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Timothy Cottrell <[email protected]> Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 5:15 PMBcc: [email protected]

September 17, 2017

Dear Parents,

Homecoming Week

Monday - September 18Fashion No-No Land: Take a trip to Fashion No-Noland where everyone dresses in their wackiest outfit! Wear mismatched clothes,funky hairstyles, and loony accessories.Lunch Activity: Strange Talent Show

Tuesday - September 19Time Travel Tuesday: Travel back in time and wear an outfit from a different era i.e., medieval, Victorian, Renaissance, 70s, 80s, etc.Lunch Activity: Travel through the Decades Riff Off

Wednesday - September 20When-on a plane-sday: Wear full-length pajamas or comfortable clothes (sweatpants) thatyou would wear on a plane (Be sure to comply with ‘Iolani TSA guidelines)Lunch Activity: Movie: AIRPLANE (1980) in the air conditioned Seto Hall!

Thursday - September 21Take a Trip Thursday: Wear tourist clothes from the destination of your choice (Disneyland, France, Bora Bora, the Alps, etc.)Lunch Activity: Dessert food giveaway

Friday - September 22Raider Republic: Take a trip to RaiderRepublic. Dress in 100% red, white and black!Lunch Activity: Cheer on your classmates as theychallenge other grade levels in a head-on 8 man relay race!

Concerto Compe on WinnersWe are happy to announce the winners of this year's Concerto Compe on. These seniors have worked very persistently over many years to develop their abili es, and we look forward to sharing the excitement of their solos with you at the Concerto Concert on Saturday February 10, 2017. Please join me in congratula ng them!

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Liana Owen '18, violin (Mendelssohn Concerto)Winston Wei '18, cello (J.C. Bach Concerto)Susan Hasegawa '18, piano (Rachmaninoff Concerto)Lauren Nguyen '18, piano (Beethoven Concerto)Aaron Wehrman '18, bass (Koussevitsky Concerto)Ju Hye Kim '18, violin (Dvorak Romance)Amy Kaneshiro '18, cello (Dvorak Concerto), who will perform at the Spring Concert, April 15, 2017.

Ìolani Drama c Players Fringe Fes val nomina on for 1000 Cranes

This past summer 'Iolani students (grades 8 - 12) traveled across two great oceans to perform at theEdinburgh Fes val Fringe. Their performance of 1000 Cranes was nominated for a Peace and Freedom Award from Amnesty Interna onal. While 1000 Cranes did not earn a Peace and Freedom Award, the produc on received 3 nomina ons from DarkChat, which is a group of 6 people (including the parents of the 8 year old twins) who write reviews of the shows they see at the Fringe. This year the DarkChat group saw 52 shows and nominated 1000 Cranes for the following awards:

Best ShowBest Family ShowBest Performer in a Family Show - Sydnee Kokubun '18

Our Ìolani Drama c Players were among great company as other contenders for Best Show and Best Family Show included the Soweto Gospel Choir.The 1000 Cranes Review -- the 8 year old twin's review is at the bo om.

10th Annual Peace Day Hawai'i Celebra onÌolani students presented at the10th Annual Peace Day Hawai'i Celebra on Saturday, Sept. 16th, a public event that serves to share and inspire stories of peace in our community. Students of the 'Iolani Peace & Jus ce Club, Global Issues Network and Opera on RAD hosted an 'Iolani Peace Ins tute educa onal table at the event to share about the work they are doing at 'Iolani School.


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The Peace & Jus ce Club shared about their mission to spread peace throughout the world beginning with 'Iolani School. Students Serra Calunod '23, Olivia Wong '23 and Andee Wong '23 represented the club and hosted a workshop in addi on to the informa on table. They shared about their latest project to engage students in learning about the United Na ons Sustainable Development Goals through Hawaii-inspired "Peacemon" characters they designed and created.

The Global Issues Network Club empowers students to tackle global issues in their community. YooRa Sung '19 and Emily Osurman '19 shared the club's efforts to educate about food waste and implement food waste reduc on at school and in the community.

Sarah Abdul Ghani '19 and Evan Tsuzaki '18 presented an educa onal table on their club, Opera on RAD, which serves to bring awareness to refugees in Darfur and other parts of the world.


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Raiders for ReliefIn response to the mul ple natural disasters impac ng many around the world, students and faculty at ‘Iolani School have created a “Raiders for Relief” disaster response.

