May 14, 2008

Dear Friends,

Flotsam from the Dean of Students interview process:

Some students suggested to the candidates that perhaps the school was too kind and too safe. The concern is that they will get so used to tolerance, even celebration of quirky individualism that they will not be prepared for a less tolerant world of college and beyond.

It is certainly worth thinking about. Here are some thoughts of mine:

1. While the future is important, we should insist on the paramountcy of now. Minds and souls which can take four years to grow in comparative peace are strengthened rather than disadvantaged when faced with new challenges.

2. Self-confidence is not an illusory strength. On the contrary, we know as adults that we behave differently with those comfortable in their own skin than we do with those who are self-doubting—indeed the former are more pleasant to be around.

3. Mirroring the world of college or of work may mitigate the adjustments required, although I doubt it, but it certainly doesn’t eliminate them. These are a part of life, rewarding as well as challenging.

4. Finally, as a reality check, the Bay School is not the Garden of Eden—and there was a snake even there. Our precepts are aspirations; our reality is flawed. What makes us great is that we work on it—all the time.

Since this may be my last letter of this school year, I want to thank the whole community for a wonderful year and for your many kindnesses to me personally. I look forward to an even greater ’08-’09.

All best wishes,

Fr. Malcolm

Game Theory - Mathematics on a Real Life Level
By Andy Shaw, Bay Mathematics Teacher

Game theory is the study of conflict and strategy: when in a situation where your well-being depends both on your decisions and the decisions of others, how do you devise a strategy which will protect you from risk and optimize your outcome?

Developed in the early twentieth century, game theory has come into the spotlight in recent years thanks to the book and film "A Beautiful Mind", about the life of game theory pioneer John Nash. The 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Nash and two others for their work in creating and developing the field. Game theory is an interdisciplinary realm, the place where math, economics, and psychology intersect. Game theoretic approaches have been successfully applied to problems in the fields of international relations, evolutionary biology, and anthropology, to name a few. During the spring term, a mixed group of seniors, juniors, and sophomores have chosen to be the first in Bay School history to examine this rich and challenging field, in a one-trimester upper level mathematics elective.

In a slight departure from the standard guided-discovery mode of the Bay School’s math program, this class is modeled around the operations of a research group. Students work in small teams to solve problems, but every group solves a different set, taking note of each other’s problems while focusing on their own. The problems are open-ended and un-scaffolded, and the groups are left to determine the best approach. Every week, the groups convene for a seminar, where each problem is presented by one student. The class then discusses the problem, asking questions, debating the validity of the presented solution--teasing out the subtleties within. Students then use the results from the day’s seminar to tackle their next set of problems, depending on each other’s results as tools for analyzing the next challenge.

Throughout the course of the term students consider questions such as:

• Why is the optimal strategy for the game "Rock, Paper, Scissors" to play each item one-third of the time? If we assign financial values to each item (example: a win with rock is worth $5, while a win with paper is worth only $2), how does the strategy change?
  
  
• When considering distribution of money within a financial portfolio, how can one balance risk by accounting for upcoming world events like war or disease?
  
  
• Do Jamaican fishermen use an optimal strategy, competing against the possibility of strong ocean currents, in placing their fish traps?
  
  
• How can one determine strategies for simplified versions of poker or blackjack?
  
  
• How did strategy come into play during the Cuban Missile Crisis? Did Kennedy and Khrushchev each use their optimal strategies in this case?
  
  
• What is the optimal behavioral strategy for an animal to utilize when competing for resources and survival against another animal?

The first unit of the course focused upon representations and vocabulary. Students learned how to quantify game outcomes, represent games using mathematical structures like matrices, and to describe games with technical game theoretic vocabulary. The class also began to consider how to evaluate and choose strategies for games played once.

A recent unit exam assessed the students’ ability to represent, analyze, and discuss games. The exam’s first segment focused on the game theory of politics, both upon the choices made by politicians and the choices made by voters. Click here to see the questions on that exam (PDF). The second part of the exam asked students to create their own scenario, one which could be modeled in a game theoretic way, and to apply their existing knowledge of the basics of game theory to that scenario. Student responses covered quite a spectrum.

