Ottauquechee Chapter of the National Honor Society

Eighteen new members were inducted into the Ottauquechee Chapter of the National Honor Society. These juniors and seniors have been selected for their commitment to the four pillars of NHS: Scholarship, Leadership, Service, and Character. They will serve as peers tutors and complete 30 hours of community service annually to make their community a better place.

Please congratulate: Reid Allegretti, Izzy Cellini, Owen Courcey, Lucy Drebitko, Graham Fox, Olivia Grasso, Levi Halley, Aidan Keough-Villa, Lily Macri, Luca Morris, Myra McNaughton, Caedon Perrault, Aubrey Seman, Joey Sluka, Jane Stout, Elizabeth Tindall, James Underwood, and Quinn Uva.

Spanish Students Visit Orozco Mural at Dartmouth

On Thursday, November 30th, the combined classes of Maestra Megysi’s Advanced Topics In Spanish and Maestra O’Connell’s Spanish II traveled to Dartmouth to enjoy a private tour of the famous mural painted by Jose Clemente Orozco.

Upon arrival at the Baker-Eddy Library at Dartmouth College, students were immediately assigned a tour guide with extensive knowledge and a great passion for introducing visitors to this phenomenal work of art.

It’s an astounding effort on the part of Orozco, these mural panels, which are a pictorial representation of myths, history, social justice as well as the making of the modern world, just to name a few of the themes. The two guides were skilled in helping students arrive at their own interpretations of the different panels of the mural. The tour guides then took these interpretations and added to them what others thought Orozco was aiming to depict in his work.

As a concluding statement, the work calls into question the definition of “American,” and how we in the United States sometimes narrowly define who is an “American,” and just where “America '' is, geographically speaking. It was clearly evident from the level of engagement on the part of the students that the excursion had a great deal of meaning for them.

WUMS QSA raises funds for The Trevor Project

The middle school QSA held two successful bake sales in order to donate the proceeds to The Trevor Project in recognition of Transgender Awareness Week (November 13-19) and LGBTQIA+ Youth.

The Trevor Project is a well-known suicide prevention and crisis intervention nonprofit organization for LGBTQ young people. They provide information & support to LGBTQ young people.

9th Grade Food Justice Project

The 9th graders have recently been learning about the complexity of food insecurity in the US and its direct influence on personal and community wellness. On November 28th and 29th, students took a trip to the White River Co-Op to grocery shop and purchase a week's worth of food on the 3SquaresVT budget ($72.75).

Students then donated their groceries and received a tour of The Upper Valley Haven. On the day students were not grocery shopping, they were making Soup and baking bread to donate to the Thompson Senior Center. In all, we donated 380 pounds of food to the shelter, made 25 quarts of butternut squash soup, and roughly 50 loaves of bread!

Gold Level National Yearbook Program of Excellence

The yearbook club was awarded the Gold Level National Yearbook Program of Excellence for last year's yearbook. Woodstock Union High School was one of 7 schools nationwide to receive this distinction. The yearbook club strives to highlight and recognize all students and the activities that make Woodstock a wonderful place to be.