Little known fact: Lower school librarian, Paula Cairo, has also been a contributing reviewer for The Horn Book Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Books for the past six years, with a particular emphasis on picture books, crafts, cookbooks and nonfiction science for children. “My true passion is children’s literature,” she says. “The discipline of writing a review means I have to read carefully and voluminously – something I love to do anyway!” Her sideline frequently benefits the Elizabeth Wallace Lower School Library because she donates many of the books to the library after the reviews are written.
Members of the Friends Select community participated in the 22nd annual AIDS Walk on October 19 to raise money for the AIDS Fund, which supports HIV/AIDS education, prevention, and services in the Delaware Valley. Fourteen upper school students, five middle schoolers, and at least one lower school student participated, along with faculty members Galen Horst-Martz (religious thought, pictured above in the third row, second from left) and Dan Capecchi
(music and Latin, pictured above with his toddler son), plus additional faculty who walked with their families or on their own. At last count, the school’s walkers had raised nearly $3,000 and overall contributions from the AIDS Walk were approaching the half-million dollar mark.
Sergeant Michael Young, assistant upper school girls’ basketball coach, was instrumental in helping raising over $60,000 for the Isabel Nazario Family Memorial Fund, created in support of the slain Philadelphia police officer’s family. Young, who worked with Nazario on the Narcotics Strike Force, formerly toured with Will Smith, who he persuaded to match the funds raised by the event. Smith taped a brief video tribute to Nazario that was aired at a fundraiser memorial, held in October. (Young is married to Deneen Young, upper school assistant and registrar.)