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9th grade departs for Arrow Week in Arizona

By Sydney Stone, Editor-in-Chief
March 13, 2015
7th graders hike through Armstrong Canyon on their 2014 Arrow Week. Photographer: Stefanie Daehler

The ninth grade departed from Los Angeles this morning on a flight to Tucson, Arizona for a backpacking trip with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) for Arrow Week. The students will be gone from March 13 to 20.

The freshmen will head to the NOLS Southwest branch for one night and then proceed to backpack in small groups about the Galiuro Mountain Range.

Six faculty chaperones are accompanying the students, including English teachers Jenn Babin and Virginia Wooten, history teacher Margaret Shirk, Head Librarian Stefanie Daehler, science teacher Jacob London and Upper School Director Samantha Coyne-Donnel.

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Sydney Stone
Sydney Stone, Editor-in-Chief
Syd Stone graduated in 2016. She became the Voices Editor and the Social Media Manager during the 2013-2014 school year and continued in that position in 2014-2015.  She served as the Co-Editor-In-Chief of the Oracle with Sarah Wagner during her senior year. She played cello in the Upper School Orchestra, was a member of the Honor Education Council and was the senior chair of the Ambassador Leadership Team. She attended the journalism institute for high school seniors at Northwestern University, where she went on to pursue a journalism major in college.