MMaahhaarriisshhii SScchhoooollYYeeaarrbbooookk

220011111

2

TTaa bb ll ee oo ff CC oo nn tt ee nn tt ssAdministration and Faculty 4Middle and Upper School 13

7th Graders 148th Graders 16Freshmen 18Sophomores 20Juniors 22Senior Pages 24Academic and Science Awards 28Class Events 33Desktop Publishing (DTP) 36Environmental Club 37Greenfest 38Around School 41Upper School Art 42Scouting 46Speech 47Destination ImagiNation 50Senior Trip 52

Sports 54Pep Squad 54Soccer 55Basketball 56Volleyball 58

Lower School 59Library Time 60Preschool 62Pre-K 63Kindergarten 64Grades 1 /2 65Grades 3 /4 67Grades 5 /6 69Lower School Art 71

Thanking Our Donors 72

CreditsPhotographers: TomCingire, Mousumi Dey,Debb Durflinger, JimDavis, Kathy Eason,Werner Elmker, LucindaHall, Rig Gelfand, GregHolland, Juliet Jarmosco,Laurie Kavanaugh, BryanPrather-Huff, MatthewSiegel

Design: Lucinda Hall,Dillon Evertsen, BryanPrather-Huff, MatthewSiegel, Ryan Smelcer, Runzhao Xie, Lila Cutter,Grace Fernyhough, Caro-line Fulcher, Minna Mo-hammadi, Dodie PaigeThiel, Tahra Wilkins

641-472-9400copyright Maharishi School,2011www.maharishischooliowa.org.

* Thank You * Thank You * Thank You * Thank You * Thank You * Thank You * Thank You * Thank You * Thank You *

* Thank You * Thank You * Thank You * Thank You * Thank You * Thank You * Thank You * Thank You * Thank You ** T

hank

You

* T

hank

You

* T

hank

You

* T

hank

You

* T

han

k Y

ou *

Tha

nk Y

ou *

Tha

nk Y

ou *

Tha

nk Y

ou *

Tha

nk Y

ou *

* T

hank

You

* T

hank

You

* T

hank

You

* * T

hank You * Thank You * T

hank You * Thank You * T

han

k You

* Thank You * T

hank You * Thank You * T

hank You ** Thank You * T

hank You * Thank You *

Maharishi Mahesh YogiFounder of Consciousness-Based Education

22

33

Jim Davis Marc Freeman

Richard Hobbs

Janet NicholsCamille JorgensenPeter Huggins

Bill Goldstein Heather HartnettDr. John HagelinShelley Gratzon

Dr. Bevan Morris

Chair

Dr. Craig Pearson

Susan TracyEmmanuel TitusNoah Siemsen

Dr. Chris JonesBob Daniels

Acting Chair

Chet Swanson Sankari Wegman

BB oo aa rr dd oo ff DD ii rr ee cc tt oo rr ssWith all appreciation to our custodians of the big picture.

4

Lucie Martlin

Front: Laurie Baumann, Girls School Director; Laura Bordow,Lower School Director; June Schindler, Finance Officer

Back: Dale Monson, Administrative Director; Richard Beall,School Head; Terry Weiss, Personnel Director

Our outstanding administrators!

SS cc hh oo oo ll CC oo uu nn cc ii llThe School Council is respon-sible for the daily administration of theSchool. It is comprised of the SchoolHead, Directors of Lower, Girls, andBoys Schools, and other administrativeleaders. They work in collaboration toprovide holistic guidance of our aca-demic program, finances, personnel,physical plant, and expansion programs.

This year Maharishi School celebrates the 30th anniversary of our Middle and Upper Schools. In 1981 an intrepid groupof educators and 34 founding students filled the gap between the ele-mentary school and university to complete the world’s first Kinder-garten through Ph.D. Consciousness-Based system of education.

Today we can look back on A Record of Excellence: The RemarkableSuccess of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment, as ExecutiveDirector Dr. Ashley Deans titled his book. Year after year, our studentshave demonstrated the effectiveness of education for enlightenment, aholistic approach for inner development along with outer success, whatwe call 200% of life.

This past year was no exception. We continued our tradition of excel-lence in academic and extracurricular competitions and extended ourConsciousness-Based connections around the world, from Italy (thedestination for the senior trip) to China (with new school partnershipsand prospective students). “The world is our family,” and expanding our

boarding school program will enable us to open our arms even wider in the years to come.

So what started as a dream thirty years ago continues to unfold with new possibilities. It is our responsibility, privilege, and joy to continue this legacy and to honor our Founder, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Dr. Richard Beall

Head of Maharishi School

MMee ss ss aa gg ee FFrr oomm tt hh ee SScc hh oo oo ll HHee aa dd5

OOuu rr FFaa cc uu ll tt yy6

Key: Upper School, Middle School, Lower School, Preschool

Carol Chesnutt Economics

Anne Balf1/2 Boys

John Armstrong Boys Dean, Social Studies

Cynthia CornellSanskrit

Kristina GelfandEnglish

Laurie Eyre Math

Rig GelfandAthletic Director

We � you!

Owen BlakeBasketball Coach

Jean BousquetPE Teacher

Ben CaplanMath Resource

Karen DeAngelisSustainable Living

Evelyn EllinghausKindergarten Aide

Marcy GritzSubstitute

Akber AliComputer Science

Fatima AliPre-K, Child Care

Lawrence EyreSocial Studies, SCI

Faculty

C7

Justin HeatonBasketball Coach

Taniya HandapangodaKindergarten

Eric HoffmanPE Teacher &

Coach

Sheila HigginsGirls Coach

Richard Incorvia 7/8 English, Social Studies

Thomas KeplerEnglish, SCI

Susan MarcusGirls SCI

Barbara Hays7/8 Math, Science

Lucinda HallEnglish, Writing, Desktop

Publishing

Brenden HigginsPE, Soccer, Basketball,

Track, Tennis Coach

Greg HollandPhotography,

Sustainable Living

Ed HippBoys Golf Coach

Angela MailanderEnglish Language Learners

Stephanie HollandKindergarten Teacher; Preschool,

Child Care Assistant Director

Mitch Haas Varsity Boys

Basketball Coach

Faculty

OOuu rr FFaa cc uu ll tt yyKey: Upper School, Middle School, Lower School, Preschool

Allison HoneycuttPre-K Teacher,

Arts Enrichment

8

Faculty

Kathy Siemsen3/4 Boys

Martha StewartConsciousness, Math

Resource

Girma TessemaChemistry, Biology

Asha SharmaSanskrit, Child Care

Joe VerstrepenVarsity Track Coach

Wendi VesseySustainable Living Asst.

Karen ValentineArt

Shane OrneGirls PE

Karen Price Math, Physiology

Jelena RaamPre-K Aide

Mala NgethePreschool

Amy ThielGirls SCI

Brendan ThomasSpeech

Tatiani TicciatiSpeech

Greg ThatcherArt

Alice MonkPE

OOuu rr FFaa cc uu ll tt yyKey: Upper School, Middle School, Lower School, Preschool

OOuu rr FFaa cc uu ll tt yy9

Meg Vigmostad3/4 Girls

Richard WolfsonMath, Physics

Mark WilkinsDI Director, Program, SCI

Cathy Wadsworth5/6 Boys

Faculty

Kate Vetter1/2 Girls

Charlotte Zmachinsky5/6 Girls

Dariana Travis (Alumna) 5/6 Student

Teacher

Key: Upper School, Middle School, Lower School, Preschool

Staff

10

Faculty

10

Hard working, and COOL!

