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| The Ivanel Academy for INDIVIDUAL ATHLETICS, ARTS & ACADEMICS |
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| The Ivanel Academy, a cozy woodland school, is designed for high-school-age girls with outstanding skills (or the proven potential for such) in either Individual Arts or Athletics, with a better-than-average aptitude or motivation for high Academic grades. Full scholarships will be offered to recommended girls from the inner "geo"cities and any of our Native Canadian Reservations. Besides the regular Ontario curriculum, the Academy offers Artists their theory and practicum classes in any of the following: sketching, painting, sculpting, pottery, carving, vocal and instrumental music, all types of dance and theatre arts. If a student is more Athletically-inclined, the school coaches regularly in the following disciplines: English Riding (hunter/jumper, dressage and eventing), Golf, Figure Skating, Tennis, Gymnastics, Archery, Cross-Country Running & Skiing, Cycling, & Swimming. A highlight of the Academy is the richness of our surrounding environment and courses are also taught in: Orienteering and Wilderness Skills, "Pioneer Power", Antique Appreciation and Crafts, and Traditional Agriculture and "living off the land" techniques. This ensures that neither the beauty of our natural world, nor the historical craftsmanship and customs of our ancestors will be lost in this modern age of commercialism and high technology. At the Ivanel Academy, "tradition is indeed OUR tradition". |
| Academics, the Arts, and Individual Athletics, set in an environment of natural surroundings in order to appreciate Mother Nature, her flora and fauna, her foundations and her flawless beauty are the principles supporting "Ivanel." |
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| above, Academy founder, Julie Johnson has taught in the inner- city of Leeds, England and on a Blackfeet reservation in Montana, as well as two private schools in the U.S.A. and a high school in the theatre capital of North America: Stratford, Ontario |
| left, and right, Joy Cehovin, Director of "Domesticity" and Den Mother to the students, has taught in Africa as well as Canada and has fostered children in South America and Mexico. She was also a music teacher for over 25 years and believes strongly in young women finding their artistic "niche". |
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| J. Johnson, B.A., B.Ed, E.C.I. |
| mail to: care of: 21 Jack Ave., Kitchener, ON, CAN, N2M 1Z9 |
| watch for links: with our Senior's HAWKIE'S HENS and the girls' newsletter: "From Dorothy's Den" |
| below, "Dorothy's Den" for which the newsletter is named |
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| Academy Founder Julie Johnson, left and below, competed at the national level of eventing for two decades, is a certified Equine Canada National Coach as well as a qualified instructor through the North American Riding for the Handicapped Assoc., and has taken students and her own skilfully-trained horses through the provincial ranks. She is the Head Equine Instructor at Ivanel, named for her grandmother, an elocution teacher at Alma College in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. |
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| Richard Reich, at left , who is the Academy's Director of Development and Communications, has been a foster parent for many years, and enjoys encouraging others in his profession as graphic artist. He loves the outdoors, building colonial furniture, and is working toward getting his pilot's license. |
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| Julie Johnson and Harvest Gold at the Provincial Championships in 1991 (Ont.) |
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