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THIS WEEK AT BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL
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February 24, 2017
YOUNG ALUMNI AWARDS:
On Thursday, February 23,
the Blue Ridge School Alumni Association awarded Young Alumnus of the Year Awards to Matthew Harris '04 and Andrew Genova '03. The event was held at East Coast Provisions in Richmond, which is owned by Blue Ridge School alumnus Brian Enroughty '90. In attendance were Blue Ridge School faculty members Dan Dunsmore, Franklin Daniels and Kevin Miller, Scott Sprouse '90, Jack and Lilliboo Cronly '70 and the entire Genova family as well as Andrew's friend Laura Fortunato Petrik. For more on the Young Alumnus of the Year recipients, click here.
FOOD PANTRY: While most of the Blue Ridge School community leaves for Spring Break, the food pantry remains in operation and welcomes volunteers in the area to help on Saturday mornings from 9:30 to noon. The pantry also welcomes donations to help restock its shelves. Please consider bringing items back with your son when he returns to campus. Contact Tony Brown for more information,
tbrown@blueridgeschool.com.
PARENT WEEKEND: The Parent Association is soliciting items for the "Ties and Totes" sale - please donate any ties, handbags or luggage by the following designers for our spring fundraiser. Robin Cline, President of the PA, is looking for top tier ties and handbags with name brands such as Coach, Hermes, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Bally, Michael Kors, Dooney & Bourke, Kate Spade, Chanel, Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Vineyard Vines, Gucci, etc. "I know people have items like this in their closets that they don't wear or use anymore. The idea is to get them to send them back with their boys after spring break or mail them to the school to the attention of Kristie Jamrozek. This sale will be open to the public.
STUDENT-LED SYMPOSIUM:
On Saturday, Kyle McCurley '19 led a symposium on brain structure and function as he dissected a cow brain for a small group of interested students at the School. The students who attended were Josh Croswell '20 (pictured left), Chris Knight '20 and St. George Donovan '20. Kyle, who had completed a virtual dissection during his on-line AP psychology class, requested the opportunity to "get my hands on embodied cognition.
"This," he told the group as he held up the specimen, "generates a living being. And it has the same structures as a human brain." The symposium was conducted under the direction of FLC learning specialist Janice Brasted. For more photos, click here.
ATHLETICS: James Forbes '17 placed 8th in the state at the State Wrestling Championship last Saturday!
Congratulations to Josh Colon '17 (pictured left) who was named Schewels Athlete of the Week. For more on Josh, click here.
ScrimmagePlay.com co-founder Bart Isley was the featured speaker at this Wednesday's Championship Ring Ceremony. Headmaster Trip Darrin presented the rings to each member of the 2016 State Championship football team. For photos, click here. For a short video of the team's entrance, click here.
Basketball hosted the VIC semi-finals on Thursday, February 23. JV won 60-42 and Varsity won 102-55. Both teams head to the VIC finals in Roanoke on Saturday. JV plays at 2PM and Varsity at 7PM. Follow the Blue Ridge School's Twitter feed to get updates on the game. (
Roanoke College,
221 College Lane, Salem, Virginia 24152)
YEARBOOK:
We're working on the 2016-2017 yearbooks now and we plan to have a section that has photos of the seniors when they were toddlers. Please send the digital image to me at hkeldermans@blueridgeschool.com.
COLLEGE COUNSELING:
Congratulations to these seniors who received college acceptances:
Oscar Palin - SUNY Buffalo State
Jahlil Puryear -
Bridgewater and Stetson University
Jarad Chouai - University of Pittsburgh
John Stubbs -
The Citadel
Tariq Gough -
Virginia Union University
The college counseling department recommends that all juniors sign up for both the ACT and SAT tests. We have scheduled an SAT prep class through Kaplan in May. Please visit
kaplanatschool.com/blueridge to sign up. Note that this course will occur only if enough students sign up. Please sign up prior to March 26, 2017, as the price will increase after that date.
The dates of the two tests at BRS are as follows:
ACT: April 8, 2017, deadline is March 3, 2017.
A late fee is required after March 3, 2017.
SAT: May 6th, 2017, deadline is April 7, 2017.
A late fee is required after April 7, 2017.
Parents of seniors should have filled out the FAFSA for their sons. If you have not done so, please do so immediately in order to be considered for federal aid and work-study opportunities in college. Please note that you will need to add each individual college for which you want your son to be considered for aid. The maximum is ten schools. Please follow
this link if you have not filled out the FAFSA.