Ashley DeansExecutive Director

Laura BordowLower School Director

Laurie Baumann Girls School Director

Richard BeallBoys School Director &

Head of School

Christine AlbersMarketing Director

Andrea BeallAdmissions Asst.

Rosalie BorgDharma Foundation

Noelle BoucherleStd. Accts. & Admissions

Karen CampbellLunch

Cheryl CarterAcademic Counselor

Priya ChhalliyilCentral Office

Fran ClarkDevelopment

Debb DurflingerMaintenance

Rebecca DyeMaintenence

John FarleyDevelopment

Kathryn EasonCentral Office

OOuu rr SS tt aa ff ff

11

Faculty

Malinda GosvigMarketing

Tony HallenIT Manager

Jane FleshmanAcademic Support

Trish FentonPurchaser

Dale MonsonAdministrative Director

Springli JohnsonDevelopment Director

11

Tom FishbackBoys Dome Supervision

Laurie KavanaughSubstitute,

Special Projects

Lee LeflerMarketing

Annalisa MillerMarketing

Suzanna Mullenneaux

Counselor

Jothi NamasivayamCentral Office

Staff

OOuu rr SS tt aa ff ff

Ron PerryBasketball Mngr., Driver

Wendie NelsonCounselor

Donna NelsonDevelopment

Mitchell PriceSports Concessions

June SchindlerFinance

Adam TerfaAdministration

Terry WeissPersonnel

Kathy Shaw Librarian

Jeremy SloanMaintenence

Jan ThatcherDevelopment

Katherine WalmsleyMedia Center

OOuu rr SS tt aa ff ff

Staff

12

13

MMii dd dd ll ee //UUpp pp ee rr SScc hh oo oo ll

Middle/Upper School

14

Anna-Theresa UngerDI, Tennis, Volleyball,

Piano

Phoebe HaerrBasketball, Volleyball, Track,

Tennis, DI, Dance

Sophia GoodaleBasketball, Volleyball,

Track, Tennis

77 tt hh GG rr aa dd ee GG ii rr ll ss

7th Grade

15

Chandreshwara MoralesTennis

Solomon ConstantSoccer, Tennis, Music,

Basketball, DI

Giovanni CingireDI, Soccer, Basketball,

Swimming, Golf,Archery, Track

Gabriel SperryMusic, DI, Basketball,

Golf, Soccer

Doga OzesmiDI, Soccer, Basketball,

Golf

77 tt hh GG rr aa dd ee BB oo yy ss

7th Grade

Marcus SchoenfeldDI, Soccer

8th Grade

Alina KnightTennis, Acting

Sarah SwansonBasketball, Volleyball,

Track, Tennis

Lydia HugginsDI, Tennis, Art, Guitar,

Soccer, DanceKadie Roberts

DI, Flute, Painting, Dance

Jackie LeeteDance, Art, Acting, DI

Heilani “Jaya” MuehlmanDance, DI, Drawing,

Volleyball

Courtney SwansonDance, Piano, Poetry

88 tt hh GG rr aa dd ee GG ii rr ll ss16

17

Kishan ThijmSoccer, Basketball,

Photography, Traveling

Keefe LashwaySoccer, Tennis, Guitar,

PhotographyDemitri Makeig

Golf, Soccer, Basketball,Photography, Art,

DI

Davin TitusSoccer, Track, Golf, Basket-ball, Photography, Ceramics

David WadsworthBasketball, Soccer, DI,

Boy Scouts, Tennis,Robotics

Brecon LlewellynItalian, Basketball,Music, Soccer, Golf,

Piano

Bimba ShresthaSoccer, Basketball,

Animation, Drawing,MATHCOUNTS

88 tt hh GG rr aa dd ee BB oo yy ss

Alex HoffmannSoccer, Tennis, Track, Basketball, Swimming,

Electronics, Church

Lalith PullapantulaBasketball, Soccer, Reading, Traveling

Niko ThielSoccer, Basketball,

DrawingSamuel Stickels

Tennis, Soccer, Basketball, Drums

Toma BousquetSoccer, Basketball,Golf, Track, Biking,

Drums, DI

8th Grade

Brandon Prather-HuffGolf, Boy Scouts,

Trap Shooting

Nathaniel ZhuSoccer, Piano, DI,

Trombone, MATH-COUNTS, Science

9th Grade

Avery MullenneauxTennis, Soccer, Speech,

Boy Scouts

David FleshmanTennis, Basketball,

Soccer, Speech

Matthew RoweSpeech, Boy Scouts,

Trumpet, Banjo, Diddgeridoo

Michael CorazzaGolf, Table Tennis,

Speech, Writing, Music

Michael DeAngelisGolf, Basketball, Improv

Vinit SuganurTennis, Speech,

Science Fair

Surya-KaranSawhney

Basketball, Tennis,Soccer, Speech,

Science Fair

Suraj PullapantulaBasketball, Speech

Solaris NiteTennis, Basketball,

Speech

Rashan AndersonSpeech, Track,

Basketball, Soccer

FFrr ee ss hh mm aa nn BB oo yy ss18

Avery TravisSpeech, DI, Art,

Improv

Tiera AshleyTrack, Speech, Photography

Leanna MillerMusical Theater, Mime, DI,

Track, Volleyball, Voice, Volunteering

Josie MuskratMime

Jessica OrneSpeech, Track, Art

Hifza AkbarVolleyball, Basketball,

Tennis, Speech, Guitar,Dance

Flower ShreckBasketball, Volleyball, Track,

Tennis, Soccer, Snowboarding,Piano

Camille GoodaleVolleyball, Basketball,Tennis, Track, Speech

9th Grade

FFrr ee ss hh mm aa nn GG ii rr ll ss19

Bryan Prather-HuffBoy Scouts, DTP

Prasad MonkGolf, Basketball

Praman HamalTable Tennis

Matthew SiegelDTP, Track, Spanish

Student Foreign Exchange

Laser NiteFilm, Philosophy, Psy-chology, Spirituality,

DI, Track, Soccer, Information

Josh DalbeyPiano, Guitar, Clarinet,

Saxophone, Drums, Tennis

Daniel PircTennis

Byung Jun ParkGolf

10th Grade

SS oo pp hh oo mm oo rr ee BB oo yy ss

Raphael GelfandTennis

20

10th Grade

Chosie TitusVolleyball, Track, Basketball,

Speech

SS oo pp hh oo mm oo rr ee GG ii rr ll ss

Eugenia DavisVolleyball, Track, Piano,

Speech

Nani ShreckVolleyball, Track, Soft-ball, Basketball, Snow-boarding, Photography

Megan ComeyVolleyball,

Photography, Writing

Nusha SwanArt, Tennis, Badminton

Grace FernyhoughDTP, Photography,

Horseback riding, Piano

Sophia MedvedevaVolleyball, Tennis,

Speech, Improv, Skiing

21

22

11th Grade

Essa JohnsonSpeech, Acting,

Writing

Pearl SawhneyMath, Science Fair

Minna MohammadiTennis, Science Fair,

Advanced Piano,DTP

Jonina ThorsteinsdottirSpeech

JJ uu nn ii oo rr GG ii rr ll ss

Caroline FulcherPhotography,DTP, Tennis

Kennidy StoodArt

23

James FrancisTennis, Speech

Dillon EvertsenDTP, Art, Track

Runzhao XieDTP, Photography

Paul DeAngelisGolf, Speech, Improv

Nicolas MartinaTennis, Art Project

Ryan SmelcerDTP, Boy Scouts

Toby JamesGolf, Speech

Thomas WeissTennis, Art Project,Basketball, Soccer

Sam ArsanjaniScience Fair, Tennis,

Robotics

JJ uu nn ii oo rr BB oo yy ss

11th Grade

Paavani Kar

“Most likely to own a ranch inAfrica.”

