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Posted 05/07/2013 11:23AM
Posted 05/17/2013 07:42AM The Southwest Preparatory championships were last week in the greater Houston area with the golf championships taking place on April 29 and 30 and the baseball, softball, tennis and track & field championships on May 3 and 4.
The TVS softball team finished 4th overall beating San Antonio St. Mary’s Hall in the first round of the tournament. We went into the tournament undefeated in SPC North Zone completion and ended the tournament as the highest-finishing team from the North Zone.
The boys’ track & field team finished 5th overall. During the meet, our boys won the 4 x 800M relay, finished second in the 4 x 400M relay, placed in the 800M with Jason Cline in 2nd, Austin Brown 4th and Johan Cheah 5th and 1600M by Michael Johns 7th. The girls’ team scored points in the triple jump by Ellen Jacobs 2nd, 100M hurdles by Andie Mace 5th, and the high jump by Lili Williamson 6th.
The TVS 4 x 800M relay team consisting of Johan Cheah, Trevor Berkowitz, Austin Brown, and Jason Cline is ranked 10th in the state of Texas and is ranked 37th national of all 4 x 800 meter HS relay teams.
The baseball team finished 8th overall after a valiant effort in round one against eventual tournament winner Episcopal High School (Bellaire) losing 2-1 on their home field.
Girls’ golf finished 8th overall with a two-day team score of 552 (272, 280) or an average round score of 92. Boys’ golf recorded a score of 692 (336, 356) or an average round score of 86.5.
Girls’ tennis finished 4th in Division II beating Episcoal High School (Bellaire) in the first round. Boys’ tennis finished 6th in Division II with a win over All Saints’ in round two of the tournament.
All in all, our teams represented TVS well, fought hard, and should be proud of their team accomplishments this season.
Timothy A. Jones, CAA
Director of Athletics
Posted 05/17/2013 07:33AM Congratulations to all 14 eighth-grade students who performed their Shakespeare monologue with their peers and the seventh-grade class.
The audience was captivated as they rose one by one to portray some of the greatest characters ever imagined. They were adjudicated by Dr. Don Carlson, Jule Nelson-Duac, Jeff Dolan, and Andy Shook, our 2011 winner of the Fort Worth citywide competition.
Winners were: Third Place, Martha Sudderth (Henry IV, Part Two), Second Place, Lara Turan (A Midsummer Night's Dream), and the First Place Prize went to Will Pickell (Richard II).
The contestants were:
Matthew Bayne
Kent Breedlove
Aursheen Eelani
Emily Ekleberry
Ted Herman
Samantha Jancosek
Isabella Mishaan
Anna Morris
Nicholas Parkinson
Will Pickell
Heather Rodenberg
Martha Sudderth
Lara Turan
Ashia White
Posted 05/17/2013 07:31AM On Wednesday, May 15, the sixth-grade students held their inaugural Global Issues Fair on the second floor of the middle school building. Their projects covered a wide range of topics from poverty in India to overfishing in Australia. Most groups had the opportunity to discuss their research and finished product with a member of the faculty. In attendance were upper school teachers Sean Kenny, Kory Robertson, and Luke Jacob, middle school teachers Elise Cargill and Tina Harper, and the Director of Global Initiatives, Michael Roemer. Thank you to Jared Knight for providing a wonderful lesson!
Sixth-grade student John Bacon discusses his research on overfishing in Australia.
Mae Herrera and Maya Alarcón present on illegal ivory trading in Africa.
Posted 05/15/2013 11:00AM Wednesday, May 15 through Sunday, May 19 at the Barnes & Noble on Hulen
The Barnes & Noble on Hulen will have all the summer reading books in stock, and the librarians will be on hand on Wednesday, May 15 from 3:30 to 6:00, with plenty of suggestions for books to enchant readers of all ages!
A percentage of sales made using the TVS book fair number #11104908 will be donated back to TVS. (There are a few exclusions but just about everything counts!)
Online dates (use bookfair #11104908 at check out) May 15 – 24
In-store dates (any Barnes & Noble, anywhere!) May 15-19
For more information, contact Kirsten Murphy in the Lower School Library or Maggie Knapp in the Middle School/Upper School Library.
Click here to download the flyer.
