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Diving Into School, Reflecting on the Summer

Crossroads students and employees pursue passions, areas of interest.
As the new school year gets underway, Crossroads students and teachers will carry with them their enriching summer experiences.
 
Crossroads senior Eli Lesser, an active student journalist at the School, participated in a one-month sports journalism program through the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
 
For his final summer project, he published a multimedia report about Los Angeles as an epicenter of soccer enthusiasm in the United States.
 
“The point of the curriculum was to learn multi-platform storytelling specifically for sports,” Eli says.
 
Fifth-grade student Lyra Majumdar elevated her activism after learning about migrant children being separated from their families. To raise awareness, she made 100 flowers out of tissue paper and put them on display in the lobby of the Elementary School building.
 
“This action seemed very unjust and cruel and I wanted to find a way to graphically show the saddening situation,” she writes in the statement accompanying her installation. “I hope the contrast between the dainty, colorful flowers and the harsh wire crate helps us imagine the helplessness and claustrophobia of the children.”
 
Drama teacher Scott Weintraub, who is also the father of an alumnus and a current Crossroads grandparent, helped to organize a slate of reunion shows in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, featuring key players from the city’s theater scene in the 1970s and ’80s.
 
“When we started singing those songs we’d sung so long ago, it was like turning back time,” he says in a Portsmouth Herald article about the reunion. “When you’ve worked with someone so long, you have a connection, and it all came back. It was just magical.”
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