Salsa in the gym, Student U. in the gallery, Debate in Greensboro

The DA Salsa Club (sponsored by CSI) meets on Fridays during lunch. Each week thirty students join Bela Kussin in the Upper School Gym (45 students have signed up) sharing lunch, making new friends and learning Puerto Rican Style Salsa (ChaCha, Merengue and Danzon, too). A fun way to end the week. Gavin Walker serves as the Salsa Team Leader.

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Dan Kimberg wrote the following message to Ginger Young, who hosted the Student U. cohort at her Chapel Hill Gallery:

"Thank you for providing our students with an incredible experience this past weekend. They were so engaged in the art work and fascinated by all of the different ways to create a masterpiece. It was great walking around hearing students ask you questions as well as take the initiative to pick up various books around your house and start reading about art.

The students loved Clyde, especially Jared, a self proclaimed artist who seemed to be in awe of Clyde. I made sure Clyde and Jared had a couple of minutes to talk and Clyde provide Jared with some valuable life advice. Jared ran up to his mom when she came to pick him up and told her about the exciting encounter.

Thank you for welcoming us into your home and sharing your passion with our students and teachers."

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DA Debate Update: "Assistant Coach Todd Cobb took the team to NW Guilford HS last Saturday, and they had a great time. A lot of the competitors were new to the debate team -- we have more beginners on the team now than we have ever had. The new crop of public forum novices served notice on the competition, and DA took 2nd place in the small school sweepstakes competition! Worth Newman and Max Young-Jones took 1st in novice PF and were the only undefeated team. Leslie Ogden and Brooke Brown were close behind in 2nd, and David Fowler and Tristan Swedish completed the trophy haul by placing 5th. In other events, Josh Erb took 5th in varsity Linclon-Douglas, and Nathaniel Donahue took 6th in impromptu. Both Ale Tomasi and Ariel Katz were in the top six in original oratory, but the tournament limited awards to the top three. We have a tournament this weekend, again mostly for the newbies, and then we're done until January, a very important month for the varsity."