In Lower School and Upper School chapels, students will hear stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to help others in need, consider what it means to be the “light of the world” (Ma hew 5:14), and reflect on how we are to live into our alma mater’s call: Love Stands Supreme. Lower School students will hear from chaplains, with prayers led by students, and Upper School chapels will be led by student leaders of ‘Iolani’s Peace Ins tute.

Collec ons:Lower School students will par cipate in a coin collec on drive during Homecoming Week from Monday, September 18th through Friday, September 22nd. Students are encouraged to bring in loose change from home and donate their coins outside the Lower School Main Office before homeroom in a specially designated container.

Upper School students are invited to bring their dona on to homeroom on Friday, September 29th. All dona ons will go to United Na ons Interna onal Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), which has relief efforts on the ground currently in all of the affected areas. Advisory students in 6th, 7th and 8th grade will also write notes of gra tude to first responders in homeroom during the week of September 25.

Thank you in advance for your support of this Raiders for Relief campaign.

Fourth Grade Design and FabFourth grade students prac ced the engineering design process and constructed solar water heaters as part of their energy unit for science. They worked within

me and material constraints to design, create, and test a prototype. A er evalua ng preliminary results, students were able to change and reassess their heaters.


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Tam Young Arts Chair Dr. Simpson-SteeleTam Young Arts Chair Dr. Jamie Simpson-Steele, a professor at the University of Hawai`i, is collabora ng with our first grade teachers and visi ng over the course of three weeks with the first-grade classes to provide drama strategies to help students explore how, "We all have stories, big and small." During the first week, she will talk about character and how students are the main character in their own stories.


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During the second week, she will explore with students the places in their lives as se ngs for their unique stories. During the third week, students will explore how challenges in life help shape the plot of their story.

A Conversa on with Lea Salonga

On Friday, September 8th, Broadway luminary Lea Salonga (Tony Award, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Allegiance, the upcoming Broadway revival of Once On This Island) treated a packed house of performing arts students and local performers to an in mate, 90-minute Q&A at Manoa Valley Theatre.

The event, A Conversa on with Lea Salonga, was organized by 'Iolani in partnership with Punahou School's Theatre Department, Manoa Valley Theatre and choreographer Chris ne Yasunaga '89. We were joined by the Chair of 'Iolani's Board of Governors, Dr. Mark Mugiishi '77, who also served as one of the lead producers of the musical Allegiance, in which Ms. Salonga starred.

To a rapt audience, she spoke candidly about her own career, her ar s c process for crea ng characters and interpre ng songs, and gave great advice to those aspiring to careers as performers: be excep onal and be a nice person. In addi on to her Broadway credits, Ms. Salonga performed the singing voices of Disney Princesses Jasmine in Aladdin and Fa Mulan in Mulan.

'Iolani Cheer ClinicThe 'Iolani cheerleading program hosted a clinic for young students on Saturday in the Upper Gym. A great me was had by all. And it's not over yet!


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The par cipants will cheer with the 'Iolani cheerleaders during the third quarter of Friday's Homecoming football game at Eddie Hamada Field.

Varsity football game vs. Pac-FiveThe varsity football team bounced back from two league losses to beat Pac-Five, 55-20, on Saturday at Aloha Stadium.


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Our Raiders will look to keep the momentum going on Friday in the Homecoming game versus. Damien. Kickoff at Eddie Hamada Field is set for 3:15 p.m.

Cross Country keeps rollingAt the Saturday cross country meet at CORP, the boys varsity runners were led by Jason Wang ’18 and Nick Arima ’18 finishing first and second. Wolfgang Sakamaki `19 and Koen Bailey `17 finished 4th and 5th with Josh Lerner ` 21 finishing 9th to round out the top scorers. The team won with an amazing score of 21 points. Nearly matching this low score, the girls JV runners won their division with Maddy Heyler `21 2nd, Sophia Kop `21 4th, Sarah Abdul-Ghani `19 7th, Kylee Takanishi `20 9th, and Kara Ushijima `10 10th. `Iolani runners ran strong in all the other division as well.

Girls Volleyball at the Durango Fall ClassicA er defea ng Punahou, 25-15, 33-31, in a memorable televised match on Tuesday night, our girls varsity volleyball team took a break from ILH ac on and went to Las Vegas to par cipate in the pres gious Durango Fall Classic, which featured 64 of the best teams in the country.


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Our Raiders will return to league ac on on Sept. 26 with a match at Maryknoll, which will begin the ILH second round (best-of-five matches).

All the best in health and happiness,Tim


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--Timothy R. Cottrell, PhDHead of School'Iolani School(m) 808-222-2027

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