Athens Academy Press Releases

The graphic art and paintings of illustrator Jack Davis will be on display in the Myers Gallery on the Athens Academy campus from October 23 through December 20. An opening reception will be held in Mr. Davis’ honor on Monday, October 23, 2006, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. The public is invited to attend.

Mr. Davis is a prolific cartoonist and illustrator, with work appearing various comic strips, Mad magazine, Time, and TV Guide. Some of his publishing and advertising clients have included America Online, DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures, Pepsi, Toyota, and the U.S. Postal Service. Mr. Davis received the National Cartoonist Society Advertising Award for 1980 and their Reuben Award in 2000. He received the National Cartoonist Society Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996 and was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003.

Also on display on the Athens Academy campus is the work of Don Schenk of First Hand Crafts. Mr. Schenk’s display outlines the construction of a new craft school, “First Hand,” in Greensboro, Georgia, which will provide working studios and galleries for artisans, thereby creating future teachers for the arts and crafts in Greensboro. Mr. Schenk’s work will be on display in the Bertelsmann Gallery through December 20.

The public is invited to visit both Athens Academy galleries and the opening reception on October 23, 5:00-7:00 p.m. in the Myers Gallery.

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Athens Academy has been named the Georgia State Champion in the President’s Challenge Physical Activity and Fitness Awards Program for the fifth consecutive school year. Students in grades 1-8 participate in this program through their physical education classes, coordinated by department chairman Mr. Don Chuboff.

Since its inception in 1966, the President’s Challenge Physical Activity and Fitness Awards Program has challenged America’s young people to raise their activity and fitness to the next level. The Physical Fitness Test recognizes students for their outstanding level of physical fitness in five events: curl-ups or partial curl-ups, shuttle run, endurance run/walk, pull-ups or right angle push-ups, and V-sit or sit and reach.

The goal of physical education at Athens Academy is to expose students to activities that will enhance personal fitness and wellness for the rest of their life. To accomplish these goals, students work regularly on fitness, strength building, and flexibility. A major goal for the physical education program is to instill a love of movement in each student so that the stage is set for a lifetime of participation in sport and for related leisure activities. According to Middle School Director Brenda Klein, “By setting high standards in daily rigor and long range goals, our physical education staff has enabled our students to achieve much more than what they might have expected.”

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Seventeen members of the Class of 2007 have been recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation for their performance on last October’s PSAT/NMSQT. Helena Anderson, Lucy Fu, David Hou, Cora Beth Tench, Emily Westberry, and Chenzi Xu have been named Finalists and will continue in competition for Merit Scholarship awards later this spring. Hayley Brown, Phil Brudney, Nate Crawshaw, Kevin Lee, Matthew Leonard, Brandon Lou, Carley Moore, Jasmin Patel, Surili Sheth, Trey Sinyard, and Neeraj Sriram have been recognized by National Merit as Commended Students.

Front row (l to r): Neeraj Sriram, Lucy Fu, Hayley Brown, Surili Sheth, Carley Moore, Helena Anderson, Chenzi Xu. Middle row: Brandon Lou, Nate Crawshaw, Kevin Lee, Matthew Leonard, Emily Westberry. Back row: David Hou, Trey Sinyard. Not pictured: Cora Beth Tench, Phil Brudney, Jasmin Patel.

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