Dunn traveled to the Soule Park Golf Course in Ojai for a match against Cate School. Dunn won the match by a score of 222 to 277. Dunn was lead by captains Jonny Hogan who and Michael Tseng who with scores of 33 and 41 respectively. The other members of the team who competed were: Corbin Meyer, Tashi Richter-Valdes, Trevor Whelan, and Arden Chan. Dunn’s record is now 4 and 0.
Dunn’s next match is against Carpinteria High School on Tuesday, 4/19
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Baseball Team Taking the Condor League by Storm
This season the baseball team has won all of the games in their league. They beat Thacher School on Friday, April 1st in Ojai 16-2. “Senior Joe Eisagurre and freshman Ryan Layton combined to throw a no-hitter, while striking out 15 Toad hitters and walking seven in a six inning contest that was shortened due to the 10-run mercy rule,” wrote coach Dorlarque in his recap of the game. The captains this year are Connor McMorrow, Joe Eisagurre and Corbin Meyer. McMorrow leads the team behind the plate as the primary catcher, Eisagurre is one of the starting pitchers, and Meyer plays multiple positions. Their win against Thacher raised the team’s spirits after losing to North County Christian in the prior game. The team looks forward to playing Thacher again this coming Saturday, April 16th at 2:00pm. McMorrow explained, “It is obvious who worked out over break and who didn’t. But I am not worried, I don’t think the break effected us,” when asked if the weeklong break had any negative effect on the team. The team expects to perform well on Saturday and hopes to come out on top once more.
Safe at home: Corbin Meyer slides in for a Dunn run
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Dunn students build homes, friendships Youth learn from the people of Guatemala
The following is reprinted from the March 22, 2011 edition of the Santa Ynez Valley News
By Julian J. Ramos / Staff Writer / jramos@syvnews.com Santa Ynez Valley News
A group of Dunn School students pose at the Pacaya volcano in Guatemala
A group of Dunn School students did more than just build homes in Central America during their winter break last month.
They learned from the people of Guatemala, among the most impoverished in the Americas, that they are not poor people, as they have hearts to love and lots of generosity.
The 10 high school students who went on the trip are known on the Los Olivos campus as the “Antiqua Ten,” named after a city in the central highlands of Guatemala.
Each of them said the 10-day visit was life-changing and they’d do it again.
Led by Spanish teachers Alejandra Santos and Ulises Castaneda, the students are seniors Stephen Anderson and Brandon Yau; juniors Scott Goodman, Yong Hwan Kim, Samantha Ko, Jaehong Lee, Ohm Sirimongkolkasem, Emma VanSteenwyk and Tiffany Vanichviroon; and sophomore Erielle Webber.
Castaneda’s son Balam Castaneda, a Dunn eighth-grader, also participated.
The students built parts of four homes in the town of San Mateo through the group Constru Casa, which is dedicated to offering basic homes to poor families to improve their living conditions and health.
The Los Olivos Rotary Club donated money to Constru Casa, which requires donors to help build the homes, and a number of local Rotarians also participated.
Alice Berg, Dunn’s head of learning strategies and a Los Olivos Rotary Club member, and her husband Steve were part of the delegation.
More than half of the population in Guatemala lives in poverty, according to Constru Casa, which in English translates to “build a home.”
Of those people, most live in make-shift dwellings made of corn stalk walls, dirt floors, and roofs made of cardboard and plastic or wood and corrugated iron.
Over the course of two weeks from late February to early March, Rotarians and the students built four homes. The Dunn group finished up the second half of one home and left three others half-built to be finished by the next crew.
Each three-room, one-bathroom home is made of 1,200 concrete blocks with a corrugated iron roof and concrete floor. At least one family member is required to work on building the house, among other requirements that the family must satisfy before getting the home.
Each house costs about $3,600 to build.
Castaneda, one of the teacher-leaders, described the trip as “very rewarding” and life-changing for himself.
“I’ve never been that up close to poverty,” he said. “That really had an impact on me.”
Castaneda said he was proud of each student as he saw their hard work and dedication to the project. They saw the need to do something and did it without complaints or hesitation, he said.
