New Creative Arts and Design Center opens at Menlo School
Menlo School has opened a new, two-story 40,000 square foot facility for art, music, drama, photography and movie-making. The Creative Arts and Design Center, previously housed in the oldest buildings...
View ArticleBaseball player turned researcher, Jack Mosbacher believes it’s his...
Graduate from Stanford with honors in June — check. Get a job that comes with a 12th floor office in Hoover Tower — check. It’s no wonder that Jack Mosbacher is smiling. The Menlo School grad grew up...
View ArticleMenlo School selects new Head of School
Nathaniel (Than) Healy has been appointed Head of School at Menlo School in Atherton, effective July 1, 2013. Healy comes to Menlo from the Lakeside School in Seattle where he currently serves as...
View ArticleAudience gets into the action at Menlo School’s “The Wedding of the Year”
How often can you attend a play — and eat dinner? That’s what happens during the Menlo School production of The Wedding of the Year, which has three performances this weekend. “We start out in the...
View ArticleMenlo School classmates create public service video on water conservation...
The Public Service Announcement (PSA) on water conservation that Menlo School seniors Alec Oswald and Jeremy Stern produced and directed last summer was selected to be screened at the 2nd Annual...
View ArticleMenlo School junior Josh Lauder tutors seniors on tech savvy techniques
If you think older adults are not digitally connected, you’re wrong. Nearly 70% of adults 65+ use mobile phones, more than half use email, and a third of older Internet users are on Facebook,...
View ArticleThe 39 Steps presented by Menlo School Drama Department Jan. 31 – Feb. 2
Menlo School’s Upper School Drama Department is presenting The 39 Steps directed by Mark Newton this weekend at Florence Moore Auditorium. In the production, “Hitchcock meets secret agents who plot to...
View ArticleMenlo Invitational Orchestra Festival features free concert on March 9
Menlo School sophomore Shea Ketsdever, the Upper School’s Orchestra Assistant Conductor, directs the first-ever Menlo Invitational Orchestra Festival on Saturday, March 9. School orchestras from...
View ArticleMenlo School present Monty Python’s Spamalot outdoors the first two weekends...
Menlo Upper School’s drama department presents Spamalot as its annual Outdoor Spring Musical this year. Performances are scheduled for May 3, May 4, May 5, May 10 and May 11, all starting at 8:00 pm —...
View ArticleSummerArts@Menlo debuts at Menlo School offering classes in creative arts
Menlo School is launching the inaugural season of SummerArts@Menlo, offering classes in a variety of creative arts disciplines, include collage, sculpture and photography, iPad art, rock band, hip hop...
View ArticleAlexander Barantschik and Alona Tsoi in recital at Menlo School on Aug. 25
Menlo School is inviting the community to a fundraiser for the school’s orchestra’s travel scholarship fund. The violin recital, with music by Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, featuring Alexander...
View ArticleBroadway director Steven Minning comes to Menlo School to present Little Shop...
Broadway director and choreographer Steven Minning brings more than 30 years of professional experience to direct the high school musical production of Little Shop of Horrors at Menlo School this...
View ArticleMenlo School presents Thornton Wilder’s Our Town Feb. 6-9
The Menlo School Drama Department is presenting Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Our Town, in the Florence Moore Auditorium on the Menlo School campus, 50 Valparaiso Avenue,...
View ArticleMenlo School’s Mock Trial team wins state championship
Menlo School’s Mock Trial team won the Constitutional Rights Foundation California State Competition this past Sunday. Menlo’s prosecution team beat out three-time defending state champions LaReina...
View ArticleTennis team at Menlo School launches Ace-athon to benefit EPA Tennis and...
The Menlo School boys’ tennis team is closely tracking its aces this year — and not for statistical reasons. The Knights are holding their inaugural Menlo School Ace-athon, a season-long benefit for...
View ArticleTrio of Menlo School spring sports teams named CCS scholastic championships
Three Menlo School spring sports teams were named Central Coast Section Scholastic Champions and four other teams made the top five of those with the highest collective grade-point average in their...
View ArticleMenlo School boys’ tennis team donates $10,000 to East Palo Alto Tennis and...
Nearly two months after the Menlo School boys’ tennis players brought home the NorCal team title, they gathered to make one more delivery. This time, they were at Stanford for the Bank of the West...
View ArticleMenlo School’s Robert Miranda runs the Summer Scamper to raise money for...
Menlo School’s Robert Miranda, who is coming off a sophomore season in which he had a podium finish at state in cross country and took fourth in the 3200 at CCS, has been preparing for his next run...
View ArticleMenlo School freshman Aaron Morgan is semifinalist in international video...
Menlo School freshman Aaron Morgan is a semifinalist in the Breakthrough Prize Junior Challenge. The community is asked to vote on Facebook to help him reach the finals. The Breakthrough Prize Junior...
View ArticleAudience decides how Menlo School production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood ends
Menlo Drama is presenting the five-time Tony Award-winning interactive, musical whodunit The Mystery of Edwin Drood, based upon the unfinished Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Performances run...
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