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Lower School Shares with Fervor
Nov 8, 2000 8:00 AM
By Stefan Eady - Faculty
There could be a bank of terms to describe the Lower School. “Sharing” might be one of the most fit. Students eagerly share their energies to support school projects like the successful magazine sale, are ready to share their ideas in the classroom, and are even willing to share their community service ventures with the rest of the School.
During the week of the annual book fair, Oct. 9 – Oct. 13, students participated in Reader to Reader, a children's literature program to collect and send books to schools in need. Previously, this was a fourth grade project but this year the entire Lower School shared the venture to collect 210 pounds of books and the money needed for postage.
At the beginning of this year, Ephraim Maina Githinjl, head teacher at Gatundu Primary School, Kenya, East Africa, sent the fourth grade a thank you letter and a video for the books sent during the 1999-2000 academic year (it takes approximately six months to process and receive the books). All Lower School students watched the video that gave an overview of the project then participated in bringing good used or new books to send to the students in Gatund. Joan Brock was the parent volunteer who lead the undertaking.
Darlington became involved in the project after Reatha Carroll, fourth grade teacher, read an article in Southern Living magazine about Kemie Nix of Westminster Schools, Atlanta, who started Reader to Reader in l972. Nix carried the program into several Atlanta inner-city schools and Mount Kenya Academy, East Africa. For her contributions in bringing children and books together, Nix was awarded the Shelton L. Root Jr. Award and was one of 35 Georgians whose portrait appeared on the Coca-Cola Olympic Centennial Wall.
During the week of the annual book fair, Oct. 9 – Oct. 13, students participated in Reader to Reader, a children's literature program to collect and send books to schools in need. Previously, this was a fourth grade project but this year the entire Lower School shared the venture to collect 210 pounds of books and the money needed for postage.
At the beginning of this year, Ephraim Maina Githinjl, head teacher at Gatundu Primary School, Kenya, East Africa, sent the fourth grade a thank you letter and a video for the books sent during the 1999-2000 academic year (it takes approximately six months to process and receive the books). All Lower School students watched the video that gave an overview of the project then participated in bringing good used or new books to send to the students in Gatund. Joan Brock was the parent volunteer who lead the undertaking.
Darlington became involved in the project after Reatha Carroll, fourth grade teacher, read an article in Southern Living magazine about Kemie Nix of Westminster Schools, Atlanta, who started Reader to Reader in l972. Nix carried the program into several Atlanta inner-city schools and Mount Kenya Academy, East Africa. For her contributions in bringing children and books together, Nix was awarded the Shelton L. Root Jr. Award and was one of 35 Georgians whose portrait appeared on the Coca-Cola Olympic Centennial Wall.
