It’s time for our 2nd Red Cross Blood Drive of the year. Please consider donating or volunteering to help out. It’s a great way to help your community.
Sign-ups are in the Birch Dining Commons. If you are 16 and want to donate, you must get parental permission. Here is the link to do so: http://www.redcrossblood.org/students/sixteen/ma
Click Here to see a video about the importance of donating. Every bit helps.
BLOOD DRIVE
FRIDAY, MAY 16
Dodge Room and Dance Studio
10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Students who would like to take AP History or English classes in the 2014-15 academic year should know the following:
AP English candidates must meet with their current English teachers to discuss whether AP is a good fit or not. There is a placement exam on Wednesday, May 21 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. that is an AP-style analytical essay based on a prompt. Students will be notified of the department’s decision in early- to mid-June.
AP History candidates are required to sit for an entry test, which will require students to write an essay on a topic after reading a presentation document. No advance preparation is required or expected. All students who take the entry test will be notified about the outcome of their application by the department by Wednesday, May 28, 2014, via email. AP U.S. History candidates do not have to take an entry test if they are currently enrolled in AP European History and have maintained a grade average of 90 or above for the first and second trimesters. Students will be notified the last week of school of the department’s decision.
Hello Wildcats!
We are very happy to announce that the Admission Office seeks a group of eight Admission Interns to organize, manage, and oversee the day-to-day functioning of campus visits through tour guide coordination and post-visit outreach. Responsibilities include participating in new tour guide training, matching visitors and tour guides, following up with tour guides electronically and in person, meeting and greeting prospective families, and emailing visitors after they leave Williston. Admission Interns will play an important role in shaping the future of Williston; it is a position with big responsibility and big potential reward!
Applications are due by Wednesday, May 14 at 10:30 p.m. to Ms. Talbot Syfu. You can copy the below application and submit your answers to Ms. Talbot-Syfu via email, if that is easier for you.
We greatly appreciate your interest in this position, and we look forward to interviewing candidates after May 14!
Nell Heidinger’s Surreal Summer Fashion Show for her Contemporary Arts and Culture class will be on Saturday night in the Athletic Center! Show starts at 7:30. Don’t miss a chance to see Nell’s experimental and surreal designs!
I wanted to pass along some information about the six Williston Scholars classes we’re excited to be offering next year. The Williston Scholars program aims to provide students who are passionate about a subject with the opportunity to engage in a trimester of rigorous study with a Williston faculty member and collaborators from the local colleges followed by a trimester of directed project work. Below you’ll find descriptions of the programs and who’s eligible for them. If you’d like any further info you can feel free to email me or contact the teacher of the course you’re interested in.
Have a great week!
Kimberly Zern Evelti
Associate Academic Dean
Williston has been building its Williston Scholars program over the past few years. The program aims to provide students who are passionate about a subject with the opportunity to engage in a trimester of rigorous study with a Williston faculty member and collaborators from the local colleges followed by a trimester of directed project work. We’ve had great success with the program in its first few years and are excited to offer six courses next year. The courses are described in detail in our course catalog (www.williston.com/courses) and are summarized below.
Ceramic artist Robbie Heidinger P’14 will be giving an artist’s talk and demonstration in the Grubbs Gallery tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 p.m.
All and any are invited to stop by.
-Natania Hume
Instructor of Ceramics, Design and Drawing
Director / Curator of the Grubbs Gallery
I thought this would be a good time to add something to your “to-do” list, so here goes: AP English 12 is spending our last days together reading in small groups, and we would like to invite all of you to join us. If you’re interested, please pick one of the following books to begin reading this week or next:
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Blindness, Jose Saramago
Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
Cartwheel, Jen DuBois ’02 (Williston Grad!)
Atonement, Ian McEwan
We would love to have you join us for class during G or B block on Friday, May 16. Maybe you have already read one of these books and you would like to come chat about it, or maybe you have been looking for a good book to read; this is a great excuse! No need to prepare anything or to be an expert on the book you read, and no need to have read very far…believe me, they won’t be far along either.
Please let me know if you are able to come join us!
Thank you!
Sarah Sawyer
Writing Center Director, English Teacher
Sarah Sawyer
Writing Center Director, English Teacher
Hello Students,
If you are taking one or more AP Exams over the next couple of weeks, please read on for some important reminders. Information about what to bring/what not to bring to your AP Exam, the testing dates and locations again, and other reminders are listed below:
Some 19 Williston students will attend the Northampton Pride March on Saturday, May 3, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The march is an annual event held on the first Saturday of May each year. The trip is being organized by the Community Service Club. Some students will be leaving for this event at 10:30 a.m., and others will leave at 11:30 am. One bus will be returning at 1:30 p.m. and another returning at 4:00 p.m. The field trip is being overseen by Emily Vezina, Stan Samuelson, Rachel Chambers, and Susanna White.
Saturday at 7 p.m. on Sawyer Field come support your girls varsity lacrosse team and our fundraiser for the Head Strong fund.
During the game we will be selling:
· T-shirts
· Bracelets
· Sunglasses
· And baked goodies (mmm yum yum yum yum yum)
And rock some GREEN apparel to show your support!
