Cary Academy is a learning community committed to discovery, innovation, collaboration and excellence.

Ninety-nine members of tight-knit Class of 2008 graduateMemory of Johnnetta Overton evoked during ceremony

Community. Family. These words andmany others that denote closeness can beused to define the Class of 2008.

Everywhere on the afternoon of May23, before and after Cary Academy’s ninthcommencement exercises, the 99 graduat-ing seniors demonstrated this closenessas they hugged one another, slappedbacks and hands, and shared laughs. Andmany talked about the unusual attachmentthey felt for each other.

“I am going to miss this community,”said Rachel Yip (’08), who plans to stay intouch with her classmates even whileattending Emory University.

“A lot of us have grown up together;there is a sense of community,” said risingUNC freshman Cameron Lee (’08). “Wehave a support system and it won’t be thesame in college. Even with our differ-ences, there’s always been camaraderie.”

Student speaker Ben Goldhaber (’08)addressed this fondness in his remarksduring the commencement exercises.“This class has an amazing energy,” hesaid. “I can’t define it, but I’ve felt it. Ourschool has emerged into a genuine com-munity.”

Using a line from Winnie the Pooh,Goldhaber concluded to his friends, “Promiseme you’ll never forget me, because if Ithought you would, I’d never leave.”

Johnnetta Overton remembered

An event that drew this class even closerwas the death last year of classmateJohnnetta Overton in a car accident. All thegraduates wore a silver ribbon on the upperleft sleeve of their blue robes in her memory.

Julia Niemi (’08), speaking on behalf ofher classmates, delivered a short speechin remembrance of Overton.

“The classrooms seem a little dull with-out Johnnetta,” she said. “We think of herwhen someone smiles or laughs. She’sstill stepping and cheering at basketballgames. We all carry Johnnetta’s memorieswith us.”

To a hearty round of applause, founderDr. Jim Goodnight presented the Overtonfamily with an honorary diploma forJohnnetta.

The night before, during theBaccalaureate Ceremony in the theater,Overton’s father, John, toasted the Classof 2008 and spoke about his daughter.

“We spent time with Johnnetta…buther body was temporal…her spirit is eter-

nal,” he said. “Johnnetta touched everyone of us in an indelible way.

“You are on a journey to discover yourpurpose in life and your specific function,”he told the students. “Some of theanswers that plague humanity sit righthere in this room. Do not allow anyoneelse to define you by their impositions.Everything you are is within you.”

Advice on future in a global economy

Dr. James Johnson, DistinguishedProfessor of Entrepreneurship at theKenan-Flagler School of Business at UNC,delivered the keynote address, speaking tothe career challenges in a global economic

world and providing sage advice on how tocombat these challenges.

He laid out a three-fold strategy for suc-cess in the future. “First you will need anentrepreneurial mindset and soft skills acu-men. Second, you will need to developconceptual intelligence, the foresight toanticipate change. Third, you will need todevelop personal branding.”

Expounding on his secondpoint, Johnson urged the stu-dents to “leverage the Internet,become a Google-search junkie,and monitor the changes in theglobal marketplace.”

To help develop their personalbrand, he told the Class of 2008

to think differently, to discover what makes each of them stand out and whatadds value. “Then devise a way to marketyourself,” he concluded.

Fun and reflection on the quad

After the ceremony, the newly mintedgraduates joined friends and family on thequad for fellowship and food.

As his friends and classmates mingledaround him, Adam Mobarek (’08), who willattend Campbell University, thought about

his time at CA and hisclassmates.

“This is a reallyclose-knit group,” hesaid. “I can’t define itlike Ben (Goldhaber, oneof the student speakers)said. You spend everyday together for, in mycase, four years, andyou grow up together.

I’ll miss everything.”

