The Owl 2020

THE OWL ALL SCHOOL PHOTO DEDICATION THE CLASS OF 2020
2019-2020
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SENIOR PAGES JUNIORS, FACULTY & STAFF
SOPHOMORES &
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FRESHMEN

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MUSIC, ARTS, STUDENT LIFE CLUBS &
ACADEMICS ORGANIZATIONS
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EVENTS & GLOBAL & FVS VIRTUAL
ACTIVITIES EXPERIENTIAL
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118 LEARNING

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FALL SPORTS & WINTER SPORTS &

ACTIVITIES ACTIVITIES WINTER MUSICAL

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SPRING OWL STAFF & PARENTS' ADS
STAYCATION THANK YOU
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Celebrating 90 Years...

Fountain Valley School

2019-2020

When the Owl staff set out to develop a theme for this yearbook commemorating
Fountain Valley School’s ninetieth year, we mulled over many different ideas and
visions, but at first, none of them felt sufficiently compelling to fully honor this milestone
in the school’s history. This process always takes some time and can be taxing on the
creative mind, so, one hot afternoon in August, after having brainstormed just about
as much as we could, we decided to take a break and head over to the Frautschi Campus
Center. While, admittedly, the prospect of cooling down in the air conditioned space
was a major reason for our visit to the C.C. that afternoon, it dawned upon us collectively
that this building at the heart of our campus has a magnetic quality and is one of our
many “happy places” to which we are drawn at FVS.

Walking up the steps to the patio surrounded by warm adobe glow from the stucco
walls, we noticed the unique shapes that adorn the building’s architecture– dark brown
wooden corbels and vigas, sloping curves in the walls, and the inviting territorial style
windows. Entering the airy “main street” of the campus center, we took in the rustic
colors and textures we don’t always remember to appreciate in the hustle and bustle
of usual passing periods. The Sala invited us in to relax on the comfy sofas and we
admired the Pueblo style décor. The rec room reminded us of all the fun to be had with
a spontaneous game of foosball under the ceiling's wood latillas. We then drifted into
the RK Café where our eyes feasted on the bright colors and bold nineties influences
scattered throughout.

As we took in all the little details of this funky and fun gathering space, including the
carved animals painted in psychedelic colors, our eyes seemed to simultaneously focus
in on the tile backsplash of the RK’s kitchen. Simple but colorful, the pattern of tiles of
different hues reminded us of our community, a mosaic in its own right, comprised of
bright spirits and minds from different backgrounds and places who all come together
to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. We were inspired. As we
walked back to the Owl headquarters in room 207, we couldn’t help but take in the
colors, textures and symbols that tantalize our senses both in our campus buildings
and our beautiful natural surroundings.

Gathered back in our yearbook workspace, we were overwhelmed by a new flow of
ideas and a more unified vision for this yearbook. tile mosaics, architectural details, the
colors of our surroundings, a touch of nineties flair– these would become the visual
grammar of this year’s edition of the Owl. As for the story we wanted to tell: that of a
community of profoundly unique individuals deeply interconnected by shared
experiences, surroundings, values, inside jokes, aspirations and love. With this vision
in mind, we began our monthslong creative process to capture and recount the story
of Fountain Valley School’s ninetieth year.

Flash forward to the spring of 2020, and the tiles that adorn this yearbook would take
on a whole new meaning for us.

With the rapid rise of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, our community faced
unprecedented challenges, uncertainties and fears. We could have never imagined on
that August afternoon when we gallivanted around campus looking for yearbook
inspiration that by the next spring, these spaces that inspired us so profoundly would
remain largely deserted— at least for a time. With Interim canceled and spring break
extended due to the unfolding pandemic situation, our community wondered what the
future might look like.

And then we saw it. As faculty gathered online for a week of in-service training to
develop and deliver teaching via FVS Virtual, and as classes reconvened in this new
imagining of school, we saw each other pop up on our screens, one-by-one, as tiles
that eventually formed into a living, laughing, learning and loving mosaic. While the
surroundings varied from person to person and improvised classroom to improvised
classroom, the magic we’d attributed to our beautiful vistas on campus was more than
alive right there on and through our screens, no matter our location on the globe, in
our smiles and in our gratitude to see each other once again.

