Posted: Wednesday, July 1, 2009

IMPORTANT TEXTBOOK INFORMATION
Varsity Books is available for all your textbook needs at www.varsitybooks.com starting on July 16, 2009. Books will be listed on the Varsity site by the class they are needed; you will not need an additional list from Chaminade.  Varsity Books is offering 50% off all methods of shipping for the first two weeks, so order early and save!  Access Varsity Books at www.varsitybooks.com or call Varsity Books customer service at 877-VAR-BOOK or help@varsitybooks.com.

9th and 10th grade students
On the Varsity Books website, eBooks will be listed for those classes where available.  While savings vary for each eBook title, some families may realize substantial savings.  For instance, the World Geography eBook is 80% of the new print edition cost (over a $75 savings) and the World History eBook is 63% of the print edition (over a $60 savings).  The school will be requiring eBooks, when available at Varsity Books, for all 9th and 10th grade students.  Print editions of these texts are optional. 

DON’T MISS OUT ON BIG YEARBOOK SAVINGS!
Yearbooks are a great way to capture priceless memories for your student and help celebrate the year.  Yearbooks may be pre-ordered at a substantial discount through December 31, 2009.  Through Varsity Books, the middle school yearbook can be pre-ordered at $50 (versus $75 after December 31st) and the high school yearbook at $75 (versus $110 after December 31st).  Yearbooks are distributed at the end of the school year on each campus.  At the time of distribution, yearbooks may be purchased on campus at the higher price as long as supplies last.

Posted: Friday, June 26, 2009

Chaminade Hires Two New Appointments in the Athletic Department

Chaminade is pleased to announce the additions of Todd Borowski as Athletic Director and Rob DiMuro as Associate Athletic Director to our staff.

Todd comes to us from Simi Valley High School where he was the head Football Coach.  During his 6 years at Simi Valley High School, Todd has been the Administrator of Activities and Athletics.  He has also supervised the Physical Education department and taught instructional programs in Science. Prior to Simi Valley High School, Todd was the Athletic Director at Calabasas High School.  During his 5 years at Calabasas High School, Todd was also the Assistant Coach for Freshman Football and taught Health and Physical Education. Todd has also worked at Walnut High School, Anaheim High School and Paramount High School.  With over 18 years of experience in education - coaching, teaching and administration, we are excited to be welcoming Todd to the Chaminade family.

Rob DiMuro comes to Chaminade after a very successful five years at Louisville High School in several coaching and teaching roles, including Director for Athletic Development.   Prior to his Louisville tenure, Mr. DiMuro spent twelve years teaching and coaching at Notre Dame High School, Sherman Oaks. 

Please join us in welcoming Mr. Borowski and Mr. DiMuro to Chaminade as we wish them both every success and blessing in their new leadership roles.

Posted: Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Chaminade’s Higher Grounds Café Contends for National Title

Several Chaminade High School student volunteers from the campus’ Higher Grounds Café will travel to Boston in July to participate in the Junior Achievement’s North American Student Company of the Year Competition presented by FedEx.

Recently, the school’s café project selling fair trade coffee and fruit drinks received four local Junior Achievement awards, including best Social Responsibility project, Best Marketing and Sales Strategy, Best Business Presentation, and Student Company of the Year.

Higher Grounds project students celebrated a milestone recently when they launched distribution of their fair trade coffee at Fields Supermarket in West Hills the week prior to the World Fair Trade Day on May 9. According to Chaminade economics teacher Aron Gideon, participants in the Higher Grounds project have a golden opportunity to “bring this model of Educapitalism to other schools in the future and make a real difference in the lives of poor coffee farmers.”

Posted: Monday, May 18, 2009

High School Music Groups Receive Awards

All of the high school music performance groups recently returned from their respective Heritage Music Festivals where the Harmony Chorus, Advanced Combo and Percussion Ensembles received Gold National Ratings.

The Intermediate Combo, Combined Combo, Lab Combo, Big Band II, Big Band I, and Concert Band all received Silver National Ratings. Greg Smith (Harmony Chorus), Eddie Pimentel (Advanced Combo), Jason Lieber (Advanced Combo), and Albert Hickman (Advanced Combo) all received Maestro Soloist Awards from the adjudicators. The Advanced Combo was also given the Outstanding Group Award for the highest instrumental score.