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“…an entrepreneurial mindset…conceptual intelligence…

personal branding…”

Head of School Don Berger, speaker Dr. James

Johnson and founder Dr. Jim Goodnight

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Now that’s an exchange rate!More than 200 students participated in this year‘s seven exchange trips. One group

visited China, one France, one Austria, three Spain and one Ecuador. If you didn’t readthe blogs posted last month, you can still read about each trip here:

I am often asked byparents, when Maybegins to wind downand many families start

to think about summer vacations, if the summersslow down for me. To a certain extent they do, butthis question got me thinking recently that many ofyou probably don’t know what I do during the sum-mers at Cary Academy.

Like the rest of the staff here, I stay busy as a 12-month employee. The halls may empty, but thereis always work to do. Whatfollows is a listing of mysummer activities that Ihope enlightens you about how I spend my time at CA from Junethrough early August:

Each summer I perform annual evaluations formy direct reports, i.e. the seven division leaders,the dean of faculty, the director of diversity, andthe director of athletics. These comprehensive,one-on-one evaluations include a review of theiraccomplishments during the past year, discus-sion of their opportunities for growth, evaluationof their work toward achieving their annualgoals, and goal setting for the coming year. Eachdirect report sets four to six annual goals. Thesegoals serve as the primary focus of the year’sevaluation in addition to an evaluation of thedirect report’s normal duties.

I have yearly goals, too, and also establish theseduring the summer. They are linked to theschool’s strategic plan, the bi-annual communitysurvey results, and opportunities for my profes-sional and personal growth.

Each summer I also work with myadministrative colleagues toreview safety and security proce-dures, update our safety and secu-rity manual, and make school-wideplans in this area.

Another area that gets my attention in the sum-mer is our strategic plan, on which I evaluate ourprogress. Along with my administrative team, Idecide on what elements of the plan shouldreceive the focus of our time and energy in thecoming year.

Like your children (and many of you as well), I doa good deal of summer reading since I do havemore uninterrupted time. A large chunk of myreading list this summer will include worksexploring diversity issues. This will serve as a

follow-up to our yearlong multicultural study.Even though I have read widely on diversityissues over the years, I need to stay current. Thebooks I plan to read are: Blood Done Sign MyName by Tim Tyson, Covering by Kenji Yoshino,and White Like Me by Tim Wise.

I do plan to read for personal enjoyment thissummer. Parents, colleagues and friends haverecommended books to me over the months,and I have noted them. On the list for this sum-mer are The Lost, a book on the Holocaust byDaniel Mendelsohn; Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli;The Rule of Four, by Caldwell and Thomason;and Green to Gold, by Esty and Winston.

As you can see, the summersfor me are not exactlyquiet. Rest assured, I,and all the staff at CaryAcademy, work during

the summer to ensure that the coming school yearis the best we can make it.

Don Berger, Head of School

Summertime is not downtimeThe summers for the Head of School keep him busy

“There is always work to do…to ensure that the coming school year is

the best we can make it.”

More than 200 CA students went on exchange

trips this year. School administrators feel

strongly that this was the largest exchange

trip in the entire US! The students posed in

the SEA for a group shot before departing.

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Class of 2008 to attend 47 colleges The seniors in the Class of

2008 made their college decisionsbefore the May 1 decision deadline. The 99 graduating seniorsreceived offers of admission from more than 125 colleges and universities across the USand abroad.

Ultimately, the seniors selected 47 different colleges.Approximately half will stay in the Tar Heel state. The others willhead out of state to collegesacross the U.S. in Arizona,Indiana, California and Missourias well as the United Kingdom.

In addition to the offers ofadmission, the Class of 2008 hasbeen offered approximately 2.5million dollars in merit (non-need based) scholarship monies.For a list of the scholarship offers about which the CollegeCounseling Office has been notified, please visithttp://web1.caryacademy.org/college/Scholarships.Classof2008.htm.

LIST OF COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES FOR CLASS OF 2008Bold=matriculant. If more than 1 matriculant, the number is indicated in parentheses.

