The exciting week of January 19, 2009!

What an exciting week we have had...and more excitement to come! All of these photos are from the Martin Luther King Jr. Day activities that have been going on all week. Beginning at the top, you can see Friday Meeting (Head teachers, Development, Mike Hanas, Alex Gordon, Sue Summers, and Sharon Guillory) proudly displaying our corn husk dolls. Carol Blackmore is shown giving us direction. You can see Sarah Nydick Cheshire reading a poem at the Poetry Potluck. Frances Brindle learns how to make costumes for the African dancers. Joseph Bishop rehearses his solo with CFS grad Nia Downing and pianist Roy Alston. Last but certainly not least, our wonderful Chuck Davis is instructing his young dancers. Upper School staff members and students have taken part in every activity throughout the week in preparation for our community celebration Monday morning.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY CELEBRATION

Our students will gather in the Meeting Hall at 8:30am. We will begin the morning by viewing a beautiful video that was created by Travis Rexrode about Civil Rights in Selma, Alabama. Travis visited Selma earlier this year with Susan's Civil Rights class. We must get Travis's video on youtube, so you can all see it. After the video, Jon's African American History class will lead an activity with the rest of the Upper School community. (More to come about this activity.)

At 10:30, we will all report to the Gym for our community celebration. I hope you will join us. Over 100 CFS community members will take part in the performance. Once again, Chuck Davis promises to get us all up and moving!

Barack Obama's Inauguration

The various Inauguration activities will be shown on the big screen in the Meeting Hall throughout the day on Tuesday. Students and classes are welcome to view any or all of the events. We will all gather for the Inauguration ceremony at noon. Students are invited to bring snacks/desserts to share as we celebrate the inauguration of our first African American President! Many of our students have already left for Washington, DC!

I am running out of time and don't know if I will make it back to my blog before Monday afternoon, so I will post at this time. Just a reminder that Annie is taking a group of dancers to see choreographer Shen Wei at the Bryan Center on Thursday and the freshman will go to Sandford on Friday to see Hamlet. What an exciting week!