May 23, 2008 Vol.I Issue 27





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Fifth-Grade Green Team Machine Gains Steam

The fifth-grade Green Team has done a great job of moving the campus into a more environmentally-friendly zone, the result of months of research, strategizing and implementing a number of programs. On Thursday, a month’s worth of plastic bottles were picked up from "Mt. Trashmore" and hauled away to be recycled into fabric for Valley Forge, the eco-conscience company owned by the Dobin (Kauppinen) family, manufacturers of hotel textiles. As a result of the project, many students and their families are no longer using disposable bottles.

Plans are in the works for a solar fountain to replace the one in the Faculty Courtyard, and a Pig Composter, an octagon-shaped barrel painted to look like a pig, will be donated to Lower School Science teacher Mary Beth Graf to introduce the concept (composting) to younger students. Cell phones have been collected, donated and delivered to Women in Distress. Turn off that engine! Signs have been ordered for a “No Idle” zone, which will be located in the pick up line in the back of the school and in the parking garage. Roughly $800 has been raised through fundraisers. For this year’s hard work, there was a Green Team pizza and ice cream party. The idea is to include the entire campus in the green initiative, next year including the Middle School and then the Upper School.