Posted 05/13/2013 08:44AM
Posted 05/09/2013 11:00AM The Southwest Preparatory championships were last week in the greater Houston area with the golf championships taking place on April 29 and 30 and the baseball, softball, tennis and track & field championships on May 3 and 4.
The TVS softball team finished 4th overall beating San Antonio St. Mary’s Hall in the first round of the tournament. We went into the tournament undefeated in SPC North Zone completion and ended the tournament as the highest-finishing team from the North Zone.
The boys’ track & field team finished 5th overall. During the meet, our boys won the 4 x 800M relay, finished second in the 4 x 400M relay, placed in the 800M with Jason Cline in 2nd, Austin Brown 4th and Johan Cheah 5th and 1600M by Michael Johns 7th. The girls’ team scored points in the triple jump by Ellen Jacobs 2nd, 100M hurdles by Andie Mace 5th, and the high jump by Lili Williamson 6th.
The TVS 4 x 800M relay team consisting of Johan Cheah, Trevor Berkowitz, Austin Brown, and Jason Cline is ranked 10th in the state of Texas and is ranked 37th national of all 4 x 800 meter HS relay teams.
The baseball team finished 8th overall after a valiant effort in round one against eventual tournament winner Episcopal High School (Bellaire) losing 2-1 on their home field.
Girls’ golf finished 8th overall with a two-day team score of 552 (272, 280) or an average round score of 92. Boys’ golf recorded a score of 692 (336, 356) or an average round score of 86.5.
Girls’ tennis finished 4th in Division II beating Episcoal High School (Bellaire) in the first round. Boys’ tennis finished 6th in Division II with a win over All Saints’ in round two of the tournament.
All in all, our teams represented TVS well, fought hard, and should be proud of their team accomplishments this season.
Timothy A. Jones, CAA
Director of Athletics
Posted 05/07/2013 11:39AM 
Lucy Gamades with her award from the Circle Theatre High School Playwriting project. Of the 87 scripts submitted this year, Lucy’s was one of seven that were recognized at the awards event on Sunday, April 28.
TVS Upper Schoolers Arianna Payson, Anna Sudderth, Faith Franzwa, and Maggie Jorgenson represented TVS at the annual Poetry Society of Texas Student Awards banquet on Saturday, April 27.
Posted 05/07/2013 11:34AM 
An Evening of Middle School Fine Arts is a celebration of our fifth- and sixth-grade students and their embracement of art, music, and drama. When you arrive, you will see selections of artwork created specifically from 5th and 6th grade. When you enter the SST, you will hear beautiful music and be amused by the acting talents of our youngest middle schoolers.
Thursday, May 9 & Friday, May 10 in the SST @ 7:00 p.m.
The 5th-grade marimbas start Thursday at 7:00, and Tales from the Phantom Tollbooth begins at 7:45.
The 6th-grade marimbas start Friday at 7:00, and Tales from the Phantom Tollbooth begins at 7:45.
This event is free to the public.
Posted 05/07/2013 11:26AM Click here to see all of the photos.
US Naval Academy Appointment of Mabry Jackson - given by Lieutenant Colonel Clyde Deloach USMC (Ret.)
The John Graves Award - Faith Padgett
Texas Private School Music Educators Association All-State Solo & Ensemble Contest - Kate Kowalski
The Acting Award - Mark McKee
Music/Louise Canafax Award - Kelley Norman
The Visual Arts Award - Will Taylor
The Fine Arts Award - Whitney Roten
The Technical Theater Award - Chris Norville and Kati Story
The Betty Lynn Buckley Awards
Excellence in Choreography - Whitney Roten, Natalie McGartland and Kelley Norman
Best Male Actor - Mark McKee and Charlie Ray
Lighting and Set Design - Chris Norville
The Van Hamersveld Writing Award - Maddie McClung
The Mathematics Award - William Jones
Honor Student in History Award - Michael Johns
World Language Awards
Spanish Award - William Jones
French Award - Lizzie Shults
Latin Award - William Jones
School Service Awards
Mary Faith Banken
Nora Bismar
Thomas Blas
Austin Brown
Erin Bundock
Kenda Chaker
Kylie Cowden
Shelby Donovan
Erin Esterlein
Daniel Fauber
Grace Hanley
Sophie Hoch
Colleen Houston
William Jones
Katie McCallum
Maddie McClung
Kenneth McIntyre
Mark McKee
Hannah Morrow
Kelley Norman
Chris Norville
Alyson Perkins
Catherine Reynolds
Whitney Roten
Jane Morgan Scott
Lizzie Shults
Kati Story
Kayla Vanhoose
Catherine Viola
Student Council President's Award - Austin Brown
Posted 05/02/2013 03:28PM Find the Spring issue of the Trojan VOICE here:
Posted 05/01/2013 11:00AM 
Earlier this month, Nora Bismar, Idan Ghelber, and Molly Holden traveled to the Dallas Arboretum to attend a lecture given by Boyd Matson, host of the weekly radio show, "National Geographic Weekend." Mr. Matson is a DFW native. His nephew is a TVS graduate and niece Katie is a sophomore. After graduting from college, he spent several years as a reporter, co-anchor, and correspondent for local and then national network television news. Prior to his current duties, Matson hosted the National Geographic Television-produced public TV series Wild Chronicles. He was also the longtime host of the award-winning series National Geographic Explorer. His talk, entitled: "It's Not an Adventure Until Something Goes Wrong," was both eye-opening and highly entertaining.
