Julia Weingartner of West Windsor participated in Stuart Country Day School’s traditional outreach program. A third grade student in the Lower School, she was involved with creating Christmas tree ornaments that will be donated to the Red Cross for distribution to Meals on Wheels participants.##M:[more]##
Cherie Gu of West Windsor was instrumental in Stuart Country Day School’s observance of World Aids Day. Middle school students donned red shirts and sweaters and 17 percent of the class wore black ribbons signifiying the percentage of young women in African infected with the HIV virus. The students remained silent all day to symbolize the silencing of the lives of their African peers.
Gu took the ideas of her classmate Ann Evans to the student government committee to begin the day of silence event. Evans has been corresponding with her former pediatrician, Heidi Gomez, currently a volunteer physician in a pediatric AIDS war in southern Africa.
