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March 14, 2008
Announcements 3-14-2008
Staffing update:
We are fortunate to have had the opportunity to interview a number of terrific and highly qualified candidates over the last two months for our staff openings, and we're expecting the hiring process to continue until all positions for next year are filled.
With that said, we have more exciting news to report. Yabome Kabia has accepted our offer to be the 7th and 8th Grade Math teacher for 2008 - 2009 school year. Currently, Yabome is the middle school math teacher at KIPP Bay Academy in San Francisco and has worked at the MS/HS 225 (Theater Arts Production Company) in the Bronx, New York. She has worked as a math teacher for the last five years and has a strong interest and emphasis in
collaborative student work as well as social justice projects.
Please join me in welcoming Yabome to the Presidio Hill School community.
From the AFKS Committee:
Period pieces/replicas of Lamps of the Twenties. The Decoration Committe needs your help with the loan of floor and table lamps of the twenties-ish period. This would mean pieces that one may have found in the flea markets ( just becoming the vogue... ) of the era from the early 1900's "Victorian style, with hanging beads and crystals or Art Deco stuff (new from the store!) coming into fashion (for those who could afford the pieces) in the mid-late twenties. Please contact amy sparrow: asparrowm@surfree.com
NEEDED: BOOM BOXES and many, many little/small AUDIO SPEAKERS to be used Auction night. Please let Amy Sparrow know when she may pick up a boom box and/or those little speakers hanging out in your garage, or in good use attached to your computer, to borrow by auction weekend, Friday the 28th. Thanks! asparrowm@surfree.com
From Ann Meissner: 
PHS has been invited to a parent education event at the Katherine Delmar Burke School. Unconditional Parenting: Beyond Bribes and Threats with noted author Alfie Kohn will take place on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. in Burke’s Gymnasium. Click here to download a flyer for this event.
From Amy Pearson, Director of Admissions and Financial Assistance
Admissions decision letters will be mailed on Wednesday, March 12. Please bear in mind that the Bay Area admissions directors have agreed not to contact the families in the admissions process during the week that prospective families have to make their decisions. This is known as a "silent week," meaning that parents at PHS are asked to not contact families in the admissions process. If families contact you first, then it is absolutely fine to return their call or email. We are not supposed to initiate contact. Please contact Amy Pearson, Director of Admissions and Financial Assistance, if you have any questions.
Follies DVDs are here!"The Secret of Sparkly Shine" is now available on DVD!Much thanks to Carla Leshne, David Donnefield and crew, who shot and edited the video. Each DVD is $9.; You can pick up your Follies 2007 DVD from Martin at the front desk. (There are plenty to go around).In case you did not get a copy of the 2006 Follies show (Follywood), we also have some available for $6.