ACTIONS + ACHIEVEMENTS (CONTINUED)
CUM LAUDE INDUCTION CELEBRATES ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT On April 22, eighteen students from the classes of 2019 and 2020 were inducted into the Cum Laude Society. The organization honors scholastic achievement at the secondary level, and Dana Hall inducts its new members annually each spring. CLASS OF 2019
CLASS OF 2020
Amelie Brown Saaniya Desai Alison Frambes Tzu Hsein Huang Katherine Phillips Antonia Phillips-Beeching Maria Sedunova Weiting Wang
Elena Carmichael Yanan Dai Zixin Huang Sabria Liddell Abigail Litvak Nancy Park
Fiona Stewart Sarah Syed Nicole Taylor Yang Xu
GIRLS SUMMER LEADERSHIP PROGRAM Now in its ninth year, the Girls Summer Leadership Program (GSLP) welcomed 26 participants to campus June 22-28. The program provides a special setting for girls to work with nine high school mentors and two young alumnae mentors to gain valuable skills and resources that they can take with them as they enter high school. This year, GSLP welcomed back Deena Husami ’18, who attended the program in 2014 and served as a high school mentor in 2017 and 2018, and McKenna McLean ’17, who served as a high school mentor in 2016 and 2017 and a young alumnae mentor in 2018. The seven-day residential program is open to girls who have completed 8th grade and will enter high school in the fall. Top: Young Alum Mentors McKenna McLean ’17 and Deena Husami ’18 Bottom: GSLP participants take on a team challenge.
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Summer 2019
COMMUNITY EVENT ADDRESSES CONCERNS ABOUT GIRLS AND STRESS On May 2, Dana Hall hosted The Forum: A Conversation on Girls and Stress. Panelists Robin Cook-Nobles, Ed.D., director of Wellesley College’s Counseling Service at the Stone Center; Christina Dolce, Psy.D., NCSP, clinical and educational psychologist at McLean Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School; and Renée Spencer Ed.D., LICSW, professor at the Boston University School of Social Work, shared recent research findings and discussed practical strategies to help parents, teachers and students devise methods to perform well in the classroom while also mitigating stress. Watch the full event at www.danahall.org/springforum19.