Penelope Makeig

“Most likely to survive in the wild.”

Paavani KarVolleyball, Basketball, Tennis,Photography/Art, DI, Speech,

Student Government, Commu-nity Service, Travel, Day

Trading/Economics

Penelope MakiegMusic Theory and VoiceLila Cutter

“Most likely to write a bestseller.”

SS ee nn ii oo rr PPaa gg ee ss24

The Senior Class of 2011

Lila CutterCreative Writing, Photography,Student Government, Speech,

DTP, Environmental Club

“Most likely to be the next big name in fashion.”

Anna BrettActing and Directing, Speech,

Community Service

Elysia BeliloveDance, Art

25Colette Clark

“Most likely to become president.”

Colette ClarkInternational Relations, Studentand Local Government, Habitat

for Humanity, DI, Speech

“Most likely to invent a religion.”

Haiyin LiangBasketball, Art

“Most likely to rulean empire.”

Pandora Wadsworth

“Most likely to win the Nobel Peace Prize.”

Tahra Wilkins

“Most likely to become a secret agent.”

Pandora WadsworthCommunity Service, Student Govern-

ment, Photography, Travel, Environmen-tal Club, DI, Volleyball, Track

Tahra WilkinsDance, Writing, Travel,

Radio Show

26Dodie Paige Thiel

“Most likely to become a rap star.”

Jhana Valentine

“Most likely to win an Olympic medal.”

Dodie Paige ThielDance, Track, Photography,

Enjoying Life

Jhana ValentineVolleyball, Track, Student

Government, Photography, Sustainable Development, Travel

Dominic Borg

“Most likely to be a superhero in disguise.”

Dominic BorgDI, Robotics, Boy Scouts, Science

Fair, Speech, Golf Sky Nite

“Most likely to be a circus performer.”

Sky NiteHip Hop, Soccer, Basketball, DI,

SpeechAtreya Dey

“Most likely to become the next Einstein.”

Atreya DeySoccer, Basketball, Tennis,

Science Fair, Robotics, Boy Scouts

Brenton Schwartz

“Most likely to become a pirate.”

Ryan Stakland

“Most likely to star in a movie.”

Brenton SchwartzSpeech, Acting, Tennis,

Basketball

Ryan StaklandDI, Speech, Acting, Soccer,

Track, Improv

27Holden Ketterhagen

“Most likely to be a world-classwrestler.”

Holden KetterhagenSpeech, Improv, DI, Soccer

Raphael BurneGolf, Science Fair, Theater

Lighting, Photography

“Most likely to make a million dollars.”

Christian MartinaSoccer, Fitness

“Most likely to owna yacht.”

Derek Thatcher

“Most likely to discover Atlantis.”

Derek ThatcherPhotography, Tennis, Soccer,

Basketball, Art

28

Pearl Sawhney was selected to attend the Global Youth Institute hosted by theWorld Food Prize Foundation in Des Moines.

Students submitted research papers on food security issues in order to beconsidered for participation.

At the event, Sawhney and more than 100 other high school students fromsixteen states and six countries had the opportunity to interact with a diversegroup of internationally renowned World Food Prize laureates and experts infood, agriculture and international development.

Atreya Dey has been selectedto receive a QuestBridge Col-lege Match scholarship. He isone of 10 students admitted asQuest Scholars to HaverfordCollege.

Atreya plans to pursue a ca-reer in medical or aeronauticalsciences and corporate law.

Coco Clark was among the approximately 15,000 students named by theNational Merit Scholarship Corporation as Finalists in the 2011 scholarshipprogram.

She has been accepted to the Walsh School of Foreign Service at George-town University in Washington, DC. She plans to pursue a career in diplo-macy and Foreign Service with a focus on the Middle East. In addition totraveling abroad to study International Relations and International Law, shehas held an internship with Iowa State Senator Becky Schmitz as well asbeing a volunteer coordinator for the Fairfield chapter of Habitat for Human-ity. She is also recognized as a Governor Scholar, one of 400 recognized inIowa for her GPA over her first seven semesters in Upper School.

AA cc aa dd ee mm ii cc AA ww aa rr dd ss

Academic Awards

Sky Nite hasbeen named aCommended Student in the 2011National MeritScholarship Program.

About five percentof students who takethe PSAT® tests re-

ceive these Letters of Commendation inrecognition of their outstanding academicpromise.

29

SS cc ii ee nn cc ee FFaa ii rr

Procedure: Science Fairstudents spend months doingbackground research in areasof interest. This research is

narrowed down to a specific topic and the students formhypotheses. Once they have established their main idea,the students follow a specific scientific method, involvingconstant controls and controlled variables, in order to testtheir hypothesis. Once they have gathered sufficient data,the students proceed to use statistical analysis to inter-pret their raw data. Based on their procedure and results,the students are able to form a conclusion which eithersupports or disproves their hypotheses. The meticulousmethods these students follow, along with their motiva-tion and love of science, is a formula for success!

Some Science Fair titles:--Farm Feeding Practices: Ex-ploring Solutions for Environ-mental Sustainability--RoboRescue: Using AI & SwarmRobotics to Simulate & IncreaseEfficiency in Search and RescueOperations--Building Materials of the Fu-ture: Honeycomb Cardboard--Hydroponic Nutrient Fertiliz-ers: Which one is the Best?

Science Fair

30

Atreya DeyProject Title: Biobased Ferrite Nanoparticles: A Novel Approach to Ex-tracting Organic Solvents and Heavy Metals from WaterDescription: My exhibit is about extracting organic solvents such astoluene and ethylene dichloride and heavy metals, such as lead, withnanoparticles.Adult Sponsor: Mousumi Dey

SS cc ii ee nn cc ee AA ww aa rr dd ssMaharishi School Students TakeTop Awards at EISEF.Sixteen Maharishi School students earned over 40awards at the Eastern Iowa Science and EngineeringFair (EISEF) on March 19 in Cedar Rapids.