Read Daniel Rathman’s "McCarthy’s Crunch-time Conundrum" (PDF)

Read Spencer Stamats’ "Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo" (PDF)

Students are currently developing methods to determine optimal game strategies for games of all sorts, including those proposed by Spencer and Daniel. Their methods include considerations of risk versus payoff, whether the game is being played multiple times, and the number of strategic options available to each player. The students’ knowledge from the Bay School's core mathematics curriculum is critical to our work, as the solutions to many problems in game theory require a solid understanding of algebraic manipulation, graphical and symbolic solution processes, and matrix manipulation as a foundation.

At the completion of the course, students will have a newfound understanding not only of how to mathematically consider risk, payoff, and strategy in a wide variety of conflicts, but also how to construct creative solutions to problems, communicate those solutions in writing, present those solutions to a critical audience, and lead a question-and-answer discussion on the validity of their own work.

Poetry Blooms at Bay during April’s National Poetry Month Celebration

Rhythm, meter and rhyme filled the air in every classroom and corner at the Bay School as the entire school celebrated National Poetry Month throughout the month of April. Organized by librarian Rachel Shaw, the art of poetry was celebrated in its enormous variety of forms—from Shakespearean sonnets to the captivating beats of contemporary ‘Slam’ styles. The aim was to increase the attention, familiarity, and thus enjoyment that we can all experience of this inspiring art form, as well as to encourage students and adults alike to try their own hands at self expression.

One all-school morning meeting was devoted to a poetry reading by freshman Alex Kinsella who read his original poem, followed by English teacher, Bill Brown, who shared a recent poem of his own. During another morning meeting, students and teachers from the Intersession course titled Art and Poetry presented their original poems that had been inspired by works of art recently seen while visiting local museums and galleries in San Francisco. Katherine Riley’s Drama I course chose favorite poems during class time and then read them aloud during announcement time. During weekly Book Bridge free reading times, Colin Williams led a poetry group of 10 students, who read and discussed the April 2008 issue of Poetry Magazine (http://www.poetrymagazine.org).

View the poetry book (PDF)

Intersession 2008

For students and faculty members alike, Intersession week is a highlight of each year’s spring trimester. This year’s program in late March offered twenty-two different courses that took Bay students out into the field and deep into the world of real-life learning. Topics for Intersession courses are proposed and designed by faculty members and students working together. In order to be approved, course content must support the school’s mission and be connected to the core curriculum. Course goals are clearly articulated and require outcomes that are substantive and meaningful. Full participation in an Intersession course each year is a requirement for graduation at Bay.

2008 Intersession course offerings included a wide variety of topics and activities. Three courses took students into the great outdoors on wilderness trips to Death Valley, the high Sierra, and four days of camping surrounded by the striking beauty of the Ventana Wilderness near Big Sur. Two groups of students and their teachers stayed closer to home spending their week biking and hiking throughout San Francisco and the nearby Bay Area.

For the artistically inclined, live music and dance workshops explored creative styles from around the world as well as those closer to home such as Hip Hop and live jazz performances. Project Runway, a new offering this year, focused on fashion—giving interested students the chance to learn about fashion design and even sewing. Students experienced many different aspects of what "culture" truly involves in a course titled Three Continents in One City that explored the historic and contemporary experiences of the Irish, Chinese, and Latin American through visiting local communities here in San Francisco. Another group of students gained a different perspective on a number of world cultures through the study of the world’s universal beverage, tea. In another new course this year titled Exploring Cultural Conflict Through Fantasy-Role Playing Games, students took part in an original fantasy gaming adventure designed to help them explore how to cope with conflict brought about by cultural differences and misunderstandings. While the campaign may have involved orcs, elves, and halflings, its parallels to real world situations were strong and the insights obtained were meaningful and relevant to life in our modern society.

On campus technology programs again offered students the chance to focus on building digital film making and technological skills. Thirteen students in teacher Terry Gomes’ Computer Game Design course learned that while playing computer games is fun—it’s actually even more fun to design your own games for yourself and others to play. Using the application Game Maker Lite, the students considered game play, graphics, sounds, user interaction and levels of difficulty.

The two important subjects of the environment and personal health and wellness weren’t forgotten either. Academic Dean Matt Eddy led an Intersession course titled "Alternative Energy" which focused on building energy-efficient gadgets and demonstration. His group was engaged in hands-on and minds-on work learning about solar energy through building solar cookers, solar-heaters, and solar powered water purifiers as well as learning about the design models of energy-efficient homes. Athletic directors Steve Glass and Stephanie Hamilton, along with coach and Spanish teacher Shellie Banks, encouraged their students to adopt the mindset and practice of valuing healthy habits and happy hearts. Their week was an action-packed adventure that was highlighted by a hike and bike on Angel Island.

