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<br /> and<br /> COOPERNEWS<br /> VOLUME 21 / SUMMER 2019<br /> 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION<br /> From Curiosity to Wisdom<br /> COOPER NEWS<br /> Volume 21 • Summer 2019<br /> Cooper News is committed to supporting<br /> the mission of The John Cooper School:<br /> To provide a challenging education in a<br /> caring environment to a diverse group<br /> of select students, enabling them to<br /> become critical and creative thinkers,<br /> effective communicators, responsible<br /> citizens and leaders, and lifetime learners.<br /> Michael F. Maher, Head of School<br /> 2019-20 BOARD OF TRUSTEES<br /> Gerald Glenn – Chair<br /> Beth Griffith – Vice Chair<br /> Cola Pate – Secretary<br /> Brian Petrauskas – Treasurer<br /> Yvette Aquino<br /> Becky Bayless<br /> Stacey Bourque<br /> Bryan Brown<br /> Lindsey Cooksen<br /> Johnna Edone<br /> Mike Minarovic<br /> Rod Pitts<br /> Carlos Ramirez<br /> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=1"> and COOPERNEWS VOLUME 21 / SUMMER 2019 30TH ANN</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=2"> COOPER NEWS Volume 21 • Summer 2019 Cooper News </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=3"> Jason Fochtman/©Houston Chronicle. Used with perm</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=4"> Current and former administrators and trustees </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=5"> RECEPTION FILLED WITH MEMORIES, UPDATES, LAUGHTER</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=6"> From Curiosity to An explanation of the school’s </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=7"> Wisdom Cooper News asked division heads and admin</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=8"> 8</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=9"> JOHN COOPER DAY 2019 Your journey of a thousand m</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=10"> Dragon fact Alumni parent Merry Martin Wise wrot</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=11"> A REFLECTION OF MR. COOPER’S IMPACT O</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=12"> Celebrations The very first groundbreaking ceremo</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=13"> Beam Signings... </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=14"> TRUSTEES Insights from Board Chairs - Past, Prese</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=15"> YVETTE AQUINO Board Chair: 2005-2012 • Board </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=16"> PUGH FIELD </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=17"> FIELD FAMILY DIAMOND AT FINNIE PARK ROCK MAT</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=18"> and Enrollment, Facility Growth A Constant on Ca</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=19"> PATE TRACK/PUGH FIELD </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=20"> Advancement ANNIVERSARY GALA WAS OUT OF THIS WORL</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=21"> ANNUAL FUND 101 Thanks to the generosity </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=22"> STUDENTS BENEFIT FROM </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=23"> 2nd Grade Playdate </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=24"> CONNECTIONS Networking Platform Gets a Facelift, </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=25"> ALUMS REMEMBER THE EARLY YEARS When I asked Jasar</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=26"> “Everybody needs someone beside ‘em shining like </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=27"> PARENTS’ FORUM From 2019-20 Co-Presidents Chariss</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=28"> SENIOR TEA Seniors, parents, faculty and adminis</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=29"> FALL FAMILY FESTIVAL 29</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=30"> ADVICE FOR INCOMING PRESIDENT Be open to ideas fo</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=31"> FINE ARTS COUNCIL From 2018-19 Co-Presidents Mali</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=32"> Parents C N CELEBRATING THE ARTS OPER S O C H</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=33"> PARENTS CREATE INFORMATIVE, INTERACTIVE BLACK HIS</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=34"> INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Parents Assist With Focus </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=35"> INTERNATIONAL PARADE Dragon fact The first Inter</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=36"> Building a community Habitat Project Completes 20</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=37"> 2019 DEDICATION Cooper students, faculty, admin</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=38"> CHANGING LIVES SINCE 1999 Habi</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=39"> Outreach and The Cooper community has fulfilled </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=40"> EMPTY BOWLS 14th Annual Event Brings Total Donati</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=41"> Curiosity to Wisdom is reflected in the Department</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=42"> WELCOME BACK Coach Wilson Returns To Lead Cooper’</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=43"> WHO’S IN THAT DRACO COSTUME? Samantha-Anne Horwit</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=44"> thletics GETTING TO KNOW... Coach Erik DeHaven </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=45"> Cooper’s first home football game was played by a </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=46"> ATHLETIC AWARDS EVENING thletics Inaugural Iron</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=47"> ATHLETES OF THE YEAR Athletes of the Year are ch</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=48"> athlete spotlight EVAN MINAROVIC </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=49"> JARED RAMIREZ Boys’ Tennis Junior | Doubles Best</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=50"> We’ve got that dragon spirit SCHOLAR-ATHLETES </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=51"> THE EARLY YEARS Lower School Field Day Has Histor</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=52"> Creative Thinkers The work of student artists ar</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=53"> From Curiosity to Wisdom A REFLECTION </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 54" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=54"> WELCOME Jon Schroeder Returns to First Passion in</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 55" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=55"> BRAVO! Band, choir and visual arts students compe</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 56" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=56"> FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 1 FOUNDING ARTIST-I</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 57" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=57"> APRIL 5 - 6 </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 58" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=58"> FIFTH GRADERS STUDY WORK OF ‘THE BARD’ THEN PERFO</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 59" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=59"> Audience members stepped back 30 years through vi</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 60" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=60"> Recognitions FIFTH GRADE From Curiosity to Wis</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 61" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=61"> Lifelong Learning Is An Active Endeavor EIGHTH GR</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 62" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=62"> A CASE FOR CURIOSITY IN THE PURSUIT OF WISDOM </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 63" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=63"> COOPER CHAPTER OF CUM LAUDE SOCIETY INDUCTS SENIO</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 64" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=64"> Senior Awards CLASS OF 2019 HONORED AT ANNUAL FOR</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 65" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=65"> Head of School Award </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 66" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=66"> GRADUATES RECOGNIZED FOR 13 YEARS AS COOPER DRAGO</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 67" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=67"> Congratulations TO THE CLASS OF 2019 Lisa Alexand</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 68" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=68"> Commencement Commencement for the 112 members of </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 69" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=69"> Invocation Valedictorian </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 70" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=70"> REMEMBERING PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH Geo</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 71" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=71"> Senior Walk Channel 13 news reporter Mela-</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 72" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=72"> EfTA Facilitating Connections Between </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 73" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=73"> COOPER HOSTS STUDENTS FROM KIPP: 3D ACADEMY AT 2N</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 74" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=74"> SHARING EXPERTISE Faculty Spend Time Facilitating</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 75" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=75"> Cooper Pioneers from the Class of 2006 Childr</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 76" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=76"> Coming Up Bring your Dragon Spirit! Mark your f</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 77" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=77"> HELP RAISE FUNDS FOR BREAST CANCER RESEARCH W</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 78" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=78"> DECEMBER 6, 2019 SIGNATURES COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES </a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 79" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=79"> 2015 GOLF COMMITTEE and SA VE THE DATE 32</a> <a title="Cooper News: Summer 2019 page 80" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ed3dbfaa?page=80"> NON-PROFIT ORG U.S. POSTAGE PAID N. HOUSTON T</a>