Our Wildwood, Winter 2018, Volume 42

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#Wolves Making Waves

Wildwood students, faculty, and alumni making us proud…

Wildwood Model United Nations Club

The Wildwood Model United Nations Club recently excelled at UCLA’s Model U.N. conference, BruinMUN 2017. The group, led by Ethan G. ’19 and Josie B. ’19 included Aidan S. ’19, Ihsan T. ’19, and Jude M. ’20. They joined nearly 1,500 students at the two-day weekend event on the UCLA campus. This is the fourth year that the Wildwood “MUN” club has participated in BruinMUN. Jude and Aidan received an Honorable Mention award for their work in their general assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Their achievement means the judges found their pre-conference research, writings, in-committee speeches, and resolutions second best in their committee of 76 delegates.

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Rebecca Simon MIDDLE SCHOOL HUMANITIES TEACHER Rebecca (Bex) Simon wrote the cover story for the February 2018 issue of History Today (circulation 18,000). The article, called “Hard, Violent, Predictable” poses: “Pirates caught by an increasingly powerful British state were routinely executed. But what happened to the families they left behind?” Bex completed her Ph.D. at King’s College London on the public executions of pirates in the early modern Atlantic world. She is developing a lesson for Wildwood 7th graders titled “Pirates: Then and Now,” in which she gives students an article on Captain Kidd’s treasure found off the coast of Madagascar in 2015 and asks them to sift through various primary sources to determine whether the treasure is authentic or a hoax.

BACK ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT): Ethan G. ’19, Aidan S. ’19 and Ihsan T. ’19 FRONT ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT): Josie B. ’19 and Jude M. ’20