March 2012 - Green Meadow Waldorf School

School News, continued from page 2
The Green Meadow Girls’ Basketball Game
at the Friendship Games
By Green Meadow 6th grader, Victoria Aranowicz
The game started with a rush. The Warriors scored right away.
Lots of screaming erupted. It quieted down as the Steiner Girls
tried to score but didn’t make it. The Warriors scored once
more. The court was never silent. Anxious people stood once
in a while, watchers fidgeted and players ran as their shoes
squeaked on the floor. Even not watching, everyone outside
and in heard when the Warriors scored. When the first quarter
ended it was 10-9 Warriors. The buzzer sounded for the second
quarter. Then all talking and singing subsided to shouts of
“Let’s go Warriors!” The
Warriors were on a roll,
scoring twice in a row,
making it 17-9 then 19-9.
There was a quick team
meeting and change of
players at 10 minutes,
12 seconds. Steiner
scored making it 19-11.
The Warriors’ passes
were great. The same
player scored twice in
the last two minutes.
Then another basket
was made with only
48 seconds to go. The
Warrior girls won 25-15.
That was one energetic
game! d
The Warriors
Image courtesy of Karl Childs
Third Thursdays at the
Threefold Café
Third Thursdays is a series of free community building
events for the Green Meadow Community to be held at
the Threefold Café (285 Hungry Hollow Road).
Dinner will be available for purchase starting at 6pm. The
evening’s activities will begin at 6:30pm.
Beer Tasting with Hank Stewart on March 15
Green Meadow’s resident beer expert will lead a group
of intrepid gourmands on an evening of beer tasting. He
will feature some Irish breweries, just in time for St. Patty’s
day. Enjoy a good, hearty dinner starting at 6pm and the
tasting will begin around 7pm.
This event is for adults only. Please email
emmylaybourne@gmail.com to register and for
information on the price of the event.
A Tribute to Lisa Oswald
By Former Green Meadow Administrator, Kay Hoffman
Energetic, focused, dedicated
and savvy alumni parent Lisa
Oswald has been for many
years an exemplary Green
Meadow volunteer and
advocate of Waldorf education.
When her three children were
in the school, Lisa was active
in class functions, supporting the class teachers
and the parent body. As her children grew older,
she expanded her interest to fundraising for the
school. She was the primary force in organizing
the SCRIP program at Green Meadow, and is,
to this day, a faithful leader and support of that
initiative to raise funds for the school.
She was active in the “future planning group” in
the 1990s which metamorphosed into the Project
Management Group early in this decade. Always
inspired by the possibilities of the expansions of
our facilities which are now underway, she worked
tirelessly with the future planning group in the
early days of the project’s conception to envision
what was possible. She has served on the Green
Meadow Board for over 10 years and has led the
group ably through the last very active five years
as the Board President. She was an enthusiastic
member of the Capital Campaign Committee,
whose efforts in soliciting funds have made our
current Arts Building expansion possible.
But the work which Lisa has done recently has been
of the greatest importance to the school because
she was in a position to do what others couldn’t do.
As a member of the Project Management Group
responsible for overseeing the expansion project,
she has worked quietly but intensely for the last
two years to facilitate the site plan approval with
the Village of Chestnut Ridge. She has attended
many meetings, both informal and official, with
the Village of Chestnut Ridge, chased piles of
paper work, smoothed the way for progress in all
kinds of negotiations, advocated for the school
in contractor negotiations and added her own
expertise in making all kinds of decisions related to
the building project. To do all this meant that she
has spent hours weekly in the service of the school.
All of this, she has done after her children have
graduated from the school. She has done all of
this because she believes in Waldorf education
and wants the school to thrive and is therefore
willing to offer her wholehearted efforts. We
extend our gratitude to her for all her selfless
labor on our behalf. Thank you, Lisa! d
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