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All Around Campus<br />

Community Service Club Makes a<br />

Difference<br />

LA’s community service club had a busy year, taking part in several<br />

activities which not only benefitted local residents, but created a real sense<br />

of values in <strong>Lee</strong> <strong>Academy</strong>’s student body. A few highlights follow.<br />

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“race for the cure”: in september,<br />

several students walked in the race for<br />

the cure (right) and raised over $700.<br />

Winterizing: in October they helped<br />

a local elderly couple winterize their<br />

house.<br />

Food drive: in november, the group<br />

collected over 300 non-perishble<br />

items and 30 turkeys (generously donated by faculty and staff and<br />

matched by the LA admininstation) and donated them to local food<br />

cupboards, churches and community centers in <strong>Lee</strong>, springfield,<br />

topsfield and princeton.<br />

“march for Babies”: in may, several students walked and raised more<br />

than $300 for the march of dimes.<br />

clothing donation: collected children’s clothing to send to an orphanage<br />

in romania.<br />

cultural Lesson: in February, several chinese students traveled to the<br />

Lincoln Montessori School to teach pre-school students about Chinese<br />

culture (below).<br />

panda pause: throughout the year, Blake stevens and Bradley<br />

McLaughlin wrote the Panda Pause, a weekly LA info column for the<br />

Lincoln news.<br />

hats off to the following students for their participation in the 2008-<strong>2009</strong><br />

community service club at LA: Blake stevens, Bradley mcLaughlin,<br />

cassie Lowell, taylor Averill, heather parkes, Kara Lagasse, stevie<br />

Wang, myungsoo Jung, James Koh, hoo-in Jeong, denny ding, yu<br />

Zhang, meow meow, maria yu, Jet ma, Jason Oh, Josh Kim, dora Zheng,<br />

yuriy Zaroff, Ben guido, caitlin cote and congyu e.<br />

Entropy goes<br />

high-tech<br />

Entropy, <strong>Lee</strong> <strong>Academy</strong>’s art and<br />

literary publication, is now on line!<br />

Student artwork, some of which is<br />

featured below, as well as poetry and<br />

other creative writings, may be found<br />

by visiting www.leeacademy.org.<br />

<strong>Lee</strong> <strong>Academy</strong> | www.leeacademy.org 8<br />

LA Now | <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2009</strong>

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