All News Articles Tagged 'Alumni' (45)

Alum Soaring Toward Stars At Berkeley

Report filed by Upper School Teacher Tom Smith.

UPPER SCHOOL -- Former Green Teamer Peter Blanchard, a 2009 Country Day graduate, has been selected to…

  

Class Reunions – Cap off Alumni Weekend!

ALL SCHOOL -- Following a full Friday that included Alumni Career Day Day and Spring Fling, the classes of ’73, ’78, ’83, ’88, ’93 & ’03, faculty, and former faculty filled the Community Hall…

The Torrey Family's Newest Additions

ALL SCHOOL -- The Country Day family continues to grow. This photo, submitted by Athletic Director Jeff Hutzler, shows the spouses of three of our coaches and their new, young Torreys. From left to…

Country Day Alum Rockets To Top Of San Diego Unified

ALL SCHOOL -- The news raced through the San Diego community. Faced with the sudden retirement of its school chief, the San Diego Unified School District's Board of Education moved…

Torrey Volleyball Stars Soar In Ivys…

Pena Featured In Football Magazine

ALL SCHOOL -- Country Day Alum, Ruben Pena '11, was featured in the recent edition of San Diego Friday Night Lights magazine. Pena, a former Torrey quarterback, currently plays that position at Trinity International University. The article chronicles how challenges in his high…

Silver Linings Playbook (2012) 

Introduction to Filmmaking student Ethan Krant made quite an announcement in class on Monday, he shared the news that his sister's recent film project was going to be a part of the San Diego Film Festival which runs Thursday, September 26th-30.  Ethan's sister is…

Alum Wood Wins Collegiate Tennis Award

ALL SCHOOL -- Country Day Alum Warren Wood '11 was recently named Division III Rookie of The Year…

Rogers '11 Wins Ivy Rookie Award

ALL SCHOOL -- Mollie Rogers '11, who led her Torrey Varsity Volleyball team to a state championship in her senior year, has just kept on achieving in college.

Rogers, a freshman at…

 Anthony Torres '10 Flourishing At Iowa

Anthony (A.T.) Torres is off to a great start at the University of Iowa.  Although the Big Ten baseball season doesn't begin until February 2012, the Hawkeyes are already working out and practicing daily.  Due to an…

Lessons And Thanks From A Country Day Writer

UPPER SCHOOL -- From time to time on the Country Day campus, the teachers get moments to reap what they have sown.

On Thursday, retired English professor Will Erickson returned to…

Chloe Mathis Is Excelling At Arizona

UPPER SCHOOL -- No one at Country Day will be at all surprised by this story: Chloe Mathis, who was one of the leaders on last year's Country Day State Champions Volleyball…

Foursome Wins At 12 Under Par

ALL SCHOOL -- More than 120 golfers hit the links at noon today in a "Fun-raiser'' for the Country Day Endowment. The golfers were greeted by a perfect golf day, sunny and cool and headed out to compete…

ALL SCHOOL - While on vacation, U.S. Congressman from the 2nd Congressional District of Colorado and former Country Day Alum, Jared Schutz Polis '93 came back to visit his alma mater and connect with a few of his teachers. 

Polis sits in the 111th Congress and currently serves on the House Rules Committee and…

Torrey 'Renaissance Man' At Stanford

ALL SCHOOL -- Four years after leaving Country Day, Greg Hirshman, '07, is still making his alma mater look…

COMMUNITY SERVICE - Sunday, March 20th was the third San Diego Walk for Water and there was a great Country Day turnout. Students from Country Day, Bishop’s, Francis Parker and Crawford High School worked all year with PCI Global to make this special event happen. The purpose of the walk is to simulate the distance women and children in the developing world walk each day in order to get water. This year’s walk worked to raise funds for water systems in Tanzania.…

ALUMNI - Reconnect. Revisit. Rekindle.  The Spring Fling Alumni Weekend continued after our fabulous Career Day on Friday.  Alumni from the Country Day classes of 1971, 1981, 1986, 1991 and 2001reconnected with faculty, staff and students from years past to celebrate Country Day and one…

UPPER SCHOOL - Country Day Alumni came back to campus Friday to share their career choices and advice with current juniors and seniors as part of the annual Alumni Career Day.

Alumni honored included Maite Benito Agahnia '85, artist; Barry Behr '80, reproductive physiology professor; Jason Carbone…

             This week Country Day alumnus David Pratt took a detour from his planned move to Des Moines Iowa to demonstrate and play his Flying-V model electric violin, his acoustic electric mandolin and multi-effects signal processing pedal for the students in Mrs. Diener’s Upper School Chamber and Honors Orchestras as well as  the 7/8^th grade elective iPod Shuffle class. 

            Students were able to touch, feel, play and listen to these extraordinary…