O'Neal Quarterly Winter 2015
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The O’Neal Quarterly WINTER 2015 • O’Neal wins the Moore County Literacy Council’s Annual Spelling Bee. • O’Neal Upper School Science Olympiad team debuts in regional competition at Campbell University. • Ten Middle School French students visit O’Neal for two weeks and stay with host families. • Twenty-one 7th and 8th grade stu- dents are inducted into the Jr. Beta Society. • North Carolina Reading Association Young Author’s Writing Competi- tion winners consist of 34 students from Moore County with 12 of those representing O’Neal. • O’Neal Varsity Swimming repeats a conference championship for both boys and girls, yet in the new East- ern Plains Independent Conference. • O’Neal hosts its annual Informa- tion Session and Tours for inquiring families. • O’Neal senior, Sierra Hawkins, is crowned 2015 Homecoming Queen. • Ten students from Nanfang High- school in the Hunan Province of China visit O’Neal for a week and are hosted by O’Neal families. • O’Neal hosts a reception for NCAIS Conference for Heads and Trustees. • The John Boyd VFW Post 7318 re- ceives 77 essays from three schools in the area for its annual Patriot’s Pen Writing Competition. Prize money is awarded to the top five essays. The winners are all O’Neal eighth grade students. O’Neal eighth grade English teacher, Kristie Wolferman is also honored as VFW teacher of the year. • Alumni return to O’Neal to partici- pate in the Varsity/Alumni Basket- ball Challenge. The mens and the ladies games are very close in points with lots of camaraderie. Retired coach Don Woodfield returns to coach the alumnae ladies. • Four Upper School students are inducted into the National Honor Society. • The Parents Association hosts a breakfast for O’Neal active military, veterans and their families prior to an all-school assembly in honor of Veterans Day. • Artist Jessie McKay gives a Tan- zanian Art Presentation to Middle School students and serves as a guest art teacher for the Middle School. • The One-Act Play theatre program called “Hamlette” receives the highest rating of “Superior” for the overall production as well as excel- lence in stage props at the 2014 North Carolina Theatre Conference (NCTC) High School Play Festival. • Eleven Upper School students compete in The Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP) Math Competition and rank as “Successful Participant” and “Honorable Mention”. More than 300 teams compete around the world. • The 82nd Airborne All-American Chorus performs for students.
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The O’Neal Quarterly WINTER 2015
• O’NealwinstheMooreCountyLiteracyCouncil’sAnnualSpellingBee.
• O’NealUpperSchoolScienceOlympiadteamdebutsinregionalcompetitionatCampbellUniversity.
• TenMiddleSchoolFrenchstudentsvisitO’Nealfortwoweeksandstaywithhostfamilies.
• Twenty-one7thand8thgradestu-dentsareinductedintotheJr.BetaSociety.
• NorthCarolinaReadingAssociationYoungAuthor’sWritingCompeti-tionwinnersconsistof34studentsfromMooreCountywith12ofthoserepresentingO’Neal.
• O’NealVarsitySwimmingrepeatsaconferencechampionshipforbothboysandgirls,yetinthenewEast-ernPlainsIndependentConference.
• O’NealhostsitsannualInforma-tionSessionandToursforinquiringfamilies.
• O’Nealsenior,SierraHawkins,iscrowned2015HomecomingQueen.
• TenstudentsfromNanfangHigh-schoolintheHunanProvinceofChinavisitO’NealforaweekandarehostedbyO’Nealfamilies.
• O’NealhostsareceptionforNCAISConferenceforHeadsandTrustees.
• TheJohnBoydVFWPost7318re-ceives77essaysfromthreeschoolsintheareaforitsannualPatriot’sPenWritingCompetition.Prizemoneyisawardedtothetopfiveessays.ThewinnersareallO’Nealeighthgradestudents.O’NealeighthgradeEnglishteacher,KristieWolfermanisalsohonoredasVFWteacheroftheyear.
• AlumnireturntoO’Nealtopartici-pateintheVarsity/AlumniBasket-ballChallenge.Themensandtheladiesgamesareverycloseinpointswithlotsofcamaraderie.RetiredcoachDonWoodfieldreturnstocoachthealumnaeladies.
• FourUpperSchoolstudentsareinductedintotheNationalHonorSociety.
• TheParentsAssociationhostsabreakfastforO’Nealactivemilitary,veteransandtheirfamiliespriortoanall-schoolassemblyinhonorofVeteransDay.
• ArtistJessieMcKaygivesaTan-zanianArtPresentationtoMiddleSchoolstudentsandservesasaguestartteacherfortheMiddleSchool.
• TheOne-ActPlaytheatreprogramcalled“Hamlette”receivesthehighestratingof“Superior”fortheoverallproductionaswellasexcel-lenceinstagepropsatthe2014NorthCarolinaTheatreConference(NCTC)HighSchoolPlayFestival.
