ArtStart 2007 was held in the Upper School on Wednesday, October 31, and Thursday, November 1. It began with an assembly with performances by jugglers "Jugglenutz" and guitarist Chris Hough. Then students, faculty and staff moved to one of 22 different artistic endeavors which ranged from painting, dancing, music and claymation to masks, wire sculpture, comedy and African drumming, all taught by artists from the Salt Lake area.

 

The purpose of ArtStart is to give everyone the opportunity to try something new in the arts, whether it is printmaking, art boxes, African dance, photography, stained glass or learning to juggle or play guitar. This year's ArtStart featured some Halloween activities, including making a clay mask and painting Halloween art. The two days closed with performances by the dance, music, comedy and juggling classes, and the showing of the videos made by the filmmaking classes.

 

ArtStart is organized by Kathy Wight, with a lot of help from Susan Beck, Lauren Carpenter,

Camela Giraud, Sofia Gorder, Linda Hampton, Peter Hayes, Elizabeth Howard, Gary Lindemann, Ben Smith, and Marie-Michel Tasse.

 

As artificial snow begins to coat the store front windows, we are acutely aware that the holiday season is upon us. Delightful as this time of year can be, we like to begin with a pause of Thanksgiving. We are so grateful to our many volunteers who have gotten the school year off to such a great start. At this point we would like to thank our Chairs whose committees have been active from August thru November. Many other Chairs and Committees will be doing their work later in the year.  Numerous new families received special welcomes from the Outreach committees. Back to School Nights were enjoyed by both faculty and parents and thanks to our wonderful Hospitality/Hello Day chairs who also welcomed students and parents back to school with bagels and donuts on their first days. 
 
Parents had another opportunity to socialize thanks to the efforts of our Grade Reps/Room Reps and the generous contribution of time and place by our Hosts of the parent socials. The libraries on both campuses reaped the benefits of successful Book Fairs thanks to the long hard hours of work by the chairs and their committees as well as the many supporters. While the parents and students were perusing books between conferences, the faculty was treated to specially prepared meals by our Faculty Appreciation/Faculty Dinner chairs.
 
We are especially grateful to be working with such competent and dedicated women on our Executive Committees who give so willingly of their time, effort and expertise on an ongoing basis and finally we are grateful as well to the Administration and Faculty for their continued support of our parent body at these events and our home and school meetings. If you haven't already marked your calendar for upcoming meetings, now is the time to do so. We have great speakers lined up for the monthly meetings (see our website for listings). We are especially pleased to announce that we will be having a special issues meeting on Tuesday, February 12, at 7:00 p.m. from the Utah Moms' for Clean Air. This promises to be a timely and informative meeting.
 
Thank you for sharing your time and thoughtfulness making RHSM Home and School meaningful. May this holiday season be one of peace, joy and thoughtfulness for you and yours.
 
Sincerely,
Leslie and AnnMarie

 

 

The 8th grade girls volleyball team came together this season and proved what teamwork is all about. They worked hard, supported one another, and always had great attitudes. On many occasions, coaches from opposing teams approached me after a game to tell me how impressed they were with our girls' sportsmanship and positive attitudes on and off the court. Even at the game when only five girls were able and ready to play, not a single player ever lost her spirit. Everyone on the team came out to have fun and always played their best until the very end. Our passing, awareness of the court, and most definitely our cheering, improved a lot this season and every single player has something to be proud of. We greatly appreciated the involvement and support from all of the parents and friends who came to watch. It builds confidence and pride to have support from the crowd and we hope that in the future even more fans come out to cheer on our Lady Winged Lions!

*Thank you to all of the 7th graders who played up! A-team was short on players and all of you who stayed and helped us out came out energetic and ready to play!