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Our athletic event mobile snack truck was named for Phyllis Carley, Harker’s biggest sports fan. She worked and volunteered for Harker for more than 50 years, starting in 1952. She started as a driver, later served as secretary for Major Nichols, and ultimately became secretary to the board of trustees.
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Rajiv Movva ’18 awarded Davidson Fellowship for ongoing project

 

Rajiv Movva ’18 awarded Davidson Fellowship for ongoing project
Rajiv Movva ’18 was named a Davidson Fellow by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development to develop his project "SNPpet: Deep Learning the Human Epigenome Reveals Regulatory Sequence Patterns and Genomic Mechanisms of Disease."
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Harker dance groups take top spots at Festival of Champions
Harker dance groups take top spots at Festival of Champions

 

Junior named winner in New York Times 100-Word Narrative Contest
Junior named winner in New York Times 100-Word Narrative Contest

 

Junior profiled in LA Times High School Insider
Junior profiled in LA Times High School Insider
Four upper school teams receive Scholastic Championship Team Awards
Four upper school teams receive Scholastic Championship Team Awards

 

Harker team named semifinalist in Wharton Investment Competition
Harker team named semifinalist in Wharton Investment Competition

 

Harker students win nearly 300 Regional Art & Writing Awards
Harker students win nearly 300 Regional Art & Writing Awards
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125th Anniversary Video Channel
Enjoy this video from our archives where in 1993, Howard and Diana Nichols drive their converted 1986 Pontiac Fiero, renamed the Destiny 2000. It was one of a pair; you may have seen the other one in the film ‘Naked Gun 2 1/2.’
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125th Anniversary Memories

One year our school bus (a 1969 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser Station Wagon, one of a fleet of six or so) was out of commission, so they used Major Donald Nichols’ personal 1968 black Cadillac limousine, with Mrs. Cimonini driving, for our route that year. It must have raised some neighbors’ eyebrows seeing me standing out front of my house, dressed in my uniform, getting picked up for private school in a limo!


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