After receiving a grant from UAEF in January, one of our Upper Arlington High School seniors has scheduled a community lecture by Dr. Lisa Machoian, an expert on teenagers and mental healthwho consults to families, parents, teens, schools, programs, and organizations across the country. Dr. Machoian has authoried several publications, and her lecture at UAHS will focus on her most recent book, "The Disappearing Girl: Learnign the Language of Depression."

According to TeenDepression.org, 20% of teens will experience depression before they reach adulthood. Dr. Machoian will discuss the signs of teen depression and help parents and teens alike understand what they can do.

The UAHS senior raised money for her senior Capstone Project through requests to several community organizations, including the Upper Arlington Education Foundation.

Dr. Lisa Machoian will speak at the UAHS auditorium on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 7:30 pm. The public is invited.

The Upper Arlington Public Library, in conjunction with the Upper Arlington City Schools, has completed the enormous task of digitizing every page of every Norwester, going all the way back to 1923!

In addition to the yearbooks, the library also has digitized vintage Norwester magazines. This monthly publication served the Upper Arlington community from 1917 through 1922 as a resource for historical, cultural, architectural, and genealogical information. Now you can search these archives and read about and view photographs of Upper Arlington back in its formative years.

The UAArchives.org Web site is constantly evolving and will expand to include collections from the Upper Arlington Historical Society, as well as personal histories, letters and maps gathered from UA residents.

Joanie Dugger, '80, Executive Director of the UA Education Foundation and the UA Alumni Association, commented, "The Norwester projects the views and ideas of eighteen-year-olds from each year of UA Schools' long history, and through each yearbook's photos and commentary - even the advertisements - we see life as it was then, from a student perspective. It is the personal voice of the students for that year."

The Upper Arlington Library Staff has given us an invaluable gift in producing these archives, and at the Alumni Association, we hope that you will enjoy traveling back in time through these wonderful, beautiful old Norwesters, each of which presents an individual flavor of its era, and gives us the students' perspective on life during each year from 1923 to the present.

NOTE: Although ALL Norwesters have been scanned, the online collection goes up to 1999; the contract between the schools and the library provides that the most recent ten years of yearbooks will not be offered online. As a result, one new yearbook will be added per year. Currently, you can view yearbooks from 1923 through 1999 on UAAchives.org.

We recommend that you explore each button on the menu to the left, and read about how to use the archives to maximize your experience. We hope that you enjoy the UA Archives at UAArchives.org.

Visit the UAArchives.org Web site

Specifically, the gift will be used as follows:

$60,000 will be used to equip every classroom with a projector at the high school. Currently 30+ rooms already have projectors. This will equip the remaining 55 rooms.

$10,000 will be used to enhance a course management system. The Moodle course management system was demonstrated at the meeting, but the final decision on which system they will used has not been finalized.

$75,000 will be used to implement a "computers for teachers" program. This program is designed to "put technology in the hand of people who will hit homeruns." For qualifying teachers, a laptop will be made available with the understanding that these teachers will then act as mentors for other educators who wish to enhance learning with the aid of technology.

$30,000 will be used for professional (staff) development.

The UAEF has established a Technology Fund for any other member of the community who wishes to make a gift toward future technology in the K-12 program. If someone should ask you about making a donation, you may refer them to this web site for a donation form.
  

Charles Wade Moulton, Class of '77, was fatally injured in an automobile accident in November, 2003. As a tribute to this outstanding man, his family has created a memorial fund within the Foundation.

At the time of his death, Chuck was an orthopedic surgeon in Santa Rosa, California. He was known as "Midnight Moulton" because of his habit of visiting patients whenever they needed him, even if it was very late at night.

While a student at UAHS, Chuck was a member of the National Honor Society and the varsity swim team. He was an All-American Swimmer in four high school events. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Princeton University, Chuck was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was a varsity swimmer for four years. Chuck completed medical school and his residency at the University of California at San Francisco before entering private practice in Santa Rosa.

After attending the UAHS Cum Laude Society banquet last spring, Chuck's family designated the Cum Laude Society at the High School as the recipient of his fund's earnings. Very few public schools have Cum Laude Societies which recognize the highest academic achievements of high school students on a national level. High school juniors must be in the upper 10% of their class and seniors in the upper 20%. It is modeled after the college level Phi Beta Kappa and was founded in 1906.

Establishing Chuck's fund was suggested by his sister, Jennifer Look, Class of 1973, of Reston, Virginia. Also surviving Chuck are another sister, Alison Papanikos, Class of 1978 of Chicago, Illinois; brother Rick, Class of 1977, of Johnson City, Tennessee, and his parents, Dr. Edward and Joy Wade Moulton of Upper Arlington.

At times families and friends wish to give in memory of an individual but do not want to establish a true endowment fund with its $10,000 base gift. The Board of Trustees of the Foundation have recently created a new category named "Permanent Memorial" to answer this need.

If a gift of $1,000 or more is given to the General Fund of the Foundation in an individual's memory, that person's name will always be listed within the UAEF Permanent Memorials. As of the end of 2004 the following people are remembered in this way:

Harry Postle
Elizabeth Catalano
  

Upon her retirement, Ellen Erlanger, former dedicated UA teacher and Director of Student Development Programs, was honored by the establishment of an endowment fund in her name within the UAEF.

Ellen has gathered an advisory group to help her form the Upper Arlington High School Student Foundation. The purpose of this foundation is to not only teach students how foundations work and to fund various projects, but also to foster a lifelong habit of giving back to their community and school.

Ellen's vision is that students will develop and support student-initiated Service-Learning projects and review for funding projects brought to them by other school groups. Her goal is to offer new decision-making and leadership opportunities for UA students.