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  • <p>A congenial and upbeat meeting among Native American tribal representatives and an array of judicial representatives, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Mary H. Murguia, took place at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference on Aug. 2, 2023. The one-hour […]</p>
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  • By William Cracraft Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference Brings Legal Luminaries and Topical, Robust Discussions to Monterey  The 2024 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, “Navigating Legal Frontiers: Inspiring Ideas and Innovation,” held July 22-25 in Sacramento, California, was an inspiring, educational gathering for the 714 judges and […]
  • This article originally appeared in the summer 2018 issue of Harker Magazine and was reprinted in Harker News Online. Note from the Head of School: Harker thanks all those who contributed to the amazing effort it took to bring both the Rothschild Performing Arts Center, […]

Feature: Entrepreneurship and Beyond: Skills learned in incubator classes guide startup development and pay off in life

by William Cracraft on December 1, 2019 · No Comments

This article originally appeared in the winter 2019 issue of Harker Magazine and was reprinted in Harker News Online. Harker’s incubator program, after one full year, has turned out some solid successes, awarding cash grants to students who developed business plans and successfully pitched to […]

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Endowment Scholars Study Artists, Duels, Composers, Nazi Errors, ERA and Economics in Their Historical Analyses

by William Cracraft on October 20, 2019 · No Comments

This article first published in Harker News Online on Jan. 20, 2013Harker’s maturing endowment program produced six scholars this year, all seniors, who each presented their papers in late April to fellow students, parents, faculty and administrators in the Nichols Hall auditorium. Established in 2009, […]

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STEP Program Graduates Build Life Skills and May Get Off Supervised Release Early

by William Cracraft on October 22, 2025 · No Comments

The Eastern District of Washington has developed a program to help individuals on federal supervision get their lives on track and leave supervision earlier. The Sobriety Treatment and Education Program (STEP) reentry program is for individuals on federal supervision who have substance addictions. Clients must […]

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Media Contact Log and List

by William Cracraft on September 24, 2025 · No Comments

Handled 24 legitimate media requests between July 22 and Sept. 3, 2025.

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2024 Ninth Circuit Civics Contest Winners Meet Supreme Court Justices

by William Cracraft on September 18, 2025 · No Comments

The Ninth Circuit Civics Contest reception is one of the highlights of the yearly Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference and, this year, the student-winners met two U.S. Supreme Court justices. Senior District Judge John A. Kronstadt, Central District of California, chair of the Ninth Circuit Public Information and […]

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Court of Appeals 2024 Statistics

by William Cracraft on September 18, 2025 · No Comments

By William CracraftMinor Increase in New Appeals, Slight Decline in Pending and Terminated Cases New appeals in the Ninth Circuit increased while terminations and pending appeals declined in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2024. Case processing times remained constant—within a couple of percentage points […]

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Teachers bring new methodologies, in-depth studies and sunshine to classrooms through Vegesna grants

by William Cracraft on March 2, 2020 · No Comments

This article was first published at Harker News Online on Jan. 7, 2020 Each year, the Raju and Bala Vegesna Foundation’s Teacher Excellence Program at Harker launches a group of teachers on voyages of discovery. The teachers apply for and are awarded grants from the […]

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Harker Communication Office Wins Prestigious Awards

by William Cracraft on November 9, 2019 · No Comments

This article first appeared in Harker News Online on March 9, 2011The Harker Quarterly and Harker News Online have been awarded second and third place, respectively, in the annual regional CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) contest. The competition recognizes excellence in communication, […]

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Harker Quarterly Wins CASE Award of Excellence

by William Cracraft on November 8, 2019 · No Comments

This article first appeared in Harker News Online on March 7, 2016 Harker Quarterly, the school’s magazine, earned the 2016 bronze award for independent school magazine from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in its District VII Awards of Excellence. The magazine, which […]

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Harker in the News

by William Cracraft on November 1, 2019 · No Comments

In The News: News mentions compiled monthlyhttps://news.harker.org/tag/in-the-news/

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Maverick McNealy ’13 inducted into Harker’s Athletic Hall of Fame

by William Cracraft on October 8, 2019 · No Comments

This article first published in Harker News Online on Oct. 8, 2019 Maverick McNealy ’13 gave notice early on that he would be a force on the Harker golf team and his outstanding play and conversion to a pro put him front and center to […]

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Harker Longform Article Combines Multimedia with Copy

by William Cracraft on September 10, 2019 · No Comments

http://longform.harker.org/into-the-fringe-conservatory-takes-into-the-woods-to-edinburgh/ See more longform articles: http://longform.harker.org/category/harker-news/

