high school students – parents are also welcome to join us. This new date will also allow us to have a follow up discussion with the students on Wednesday, February 1st  during their advisory/study hall.