Wednesday, May 16, 2012
We know you take hundreds of photos, so send us a pic or two of pre-prom and prom festivities so we can feature them on Patch.
Did you like the photo galleries we posted of both the Andover High School and Lahser High School homecoming dances last fall? We'd like to do it again for the school's respective proms this weekend. But we need your help. Andover's prom is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Townsend Hotel. Lahser's prom also begins at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Knollwood Country Club. Since we can't be at both, and wouldn't want to favor coverage for one at the expense to the other, we'd love to have parents and teens help make a photo gallery they'd be proud to share with rest of the community. So much of prom is about who you’re with and the memories you make . . . and, of course what you're wearing. Let's see those photos! We know parents and students …
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Sanjay Reddy is just 16 but already has jump-started his academic career, punctuated by a perfect score on the college preparatory exam.
Each week, Bloomfield Patch features students doing amazing things in schools and their communities. This week's Whiz Kid scored a perfect 36 on the ACT — as a junior — and finds time to captain the varsity tennis team and play in the school symphony. School: Andover High School Age: 16 Hometown: West Bloomfield Achievement: Reddy was one of just about 700 students around the country to ace the ACT this year. He also claimed a regional title in men's tennis and is currently doing research in the endocrinology department at Henry Ford Hospital in bones and minerals. Key to Awesomeness: Reddy said he was always a fan of math and read books habitually as a child. He said he attacked the ACT in sections, practicing and preparing answers for …
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Students and staff at the Roeper Middle and Upper School campus remember Annemarie Roeper at morning tribute.
The legacy of the late Roeper School co-founder Annemarie Roeper weighed heavily on everyone’s minds at the school’s middle and upper school campus Tuesday morning. “We are the safeguards of (Roeper’s) philosophy,” senior Gavin Buckley said. “We’re here now to make the world a better place.” Middle and upper school teachers, administrators and students gathered at the Birmingham campus Tuesday morning to honor Roeper, who passed away Friday in California at the age of 93. Even more importantly, Tuesday was a time for the Roeper community to remember and reaffirm Roeper’s educational philosophy and how it continues to shape the lives of Roeper students. Durning the 45 minute tribute to Roeper, students, staff and Roeper’s friends stood up …
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Thirty stations from 14 states will be represented at event Wednesday.
The Biff, 88.1 FM, will host the first ever nationwide celebration of high school radio stations on Wednesday. The brainchild of WBFH's award-winning station manager Pete Bowers, the event is modeled after National College Radio Day in October, and consists of 30 stations from 14 states around the country. At least five of the stations are Internet-only. The goal is to help connect and promote high school radio stations at a time when public awareness is low, and funding pressures due to public school budget cuts continue to increase. Bowers said that only one percet of Michigan high schools have a radio station and he estimates that there are only about 200 high schools in the nation with either a terrestrial over-the-air non-commercial, …
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Bloomfield Hills Andover High School
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Annemarie Roeper's legacy of embracing diversity, individuality, and respect lives on in even the youngest students.
Annemarie Roeper is gone, but her spirit and commitment to the ideals that spurred the creation of The Roeper School will remain strong, according to students who assembled Monday morning to pay tribute to the late school founder. During an emotional 30-minute program at the lower school campus in Bloomfield Hills, roughly 200 children ranging from kindergarten to fifth grade shared memories and impressions of the 93-year-old who died on Friday. Notions of respect, inclusion, peace and learning were repeated by many of the dozens of all ages that grabbed the microphone to express what they thought of Roeper, who is regarded as a pioneer in the field of gifted education. "We are all going to miss her," said Sean Moss who is a Stage IV …
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Alumni, teachers, students and friends remembered Annemarie Roeper, who founded The Roeper School with husband, George. Roeper died Friday at age 93.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Bloomfield Hills lawyer praises Annemarie Roeper, 93, as "a force for good." Graduates will gather Saturday afternoon in Birmingham.
Graduates of The Roeper School from coast to coast are posting poignant recollections online to honor educator Annemarie Roeper, co-founder of the innovative private school. She died Friday morning at 93 in an assisted living facility in Oakland, CA, where she had lived since 2009. Roeper had been diagnosed with colon cancer in late 2010 and was under hospice care since last October, a family statement says. "The magnitude of her impact is evident by the huge outpouring displayed here," adds an update at a CaringBridge.org site set up two weeks ago, where more than 270 messages are posted. "I am so thankful her legacy is so well-rooted and flourishing," says a Friday night post there from Suzanne Heron, a Roeper Lower School student from …
Friday, May 11, 2012
She and late husband, George, started the school in 1941 with nine students in Detroit and it now serves 560 students on Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham campuses.
Annemarie Roeper, who with her husband, George, started The Roeper School more than seven decades ago, died Friday in Oakland, CA, the school announced in a news release. She was 93. The school, recognized for its work with the gifted, serves more than 500 students from preschool to high school age on campuses in Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham. Quite a contrast from the school's humble beginnings in 1941 when the couple fled Nazi persecution and war-torn Europe, and were invited to Detroit to direct a psychoanalytically oriented nursery school. They also established a grade school starting with nine students. The couple's educational vision "encompassed a profound respect for the individual and a commitment to freedom of growth and …
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It was Teacher Appreciation Week this past week. One Andover teacher took her students out for ice cream. They appreciated that – and their beloved Miss Feigenson. Tell us about your favorite teacher!
It was the afternoon after the AP Literature test, and a beautiful day to boot. So a group of Andover High School students from Susie Feigenson's AP English class met at Dairy Queen in Keego Harbor to celebrate the culmination of a great year of appreciating fine writing – by eating ice cream and blizzards. "It was so nice of her, and so like her to do that for us," said student Stacy Hanus. "We all love her so much." What about you? If you have something nice to say about your favorite teacher, tell us who it is and why in the comments. Or upload a photo!
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Now the focus moves toward implementing the two-year transition plan for a unified Bloomfield Hills High School under one roof.
The Bloomfield Hills Schools and Superintendent Rob Glass asked voters for one last shot to resolve a decade-long community dispute over the future of the district's high schools, and they got it Tuesday. The proposal approving use of $59 million in public bonds passed by a 61 percent margin, according to election results from the Oakland County Elections Office. Now, the focus will be on implementing a two-year, multifaceted transition plan to use the bonds to house both Andover and Lahser high schools under one roof on the current Andover campus. "Now we have to execute," Glass acknowledged amid the fervor of district supporters and volunteers celebrating the victory Tuesday evening at the Ultimate Soccer in Pontiac. "We've heard …
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Bloomfield Hills Andover High School
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Clint S
12:23 am on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Thank you very much for a very accurate and appropriate story. I was able, as a Roeper School parent, to attend the assembly on Tuesday at the school, so can verify 'this is what happened.' As someone who has appreciated the school for a long time (my amazing daughter graduated from Roeper last spring) I thank you for this story. I, and others in the Roeper Community, will continue working to … more ›