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Press Release and Other Media Successes

by William Cracraft on August 1, 2019 · No Comments

Priscilla Chan Encourages Harker Students to Focus On The Change You Want to See in the World; Technology Excites Performing Arts Education; Kronos Quartet, Eco Ensemble — Bay Area Cool New Music Scene on Display; Harker Graduate Takes Second in National Speech and Debate Tournament […]

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Inaugural Life in the Arts alumni awards presented to professional actor and operatic singer

by William Cracraft on May 22, 2019 · No Comments

This article first published at Harker News Online on May 22, 2019 By William Cracraft Two of Harker’s performing arts alumni were named inaugural awardees of Harker’s Life in the Arts awards on Friday at the annual Senior Showcase, the celebration of those graduating with […]

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Incubator classes help students build on existing and new enterprises

by William Cracraft on May 2, 2019 · No Comments

This article first published in Harker News Online on May 29, 2019 The business & entrepreneurship department launched two incubator courses this school year, and the young entrepreneurs have been going full tilt all year. Here is a quick look at the first year of […]

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Harker fencers from three campuses participate in more than a score of events, many medals earned

by William Cracraft on January 31, 2019 · No Comments

By William Cracraft This article first published in Harker News Online on Jan. 31, 2019 Update: Nerine Uyanik, grade 11, finished 32 in the Challenge CEP Marathon Flueret in Paris out of 150 fencers from around the world in under-17 competition! http://marathon-fleuret.com/resultats_2019.html Also: Kira Bardin, grade 5, […]

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Inaugural Hall of Fame awardees excel at athletics, academics and life – a Harker Magazine feature

by William Cracraft on December 2, 2018 · No Comments

This article first published in Harker Magazine, winter, 2018, then in Harker News Online on Dec. 18, 2018 Prior to the Homecoming game, a few of Harker’s finest athletes, along with their friends and families, gathered for the opening of the Harker Athletic Hall of […]

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Student experience at Rothschild Performing Arts Center augmented by pro acoustical standards

by William Cracraft on November 8, 2017 · No Comments

First published in Harker News Online on Nov. 8, 2017 Along with the beautiful Patil Theater in Rothschild Performing Arts Center, there are rehearsal rooms, practice rooms and a top-flight scene shop. These rooms support the Harker Conservatory, which graduates between 35-50 certificate students each […]

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Feature: Rise of the Machine: Upper school robotics team has best-ever season

by William Cracraft on June 1, 2017 · No Comments

This article first appeared in the summer 2017 Harker Magazine and was reprinted in Harker News Online. When Harker’s competitive robotics program was just starting in 2003, it needed help. “From an engineering standpoint, the team was highly unpredictable and unreliable,” said Eric Nelson, robotics […]

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HQ Feature: Summertime Training Prepares Athletes for Fall Season

by William Cracraft on September 1, 2015 · No Comments

Summertime Training Prepares Athletes for Fall Season This article originally appeared in the fall 2015 Harker Quarterly and was reprinted in Harker News Online. The football team and the boys and girls basketball teams trained particularly hard over the summer to get into peak shape […]

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New Business and Entrepreneurship Academic Program Launches in Fall ’13

by William Cracraft on March 1, 2013 · No Comments

This article was originally published in the spring 2013 Harker Quarterly and reprinted in Harker News Online. Entrepreneurship is nothing new to Harker students and now the school will draw together existing activities and new pieces to launch an academic Business and Entrepreneurial Program (BEP) […]

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Humanities Endowments Produce Four Scholars: Papers Cover Charter Schools, Special Forces, Nuclear Policy and Churchill’s Public Relations

by William Cracraft on June 2, 2012 · No Comments

This article originally appeared in the summer 2012 Harker Quarterly The Mitra Family Endowment, established last year, has borne its first fruit. Sarah Howells, grade 12 and the first Mitra scholar, added her effort to the handcrafted social and historical analyses produced by this year’s […]

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Developing Our Athletes: New Integration Creates Career Path for Harker Athletes

by William Cracraft on March 1, 2012 · No Comments

Developing Our Athletes: New Integration Creates Career Path for Harker Athletes This article originally appeared in the spring 2012 Harker Quarterly and was reprinted in Harker News Online. Harker’s athletic department is making a concerted effort to make available the best sport-specific training possible to […]

