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Room to Read Calls a Rally for Reading Room to Read, a Brunswick School club established two years ago, was on a mission. Through various fundraising activities during the school year, members raised $19,000 to donate to this non-profit organization based in San Francisco that builds schools, libraries, funds girls’ scholarships, and publishes local language children’s books in developing countries. The organization has built 765 schools, 7,040 libraries, published 327 original local language children’s books, and funded more than 6,817 long-term girls’ scholarships in countries such as Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Zambia, and South Africa. Springtime at ’Wick was busy as young readers in Lower and Middle Schools dove wholeheartedly into a reada-thon. The monthlong project was kicked off on “Read Across America” Day. Lower School organized events such as read-in
periods and reading incentives, and invited Upper Schoolers to read to the Lower School boys. Middle School charted individual achievements as students read more than 200,000 pages to support global literacy. One student raised $900 through his reading and another read more than 10,000 pages. These funds will go to build a library in Nepal that will be dedicated to the faculty and students of Brunswick School who made it happen. “The Read-a-thon was incredible!” said Will Seaton ’09, outgoing president and founder of Room to Read Club. “Brunswick students pulled together and read more pages than I could ever have imagined. They really chipped in to help Room to Read’s mission to break the chain of children’s illiteracy.” j For more information on Room to Read, please go to roomtoread.org.
Will Seaton ’09 (middle), president and founder of Brunswick School’s Room to Read Club, with Coulter Bailey ’09 (left) and Bill Hoch ’09 (right), cofounders.
Bears & Jammers
Front row (center): Rick Famiglietti (CT #72). Middle row (left to right): John Fuhr (NY, with Joseph Jeremias in his lap), Tom Branchaud (CT #11), Len Lacina (NY #8), Wil Kornegay (CT #6), Brian Amundsen (NY), Matt Castelluccio (NY), and Jim Quick (CT). Back row (left to right): Brunswick School students Matias Gonzalez-Bunster ’12, Alex Jonokuchi ’10, Robb King ’12, Max Haub ’10, Kevin Donlin ’10, Gus Ruchman ’10 (president, Bears for Chairs), Sam King ’10 (co-vice president) and Bud Harvey. (Other “Bears for Chairs” club members not pictured: co-vice presidents Harrison Oztemel ’10 and Robin Malloch ’10.)
“Bears for Chairs,” an extracurricular club dedicated to issues of mobility awareness and outreach, partnered with the Brunswick varsity basketball team to sponsor an exhibition quadriplegic rugby match. The Connecticut Jammers, who were joined by some of their New York teammates, played the halftime exhibition at Sampson Athletic Center on Edwards Campus. “We are hoping to raise awareness in our school for this amazing game, for the athleticism that wheelchair-bound players with disabilities can exhibit, and to raise funds for the Jammers,” said Gus Ruchman ’10, president of “Bears for Chairs.” j
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