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Letter from Metropolitan Hilarion

stjohnsacademysf.org — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:34:48 +0400

June 5th, 2008 The Very Reverend Protopriest Serge Kotar and the Students and Teachers of St. John of San Francisco Orthodox Academy Dear Father Serge, Beloved in Christ Students and Teachers of the Academy, Please accept my heartfelt greetings wit the holy Feast of our Saviour’s Ascension. Thank you so much for your kind words of greeting and congratulations on the [...]

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Annual Literary Dinner

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:22:17 +0400

On Thursday, May 15, students in grades 7-11 participated in a Literary Dinner at Mrs Maximova’s home, which was decorated with a Midsummer Night’s Dream theme. Students came dressed as one of their favorite literary characters. During dinner, students presented their character, and afterwards students played literary games.

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Graduation 2008

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:30:35 +0400

St. John’s senior graduation ceremony was held on Thursday night, May 29. There were well over 100 people in attendance to honor the two graduates, Artur Gazaryan and Mikhail Yakovlev. Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America, the school’s Headmaster, spoke briefly about education and the Christian life, comparing them to a marathon race [...]

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Delegation From Ekaterinburg Visits St. John’s Academy

stjohnsacademysf.org — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:00:10 +0400

On Friday, April 4, a five-person delegation from Yekaterinburg, under the auspices of the US Dept. of State�s International Visitor Leadership Program, visited St. John of San Francisco Orthodox Academy. Two priests and three officials from the Ministry of Education and various city educational departments were part of the Civic and Ethical Values in Schools [...]

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Team ‘B’ Knows!

stjohnsacademysf.org — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:29:41 +0400

On May 19, at St. John’s annual “I Know” contest, Team B took the honors by answering 24 questions. Nina Avroneva, Sasha Kondratyeva, Jessica Makhlin, Daria Mushtaev, Steven Philipoff, Terence Triantafillidis and Captain Anya Jackovich were Team B’s winning members. The other three teams finished in a near dead heat for the runner up [...]

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Student Poets Published

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:14:29 +0400

Creative Communication from Logan UT has announced that 10 students from St. John’s have had their poems accepted for publication in the Spring 2008 poetry anthology. Since 1993 Creative Communication has sponsored writing contests for students across the United States and Canada. The students and their poems are as follows: Elizabeth Bozhich: “Spring” Anya Jackovich: “Spring” Paulie Jajeh: “Happy” Christian [...]

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Marine Sanctuaries Presentation

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:57:32 +0400

On April 17, 2008, an Educational Specialist from the National Marine Sanctuaries gave a presentation with hands-on activities to the elementary school students of St. John of SF Orthodox Academy. The name of the program is Webs Under Waves, and targets student in grades third through fifth. The program aims to increase awareness of the [...]

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Chess Club

stjohnsacademysf.org — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:05:05 +0400

The Chess Club was started at the beginning of Great Lent and include participants from Kindergarten through 5th grade. The club meets every day except Tuesdays from 2:30 - 3:15 p.m. Supervised by Mrs. Triantafillidis and Mr. Winslow, the competitors play three intense rounds in best-of-three tournaments. So far, the leader in the tournaments is Maria [...]

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Metropolitan Laurus reposes

stjohnsacademysf.org — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:08:01 +0300

On March 9, the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, our beloved Metropolitan Laurus reposed peacefully in the Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York.

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Science Fair Winners

stjohnsacademysf.org — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:10:31 +0300

Seventh grade students Steven Philipoff and Alex Nowak represented St. John’s Academy in the 26th annual San Francisco Science Fair, held at the Randall Musuem in late February. Over 250 students from 29 San Francisco middle schools paticipated this year. Steven won third place in the category of behavioral science for an experiment with silver [...]

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Administrators attend College Board Conference

stjohnsacademysf.org — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:44:59 +0300

Mrs. Kotar, Administrator, and Mr. Jepson, Dean of the High School, attended the 2008 Western Region College Board Forum in Newport Beach from February 25-27. The conference gave Mrs. Kotar and Mr. Jepson the opportunity to hear presentations from other educators about the challenges facing college preparatory schools like St. John’s as well as to [...]

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Grades 8-12 Visit NY City

stjohnsacademysf.org — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:55:09 +0300

Nine St. John’s students in grades 8-12 visited New York City from Feb. 19-22. Chaperoned by Latin teacher Anna Brenneis and Dean of the HS David Jepson, the group arrived early on Wednesday morning, Feb. 20. Upon arrival, Mrs. Brenneis took the rest of the students sight-seeing while Mr. Jepson and one student went to [...]

