Last week before Winter Break

 Happy Holiday from Willy's office window! The holiday spirit is alive and well in the Upper School. A variety of decorations can be found in various locations. As you can see, Willy's windows are covered with snowflakes--wishful thinking!

 The Student Ambassadors wanted to do something for the Earlham College community as they mourn the loss of 2 of their students. (One of their students was Lenore Edwards, CFS grad.)

 They came up with the idea of making beaded bracelets, with a card that says, "Carolina Friends School community holding the Earlham community in the light."

 Last Friday, we set up a workshop in the Meeting Hall. Many staff members and students stopped by to make bracelets.

 We sent well over 100 bracelets to Earlham this week.

 Willy and Marybeth at the parent reception for Willy. She only has 4 1/2 days left!

 Frances's Biology students are using their new computerized equipment to work with DNA. Very exciting!

Prof. E.O. Wilson and Dr. Meg Lowman (aka Canopy Meg).  She is the Director of the new NC Nature Research Center at NC Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.  Frances met her in Peru last summer.

Thursday afternoon twenty-one advanced biology students, together with Peggy, Rob and Frances, spent the afternoon at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh where we were invited to participate in a presentation on biodiversity by Prof. E.O. Wilson in the Daily Planet Theater.  It was exciting to be invited and to participate in this event.  We were asked to submit questions for the Q&A session and were delighted that four of our twelve questions were chosen for the event, though there was time for only three to be answered -- those submitted by Rhiannon, Molly, and Tyler.  It was particularly interesting because several of our students, including Molly and Tyler, took the class Sustaining Life in the fall term when we spent the first two weeks of term discussing the topic of biodiversity.