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Chef Scott Cuts the Canola!

Quick: What is a canola? 

Don't know? Read here. 

SBA Chef Scott White read the article and has cut canola entirely from the student/athlete diet. 


"I have been doing a lot of health research over the last few years, and I am implementing some of the ideas I'm learning," said White.

In addition to tailoring the menu to meet the nutritional and caloric needs of the SBA student/athlete, Chef Scott has put SBA on the culinary cutting edge with such moves.

He also has hopes of designing and delivering a culinary arts program to the SBA campus one day. 

Scott has a particular affinity for ethnic foods, having lived in Europe in his childhood and traveled in Southeast Asia. He is a skier, having learned to ski first in Austria and later raced in the Far West. He has lived for 10 years in Serene Lakes and cooked locally for Ice Lakes Lodge, Dragonfly (sushi chef), and Red Truck. 

"It's the place I've lived the longest. It’s gorgeous, it’s quiet, the air quality is incredible.


"And snow is a magical thing."

One of his recent hit dishes was an inspiration all his own that he called "Italian Shepherd’s Pie."

"I made it up that day: sausage and zucchini, mushrooms, tomatoes topped with polenta and then baked.

"I’ve been doing this stuff long enough that I have formulas I feel confident about, so I can throw seasonal ingredients in and make it happen.

"The hard part is naming my creations." 

SBA Student/Athletes Take Charge of Pledge Makeover

Pilar Alvarez, Luke Rodarte, and Colter Fellows sign
the SBA Student/Athlete Pledge

Charged with a mission from Head of School Tracy Keller, a small volunteer committee of student/athletes from each grade level began meeting last spring to reevaluate and rewrite SBA's Student/Athlete Pledge. 


The pledge, said Keller, had become outdated and "seemed distant, adultish, and hard to understand.


"We basically started from scratch and brainstormed a list of things that are important to our community and important to remember as SBA students.  


"A few areas the kids thought of that I never would have included are the fact that it was a privilege to attend SBA and that it’s an opportunity to always keep in perspective.  


"We had some really insightful conversations as a small group and then presented a first draft (written mainly by Steven Tetrault and Cassidy Cichowicz) to the whole school during an all school meeting.


"The committee took feedback and made a few alterations to the pledge, and it was ultimately reviewed by staff before being published."


The final product, signed by all SBA student/athletes at a Village Hill formal dinner and pledge ceremony last week, can be seen below. 

Finally, kudos and many thanks from the entire SBA community to Chef Scott for a wonderful dinner!

Celebrando el cinco de mayo

Maya Crosby made this piñata rana

Is it crass commercialization or a true cultural celebration? 


Is el cinco de mayo Mexican Independence Day? (Hint: NOT!!!)


Bria Riggs addressed the SBA student body on the subject of el cinco de mayo at All School Meeting on Friday, and the celebration of the unlikely defeat of French forces by a small Mexican fighting contingent in Puebla on May 5, 1862, was in full swing on campus today. 

papel picado

The eighth-grade advisory contributed papel picado while Student Council planned a piñata bashing that ended with one mighty swing from Steven el Trueno Tetrault. Chef Molly chipped in her Mexican culinary expertise with a tasty burrito bar. 


And, on the related subject of the Spanish language, an SBA Spanish 3 class, with considerable iMovie expertise from Chuck Klein, produced the embedded movie below. 


The scenario: a fortune-teller (Chris Fitzpatrick) gives various clients (Maya Crosby, Joe Piercy, Chuck Klein, and Conner Evans) some good and bad news about what he sees in their respective futures. 

SBA Unplugged

Talent Show MC Devin Gill congratulates winner Steven Tetrault

Talk about eclectic music tastes...


The 2011 SBA Talent Show/Kick It Community Dinner this week featured student performances of music by Frank Sinatra (Fly Me to the Moon), Charlie Daniels (The Devil Went Down to Georgia), Plain White T's (the Rhythm of Love), John Newton (Amazing Grace) and Jane Taylor (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star). 


"I didn't know that there was so much musical talent on campus," Head of School Tracy Keller told the student body at the conclusion of the evening's entertainment.


"The SBA Talent Show has come a long way since its inception here."


Taking top podium honors at the Student Council-sponsored event was Steven Tetrault, who delivered an impassioned recitation of his original poem, Opus/Vox Populi. 


Student Council Vice President Dylan Murtha was the driving student force behind the event, said SC Faculty Advisor Aly Kendall.


"Without Dylan, it would not have gone as well as it did. He not only performed - and quite memorably, I might add - but he also took the lead in recruiting and motivating other people on campus to perform."


Enjoy the video footage, as well as a text taste of Steven's poem found at the bottom of this post. 









And now, as promised, an excerpt from Steven Tetrault's original poem Opus/Vox Populi, posted here with the author's permission:

We all have the potential for greatness or weakness - to accept our stations in life and wither away;

Or stand united and build as one hand, one heart, one soul.

To raze Babel’s great misadventure,

Or take its broken bricks and rebuild Jericho’s gates; undo the tragedies of eternity.

We are born with our own potentials, ready to [ab]use them as willed by ourselves.

There are these hidden truths in everything around us.

The rules that can be broken, laws for manipulation;

Those who know them, and those who stumble into things greater than themselves.

We all have the yearnings of possibilities yet to be, yet to have been;

Allusions to the realities beneath and above, and through our own. Metaphors.

Dwell not in the mistakes of the past but in the promises of the future;

History and time will absolve us all of our mistakes.

Revel in the beauty of the profound and infinite universe,

The power of physics, the grace of mathematics;

The quantum miracle microcosms that build planets and galaxies and the blush in the infant son’s cheek.

These are the true reasons to live.

We all know the victories of problems greater than any one man; any one woman; any one child or person.

Courage is looking across the void of temporality to just LOVE.