View the 2008 Intersession Photo Album.

May Athletics Update

Late-April/Early-May finds most of our sports teams in the heart of their seasons. We have seven Bay Breaker teams competing in the Bay Counties League-Central (BCL-Central) and BCL-West leagues during the 07-08 spring season: Boys Golf, Varsity and JV Girls Soccer, Baseball, Softball, Co-Ed Track and Field, and Co-Ed Sailing.

Girls’ Varsity Soccer
The girls are 7-3 in the league, 7-4 overall. The group has shown great potential – they are fast, have a lot of individual skill, and are learning how to pass and think as a team. Bay has soundly triumphed over the teams that they should have and have thoroughly controlled those games. Two of the losses were one-goal defeats; stronger play could have put us on the other side of that scoreboard. The team is optimistic about making BCL-Central playoffs. Once there, anything can happen, but they are aiming to go in as a number 2 or 3 seed.

Girls JV Soccer
To date this season the JV girls’ soccer team has scored three wins, two ties, and three losses. The players sustained a few early injuries, but have made significant progress nonetheless. This is the most positive season yet for Bay School girls JV soccer. The team has gelled, due perhaps to the fact that the team is comprised of mostly freshmen and sophomores, and the girls seem to have a solid rapport with each other. They work extremely hard in both their games and at practices.

Sailing
The Bay School spring sailors have had some great days on the water with the winds back up on the Bay. They are an enthusiastic group of nine, with seven students returning and two who are new to the sport of sailing. As participants in the St. Francis Yacht Club high school program, our Bay sailors have been coached in conjunction with youth sailors from the Waldorf School, with whom they also compete. They primarily sail in club flying juniors (CFJ’s), sometimes in Lasers, and occasionally in 420s in heavier air.

The highlight of the spring season occurred on March 29th and 30th when the St. Francis Yacht Club hosted the NorCal Championships, a major Pacific Coast Interscholastic Sailing Association (PCISA) high school regatta. 14 teams competed, representing 19 high schools located in Marin County, San Francisco, and the area extending south from San Francisco down to Monterey. Water currents played a major factor in racing on both days. The Bay School was represented at the NorCal Championships by a boat skippered by Michael Hemberger (‘09) and crewed by Eliza White (’10). They placed an impressive 4th in their class, and along with a boat co-skippered with Waldorf High School in S.F, a 4th overall in the regatta as a Bay/Waldorf Team. Congratulations!!

Track and Field
The Bay track team has a core of middle distance runners and throwers who will compete in their first league meet next week. The runners have already competed in two invitational meets, placing 1st overall in the boys’ frosh-soph 4x800m relay (Neal Fong, Wes Messino, Bobby Bourhis, John Tompkins), at the Adam Banks Track Challenge on March 22nd.

This team has come a long way since the beginning of the season. Our nine throwers and ten runners have made significant progress in their technique and made a great showing at their first league meet on April 22nd. Freshman Clara Cardillo placed third overall in the 800m out of 14 schools in the Bay Area Conference (BAC), and sophomore, Genevieve Watts placed 6th overall in the 400m. Junior Danny Rice took 4th place overall in the shot put and sophomore Sam Sher took 6th overall in the discus. Our runners and throwers are looking forward to bringing their times down and lengthening their throws before league finals on May 10th!

Softball
A bad break clouded the beginning of the girls’ varsity softball season when catcher Maylin Khuu sustained a double fracture of her left thumb on the second pitch of the season! But, undaunted, the remaining starters from last year’s squad alongside a group of eager freshman have stepped up to the plate (literally and figuratively). After seven games, the squad is 2-4 in their league. The team now looks forward to finishing strong and making a run for the BCL playoffs.

Baseball
The boys’ varsity baseball team is 7-2 overall, and 4-1 in the BCL-Central, which puts them in second place in their league; an outstanding position to be in considering it is our first year with senior class players! Junior pitcher Harry Ward currently has five wins and two losses with a 2.21 earned run average. After nine games, junior, Andrew Schwartz has a batting average of 484. Senior, Kaneja Muganda is currently hitting 476, has scored 18 runs, and has 19 stolen bases. The team has their sights set on the BCL-Central playoffs and hopefully beyond!

