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In celebration of its Centennial year, Columbus Academy is collecting stories, memories, anecdotes, historical footage and congratulatory messages from alumni and friends throughout the world.
Videos are presented by location, but you can also search by name or class year. Look for many more additions throughout 2011.
The purpose of this Centennial Video Project is to highlight the positive ways Academy has affected people’s lives and to chart the school’s reach across the globe.
Are you interested in sharing your story, remembering your favorite Academy moment or simply offering a happy birthday message? It’s simple.
Get Involved
We’d love for you to share your favorite Academy moment, explain the school’s impact on you or simply offer a congratulatory message.
There are several ways you can participate.
1. Show up at an upcoming alumni event and we’ll videotape you. We will be collecting footage at as many CA functions as possible throughout 2011. RSVP for all alumni activities to Jill Grube.
Our next scheduled alumni event is:
Event
2. Videotape yourself and e-mail the file to Bob Lee if it is digitized
and less than 10 M (megabytes). If the file size is larger than 10 M or is not digital, please mail the footage to:
Bob Lee, Director of Communications
Columbus Academy
4300 Cherry Bottom Rd
Gahanna, OH 43230
3. If you can’t make an event and don’t have access to a video camera, we still want you to contribute. Get in touch with our team and we’ll ship you a small, portable digital video camera so you can record your clip and then return it to us. The camera will include simple instructions for operation by anyone who can push a couple of buttons. E-mail Bob Lee for additional details or call 614-509-2222.
Columbus Academy will celebrate its Centennial in 2011.
Columbus Academy has much to celebrate in 2011 as the school reaches its 100th year. Academy's Centennial Celebration will include multiple events throughout the year, culminating in a 100th birthday party on Friday, September 23, 2011. We hope the year-long festivities will involve the entire Academy community: alumni and their parents and former teachers, current families and staff, supporters, neighbors and YOU!
Videos about historic events and special memories from Academy’s past.
Columbus Academy is one of the premier Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 coeducational college preparatory schools in the United States.
Our mission is to enrich the school’s academic tradition of excellence by valuing a broad diversity of students as we seek to develop the complete person: mind, body and character. The school rewards rigorous effort and accomplishment, fosters compassion, respect and moral courage, and insists on integrity, fair play and community service. Academy strives to develop and sustain a community of thoughtful, responsible, capable and confident citizens eager to engage in a pluralistic and ever-changing world.
Columbus Academy’s Centennial Celebration will include numerous events throughout the year and will involve all grade levels and sections of the school community.
Mark your calendars for the Centennial Gala on Saturday, April 9 - a memorable opportunity to reconnect with fellow alumni, parents, faculty, and staff. Travel through time as life at Academy is recreated...featuring a speakeasy, diner, Woodstock and cover-band concert by CA's own Scott Razek and the X-Ray Specs! Please click here for tickets and sponsorship information.
Centennial Posters commemorating Academy’s 100 years will be produced and displayed throughout campus. These displays will contain historical facts and photos that will be grouped into categories and themes relevant to the school’s long-standing traditions and more recent changes.
Centennial Snapshots, fun facts about Academy's history, are being shared in classrooms and assemblies throughout all three divisions in order to educate current students about the school's Centennial.
The upcoming spring musical will be “The Music Man,” which is based in the early 20th century around the time when Columbus Academy was founded. A special afternoon matinee on Sunday, May 1, 2011, will include a reception for alumni as well as a backstage tour and special seating.
A celebration on the actual 100th anniversary of Columbus Academy's opening day will take place on Friday, September 23, 2011. More information on this event will be released at a later date.
For more details and an expanded list of projects, please visit our Centennial Celebration page!
http://www.columbusacademy.org/about/centennial.aspx
Give $100 for the 100th.
Academy friends and alumni are encouraged to participate in the $100 for the 100th program for the 2010-11 Annual Fund. The goal for current parents, meanwhile, is 100 percent participation in the Annual Fund to honor the school’s Centennial.
Please click here to give securely online.
If you would like to learn more about the Annual Fund or ways to give, please contact the school’s Development Office at (614) 509-2228.
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Columbus Academy greeted a national television audience on ABC's "Good Morning America" to celebrate the school's 75th anniversary year in 1986.
Interested in participating in this video project?
We’re eager to capture as many Columbus Academy memories as possible.
If you are interested in contributing, you can e-mail your video to Bob Lee.
We will also be filming at several alumni events throughout the year.
Join us at the next CA event listed below.
If you can’t make it to one of our events but would still like to share your favorite Academy moment, explain the school’s impact on you or simply offer a congratulatory message, we have other ways to capture your story. Click here to get involved.
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