National Junior and National Honor Society Ceremony
We are pleased to recognize this year’s National Junior and National Honor Society inductees, who are now part of these two important international student organizations. They were chosen for excelling in the areas of scholarship, leadership, service, and character. Well done tigers!
We would also like to highlight last year’s inductees and the wonderful work they have been doing so far!
2020-2021 National Junior Honor Society Inductees
Daniela Páez
Tatiana Puche
Catalina Diago
Cristina García
Angela Rodríguez
Valentina Polo
India Illich
Verónica Juliao
María Lucía García
Isabella Ritzel
Isabella Alonso
Hanna Haddad
Estefanía Rojo
Manuela Serrano
Juliana Sagbini
Maria Fernanda Peralta
Sophia Merizalde
Antonio Amador
Jordan Oliver
2020-2021 National Honor Society Inductees
Juliana Dangond Cadavid
Ivanna Carvajales Tarud
Sabrina Raad del Risco
Mariana Delgado Escolar
Anaís Castro Ricardo
Emma Dangond Castro
Anna Cristina Tirado España
Leonardo Isaac De Medeiros
Sofía Sales Pinto
Alejandro García Castro
Nicolás Diago Polo
María Márquez Tamara
Michelle Haddad Herrera
Manolo Sarabia Sarabia
Carlos Siman Saieh
Martin Riveira Vergara
Alejandro Correa Cavalheiro
Salomón Salcedo Fernández
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“El Tigre y los niños”: Una actividad del Atelier
Recordar es traer tesoros del pasado al presente. Hoy estamos nostálgicos y quisimos revivir una de las maravillosas experiencias de nuestros estudiantes en su paso por este maravilloso lugar.
Haciendo honor a JJ el KCP Tiger, recordamos una linda historia que nuestros cubs más jóvenes contaron y dibujaron, sobre el origen de esta maravillosa mascota. ¡El KCP Tiger está vivo!
Disfruta a continuación de esta hermosa narración, salida de la imaginación de nuestros niños:
Sara: “El Tigre y los niños”
Fuad: Había una vez un tigre que se fue en bus para el Colegio Parrish.
Daniel: Cuando llegó, lo llamaron para que esté encima de una cosa cuadrada para que todos lo conozcan.
Ari: El tigre que se quedó en el colegio, le echaron un polvo con arcilla que lo dejó quieto
Felipe: para que todos lo conozcan como la mascota del colegio.
Carlotta: El tigre estaba adentro de la estatua,
Andy: cuando estaba adentro de la estatua, pasó la noche hasta el día.
Elena: El tigre llegó al parque en la noche,
Frankie: después se fue a la cafetería,
Dani: y se quedó en el colegio para siempre.
Tere: El tigre se quedó como estatua y por la noche salió por el colegio a buscar comida.
Cami: Cuando se volvió de día se puso en estatua.
Milán: En la noche se volvía de verdad, oliendo y oliendo, porque el colegio huele a niños y a plantas.
Salomón: Después, un niño se quedó todo el día para ver al tigre,
Amalia: nadie sabía que el niño se quedó.
Valentina: El niño se escondió detrás de la montaña para que nadie lo viera porque quería ver si el tigre rugía fuerte.
Juan Pablo: Ese niño estaba en quinto y tenía 12 años, era un niño alto.
Juan Felipe: El niño salió de la montaña, buscó al tigre por todo el parque y encontró al tigre subiendo un árbol grande.
Isa: El niño y el tigre hablaron de cosas del colegio importantes.
Juan Pablo B: El niño le preguntó al tigre que cómo vino al colegio,
Isa: y también el tigre le dijo al niño que hay que cuidar a las iguanas y a todos los animales de la granja;
Ivanna: le dijo que hay que cuidar a los profesores y los amigos, y que hay que cuidar a todos los del colegio.
Rodri: El tigre le dijo que todos los amigos tienen que tener todos los valores y así se ganan las medallas.
Victoria: El tigre se sintió feliz por haber conocido al niño.
Gabriela: De día, el tigre vea los niños, carros, árboles y la madres.
Juanita: Y escucha los pasos de los pies de los niños.
María: Los niños se montan en la estatua,
Raúl: cuando están montados en la estatua sienten la brisa y se sienten cómodos y altos.
