Dear Readers:

As mentioned in the editorial in the first School Magazine, this special edition of NORTHLANDS Today is “for the school, of the school and by the school.” In this journal we have collected articles from the time of Miss Brightman until today so that you can feel and understand, as we did when we prepared it, how NORTHLANDS was born, was raised and is constantly evolving, always in pursuit of providing an education focusing on high academic standards, and the personal, social and moral development of each student.

We hope you enjoy it.

August 2010

1920 -1961 1961-1968

1920Winifred M. Brightman

and Muriel I. Slater found NORTHLANDS on

M. Pelliza street, about 3 blocks from its

present site

1925 The construction on the odd side of Roma Street

starts

1923 NORTHLANDS moves to Roma

street

1943 Students

are divided into 4 Houses

1945Miss Slater leaves NORTHLANDS

and returns to England

1949 The Old Northlanders’ Club (ONC) is founded

by Peggy Spoor

1953 Miss Brightman is awarded the Order

of the British Empire in recognition of

her work in the field of Education

1961 Miss Brightman

donates the school to NORTHLANDS ACB

1969-1982

1969 Jorge Luis Borges

visits NORTHLANDS

1979 The Secondary Choir is formed

1970 NORTHLANDS

celebrates its Golden Jubilee

1978 Mrs. Parczewski

is awarded the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her

work in the field of Education

1985 The first computers

arrive at NORTHLANDS

1964 María Teresa Mayocchi takes over the leadership of the Spanish Section

1968 First Concert for all Preparatory Parents is held

1926 The old swimming

pool is built

1924 Miss Brightman

rents what we know today as

“School House”

1973 The school stops offering boarding

mode

1973 Laying the foundation

stone of the Brightman Hall

1969-1982 1983-1993 1994-1998 1999-2004 2009 - today

1979 The Secondary Choir is formed

1978 Mrs. Parczewski

is awarded the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her

work in the field of Education

1985 The first computers

arrive at NORTHLANDS

1989 The Cambridge

International General Certificate of Secondary

Education (IGCSE) replaces the “O” Levels,

to raise the standards of English

1990 A Pastoral Care

programme is launched, to supervise the academic progress of each student, while fostering his / her

personal and social development

1995 The Ministry of

Education authorises NORTHLANDS

Integrated Bilingual Project

1997 Violin lessons are taught to all student in

Year 1 to Year 3

2001 The Tortuguitas

campus moves to the new site in Nordelta

2001 The “Leonardo da

Vinci” Media Centre is inaugurated

in Olivos

2004 The Olivos site is authorised to teach the IBO Primary Years Programme

2006 The new swimming pool and SUM is inaugurated

in Olivos

2006 The first Memoria (Annual Report) is published for the NORTHLANDS

community

2000 The Secondary Choir performs

at the Colon Theatre

2000 Boys are admitted

to the Olivos Primary School

2000 Eduardo Constantini

donates 10 hectares of Nordelta land to NORTHLANDS

2008 The Nordelta site

is authorised to teach the IBO Diploma

Programme

1984 Sir Western Greaves donates part of land

where the Tortuguitas Sports field is located

1998 A new co-ed site is opened next to the Sports Field in Tortuguitas

2007 The Pastoral Care

develops to the Personal and Social Development

Programme (PSE)

2007 The Nordelta site is authorised to teach

the IBO Primary Years Programme

2005-2008

1996 The IBO Diploma

Programme is introduced

1920 - 1961 “You girls all wear a little badge with Friendship and Service on it. I think that if Miss Slater and I were choosing a school badge today, we should write Friendship, Service and Gratitude. Friendship is, as I´m sure you know, one of the most important factors in a happy life. Friends while young are easy to obtain, but they are also easy to lose. Don´t lose yours! Keep your school friends throughout your life. We are not put into the world to seek our own happiness but to help others. Some of us are fortunate enough to do this through our work, but opportunities come to us all.”

Miss Winifred Brightman - Recording. Golden Jubilee celebration.

Miss Brightman

1961 - 1968 “We are all members of one school, with an inspiring tradition handed down by our founder and added to by many people down the years. The challenge to each of us, English and Spanish is to see to it that our individual contribution to the School is worthy of ourselves and is the very best we can give.”

Mrs Wallace - Prize giving 1967

Mrs Wallace

1969 - 1982 “Of course Northlands has changed and is changing. It must, to meet changing times and conditions. But I hope our fundamental standards of good manners and good spoken and written English remain constant.”