Posted: Monday, May 4, 2009

Chaminade Students join America Sings in Washington D.C.

The Chaminade C-Notes joined 62 other Junior High and High School choirs from around the nation and performed at the “America Sings” festival in Washington D.C. this past April 14-19, 2009. As well as performing, our Chaminade students and parents served in a community service project with other choirs making sandwiches and food kits for the Capitol Area Food Bank. Students brought supplies as well as non-perishable food items with them to be donated to the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project.

Thousands of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were made for the DC Central Kitchen. In addition, all the singers joined together in a massed concert at the Washington Mall and performed inspirational patriotic music in front of the Capital building under the direction of world-renowned composer/choreographer and president of “America Sings”: John Jacobson. Our Chaminade students were able to enjoy other exciting sites in Washington D.C and the surrounding areas such as Gettysburg, the famous memorials, Arlington Cemetery (complete with cherry blossoms) and a tour inside the Pentagon.

This was a truly inspirational and memorable experience for all. Click on the link below to enjoy some of these exciting sites……

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Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2009

Speech and Debate Society Receives Honors at State Championships and Will Compete at Nationals!

The Chaminade Speech and Debate Society earned the right to compete at the State Championships in Culver City, CA from April 24th – 26th and earned honors in two categories.  Varsity debaters Michael Casey and Cameron Schunk placed 6th in the state in Public Forum debate, and Varsity debater Priya Rajan placed 18th in Congress debate.  Ms. Rajan will also compete at the National Forensics tournament in Birmingham, Alabama in June along with CSDS members Neeraj Chandra and Amay Gupta.

Posted: Monday, March 2, 2009

Chaminade Gets to First Title Game in 10 Years

Daily News 02/28/09
Jacob H. Pollon

The Cinderella run continues for the Chaminade of West Hills boys' basketball team.

The Eagles (20-9) jumped out to a 19-6 lead and never looked back in a dominating 59-47 Div. IV-A semifinal victory against No. 3 Oaks Christian of Westlake Village at Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks.

After finishing in fourth place in the Mission League, Chaminade has been the surprise of the playoffs, upsetting top-seeded Orange Lutheran on Tuesday, and will now play in its first championship game since 1999.

"This is big," Chaminade guard Jamal McClerkin said. "We needed this one. We were up too much. They couldn't come back."

Luckily for Chaminade it had a 13-point lead at halftime, because just minutes into the third quarter 6-foot-10, Long Beach State-bound foward Jules Montgomery left the game with a knee injury.

It could have spelled doom for the Eagles as Montgomery had seven points, eight rebounds, five blocked shots and was dominating Oaks Christian's 6-6 sophomore Dillon Van der Wal in the post.

However, the Lions could not take advantage.

Chaminade extended the lead to 18 points and converted 18 of 24 free throws in the fourth quarter to keep Oaks Christian at bay.

"That was a lesson in experience tonight," Oaks Christian coach Tom Roanhaus said. "The 6-10 senior got the best of the 6-6 sophomore. But we will be back and the younger guys will learn from this to take another step forward next year."

McClerkin scored 23 points, including 12 in the first quarter, and had 13 rebounds to lead Chaminade.

"We were so focused in the locker room," McClerkin said. "We knew we were going to win. Even when Jules went out we had no doubt. We are on top of the sky."

Freshman Chass Bryan had 13 points to lead Oaks Christian. Tyler McGrath and sophomore Taylor Hange had 10 points apiece.

"We didn't shoot the ball real well and we didn't share the ball," Roanhaus said. "Our seniors didn't have their best games."

The Lions cut the deficit to eight points twice in the fourth quarter, but the free throws by Chaminade were too much to overcome.

As for Montgomery, he said he should be fine for next week's championship game.

"I wanted to go back in but the trainer didn't think I should. If the game was a little closer I would have tried. I will be fine next week."

Posted: Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Chaminade High School Rocket Club Launches in Mojave Desert

On January 24th, the Chaminade High School Rocket Club successfully launched four Alpha rockets launched into the Mojave Desert sky! Click on the thumbs below to see the images.

 

Posted: Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Chaminade High School Students Attend Inauguration

Chaminade High School students attended President Barrack Obama's Inauguration in Washington D.C. The group was interviewed by Los Angeles Channel 7-KABC.