Posted 05/01/2013 11:00AM The Poetry Society of Texas always announces its 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-place awards a few weeks before the 4th- and 5th-place awards (because of the timing of invites to the awards ceremony).
In addition to TVS’s 31 top-3 finishes (of which we were notified a while back), we have been notified of an additional 17, 4th- and 5th-place awards. They are as follows:
Grade 9
Ali Thorburn, one 4th place and one 5th place
Grade 10
Morgan Inman, one 4th place
Julianna Keller, two 4th places
Katie Orr, one 5th place
Zara Parkinson, two 5th places
Grade 11
Kate Kowalski, one 5th place
Faith Padgett, two 4th places
Arianna Payson, three 4th places and one 5th place
Grade 12
Caity Benzenhoefer, one 5th place
Shweta Sahu, one 4th place
Congratulations to all!
Posted 04/27/2013 11:00AM Texas Christian University
April 27, 2013
After advancing from the PSIA District Meet in March, these students represented TVS well at the state level: Alex David, Harris To, Shruti Sahu, James Stupfel, Martha Sudderth, Raj Baweja, and Kishan Kalaria.
In the Maps, Graphs, and Charts contest, Kishan Kalaria earned first place and Raj Baweja earned third place. In the Number Sense contest, Raj Baweja earned second place. In the Spelling contest, Harris To earned fourth place.
TVS is very proud of Kishan, Raj, Harris, and of all our students who participated in PSIA this year!
Posted 04/25/2013 01:09PM Come see TVS Dance perform Timeless.
Posted 04/25/2013 07:00AM TVS sophomore Julianna Keller won third place in the Manningham Awards for 2013! This is the national version of the Poetry Society of Texas contests. Congratulations on your success!
Posted 04/19/2013 09:37AM
Posted 04/19/2013 07:00AM On Friday, April 19, 2013, Calum A., Pooja M., and Courtney O. attended the College of Science and Engineering Student Research Symposium at TCU. The three students spent the afternoon talking to honors undergraduate and graduate students about research on the following topics: Therapy Kinection: Kinect Assisted Physical Therapy, Development of a first-principles model to predict the flight path of a thrown baseball, Solar Power Conversion, The Digital Classroom: Teaching the Bohr Model at the Middle School Level through an iPad Application, and Measuring Fundamental Parameters of Star Clusters. The event gave TVS students the opportunity to identify connections with what they are doing in class to the actual research of TCU students. Students who attended the afternoon were already wanting to bring more TVS students to the event in 2014. A special thank you goes to Dr. Magnus Rittby for inviting members of the TVS community.
Posted 04/16/2013 06:21PM The TVS Upper School Fine Arts Reception is Friday April 19 from 5-9 p.m. at Artspace 111 featuring the work of Kylie Cowden, Reuben Joseph, Hannah Morrow, Chris Norville, Whitney Roten, Will Taylor, Kayla Vanhoose, Madelon Allen, Brianna Douglas, Annie Jones, Alex Lakota, Chaza Makki, and Hana Smith. TVS A Cappella performance at 8:30 p.m. The show will be up from April 18 - 21st.
