May 2019 – Page 2 – Clairbourn School News

May 31, 2019May 31, 2019

CFA Installation Luncheon

New CFA President, Stephanie Nava, the Executive Board, and the CFA Chairs were installed in their new 2019-2020 school year positions at a special luncheon held at the Rose Tea Garden in Pasadena. Outgoing CFA president Stephanie Chang presented a check to Head of School Dr. Amy Patzlaff for $137,000 worth of proceeds from CFA events which the school gratefully received. She then gave a moving speech summarizing the CFA’s accomplishments from the current school year and thanked all the parents who went above and beyond to decorate, serve lunches, plan events, and to make a million other things run on campus.

May 31, 2019May 31, 2019

Third Grade Pioneer Unit

Third grade students are studying the Oregon trail in their Pioneer Unit at Clairbourn. Thanks to first-hand accounts from journals kept by about 2,500 pioneers, they have been learning how a “dream for a better life” captivated half-a-million people to plunge into a journey filled with extreme hardships and sacrifice. This mass migration also resulted in serious and devastating effects to the Native American population and the physical environment. (The Oregon Trail was a journey of 1,932 miles that extended from Missouri to Oregon. The Federal Government opened up the state of Oregon for people to claim land, and over 500,000 people set out to stake a claim. 50,000 people died along the way from drowning, disease, animal attack, bullet wounds, and even starvation.)

May 21, 2019June 4, 2019

Clairbourn’s Graduating Class of 2019

Congratulations to Clairbourn’s Class of 2019. They will be attending high school at FSHA, Flintridge Prep, Gabrielino, Harvard-Westlake, LaSalle, Loyola, Maranatha, Mayfield, Polytechnic, Principia, San Marino, St. Francis, and Westridge. Way to go, Cougars!

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May 2, 2019May 2, 2019

Second-Graders Raise Funds for Door of Hope

Clairbourn students sort and count pocket change collected for the Door of Hope during their service learning project.

Clairbourn’s second grade class successfully completed their 20th consecutive service learning fundraiser for the Door of Hope homeless shelter for families in Pasadena. They presented a check for $1,137.67 to the Door of Hope Executive Director Megan Katerjian, on Friday April 26, 2019, at the school’s Morning Assembly.

Their presentation included highlights from their week of sorting, counting, and weighing the donated coins and bills which they collected from the Clairbourn. They found all kinds of entertaining donations, in addition to US coins. They found coins from Costa Rica, Mexico, Serbia, Hong Kong, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, and Slovakia. They also found flattened pennies, tokens for Disneyland, and even the bottom half of a broken key. Overall they counted and sorted $371.67 in coins and $766 in bills, all of which will be used by the Door of Hope to feed families in their care for a little over four months.