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On Sunday, April 12th, Midland's Mason
Willrich Speaker on Global Environmental
Issues was John Elder, Professor of English
and Environmental Studies at Middlebury
College, awarded Vermont Professor of the
Year in 2008 by the Carnegie Foundation.
John spoke about educating in the here and
now as a way to go deeper in educating for a
sense of place. He described grasses as a
pathway downward to understanding past
landscapes - human and ecological. He said
that giving ourselves to attentiveness in the
here and now gives us wonder and sympathy,
and these are the whole package. He talked
about the simplicity of Midland and working
to meet our basic needs as conducive to this.
Read the whole text of his talk,
reconstructed from the notes of Lise
Goddard.
Alumni, Parents & Friends
Weekend is April 25-26th - we
hope to see you!
Midland's theatrical production of Twelve
Angry Jurors, by Sherman L. Sergel,
and directed by Ian Cummings, will be
presented in the amphitheatre at 7:30 p.m. on
Saturday, April 25th, as part of
Parent/Alumni Weekend, and again at 8 p.m. on
Friday, May 1st. The performance will last
about 75 minutes. Audience members should
dress warmly for the outdoor venue.
Nominate a Student for the Brower Youth
Awards:
Six young environmental leaders (ages 13-22)
receive a $3000 cash award and week-long trip
in October to the San Francisco Bay area.
Awardees do media interviews, speak at local
high schools and Bioneers, and are celebrated
at a public awards ceremony. After October,
honorees are supported as environmental
change agents, writers, organizers,
visionaries, and speakers.
Students can download the
application here.
Applications are due by May 15th.
Analytic Trigonometry, which includes
the law of sines, is what precalculus students in
Chris Rea's class are studying.
For the third year in a row, the sophomore
chemistry class will have a booth at Santa
Barbara's Earth Day Festival on
Sunday,
April 19th to discuss and show demos on
different forms of renewable energy they have
studied at Midland.
Santa Barbara Independent School Fair: On
Saturday, May 2nd, Midland will join 13 other
independent schools in the Santa Barbara area
for an Independent School Fair at the SB
Public Library's Faulkner Gallery from 11 AM
- 2 PM. Watch the video promo,
and read more
about the Fair.
Lacrosse:
Varsity Boys lost to Cate, 9-6 on Saturday,
and play at Laguna Blanca tomorrow at 2 PM.
See the sports schedule and photos.
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