The Arts at Haverford

By Bruce Adams, MainLineMediaNews.com
Junior Nelson Liu won The Haverford School Poetry Out Loud competition and represented the school at the regional championship in Philadelphia Jan. 27, where he finished runner-up. He is president of the Jazz Band; principal second violin of the String Ensemble; a member of the Hephaestus Society; and a member of the Spanish and Latin Language Honors Societies. A versatile athlete, he is coxswain on the Haverford crew team and a diver on the swimming team, which just won its second consecutive Inter-Ac title.

Students from nine local schools submitted entries for The Gladwyne Library League's 45th Annual Junior Author Contest. First- through fifth-graders competed in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The Haverford School writers won 22 awards – 10 nonfiction, nine fiction, and three poetry! Each winner received a book supplied by Children's Book World in Haverford and will have their work bound and housed in the Gladwyne Free Library.

The national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards recognized several Haverford School students for their work. In writing, judged locally by the Philadelphia Writing Project, 19 student-writers earned three Gold Keys, nine Silver Keys, and 14 Honorable Mentions in the categories of Personal Essay/Memoir, Journalism, Poetry, Short Story, and Critical Essay. Judged locally by the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership at The University of the Arts, nine student artists were recognized in the categories of Photography, Digital Art, Painting, and Architecture & Industrial Design, earning two Gold Keys, 11 Silver Keys, and five Honorable Mentions.