Dear Friends of MCLC,
The staff met the last week of August to prepare their classrooms and set their goals for the year. September is no
w here and students are returning to school. The grounds have opened with an exciting library addition going up. Some classrooms now have a cement roof, which is actually the second floor’s floor for three new spaces: one indoor and one outdoor classroom for book production and teacher training as well as a community bookstore. So far the Commonwealth School Interact Clubs, Rotary Club of Skidaway Island and Rotary Club of San Juan have jointly raised $17,450 for this Library II Project. We will need approximately $20,000 more to complete all the rooms and make furniture.
Construction for an “Arts Village” on campus has also begun with funds from the estate of artist Jocelyn Ruth Edelston. The small cottages will house the Local Arts Initiative. Seed money for these cottage art industries came from the National Episcopal Church Women.
Owen Thomas, a Lesley College student, has returned to Cambridge, MA, after 3 months of living with a host family and volunteering at MCLC. He achieved his goal to become bilingual! He helped a group of youth learn to record their hip-hop songs using a program called Garage Band on our Library’s Mac laptops. Owen plans to continue working with the group during his vacations and collaborate with other youth to organize and develop other activities of their choice.
Sincerely,
Chris and Abner, directors; Millienne Angervil, secretary
Contact Chris at christinewlow@gmail.com if you would like to do your own fundraiser for the school.