• ElevenUpperSchoolstudentscompeteinTheConsortiumforMathematicsandItsApplications(COMAP)MathCompetitionandrankas“SuccessfulParticipant”and“HonorableMention”.Morethan300teamscompetearoundtheworld.
• The82ndAirborneAll-AmericanChorusperformsforstudents.
On September 30, 2014, twenty-twodonors in O’Neal’s constituency
helped to eliminate the debt incurred bythe School after having constructed thelatest buildings on campus. The Land-mark Societywas created to specificallyidentifytheseindividualsandfoundations.TheLandmarkSocietymembersare:JeffandLyndaAcker,RobertandElaineBail-lie,TheStevenandSusanBaldelliFamilyCharitableTrust,StanandJeanBradshaw,F.FarrellCollins,Jr.M.D.,PaulandHeidiDent,WinandElizabethDozier,PaulFul-ton,TheGoldenPearlFoundation,DeniseandMichaelGutschmit,Chip andDawnHasty,Andy andMaryHendry, Lee andTerri Howell, Steve and Roberta King,StephenLater,BrianandKonniMcMur-ray,TheC.LouisMeyerFamilyFounda-tion,StuartMillsandHelenProbstMills,TheTawsFamily,DonandLaurieTrexler,andJimVanCamp.
Yearsofbrainstormingand research cul-minated into an official campus masterplanin1996.Itwasmadeupof3phases.Phase I and II transformed the campuswith a newUpperSchool –MeyerHall,anewadministrativebuilding–BradshawHall and the renovation of the existingMiddleSchool–TawsHall.PhaseIII,withitscapitalcampaign titled“Complete theVision”,providedthenewLowerSchool–McMurrayHall and activities center –HannahMarieBradshawActivitiesCen-ter, inaddition tocampus-wide improve-ments to technology, accessibility andsafety.Thoughtherewereafewrevisionsalongtheway,today’sfive-buildingcam-pusisthecompletedvisionofthatplan.
In appreciation, the students, faculty andBoardofTrusteesrecentlyheldarecogni-tion ceremony for theLandmarkSocietymembers. Head of School John Elmoreaddressedthoseattheceremonyandcon-cluded by saying, “We all need to rec-ognize that generosity and caring deeplyabout things that are important result inreal, positive outcomes. The LandmarkSociety believes in The O’Neal Schooland their extraordinary commitment hasallowed theSchool to fullycomplete thecampus plan for us, and for generationsto come, to fully utilize and appreciate.”Student representatives from each of thedivisionsaddressedthemembersinappre-ciationforwhatthey’vedone.
TrusteeandO’NealparentLyndaAckerde-signedandO’NealparentBartO’Connorbuilt a garden between Bradshaw Halland the Upper School to commemoratethe Landmark Society. Two plaques areplacedintheLandmarkGarden.Themes-sagereads:“TheBoardofTrusteesgrate-fullyacknowledgestheextraordinarygiftsof the following supporters. May theirleadership inspire the School and widercommunityforyearstocome.”Thenewgarden (picturedonpage1) servesasanoutdoorsittingareaforstudentstogather,studyorjusttoenjoytheoutdoorsandthebeautyofO’Neal’scampus.
AreceptionwasheldfortheLandmarkSo-cietyafter theeventwhereeachmemberwasgivenaframedprintoftheaerialviewofO’Neal’scampuswiththesignaturesoffaculty and staff in appreciation. ManythankstoO’NealparentBircheMeeseforphotographingthecampusfromthesky.
Honoring the Landmark Society
Oneofthebestaspectsofanindependentschool is the fact that students from
pre-k–grade12allsharethesamecampuswhereyoungerchildrenlookuptotheirolderpeers,olderstudentsrecognizethattheyarerole models, and adults have the privilegetoobservestudents’progressionovermanyyears.Severaltimesthroughouttheyearwecome together as an all-school communityandshareexperiencesliketheexcitementofthehomecomingpeprally.
Lastmonth,we came together to celebrateandtorecognizeanextraordinarymilestonein O’Neal’s more than 40 year history byofficially opening the Landmark Garden.Eachdivision selected aquotation tomarktheeventanditwasreadbyastudent.Thesequotationsdemonstratetheunityandconti-nuityofourschool.
Lower School: “Unless someone like youcaresawholelot,nothingisgoingtobebet-ter.It’snot.”—Dr.Seuss
Middle School: “The raising of extraor-dinarilylargesumsofmoney,givenvolun-tarily and freely bymillions of our fellowAmericans,isauniqueAmericantradition....Philanthropy,charity,givingvoluntarilyandfreely...callitwhatyoulike,butitistrulyajewelof anAmerican tradition.”—JohnF.Kennedy
UpperSchool:“Thefuturebelongstothosewhogivechildrenreasonforhope.”—PierreTheilarddeChardin
I quoted JacquelineNovogratz, founder oftheAcumenFund,whowrote:“Eachofuscanworktochangeasmallportionofevents.Andit’sinthetotalofallthoseactsthathis-tory…willbewritten.”Believinginsome-thingandbeingfullycommittedtoit,astheLandmarkSocietyhasbeentoO’Neal,isalesson everyone, from the youngest to theoldest,needstoconsider.
