By Alyssa K. Burns – 10/04/2019 Outside CMS on many Thursday nights throughout most of the school year, you may notice a (large!) crowd of dressed up sixth graders and their curious parents. Girls are in dresses, boys with ties and belts and dress shoes. This exciting right of passage taking […]
Posted: Friday, February 8, 2019 5:13 pm by Alessandra Selgi-Harrigan The boys were on one side of the room and the girls on the other. Everyone was nervous but knew what they had to do. Peter Benjamin, who has been teaching cotillion class in Coronado since 1983, had instructed them. Mr. Benjamin’s Cotillion class is not […]
Twitter trolling. Facebook shaming. Gloves-off warfare on the floor of the presidential debates. It is an etiquette jungle out there, but not in here. In this multipurpose room at De Portola Middle School in Tierrasanta, manners will be minded and rules will be obeyed. Because Mr. Benjamin is in the house, and incivility is not […]
Mr. Benjamin’s makes the San Diego Union Tribune’s list of “Oldies That Never Get Old” The San Diego Union Tribune featured Mr. Benjamin’s San Diego Junior Cotillion in Karla Peterson’s column titled, “From KGB to Kobey’s: Oldies that do not get old”, on 9/18/2010.
Mr. Benjamin’s was the Featured Cover Story of the San Diego Reader “Don’t Look Down” written by Laura McNeal, is a great feature story about Mr. Benjamin’s that appeared in the San Diego Reader May 5, 2010. Excerpt “Why, you may be asking yourself, did I enroll my son in something I couldn’t picture happening […]
The San Diego Union Tribune ran a full length feature article on Mr. Benjamin’s San Diego Junior Cotillion on February 21, 2004. “Mr. Manners – Donald Benjamin has been getting kids off on the right foot for 50 years” profiles San Diego Junior Cotillion and it’s founder, Mr. Benjamin. Excerpts “My father was one of […]
On February 29, 2004, Mr. Benjamin’s San Diego Junior Cotillion was featured in an hour long radio show on KOGO News Radio 600’s KOGO for Kids with Jane Cliford and noted KOGO for Kids psychologist and family therapist, Dr. Linda Haack-Rogers. Not only was this a great opportunity to reflect on the 50 years of […]
The San Diego Reader voted Mr. Benjamin’s San Diego Junior Cotillion as the BEST ETIQUETTE SCHOOL for 2003!