Haitian earthquake and ensuing disasters met swiftly with aid
February 24, 2010
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Senior Governance Adviser Carl Anderson was in Haiti when the earthquake struck. He lived in Port-au-Prince since Jan. 2007 and was evacuated to Washington D.C. with his family on Jan. 13. He was at home in the kitchen when the quake struck, but nobody was hurt. “I noticed really vio...
Health care providers bring much-needed assistance to injury-stricken earthquake victims
February 24, 2010
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Placing a crying child under anesthesia with crowds of sobbing, injured people sprawled around a makeshift hospital is not the ideal circumstance a doctor hopes for during surgery. But, desperate times call for desperate measures, and the mass of injured people suffering from the effects of the Jan....
Let’s go hounds! A look into post-war CHS
January 27, 2010
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It’s easy to ignore the past, especially when interesting revelations are easily obscured in a barrage of uninteresting facts. CHS has changed a great deal in the last 50 years, and alumnae Harriet Spilker (’54), Barbara Kohm (’56), and Robert Diamond (’47) witnessed many...
Defining the Decade
December 14, 2009
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Optimism and pessimism run a fine line in a decade’s retrospection. Did we enjoy ourselves? Did we hurt the world? Have we advanced or digressed? To cover 10 years is in itself a daunting task, but it is necessary. If we are to learn from our mistakes and benefit from our discoveries, we must...
Teachers support current English curriculum, teaching style
December 1, 2009
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Everything has positives and negatives encircling it, and the English curriculum is no exception. CHS has an English curriculum unlike most districts. It offers 22 different courses and a conferenced writing program that provides students with 10 individual writing conferences every year. Still, some...
Building for the future
October 20, 2009
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The essential renovations to the district’s schools will take two years to complete. The impact on student education is kept minimal, and the finished buildings will match the high caliber of education at Clayton. Parts of CHS are over half a century old. Last spring, Proposition S passed and ...
Deciphering Health Care
September 29, 2009
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By Nina Oberman and Meredith Redick A Brief History As the debate over health care reform rages across the nation, it may be easy to forget that 2009 is only one flare-up in the argument’s long history. With his declaration that he will be the last President to take up the cause of health ca...
