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Big thanks to all who bought or sold Grand Drawing tickets for this year’s Peace Love Picnic! We sold over 40,000 tickets with the help of students, parents, teachers and staff. The Grand Drawing is a long-standing picnic tradition that allows everyone to pitch in and contribute to the fundraising...

You might wonder how the Harker Family & Alumni Picnic became such a time-honored tradition at Harker, celebrating sixty years and still so much fun. Well, the reason is simple. It’s the people! There are so many individuals to thank, who genuinely love the picnic – the hard-working, talented,...

On October 10, the 60th Harker Family & Alumni Picnic, Peace Love Picnic, unfolded on a beautiful and warm afternoon, the sound of Harker choirs and bands blending with the chatter of young and old enjoying a perfect fall day on the ’60s-themed middle school campus. This year the picnic featured...

The eighth Harker Fashion Show is coming! This year brings some changes to this annual extravaganza, but what won’t be any different is the spectacular fashion show, the delicious lunch and dinner, the opportunity to bid on fabulous prizes, and of course the chance to “see and be seen” and mingle...

This story first appeared in the Winter edition of the Harker Quarterly. Lifetime trustee and former head of school Diana Nichols has accepted the position of chair of the Harker Board of Trustees. Nichols was instrumental in building Harker into the world-class school it is today in tandem with her...

This story first appeared in the Winter edition of the Harker Quarterly. Glance around the Saratoga campus and you will notice significant upgrades — a 3,803-square-foot library, a 40-car parking lot with two adjoining sport courts, and a 1,600-square-foot deck off Shah Hall. But the renovations...

This story first appeared in the Winter edition of the Harker Quarterly. The official opening of the John Near Resource Center took place in early November, attended by a score or more family, students, staff, alumni and friends. The center, located in Shah Hall, adjacent to Near’s former classroom,...

This story first appeared in the Winter edition of the Harker Quarterly. Harker’s energy manager dashboard is now live online at: http://www.harker.org/page.cfm?p=1534. The tool displays the energy consumption measured by the smart meters installed at the upper and lower school campuses and gives detailed...

Several open houses were held at all three campuses in November and December, to give interested parents an insight into life as a Harker student. At the upper school open houses on Nov. 7 and Dec. 2, students gave presentations on school work and shared their experiences as Harker students. Students...

In October, several faculty and staff gathered at the home of Pat and Terry Walsh, grade 5 math teacher and Harker archivist, respectively, for a special poker event to commemorate the passing of beloved Harker U.S. history teacher John Near one year earlier. The event also acted as a fundraiser for...