- Parent Input Needed: We would like to learn about Experiential Week from parents' perspectives. Please take a moment to reply to this email or email Karen Readey directly. We'd like to know if your son/daughter spoke to you about Experiential Week, whether you felt you received adequate information about the week and to hear your overall impression of Experiential Week; if you feel there's value in it. Thank you in advance for your feedback. We appreciate it!
- Guest Speaker: On Sunday, April 10, Gabriela Martinez, an Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, gave a well-received talk at Midland about her work. Originally from Cuzco, Peru, Gabriela has produced 14 films on different aspects of Andean and Latin American society. In her talk, she showed clips from two of her films and followed each with questions and answers with Midland students and faculty. The first film, Women, Media, and Rebellion in Oaxaca, documented a teachers strike that was violently repressed in southern Mexico and the response by local women, who took over a local TV station to educate the region and the country about what had really happened. The second film, Respire Guatemala, was about indoor pollution generated from cook fires found in peasant households in Guatemala and other areas of the developing world. Here, besides educating students about the dangers posed by indoor cooking in rural areas of Latin America, Gabriela demonstrated how a filmmaker can take scientific studies and turn them into a film. Her talk generated a number of questions and a lot of discussion and provided a stimulating bridge between break and the last term of the year.
- Midland Nature Channel - A family of Great Horned Owls have been admired by students and faculty alike this week. The chicks hatched a few days ago - 4 total - and Derek Harwell '88 set up a spotting scope to view them in their nest within the big Valley Oak behind the Metals Shop.
- Garden Update: The Spring Garden Crew has been preparing and planting 2000 strawberry plants - double the amount that was planted last year. The garden's cover crop is growing, and so are the pigs. Coulter and Lola continue to monitor the pigs, the first artichokes have appeared, the blood peach blossoms survived the frost, and the tractor is up and running!
- Santa Barbara Earth Day: Midland will have a booth at the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival Saturday and Sunday. Stop by the booth (Children's Enchanted Forest area) if you're able to and visit with Midland faculty members and students.
- Renewable Energy Update: Read Lise Goddard's renewable energy update about the sophomores' progress during Experiential Week, with slideshows.
- Alumni/ae, Parents and Friends Weekend: Midland's annual celebration with alums, parents and friends is April 30 - May 1. We hope to see you!
- Gathering for Parents: Parents are invited to a gathering at the McMurry home on Friday evening, April 29, before the Alumni/ae, Parents and Friends Weekend. View the invitation.
- Athletics:
Lacrosse - The Girls lost to Cate's JV team on Wednesday, 9-7. Tomorrow, Girls play Thacher at home at 4 PM, and Boys play at Laguna Blanca at 2 PM.
See Midland's sports section online for the Lacrosse schedules and updated photographs.
- Helpful Contact Information:
Upper Yard: 805-688-6075 (Boys)
Lower Yard: 805-686-1847 and 805-688-7435 (Girls)
Lapmaster Phone: 805-284-8089
All faculty email addresses are:first initial of first name followed by last name @midland-school.org
Example: wlong@midland-school.org - TO REQUEST A PHOTO: If you would like the original digital file of any photo, please email Karen Readey.
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