December 2008
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Musical start to the holiday season
Posted December 1
The sweet sound of holiday music starts the season off on a festive note. Students from all divisions are presenting winter concerts. You are cordially invited to attend.
Wednesday, December 10
Upper School Winter Concert
John F. Steinman Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, December 12
PreS and JrK Winter Concert
Lower School Library at 9:00 a.m.
Wednesday, December 17
Middle School Winter Concert
John F. Steinman Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, December 19
Lower School Winter Concert
John F. Steinman Theatre
9:30 a.m. Grades K-2, 1:00 p.m. Grades 3-5
(Special Notice: Due to limited audience
space and parking, Lower School families
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LCDS students succeed at science competition
Posted December 1
Tom Mueller ‘10 and Jonathan Rajaseelan ‘11 finished second at the prestigious Brossman Science Lectureship competition, held on November 6 at Millersville University.
Pairs of students from twenty-two area high schools, across six counties, competed as two-person teams on a challenging multiple-choice examination containing questions from chemistry, physics, biology, allied health, math, and computer science. The day also included laboratory demonstrations and a plenary lecture. Tom and Jonathan’s achievement continues a recent string of strong performances by LCDS students at the science competition. -
Sweet achievement
Posted December 1
Fourth grader, Aizlynn Radwanski was recently honored as the Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy by the Berks County Chapter of the Association of Fund Raising Professionals. Running her own business, Aizlynn’s Incredible Edibles, Aizlynn makes and sells chocolate covered pretzels and other candies and gives the money to various causes.
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Book Fair art contest winners announced
Posted December 1
Liyang Sheng ‘10 and William Lisk ‘19 won the Barnes & Noble Book Fair art contest. The LCDS Book Fair committee held an art competition in October promoting the book fair fund raiser. The winning artists’ designs were used on posters and bookmarks. Scott Spangler, artist and LCDS maintenance crew member, selected the winning entries. Liyang and William each received a $10 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble Book Store and 100 Hershey Kisses.
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Gourmet Club
Posted December 1
Members of the LCDS Gourmet Club, Teddy Guenin ’11, Paige Landau ‘11, Haley Velletri ’11, Bianca Mohn ’11 provided a Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday, November 23 for the 40 women and children at the two Milagro Houses. Located in Lancaster, the Milagro House is a long-term, education-based program committed to restoring the lives of homeless women and children.
The Gourmet Club appreciates the generous support and contributions from the LCDS families and community, which enabled them to donate food and cookware items for the Milagro House residents’ to cook a full traditional Thanksgiving meal. The club meets several times a year to cook, bake, or collect items for community-based projects. -
Holiday gift ideas in the school store
Posted December 1
The school store wants to help you with your holiday shopping. You’ll find LCDS shirts, sweatshirts, pajama bottoms and other wearable items available in both student and adult sizes.
In addition to clothing, there are other items that make great holiday or hostess gifts. The art department is selling large, student designed note cards featuring artwork created by Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools students. The cards are available in the school store for $20 (packet of 20 cards and envelopes). All proceeds benefit the LCDS art department.
With LCDS celebrating its Centennial this year, we are offering coasters, mouse pads, and paper note cubes featuring a Centennial theme design. If you are still needing another gift idea, gift certificates can be the solution. Students enjoy shopping on their own for school supplies and other items.
The school store is open 7:45 a.m. to 12:00 noon - Monday through Friday. Nan Killough, store manager, is available to help parents with gift buying ideas for their student. If you have any questions, or want gift suggestions, please contact Nan at (717) 392-2916 ext. 251 or email killoughn@e-lcds.org. -
The Excellence Fund
Posted December 1
The 2008-2009 Excellence Fund Campaign is underway! Thank you to those of you who have made your gift or pledge to this important program at LCDS. To date we’ve raised slightly more than $200,000 and are well on our way to reaching our $400,000 goal. Support of The Excellence Fund is vital to LCDS as tuition covers 85% of the actual cost of an LCDS education and gifts to The Excellence Fund help the school bridge this gap.
Your donations are used during the current year wherever the school needs them. Some examples of where the funds are used are: providing our faculty with the resources they need in classrooms; supplying educational programs with equipment and materials; purchasing and maintaining computers and technology in our classrooms; providing resources to the athletic and arts programs, etc.
