Cole Middle School students host United Nations Night to benefit Unicef.
Passport needed to gain entrance at Cole Middle School? That was the case one night last month, when students held a United Nations Night to benefit Unicef. Passing through the glass doors of the middle school, you could easily understand why. On your left, France was passing out croissants while wearing berets, while on your right India was offering henna and japatis. Cole Middle School had truly gone global. At the beginning of the school year, the Unified Arts teachers sought to plan a large event for their students. United Nations Day was the perfect outlet for that goal. When Cole librarian Phyllis Humphrey told the teachers October 24 was United Nations Day, it seemed that they had found their event – and a chance to incorporate …
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At a breakfast earlier this month, several mentors talked about why they mentor.
Don Mong mentors with an eye on the future. “The boy I’m with now, he is just crazy smart and he has an imagination,” said Mong. “Who knows, he may be THE one who will invent some computer program 20 years from now. I look at mentoring as not building for today, but building for tomorrow. You can’t build a house unless you build a foundation.” Don is just one of dozens of people who are mentoring East Greenwich students through the Strategic Support Mentoring Program run by Nina Mackta (with lots of assistance from Linda Horenstein). He and other mentors joined Mackta and Horenstein at a special brunch at T’s earlier this month in honor of National Mentoring Month. Mong started mentoring two years ago, after retiring after 22 years as an …
Elizabeth McNamara
4:55 pm on Saturday, January 21, 2012
Wow, what a great testament! Thanks for the comment. more ›