Mrs. Mary Parczewski - Interview 1969

Mrs Parczewski

1983 - 1993 “Schools provide the foundation on which students and teachers build the whole structure of their lives. If that foundation is a blend of concrete knowledge and the grace and harmony of aesthetic imagination, any amount of levels can be raised without weakening that structure. How many lives have received that strong foundation at Northlands? Several thousands in the past 68 years. The new building and the new curriculum add considerable dimensions to the eduaction at Northlands which, like any living thing, is continually seeking new areas to explore and new ways to restructure its existence in order to attain fulfilment.”

Mrs Jehane Flint Taylor - 1988 School Report

Mrs Taylor

1994 - 1998 “With the introduction of the International Baccalaureate programme, Northlands is offering a school leaving qualification which responds to the demands of our increasingly high tech and internationally mobile age.”

Miss Susan Jackson - Prize giving 1996

Mrs Jackson

1999 - 2004 “The spirit of Winifred Brightman still drives future generations of teachers and pupils developing a community with strong moral values, clear academic and social objectives, and common aims and expectations.”

Dr. Susana Price -Cabrera - Graduation Ceremony 1999

Dr. Price-Cabrera

Dr. Price-Cabrera

2005 - 2008 “Integrity, honesty, respect, responsibility, commitment, perseverance are the core values of Northlands and they will continue to be so, simply because they will always be at the heart of a well-educated person. I believe that by complementing the solid values and academic excellence that has been the hallmark of Northlands for 85 years with a modern vision of educating for the future, we would meet with Miss Brightman’s approval were she with us today.”

Mr. Timothy Gibbs - Northlands 85th. Anniversary Book 2005

Mr. Gibbs

2009 - today

Mrs Magenta “…In the course of these last few years, we have gone further. Today, Northlands aims at becoming a XXIst. century organization with a ONE TEAM culture, with its members working in a coordinated, cohesive way in spite of not sharing the same geographical place of work. In this way, we move out of a fragmented vision to a global one, where the institution as a whole becomes the first priority.We firmly believe in the richness of diversity, of different perspectives. In fact, this is one of the pillars our educational project stands on. Moreover, we Northlands staff should incarnate the open mindedness, flexibility and adaptability that we set out to develop in our students…”

Mrs Susan Magenta - Welcome! In NORTHLANDS Today, Autumn 2009

NORTHLANDS is

Para mi, NORTHLANDS fue mi hogar.Cuando ingresé al colegio, no había casi edificios, había casas y algunas aulas de prefabricada.También muchos árboles frutales, ciruelas, higos, manzanos, uvas, naranjas amargas.Recuerdos: las mermeladas y las gelatinas de uva que hacia la cocinera, las flores en el jardin, las rosas de distintos colores.

Esther Céspedes, Housekeeper since 1961.

NORTHLANDS, significa parte de mi vida. Primero como alumna, pupila en aquél entonces, luego como madre de tres alumnas, y ahora como staff member. En cada etapa pude cumplir con el School motto: FRIENDSHIP, como alumna, SERVICE, como staff member y GRATITUDE, a lo largo del camino!

Cuando ingresé a NORTHLANDS, era un colegio muy inglés, muy estricto, con mucha disciplina y donde el respeto no podía faltar! Me sentía muy contenida y guardo hermosos recuerdos! Ojalá pueda dejar las mismas huellas que recibí. Eternamente agradecida, Gillian Hartley, ON `58- Primary Olivos Assistant since 1997.

Una anécdota divertida:Ingresé a NORTHLANDS en 1979. Esto es en lo formal, porque en realidad lo hice en Noviembre de 1978, cuando vine a una entrevista con la Sra. Parczewsky; ella había enviado una nota al pastor Ron Maitland de la Iglesia Anglicana de St. Michael and All Angels en Martínez, solicitándole si conocía un Director de Coro. Esa entrevista me mostró una Directora muy firme, severa, muy conocedora de sus alumnos y amante de la música, disciplina que consideraba muy importante para la formación de los niños. Cuando me presenté en marzo, fui conducido al Brightman Hall, para esperar a las posibles “candidatas” para el coro. El Hall, que en ese momento tenía ventanas en ambos lados, estaba iluminado tenuemente y luego de una breve espera sentado al piano, asomó una cara por la puerta, inspeccionando el lugar para ver de “qué se trataba”. Luego de invitarla a pasar, comprobé que esa cara pertenecía a Diana Sandford – excelente voz y fuerte personalidad – que de alguna manera – creo – que fue decisiva en aquel momento para que el coro fuera “interesante y atractivo” para las alumnas. El coro tuvo 27 alumnas que cantaron un concierto al final del año cuyo título fue: “Lights and Sounds in Christmas”. Al año siguiente éramos 72: Y así comenzó todo. . .!

Humberto López - Head of Choir since 1979.

