Daily Announcements from Williston Northampton

Chinese Activity Fair

The Chinese Activity Fair is Sunday night, December 2nd at 5-6:30 p.m. in the Cox Room and Parent Association Room.

There will be food, prizes, Mahjong (a chinese board game) and a lot of other interesting activities in Cox Room. There will be popcorn and a movie showing in the Parent Association Room. Chris Couchon our chef from the dining hall will specially prepare a very traditional and precious Chinese recipe—it will be really, really good!

The Chinese students all have prepared for a long time. So everybody should go to dining hall on Sunday and stop by the Cox Room. Have fun and enjoy the party!

Contact Tina Zhang with questions.

Thursday Menu: Nov. 29

Breakfast
Breakfast wraps with egg, ham and cheese, home fries, make-your-own waffle, yogurt bar
assorted eggs at the grill

Lunch
Creamy potato-cheese soup or soup du jour, meat lasagna, cheese lasagna, fish and chips, tempeh stir fry, Italian blend vegetables

Pasta bar: marinara sauce,  bread sticks
Burger and chicken slidestation

Dinner
Roast top round of beef-au jus, lemon brown rice and vegetables, baked potato, broccoli, seafood bake

Grill:assorted omelet
Pasta station: gemelle, marinara sauce,  pesto sauce
Pizza station: cheese or pepperoni

Chinese Cultural Activity Fair

The Chinese Activity Fair is Sunday night, December 2nd at 5-6:30 p.m. in the Cox Room and Parent Association Room.

There will be food, prizes, Mahjong (a chinese board game) and a lot of other interesting activities in Cox Room. There will be popcorn and a movie showing in the Parent Association Room. Chris Couchon, our chef from the dining hall, will specially prepare a very traditional and precious Chinese recipe—it will be really, really good!

The Chinese students all have prepared for a long time. So everybody should go to dining hall on Sunday and stop by the Cox Room. Have fun and enjoy the party!

Contact Tina Zhang with questions.

Fall Team Highlights

Director of Athletics Mark Conroy announced the following highlights and individual award winners from the nine fall teams at Upper School Assembly today. The award winners were also recognized during fall sports team night on November 16.

“I wanted to thank all of those of you who wore the blue and green this fall for competing so hard and so well,” Conroy said. “Your sportsmanship was outstanding.”

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Luma Mufleh to Speak at Wattles Perry ’77 Lecture

Fodbold.  Fuβball.  Pêl-droed.  Sokker.  Zúqiú.  Soccer.

Soccer is an international pastime and Luma Mufleh has used it as a stepping-stone to foster harmony and order in the lives of Clarkston, Georgia’s refugee children; children who have witnessed the worst of our modern age.

Born in Amman, Jordan, Mufleh moved to Atlanta a year and a half after graduating from Smith College.  One day, as she drove down a street in Clarkston, she happened upon a group of young boys playing soccer in the street.  “They played without some of the most basic equipment–but they played for the sheer enjoyment of the game–something that reminded [her] of home,” she said.

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Wednesday Menu: Nov. 28

Breakfast
French toast, sausage, home fries, hot cereal, yogurt, assorted eggs and omelets at the grill, fruit smoothies

Lunch
Tomato soup or soup du jour, grilled cheese, grilled cheese on wheat, American chop suey with meat, vegetarian curried lentil stew, corn, assorted wraps-roast beef  and tuna

Pasta station: pasta, marinara sauce, ratatouille vegetables

Dinner
Grilled bratwurst, Dijon chicken, potato pancakes with assorted toppings, sweet and sour cabbage, Prince Edward Isle blend vegetables, vegetarian goulash

Pasta station: cheese manicotti, marinara sauce, meat sauce and alfredo sauce

Assemblies This Week

I’d like to remind everyone that we will meet in the Chapel tomorrow for an Upper School Assembly at 8:30 am.  We will be seated by Advisories. This is according to the Community Meeting Schedule that was published earlier this year.  On Friday, we will meet in an All-School Assembly in the gymnasium at 8:30 am with our guest speaker, Luma Mufleh. Please note: This is a rescheduled date due to the speaker’s availability.  Again, we will be seated by Advisories with a special seating chart.

Thank you!
Ms. Noble

“We Will Remember Al”: A Yearbook Dedication

The following dedication by Molly Newton was originally published in The Williston Northampton School 2007 Log.

Please and thank you, two simple little words we all could spell by third grade. two simple little words many of us forgot sometime in those long years between third grade and our arrival at Williston; two simple words that Al Lavalle constantly reminded us to say, and never let us get away with forgetting.

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