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“Annie” Broadway Casting Call at Harker; Students Learn About Theater Careers

by William Cracraft on December 1, 2011 · No Comments

This article originally appeared in the winter 2011 Harker Quarterly and was reprinted in Harker News Online. This October, a unique combination of events conspired to give performing arts students a at a hitherto unexplored area of their craft: the Broadway casting call. It started […]

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Campus Seminars, Conferences, Speakers and Concerts Draw Thousands

by William Cracraft on December 1, 2011 · No Comments

By: Steven M. Boyle ’06 and William Cracraft This article originally appeared in the winter 2011 Harker Quarterly and was reprinted in Harker News Online. Harker, like most schools, hosts visitors at athletic events, student-run events like Junior States of America, performances of all types […]

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HQ Feature: Challenge Success Program

by William Cracraft on December 1, 2011 · No Comments

This article originally appeared in the winter 2011 Harker Quarterly and was reprinted in Harker News Online. The Harker School has a long history of promoting the morals and character of its students, encouraging discovery of unique talents and passions and giving students opportunities to […]

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Inaugural Grant Winners Complete First Cycle; New Winners and a New Grant Named

by William Cracraft on June 1, 2011 · No Comments

This article originally appeared in the summer 2011 Harker Quarterly and was reprinted in Harker News Online. The inaugural John Near Scholar Grant cycle is complete, and the first three reports were filed this spring for public access in the John Near Resource Center. Four […]

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Proud Hornet Takes on a New Role: Icon of U.S. Naval Power Becomes Center for Education and History

by William Cracraft on May 27, 2011 · No Comments

This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. The eighth USS Hornet, CV­12 Essex Class Aircraft Carrier, retired, holds seven battle stars, a presidential citation […]

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Hornet Recovered, Hosted Astronauts From Two Lunar Landings

by William Cracraft on May 27, 2011 · No Comments

This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. One of the Hornet’s greatest claims to fame is the flawless recovery of U.S. astronauts from the […]

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The Hornet Dodged Kamakazis and Bombs in WWII

by William Cracraft on May 27, 2011 · No Comments

This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. There she found Odysseus among the slaughtered dead men, spattered over with gore and battle filth, like […]

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Volunteers Bring the Hornet to Life

by William Cracraft on May 27, 2011 · No Comments

This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. The sheer size of the Hornet illustrates the size of her volunteers’ jobs. With thousands of square […]

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Marines Guarded Nuclear Weapons on The Hornet

by William Cracraft on May 27, 2011 · 1 Comment

This article was written by William Cracraft and first published in 1998 in an Oakland Tribune special adverstising supplement celebrating the opening of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum. Ron Bubeck worked on the flight deck of the Hornet at the start of the Cold War […]

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Visiting the Hornet Aircraft Carrier on a Sunday Afternoon

by William Cracraft on May 27, 2011 · 1 Comment

A most interesting day was had by former roomates Bill Cracraft and Jay Richardson when they took their German wives on a tour of the Aircraft Carrier Hornet, now a museum moored at the old Alameda Naval Base. Richardson and Cracraft, avid military historians, were […]

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Feasibility Study for a Mid-Peninsula Fencing Club

by William Cracraft on February 16, 2011 · No Comments

Feasibility Study (Written for a technical writing class in 2001) Executive Summary This study set out to determine if net income from a fencing club located in San Mateo County would be enough to justify actually opening a club. I define “enough” as in the […]

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Lucky Ducks: How We Got Our First Mortgage Payment

by William Cracraft on January 24, 2011 · No Comments

It was early January, and, like so many couples, we had spent our last dime on closing costs for our home. My wife was off work, preparing to take the California Bar exam, I had a hectic schedule as a writer/photographer and fencing coach and […]

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Dresden: The Renaissance Continues

by William Cracraft on January 21, 2011 · No Comments

This article was first published on fnsreporting.com in 2005 Dresden, once known for its beauty as the Florence of Germany, is emerging from a chrysalis of time. Overgrown shrubbery is being cleared away and long neglected homes returned to their former stately selves. The city […]

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Maxim’s of Paris, 1986

by William Cracraft on January 10, 2011 · No Comments

It was Saturday night in Paris and as my cab came to a halt outside Maxim’s a liveried doorman charged into the street to meet it. I was ushered into a warm atmosphere of rich wood paneling, cleverly placed mirrors and polished brass fixtures. The […]

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Nuremberg Faces its Nazi Past at the Dokumentationszentrum, Nazi Party Rally Grounds

by William Cracraft on January 6, 2011 · No Comments

A dictator can extend his reach across the world to inflict great harm on his perceived enemies, but before World War II he required an army with trained multitudes, transportation and, most importantly, a large network of loyal supporters. Those requirements changed in the 1920s […]

