Dear Cate Alumni,
Despite Cate's idyllic location, there was no escaping the recent weather front that swept the United States.Like the rest of California, we've faced days and days of rain this past month. Check out the trivia section in this newsletter to see an amazing photograph of the Mesa after just a few days of inclement weather! The rain did not faze Cate's San Francisco contingent, as we had record numbers attend the San Francisco Reception on January 21st. Alumni, parents, and friends mingled, spoke to faculty, and watched as the Cate Historical Society honored David Harbison's '72 final year as a Cate faculty member.
This past Tuesday, Cate alumni and parents in Santa Barbara joined together, hosted by Casey McCann '97, to eat pizza and call on alumni to support the Cate Fund. It was a great time! If you'd like to volunteer for an upcoming phonathon, drop me an email!
Servons,
 Hallie Preston
Director of Alumni Relations
hallie_preston@cate.org
(805) 684-4127 x286
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Public Service Day Every year, Cate students and faculty drive into the community en masse to lend a hand to non-profit organizations for the day. This year, over 300 pairs of hands from Cate assisted schools, community centers, local chapters of national organizations, and other non-profits. They painted walls and barrels, worked and played with students at elementary schools, organized shelves, weeded gardens, and cooked meals. Read more. |
Reaching for the Stars
Cate recently completed a new astronomical observatory to enhance the program offerings of its science department. The new observatory houses a 12-inch, computer-controlled telescope for viewing planetary and galactic objects, as well as a specialized telescope for detailed solar observations. The observatory's first-light activity was to provide Cate's 9th grade Humanities students the opportunity to reenact Galileo's first observation of Jupiter in January of 1610. Read more. |
CPO Blood Drive
The CPO Blood Drive held in conjunction with Public Service Day was a great success. At the blood drive, 62 parents, students, and faculty were interviewed and of those 49 were eligible to give blood. That's a 29% increase from last year and a record for Cate's blood drives! Thank you so much to everyone who made the CPO Blood Drive such a success.
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CIF Playoffs. Congratulations to Boys Soccer, Girls Soccer, Boys Basketball and Girls Water Polo for qualifying for the CIF playoffs this season. Playoff games will begin next week. Students who are not involved in CIF Playoffs will begin the spring sports season on Monday.
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Alumni Spotlight Vanessa Janss '99 created a documentary about surfing and the environment. Read more.
 and then revise ChallengeJanuary Winner: Congrats toGuiliana Garcia'04 who rewrote the following sentence correctly.
Original: I will either come with T-Smith to CalMath League or B-Rod to basketball practice.
Guiliana's sentence: I will come with either T-Smith to CalMath League or B-Rod to basketball practice.
February and then revise Challenge: Correct the sentence.
I have had Padero Grill pizza, I am still hungry, however.
 CircumspiceJanuary Winner: No one answered correctly. The Circumspice Club (also known as the Historical Society) was founded in 1983 by David Harbison '72.
February Circumspice Trivia question:
This picture was taken by a student during the rains two weeks ago. Where was this picture taken?
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March TBD
Los Angeles Career Networking Event
May 1
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 Despite the rain, construction continues to move forward on Cate's two new swimming pools. They are slated to be finished later this spring! |
 Paul Grumet '99, Paige Miller '10, and Grayson Bryant '95 at the SF Reception. |
 Junior Zach Wehner reads with a local elementary school student as part of Public Service Day. |
 Joanne Northup (current parent) at the Santa Barbara Phonathon. |
 Michelle Homme '91 and Jessica Stewart Kaludis '89 at theSF Reception. |
 A few spirited Cate students decorated a Yukon after a Ram victory! |
 Kevin Gough '97, Camille Freeman '97, Connie Mittendorf '97, and Ariel Morris '97 at the SF Reception. |
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Houston Bradley '11 goes in for a basket at a recent basketball game.
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 Linzey Prudden '10 helps assemble a classroom project as part of Public Service Day. | | |
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