Science Awards

•EISEF: Senior Champion•EISEF: Class I, Senior Physical•Cargill Industries: Outstanding Achievement•Cedar Rapids Audubon Society: Outstanding Achievement•EISEF: Participation Achievement Award: 4th Year Student•Iowa Water Pollution Control Association: First Place•I-Sweeep: I-Sweeep Recognition Award•University of Iowa: Outstanding Achievement•US Army: Outstanding Achievement•Water Environment Federation (Water Prize): Stockholm Water Prize

•EISEF: Class I, Senior Physical•American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Outstanding Achievement•Duane Arnold Energy Center (NextEra Energy): Outstanding Achievement•EISEF: Participation Achievement Award: 4th Year Student•I-Sweeep: I-Sweeep Outstanding Sustainability Project Award•OPN Architects: 1st Place Senior Project•US Army: Outstanding Achievement

Raphael BurneProject Title: Building Materials of the Future: Honeycomb CardboardDescription: This project examines the potential of Honeycomb Cardboard to replace traditional ma-terials that are used to construct walls. Thermal and sound insulating ability, cost, eco-friendliness,strength, and other practical factors are all being examined to find a revolutionary new way to buildbuildings.Adult Sponsor: Alicia Schiller

Vinit SuganurProject Title: A Comparative Study of the Effect of Caffeine and CoffeeGrounds on Soybean Growth and MetabolismDescription: My exhibit is about the effects of caffeine pills and coffeegrounds on the Soybean plant’s growth rate and metabolism.Adult Sponsor: Mousumi Dey•EISEF: Class I, Senior Biological

Pearl Sawhney & Surya SawhneyProject Title: Consumption of Plant Protein vs Animal Protein: Explor-ing Solutions to Obesity and Environmental SustainabilityDescription: Our experiment examines digestion of plant and animalfood proteins in a lab setting, along with a survey to collect behavioraldata on people’s eating preferences and food habits to identify solutionsto obesity and environmental sustainability.Adult Sponsor: Dr. Rajeev Sawhney•EISEF: Class I, Senior Biological

Sam ArsanjaniProject Title: RoboRescue: Using AI & Swarm Robotics to Simulate & Increase Ef-ficiency in Search and Rescue OperationsDescription: My exhibit is about using a swarm of robots with artificial intelligence tech-niques for simulating and finding an increasingly efficient algorithm that can be used toincrease safety and efficiency in search and rescue operations in war zones and naturaldisaster areas.Adult Sponsor: Ali Arsanjani

•EISEF: Honorable Mention, Senior Physical•American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning: Outstanding Achievement•Intel (CS): Excellence in Computer Science•US Air Force: Outstanding Achievement•Yale Science & Engineering Association: Most Outstanding Exhibit

31

Alex HoffmannProject Title: Got Flux?Description: My exhibit is about variables of magnetic flux density andrpm of an electrical generator.Adult Sponsor: Eric Hoffmann•EISEF: Class I, Junior Physical•Broadcom Masters: Outstanding Achievement•Cedar Valley Amateur Radio Club / Collins Amateur Radio Club: Outstanding Achievement

Science Awards

11th Grade

32

Science Awards

Giovanni Cingire•EISEF: HonorableMention, JuniorBiological

Bimba Shrestha•EISEF: HonorableMention, Junior Biological

Jacqueline Leete•EISEF: Honor-able Mention,Junior Biological

Marcus Schoenfeld•EISEF: Class II, Junior Biological

Keefe Lashway•EISEF: Class II,Junior Physical

Heilani “Jaya” MuehlmanProject Title: Rays Of the New FrontierDescription: My exhibit measures the power output of the amorphous sil-icon PV cell and the crystalline silicon PV cell in February in Iowa compared to its rated output.Adult Sponsor: John Muehlman•EISEF: Class I, Junior Physical•Broadcom Masters: Outstanding Achievement•Duane Arnold Energy Center (NextEra Energy): Outstanding Achievement

David WadsworthProject Title: Beams and Their Breaking StressesDescription: My exhibit is about different shapes of beams and if they arestronger at a different orientation and angle of the beam.Adult Sponsor: Stewart Hugget•EISEF: Class II, Junior Physical•Inspiring Excellence: Alan B. Adams Meritorious Achievement

Brandon Prather-Huff•EISEF: HonorableMention, Junior Physical

33

Science Awards

Niko Thiel•EISEF: HonorableMention, Junior Biological

Sarah Swanson•EISEF: Honor-able Mention,Junior Physical

Davin Titus•EISEF:HonorableMention,JuniorPhysical

Nathaniel Zhu &Doga Ozesmi•EISEF: Class I, Junior Team

CC ll aa ss ss EE vv ee nn tt ssGrade 10 boys analyze thegrammatical components/de-tails of Sanskrit, the language ofthe Veda. They also focus onperfecting pronunciation whenreading the Vedic Literature,thereby culturing the brainphysiology to function in accordwith Natural Law.

34

Mr. Incorvia’s Project-oriented classes tooktime to shoot video. He says, “After our poetry unitwe moved onto music. Students broke into bands.Each band composed, recorded, and edited their own original song. They then shot music videos fortheir compositions and put them on YouTube.”

CC ll aa ss ss EE vv ee nn tt ss

This is learning through doing with Ms. Hays,who extended Mr. Incorvia’s music unit in science

class. Students learned about differenttypes of waves and the effects ofchanging the amplitude and frequencyof sound waves. They researched thewavelengths of different pitches andcreated wind, string,and percussion instru-ments, writing and per-forming instrumental

songs, record-ing them, andputting thesound files ontheir websites.

Class Events

35

CC ll aa ss ss EE vv ee nn tt ss

Dick Reed, County Supervisor, gave a courthouse tour to students.After their tour of Jefferson County’s newly renovated courthouse, Middle Schoolstudents reenacted the Simeon Bushnell trial from the Civil War Era involving the

Fugitive Slave Act. Mr. Armstrong over-saw the proceedings as judge. The attor-neys were portrayed by ninth gradestudents Leanna Miller, Solaris Nite,Camille Goodale and Michael Corazza.The defendant was portrayed by Mr. Incorvia.

Class Events

The excitement in Mrs.Hall’s class is using classroomcomputers and a projector.Teaching from her website andwith books, American Literaturehas gone tech. The equipmentcame from yet another Hall con-test win (photo and essay), thistime from Hewlett Packard. Noweach learner has a netbook touse, and even homework isposted on student websites.

36

DDTTPPDesktop Publishing (DTP) brought you thisyearbook. After students leaned the software,we made design proposals and voted on thebest. Then we shot pictures, changed them intothe right file type, imported pictures intospreads, and inserted the right text. This

publication is our fulfillment!

DTP

37

Environmental

The Environmental Club met through most of theschool year, focusing on learning and on information.They put up signs to inspire us to recycle, and set upeco-buddies to teach the younger students. Fourthquarter, their task was subsumed by the Sustainability classes.

EEnn vv ii rr oo nn mm ee nn tt aa ll CC ll uu bb

Greenfest

38

GG rr ee ee nn ff ee ss tt BB oo yy ss

This year’s Greenfesttook the senior boys and girlsto some local homes to fix allthe air leaks, insulate outer-wall sockets, and switch overto compact fluorescent bulbs.

39

Greenfest

GG rr ee ee nn ff ee ss tt GG ii rr ll ss

We also took time to say hello to theneighbor’s dog.

