Members of the Student Council, students and faculty spent Saturday morning putting together 10,000 packages of meals consisting of rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and a flavoring mix including 21 essential vitamins and minerals for Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger relief agency based in Raleigh, North Carolina.  This organization has coordinated the distribution of food and other lifesaving aid to children and their families all over the world for more than 13 years. The food stores easily, transports quickly and has a shelf-life of five years.   The meals packed today will be sent to Haiti.  Here is the video on who these meals will benefit.  For photos of the event, click here.

 

EAGLE SCOUT: On January 2, 2016, senior Harry Buchanan V was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout at a ceremony held at the Waterford Old School Auditorium. Over 140 people attended the ceremony to honor the two scouts who completed Eagle projects benefiting the Waterford Foundation.  To read more, click here. 

 

ATHLETICS: Varsity basketball won the Mercer Tournament before Christmas and JV and Varsity basketball beat Covenant in their first home games of 2016. Squire Basketball lost to Covenant on Thursday in a close game 31-32.

 

Here is coverage on the basketball win over Covenant  (prep highlights are below the swim meet video).

 

A big shout-out to Jahlil Puryear, Nazir Hopson and Justin Armwood who are in San Antonio,Texas, this weekend to compete in the U.S Army All American Combine. Way to go, Barons! Click here to learn more.

 

Junior Josh Colon helped run a basketball clinic at home in Puerto Rico for kids over holiday. Click here to view the story that was covered by Channel 19 this week.

Barons Varsity Basketball was voted first in Central Virginia in the first Power Poll of the year: Click here to view. 

 

College Acceptances: Congratulations to the following seniors who have received acceptances from colleges and universities. Please let us know if your son has been accepted but is not on this list.

Spencer Ammen - University of Mississippi, University of Arkansas, University of Tennessee and the University of Alabama

Abdalla Beshir - George Mason University and University of Buffalo

Aaron Brown - Averett University

Colby Burchfield - Beacon University

Harry Buchanan - University of Alabama

Fuller Crocker - Delta State for Commercial Aviation 

Jose Espinoza - Guilford College

Charles Gao - Michigan State University, University of Indiana

Jason Hess - Chapman University and Loyola University-Maryland

Cole Jackson - University of Mississippi

Jim Jiang - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Malik Johnson - Canisius College

Andrew Link - Colorado State University

Matthew Minford: Auburn University, Elon University, Hampden-Sydney College

Paul Sienke - Wiedner University 

Zach Temin - High Point University

Scott Spencer - Clemson University

Haotian Wu - Purdue University

Ziyue Zhou - Purdue University,  Northeastern University