The eve of our first day of classes at Fountain Valley School Virtual, Mr. Webb delivered
a powerful message to students. Appearing alone in many of the places on campus
that had inspired our yearbook’s design this year, he addressed our collective yearning
to be back on campus after weeks spent away, for many of us in both literal and figurative
states of isolation: “While now, more than ever, we appreciate this idyllic refuge, the
magic we experience here is not found in this place; it lies within our people. It is you,
it is our teachers, it is us, and the inextricable bonds that tie us together. When you
leave FVS, you may not remember all of what you learned, however, you will never
forget the incredible relationships and transformative friendships you forged here. They
will sustain you and be a source of strength that you can tap into wherever you are and
whenever you need it.”

At the time of this writing, we are still very much watching this chapter of history unfold
in front of our eyes. We are still learning to accept and navigate these difficult times.
We are still learning to find and feel human connection through a screen. We are still
learning how to teach and to learn online. Some of us are still learning how to mute
our microphones– and that’s okay! Amid all the uncertainty, the one thing we know to
be absolutely certain is that we will get through this together and that we will always
be able to lean on one another in times of difficulty and need. That is the power of the
FVS community, the one which we all value and love so deeply, and the one to which
we proudly dedicate this edition of the Owl.

SENIORS AS FRESHMEN

FOUR-YEAR SENIORS, CLASS OF 2020

Alexander "Gabe" Ashby Albert Burkle Kiya Cockrell Emily Dixon

Annabelle Filler Sarah Garcia Elizabeth "Lizzie" Haghighi Lucia Heminway

Savian Johnson-Czerny Quinlan "Quin" Kapsner Aspen Kimlicko Charlotte Kline

Makena Likewise Beatrice "Bea" Mellsop Madeleine Mills Emma Nizami

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Konami Ogino Jo Ota Katherine "Katie" Prantl Tilly Rahm

ZeLong "Roger" Shan Jiake "Claire" Shi Luke Solo Ryan Stedman

Jacob Thomassen Lucia "Lucy" Vigneri Jianyi "Carl Wang Yihang "Simon Wang

Qiyuan "Kitty" Zhang Tianheng "Channy" Zhang Hanyu "Harriet" Zhu #TBT

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Senior

Superlatives

Jacob Thomassen Albert Burkle

Most Likely to Break Most Likely to Win
the CC Pool Sticks the Lottery But Lose
the Ticket

Kiya Cockrell Tilly Rahm &
Emily Dixon
Most Likely to
Start a Protest Most Inseparable

Annabelle Filler Tommy Bittner
Best Laugh
Most Likely to Sneak
Peanut Butter onto
Campus

Quin Kapsner Savian Czerny
Most School Spirit
Most Likely to
Become Famous

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Roger Shan Aspen Kimlicko

Most Likely to Cause Most Likely to
an Apocalypse Survive an
Apocalypse

Channy Zhang Gabe Ashby

Most Likely to Own Most Changed Since
$1,000 Crocs Freshman Year

Luke Solo Jeff Lessard

Most Likely to Get a Most Likely to Lose
Perfect Score on the their Keycard
ACT

Bea Mellsop Chloe Mason
Worst Driver
Most Likely to
Become a Best
Selling Author

Charlotte Kline Viet Dang
Most Inspirational
Most Likely to Free
All the Dogs on 9
Campus

Nathan Adler

Hometown: Boulder, CO
Birthday: November 22
10 year plan: Defeating the Ender
Dragon
Quote: "They asked me for
another senior quote because
what they permit, they promote."

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Rin Akimoto

Hometown: Aomori, Japan
Birthday: January 31
10 year plan: Be a soccer team
owner
Quote: I made a huge to do list
for today. I just can't figure out
who's going to do it.

