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<br /> - Eleanor Roosevelt<br /> VOLUME 17 SUMMER 2016<br /> COOPER NEWS<br /> COOPER NEWS<br /> Volume 17 • Summer 2016<br /> Cooper News is committed to<br /> supporting the mission of The John<br /> Cooper School: To provide a challenging<br /> education in a caring environment to<br /> a diverse group of select students,<br /> enabling them to become creative<br /> thinkers, responsible citizens and leaders<br /> and lifelong learners.<br /> Michael F. Maher, Head of School<br /> 2016-17 BOARD OF TRUSTEES<br /> David Dunlap – Chair<br /> Gerald M. Glenn – Vice-Chair<br /> Johnna Edone – Secretary<br /> Brian Petrauskas – Treasurer<br /> Yvette C. Aquino<br /> Sanette Austin<br /> Richard L. Avant<br /> Becky Bayless<br /> Stacey Bourque<br /> Bryan Brown<br /> David I. Ch<a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=1"> - Eleanor Roosevelt VOLUME 17 </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=2"> COOPER NEWS Volume 17 • Summer 2016 </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=3"> Teresa Robson, who has moved into the pos</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=4"> Teresa Robson (Continued from Page 3) later becom</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=5"> Consider Yourself Invited OPEN THE DOORS TO THE R</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=6"> NOT-SO-LAZY Days of Summer INTERNSHIPS OFFER REAL</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=7"> TWO COOPER STUDENTS AWARDED CONGRESSIONAL AWARD G</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=8"> THREE EXPLORE GOVERNMENT PROCESS AT BOYS STATE E</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=9"> ACADEMICS Experiential Learning COLLABORATION F</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=10"> Experienti Learning EDITOR’S NOTE: Middle and Up</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=11"> WASHINGTON, DC trip is during </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=12"> EXPERIENCING PHYSICS Physics teacher Louis Ashwor</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=13"> Thanks to professional development funding, Coope</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=14"> PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CRITICAL THINKING Upper</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=15"> Accolades CELEBRATIONS! In mid-May, Middle Scho</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=16"> Young Leader Awarded For Exceptional Service to J</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=17"> With gratitude PARENTS HELPING HANDS Weekl</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=18"> GET INVOLVED Rest up this summer, and in Aug</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=19"> BOOK FAIRS Enable Library Enhancements, Visiting </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=20"> Middle/Upper School Book Fair Faculty </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=21"> SHARING EXPERTISE Parent Offers Basics to Interes</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=22"> FINE ARTS COUNCIL Challenge Sparks Creativity for</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=23"> FINE ARTS FESTIVAL APRIL 16, 2016 (Continued from</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=24"> BOOSTER BASH 2016 DRAGON BOOSTER CLUB DBC KICKS </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=25"> SPC Championships Spring Competition Continues </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=26"> 2016 ATHLETE SPOTLIGHT spring BEN WONG </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=27"> OBIE AMUDO GIRLS' TRACK & FIELD Sophomore • Tripl</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=28"> DRAGONS PLAY ON FOUR ATHLETES SIGN TO COMPETE AT </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=29"> Lower School Field Day </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=30"> REPRESENTING COOPER ATHLETIC BANQUET APPLAU</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=31"> THE JOHN COOPER SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AWARD The John</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=32"> SENIOR FINISHES IRONMAN AS YOUNGEST PARTICIPANT J</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=33"> ATHLETIC PROGRAMS Change is Inevitable, and This </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=34"> Wow! Thank you to the parents, alumni, A RECORD-</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=35"> Many thanks to the alums who worked with rising s</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=36"> And the WINNING BID Goes to… These Cooper student</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=37"> Lunch with the Author Librarian for a Day Conduct</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=38"> FINE ARTS </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=39"> FIVE COOPER The Pearl Fincher Mus</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=40"> 40</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=41"> Artists Awarded in Jr. VASE Middle School studen</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=42"> ALMOST, MAINE April 15-17, 2016 AL</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=43"> LITERARY MAGAZINE DEBUTS Editorial staff members </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=44"> LI F E ! DREAMING OF A SMALL STEP FOR MAN A</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=45"> NEW YORK, NEW YORK! MAY 21, 2016 Danc</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=46"> DIG PINK®Fundraising Efforts Rank #1 In Nation T</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=47"> Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than o</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=48"> CUM LAUDE SOCIETY Cooper Chapter Inducts Seniors,</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=49"> FIFTH GRADE RECOGNITION MAY 25, 2016 </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=50"> EIGHTH GRADE RECOGNITION "In the years to come, I</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=51"> CONGRATULATIONS to the class of </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=52"> SENIOR AWARDS Class of 2016 Honored at Annual For</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=53"> Citizenship Woodlands Development Award </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 54" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=54"> COMMENCEMENT2016 A Moving and Memorable Ceremony</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 55" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=55"> It is a Cooper tradition for board members to tak</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 56" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=56"> STILL KIDS AT HEART COOPER PIONEERS TAKE TIME OUT</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 57" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=57"> Mr. Bohan's 2016 Pioneers REMINISCING C</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 58" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=58"> 58 GET READY FOR 2016-2017! WELCOMING OUR NEW FA</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 59" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=59"> CAPTURING THE MOMENT Yearbook photos capture </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2016 page 60" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5d424823?page=60"> Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Spring,</a>