40

OOuu rr GG rr ee ee nn hh oo uu ss ee

Greenhouse

41

AA rr oo uu nn dd SS cc hh oo oo ll

Around School

42

Dillon Evertsen, 3rd Crafts

Thomas Weiss, HonorableMention, Ceramics

SSuu pp ee rr CC oo nn ff ee rr ee nn cc ee AA rr tt

Super ConferenceMegan Comey, 3rd Photography

Byung Park, Honorable Mention, Sculpture

Paavani Kar, 1st Photography

11th Grade

43

Kennidy Stood, 3rd Mixed Media

Elysia Belilove, 1st Mixed Media and Best of Show

Derek Thatcher, 2nd Photography

Kennidy Stood, 2nd Penand Ink

Super Conference

44

SSee nn ii oo rr CCaa ll ee nn dd aa rr AArr tt

Senior Calendar

45

Senior Calendar

Scouts

46

Ryan Smelcer is a LifeScout, and really appreciateslearning to live outside, andto work with and lead others.He has learned fire building,woodworking, basic tracking,orienteering and navigation,canoeing, hiking skills, andoutdoor cooking. His favoritetask is fire building.

Ryan’s Eagle Scout projectis building a recycling stationat Jefferson County Park. Heis using his work skills for oursustainability, thinking forthe present and the future.

SS cc oo uu tt ii nn gg

Atreya Dey is a Life Scoutwho is living life to the fullest.He is proud of helping to sand-bag during the 2008 & 2010Iowa floods, and recalls howrewarded the entire troop feltfor that project after workingfor three days. He is learningvital leadership skills throughscouting.

His Eagle Scout project en-tails shipping needed scienceequipment to a school inAfrica.

Eagle Scouts are revered throughout the world for their dedication to humanity and their service ethic. It is the highest honor given to a BoyScout. Through their training they are well prepared for anything. Theseboys have all spent about 12 years in the scouting program. Their participation, from Cub to Eagle Scouts, has given a well rounded,practical component to their education.

Scouts

Derek Thatcher is a Senior PatrolLeader in scouting, and likes howscouting has taught him to be pre-pared for anything, and the confi-dence he feels in knowing what todo if there is an emergency. He haslearned to appreciate nature, andespecially remembers a 10-daysurfing campout in the outer banksof North Carolina.

Derek’s Eagle Scout project wasto refurbish the Maharishi Schoolphotography classroom and dark-room. This is valued and used everyday this year.

SS pp ee ee cc hhThe Iowa High School Speech Association (IHSSA) is a drama competi-

tion involving schools from all over Iowa. It is a three-level competition begin-ning with District competitions in the middle of January, to State competitionsin late January-early February, and culminating in an All-State competitionmid-February. Teams are selected from the State level performances to eitherperform or be recognized at the All-State competition. If a school is selected toperform then that team has the chance to compete for the Critics’ Choiceaward. Great drama coaches from across the United States are responsible forgiving an award to the performance that they find the most pleasing and welldone in their area. There are ten areas: Solo Mime, Group Mime, Musical The-ater, Readers Theater, Choral Reading, Television Broadcasting, Radio Broad-casting, One Act, Group Improv, and Ensemble Acting. This year our schoolhad nine performance entries and four went on to perform at All-State.

Coached by Brendan Thomas and Tati Ticciati●The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard, a one-act directed by Brendan

Thomas; performers: Anna Brett, Raphael Burne, Derek Thatcher, Brenton Swartz, Ryan Stakland, Holden Ketterhagen, Essa Johnson, Jonina Thorsteinsdottir, Chosie Titus, Raphael Gelfand

●The Sorcerer’s Shoes, directed by Brendan Thomas and Sky Nite, with a Solo Mime by Sky Nite

●Spamalot by Eric Idle, with Musical Theater by Derek Thatcher, Performers: Brenton Schwartz, Sky Nite, Paul DeAngelis, Toby James, James Francis

●Freshman Improv directed by Matt Speer; Improv by Avery Travis, Hifza Akbar, Jessie Orne, Sophia Medvedeva

●Senior Improv directed by Matt Speer; Improv by Paul DeAngelis, Ryan Stakland, Holden Ketterhagen, Toby James

●Buttercup Day by P.G. Wodehouse, with Readers Theater by Praman Hamal, Avery Mullenneaux, David Fleshman, Matthew Rowe, Michael Corazza, Surya Sawhney, Mickey DeAngelis, Vinit Suganur, Rashan Anderson, Suraj Pullapantula, Solaris Nite

●The Enchanted Mirror directed by Brendan Thomas, with Group Mime by Sophia Medvedeva, Eugenia Davis, Flower Shreck, Camille Goodale, Josie Muskrat, Leanna Miller

●The Drowsy Chaperone by Bob Martin, with Musical Theater by Anna Brett, Eugenia Davis, Chosie Titus, Leanna Miller, Jonina Thorsteinsdottir, Essa Johnson

●Junior Improv directed by Matt Speer (not pictured), with Improv by Raffi Gelfand, Micky DeAngelis, James Francis

Speech

47

The Sorcerer’s Shoes The Drowsy Chaperone

The Enchanted Mirror The Real Inspector Hound

Freshman Improv Spamalot

Senior Improv Buttercup Day

48

SS pp ee ee cc hh

Speech

SS pp ee ee cc hh

Speech

49

50

DD ee ss tt ii nn aa tt ii oo nn

Destination ImagiNation

51

II mm aa gg ii NN aa tt ii oo nn

Destination ImagiNation

At State we were representedby ninewinningteams:(5) StateChampions(2) 2nd Place(1) 3rd Place(1) 6th Place

52

The destination for this year’s senior trip? Italy! Askany senior girl or boy and they will tell you that the trip was an experi-ence that they will never forget. “The Italians have such a different cul-ture from ours, from taking two hours to eat each meal, to the big handgestures that almost seem a part of their language; it’s a culture filled

with passion.” The boys vis-ited the middle school inCatania where all 144 stu-dents have learned the Tran-scendental Meditationtechnique. To use the boys’own words: “Here is a taste ofour visit: the kids were ex-tremely excited, and we foundout how rock stars feel.” Theboys also went to Pompeii be-

fore moving on toRome, where theytoured the Colosseum and theVatican, and metup with the girls totalk with the Governors fromthe Italian TMMovement.

SS ee nn ii oo rr TTrr ii pp

Senior Trip

Senior Trip

53

The girls ar-rived first in Flo-rence, where theystayed in a conventand toured the his-torical city. “Every-thing there was awork of art,” one ofthe girls said aboutFlorence, “from the actual famed art pieces housed inmuseums, to the rolling hills and castles of the coun-tryside.” While in Florence the girls saw the Duomo,Michelangelo’s David, and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus,to name a few things. They also attended the ItalianMovement’s spring celebration and spoke with themeditators there. The girls took a day trip to Siennabefore heading to Rome where they went to theForum and the Vatican.

The overall consensus was that the trip was incred-ible. From seeing remarkable art and architecture toexperiencing the international TM Movement, it wasdefinitely one of the highlights of their time at school.Not to mention, “Italian pizza is so much better thanAmerican pizza. There’s no comparison!”

“Pep squad is a lot of fun. I love

coming out to support the team!”

-Minna Mohammadi

The peppers pose for the camera. Left to Right: Minna Mohammadi, Coco Clark, Penelope Makeig (Captain),Caroline Fulcher, Pandy Wadsworth. Not Pictured: Coach Allison Honeycutt.

This year inpep squadthe girlscame upwith manynew cheersto inspireand unifyPioneerPride.