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Alexander "Gabe" Ashby

Hometown: Denver, CO
Birthday: February 10
10 year plan: Interrupting a history
presentation by flying over in a jet.
Quote: "No, that's stupid...Actually,
you're stupid." -anonymous,
directed at me when I made a joke

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Lily Bauer

Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
Birthday: August 16
10 year plan: To have traveled
around the sun ten times.
Quote: "One person of integrity
can make a difference."
-Ellie Wiesel

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Thomas Patrick Bittner IV

Hometown: Frisco, TX
Birthday: December 4
10 year plan: Anti-death, dashingly
beautiful, undeniably charismatic
Quote: "I used to take it for
granted. Now I just take it
granted." -Nathan Adler

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Albert Burkle

Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
Birthday: April 11
10 year plan: Vibing out.
Quote: "The real heads live behind
the mountains. Everyone else out
there are cappers." -Lloyd Chinn

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Kiya Cockrell

Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Birthday: July 25
20 year plan: At the Met Gala, in
a dress ridiculously dripped in
gold.
Quote: “I follow rules but I don’t
follow stupid rules” - Mr. Alford

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Savian Johnson-Czerny

Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
Birthday: December 20
10 year plan: balancing happiness/
fulfillment aka climbing+something
else
Quote: We're just two lost souls

swimming in a fish bowl year after year.
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found? The same old
fears. Wish you were here.

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Viet Dang

Hometown: Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam

Birthday: March 12

10 year plan: Build chest.

Quote: "AYE, ashdjkfaksdjf ,
okay?” - AJ Davis

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Emily Dixon

Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
Birthday: January 28
10 year plan: Living in a city
house with lots of kids running
around.
Quote: First time gr-gra-
graduating, kinda nervous.

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Tung Do

Hometown: Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam
Birthday: November 29
10 year plan: Anything that I
won't hate myself for.
Quote: "Money don't the reason."

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Connor Edwards

Hometown: Cedar Rapids, IA
Birthday: July 2
10 year plan: I'd like to visit an
aquarium at some point.
Words to live by: Don't measure life by

grades but by how many aquariums
you've been to. I've been to that really cool
one in Georgia. That's the only one. So ya.
That's all.

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Annabelle Filler

Hometown: Fairfield, CT
Birthday: October 19
10 year plan: Hopefully not in
Kansas....who'd want to be in
Kansas.
Quote: "Just had a laugh attack.
I'm all recovered now!! Wowza."
-Riley Shea Butters

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Bradyn Fortney

Hometown: Colorado Springs,
CO
Birthday: March 11
10 year plan: Theater Engineer
Quote: The only thing separating

you from certain death at 65mph is a
painted white line and a mutual
agreement not to play bumper cars.

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Sarah García Chong

Hometown: Yoder, CO
Birthday: June 1
10 year plan: Drinking Shirley
Temples in Scotland after my
second divorce.
Quote: "Goodbye everyone, I will
remember you all in therapy,"
-Plankton, my childhood idol.

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Elizabeth "Lizzie"
Haghighi

Hometown: Anchorage, Alaska
Birthday: January 11
10 year plan: Driving my Range
Rover.
Quote: I play musical chairs with
these squares.

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Lucia Heminway

Hometown: Bozeman, Montana
Birthday: November 28
10 year plan: Swim the English
Channel
Quote: What you seem to be, be
really." -Benjamin Franklin

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Philip "Flip" Higgins

Hometown: Cascade, CO
Birthday: July 24
10 year plan: To become a
marine biologist
Quote: I'm cracked dawg, 2GUD
Don't Care.

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Shidao "Jay" Jing

Hometown: Shenyang, China
Birthday: January 21

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Quinlan "Quin" Kapsner

Hometown: Sweetwater, CO
Birthday: February 24
10 year plan: Free.
Quote: "I'm ready to go anywhere
I'm ready for to fade into my own
parade cast your dancing spell
my way I promise to go under it"
-Bobby D

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Sage Keller

Hometown: Boise, ID
Birthday: June 25
10 year plan: eating lentils with
my 4 cats
Quote: "I'm scared I won't like
anyone as much as I liked that
blueberry bagel." -Brooke
Dashiell

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Aspen Kimlicko

Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
Birthday: April 14
10 year plan: Blasting through
space in a ship of my own
making!
Quote: =)

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Charlotte Kline

Hometown: Jackson Hole, WY
Birthday: November 21
10 year plan: Drinking frothed
milk as I cackle at myself.
Quote: Cry Harder.