Agnes Scott CollegeAmerican University (2)Appalachian State University Arcadia CollegeBabson College

Bentley College Belmont UniversityBoston CollegeBowdoin CollegeBrandeis UniversityBryn Mawr College Calvin College

Campbell University (2)Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve UniversityClark UniversityClemson UniversityCollege of Charleston Columbia UniversityConnecticut CollegeCovenant CollegeDavidson CollegeDrew UniversityDrexel UniversityDuke University (6)East Carolina University (2)Elon University (2)Emory University (2)

Florida State UniversityFranklin and Marshall CollegeGeneva CollegeGeorge Washington UniversityGeorgetown University Georgia Institute of TechnologyGordon CollegeGoucher CollegeGuilford CollegeHaverford College (2)Howard University James Madison UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityMacalester CollegeMcDaniel CollegeMercer CollegeMeredith CollegeNew York University North Carolina A&TNorth Carolina Central UniversityNorth Carolina School of the ArtsNorth Carolina State University (10)Northeastern UniversityNorthwestern UniversityOberlin CollegeOglethorpeOxford College of Emory UniversityPepperdine University

Pomona CollegePrinceton University (2)Purdue UniversityRensselaer Polytechnic UniversityRhodes College

Rochester Institute of TechnologyRutgers UniversitySewanee: The University of

the SouthSkidmore CollegeSt. Mary's College of MarylandStanford UniversitySUNY Stony BrookStevens Institute of TechnologySwarthmore CollegeTexas A&MTufts UniversityTulane University

UNC-Asheville UNC-Chapel Hill (24)UNC-Charlotte (2)UNC-GreensboroUNC-Wilmington (6)University of Advancing TechnologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of California,

Santa Barbara

University of Central FloridaUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of Colorado, BoulderUniversity of FloridaUniversity of Georgia University of Edinburgh, ScotlandUniversity of Maryland (2)University of MiamiUniversity of MichiganUniversity of Notre DameUniversity of PennsylvaniaUniversity of RichmondUniversity of St. Andrews, ScotlandUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Virginia Ursinus College Vanderbilt University

Virginia TechWake Forest University Washington University in

St. Louis (2)Wellesley CollegeWesleyan University Wittenberg CollegeWofford CollegeWorchester Polytechnic Institute

The Class of 2008

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PRIZE WINNERSPutting Contest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Craig Wheaton

Highlands

Longest Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jason Bowie Most Accurate Drive . . . . . . . . Kevin MacMahonClosest to Pin . . . . . . . . . . Jason Wilburn (7’ 0”)

Meadows

Longest Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daphne RhodesMost Accurate Drive . . . . . . . . . . . John Boswell Closest to Pin . . . . . . . . . . Gary Rhodes (6’ 10”)

Fairways

Longest Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian GreenMost Accurate Drive . . . . . . . . . Shawn CallahanClosest to Pin . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob Egan (9’ 3/4”)

GOLF TOURNAMENT REGISTERS RECORD

The golfers at Cary Academy’s 11thAnnual Scholars’ Golf Classic stepped upto the tee box and delivered—big time.The tournament raised $82,475—arecord— for need-based scholarships atthe school.

With a shotgun start, 64 teams spreadout over all three courses at PrestonwoodCountry Club May 12. It was an overcast,chilly, breezy day for golf, but everyone had fun.

For the 10th out of 11 years, R.N. Rouseand Co. Inc. served as the grand sponsorof the event.

The money raised will go to theScholarship Fund, which enables the schoolto extend the benefits of its education toan economically and socially diverse popu-lation.

The winning teams from the day’s action were:

FAIRWAYSFirst Place

Lifetouch/Hunt Ward PhotographyHunt WardBen TaylorFred OwenEddie Crowder

Second Place

Dennis Pitts, McNeely AssociatesBakul Modi, CA parentMatthew Gibbon, CA parent

Third Place

Wayne Holt, CA parentTerry EvansJoey BradleyShawn Callahan

MEADOWSFirst Place

Atlantic Tire & ServiceJoe KapschBen BakerAnthony JamesDavis Morgan

Second Place

Pinnacle MasonryDanks BurtonGary BryantBrad JohnsonRobin Rose

Third Place

Charlie Abadie, CA parentSam Rossa, CA parentScot RademacherDwayne Smith

HIGHLANDSFirst Place

SASJim GoodnightRay Rouse Jim DavisPaul Kent

Second Place

R.N. Rouse & Co. Inc.Jim RogersMike JonesJim MacFarlandJohn Wilkins

Third Place

Revels Turf & TractorTurner RevelsNeal DuffCory NiehausJason Wilburn

Checking the line

Swing away!