PPee pp SS qq uu aa dd !!54

Pep Squad

SS oo cc cc ee rr55

Soccer

Our team is the league soccer champions, after scoring an unexpected 2-1 victory over Cono. The Pioneers hadlost the previous 2 meetings to Cono by scores of 5-0 and 2-1, but worked hard over the last 2 weeks, andthrough an exciting heroic effort were able to stymie Cono 2-1. Scoring for the Pioneers was Sam Arsanjani on abeautiful passing play from Thomas Weiss and Sky Nite, and the winning goal was a header by James Francisoff a free kick. Coach Higgins was impressed with his team’s effort, especially in the final 25 minutes, whereCono was doing everything they could to tie up the game. Higgins gave special recognition to the Pioneer defense and the goal-keeping of Atreya Dey.

BB oo yy ss BB aa ss kk ee tt bb aa ll ll56

This year’s Pioneer BoysBasketball Team was led byseniors Derek Thatcher, SkyNite, Brenton Schwartz andAtreya Dey.

Some highlights were a biglast minute victory at homeversus New London and asatisfying victory against rival Harmony.

Derek took home thisyear’s MVP award, while Sky was named Most ImprovedPlayer. The Coaches Award went to junior ThomasWeiss. Next year the Pioneers will be graced by six re-turning juniors: Paul DeAngelis, Thomas Weiss, JamesFrancis, Toby James, Nico Martina and Daniel Pirc.

Basketball

GG ii rr ll ss BB aa ss kk ee tt bb aa ll ll57

The Girls JV team came back to enthusiastic play after aone-year hiatus. Everyone is happy to have them back!

The Middle School teamplayed a regular season of8 games.

Go Pioneers!Basketball

58

VVoo ll ll ee yy bb aa ll ll

The Pioneer VolleyballF/S, JV, and Varsityteams all worked veryhard on improving boththeir individual skillsand also their team dy-namics. We saw a lot ofgreat moments wherethe teams really cametogether. The teamswere led by seniors Jhana Valentine,Pandy Wadsworth, and Paavani Kar.

All the girls had a lot of funthis year working hard bothon and off the court. Thisyear’s awards: MVP--JhanaValentine; MIP--JoninaThorsteinsdottir; CoachesAward--Chosie Titus.

Volleyball

Track and Field

1

TTrraacckk && FFii ee lldd BBooyy ss

This was anencouragingand excitingyear in trackand field forboth boys andgirls.

Both teamshad a fullschedule with10 or moretrack meets. The squads were young andmade a lot of progress as the season progressed. Next year could be a banneryear for our track program.

The highlight for the boys was theirconference championship run in the 4 x400 relay. The boys (Sky Nite, Laser Nite,Brian Prather-Huff, Dillon Evertsen) came out of nowhere to stuntheir competition with the close victory.

The highlight of the girls season was the amazingperformance put on by Essa Johnson. Adding thelong jump to her repertoire and jumping for the firsttime since middle school, Essa broke the schoolrecord on 5 occasions. Her top jump was 16’5.75”breaking the old record of 15’3” . She also qualifiedfor the State Meet and placed 9th overall.

She placed first in four meets and was never worsethan 4th all year. Track and Field

2

TTrraacckk && FFii ee lldd GGii rr ll ss

The Maharishi School boys tennis team took a 3rdstraight 2nd place finish in the Class 1A state tournament. This was the 7th year in a row the Pioneers made the state competition and a 1A record14th time overall. The team is tied with 2A powerWest Des Moines Valley for the most final 4 appear-ances of any Iowa school. Theyhad a 9 and 2 dual record this season and are 231 and 64 in the24 year history of the program.

Thomas Weiss and DerekThatcher finished third in Class 1Adoubles for the second straightyear at the Class 1A state individual tournament. SeniorDerek, a four-time state qualifier,has now played in the doublessemifinal three straight seasons.

TTee nn nn ii ss BB oo yy ss3

Tennis

TTee nn nn ii ss GG ii rr ll ss4

Tennis

The girls tennis team graduated 5 seniors lastyear so this became a rebuilding year for the Pio-neers. The team had been in the elite 8 in team ten-nis the last 4 years.

Junior Minna Mohammadi qualified for state singles this yearand this was the first time in 3 years that Maharishi School wasrepresented at the singles state tournament.

This was a year of much progress for the team as a whole as anumber of girls were playing Varsity for the first time. Next yearlooks great for the Pioneers as Varsity players Pearl, Sophia,Camille, Flower and Minna will all be returning. With a numberof new recruits being added to the squad life is looking good forthe girls tennis team next year.

GGooll ff5

Golf

After the regular season, the golf team had two performance highlights in the post season. Firstly,Prasad Monk and Paul DeAngelis both qualified as All Conference Honorable Mention due to their fineplay at the Super Conference tournament championship. Then, at the first round of the State Champi-onship, Sectionals, the team got it all together to come within five strokes of qualifying for the secondround. They bested their previous low score of the year, 392, by 27 strokes for an overachieving-when-it-counts 365 that came up just shy of advancement.

Though the team didn't make a big splash on the scoreboard, it did hit the mark in the heart. We ex-panded from our low last year of only four players to seven players this year. The camaraderie and per-sonal growth of this happy bunch signals a comeback in numbers that will continue now that we haveestablished a golf PE program for grades one through eight. We expect to have ten to twelve players nextyear. With the increased numbers and pre-high school skills development of the PE program, we are look-ing forward to some strong years ahead.

6

Congressional Art and Poetry Awards

CC oo nn gg rr ee ss ss ii oo nn aa ll AA rr tt

Nani Shrek received Honorable Mention for a photo entitled Flower at the Congressional Art Competition onMay 7. Nani is shown here with Representative Dave Loebsack.

In the spring of every year, the United States House of Representatives hosts this competition to recognize talented young artists from across the nation. The winning student from each district is invited to Washington, DCfor the ribbon-cutting ceremony, and will have his or her artwork displayed in the U.S. Capitol for one year.

PPoo ee tt rr yy AA ww aa rr ddRuins On Old Vineyard Road

A house of interior strangers;home of mind-sets and building sites.Loose design shrouded in thin dust.

The structure transforms.A window,entirely purposeful,slightly accidental.

The rooms resemble a shift,they may endurethey may disappearRooms have come and gone before.

We trace the loose fort where it originated,speak of symbolic walls,of casual isolation.

Carolyn Fulcher has won Second Honorable Mention in theIowa Poetry Association contest,high school division. Carolyn’ssubmission, “Ruins On Old Vine-yard Road” will be published inLyrical Iowa 2011, the 66th an-nual anthology of the Iowa PoetryAssociation. Carolyn’s poem wasone of 36 poems chosen out of 460entries to be included in this year’santhology. A limited number ofthis year’s entries will be selectedto go to the national competition.

Destination ImagiNation Global Finals

7

DD II GG ll oo bb aa ll FFii nn aa ll ss

Destination ImagiNation teams had another successful trip to DIGlobal. The Terrible Tasting Tater Tot Eating Glow Worms that PetrifiedPlanet Panera was the first all-6th grade team we have had at Global Finals and they competed against 7th and 8th grade teams. Chuckie theWhirled Mouse was the first team to do the Community Service Challengefrom our school. It was a learning experience, and it was the first time any ofthe DI Pods had competed at the Global Level, but they will be back.