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Sophie Knuettel

Hometown: Denver, CO
Birthday: February 9
10 year plan: Working at Disney,
and likely still not having a license.
Quote: "I feel like writing an essay
for English is like painful
constipation. You just can't squeeze
out what you want to write." -Max
Zhang

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Valeriy "Val" Kossenko

Hometown: Almaty, Kazahkstan
Birthday: November 12
10 year plan: To become the next
Hokage and form the Outer Heaven
with Mads Mikkelsen wearing an eye-
patch. Or to be a lawyer, not sure yet.
Quote: “In our struggle to survive the
present, we push the future farther
away.” -Big Boss from Metal Gear Solid

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Jeff Lessard

Hometown: Québec City, Canada
Birthday: February 21
10 year plan: Whatever waits for
me in 10 years, I just hope I'll be
happy.
Quote: "It takes all types of
people to make a world." -Jeff
Lessard

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Makena Likewise

Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
Birthday: May 26
10 year plan: Stop Sam Volk from
initiating the singularity
Quote: "Slighty scratched your
Corolla. Okay, I smashed your
Corolla." -Kanye West

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Meilin "Maylyn" Lu

Hometown: Beijing and
Shanghai, China
Birthday: April 28
10 year plan: Movie Director
Words to live by: Be Thankful Be
Loveful.

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Chloe Mason

Hometown: Colorado Springs,
CO
Birthday: May 17
10 year plan: Traveling Nurse
and owning a house off of Byron
Bay, Australia
Quote: "Shake and Bake."
-Talladega Nights (Ricky Bobby)

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Beatrice "Bea" Mellsop

Hometown: Salida, CO
Birthday: September 27
10 year plan: I hope to become a
hermit and live by a Norwegian fjord.
Quote: "You will mess up. You will
make mistakes. You just gotta smang
it into the next thing." -Mrs. Marine

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Madeleine Mills

Hometown: Denver, CO
Birthday: November 12
10 year plan: Eating honey from
my beehives.
Quote: "Never put off till
tomorrow what you can do day
after tomorrow just as well."
-Mark Twain

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Emma Nizami

Hometown: Pueblo, CO
Birthday: May 31
10 year plan: Check back in with
me in 10 years. I should know by
then.
Quote: "Not all trailblazers
follow." -Katie Prantl

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Konami Ogino

Hometown: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: August 18
10 year plan: visiting Salar de
Uyuni
Quote: "Wear a smile and have
friends; wear a scowl and have
wrinkles." -George Eliot

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Jo Ota

Hometown: Kamakura, Japan
Birthday: June 4
10 year plan: International
Business Management/Help my
family
Quote: "Your time is limited, so
don't waste it living for someone
else's life." -Steve Jobs

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Jordan "Mitch" Porter

Hometown: Davidson, NC
Birthday: October 5
10 year plan: Working at the UN
Development Programme

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Katherine "Katie" Prantl

Hometown: Colorado Springs, CO
Birthday: April 2
10 year plan: In 10 years, I hope to
be completing my 20 part plan.
Quote: "C'mon Katie, you should
have shot that! That's a waste of
height." -Coach Mom

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Tilly Rahm

Hometown: Spring Valley, WI
Birthday: March 30
10 year plan: Getting my license.
Quote: "Where is Emily?"
"In a wheelchair, on the tennis
courts."

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ZeLong "Roger" Shan

Hometown: Dalian, Liaoning,
China
Birthday: October 23
10 year plan: Paying taxes.
Quote: Place your Ad Here.

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Jiake "Claire" Shi

Hometown: Tianjin, China
Birthday: August 18
10 year plan: Neuroscientist
Words to live by: Doing good
deeds without asking for
rewards.

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