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news of the school ming taught oxelson to pursue a goal, and endowed him with life lessons he reflects upon in his work with adolescents and young adults. “My experience as an olympic hopeful taught me about following a dream, setting goals, maintaining discipline and overcoming obstacles. although it was a dream i was never able to fulfill, i met the challenge head on. it also helped me build enough self-esteem to get through my adolescent years.” He wrote. “Many thought that swimming in college was a foregone conclusion for me,” said oxelson of his own college application process. but a high school counselor sensed oxelson’s doubts about focusing primarily on swimming in college. The future admissions counselor chose to attend the University of San francisco. “That was a turning point. The Jesuit experience is about recognizing the uniqueness of each individual as well as encouraging growth intellectually. it is also about recognizing one’s responsibility to help those in need,” oxelson said. His education, he added, helped him recognize the value of his own uniqueness, and reconcile with the fact that it was natural for him to experience complications—because and, what about that Trivial pursuit card? That’s a detail of his story oxelson didn’t write. in fact, he only learned his name was in the 2006 edition of the game after a student at Harvard-Westlake reported finding it on a card when she played the game with friends. oxelson contacted gamea PaSSion foR HELPinG STuDEnTS maker Hasbro, and the company sent at USf oxelson was a leader in him the card. visitors to the Horace student affairs and athletics. He also Mann School college counseling “became inspired by the ideals of equal office find it floating in lucite on the access and opportunity, he said.” Upon Director’s desk. “it’s a nice little icegraduation canh was offered a posibreaker,” he said, in his quest to make tion in the USf office of admissions. “i students feel comfortable. loved helping young people figure out To learn the reason behind the card, what they wanted to do with their lives readers will have to “google” HM’s and where they wanted to go to gain new college counseling Director by the basis for their future goals. i was name. it has to do with a sideline he passionate.” embarked upon to help pay for gradunearly 20 years later canh oxelson ate school. Here’s a hint from that has brought that passion to Horace game card: “Who does canh oxelson … Mann School, and Horace Mann is impersonate at corporate golf outings?” already the beneficiary. a recognized and here’s another: because of that presence at assemblies, games, or in celebrity’s off-the-golf-course excesses the audience at student performances, oxelson’s impersonating gigs pretty he also contributes to Horace Mann ini- much dried up. That leaves him ample tiatives concerning community service, time for his ample workload at Horace diversity, and intellectual engagement— Mann—and for being as much a part of quickly filling the pages of this newest the Horace Mann School community as chapter in the story of his life. he loves to be. $ his complications stemmed from a complicated life. The opportunity to return to vietnam in 2005 with other operation babylift “alumni” was another turning point that further helped cahn understand the historic influences that contributed to his identity. Timothy Ho and Monica Merlo are Honored with 2011 Tina and David Bellet Teaching Excellence Awards a cknowledging teachers at Horace Mann School is a timehonored HM tradition. but, one night a year the school has the chance to single out teachers who inspire the entire HM community. That’s the night of the Tina and David bellet Teaching excellence awards. The 2011 bellet Dinner celebrated the awardees—Monica Merlo, lower Division foreign languages teacher, and Middle and Upper Division music teacher and Glee club director Timothy Ho. The teaching expertise of all the nominees was also highlighted. They included lower Division science teacher Katie Diaz, lower and nursery Division music teacher barbara Marin, and Upper Division english teacher Harry bauld. These recognitions are possible through the generosity of Tina and David bellet. The parents of alumni Suzanne bellet price ’96 and Stacey bellet ’00, the bellets have supported and strengthened Horace Mann School since their daughters enrolled in its nursery Division. The Tina and David bellet award for Teaching excellence enhances teaching at Horace Mann school by encouraging great teaching, and by promoting the teaching enterprise within the HM community, explained Dr. barbara Tischler, Director of curriculum and Horace mann magazine Winter 2012 31

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Horace Mann - Winter 2012

Horace Mann - Winter 2012
Contents
Letters
Greetings from Dr. Tom Kelly
Greetings from Melissa Parento ’90
Horace Mann School’s 125th Anniversary Observances Begin
Strategic Thinking
New Initiatives in Institutional Research and Admissions
HM's New Director of College Counseling
Timothy HO and Monica Merlo are 2011 Tina and Dave Bellet Teaching Excellence Award Winners
Langfan Oratorical Contest, 2011
Horace Mann School Graduates 178 in June, 2011
Alumni Council Corner
Bookshelf
Class Notes
Memorials
Philanthropy and You

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