JUSTIN KASSER: We have now celebrated the opening of the new athletics center a few days ago, and how are you feeling about the new building?
NORM COLB: I feel wonderful that the building has finally been created. One of happiest days of my career at Menlo was watching the community enjoy the new, beautiful facility, and I think that with this move the school just got it right… they nailed it.
JUSTIN KASSER: And you were one of the first people to be up there, on the new floor of the Athletics Center, speaking about it. What did you feel when explaining to the crowd about the new gym?
NORM COLB: Well, when you are speaking in front of twelve thousand people, it is never so easy, I actually enjoyed myself up there tremendously, celebrating with the community about what it will accomplish for the Menlo students. Before the sixth graders arrived, the gym was way across the campus, shared with the college, and what that meant was that we didn’t have a ready way to support our athletics for students here. And because it is now very easy to access, I think it will now be very helpful for the health and wellness of our students here at Menlo. So to answer your question, I was glad to have the honor of presenting that information to the community.
JUSTIN KASSER: So going a little off topic, what are you looking forward to in the 2010- 2011 school year at Menlo?
NORM COLB: I want to make sure that students, especially those new to the sixth grade and ninth grade have an outstanding year and get off to a wonderful start. I wish also that the teachers in the middle school and high school have an outstanding as well. We are also putting the finishing touches on the design of the new Creative Arts Center for the high school, which will be part of the challenge Menlo program, also. That building, which will be done by about the summer of 2012, will have as much as an impact in learning for the high school as the athletics center did for the middle school.
JUSTIN KASSER: Well, thank you for being interviewed for the Scribbler, and I am sure this will turn out as a great article for the paper. And hopefully we can get even more articles for the Scribbler.
