RE Log - Fall 2022

34 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2022 Middle School Raider Band rocks at Swenson Hall Photography students sweep Beaux Arts awards The Middle School Raider Band honored various members of the Ransom Everglades community during a spring performance filled with lively pieces and fun surprises. The band’s final concert of the school year, “Songs of ‘Honor and Excellence’” on May 12 began with a slideshow recognizing staff and faculty, and it included guest appearances by a sixth-grade rock band and two-person faculty rock band that performed with ... actual rocks. The band students showed their progress and versatility, performing on the traditional band instruments and some non-traditional ones. Band members provided occasional vocal accompaniment, as well as hand-clapping and foot-stomping, and the last piece, “Junk Funk,” included four drummers working their magic on overturned paint buckets. Interim Head of the Middle School Karen Thompson and math teacher Alina Mendoza took the stage to accompany the band on piano and by pounding rocks together in a piece appropriately called “Geology: The Study of Rock.” Sixth-grade students in the RE Rock Band – Harlan Hoenig ’28 (singer), Israel Garcia ’28 (piano), Isaac Zide ’28 (bass), Lucas Noblet ’28 (drums) – played “Wish You Were Here” and “Let it Be,” and eighth graders Edwin Carr ’26 (trombone) and Emilia Awad ’26 (flute) performed solos in celebration of their “graduation” from the middle school band. Throughout, band director Cathi Leibinger shared with the audience details about each piece. She also summoned newly accepted RE students in the audience, and those who expect to attend in the future, to the stage for a welcome and their first RE cookies. Ransom Everglades students swept the top awards in high school photography at 2022 Beaux Arts Student Art Showcase as seven RE students won recognition for photography, painting or mixed media. In photography, Christian Sosa ’22 won first place; Bea Ribadeneira ’23 earned second place; and Denise Suarez ’23 claimed honorable mention. Karyna Steele ’23 won honorable mention in mixed media. The awards were announced at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami. Rylan Sadler ’23 was a finalist in the photography category, and Nolan Wu ’24 and Kerryn Xu ’22 were finalists in painting. The students were taught by photography teacher Matt Stock and art teacher Astrid Dalins. Denise Suarez ’23 Trapped Beatriz Ribadeneira ’23 Native Safari Christian Sosa ’22 Puppet Rylan Sadler ’22 Solheimasandur Secret On Campus