To help the Upper School students better know new teachers to the Upper School (US) after a mostly remote year, several new teachers have answered the following questions.
“It is sad. There are many galleries that I know that are really good and they are privately run and privately owned and they have closed down. A lot of them have. The pandemic really has severely hurt physical galleries,” says Jenny Wright Champlin, a local artist whose work is currently displayed at Sequoia Gallery and Studios.
Book sales for Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novels “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera” and Sylvia Plaths’s “The Bell Jar” soared in the beginning of the pandemic. All three books focus on how solitude affects us as people. As the pandemic and quarantine has continued past people’s expectations, the selection of books has also changed.
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During this trying time, it is nice to have students back from universities for holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s.
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“Wildfires are a growing concern and will only grow in severity. I think this year's fires demonstrate we need an urban fire plan, not just another forest management plan,” Jennefer Yrugas, former employee of the Bureau for Land Management and ecologist wrote in an email.
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Catlin Gabel School’s (CGS) first ever Hispanic Affinity Group for the Upper School (US) will meet this year during the remote learning period.
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