2019-20 Wilmington Montessori School Annual Report

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Virtual learning highlights - Spring 2020As we closed our doors in mid-March 2020 and opened them virtually to our students two dayslater, we were given the opportunity to model the ways in which we strive to teach children to facenew and unfamiliar challenges. Our school year ended with modified plans for our end-of-the-yearevents, including a beautiful virtual celebration of the class of 2020, and with children returning to thecampus as we re-opened for Camp Montessori. We learned a great deal, and continue to learn as welook ahead at WMS’s future — a future that is secured through your continued involvement with us,whether in-person or in other ways.Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to another year of innovation, change andopportunities to engage our community in the life of Wilmington Montessori School.Lisa A. LalamaHead of SchoolAnn HricigaChair, WMS Board of DirectorsBOARD OF DIRECTORS(2019-20)Ann Hriciga, ChairJoe AbeleCalissa BrownIsrael FloydRichard GulinoLisa Hastings-SheppardAnna QuiselPaul SakaguchiStephanie SimmsMayura SimonSusie VentrescaZehra Wamiq2 • wmsde.orgFamilies members presented diplomas to membersof the class of 2020 at their homes.Students were thrilled to return to campus forsummer camp in June 2020.ADVISORY BOARDGuliana de GraziaAudrey DobersteinMarie M. DuganMichèle LeFever QuinnNancy KaribjanianDeborah Murray-ShepherdWilliam Ryan
DEMETRIA RUHL (WMS ’10)Graduation Speaker Shares Passion for Learning and LifeFrom the WMS 2010 Memory BookOver a decade after graduating from Wilmington Montessori School, Demetria Ruhl (class of 2010) still looks forward to catching up withthe friends she met more than 15 years ago through her WMS Girl Scout troop. Every year around the holidays, former members of thetroop — started by WMS alumni parent Becca Gulino — would gather for dinner at the Melting Pot in Wilmington’s Independence Mallshopping center. During the past year, the gatherings moved to Zoom due to the pandemic, but these young women still continue to cometogether to celebrate each other’s birthdays and other occasions virtually.“There is still a dynamic that I have with my Wilmington Montessori friends that I don’t have with anyone else,” she said. “I am very excitedto continue the Melting Pot tradition after the pandemic.”With all Demetria was juggling last spring as a senior at Dickinson College, she still welcomed the chance to reconnect with her WMSfamily when Head of School Lisa Lalama invited her to serve as alumni speaker at WMS’s virtual class of 2020 graduation ceremony.“Being chosen as the 2020 graduation speaker was such an honor,” Demetria said. “I still remember how excited I was when I got Lisa’semail! Writing my speech was a great way to reflect on my experience at WMS and how it has continued to positively shape my life in highschool, college and now in medical school.”Like so many students around the world, Demetria’s college life came to an anti-climactic conclusion as she completed her studies ofFrench and chemistry and celebrated her own graduation from Dickinson College virtually last spring. Because of this, she felt a specialconnection with the WMS class of 2020 when she spoke to them last June.“I know from experience that this is not how you had hoped your time at [Wilmington] Montessori would end,” Demetria said to the class.“Just two weeks ago, my own college graduation was virtual, and I understand how difficult it is to not be able to celebrate this special moannualreport 2019-20 • 3
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2019-20 Wilmington Montessori School Annual Report

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