January 17, 2008 Issue
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January 17, 2008 Issue
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Spiral Q brings Jenks students together with art
Eighth grader Sharifa Garvey came into the art classroom at the J. S. Jenks Elementary School and greeted Robin Kearney with a huge hug that lifted the short, redheaded fifth grader off the ground. Moments like these are not common in a school where students sit in a classroom with other students at their grade level all day long and socialize only with those peers. Students admittedly rarely talk to students in lower grades, let alone greet them with large, friendly hugs. But the 17 students that participated in the Spiral Q art program at Jenks spent an entire semester learning how to work with students on various grade levels.
On Monday, Jan. 21, nationwide hundreds of thousands of volunteers will hit the streets to carry out neighborhood service projects in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy of civil rights and community advocacy. While the man behind the national holiday has inspired projects across the country, it was a Mt. Airy native who first helped to inspire the service learning projects that dominate what would otherwise be just another day off from school and work. Todd Bernstein was working with Harris Wofford, the future U.S. Senator, in the office of Governor Robert Casey in 1988, two years after Martin Luther King day was declared a federal holiday. Bernstein, founder and director of the Greater Philadelphia King Day of Service, said that, at the time, he and Wofford were sitting around contemplating the new holiday, distressed over America’s inclination to honor these holidays by simply taking the day off. “The irony was that so many people fought for the recognition of King as a federal holiday, yet for millions it was just another day off with little or no recognition of King,” Bernstein said last week, sitting in his home-away-from-home, the High Point Café in Mt. Airy. “It seemed, in many ways, like a wasted opportunity.” Tough week in Inter-Ac for Springside basketball
Last week, the Springside School basketball team passed through the meatgrinder portion of the Girls Inter-Ac schedule, losing to each of the top three teams in the league. The Lions played well during the first half of Tuesday’s game, eventually bowing to visiting Episcopal Academy, 55-45. In another home game two days later, Springside just did not have the weapons to match up against league runner-up Notre Dame Academy, which won 42-18. On Saturday, the Lions made the short trip out to Germantown Academy, where they experienced a 48-24 setback against the nine–time defending Inter-Ac champions. At week’s end, Springside owned a record of 3-12 overall, and 0-6 in league competition
GFS regroups for win over Hill School The Germantown Friends Girls basketball team finally had its entire cast of characters back in an impressive 57-45 over the Hill School on Monday afternoon at GFS. Freshman Julya Loder returned to action after spraining her ankle against Delco Christian School on December 8th. Though Loder was not much of a factor in the contest, just having her on the floor as a threat was paramount for the Tigers. |
Local LifeSpringside alum’s film about her slave-trading family picked for Sundance Festival
Springside School alumna Katrina Browne’s documentary, Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, has been selected as one of 16 documentaries to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival this year! Its world premiere will be on Monday, Jan. 21 (Martin Luther King Day), at the Festival. She worked on the film for nine years, during which time she was honored by Springside as “Distinguished Young Alumna.” Katrina, who graduated from Springside in 1985, is working on arranging a Philadelphia screening of the film for the spring. Close Up
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