JohnC.ElmoreHeadofSchool
Photo by Delores Muller
New Directors Announced
Upcoming Events2/20 TheO’NealSchool’s44thAnnualAuction2/24 JV/VarsityWinterSportsRecognition2/25 TheO’NealTalentShow(MSandUS)2/28 AdmissionsTesting 3/1 RegistrationOpenforSummerCamps3/24 UpperSchoolScholarshipApplicationsDue
Arts Festival WinnersO’Nealstudentsplacedfirstinfourofthesevencategoriesoffered(inaddi-tiontoafewsecondandthirdplacepositions).Theeventexhibitsthebestartworkbyover225MooreCountystudentsingradesK-12frompublic,private,charterandhomeschools.Highschoolcategoriesinclude:Draw-ing,Painting,Photography,ComputerArt,MixedMedia,3D/SculptureandPrintmaking.TheartworkwasjudgedbyAnneBradleyRawson,grantsandspecialprojectdirector,fromtheArtsCouncilofFayetteville/CumberlandCounty.ThereisalsoawalldedicatedtootherO’Nealworksofartfromstudentsinyoungerdivisions.Toseethisexhibit,visitTheCampbellHousefrom9amto5pmuntilMarch9th.
The O’Neal School is pleasedto announce that the positions
for Upper School director and ath-letics director for the school year2015/2016 have been filled. WillRhemwillofficially joinO’NealasUpper School director on July 1st,whenRichardCataniaretiresafter5yearsof service to theSchool.Willis currently the English departmentchairandheadofteachingandlearn-ing at Kents Hill School inMaine.AHoustonnativewithtiestoNorthCarolina, he attendedWoffordCol-legemajoring in religionandSpan-ishandhealsoplayedsoccer. Willhas held a number of positions ineducation,includingservingwiththePeaceCorps inElSalvador aswellasteachingEnglishandSpanish.Hehasearnedadvanceddegreesfrom
Middlebury College and ColumbiaUniversity. O’Neal is looking for-ward to his leadership and to wel-comingWill, hiswifeAmanda andtwoyoungdaughters.
Also joining O’Neal as athletic di-rectoronJuly1stisJamesFranklin.James graduated cum laude fromChamplainCollege-attendingonafull scholarship forsoccer - withadegreeinpublicrelationsandmediacommunication. He also earned apost-graduate certification in sportsmanagement from University ofNorthLondon. James has coachedcollegiate soccer and tennis, andat each school, he held additionalrolesincludingdirectorofrecruiting,director of life skills, and athleticeventsmanager.Hehasalsoserved
asdirectorofcoachinganddirector of operations forextensive youth club soc-cer programs. James, hiswifeSandra, and twochil-drenalreadyresideinPine-hurst and look forward toengagingthemselvesintheO’Nealcommunity.
New Directors Announced
Will Rhem James Franklin
1st Place 3D/Sculpture“Rothenburg Cityscape”Jordan Wolfe, 10th grade
1st Place • Drawing • “Nellie Rose” Hannah Fitzgerald, 9th grade
1st Place • Printmaking • “Tuscan Vineyard” Jordan Wolfe, 10th grade
1st Place • Photography • “Blue Bucket” McKenzie Cooper, 12th grade
P.O. Box 290Southern Pines, NC 28388
This issue features The Landmark Garden.
The O’Neal Quarterly
Tobuildanythingrequirestheknowledgeofmath,butwhenO’NealparentDarganMoorereadanarticletitled“BuildingaSkifftoTeachMath”inhisbi-monthlysubscriptionof
WoodenBoat Magazine,hedecidedtoshareitwithhisoldestdaughterEmmawhothenpresentedittohermathteacher,WinFord.Intriguedbyitall,Mr.FordandEmmadecidedtotakeontheprojectofbuildingaBlevin’sSkiff,underthesupervisionofsomeonewhocouldprovidethetoolsaswellaswoodworking(andboating)skills–Emma’sfather.Duringthisproject,theabil-itytousearuleranddividemixednumbersbecomescomfortableasitisrepeatedalot.Theuseofratioswhenmixingepoxyorusingscaleddrawingscomesintoplay.The“riseoverrun”orslopeformulaisusedtocalculatetheplywoodscarfjointsofferingalittleintroductiontoalge-bra.Geometryishuge.Straight,perpendicular,andparallellinesarecommonplaceaswellasplanesandisoscelestriangles.Thefinishedproductisupforbidin“O’Neal’sOwn”segmentofO’Neal’s44thAnnualAuctiononFriday,February20that6pmatThePinehurstCountryClub.Gotowww.ONealSchool.orgformoreinformation.FormoreinformationonbuildingaBlevin’sSkiffgoto:www.woodenboat.comorwww.buildingtoteach.com.
See Math in a New Light: Build a Boat
