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For this year’s spring musical, the Harker Conservatory returned to a familiar favorite, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” directed by Laura Lang-Ree. Set in pre-statehood Oklahoma in the summer of 1906, the production centers around the love triangle between Laurey Williams (Cecilia Lang-Ree,...

Harker’s eighth annual Research Symposium drew more than 400 attendees, who marveled at the many exhibits, student presentations, breakout sessions and guest speakers that have made the symposium into one of the school’s signature events, unique for being organized largely by the student-run WiSTEM,...

Harker community members were devastated when told Monday afternoon that longtime employee Sandy Padgett, co-director and founder of the upper school’s college counseling department, was killed in an incident in her Redwood City home late Sunday night. School counselors, as well as grief counselors...

Lower, middle and upper school instrumentalists displayed their talents for an evening audience at the Spring Concert, held Apr. 12 at the Mexican Heritage Theater in San Jose. Students performed in various groups, performing orchestral music from a wide selection of styles and time periods. Toni Woodruff...

It was again a successful year at the Synopsys Championship for Harker middle and upper school students. Andrew Jin, grade 10, in the bioinformatics category, and Anika Radia-Dixit, grade 12, in medicine/health/gerontology, were both awarded grand prizes and an expenses-paid trip to the Intel International...

Each year Harker holds its Teacher Institute as the school year wraps up and this year, it will be led by Lisa Diffenderfer, Scott Kley Contini and Diane Main, all of the instructional technology department. The event, June 8 this year, features presentations by Harker teachers on a wide variety of...

This story was submitted by middle school Latin teacher Lisa Masoni and upper school Latin teacher Scott Paterson. Over the weekend of March 16, Harker Junior Classical League (JCL) students headed south to Sage Hill School to attend the JCL State Convention. They enjoyed workshops, fellowship with Latin...

This article was originally published in the spring 2013 Harker Quarterly. The lights dim and spies climb on the runway to gather in front of a dark screen. A hooded figure flickers to life on a video screen and, with a disguised voice, tells the agents to find out the secret to Harker’s success. The...

This article was originally published in the spring 2013 Harker Quarterly. What began as a holiday seasonal community project has evolved into a larger, new schoolwide outreach program called HarKare (Harker Cares). HarKare launched with its first project, making ornaments to accompany classroom Christmas...

This article was originally published in the spring 2013 Harker Quarterly. January 29 will go down in Harker history as the day school administrators were handed an official set of keys to the long coveted new campus property on Union Avenue in San Jose. Sharing the historic accomplishment with the Harker...