Craig Wheaton won the

putting contest

One of the 64 teams that played

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SCORE IN MONEY RAISED

GRAND SPONSORR.N. Rouse & Co. Inc.

ENDOWMENT CIRCLE Atlantic Tire & ServiceBlue Cross and Blue Shield of North CarolinaDavis-Kane Architects, P.A. Precision Walls Inc. Preston Development Co.St. Moritz Building Services Inc. SAS

SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORTER Cary Nephrology Cherry Huffman Architects, PA

FACULTY FRIENDS Aon Risk ServicesBaker Roofing Co. Baldwin Peak by Turnberry DevelopmentBank of AmericaBonitz Flooring Group Brady Trane Sales Capital Associates Cary Car Care CEI - The Digital OfficeContract Steel Sales Inc. Michael G. Curran Family FoundationErnst & Young Financial Directions Group Inc. HP Education Kilpatrick Stockton, LLPLangdon & McKenzie Inc. McGuireWoods, LLP National Rebar Fabrication New Horizons Computer Learning Center of RTPPBM Graphics Inc. Pinnacle Masonry R.L. Ussery Inc. Ready Mixed Concrete CompanyRevels Turf & TractorSPS Corporation Stock Building Supply The Szulik FamilyTGS Engineers Tech Electric Company Thalle Construction Thomas Concrete Time Warner TelecomWachovia Bank, N.A.

BLUE TEE/GREEN SPONSOR George Finch/Boney & Associates, P.A.Brodie Contractors Inc. Johnson’s Jewelers of Raleigh

(poker contest sponsor)Morgan Stanley/Stephen HodgdonProgress EnergyRebarco Inc. SAGE Dining Services Sears Contract Inc.

42nd Street Oyster Bar and Seafood GrillBiaggi’s Restorante Italiano

Carolina Custom GolfChapel Hill Restaurant GroupCoca-Cola Bottling Company

Cold Stone CreameryDanny’s Bar-B-Que

Edwards Mill Bar and GrillEmbassy Suites Cary

Embassy Suites Raleigh–CrabtreeHarris Wholesale

Jenx and Co.Johnson’s Jewelers of RaleighLeBleu Five Gallon of Raleigh

Magnolia Grill

MaximilliansMillennium Hotel–DurhamNeo-China RestaurantPrestonwood Country ClubRaleigh Marriott Crabtree ValleyRocky Top HospitalitySecond Empire Restaurant & TavernSheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention CenterSkin Sense SpaSysco SystemsTavola Rossa Ristorante ItalianoThe Peanut RoasterUmstead Hotel and SpaUniversity FordWashington Duke Inn and Golf Club

CARY ACADEMY FRIENDS Charlie AbadieAllied Fire Protection Inc. Joe BarefootWalt BrownCary AcademyCMC South Carolina SteelJeff ClarkBill CotterBrian CrockettCecilia DavisMike DunnSteve EubanksNeil FrankMatthew GibbonJohn GoehrkeBruce HamiltonKen HammerAndy HartsfieldBillie HiggsWayne HoltJose KofmanLifetouch/Hunt Ward PhotographyMcNeely Associates, PA Mitch McGuiganBakul ModiLeo NemetzDebra PawlScott RademacherCharles ReubenSam RossaRob Wilson

FRIENDS/NON-PARTICIPANTMr. and Mrs. William C. Friday

A special thanks to our host, Prestonwood Country Club, and our other sponsors who helped make the 11th annual

Cary Academy Scholars’ Golf Classic a success. We appreciate your support!

Any day is a good day for golf

For the 10th year R.N. Rouse & Co. Inc. served as

the tournament grand sponsor. At the banquet

following the tournament, Director of Advancement

Lynne Fountain presented CEO Ray Rouse with a

commemorative plaque for a decade of service.