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Our Extracurricular Sports Activities are Back!
We’re back! Monday, September 6 will mark the beginning of our extracurricular sports activities. We are excited to be able to see our Tigers back on the courts, roaring stronger and louder than ever!
Check out the final schedules for each sport!
“That Man from California”: An article from the 1967 Parrish Crier Newspaper
Our Board of Trustees member Mr. James Spinner, Alumni of our class of 1969, generously gifted KCP a great treasure and what was surely a beloved collection of memorabilia from his years as a Tiger and Culture Editor of the Parrish Crier, the student-led school newspaper, today known as El Milenio!
Mr. Spinner shipped KCP his collection of original copies of the Parrish Crier, dating back to 1962 and, as we curiously went through all of them with the utmost care as not to tear the delicate paper apart, we stumbled upon a wonderful interview with Dr. Fox in the May 30, 1967 edition. So, to continue honoring his legacy, we have transcribed it entirely so you can continue enjoying the story of this wonderful man who did so much for our School.
Enjoy!
That Man From California
In California, not so long ago as many think, a boy was born and went to school. He organized a newspaper, promoted boxing matches, and made fairly good grades, at the same time. He didn’t study very hard unless a subject really interested him, because his mind was on jobs and work. He lived in an average home but to him it was something special. His mother was from Massachusetts, his father from Texas, but he is a “native son of California”. Although he had one brother and one sister, he had a great deal of responsibility ever since he could remember. This situation benefited him and he had few illusions concerning money. His young ambition was security for his existing and future family. The boy was not yet out of school.
He entered private enterprise immediately after his graduation from high school, but the war began and he joined the Marine Corps. During the years spent in service his outlook changed and he decided that he wanted more of an education.
He considered himself an “old man” by the time he began studying at San Diego State College. His subject area was social sciences in which he majored. He got a degree in secondary education and was qualified to teach anything in high school. He started teaching in San Diego, where he taught history and speech.
Our man disliked the idea of getting into a big school system, such as in the United States. He knew the disadvantages of a small system, such as no central office to call for a substitute or books, but his personality wouldn’t allow him to fall into a routine where there was no challenge. When he was offered a job in Medellin, New Zealand, and Tanganyika, he chose Medellin because it intrigued him.
His pay in the bi-national school there was one third less than he’d been receiving in San Diego. He was aware that “you’re not in the game for money”. The year was 1962 and he was teaching, at the school in Medellin: History, Geography, English and P.E. He was also in charge of the high school activities, primarily Student Council and Newspaper.
His contract was for 2 years and in 1964, Bogota offered him the job as high school principal in Nueva Granada. In June, of the same year, Colegio Karl C. Parrish asked our man to come and look at Barranquilla because “the man who planned to come kind of unplanned overnight”. He looked, they talked and the contract was signed. Bogota was understanding and released him. Between June and August he flew to Barranquilla three times to set up schedules for classes and to interview teachers.
Burton Fox was now the director of K.C.P. He had a great deal of problems and work ahead but he anticipated them as a job to be done. “There’s no merit, this is the challenge, you can’t goof off and still move up the scale.”
As he became more involved in the school, things started to happen. His benefit was a mental satisfaction when it was finished, just having been a part in the creation of something. Our benefit was a remodeled building, a working Student Council and Newspaper, an enlarged faculty, and many other improvements and innovations. During the time he spent as our principal he was offered three other director jobs which he didn’t accept. He believes that “when you come to do a job, you stay and get it done.”
In June of 1964, nine teachers had been needed for a cult of 25; this year in April, only 2 were needed for a faculty of 32. A cast improvement in three years.
When his two year contract with K.C.P. was up, he was offered another one year contract. It was understood that after this he was planning on continuing his studies towards his Ph. D.
Then a new idea of supervising the bi-national schools of Colombia was conceived. All during the Christmas holidays of 1966, Mr. Fox was in Washington, Tuscaloosa, and here working out how it would function and the role each school would play. Officially this program has been in effect since January 1 with Mr. Fox being the superintendent. It consists of the schools in Barranquilla, Cartagena, and Medellin, and there is a possibility of others joining later on. It’s hoped that this program will offer a continuity to the diverse school programs heretofore not found in many of the schools. (More detailed information on this program can be found elsewhere in this issue).