Golf
The golf team has recently concluded its season. The team had a great start against University High School and lost our first match by only one stroke. We ended our league season with victories against Pescadero and Stuart Hall, and finished the regular league season with a record of 2 wins and 4 losses. Freshman Justin Kim contributed the season’s highlight with an average scoring total of 5 over par thus qualifying for a spot in the North Coast Section Championship Tournament.

GO BREAKERS!

VEX Robotics at Bay
By Edward Chen, Director of Technology

The Engineering Club at Bay has had tremendous student involvement and participation this year. Due to the large number of interested students, the Engineering Club divided itself into three functional divisions: the ROV division, the VEX Robotics division, and the Inventors division - in order to accommodate all the different student interests. Senior Henry Wettersten leads the Inventors division, sophomore Greg Karp-Neufeld leads the ROV division, and Director of Technology, Edward Chen, leads the VEX Robotics division. The Inventors division is working on re-designing a wheelchair for the disabled. The ROV division is working on an underwater submersible robot that will collect samples in the choppy waters of the Pacific Ocean in conjunction with the advanced Science elective, S.F. Bay.

The VEX Robotics division of the Engineering Club has six teams creating VEX robots to compete within the guidelines of this year's VEX Challenge. Teams consist of two or three students with names like 'Monkey Wrench', 'Rhino Sloth', 'Mass Destruction', 'Kinsella's French Seaman', 'Team Bulldog’, and 'Mizusawa's Madness'. Teams have had great fun and many challenges in creating their robots during club time this year.

The Innovation First Company, makers of VEX robotic kits, introduced a new robotics competition circuit and game this year. This year's game, the Bridge Battle, requires each team to partner with another team and then compete against two other teams. To win the battle, the winning team must score the most points by placing tennis balls into designated overhead troughs. Bonus points are given for special colored balls and for parking one of two robots on specially marked pads before time is up. Teams are able to block other robots from scoring, but are not able to harm other robots. The robot you harm in one round may come to be your partner in the next round.

One Bay team, 'Monkey Wrench', elected to compete against other schools from around the Bay Area and Central Valley in a regional VEX competition held on April 19, 2008 at Fresno's Central High School. Team members Tom Mitchell, Willie Caldwell, and Kevin Charette traveled to Fresno with fathers, Bill Mitchell and Boyd Charette to compete in the day-long event. They competed against more experienced teams and even more complicated robots, yet their design and teamwork gave them a respectable standing of third place in the competition - a tremendous accomplishment given that the team was a first-time entry! They also won the K.I.S. (Keep It Simple) award given by the judges. The team was only one win away from earning second place overall which would have sent them to the Inaugural VEX World Championship Competition at Cal State Northridge in May.

The team is so thrilled with their standing and so excited about next year's competition that they are already working on their next robot design!

Tom Mitchell said "I really liked the competition. I came out of it feeling really strong and proud of my teammates and myself. The competition made me see how other teams thought outside of the box and it helped me get new ideas for next year. It really improved my view on robotics."

Kevin Charette remarked "Tommy, Willie, and I went to the competition in the morning. In the practice rounds we found out our robot was not as perfect as we thought. After several improvements in the programming and the construction of our robot, we ended up with a team that turned out to be a good ally."

Willie Caldwell says “The Vex Competition was an overall success for Tommy, Kevin and me. Going to Fresno and competing with the 16 other schools really taught us what kind of competition to expect in the future, and how far we can go with these robots. Watching and competing with other teams helped me to realize what could be achieved with robotics, and how designs can often be too complicated for the tasks they are designed for. I am proud of what our team accomplished." The Bay School is very proud to have such enthusiastic and dedicated students. Moreover, we are proud of their fantastic accomplishments in winning both awards.

Thank you to all the other Bay VEX Robotics division teams who contributed their robot parts to Team Monkey Wrench so they could compete without worry. Thank you to our very special parent volunteers for their support, time, and encouragement. Thanks to Boyd Charette for teaching all our teams how to program their robots and for volunteering to be a referee during the competition. Thanks also to Harry Chesley for being available for weekend work. Thanks go to Bill Mitchell for being our chaperone and supporter and to Amy Worth for dealing with travel and event logistics. Thanks to our Engineering Club sponsor, Bay School parent Richard Decker, without whom none of this would have been possible, and to Eugene Mizusawa for his guidance and support of the team before and during the competition. Our success was truly a team effort - both on the competition floor and behind-the-scenes.