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Sweet, sweet musicUS choruses record best-ever performance

At the 2008 Heritage Choral Festival competition on April 18-19, the Upper School choruses blew the judges away and earned the best ratings and rankings they have everearned at a festival/competition. In addition to the school winning the SweepstakesAward, each individual chorus earned superior ratings and received invitations to participatein the 2009 Heritage Festival of Gold.

Each CA choral group performed three choral selections that were adjudicated for com-ments, rating and ranking. CA competed in the following categories and earned the following: Cary Academy Ensemble—15 students all in 11th and 12th grades; Superior rating—2nd place

Cary Academy Singers—43 students in 9th–12th grades; Superior rating—1st place

Cary Academy Women—28 students in 9th–12th grades; Superior rating—1st place

Cary Academy Men—20 students in 9th–12th grades; Superior rating—no other men’s choirs

Sweepstakes Award—To win the Sweepstakes Award a school had to have two or morechoirs participate in the festival and earn the highest average among all the choirs.

Cary Academy Men won the Adjudicators Award—To win the Adjudicators Award, thechoir had to earn a score of at least 95 or higher from every judge. The CA men werethe only choir to win this award.

Cary Academy Men won the Outstanding Choir Award—To win the Outstanding ChoirAward, the choir had to earn the highest average among all the choirs who participatedin the choral festival.

Maestro Awards—These are individual awards that are offered to specific soloists IF theadjudicators feel the soloists are worthy of the award. Two students earned Maestroawards for the solos they performed. They are: Joe Johnston (‘09), for solo in CASingers selection Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit, and Seth Johnson (‘09), for solo in Men’sselection Auctioneer.

With more than 800 tablet PCs and 200 phones to support throughout CaryAcademy, it’s no wonder the Information

Services Department is so busy.The IS Department, headed by Director

Dmitry Manakhov, is charged with handlingand organizing CA‘s technology and keepingit running smoothly. The department is alsopreparing to launch CA‘s new Web site bythe beginning of the next academic year.

The new site will feature a personalizedhome site, news content, alerts and blogs.The IS Department has been responsiblefor publishing, editing and creating about1,200 Web pages that will go into the newsite, said CA webmaster Bob Vinicombe.“We‘ve got our hands full,” he said.

Along with creating the new Web site,IS has had to deal with the pedestrian day-to-day technical issues that CA faces. “Thedepartment has worked very well over theyears to contain issues and resolve themwith as little impact to the school communi-ty as possible,” said Eric Moore, one of CA‘sinformation services consultants.

Many questions the department answersinvolve failed power supplies and installing

and removing software on the tablet PCs.“Most of the time we‘re busy with tablet-related problems,” Manakhov said.

With an IS technician in both the Upperand Middle Schools (Assistant DirectorRick Harris and senior consultant KevinRokuskie, respectively), response time for these technicalissues has improved,Moore said.

Although much of itswork occurs behind thescenes, Manakhov saidthat if the ISDepartment didn‘t existthe school would have to go back to penciland paper. “We would not be able to be theschool we are if we didn‘t have this depart-ment,” Manakhov said. “I can’t imagine aschool like ours with no IS department ofsome sort.”

Moore believes that the smooth opera-tion of the department helps CA achieve itsgoals of discovery, innovation, collaborationand excellence. “I don’t think the schoolcould be as innovative and achieve the levelof discovery it currently does without the

breadth and depth of support from the ISteam we now have,” Moore said.

With nine staff members, it’s hard todefine a typical day in the IS department.Everyday duties of each person in thedepartment differ depending on their job.Manakhov himself spends much of histime answering e-mails, attending meet-ings and talking to members of the CA

community. Othermembers of the staffinclude: coordinatorKris Wetterling, sys-tems engineer PeterTodd, consultant MikeRoy, and database andbackup administrator

Marita Gonsalves.For IS, collaboration with other CA

departments is key, Moore said. “Even inthe event of a large-scale tech issue the IS Department works in a collaborativeenvironment to resolve the issue as efficiently and effectively as possible,”Moore said. “We have exceptional depart-mental and project leadership to keep thecampus running.”