The middle level girls’ team gave an outstanding performance that wowedthe appraisers and earned them 5th place. The team’s solution involved bothacting and technical (engineering) elements and included an amazing gowncreated out of old copies of the Fairfield Ledger.

The secondary level boys’ team placed 4th overall against 64 of the bestteams in the world. This performance “had the whole audience and the judgeslaughing and bursting into spontaneous applause,” according to DI coachMark Wilkins. “People had heard about this team and the theater was almostfull. The entire audience lept to its feet in appreciation at the end of their per-formance.”

International Science Fair

8

II nn tt ee rr nn aa tt ii oo nn aa ll SS cc ii ee nn cc ee FFaa ii rr

Atreya Dey with chemistry Nobel LaureateDr. Dudley Herschbach

Atreya Dey placed 4th in the Environmental Management category, and won $500 at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in LosAngeles. The Intel ISEF is the world’s largest highschool science research competition.

Atreya won for his research, “Biobased FerriteNanoparticles: A Novel Approach to Extract OrganicCompounds and Heavy Metals from Water.” He wascommended by the U.S. Army and Navy and was oneof ten who were commended by King Abdul Aziz ofSaudi Arabia for Creativity and Giftedness.

“This was definitely the experience of a lifetime,”said Atreya. “Hundreds of the smartest young mindsfrom across the world gathered at this single compe-tition. Meeting with Nobel Laureates, Bill Nye ‘theScience Guy,’ and scientifically driven students, in-spired me to continue on the path of science.”

Atreya’s project also won first place for Iowa in theU.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize National Compe-tition. This prize includes a cash award of $500.

Atreya Dey and Raphael Burne both won medalsat the Sustainable World Energy Engineering Envi-ronment Project Olympiad (I-SWEEEP).

Atreya won a gold medal and $1000 in the Envi-ronment category for his research, “Biobased FerriteNanoparticles: A Novel Approach to Extract OrganicCompounds and Heavy Metals from Water.” His re-search uses nanoparticles and magnetism to extractpollutants from water.

Raph won a bronze medal and $400 in the Engi-neering category for his research, “Building Materi-als of the Future: Honeycomb Cardboard.” Burne’sproject examines the potential of honeycomb card-board to replace traditional materials that are usedto construct walls. Burne explains, “Thermal andsound insulating ability, cost, eco-friendliness,strength, and other practical factors are all being ex-amined to find a revolutionary new way to buildbuildings.”

I-SWEEEP is called “a science fair for the 21stcentury.” The contest creates an educational plat-form for young researchers in which they presenttheir innovative projects to take on today’s chal-lenges in energy, engineering, and the environment.

He also presented his research at the 49th Na-tional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium(JSHS) on April 27 in San Diego.

9

SS ee nn ii oo rr AA ww aa rr dd ss9

GIRLS PIONEER AWARD

In reflecting on what it means to be a pioneer, I can’t helpbut look back at the evolution of the term in our understandingand how it has grown in meaning as we ourselves have grown.

In our uncomplicatedlower school years, I thinkit’s fair to say that the termpioneer began as nothingmore than what we viewedas possibly the least-threatening school mascotever. In putting ourselvesup against other schoolswe wondered how womenin bonnets and men in cov-ered wagons could evercompete with tigers orwarriors or panthers. Whathad our school been thinking, then, when they chose “pioneer”to represent us and left Maharishi School quaking in the logcabins of mascot-land as we were surrounded by increasinglyfierce beasts and figures.

But as we grew in age and understanding, it became clearthat the word pioneer was not merely reserved for those peopleof the prairie, but was also supposed to designate somebodyspecial, someone who had paved the way for a new discovery orway of life. We were introduced to great scientists, explorersand philosophers whose ideas and inspirations had radicallychanged the way we viewed the world around us, and these peo-ple seemed pretty cool. So maybe it wasn’t so bad to be a pio-neer after all. But still, some fundamental understanding, a realexperience of what it means to feel like a pioneer, was missing.

As we stand here today on this most humbling and inspiringof days, as our class family is poised on the brink of a cross-country explosion, it is now that the true meaning of the wordpioneer, in our lives at least, is becoming clear. As we leave thisstage and prepare for new adventures that span from Californiato New York and everywhere in between, we leave much behind,but we all take with us something that is both unique and revo-lutionary – the knowledge that not only are all of us connectedon a deeper level, but that the diversity around us is groundedin an unbounded harmony. We are all, in this way, pioneers –leaving our home, the home that to many of us is the only onewe’ve ever known, and taking off in a new direction, with an ex-traordinary knowledge of the nature of ourselves and the worldslung over our shoulder.

And as we scatter across the country we will meet new peopleand new challenges and we may have to pioneer through aworld very different from what we have known. But we’ll knowthat we will always have each other to fall back on, so althoughwe may have to pioneer, we will never pioneer alone.

Graduation

VALEDICTORIAN: COLETTE CLARK

SALUTATORIAN: TAHRA WILKINS

GradImages

Elysia Belilove

Penelope Makeig

Lila Cutter

Colette Clark

Pandora Wadsworth

Colette Clark

Dodie Paige Thiel

Tahra Wilkins

Haiyin Liang

Elysia Belilove

Colette Clark

Colette Clark

Jhana Valentine

Paavani Kar

Sheila Higgins

Elin Valentine, Sue Huggins

Penelope Makeig

Elysia Belilove

Jhana Valentine

Pandora Wadsworth

Anna Brett

Penelope Makeig

Colette Clark, Lila Cutter, Car-oline Fulcher, PenelopeMakeig, Pearl Sawhney, DodiePaige Thiel, Jhana Valentine,Pandora Wadsworth, TahraWilkins

Virginia Buckley

Performing Arts

English

Mathematics

Science

Social Studies

Sanskrit

Science of CreativeIntelligence

English LanguageLearner

Physical Education

National Merit Finalist

Governor ScholarAward

Athletic Hall of Fame

Paul Eskenazi Award

Coach of the Year

Distinguished Service

Happiness Award

Creativity Award

Leadership Award

Maharishi SchoolService

Hall of Bliss

Research in Consciousness

World Peace

10

GG rr aa dd uu aa tt ii oo nn HH oo nn oo rr ss10

Virginia Buckley

Performing Arts

English

Science

Social Studies

Sanskrit

Science of CreativeIntelligence

Citizenship Award(IA State Bar Association)

Physical Education

Commended National Merit

Athletic Hall of Fame

Paul Eskenazi Award

Distinguished Service

Happiness Award

Creativity Award

Leadership Award

Maharishi SchoolService

Hall of Bliss

Research inConsciousness

World Peace

“I will become a man in order to bring my best friends from Argentinaso they can live here in happiness. My friends taught me how to love, theyshaped who I am and I owe them that much”. This was said by my fellow

classmate Christian Martina on theSenior class trip to Italy. He gave andoutstanding and deeply emotionalspeech about how moving to Fair-field completely changed his life,from the extremely stressful environ-ment of Buenos Aires to the peaceful,stress free City of Fairfield.