Watch highlights of the competition filmed by Eugene and Janie Mizusawa .

Bay Admission Update

It's hard to believe that this year's admission season has come to a close, and with such success. This has proven to be a monumental and record-breaking year in the life of the school with regards to enrollment. This fall, Bay will welcome its first full freshman class of seventy-five students. Besides its increased size, this class is distinctive for its palpable talent, dynamic, lively character and scholastic achievement.

Many hands were at work toward the building of this class. From the faculty who ably conveyed their love of teaching during open houses, to the guidance and support of the board, to the Bay students who hosted visitors this fall, to our energetic parent body, it is always a collaborative effort and a collective responsibility. Gratifyingly, your efforts have paid off in dividends with the group we welcome this fall.

Our newest class is a group of students who represent over forty different schools, collectively speak ten different languages, and hail from all over the city and greater Bay Area (thirty-six different zip codes!). We are proud of the efforts we made in our commitment to access and diversity, as thirty-two percent of the class will receive financial aid and almost thirty percent of this class identify themselves as people of color. It is a textured group by every definition of the word.

On Saturday April 26th, faculty, staff, the admission office and current students had the pleasure of officially inducting these seventy-five students into the community during our annual Freshmen Welcome Event. The induction included a delicious BBQ luncheon, a gift of class of 2012 t-shirts, and get-to-know-you games out on the grassy lawn outside our campus. As an extra bonus, the sun was shining and it was a gorgeous seventy-five degrees. A class picture ended the morning, as we snapped a shot of the students in their t-shirts, some with arms linked together already.

It was a great day, punctuating a wonderfully pleasurable and fruitful year in the Admission Office. We welcome the class of 2012 with a great deal of pride, excitement, and anticipation for all that they will contribute.

Many thanks again for everyone's work in building the class of 2012.

Annie Tsang
Director of Admission

Fond Farewells - But Hopefully Not Goodbye Forever

As we look forward to our first Bay School graduation now less than a month away, with great excitement and happiness, we also sadly think about bidding adieu to three very special founding members of the Bay School faculty and administration: Nancy Wheeler, Moneeka Settles, and Spencer Stevens.

Nancy will forever occupy a unique place in the Bay School history book as the very first Bay School employee! Hired by founding head of school Malcolm Manson in January 2002, Nancy came onboard when the school was a dream and hope in the minds of Malcolm and the founding board of trustees. In the year prior to the school's opening in fall 2004, Nancy, as the first director of admission, recruited the inaugural Class of 2008. Between 2005 and today, Nancy has also served as a class dean, advisor, and teacher of the sophomore level course Research and the Community for the past two years. One of four nationwide finalists for the prestigious Joseph Kingenstein Fellowship at the Kingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, Nancy has been awarded a merit scholarship towards completion of her M.A. degree. The Kingenstein Program prepares educators to strengthen their careers as teacher-leaders, deans, department chairs, division directors, and school heads. We wish Nancy all the very best in her new professional adventure and return to the East Coast from whence she came.

Moneeka joined the inaugural Bay School team as our first dean of students during the summer of 2004 -a month prior to the opening of school, having come from Portland, Oregon with her husband Sean to the Bay Area where he began his doctoral studies at U.C. Berkeley.

Moneeka's imprint on Bay will forever remain indelible. All the while having a real love of students and a true passion for teaching, Moneeka has been instrumental in defining, building, and nurturing the kindly, inclusive, and thoughtful community of which we are all grateful to be a part; this in addition to a superb organizational and administrative mind for the details on which her colleagues so depend. As Moneeka and Sean eagerly await the birth of their first child in late June they will begin packing to return to their first home, Portland, in August where Sean has been offered an assistant professorship at Reed College. Moneeka's departure from Bay will mark the beginning of a very exciting new phase of their life as a family and we celebrate that great happiness right along with them.

Spence joined the Bay School faculty during the summer of 2005, just in time to move into our brand-newly renovated campus at 35 Keyes Avenue. During the past three academic years he has played a central role in the growth of the science program as it expanded to include upper level electives. He has taught Chemistry, Biology, Molecular Biology/Biotechnology, and will always be remembered for launching the S.F. Bay course-taking students out on the Bay aboard a research schooner for a 5 day trip. Spence has also been a favorite coach for boys' and girls' soccer, including serving as the head girls' varsity soccer coach this year. An avid outdoorsman, he has been a founding leader of the Bay Outing Club-his skills in the snow are renowned. He even created and led an Intersession course titled the "Science of Snow"! Spence is leaving Bay to enter a master's program in environmental science and management at the Donald Bren School for Environmental Science and Management at U.C. Santa Barbara. The program is geared towards environmental policy; his future career plans, though presently undecided, many include a return to education, research, or consulting. Regardless, Spencer's move south to Santa Barbara will re-unite him with his wife Jaime. Spence, we'll miss you!

