Today the Gargoyle (yearbook) released its 101th edition, themed be bold, be you. The editors-in-chief, Taylor Garrison ’12 and Camille Shaw-Pigeon ’12 based it off a Ray Bans advertisement campaign. The theme also represented the audacity that is found every Emma Girl. Congratulations Gargoyle, the book looks great!
Post by Jenn Ding ’13
Omega is a new club featuring a blog similar to emma now, only it’s focused on fashion and trends! There are cool posts like “Outfit of the Week,” “Room of the week,” and “quote of the week!” At morning reports on Friday Omega put on a mini-fashion show to strut the newest spring trends. Next year Omega plans to put on an even bigger fashion show, something everyone is looking forward to. Check out Omega at www.emmaomega.wordpress.com!
Students sporting their bracelets!
The Emma community is enjoying a dress down day today in recognition of our support of The Emma Fund! All donors to the fund received red “iSupport The Emma Fund” bracelets in appreciation and to encourage others to participate. The inspirational message of the day was: Our collective support matters!
Contributions to The Emma Fund are spent in the school’s current fiscal year and provide the resources necessary to address the most urgent and pressing needs facing the school at any given moment. Today, as throughout the school’s history, Emma Willard’s operating budget depends on gifts to supplement tuition in order to fund the program and opportunities that distinguish an Emma education.
The 2011-2012 Emma Fund closes June 30. Click here to make your gift today.
Thank you to all who supported this important effort!
Katie Yan, sophomore, competing in the 100 meter hurdles
Jillian Salmon, junior, and Talia Zisman, senior set up the new garden
Yesterday, April 21, EmmaGreen, the student led environmental club, held cleanup and fundraising activities in honor of Earth Day. The day started off at 10 am with a cleanup in the surrounding community and neighborhoods. At noon, students and faculty planted seeds in the newly constructed garden. At 2 pm, a concert featuring the Adam Ezar Group took place in Kiggins to raise money. It was a great, Earth friendly day! Happy Earth Day!
Emma Girls at the Model UN Conference
This past weekend from Friday February 24 until the 26th, Emma Willard’s Model United Nations club went to a conference in Boston, Massachusetts. There, students debated and learned through hands on conferences. All the students had a great time, and Annie Roome, sophomore, even received an award! Nice job Model UN!
Julia Riback, '12, left, and Julia Doyle, '13, right, pose with Emma Willard at a snack break along the trail
The Emma Willard cutout from the birthday assembly on Wednesday has already had her first big adventure, traveling with the Outing Club on Saturday, February 25th to the summit of Cascade Mountain. The group of nine students and two faculty left early, departing the school at 7AM to drive up to Keene, NY where the trailhead for the mountain is located. The trail was covered with several inches of snow right from the start, so the group made good use of their snowshoes throughout the entire hike. The climb was approximately 2.5 miles to the top, with several steep switches along the way and some difficult rock climbing on the final part of the ascent. The group was ecstatic when they reached the summit, where winds were blowing at excess of 40mph and hikers huddled together for a brief picture atop one of the 46 highest peaks in the state. Though the view was blocked by clouds, the entire group agreed that the hike was definitely worth it and congratulated each other on a job well done. After completing such an exciting expedition, the van ride back was full of exhausted but proud hikers, some already experienced veterans, others having just discovered something new about themselves.
In case you missed it or wanted to see it again, you can watch the entire Black History Month assembly on our youtube!
Yesterday, February 1st, the Emma Community gathered in Kiggins to view the film MissRepresentation. The film is a documentary about how females are represented in the media, and it included many famous influential women sharing their opinions. After the viewing, students and faculty broke into assigned groups to reflect on the film. MissRepresentation seems to have made quite the impact on campus! Check out the website for the film here and view the trailer below.
Emma Green, an environmentally focused student club, is launching The Million Tree Project organized by Roots & Shoots, a branch of the International Jane Goodall Institute. This project has already planted sixty million trees in Kulun County, Inner Mongolia, by June, 2011 and they plan to continue until 2014. Emma Green, with project leader Summer Zhang, is hoping to raise enough money in the next three years to plant 1000 trees so a forest can be planted in honor of Emma Willard School! The club has just started this goal and they are already well on their way to success. Stay tuned for more information on how to get involved and be sure to check out the Emma Green facebook for frequent updates!
Written with assistance from Julia Riback and Summer Zhang.
