Happy New Year, Year #4070, The Year of the Ox!

Today at morning meeting, I handed Hao Wen a traditional, red envelope as parents might for their child in China to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Unfortunately for Hao, it did not include money, but it did include the following proclamation that Hao proceeded to read to the rest of the school…

For Men’s Hockey beating Cushing for the first time in 15 years;

For the great job done by all during the Ice Storm and evacuation of 2008;

For the 74 students who achieved High Honors for the first semester;

For Men’s basketball for their compelling victories over Patterson, Edison and Notre Dame in the last eight days;

To Mr. Magay and all if you who have been working hard towards better environmental and recycling practices…with a special thanks to the gorilla recyclers for their dumpster sorting; To all of those who have gotten 3’s in the last two weeks;

For the Winchendon athletes who have a combined record of 12 and 4 over the last 8 days;

For those who have been creating the wonderful work coming out of the Art Building this winter;

To the 14 who earned Merit Category after first semester;

For Women’s Hockey for cleaning up in Canada this past weekend;

For the 25 students who achieved Honor Roll for the first semester; And for the many of us who celebrate the Lunar New Year this week…

As President of the Winchendon Student Body, I hereby issue an order that tonight we will celebrate these great achievements, tomorrow morning we will all sleep in, and tomorrow afternoon we will celebrate some more. Happy New Year!

We are having a terrific year and everyone deserves a little break and celebration. Happy New Year or …


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