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S.F. Opera comes to St. John’s

stjohnsacademysf.org — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:02:25 +0300

This last January the San Francisco Opera guild brought Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold to our first through third grades. After being briefly introduced to the opera, the students were taught one of the opera’s main musical themes to actively participate while other students volunteered to come on stage and act. By turn, the [...]

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Guest Speaker: Mr. Bryan Smith

stjohnsacademysf.org — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:05:31 +0300

On January 21, 2008, St. John�s welcomed a guest speaker, Mr. Bryan Smith, the headmaster of St. Peter�s Classical Christian Academy in Fort Worth, Texas. St. Peter�s is a small K-12 Orthodox Christian day school like St. John�s, and consequenlty Mr. Smith had a good perspective on the kind of school we are. After visiting [...]

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Theophany 2008

stjohnsacademysf.org — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:48:10 +0300

On the feast of Theophany of our Lord, January 19, it is customary to bless the waters after the liturgy. As is usually done in the Cathedral, the procession around the church stops in the church courtyard, where a large font is set up full of water to be blessed. This year, the church [...]

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2007 Christmas Toy Collection

stjohnsacademysf.org — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:43:11 +0300

St. John�s students collected toys for less fortunate children of the city and together with Mrs. Triantafillidis, hand delivered the heavy load to the San Francisco Firefighters. Thank you to these students who helped bring gifts and a happy Christmas to deserving children of San Francisco.

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Christmas Program 2007

stjohnsacademysf.org — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:35:47 +0300

This year�s Christmas Program (Yolka) was a musical version of the Nutcracker, directed by Mr. Seraphim Winslow and Mrs. Veronika Bozhich. Students from grades K-6 participated by singing, dancing and acting. The wonderful performance was full of truly gifted actors and dancers. Following the play, St. John�s was honored with a visit from the [...]

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“A Christmas Carol” Performance

stjohnsacademysf.org — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:34:57 +0300

This year the 7th graders read Charles Dickens� A Christmas Carol in English class and were fortunate enough to attend the ACT production. Unlike past years, this years� production was special in that our 6th grader Mia Kalo played one of the characters. Under the guidance of their English teacher Mrs. Maximov, the students decided [...]

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“The Nutcracker” School Production

stjohnsacademysf.org — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:20:20 +0300

St. John’s students from grades K-6 are rehearsing for the annual Christmas school production of “The Nutcracker,” which will be performed on January 8 at 7:00 p.m. The performance is being directed by Mr. Seraphim Winslow, with the singing conducted by Mrs. Veronica Bozhich. The 5th grade students created a special poster for the event [...]

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Christmas Drive for Romanian Orphans

stjohnsacademysf.org — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:07:49 +0300

This week, the students of St. John’s collected clothes, toiletries, icons and toys for orphans in Romania. The St. Philothea Project is a non-profit organization that supports orphanages in Romania, and is collecting money and packages for the poor for this Christmas. One of our teachers, Nicholas Kotar, has spent two summers working in [...]

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St. John’s student in A Christmas Carol

stjohnsacademysf.org — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:01:38 +0300

St. John’s student Mia Kalo is a member of the cast of the American Conservatory Theater’s production of A Christmas Carol, currently (December, 2007) playing in downtown San Francisco at the A.C.T. theater. Mia plays Belinda Cratchit in this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ much-loved story. A 6th grade student at St. John’s, Mia has been [...]

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Russian Arts Festival, 2007

stjohnsacademysf.org — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:50:43 +0300

On October 29, 2007, the city of San Francisco hosted its 2nd annual Russian Arts Festival at City Hall. St. John’s students contributed a display of artwork produced during the year under the direction of Mrs. Armine Mukaelian and Mrs. Elena Winslow. After the festival, the school was presented with a Certificate of Honor recognizing [...]

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Trip to Monastery of St. John

stjohnsacademysf.org — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:56:59 +0300

Eight students, three teachers, and one parent from St. John’s Academy made a pilgrimage to the Monastery of St. John of San Francisco in Manton, California from November 5-7, 2007. Although both are dedicated to the same patron saint, the Monastery is affiliated with the Orthodox Church of America (OCA) and has no direct relationship [...]

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Faculty Profiles, 2007-08

stjohnsacademysf.org — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:35:13 +0400

A pdf file of the booklet showing information about St. John’s faculty members in the 2007-08 school year.

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The “Reigning” Mother of God Icon Visits the Cathedral

stjohnsacademysf.org — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:15:38 +0400

The 2007-2008 school year was blessed at the very beginning with a visit by the miraculous “Reigning” or “Derzhavnaya” icon of the Mother of God. This icon left Russia for the first time in history to visit parishes of the Church Abroad in celebration of the reestablishment of communion between the two parts of the [...]

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