BEYOND THE BOOKS
NEWS AND NOTEWORTHY EVENTS
Highs of Two Different Sorts IN JULY, Upper School Environmental Science teacher Danny Dychkowski ventured to remote East Africa with seven Brunswick students — all members of ’Wick’s Global Citizenship Club — including two newly minted graduates of the Class of 2016. When the last of its three connecting flights touched down in Arusha, Tanzania, the group caught a fitful night’s sleep before beginning a grueling, six-day hike, culminating in the ascent of
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TOP As he neared Mt. Kilimanjaro’s summit at sunrise, photographer Matt Womble ’17 captured a landscape sloping down toward an ocean of cloud cover.
Mt. Kilimanjaro, on the Kenyan border.
ABOVE A week later, doing volunteer work with Tanzanian children, Womble shouldered a student at a school on Lake Victoria in the Mwanza region, 280 miles northwest of Kilimanjaro.
Bachelder Foundation for Children (JBFC), a coeducational Tanzanian school and a refuge
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Having conquered the continent’s highest peak, the weary group traveled to the northwest to the Mwanza region to spend a week living and volunteering at the Janada for orphan girls — breaking away for a day on safari in the Serengeti. Director of Institutional Communications Dan Griffin tagged along, emailing reports to the home front when flickering WiFi permitted. Here are two.