Sentinel december 2008

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St. Luke’s School New Canaan, CT

Inside This Issue... 100 Students Go to Yale (2) Splurging is good! (this year) (3)

A Very Carver Christmas Kelly Wendt Sentinel Staff Writer For the past six years, the juniors at St. Luke’s have had a tradition of going to the Carver Center in Norwalk to help host a holiday party for the children who live in the

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area. This community service project is customarily held on the last Friday before winter break. This year, on December 19th, the juniors will be going to the Carver Center, which provides after-school activities to children with working parents. According to Mrs. Parker-Burgard, the Carver Center party is “hugely significant and provides an important contact for our community with the Carver Community.” The juniors’ job is to help set up for the party, which includes putting up holiday decorations. Once the party starts, juniors all report to different stations: some serve food, some help the kids make crafts, others direct the children in games and entertainment. The juniors are in charge of running the show, essentially, as they conduct all the activities as well as

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December 2008

CT Challenge

The Sentinel Staff Meet this year’s St. Luke’s CT Challenge Team: Aggie Kelly, Samantha Fomon, Peter Benoliel, Cooper Baer, and alternate Caroline Cullinane, the five students trying to recreate the success of last year’s academic all star team led by Nicho Kelly. After the success of the team in the first round, the brainiacs will compete, yet again, with the best of the best to be known as the ultimate CT challengers. The format of the game is intense. A rapid fire round of questions are shot out at the teams; only the fastest prevail. “It was hot,” said junior Cooper Baer, “I was on my toes the whole time! We dominated.” Although our team lost by just a smidge, they earned e n o u g h points to go on to compete in the next round. “It was not a total d i s a s t e r, ” said senior Billy Prince. “Our biggest problem was vision,” said senior and team captain Aggie Kelly -- quite literally, Sam Fomon misplaced her glasses and was unable to read the question board. Thus she had to wait until the moderator had read the entire question outloud before attempting to answer. Team members also also noted that they were slightly imbalanced, with more strength in math and science, and less in the humanities. The may also have suffered from

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