—Carolyn Gray, Intern

Tennis team wins

state championship!

The varsity boys’ tennis team is

now the 3A NCISAA state champion!

The team defeated Charlotte

Country Day School 5-4 to win the

championship on May 17 at Durham

Academy. Taylor Meyer (‘08), James

Atkinson (‘10) and Zach Sarnoff (‘09)

made the all-state team.

…if the IS Departmentdidn’t exist the schoolwould have to go backto pencil and paper.

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The seventh grade gathered in the cafeteria themorning of May 23 to bag meals for the secondyear in a row for Stop Hunger Now, a relieforganization. Working in teams, the studentsfilled, bagged and boxed 10,944 nutritious, drygrain meals that will be shipped internationallyfor hunger and malnutrition relief.

On May 21, Robert Reichel (’14) served asHead of the Middle School for the day.

Middle School language arts and social studiesinstructor Sarah Ritter received the Michael G.Curran Family Foundation Leadership in

Teaching Awardfrom the CaryChamber ofCommerce onMay 12. Theaward came during theChamber’s annual Honor A Teacher night.

Each candidate up for the award had to submita resume and brief essays on teaching. All candidates were interviewed individually by a

committee of three people. Ritter received amonetary award and a trophy for being selectedthe winning candidate.

Lauren Kalin (‘11) will serve as a Senate pageJune 30-July 3. After her one-week stint in theSenate, Kalin will then page for another weekin the House of Representatives.

Georgia Van de Zande (‘11) has been appoint-ed to serve as a Senate page for the 2008 session of the General Assembly.

Charlotte Kelley (‘11) performed with CarolinaBallet in Sleeping Beauty at MemorialAuditorium, May 15-18. Kelley, a student in theProfessional Division of the Raleigh School ofBallet, recently returned from the SoutheasternRegional Ballet Association Festival where sheparticipated in three days of master classesand performances with her performance company, Raleigh Dance Theatre. She is alsoattending a five-week Summer IntensiveProgram at Boston Ballet, June 28-Aug. 2.

Cary Academy‘s own rock and blues band,Citizen, captured first place at Jamfest, thetown of Cary’s annual rock competition, onMay 3. Held at Bond Park‘s outdoor SertomaAmphitheatre, Jamfest featured six area bandsvying for a first prize that included $500 and a

booking at Cary‘s upcoming Lazy Daze Festivalin August. Citizen features junior Seth Johnsonand sophomores Alex Rosenthal, AustinCooper, Aaron Harrington and Alex Nemetz.

Matt Lee ('12) took first place in the annualRegional Korean Math Competition sponsoredby the Korean-American Scientists andEngineering Association on April 19 and will bewaiting for results in states. Lee has been thewinner of the Triangle Regional Competition forthe past three years and has advanced tostates each time. Last year, Lee earned firstplace in North Carolina to advance to nationals.

Sooyeon Lee ('14) took the EXPLORE programtest (administered annually to thousands ofeighth-graders by ACT) sponsored by the DukeUniversity Talent Identification Program. Shereceived an overall score of 99% and was invit-ed to the 28th Annual 7th Grade North CarolinaRecognition Ceremony to receive an award.This is the first time a Cary Academy studenthas earned this honor as a sixth-grader.

Lauren Pederson (’12) has received the GirlScout Silver Award by excelling in leadership,community service, career planning and personal development.

Class of 2002

Kamla Kasichainula graduated from UNC’sjournalism school with a concentration in adver-tising in 2006. She now lives and works in LosAngeles as a media planner.

Class of 2003

Kaleah Overton graduated from Agnes ScottCollege in 2007 and is in Atlanta working forBearingPoint, a management and technologyconsulting firm.

Ashton Ward Clawson and her husband,Brandon, will both graduate from BrighamYoung University in August after she completesher honors thesis. Ashton will graduate withhonors with a journalism major and businessmanagement minor.

