In an effort to rationalize my absence, I have put together a little top 10 list of why I have not been more expressive during the last three months:
- In March, my wonderful hosts in nine different cities in Asia kept me so busy and well fed that there was no time or energy to write.
- Then Hayfa Abdujabar joined us from Harvard for a day to infuse our school-wide dialog on gender and rights in Islam and the Middle East. Hayfa had me thinking about a lot.
- In April, the town-wide Earth Day effort kept us busy, leaving us especially tired after work and the end-of-day fun.
- Throughout the spring, we continued to work at our goal of raising at least $10,000 for Haiti relief, eventually exceeding what to some had deemed an unreasonable goal by more than 20%. This was achieved by many different initiatives involving everyone in the Winchendon School community. Some of that effort has gone to support the terrific efforts of Forward in Health.
- Come late April and May, I could blog or cheer on the Winchendon athletes. You choose...
- Coach Patty and others did a great job of organizing a fun alumni lacrosse weekend. There will be more like these.
- There was the Boston Harbor cruise with all looking sharp and dancing the night away.
- Then a generous donor made it possible for all of the freshmen, sophomores and juniors to spend an afternoon in Boston seeing the Imax film "Arabia" and visiting the Museum of Science.
- The same donor paved the way for the Class of 2010 to spend an afternoon and evening reconnecting to our Hatch School roots by relaxing in Newport, RI.
- The Student Art Show was a stunner. Stop by the dining hall if you haven't had a chance to see some of the great work that was done this year.
- And soon the end of the year was upon us with a wonderful baccalaureate at Cathedral Pines featuring the Winchendon Singers, a memorable senior night dinner and graduation day with lots of memorable words, tears, smiles and send-off hugs.
- No time to spare...days later, thanks to the significant efforts of several of our Board and staff members, we were able to break ground on the new dorm project. The new building will be complete by next spring.
I am back and will work to do a much better job of keeping up with the blog. Have a good weekend!
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