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Lincoln School: On Our Minds

    Lincoln School's Monthly Newsletter
 
 
   
  Issue II  |  November, 2011
       
   


In This Issue...

Love, Loyalty, and ...
by Julia Russell Eells

To Play is to Discover
by Caroline Walsh

Balancing the Equation:
Value to Volunteer is Greater than or Equal to Value of Volunteer

by Charles Cofone

Building Community in an Unfamiliar Place
by Peter Brooks

Alumnae Leader Accolades
Video clips of 2011 Awardees

   

Love, Loyalty, and ...

by Julia Russell Eells

As long as I have been at Lincoln, I have experienced many a furrowed brow and plenty of hearty debates over the term “lowliness” in our school seal. It accompanies two words that our community can quickly embrace as we know that “love” and “loyalty” are key to our learning, our connections, our relationships and our community. Many ask (and appropriately so), “How can we perpetuate the idea that girls and young women are ‘lowly’ in pursuit of their education, work, lives and relationships?”

In the ancient sense of the word, “lowliness” refers to a quality of self-confidence that allows one to encourage the strengths of others. I see the presence of lowliness in so many interactions at Lincoln. Read more...
 
       
       
 

To Play is to Discover
by Caroline Walsh, Lower School Director
In the past two decades, the value of playtime has fallen under great scrutiny and elicited a variety of responses. Among these studies was one conducted by a Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, whose “data suggest[s] that a lack of opportunities for unstructured, imaginative play can keep children from growing into happy, well-adjusted adults. “Free play,” as scientists call it, is critical for becoming socially adept, coping with stress and building cognitive skills such as problem solving.”[1] While this is just one of many scientific studies that has been done surrounding this topic, isn’t it a bit ironic that we need concrete data to support abstract creativity? Read more ...

Balancing the Equation:
Value to Volunteer is Greater than or Equal to Value of Volunteer

by Charles Cofone, Director of Operational Affairs
When one approaches volunteering for the first time, it is often with a sense of charity, of doing a favor, of helping out … all from a point of one’s own advantage. We see where we can do good, and we step into the void to do it. By doing so, we can help alleviate the financial burden of an institution devoted to a valuable cause by doing things that the institution might well have to pay for someone else to do. That’s a real and usually tangible contribution that can even have a dollar value placed on it. Read more...

Building Community in an Unfamiliar Place
by Peter Brooks, Middle and Upper School Director
On the second day of school this year, the Ninth Graders waited patiently in the living room at Lincoln for their bus. The weather was less than ideal- driving rain- and I watched as the girls considered the fate of their beginning-of-the-year orientation retreat. The bus eventually arrived, and after a slow three-hour trip the group emerged at Driftwood Stables in New Hampshire to sunny skies, a hearty lunch and the welcoming smiles of the Driftwood staff. Over the course of the next two days, 48 individual girls would come together as a unified class and solidify a feeling of collective purpose and leadership that is an essential component of the Lincoln experience. Read more...

Alumnae Leader Accolades
Our 2011 awardees and video of their student-led discussion
One of the hallmarks of a Lincoln School education is leadership. At Lincoln, all the positions in student government, all the captainships of sports teams, all the club presidencies, all the leads in school plays have one thing in common—they are all held by girls. Girls rule the school; it’s the norm here. Leadership is not thrust upon them like a mantle, but is worn as a natural extension of the School uniform. Read more ...

 
       
 
   
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