{"id":1695,"date":"2013-01-22T09:22:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T14:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2013-01-24T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T16:19:27","slug":"three-questions-for-matt-spearing-director-of-student-activities-and-renaissance-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/three-questions-for-matt-spearing-director-of-student-activities-and-renaissance-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents&#8217; Point of View: Three Questions for Matt Spearing, Director of Student Activities (and Renaissance Man)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_215\"><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/parentsassociation\/files\/2013\/01\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/parentsassociation\/files\/2013\/01\/photo-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Matt Spearing has a movie-theater popcorn machine in his office, and to us, that signals a man who is serious about making sure students have a much-needed outlet for their inner child.<\/p>\n<p>As <a title=\"Director of Student Activities\" href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/studentactivities\" target=\"_blank\">D<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/studentactivities\" target=\"_blank\">irector of Student Activities<\/a>, Matt organizes several student activities every weekend, as well as bigger productions that include WillyGras. He finds the DJ for Prom, and helps to coordinate the lock-in afterward. He also teaches AP Environmental Science, is a dorm parent, and coaches JV football in the fall. He\u2019s the class adviser for the Class of 2015, along with Christa Talbot.<\/p>\n<p>Some judicious Google-ing revealed that he is a world traveler as well, having taught in Cairo and Abu Dhabi. That\u2019s more than either of us have done, ever, and we are both old enough to be his\u2026ahem\u2026older sisters. We asked him Three Questions, but we found out way more than we asked.<\/p>\n<p>1.<strong> What the heck is it that you do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matt plans all weekend activities for all the boarding students\u2014and day students are welcome to do any of those activities as well. That might include a trip to the mall (very popular), a movie night in the StuBop, Open Gym activities in the Athletic Center, or trips to New York or Boston. There will be a Super Bowl viewing party on the big screen, and dances. By the way, parents can find the weekly activity schedule on WillyNet, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/page.aspx?pid=2531\">\u201cOn The Quad\u201d link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/parentsassociation\/2013\/01\/21\/three-questions-for-matt-spearing-director-of-student-activities-and-renaissance-man\/#more-198\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Spearing has a movie-theater popcorn machine in his office, and to us, that signals a man who is serious about making sure students have a much-needed outlet for their inner child. As Director of Student Activities, Matt organizes several student activities every weekend, as well as bigger productions that include WillyGras. He finds the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/three-questions-for-matt-spearing-director-of-student-activities-and-renaissance-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parents&#8217; Point of View: Three Questions for Matt Spearing, Director of Student Activities (and Renaissance Man)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congratulations","category-parents-association"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/onthequad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}