His son, Balam, was “not the same boy who got on the airplane” after they returned home, he said.
Castaneda said he will encourage all Dunn students to travel the world and give back to the communities they visit.
“You need to initiate that,” he said
Students submitted applications for the trip, and they were chosen by a committee, Castaneda said. Each student volunteered and agreed to forfeit his or her vacation, he said.
Only two of the students had any formal Spanish instruction.
Although there may have been a language barrier, Sirimongkolkasem and other students said the kindness and generosity of the Guatemalans needed no translation.
Webber said she was most touched by a visit to a school and the joyful reception from the young students, who sang and danced for them.
The heartfelt welcome made her cry, she said.
“They didn’t know how to repay us,” she said of the many gestures, big and small, of thanks.
Students worked from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. for five days. They carried blocks and concrete and used no electric tools.
In their free time, the group went sight-seeing to places that included Pacaya volcano, Lake Atitlan and Mayan ruins.
The students agreed they would go back to Guatemala and would encourage their peers to take a similar humanitarian trip.
Established in 1957, Dunn is a co-ed, college-prep boarding and day school.
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The following was written by Sophomore Emma VanSteenwyk:
My Trip to Guatemala
By Emma Van Steenwyk
Guatemala is a small country about two thirds the size of California, population of 13,276,517. It’s mostly mountains. Formerly a Mayan Civilization, it’s capitol is Guatemala City, built near the ruins of Kaminaljuyu. The city of Antigua, where we stayed, was built within ruins, still using the ancient cobblestone streets. Guatemala won its independence from Spain in 1821 and has been through a number of revolutions since then. It only recently had its first free election, in 1945. Natural disasters are common, with the capitol moved multiple times due to earthquakes, volcanic activity, and mudslides. There are about eight Quetzals per American dollar, and about six more colors on a bill.
What we did in Guatemala was build. We dug trenches and chipped holes in cinderblocks. For every foot of finished trenched we managed, an elderly man had dug two. We carried as many cinderblocks as we could down the hill, while a woman walked past us with two cinderblocks on her head, one in her arms, and her child on her back. I can’t put into words how much respect I had for these people.
One Quetzal can buy an entire sliced mango, complete with salt and chili powder. Thirty Quetzals, after much bargaining, can buy a handmade flute off of a street vendor. But what we gained in Guatemala was not something you could buy, not even something you can price. What we learned in Guatemala was more than how to drive a hard bargain or walk on cobblestone streets. What we learned is not something you can put into textbooks or even put into words. But mostly, what we created in Guatemala was not just a concrete house, it was more than that. It was more than a roof and some walls; it was more than a home for people who had never had one before. Even though many people in the hillside town of San Mateo can’t get running water, even though many cannot eat, Senora Martin told us, they are not poor people. They have their feet to carry them, their arms to work, their heads to think, and their hearts to love.
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Watch a video shot during the trip
By Julian J. Ramos / Staff Writer / jramos@syvnews.com Santa Ynez Valley News
A group of Dunn School students did more than just build homes in Central America during their winter break last month.
They learned from the people of Guatemala, among the most impoverished in the Americas, that they are not poor people, as they have hearts to love and lots of generosity.
The 10 high school students who went on the trip are known on the Los Olivos campus as the “Antiqua Ten,” named after a city in the central highlands of Guatemala.
Each of them said the 10-day visit was life-changing and they’d do it again.
Led by Spanish teachers Alejandra Santos and Ulises Castaneda, the students are seniors Stephen Anderson and Brandon Yau; juniors Scott Goodman, Yong Hwan Kim, Samantha Ko, Jaehong Lee, Ohm Sirimongkolkasem, Emma VanSteenwyk and Tiffany Vanichviroon; and sophomore Erielle Webber.
Castaneda’s son Balam Castaneda, a Dunn eighth-grader, also participated.
The students built parts of four homes in the town of San Mateo through the group Constru Casa, which is dedicated to offering basic homes to poor families to improve their living conditions and health.
The Los Olivos Rotary Club donated money to Constru Casa, which requires donors to help build the homes, and a number of local Rotarians also participated.
Alice Berg, Dunn’s head of learning strategies and a Los Olivos Rotary Club member, and her husband Steve were part of the delegation.
