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Members of the 2007-08 Community Service Council: (in the front row) Jake Riiska ’10, Carl Nightingale ’10, Vianca Masucci ’09, Lela Wulsin ’10, Ping Praneeprachachon ’10 and Tori Hensel ’08, (middle row) Mary O’Connor ’11, Maggie Uhlein ’10, English teacher Lucy Goldstein, Jenny Chung ’09, Sophie Domanski ’11, Alexandria Regan ’08, Kelsey Crowther ’08, Ann Wheeler ’08, Laney Yang ’10, Caroline O’Connor ’10, Kim Drew ’08, Callie McBreen ’09, Camilla deBraganca ’09, Council Head Lara Freeman, Casey Hansel ’10, and (back row) Leigh Archer ’09, Merrill Pierce ’09, Jonathan Maio ’11, Will O’Connor ’08, Martin Ejiaku ’11, Patrick Guerriero ’09, Drew Miller ’09 and Halsey Landon ’09.
Community Service Council members Will O’Connor ’08 and Anna Mack ’09 organized a special assembly announcement in December to honor the school’s housekeeping staff. The two students offered a few words of thanks for all of the work that the staff does for the community, notably the impressive holiday decorations that grace the campus every year. “When we got back from Thanksgiving break and saw how beautiful the decorations were, I talked to Mr. Carrion (Director of Housekeeping) about getting the members of the staff who put up the decorations to assembly, so we as a school could thank them,” O’Connor said. All the members of the housekeeping staff were present. Everyone in attendance, including most of the student body, then gave the staff a standing ovation. “It was moving to see!” reported Assistant Chaplain and head of the Community Service Council Lara Freeman. Students Vianca Masucci, Sam George, Kelsey Crowther and Hillary Wein, along with art teacher Lisa Hansel, groundskeeper Jay Panaggio and Assistant Chaplain Lara Freeman, planted a box full of tulips, crocuses and hyacinth next to the Meryl Staley Bench on South Field overlooking Second Beach. The bulbs were donated by Paul Jagger, father of
Meryl’s good friend Emily Jagger ’06, in memory of Meryl ’06 who died of complications from leukemia in 2005. “It will be a beautiful site in the spring and a lovely way to remember one of the members of our community,” Freeman said. Joe Lanuez, a member of the Grounds Crew, was part of the pit crew for Jim Gubelman’s (SG class of ’65) race car staff. The car headed down to Oaxaca, Mexico on Friday, Oct. 12, and the crew took school supplies donated by members of the SG community with them. Many folks contributed spiral notebooks, pens, pencils and erasers—badly needed after a recent hurricane tore apart several school buildings. The fall blood drive took place on Monday, Nov. 12, in the Dorrance Field House—and St. George’s community members came through as usual. The R.I. Blood Bank had a goal of 35 pints, and once again, SG had no problem meeting the challenge. Assistant Athletic Director Wendy Drysdale organizes the blood drives at SG. For the sixth year in a row members of the SG Community took part in a day of community service on Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 21. More news on this event will be forthcoming in the next Notes from the Hilltop.
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