If you haven’t made your gift yet, please know that we value your support and hope that you will consider supporting The Excellence Fund during the current academic year. Every gift matters and is appreciated. For a list of parents, teachers, alumni and parents of alumni serving as members of this year’s Excellence Fund Committee see page four of this publication.
If you have an questions about the Excellence Fund, please contact any of the people listed on page four or call Heather Davis ‘93, Director of Annual Giving at 392-2916, ext. 325.
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The Excellence Fund committee members
Posted December 1
This year the following parents, teachers, alumni, and parents of alumni are serving as members of The Excellence Fund Committee to help us reach our goal.
Excellence Fund committee members
Heather Davis ‘93 - Director of Annual Giving
George Finney III - Chairperson
Todd Berner - US Faculty Chair
Susan Gottlieb - US Faculty Chair
Diane Wilikofsky- MS Faculty Chair
Louise Ulrich - LS Faculty Chair
Bernadette Gardner - LS Div. Chair/ 1980’s
Mary Ann Brown- MS Div. Chair/ 6th Grade
Shelly Landau - US Div. Chair
Todd Bartos - Preschool/ 1990’s
Will Stoycos - Jr. K/ 1980’s
Louise Barr - Kindergarten
Laurie Rebert- 1st Grade
Pia Kaufman - 2nd Grade
Heidi Stadel - 2nd Grade
Walt Lehmann - 3rd Grade
Sandi Abraham - 4th Grade
Jayme Rhoads - 5th Grade
Sue Seavey - 6th Grade
Lorri Fitzsimmons - 7th Grade
George Finney III - 8th Grade
Jim & Leslie Lemonick - 9th Grade
Lewis & Dorry Thayne - 10th Grade
Helen Najarian - 11th Grade
Judy Chesters - 12th Grade
Ruth Lamb- Grandparent - Co-Chair
Stephanie Mathias - Grandparent Co-Chair
Joe Breneman II - 1920’s, 1930’s, 1940’s
Barbara Gillis - 1950’s
Martha Solbak - 1950’s
PG Gschwend - 1960’s
James Shand - 1970’s
Gordon Drake - 1970’s
Todd Bartos - 1990’s
Nicci Fridy - 1990’s
Tiffany Robinson - 1990’s
See an accompanying article on the Excellence Fund on page seven. If you have any questions, please contact Heather Morris Davis ‘93, Director of Annual Giving at 392-2916, ext. 325 or e-mail davish@e-lcds.org
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Marvelous Mabel
Posted December 1
The preschool class spent most of the past month learning about cows, an animal commonly seen in Lancaster County. Over the course of several weeks, the children were quick to identify the different breeds of cows (black and white are Holstein, while the brown cows are Guernsey). One of the activities the class of three olds enjoyed was tasting a variety of dairy products and graphing their favorites.
Other insights and highlights included:
• learning that cows have four stomachs
• discovering that milk comes from a cow - not just a store
• milking a saw horse cow
• creating cow costumes for a harvest party
• having a milk truck visit the school
• feeding and brushing a two day old calf
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Focus on Living
Posted December 1
“Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV and AIDS” is a nationally touring exhibit that will be showcased at Lancaster Country Day School during the week of December 15-19, in the Upper School Library.
Over 900,000 Americans are living with HIV (according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). One quarter of these Americans are unaware of their infection. There are approximately 40,000 new HIV infections each year in the United States. Of these newly infected, half are under 25 years of age.
The nationally-touring photograph-text exhibit, “Focus On Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV and AIDS”, showcases sixteen Americans living with HIV and AIDS. This exhibit is open for the LCDS community to view throughout the week from 8:10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. daily.
The touring “Focus on Living” exhibit offers a powerful HIV/AIDS education resource for communities. “Focus on Living” is the work of acclaimed photographer/writer, Roslyn Banish, author of four books exploring human issues by combining photographs and text. The exhibit is based on the book, “Focus on Living”, (U. Mass Press) with introduction by Paul A. Volberding, M.D., Vice-Chair, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
“Focus on Living” travels nationwide to schools, universities, health and social welfare agencies, medical schools, public libraries, community centers, museums, conferences, hospitals, workplaces, and places of worship.
For more information visit www.focusonliving.org, or contact Chris Weinstock-Collins, Health Education teacher, at weinstockc@e-lcds.org , or, Suellen Christopoulos, Librarian, at christopouloss@e-lcds.org.
December 2008