Bay Splash 2008 is Coming Up Soon!
May 17, 2008, 6pm-12am

Dear Bay School Friends and Family,

Please send in your Bay Splash invitation RSVP’s if you haven’t already. Seating is limited! We anticipate a sell-out.

The 2008 Bay Splash Online Auction is now live! We invite you to go online at www.bayschoolsf.org and start bidding! Tell your family and friends!

Curious about what’s available online? Here’s a taste:

• "Life’s a Beach!" Outing with Steve Glass & Stephanie Hamilton
  Pack your sunscreen and board shorts and head to Santa Cruz for the weekend! Six lucky kids will join Bay Athletic Director Steve Glass and his family in his "native Santa Cruz" for an overnight weekend of "fun in sun" including the basic B's: Boardwalk, boogie boarding and barbeque. (Date to be mutually agreed upon).
  
  
• Drakes Estero Kayaking for Two
  Kayak into the heart one of the last pristine estuaries on the California coast. Pelicans, osprey, great and snowy egrets, perhaps falcons and blue herons seasonally pass through this magnificent estero. The hillsides are home to coyote, bobcat, mountain lions, red tail hawks and the only free-roaming herd of tule elk in California. This tidal salt marsh is a paradise for anyone interested in viewing Mother Nature's intricate web of life.
  
  
• Your Family Tree and More
  Ever wondered how to get started with one of the fastest growing hobbies, your own genealogy research? Based on information the winning bidder provides, Bay School parent, Susan Nadelman, will donate a minimum of ten hours of researching your ancestry, using a wide variety of sources. The winner will receive a framed "family tree" and a detailed report of the research. Enjoy a scrumptious lunch in Grandviews on the 36th Floor of the Grand Hyatt San Francisco while we discuss the results and consider areas of focus for continuing your own research! Let's get started!

And MUCH MUCH more!

Bay Splash 2008 Co-chairs:

Peggy Barbieri - email: pbarbier@pacbell.net
Alison Mattoon - email: mattoon4@comcast.net
Jane Vaughan - email: vaughan@menloequities.com

For more information, contact Janette Englert, Development Associate, at jenglert@bayschoolsf.org.

Bay Honors

Congratulations to the following members of the Bay School community for their recent achievements and accolades:

A standing ovation goes to Bay School students Luke Kiehn-Thilman and Dustin Pearson who recently performed in a production of The Odyssey, presented by the New Conservatory Theater Center’s Teen Performance Ensemble. The production ran from May 1st through May 11th.

Bay School Junior Lilian Watt’s poster artwork has recently been chosen to be a GIMME SHELTER ART! bus shelter art piece. Hosted by the non-profit Thoreau Center, located in the Presidio, the competition featured 10 vinyl billboards throughout San Francisco that will be painted over by artists instead of being dumped in the landfill. Lilian’s poster artwork will be displayed on local bus shelters in the fall. Congratulations Lilian! View Lilian's artwork.

Eugene Mizusawa, the Bay School’s Director of Senior Projects and Field-based Learning will be traveling to Cornell University on May 20-21 to receive recognition as the teacher of a former student at the Athenian School in Danville who has been named as a Merrill Presidential Scholar at Cornell. The program honors Cornell undergraduate students each year in conjunction with the high school teachers who made important contributions to the students’ lives. Eugene is an inspiration to all of us here at Bay. Bravo!

Golfer Justin Kim, Bay School freshman, recently made it past our Bay Counties League golf championship as one of three students invited to play in the North Coast Section tournament qualifier on May 5th in Petaluma at Rooster Run golf course. Justin played on Monday May 5th and again qualified as an individual to move up to next round play in the North Coast Section Tournament of Champions. He qualified as an individual for 12 spots out of 130 players. On Monday May 12th, he will play in the Tournament of Champions at Franklin Canyon golf course in Hercules. Here’s to you, Justin!

May and June 2008 Events Calendar