More than half of the population in Guatemala lives in poverty, according to Constru Casa, which in English translates to “build a home.”
Of those people, most live in make-shift dwellings made of corn stalk walls, dirt floors, and roofs made of cardboard and plastic or wood and corrugated iron.
Over the course of two weeks from late February to early March, Rotarians and the students built four homes. The Dunn group finished up the second half of one home and left three others half-built to be finished by the next crew.
Each three-room, one-bathroom home is made of 1,200 concrete blocks with a corrugated iron roof and concrete floor. At least one family member is required to work on building the house, among other requirements that the family must satisfy before getting the home.
Each house costs about $3,600 to build.
Castaneda, one of the teacher-leaders, described the trip as “very rewarding” and life-changing for himself.
“I’ve never been that up close to poverty,” he said. “That really had an impact on me.”
Castaneda said he was proud of each student as he saw their hard work and dedication to the project. They saw the need to do something and did it without complaints or hesitation, he said.
His son, Balam, was “not the same boy who got on the airplane” after they returned home, he said.
Castaneda said he will encourage all Dunn students to travel the world and give back to the communities they visit.
“You need to initiate that,” he said
Students submitted applications for the trip, and they were chosen by a committee, Castaneda said. Each student volunteered and agreed to forfeit his or her vacation, he said.
Only two of the students had any formal Spanish instruction.
Although there may have been a language barrier, Sirimongkolkasem and other students said the kindness and generosity of the Guatemalans needed no translation.
Webber said she was most touched by a visit to a school and the joyful reception from the young students, who sang and danced for them.
The heartfelt welcome made her cry, she said.
“They didn’t know how to repay us,” she said of the many gestures, big and small, of thanks.
Students worked from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. for five days. They carried blocks and concrete and used no electric tools.
In their free time, the group went sight-seeing to places that included Pacaya volcano, Lake Atitlan and Mayan ruins.
The students agreed they would go back to Guatemala and would encourage their peers to take a similar humanitarian trip.
Established in 1957, Dunn is a co-ed, college-prep boarding and day school.
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The following was written by Sophomore Emma VanSteenwyk:
My Trip to Guatemala
By Emma Van Steenwyk
Guatemala is a small country about two thirds the size of California, population of 13,276,517. It’s mostly mountains. Formerly a Mayan Civilization, it’s capitol is Guatemala City, built near the ruins of Kaminaljuyu. The city of Antigua, where we stayed, was built within ruins, still using the ancient cobblestone streets. Guatemala won its independence from Spain in 1821 and has been through a number of revolutions since then. It only recently had its first free election, in 1945. Natural disasters are common, with the capitol moved multiple times due to earthquakes, volcanic activity, and mudslides. There are about eight Quetzals per American dollar, and about six more colors on a bill.
What we did in Guatemala was build. We dug trenches and chipped holes in cinderblocks. For every foot of finished trenched we managed, an elderly man had dug two. We carried as many cinderblocks as we could down the hill, while a woman walked past us with two cinderblocks on her head, one in her arms, and her child on her back. I can’t put into words how much respect I had for these people.
One Quetzal can buy an entire sliced mango, complete with salt and chili powder. Thirty Quetzals, after much bargaining, can buy a handmade flute off of a street vendor. But what we gained in Guatemala was not something you could buy, not even something you can price. What we learned in Guatemala was more than how to drive a hard bargain or walk on cobblestone streets. What we learned is not something you can put into textbooks or even put into words. But mostly, what we created in Guatemala was not just a concrete house, it was more than that. It was more than a roof and some walls; it was more than a home for people who had never had one before. Even though many people in the hillside town of San Mateo can’t get running water, even though many cannot eat, Senora Martin told us, they are not poor people. They have their feet to carry them, their arms to work, their heads to think, and their hearts to love.
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Watch a video shot during the trip
Dunn Girls’ Lacrosse Team Season Off to Promising Start
By Maddy Carrol
Dunn Student Journalist
Dunn Girls’ Lacrosse is expecting another great season. Last year they tied with Cate in the Condor league and moved onto CIF. They are hopeful to do the same or better this year. They have a new goalie, Jayne Pugh, a sophomore who is eager and ready to learn. “I’m excited for the season,” said Pugh, “I’ll just give it my all and hope for the best.”
