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Intermediate students explored Kitchen Creek at the base of the falls trail at Ricketts Glen State Park with teachers and parents June 1. They found macro-invertebrates and learned about the effects of high and fast water on a creek as they discovered changes resulting from last June's flooding.

After the creek study, students returned to school for a sleepover, ending the time with a pancake breakfast the next morning.

Primary students gathered for a "good-bye to the school year" around the peace meditation circle and shadblow tree. They have spent many happy recess times sitting on the stones.

Next step is to dedicate the tree to our friends William D. Ravdin and Mary Ravdin. Mary died in 2005. Bill continues to help the school with fund-raising and marketing projects.

GFS Board news

The Greenwood trustees mourn the passing of Dr. Mary Linley Hopkins, who served on the board for almost a quarter of a century - ever since her "retirement," when she had already passed the age of seventy. (During her long career, Mary taught nursing and also spent thirteen years as school nurse in the Southern Columbia district.)

In recent years Mary attended almost every board meeting, right up through our most recent regular monthly meeting, in April, with the help of Norman Lunger and the school’s handicapped-accessible van. We on the board will very much miss Mary’s steady and steadfast presence and wisdom - and also her admonitions to "speak up!"

All of us on the board encourage all members of the school community to read the summaries in the school handbook (on page 8 in the 2006-07 issue) of what a board of trustees does - even if these descriptions barely scratch the surface.

Among our roles and responsibilities: understanding and reflecting on our roles and responsibilities, which do not come to us inscribed on stone tablets. We work very closely with Sheila so that we may best oversee "the health and vitality of the school" - work that often happens behind the scenes, but you can often find one or more of us at school, volunteering in the library, covering a classroom while the teachers attend to other business, perhaps even unbuilding a play structure outside (we take the health of Troisi Towers most seriously).

Coming soon, a board of trustees "face frame" - photos of all of us on the wall in school, so you’ll know the identity of that person out on the playground holding a hammer or in the computer lab intently cataloguing new books.

--Oren Helbok, Trustee

Community Scholarships, Pre-primary Incentives - help spread the word

Dena Salerno, our admissions director, reports a good response to our enrollment incentives for next school year and encourages families and friends to continue to spread the word.

Our Pre-primary enrollment has grown this past month and we are getting inquiries for our upper grades. Several students visited in May and June and have been accepted.

The Community Scholarship program offers one-half off next year’s tuition to 10 students whose families apply and are accepted. There are still scholarships available.

The Pre-primary incentive, also called a "family discount," allows a pre-primary family to enroll a child for two or more sessions and get another session free.

Open houses and admissions events continue. Call the school office if you would like to host an event in your area.

The school office will be open all summer - ask for: Shirley Broadt, Jo DeMarco, Sue Noon, Sheila Lunger, or Dena Salerno, or leave a message.

Thursday, June 7, 6:30 p.m. - "Midsummer Night’s Dream," Middle School play, Alvina Krause Theatre, Bloomsburg. Free.

Friday, June 8 - Graduation and last day of school. Meeting for Worship for Graduation 10:15 a.m. at the meetinghouse. All-school Talent Show beginning around 1:15 p.m. on the playground.

Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June 10, 1 to 5 p.m. - Columbia County Garden Tour sponsored by Millville Friends Meeting to benefit the school's scholarship program. Nine gardens. Tickets available from school office - $15 before the tour, $17 day of tour.

Wednesday, June 27, 7:00 p.m. - "Building Resiliency and Optimism in Children." Ronda Barto, speaker, discussion groups.

Tuesdays: Private music lessons with Michelle Dennen. See Michelle for details.

Tuesday, September 4 - First day of school.

To Be Announced

Summer workshops for children.
Summer Astronomy StarLab adventures.
Summer sports conditioning.