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A Monthly News Update From the St. Margaret's Campus Vol. 10, No. 6 Tappahannock, Virginia,January 2008 CAPTAIN'S CORNER Dear St. Margaret's friends and families,
COMPASS POINTS
Choosing a College: -
New Faculty & Staff -
Young Alumnae Luncheon -
Alumnae in the Spotlight -
THE CURRENT Teachers and advisors who continue to learn are the best role models for our students. What are they doing this year?Sara Brooks - Teachers on the Bay summer course with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the VAIS Experienced Teacher Institute Larry Foulk - National Constitution Center course on Changing the Constitution and publication in Louisiana History of his historical research paper on his birthplace Amanda Gates - CASE3 Conference for independent schools: New Parent Programs and Awakening Philanthropy in GenX Alumnae Sheri Gross - College Board Forum and a graduate course at William & Mary on Human Growth and Development Anne Hillegass - Capital Development Services seminar on capital campaign preparation, obtaining funding from foundations, and donor stewardship and CASE/NAIS Annual Conference Katie Klein - American Library Association Conference, attending the Young Adult Library Services Association committee meetings, and serving on the Young Adult Galley committee. Milly Rixey - American Association of Physics Teachers Winter Meeting: Enriching the Health of Physics and summer coursework on Preliminaries in Physics class for teachers Jennifer Sheridan – Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference Louise Velletri – selected program participant at Gunston Hall, home of George Mason and presenter of a talk on the "Forgotten Founder" to the local chapter of the Daughter's of the American Revolution Margaret Broad, Alex Campbell, Keith Krusz Natasha Kollaros, George McDowell, Lauren Mounts: The Association of Boarding Schools Annual Conference Sara Brooks, Cupper Dickinson, ViAnn Farmer, Larry Foulk, Gayle Hicks, Anne Hillegass, Keith Krusz, Diana Maggini, George McDowell, Ellen Ruebush, Nancy Smith, Susan Stephenson and Tobey Taliaferro– Forum with Mel Levine hosted by VAIS For a detailed schedule of athletic events, visit us online at www.sms.org/sports  THE FORECAST Important Dates
Link: School Calendar for the Year
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What are you reading this month - unending emails, holiday notes, a weekly news magazine, reviews of the latest movies, a daily newspaper? Is there a book on your bedside table? Does it matter? Certainly educators and students rarely pause to ask this question. For me, with one fiction and one professional book on the go most of the time, the title of a December 24/31, 2007, article in The New Yorker caught my attention – “Twilight of the Books”.
Quoting extensively from a report released last month by the National Endowment for the Arts entitled “To Read or Not to Read”, Caleb Crain reviews the cultural, social, and scientific evidence about reading before concluding that what and how we read matters deeply, and for some unexpected reasons. Reading is likely to change not just what you think but how you live!