Senior Captains, Sazan Pasori and Nikole Layton, share Pugh’s excitement. Pasori said, “We have a young team, but I can tell they have made progress already. I can’t wait to play our first league game!” Nikole added, “Yes, we have a majority of new students and we are small in number, but we are all athletic.”
There are many freshmen this season that show great potential to the sport. Co-coach Christie Davidge says, “They all are talented. I can’t wait to see them improve throughout the season.”
The team started off the season with the annual Rose Bowl tournament in Pasadena. They played a total of three games, winning one. “Those schools are much larger than Dunn giving them the ability to pick from a larger group of students. We worked hard in all three games and were pleased with our success in the last game,” explains Mary Essa when asked about the tournament.
The high scorers this season are Areli Diosdado and Mary Essa. Diosdado has scored twenty one goals thus far in the season and hopes to double the number soon. This comes as no surprise due to their performance in past years.
The head coach is Susie Childs. She explains that the team is doing well even with the loss of great players such as Hannah Brown and Jillian Keller, both members of the class of 2010. Childs says “There is strong leadership from the seniors this year and I am hopeful for good fun season.”
The team is off to a great start, they beat Midland 16 to 6. Emma Anderson, a freshman, scored her first goal this season. The coaches were able to substitute the less experienced players in and give them more playing time.
Dunn Student Journalist
Dunn Girls’ Lacrosse is expecting another great season. Last year they tied with Cate in the Condor league and moved onto CIF. They are hopeful to do the same or better this year. They have a new goalie, Jayne Pugh, a sophomore who is eager and ready to learn. “I’m excited for the season,” said Pugh, “I’ll just give it my all and hope for the best.”
Senior Captains, Sazan Pasori and Nikole Layton, share Pugh’s excitement. Pasori said, “We have a young team, but I can tell they have made progress already. I can’t wait to play our first league game!” Nikole added, “Yes, we have a majority of new students and we are small in number, but we are all athletic.”
There are many freshmen this season that show great potential to the sport. Co-coach Christie Davidge says, “They all are talented. I can’t wait to see them improve throughout the season.”
The team started off the season with the annual Rose Bowl tournament in Pasadena. They played a total of three games, winning one. “Those schools are much larger than Dunn giving them the ability to pick from a larger group of students. We worked hard in all three games and were pleased with our success in the last game,” explains Mary Essa when asked about the tournament.
The high scorers this season are Areli Diosdado and Mary Essa. Diosdado has scored twenty one goals thus far in the season and hopes to double the number soon. This comes as no surprise due to their performance in past years.
The head coach is Susie Childs. She explains that the team is doing well even with the loss of great players such as Hannah Brown and Jillian Keller, both members of the class of 2010. Childs says “There is strong leadership from the seniors this year and I am hopeful for good fun season.”
The team is off to a great start, they beat Midland 16 to 6. Emma Anderson, a freshman, scored her first goal this season. The coaches were able to substitute the less experienced players in and give them more playing time.
Dunn Baseball Posts Win Against OVS
By Max Loomis and Maddy Carroll
Dunn Students Journalists
Dunn won their home baseball game 3-0 against OVS this Saturday. The game was called after 36 minutes due to bad weather conditions, which allowed Dunn to take the win. Sophomore, Jake Harris, started as pitcher for the game. Harris threw a one hitter and Geoff Billok got an RBI double to end the game. Cody Boal said, “Jake did really well as pitcher.” Coach Deguin agreed: “Jake did a great job as pitcher, too bad about the weather, though.”
Dunn Students Journalists
Dunn won their home baseball game 3-0 against OVS this Saturday. The game was called after 36 minutes due to bad weather conditions, which allowed Dunn to take the win. Sophomore, Jake Harris, started as pitcher for the game. Harris threw a one hitter and Geoff Billok got an RBI double to end the game. Cody Boal said, “Jake did really well as pitcher.” Coach Deguin agreed: “Jake did a great job as pitcher, too bad about the weather, though.”
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