When he began his studies in the graduate courses of the university of Alabama, Mr. Fox took a psychoanalytical exam. The results, as interpreted by a machine, said he would be “miserable as a scientist” and should enter one of the two fields: education or theology. Mr. Fox is a convert to catholicism since the war and he said speculatively, “ Maybe after I retire in this business, I should go out and be Billy Grahman.”
He likes bi-national work “for it really accomplishes a purpose for the people involved. The best move I ever made in my life was coming to Colombia.”
“I think the school now has laid such a firm base, not just because of me, that we’ll really be able, next year, to enjoy the products of the labors of the students, teachers, administrators and Board.”
Many people wonder what Mr. Fox does in his spare time. But how much leisure is there in an 18-hour day of conferences, often between countries? Very little, I’m sure.
But when he’s really tired out and he wants to relax he takes off for a while in a car, alone, to the country, on good roads. “ If 200 turns out to be 2,000, fine!” During these trips he has time to think about what he’s doing and decide whether there’s a better way to work out a program or a problem. This psychoanalysis is important to him for, as he stated, “there are too many lives involved”. He also enjoys visiting with people knowledgeable in U.S. politics but, “ If you enjoy your work it’s the only relaxing you need”.
Burton Fox has never married but he doesn’t doubt it will happen, in fact, he thinks, “It’s a tremendous possibility”, if he doesn’t get “too old or grey”. “There are many times when you’re around youngsters that you want some of your own. I’ve been advising other people for quite a while about raising their kids. I’d like to see where I’d make my mistakes”.
Shannon Smith and Wilson Breeden.
Co-Editors of the Parrish Crier
Student newspaper
Volume 3 , Number 7, Barranquilla, Colombia, May 30, 1967
Read MoreImproving Environmental Conditions in Barranquilla
Our eighth-graders made posters showing a problem related to the atmosphere on earth and created a proposal addressed to the Mayor & Governor in order to improve environmental conditions.
This interesting project was developed alongside the Royal School with their intercollegiate project. With these posters, KCP is making a contribution to the project, under the theme “Improving Environmental Conditions in Barranquilla”.
Go Tigers!
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The Roar: Our Elementary Newspaper – Read the Summer Issue
The latest issue of The Roar features tons of fun content, including a special goodbye interview with Mrs. Kunkel, conducted by our students.
Check it out!
https://sites.google.com/kcparrish.edu.co/the-roar-vol4/front-page?authuser=0
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1st Annual Paper Airplane Competition
Our First Annual Paper Airplane competition for Grades (3-5) was lots of fun! Students had a chance to design and test their own planes and learn about forces on flight and design. The finals took take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 8th and 9th, at the School’s Elementary Gym and was broadcasted live for everyone at home.
Meet our first KCP TOP GUN winners Sebastian Riveira from 3A and Jose Ignacio Marquez 5B.
Take a look at their site: https://sites.google.com/kcparrish.edu.co/kcptopgun/home
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First version of the Iguana Tales Contest
Great readers make great writers! To encourage our students to showcase their creative writing power, Burton B. Fox Library opened the first version of the Iguana Tales Contest in February of this year. Stories and poems ranging from cats to tulips to extraterrestrials were received from second to twelfth-grade students.
After close examination by an independent panel of judges, ten entries were cataloged as outstanding. Congratulations to these outstanding writers and poets among us! Soon printed copies of their work will be available for check out at Burton B. Fox Library.
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Dismantling the myths of Covid-19: Vaccination and Next Phase
Check out this interesting interview, conducted by 11th graders, Juan Camilo Abello, Sophia Thielman, and Oriana Lamboglia with Dr. Hernando Baquero, Dean of the Science Division of Health of the Universidad del Norte. This initiative, led by the KCP Green Club and Key Club, seeks to provide information on the next phase and care that we must take as a community in this new stage of COVID-19.
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High School Global Issues Network
Our High School Tigers were divided into 5 teams and each group worked on developing their GIN (Global Issues Network) project, which aims to raise awareness of a global issue and how it affects local communities.
Our 9th and 10th graders talked about the issues which they feel passionate about, showcasing their GIN projects. Listen to the conferences they prepared by clicking the links below:
Group 2 Climate Change
Group 5 Water Deficit
Group 3 Educational Poverty
Group 4 Poverty