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Weekend activities give families a big welcome
Sep 3, 2002 8:00 AM
By Stefan Eady - Faculty
Thanks to the success of the new online registration, families spent less time waiting to register and more time getting settled in Houses and participating in a variety of activities designed to acclimate them quickly to the new school year.
New resident students began moving in by 8 a.m. on Aug. 17, and House prefects and faculty were ready and waiting to help carry boxes, furniture, and clothes. The prefects had spent most of the previous week decorating the Houses and preparing special welcome gifts.
The majority of Upper School families had already registered online; 86 percent of the students had completed their online registration and only needed to turn in their completed paperwork and 55 percent had completed all registration steps. Most had already picked up their books, if they were day students, or discovered that their books were waiting for them in their resident room.
An 11:15 a.m. chapel meeting for all new resident and day students, including rising ninth grade students, and faculty helped orient students and their families to the school year. Advisors were able to meet their new advisees and some ate lunch together. Nearly 500 students, families, and faculty ate lunch served by Sage in the dining room.
Mini-school classes were well attended and gave parents and students a chance to find classrooms and meet teachers, who explained course expectations. Resident families then attended individual House meetings.
Faculty members entertained families with various demonstrations before dinner was served in the Huffman Center. Faculty activities included Jim Linos, volleyball; Tollie Ross, bridge; Pat Waddell, chess; Steve Hall, canoeing; Julia Dodd, chemistry; Larry Johnson, anatomy and physiology; Bill King, steel drums; Kathy O’Mara, art; and Sam Moss, college guidance information for seniors.
For the art project, six line drawings of the Mona Lisa were drawn on canvas and the students, parents, and faculty were encouraged to paint part or all of the canvases. “It was exciting to see how each person approached the project in a different way,” O’Mara said. “Some added bright colors or eyelashes. David Hicks [School president] added a mustache to one of the canvases and Jackson Eady, Stefan [director of Web development] and Carrie Eady, added two small handprints.” When the Mona Lisa art project is complete, as many as nine canvases will be hung together (similar to the type of work done by Andy Warhol).
The Parents Association hosted dessert for the parents following dinner while new resident students met in Morris Chapel.
Welcome-back activities continued on Sunday with new resident students departing for Camp Winshape. Returning resident students registered in the afternoon. Weekend activities ended with a cookout and music mixer in the Zelle Cove.
New resident students began moving in by 8 a.m. on Aug. 17, and House prefects and faculty were ready and waiting to help carry boxes, furniture, and clothes. The prefects had spent most of the previous week decorating the Houses and preparing special welcome gifts.
The majority of Upper School families had already registered online; 86 percent of the students had completed their online registration and only needed to turn in their completed paperwork and 55 percent had completed all registration steps. Most had already picked up their books, if they were day students, or discovered that their books were waiting for them in their resident room.
An 11:15 a.m. chapel meeting for all new resident and day students, including rising ninth grade students, and faculty helped orient students and their families to the school year. Advisors were able to meet their new advisees and some ate lunch together. Nearly 500 students, families, and faculty ate lunch served by Sage in the dining room.
Mini-school classes were well attended and gave parents and students a chance to find classrooms and meet teachers, who explained course expectations. Resident families then attended individual House meetings.
Faculty members entertained families with various demonstrations before dinner was served in the Huffman Center. Faculty activities included Jim Linos, volleyball; Tollie Ross, bridge; Pat Waddell, chess; Steve Hall, canoeing; Julia Dodd, chemistry; Larry Johnson, anatomy and physiology; Bill King, steel drums; Kathy O’Mara, art; and Sam Moss, college guidance information for seniors.
For the art project, six line drawings of the Mona Lisa were drawn on canvas and the students, parents, and faculty were encouraged to paint part or all of the canvases. “It was exciting to see how each person approached the project in a different way,” O’Mara said. “Some added bright colors or eyelashes. David Hicks [School president] added a mustache to one of the canvases and Jackson Eady, Stefan [director of Web development] and Carrie Eady, added two small handprints.” When the Mona Lisa art project is complete, as many as nine canvases will be hung together (similar to the type of work done by Andy Warhol).
The Parents Association hosted dessert for the parents following dinner while new resident students met in Morris Chapel.
Welcome-back activities continued on Sunday with new resident students departing for Camp Winshape. Returning resident students registered in the afternoon. Weekend activities ended with a cookout and music mixer in the Zelle Cove.