Recuerdos MaravillososMientras cursaba mi secundario, en una institución próxima a este colegio, solía pasar caminando por el campo de deportes de Olivos. Varios años más tarde logré ingresar como profesor de educación física al colegio y hoy, dieciocho años después, continúo aquí. Dicen que aquello que deseamos lo atraemos. Comencé en el jardín de infantes de Olivos a dar clases de educación física en la casa de la esquina de Tucumán y seguramente, algunas alumnas/os que estén leyendo estos párrafos se acuerden del árbol de los monos, “pinochino”, el puente araña, las sogas de árbol a árbol y la casita que parecía estar en un bosque. Así era el jardín hasta que se mudó a un lugar moderno y actualizado como es hoy.Recuerdo la ceremonia de graduación en el jardín de mis hijas y el enorme cariño que a todos les tienen. Presenciar y participar del 75 aniversario del colegio y el vuelo de las palomas. Tortuguitas, otra sede y otros recuerdos como los campamentos, el fogón, y los asados con chicos y padres. Nordelta, otra apertura; el colegio seguía creciendo. Este año cumplimos casi 10 años de vida. Luego, Olivos inauguraría la pileta climatizada y sobre ella, un gimnasio cubierto. Empezamos a ver niños desde los tres y cuatro años comenzar a nadar y acompañamos sus progresos.Todos estos y muchos más son parte de los recuerdos que siempre me acompañarán durante toda la vida y hoy en este presente es un placer escuchar a mis compañeros compartir sus ideas y buscar celebrar este 90 aniversario junto con todas las familias del colegio.

Patricio Maserati- P.E. teacher since 1992.

NORTHLANDS cumple noventa años y yo compartí los últimos treinta. Cuando comencé a transitar sus aulas, no existía el edificio de Artes y Ciencias, allí un aula de madera albergaba la clase de música; los grados inferiores estaban en “casita”... todo cambió. En cuanto a la tecnología, recuerdo nuestro entusiasmo al comenzar a trabajar en las primeras computadoras con los alumnos. El Logo y la tortuguita me parecían casi de ciencia ficción.Volver el tiempo atrás y recorrer la glicina, mirar el agua de la fuente en el Shakespeare Lawn es reencontrarme con el pasado y reconocer aquello que permanece a pesar de los infinitos cambios. Las fuertes relaciones de amistad perduran en el tiempo y hacen honor al lema del Colegio: “Friendship and Service”.

Fanny Morales, Directora Administrativa EP Olivos since 1980.

NORTHLANDS is

Dolores Avendaño ON `85Paula Baigros ON `95Gladys Bain ON `70

Florencia Bellora ON `99Marisol Blasco Garma ON `02

Bárbara Britvin ON `04Bárbara Buteler ON `97

María Marta Martineau ON `78Beatriz Campos ON `78

Andrea Carbonetti ON `05Inés Casarino ON `73

Cristina Cassinelli ON `68Jimena Centurion ON `05

Alicia Chague ON `58Constanza Chapur ON `94Martha Chica Salas ON `54

Mariana Conesa ON `88Diana Crawley ON `66

Yamile Daoud Fleing ON `05Claudia Di Cocco ON `77

Luz Escobar ON `05Soledad Escudero ON `79

Gabriela Etchepareborda ON `74Victoria Fejes ON `72Ana Gallacher ON `79

María José Garat ON `02Annalie Giebert ON `73Sibila Gowland ON `85

Florencia Groppo ON `90Flavia Hogg ON `81

Carolina Holste ON `87Mónica Janovitz ON `81Samantha Kaeser ON `03Felicity Kersman ON `95

Lucila Lauda ON `90Sofía López Mañan ON `99

Benedicta Mai ON `92Roxana Manteola ON `77

Florencia Menendez ON `58Georgina Nuñez ON `02

Marina Onabehere ON `71Valentina Ortelli ON `85

Eleonora Peña Lassalle ON `94Solana Peña Lassalle ON `91María Pereyra Iraola ON `75

María Pérez San Martín ON `00Marina Portela ON `09Jenny Primrose ON `03Ginnie Sandford ON `71Silvia Santana ON `67Jezabel Storey ON `93Sandra Tabera ON `80

Diana Tchinnosian ON `80María Esther Terra ON `59

Alicia Tilmant ON `67Alicia Torres ON `70

Andrea Traverso ON `72Mónica Zicis ON `67

NORTHLANDS students

Celebrating 90 years of Friendship and Service with

An evening of live art at NORTHLANDS

August 19 2010, W. Brightman Hall, Olivos

Architect Ma. Cecilia Gil de Bendinger ON ‘72, CuratorAssistant to the Curator Melisa Boratyn ON ‘05

Artists

Performing artistsNORTHLANDS students and former pupils