On Halloween, the community service Fair Trade sold chocolate during lunch outside the dining hall. Fair Trade is a nonprofit community service that sells traded coffee, chocolate, tea, and hot cocoa to provide a way for students and faculty to help with creating an equal market. Students and faculty could also place an order [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 30, 2009
Halloween at Emma
It’s the EMMA HALLOWEEN! This year was special because it happened on Thursday. Students got the chance to take a wonderful break in the middle of the academic week. The very first exciting thing was, of course, the dressing up. We had people from cartoon characters to movies stars, daily life objects to videos games, [...]
October 29, 2009
Exploration. Junior Seminar
Juniors assembled in Kiggins for the second time on October 28. After finishing their personality types online, juniors learned deeper meanings of what their personality code represented. They wrote down what their advantages are and what they needed to improve on notecards for the first activity. And then, they discussed with a partner to figure [...]
October 28, 2009
Computers, computing, and you
Mr. McCorkle, director of academic technology, spoke at today’s assembly about computer etiquette with topics such as the proper way to respond to an evite and politely compose a helpdesk request, what and what not to print, how to handle a computer, how to connect to wireless and make updates, and why the network is [...]
October 28, 2009
Scarves!
The weaving class has finished their first project, which was making 6 foot long scarves. The scarves were woven using the plain weave stitch. Ask the students about their next project!
Submitted by: Lydia ‘12
October 28, 2009
Still Undefeated
The Varsity Soccer team had their last home game on Monday, October 26th. Players on the team made posters for the senior members of their team to congratulate them. Many friends and family members came to cheer for their great team. And yes, varsity is still undefeated for the season! Way to go, soccer!
Submitted by: Florrie [...]
October 26, 2009
A community of caring
This morning’s inspirational speaker was Betsy Lamoureux, director of student activities, who tells her story about dealing with Hepatitis C. On Sunday, Race for a Cause, a campus community service group, will host a 5k race to raise money for research. Hear Betsy’s story here and learn more about the race in our previous post here.
October 24, 2009
New Century Saxophone Quartet
On Saturday evening, Emma Willard hosted Friends of Chamber Music and a performance by the New Century Saxophone Quartet in Kiggins Hall. Although the weather was not as delightful as we would have wanted, Kiggins Hall was filled with lively music composed by Jean-Baptiste Singelée, J.S Bach, Astor Piazolla, George Gershwin, and Russell Peck.
Submitted by [...]
October 23, 2009
Feeling Fried?
Many of you have been told to stay far from the microwave when it is in use to prevent harm to your body; however, most of us never contemplated the harmful effects of cell phone radiation which uses the same kind of radiation as the microwave. There are few disclaimers warning against cell phone use [...]
October 22, 2009
Dynamic duo
Congratulations to Shibani ‘10 and Mitali ‘13 for a great run at the Section II individual tournmaent. They made it all the way to the finals before dropping a highly competitive doubles match against the #1 seeded Saratoga team. They will be one of three doubles teams from Section II heading to the state tournament [...]
