Career Day presenters well received

The Guidance Department was pleased to host the second bi-annual Career Day on April 8. This year’s participants included more than thirty women professionals, many of whom are Lauralton alumnae, enjoying successful careers, from medicine to business to fine arts. As career exploration is an important step in the college search process, this was a perfect opportunity for the students to hear about avenues for their interests, encouraging and motivating them to achieve success in their high school academics.  

Students stage Earth Day Fashion Show

On April 22, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, forty very excited students staged Lauralton’s fifth Earth Day Fashion Show. “The girls really outdid themselves this year,” said Donna DiMassa, the environmental club moderator. “This show has been the most innovative so far. I think we’re ready to model in New York City!” Each model wrote a description of her outfit and then included something interesting about her own life. But in order to give the fashion show a more potent message, each student also included an environmental fact to help raise awareness of ecological problems that are easy to overlook in our hectic lives. “Although the outfits are fantastic, the true beauty of the fashion show is the girls’ passionate desire to get their concerns heard by their fellow classmates,” DiMassa added. The show was organized by grade, beginning with first-year students and culminating with seniors and the club officers. 

AP environmental science students study waste management

The Lauralton Hall Advanced Placement Environmental Science students recently carried out an educational environmental experiment over the course of three weeks. “As part of the AP curriculum, I am striving to make the girls more aware of their impact on their environment” stated Environmental Science teacher April Kelly. To that effect, the class studied waste management first-hand. The personal waste inventory project entailed having the girls collect all their solid waste (i.e. paper, plastic, cardboard, Styrofoam, metal, etc...) in personal garbage bags. The students carried either a plastic or paper grocery size bag with them for a period of seven consecutive days. Anything other than food or materials that come in contact with bodily fluids that they would normally throw out or recycle were collected in their personal garbage bags and tallied at the end of each day. April Kelly stated that “this allowed us to calculate just how much waste each person contributes to the growing problem of waste management per day, week, month, and year. In addition, by focusing our attention to the amount of trash generated, the class was then able to brainstorm more efficient methods of coping with waste production.” On April 6, the students also visited the Garbage Museum in Stratford to learn more about waste management.

 

Lauralton awarded DeLuca Grant

Lauralton Hall was recently awarded a grant from the Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation.  The charitable donation, totaling $4000, will be used to award scholarships to students as well as helping fund the school’s guest speaker program. Fred DeLuca, founder of Milford-based Subway Restaurants, started the foundation as a way of giving others the same chance he got when a family friend gave him $1000 to open a sandwich shop. According to Subway’s Corporate Communications Director Michele DiNello, the Foundation “looks to give local support and awards grants for programs related to education, job training, and self sufficiency programs.”  

Members inducted into World Languages honor societies

Thirty-seven world language students were recently inducted into the French, Latin and Spanish honor societies. The ceremony included a guest presentation by Spanish honor society inductee Dominique Bonessi, ’11 who shared some of the highlights of her summer 2009 trip to Egypt. 

Discover Lauralton on April 25 - “See What’s Here for You”

Lauralton Hall will host the first “Discover Lauralton” event for 6th and 7th grade girls and their parents Sunday, April 25, from 1pm to 3pm. 

Student art on exhibit at Café Atlantique

The Fine Arts Department is proud to present an exhibit of student art during the month of March at Café Atlantique, 33 River Street, Milford.

Keylantra Langley nominated as McDonald’s Basketball All-American

Keylantra Langley, ’10 was nominated as a possible candidate to play in McDonald’s All-American high school basketball games. The Selection Committee is comprised of the nation’s most knowledgeable high school analysts, prep scouts, high school newspaper reporters and prestigious basketball coaches. Players must have played at least half of their senior season and should be considered academically eligible throughout the voting process. A representative from McDonald’s presented Keylantra with the nomination certificate. 

Students support GIT - a video

Lauralton Hall is a proud supporter of the Get In Touch Foundation, an organization whose mission is to encourage girls of all ages to “Get In Touch” with their bodies, information, and each other in the crusade against breast cancer. In addition to fundraising for GIT, Lauralton students frequently volunteer for the organization by getting involved in all kinds of GIT projects.

Student production a crowd pleaser

Lauralton Hall was pleased to present an entirely student-run production of Arsenic and Old Lace:  A Comedy by Joseph Kesserling in the Claven Auditorium on Friday, March 5 through Sunday, March 7. Elizabeth Bartolotta,’10 directed the comedy, which starred Taylor Williams,’10 of Bridgeport and Jennie Serra,’10 of West Haven as two sweet little old ladies with the nasty habit of poisoning their guests.