Christian’s speech inspired me tothink about my own experiences inFairfield and Maharishi School. Whyis it that I love this place that is in themiddle of nowhere? Is it everyunique individual, the educationfrom the school, or Mr. Eyre with his

trademarked phrase “bong dude” (maybe a different joke that can incor-porate everyone). I came to the realization that everything and everyonehas impacted me and my class; however, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is thetrue reason why we are all here today. In the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna saidto Arjuna, “He who is not established has no intellect, nor has he anysteady thought. The man without steady thought has no peace; for onewithout peace how can there be happiness?” Maharishi School and thecommunity gave us a foundation and established our inner developmentalong with outer success, thus giving us 200% of life.

Maharishi once said, “What the present system of education provides isknowledge of the object; what it misses is knowledge of the subject,knowledge of the knower in the knower’s infinite capacity. When theknower is ignorant about the Self, the whole structure of knowledge is as ifbaseless.” Through this grounded knowledge the class of 2011 will be ableto successfully flourish in the dynamic life ahead of us. The school pro-pelled us to follow our passions that will lead to our careers, from famousphotographers, actors, singers, professional gamers, body builders, busi-nessmen, and the next president.

Yesterday at the awards ceremony the graduating class was told tostand in front of acquaintances, friends, family, and teachers. As the classturned to face the crowd, I felt an overwhelming wave of compassioncome forth from the many people in front of me. At that moment I knewthat my individuality was shaped from the stable foundation of the com-munity. I am sure my fellow classmates have had the same experience intheir life.

Isaac Newton once said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on theshoulders of giants.” These giants that defined the course of our lives areMaharishi Mahesh Yogi and the community which has integrated histeachings into the brilliant light that is Fairfield. The simple truth is this:our graduating class owes nearly everything to Maharishi and his knowl-edge. His enlightened teachings have empowered us to continue to live lifeto the utmost and bring this eternal knowledge to the world. Thank you.

Graduation

SALUTATORIAN: ATREYA DEY

VALEDICTORIAN: DEREK THATCHER

GradImages

Derek Thatcher

Ryan Stakland

Sky Nite

Atreya Dey andRaphael Burne

Derek Thatcher

Sky Nite

Brenton Schwartz

Raphael Burne

Christian Martina

Sky Nite

Derek Thatcher

Atreya Dey

Kyle Cleveland

Holden Ketterhagen

Dominic Borg

Atreya Dey

Atreya Dey

Ryan Stakland

Derek Thatcher

Sam Arsanjani,Raphael Burne, Paul

DeAngelis, DillonEvertsen, Raphael

Gelfand, Holden Ket-terhagen, Laser Nite,Sky Nite, Byung Jun

Park, BrentonSchwartz, Derek

Thatcher, ThomasWeiss

11

Graduation

GG rr aa dd uu aa tt ii oo nn

GradImages

GG rr aa dd uu aa tt ii oo nn12

Graduation

GradImages

59

Lower School

LL oo ww ee rr SS cc hh oo oo ll

LL ii bb rr aa rr yy TTii mm ee

Lower School

Hop on the Reading Train

60

61

Lower School

PPrr ee ss cc hh oo oo ll62

Preschool

PPrr ee -- KK63

Pre-Kindergarten

64

KK ii nn dd ee rr gg aa rr tt ee nn64

Kindergarten

65

11 ss tt // 22 nn dd GG ii rr ll ss

1st/2nd Girls

1st/2nd Boys

66

11 ss tt // 22 nn dd BB oo yy ss

33 rr dd //44 tt hh GG ii rr ll ss

3rd/4th Girls

67

33 rr dd //44 tt hh BB oo yy ss

3rd/4th Boys

68

69

5th/6th Girls

55tt hh //66 tt hh GG ii rr ll ss

69

55tt hh //66 tt hh BBoo yy ss70

5th/6th Boys

71

AA rr tt

The Arts

II nn tt ee rr aa cc tt ii vv ee AA rr tt

OOuu rr DD oo nn oo rr ssYou’re the BEST!

Thanks to our donors for funding our future. We couldn’t do it without you.

Merci Beaucoup! Vielen Dank!

Thank You Very Much!

Grazie Mille! Muchas Gracias!

Top donors, over $10,000David Lynch FoundationEverybody's Whole Foods

Donors $5000-$10,000AnonymousAbramson Family Foundation, Inc.Barry Pitt Learning Fund

Donors $1000-$5000Anonymous (3)Nayaraj BaralCapital Management Partners, Inc.Fran ClarkDaniel Swartz Memorial FundRobert and Susan DanielsJim and Diane DavisFairshare Gold ServiceCharles GeerEdward and Mary GomesMarc HalberstadtHugh and Laurie HarveyTim and Kelly HildebrandtHawthorne Direct, Inc.Steve and Karen RubinTom and Sandy KellyJohn and Lynn Lass David Lieb FoundationBob and Carol MarkowitzArjuna and Lucie MartlinRandy and Noel NiteLaurie and Renee SluserTargetThaddeus Computing, Inc.The Berman Family Foundation

Donors $500-$1000Raccoon Valley Bank CharitableFoundationAndrea and Richard BeallSamuel and Mary BoothbyRichard and Rosalie BorgPradheep and Priya ChhalliyilTyler Cleveland

Cynthia CornellDonatech CorporationGraham and Leanne deFreitasWilliam EcclesCharlie and Holly EgnerMichael and Sooneeta EisnerTom and Roxanne FactorDouglas GreenfieldDouglas KlauberMichael and Sharon KleinEd and Vicki MalloyJoseph MandarinoHal and Joan MasoverThomas and Dorothy RoweChet and Catherine SwansonRick and Sue WellerMark and JoAnne Wilkins

Donors $250-$500Anonymous Antoinette Alazraki Jennifer Barclay Jim and Ginger Belilove Joseph Berman Joseph and Christine Boxerman Clyde and Debbie Cleveland Joel and Kathleen Cook Pamela Curlee James Dallas Diana Davidson Wally DeVasier William and Dorothy Donhauser Dean and Patricia Draznin Danal Epstein Paul and Josie Fauerso David and Jane Fleshman Murray and Gloria Foster Glen and Elizabeth Fredrickson Paul Handelman Steve and Isabel Heaton Deanna Julsen Bryan and Emily Kelly Karen and Jon Kulikowski Roger and Nancy Leahy

Jerry and Marge Leahy Thomas Lenhardt Ted and Barbara McLaughlin Daniel and Annalisa Miller Charles Miller Rick and Jean Mofsen Mac and Ellen Muehlman John and Belinda Mulliken Don Nadeau Lincoln and June Norton Nate and Emily Orme-Johnson Sue Parlin Anil Patil James Pearson Steven and Dori Rector James and Patricia Rocca Kenneth Roseboro Ken and Sheila Ross Loretta Seidl Kenneth and Laurie Sewall John and Ann Skopin Randall Small Ronald and Maricela Stakland Janet and Dale Steinback Mary Stevens Sadie Stout Paul and Mary Tarnoff Susan Alexandra Tracy Robert Truog Alan and Katrin Unger Charles Viola Nancy Watkins David West

TT hh aa nn kk yy oo uu tt oo aa ll ll oo uu rr ss uu pp pp oo rr tt ee rr ss ,, hh ee ll pp ee rr ss ,,

aa dd vv ee rr tt ii ss ee rr ss ,, aa nn dd vv oo ll uu nn tt ee ee rr ss ..

TThhee WWoorr ll dd II ss MMyy FFaammii ll yy

866-472-6723 or 641-472-9400

www.maharishischooliowa.org