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New Year’s Eve at the Brandenburg Gate: 2001

by William Cracraft on January 5, 2011 · No Comments

Heading out the hotel door to Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on New Years Eve, we met a couple of matrons swathed in fur coats on the same mission. It was a good night. We saw a brandished handgun, an arrest, an Elvis impersonator, a drunk, ebullient […]

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Running in Germany: Desperately Trying to Stay in Shape on Holiday

by William Cracraft on December 27, 2010 · No Comments

I just finished a great 45-minute run through the German woods on an icy path; felt like James Bond prepping for a mission. Had on running shoes, a pair of stretch pants, sleeveless t-shirt, my O’Dowd sweatshirt, edelweiss bandanna, Jaguar ball cap and fleece gloves. […]

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Campuses Continue Greening Efforts

by William Cracraft on March 1, 2010 · No Comments

This article first appeared in the spring 2010 Harker Quarterly and was reprinted in Harker News Online. Green is busting out all over Harker, and not just because it is spring. On the upper school campus, the greenhouse is filled with flora cultivated by the […]

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Museum studies past to design for the future

by William Cracraft on June 5, 1998 · No Comments

This article was first published in the Hiller Aviation Museum special advertising section in the San Mateo County Times in June 1998 By William Cracraft The primary purpose behind the creation of the Hiller Aviation Museum was to establish an educational institution to study past […]

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Hiller’s team helped develop helicopters

by William Cracraft on June 5, 1998 · No Comments

This article was first published in the Hiller Aviation Museum special advertising section in the San Mateo County Times in June 1998 By William Cracraft In 1940 Igor Sikorsky built the first helicopter on the East Coast. In 1942, Stan Hiller, a 19-year-old, figured building […]

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Avitor’s flight landed West Coast squarely in aviation history

by William Cracraft on June 5, 1998 · No Comments

This article was first published in the Hiller Aviation Museum special advertising section in the San Mateo County Times in June 1998 By William Cracraft The Avitor Hermes Jr. hangs, like something from DaVinci’s sketchbook, twirling slowly in the atmosphere of Hiller Aviation Museum. This […]

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Lincoln Beachey and the Little Looper

by William Cracraft on June 5, 1998 · No Comments

This article was first published in the Hiller Aviation Museum special advertising section in the San Mateo County Times in June 1998 By William Cracraft Pullquote: “The gold medal they were going to present to him was not ready yet, so they asked him to […]

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Ely paved the way for landing on ships’ decks

by William Cracraft on June 5, 1998 · No Comments

This article was first published in the Hiller Aviation Museum special advertising section in the San Mateo County Times in June 1998 By William Cracraft San Francisco has always been a Navy town, and Eugene Ely sealed the city’s reputation when he became the first […]

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Aviation: past, present and future

by William Cracraft on June 5, 1998 · No Comments

This article was first published in the Hiller Aviation Museum special advertising section in the San Mateo County Times in June 1998 By William Cracraft On June 5, 1998 the Hiller Aviation Museum, a forum and information center for the area’s aviation business opportunities, will […]

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CND passes the test with flying colors

by William Cracraft on April 7, 1998 · No Comments

Cutline: Geri Acers, CND master’s graduate, and Diane Guay, education department chair, teamed up for a three-day accreditation visit. On a pleasant day in March, Dr. Diane Guay was serene in the midst of an academic storm. “This is a three-day accreditation visit. It comes […]

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Ralston Hall is a piece of preserved historical perfection

by William Cracraft on April 7, 1998 · No Comments

The driveway leading to Ralston Hall is the same that brought wealthy visitors a-vis­iting 125 years ago. The drive is paved now instead of gravel and wrought-iron railings have been added to the front steps in the interest of safety, said Mary Ellen Boyling, curator […]

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Masters of public administration graduates work to better the community

by William Cracraft on April 7, 1998 · No Comments

Elaine Cohen started the master’s of public administration program at College of Notre Dame while she was teaching in the education department. “I felt that teachers should have a broader perspective than just that of an education professional. I wanted to do something that made […]

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Public administration program sets its students up to succeed

by William Cracraft on April 7, 1998 · No Comments

Bob McNichol, Hillsborough police chief, found College of Notre Dame master’s of public administration program quite helpful. “I started the master’s program just after I was promoted to lieutenant, and while in the program I made commander and eventually made chief. “I found when I […]

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