Mr. Scott Garbus was the teacher in charge of the student newsletter at the beginning of the 21st Century. The newsletter was called “The Torch”.
In 2005, Mr. Michael Wise became the Editor-in Chief and ran with the publication until Mr. Alistair Willis took on the task in 2008.
No one is sure when it happened, but the newsletter changed its name to “Veritas”. We can only surmise that it changed, because many Dominican schools, worldwide, have a student newsletter by that name. Perhaps it happened in the run-on to the school’s first application to WASC for accreditation
candidacy. The name remained and when Mr Alistair went back to the UK in 2014, Dr. Mercia de Souza took on the
task of keeping our student newsletter going. However, in 2014 the school established its new Schoolwide Learning Outcomes (SLOs) and the D’TORCH acronym was accepted. All the school
newsletters changed to TORCH and Mr. Andrew Hall, who was a qualified graphic designer, designed the
masthead for the school’s three newsletters: “The Dominican Torch”, a newsletter from the school’s
administration, “The Student Torch”, newsletter for Middle and High School, and the “Kiddy Torch” a
newsletter for the Lower School.
In 2015, Mr. Andrew Hall and Mr. Kenneth Wall became the teachers in charge of the publication, when
Dr. Mercia took charge of the school’s self-study for accreditation and did not have time for the
newsletter any longer. When Mr. Hall and Mr. Wall went back to their respective countries, Ms.
Chanting Lee, a trained journalist, took charge in the following school year (S.Y. 2015-2016) and then
things really started to roll. She managed to enthuse the students and their creativity went to new
levels. Today we have this website, the work of generation Z students. No more paper! Let’s save the
planet! Through this website, we also have a much better platform for creative experimentation.
We hope that you will enjoy browsing through our work as much as we enjoyed creating it!