Posted 04/10/2013 01:26PM The Betty Lynn Buckley Award Nominations (given for excellence in high school musical theatre in North Texas) were announced today by Casa Mañana Theatre. Trinity Valley School received five nominations this year for their production of Curtains which ran November 1-4, 2012. The nominations received by TVS are:
Best Musical
Best Male Actor - Mark McKee
Best Male Actor - Charlie Ray
Excellence in Student Choreography - Whitney Roten, Natalie McGartland, Kelley Norman
Excellence in Student Lighting Design - Chris Norville
Because TVS received a nomination for Best Musical, TVS students will perform the number “Show People” from Curtains at the award ceremony to be held Thursday, May 23 at 7:00 p.m. at Casa Mañana in Fort Worth.
Posted 04/09/2013 09:35AM This week our Middle School Debate Club participated in our final debate for the year with Oakridge. Seventh and eighth graders from both schools argued the resolution: Big box stores are a benefit to the community. After a spirited exchange, the affirmative team, TVS, was deemed the winner of the debate based on the quality of evidence presented. If you see the following students, be sure to offer your congratulations:
Allison Byrd
Kerry Mackenzie
Joey Cascino
Alice Opiyo
Uma Tiwari
Isabella Mishaan
Lara Turan
Posted 04/09/2013 09:23AM Luke Jacobs reports on POETRY at TVS:
The biggest news is that this year's results for the Poetry Society of Texas Student Contests came in this past week.
The crazy thing is that, of 93 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places awarded in the state, 30 of them are going to a total of 12 writers from TVS. Here are our winners:
Grade 9:
Faith Franzwa, one third place
Grade 10:
Samsara Counts, two second places
Julianna Keller, one second place and two third places
Courtney Owen, one first place
Zara Parkinson, one second place
Neha Sharma, one second place
Anna Sudderth, six first places, one second place, and two third places
Grade 11:
Maggie Jorgenson, one first place
Kate Kowalski, one third place
Faith Padgett, two second places
Arianna Payson, two second places and three third places
Grade 12:
Shweta Sahu, one first place and two third places
In addition, each year the state of Texas is invited to send 10 poems to the national Manningham Awards from state poetry societies; this year, six of the ten (!) will come from TVS. CONGRATULATIONS!
Posted 04/09/2013 09:19AM Coach and COWBOY AARON MATTOX, looking very much the part, took the prize for staying on the longest. TVS wins the bigger prize with each of their contributions, not only at special events, but daily.
A TEXAS-size thank you to all who made this possible, especially auction chairs Ashley Crisp and Sherry Brown and their dedicated families!
Posted 04/09/2013 09:14AM CONGRATULATIONS! The debate team competed at the National Forensic League District tournament this past weekend. Parth Kalaria topped the competition and qualified in LD Debate for the National Tournament, to be held this summer in Birmingham, Alabama.
Lincoln–Douglas debate (commonly abbreviated as LD Debate, or simply LD) is sometimes also called values debate because it traditionally places a heavy emphasis on logic, ethical values, and philosophy. The vast majority of tournaments use the current NFL resolution. The Lincoln–Douglas Debate format is named for the 1858 Lincoln–Douglas Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, because their debates focused on slavery and the morals, values, and logic behind it.
Posted 03/20/2013 04:34PM 
The TVS Players wrestle with the weighty and controversial issue of the death penalty in their current production of Dead Man Walking by Tim Robbins. Performances are this weekend, March 21, 22, and 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the TVS Black Box Theater. A Sunday matinee scheduled for 3:00 p.m. on March 24. There are 30 TVS Upper School students in the cast and more than 10 others working on the crew. Tickets are free but seating is limited so reservations are recommended. They can be made by sending an email to drama@trinityvalleyschool.org.
The play is based on a book of the same title written by Sr. Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun who befriended a death row inmate and ministered to him as he approached his execution date. In the process her eyes were opened not only to the complicated laws that make up our judicial system, but also to the pain and suffering experienced by the families of both the victims and the criminals. It is a powerful piece of drama that explores the issues of forgiveness, justice, redemption, and faith, ultimately raising more questions than it answers.
The show is recommended for ages 13 and up as it contains strong language and mature subject matter. This production of the play is its Fort Worth premiere and it is being produced by special arrangement with The Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project.
The book Dead Man Walking was also made into and opera and an Oscar-winning film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn.
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