Class of 2004

Yuriko Tamura was initiated into the Tau BetaPi Engineering Honor Society at Stanford. Shewill complete her B.S. in biomedical computa-tion in June and then spend two extra quartersto earn an M.S. in bioengineering.

Alison Titkemeyer has returned from threemonths abroad in Brazil, where she shotfootage for a documentary on APAE, a schoolfor people (mostly kids) with mental disabilities.She learned Portuguese for the occasion andwas in a very small rural town. Her last semes-ter at the College of Santa Fe will be spent edit-ing the film, which she hopes to enter it intonext year’s Full Frame Film Festival.

Class of 2005

Lillian Behrend was chosen as the recipient ofthe Society of First Families of South CarolinaScholarship in History this year.

Valerie Chen is in Liberia volunteering with aglobal charity that is providing free healthcarealong the west coast of Africa.

Holly Metter is president of the LeadershipInstitute at Harvard, a club that provides professional leadership development seminarsfor undergraduates, promotes collaborationamong student leaders on campus, and tutorsmiddle school students in confidence and leadership skills. Over spring break she traveled

to El Salvador with Habitat for Humanity, andthis summer she will be working in a marketingposition in London for 10 weeks.

Steven Wilson will complete his undergraduatework at the University of Oxford this summer

with a double major inhistory and politics. He has received anunconditional offer toattend graduate schoolin political science atChrist Church College,University of Oxford inthe fall.

Class of 2006

Stephen Bolick is a sophomore at UNC andhas been accepted into the Kenan-FlaglerSchool of Business.

Anna Niles was accepted into the school ofnursing at UNC and began the two-year B.S.N.program in May.

notesAlumniAlumni: Contact melinda_bissett@caryacademy.org with your updates!

Steven Wilson at Oxford.

1500 N. Harrison Avenue

Cary, North Carolina 27513

Telephone: 919-677-3873

Fax: 919-677-4002

www.caryacademy.org

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Also serving on the board:

Howard Udell – Funding

Katy Allen – US Faculty

Sara Mizelle – MS Faculty

August 2008

MS Fall Sports Practices Begin

Varsity and Junior Varsity Fall Sports Practices Begin

Middle School Meet the Team Night (TBD)

August 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8th and 10-12th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .New Student Orientation

August 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Freshman Orientation

August 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6th Grade Orientation

August 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . First Day of School

August 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Parent Party

August 21 . . . . Upper School Meet the Teacher Night

September 2008

September 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Upper School Class Trips

September 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6th Grade Class Trip

September 12 . . . . . . . Cary Academy Family Fun Fest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(starts 3:15 PM)

September 16 . . . . First PTAA Meeting for 2008-2009

October 2008

October 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Middle/Upper School . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences

November 2008

November 7 . . . . . Grandparents’/Special Friends’ Day

November 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . End of 1st Trimester

December 2008

December 4-6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Holiday Shoppe

December 19 . . . . . . . . . . Cary Academy Homecoming

February 2008

February 21 . . . . . . . . . PTAA Annual Benefit Auction

Remember EVERYONE is welcome and has a place in the PTAA. Catch ourcommunity spirit—ParTicipAte Alliance!

—Charlotte Laverick, PTAA President’07-‘08

It is mypleasure tointroduce theincoming

PTAA board including the officers andcommittee chairs. This year’s nominatingcommittee has done an excellent job inrecruiting many fine parents to serve on the PTAA. Thanks to the nominatingcommittee for all its hard work. The following parents were elected to serveas officers on the PTAA board:

Naomi Lambert – President

Karen Green – Vice President

Mary Blondy – Treasurer

Manju Karkare – Secretary

Liz Eubanks & Rekha Rao – Members at Large US

Sue Harberberger & Rose Hollinshead – Members at Large MS

Charlotte Laverick – Past President

i mpor tant dates

Summer QuestJune 9-August 1

New faculty arriveJuly 28

Faculty returnAugust 4

MS Meet the Team NightAugust 7

6th grade orientationAugust 12

First day of school August 13

Parent Social August 15

Meet the new PTAA board (plus key dates for 2008-09)!