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At 3:20pm on March 23rd all of BHSEC was called to the auditorium for a special assembly. After several minutes of confusion, Principal Ray Peterson took the stage. In a brief but emotional speech, he announced his retirement from the school. Students were shocked; no one had expected the news. For many, it took days to process what they had heard.

As of April 20, 2010, BHSEC enforced a new rule regarding the use of the public field by the student body. Under the new regulations, BHSEC students would not be allowed to use the field at all while an outdoor gym class was in session.

On May 6th, the Asian Culture Club hosted BHSEC’s annual Battle of the Bands. Ava Robinson and Cat Schneiderman organized this year’s event, taping up posters all around the school to hype up the fundraiser.

On Sunday, May 2, hundreds of relatives, friends, colleagues, and former Bard students gathered to celebrate the life of Wynne Wen-Ren Wynne at the Congregation Beth Elohim Temple House in Brooklyn. Ms. Wu passed away on April 23, 2010 from metastasized breast cancer. The service was at turns poignant, funny, and inspirational. As Ms. Wu hoped, it was a celebration of life rather than the mourning of death.

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Last week BHSEC was joined by a group of foreign students from China. These six students whose English names are Bridge, Alex, Jing-Jing Paris, Eleanor, and Arthur, are part of an exchange program between their school, Yali, and BHSEC.

On Thursday March 25th, BHSEC’s Model UN team, accompanied by Whitney Bates and Dr. Vernoff, headed down to Washington D.C. to participate in the twelfth annual Washington Area Model United Nations Conference (WAMUNC).

This Wednesday from 6th period to Dean’s hour, BHSEC will host Leila Buck and Adam Able for a presentation on their experience in the Middle East and a discussion of their views on the conflict in the region.

This year BHSEC is adding a Latin trip to the already large number of school trips and exchange programs that are offered. The trip is currently being planned by Ms. Rowen and Dr. Clark and will include sixteen Latin students.

Year I students signing up for spring semester classes were greeted with a surprise! For the first time in her career, Elizabeth Poreba will be teaching a section of Year I seminar. Ms. Poreba is usually a 9th and 10th grade English teacher but when she discovered that a new section of first year seminar was being created, she volunteered to teach the class.

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Recently, physics teacher Dr. Bozidar Jovanovic announced his resignation from BHSEC. Due to financial reasons he has decided to continue the profession he pursued before coming to Bard, working in quantitative finance. He isn’t thrilled to leave his teaching career behind, but remarked, “life is hard and when it gives you tough decisions, you must act accordingly.”

BHSEC prides itself on its unique college-level curriculum and constantly looks to build a stronger connection with Bard College to maximize the authenticity of its program. This is precisely what one of our new staff members, Dean Tabitha Ewing, is here to do.

The Asian Culture Club’s (ACC) 3rd Annual Faculty Karaoke Fundraiser will be taking place this February in the BHSEC auditorium. The fundraiser has been a huge success in the past, raising large amounts of money for charity.

BHSEC students were devastated when, after 6 years of culinary services, Riad “Rico” Abdelsalam, better known to students as “the Blue Truck guy”, abandoned his post on East Houston street without notice at the beginning of the 2009 school year.

On Saturday, February 6th, the BHSEC PTA will be hosting a new fundraiser called Knowledge College. The event will give BHSEC parents, and anyone else interested, an opportunity to go back to college for a day and take engaging courses offered by BHSEC faculty and others.

This year, Bard’s Student Activist Network is hosting a gift drive for the upcoming holiday season. With the collaboration of the entire student body and faculty, this drive has the potential to become very successful for both the Henry Street Settlement Shelter and Bard’s relationship with its community.

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The BHSEC boys soccer team remained a strong presence in the New York City B-division this year despite a disappointing loss in the playoffs. The Bard Raptors won an impressive eleven out of twelve games during the season and made it to the quarterfinals of the playoffs. With only two losses in the past three years, the Raptors have shown consistent dominance in the B-division. The PSAL has taken notice and recently invited the Raptors to join the A-division.

On Saturday, November 21st, 13 American teenagers gathered with their parents in Terminal 4 of JFK International Airport. Two and a half hours later, these students, selected by BHSEC to take part in an international exchange program with the High School of Jesus and Maria in Valladolid, Spain, were still waiting outside JFK’s Au Bon Pan. “My legs hurt,” says Alejandro Anasal, one of the BHSEC students in the program, “but I was excited to meet them.”