Spring Family Weekend 2013: Middle School

MIDDLE SCHOOL

SPRING FAMILY WEEKEND PROGRAM

FRIDAY, APRIL 26 8:00 – 2:00 p.m.

REGISTRATION Whitaker-Bement Center

Coffee and refreshments will be provided.

A leaf on your name tag is recognition of your generous support of the Parents’ Fund.

4:00 – 4:45 p.m.

FINANCING A COLLEGE EDUCATION Dodge Room, Reed Campus Center Carolyn Karno of Education Funding Strategies joins us to help families better understand the financial aid landscape. Middle and Upper School parents are welcome.

SATURDAY, APRIL 27 7:00 – 8:30 a.m.

BREAKFAST Birch Dining Commons

8:00 a.m.

LEGACY PHOTO Meet in front of the Birch Dining Commons

Students and their alumni parents/grandparents are invited to have their pictures taken together to celebrate their school ties.

5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

BUFFET DINNER 8:30 a.m. – 2:40 p.m.

CLASSES Please attend any or all of your child’s classes, as your schedule permits.

Birch Dining Commons

5:30 p.m.

GIRLS VARSITY LACROSSE GAME Berube Stadium on Sawyer Field

Come cheer on the Wildcats as they take on Ethel Walker.

6:00 – 7:00 p.m.

PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION RECEPTION 37 Park Street

Reception at the Home of Head of School Robert W. Hill III and Kathryn Hill P’15.

11:00 a.m. – NOON PARENTS’ DIVERSITY COMMITTEE PA Room, Birch Dining Commons

Join a group of parents and Bridget Choo, Director of Diversity and International Student Coordinator, to discuss diversity programs and initiatives on campus.

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

LUNCH Birch Dining Commons

8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m ADVISOR MEETINGS You will be able to schedule meetings with your student’s advisor. Details to follow.

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION LUNCHEON MEETING Cox Family Room, Birch Dining Commons

11:50 – 12:30 p.m.

LUNCH Birch Dining Commons

2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

ATHLETIC PRACTICES

6:15 p.m.

THEATER PERFORMANCE: THE LARAMIE PROJECT Williston Theatre, Scott Hall

Join us for a talk and book signing at 6:15 p.m. with author and activist Lesléa Newman, a member of the Matthew Shepard Foundation Speakers’ Bureau, about the play. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. (See back for more info.)

Please join us for a presentation about Williston’s curricular initiatives in the year ahead. All parents are encouraged to attend.

12:30 – 1:10 p.m.

STATE OF THE SCHOOL ADDRESS WITH HEAD OF SCHOOL BOB HILL Cox Family Room, Birch Dining Commons

1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

ATHLETIC CONTESTS

THE LARAMIE PROJECT In October, 1998 a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, brutally beaten, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming, and left to die. Shepard was the victim of a hate crime that would soon become the focus of the entire nation—he was killed because he was gay.

Four weeks later, members of the Tectonic Theater Project took what would be the first of six visits to Laramie. During the aftermath of Shepard’s murder and the arrest and trial of the perpetrators, members of Tectonic conducted over 200 interviews with the citizens of the town.

The Laramie Project is what resulted from those interviews.

The play is a gripping theatrical collage that explores the depth of the human spirit. It does not provide its audience with easy answers; rather it forces us to ask the most challenging questions about who we are, what we believe in, and what kind of world we want to live in.

Reservations: www.williston.com/theaterproductions

REGISTER BY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24

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