Because it’s Brownie-Spider Season!

What is Brownie/Spider? Brownie – Spider — dates back to the School’s founding in 1882, and involves everyone at the School, including teachers and staff. (The Head of School remains impartial by being half Brownie and half Spider). When a new student arrives to campus, she becomes a Brownie or a Spider. A girl’s allegiance can be spotted easily throughout her years at St. Tim’s — Brownies wear brown kilts on Fridays throughout the academic year; Spiders wear green kilts. Each group enjoys its own traditions and songs and forms a family within the larger community. Every year, spirit runs high as Brownies and Spiders prepare for their annual three-court basketball game held the Saturday before Thanksgiving vacation. This major event draws families, friends, and alumnae Brownies and Spiders from near and far.

Every October St. Timothy’s School takes part in a special ceremony known as the Blessing of the Animals. This tradition is in honor of St. Francis of Assisi’s love of all creatures.   Each year  students, and faculty, bring their pets to be blessed by Chaplain Kirk Kubicek.  This year Chaplain K blessed dogs, cats, horses, and even two guinea pigs!

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Anita J. Tarzian, Ph.D., M.A., is a Research Associate for the Law and Health Care Program at the University of Maryland School of Law and an independent consultant in research and ethics. Her professional energies have been directed toward a diverse range of issues in health care, including ethics and ethics consultation, end-of-life care/hospice, palliative care, multiculturalism, under-served populations, and health care reform. She is Chair of the Education Committee for the Maryland Healthcare Ethics Committee Network and Chair of the Maryland Nurses Association’s Center for Ethics and Human Rights. Dr. Tarzian’s research and scholarly work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals, and she has given professional presentations and invited lectures in the United States and abroad. She received her Ph.D. in Nursing and Ethics from the University of Maryland School of Nursing in 1998. Prior to that, she earned a Masters in Intercultural Nursing from the University of Maryland, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Rush University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Knox College.

HMAC @ 2:10 pm

Media Advisory

 St.Timothy’s School and National Geographic Kids Magazine

Set Out to Break Guinness World Records® Titles for Running

 St.Timothy’s School in
Stevenson Maryland to hold a 100 Meter run!

WHAT:             St.Timothy’s School  will help National Geographic Kids magazine set A Guinness World Records® title: Most people to run 100 meters in 24 hours To break the record, more than 5,000 people worldwide need to run 100 meters between noon ET October 26, 2012, and noon ET October 27, 2012, and more than 25,000 shoes will need to be collected and sent to National Geographic Society headquarters by November 9, 2012. Visit kids.nationalgeographic.com/run-for-the-planet/ for official rules, additional locations, and other information.

The initiative—called Run for the Planet—inspires kids and families to do something good for their health and the environment. Run for the Planet supports First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign, which encourages people to get healthy and active.

National Geographic Kids magazine encourages kids and families to get teams, classmates, organizations and communities to join them in setting the magazine’s sixth and seventh Guinness World Records. People can also take a pledge to run on the National Geographic Kids website. kids.nationalgeographic.com/run-for-the-planet/

Other supporters include National Geographic Education; Healthy Kids Fun Run / Marine Corps Marathon*; Macerich Malls; Kids Run the Nation; National Recreation and Park Association; Let’s Move in School, an American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) initiative; Girls on the Run International; The Life is good Playmakers; and NIH’s We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children’s Activity & Nutrition)®.

WHO:               Group of 150 runners will participate in the challenge by running 100 meters.  

WHEN:             Day, October 26, 2012, 3:15pm

WHERE: 8400 Greenspring Ave. Stevenson MD 21153

CONTACT:       Kara Carlin
410-486-7400 x3041
kcarlin@stt.org

* No federal or Marine Corps endorsement implied.

Are spending a week in Maine seeing the sights, eating some lobster, and building  furniture for our New Academic Building! The girls are building tables for the library and the archives as well as a new custom Moser Seminar Table with the help of the fine woodworkers at Thomas Moser Furniture!

Dear St. Timothy’s Equestrian Team:

Congratulations!  St. Timothy’s Equestrian Team has been selected as a grant recipient through the 2012 USEF High School Equestrian Athlete grant program for being among the top ten clubs or teams with the largest number of participants signed up in the USEF High School Equestrian Athlete program from a club or team.  It is evident your group has provided a place for the future of equestrian sport to experience unity and develop their talents as equestrians.

Sincerely,

National Affiliates Representative
United States Equestrian Federation

Constanze Vorrath, an Austrian student at St. Timothy’s School, MD, always wanted to take an exchange year. She has been surprised and pleased by the international environment at St. Tim’s, noting that she was surprised that “so many people from so many different cultures can live together—it’s amazing!” Constanze loves a tradition at school called Brownie/Spider, in which each girl is assigned to either the Brownie or the Spider team, and the teams compete with each other, wear different school uniforms, and become a loyal cohesive group. Constanze has been impressed by the International Baccalaureate Program at St. Tim’s and she hopes to continue towards an IB Diploma. She has been offered scholarships at both Danube International School in Vienna, Astria and Leysin American School in Switzerland, and is now deciding which scholarship to accept. After high school she hopes to study in England, Italy, or Spain. She looks forward to returning to the mountains of Austria, to skiing, and to good Austrian food, but she will miss her life here, especially playing lacrosse, “the coolest sport ever!” Constanze’s varsity lacrosse team AND volleyball team made it to league championships.

Frauke Grundmann, a student at St. Timothy’s School, MD, from Wuppertal, Germany, learned about ASSIST through a friend who was a Scholar in 2010. For Frauke, who calls herself Maria here, the international community and program at St. Tim’s (which is an IB school) was both surprising and rewarding. “I came with the expectation of a typical school life in an American high school as you always see it in movies…I now have friends from all over the world.” Frauke realizes “how little I knew about the world” before, and she feels her life has been enriched by that. During the holidays, Frauke was invited home to Arkansas with a school friend, and she experienced a Thanksgiving dinner that was not just family, as she expected, but a big celebration with 50 people! Her host’s grandmother gave Frauke the wishbone from the turkey, teaching her traditions about the wishbone, “which linked me to the family and was a very special gesture.” After Frauke finishes school in Germany, she will go to a German university to study physics. She hopes to spend another year in an American university as well, and “to collect more experiences in the United States.”

 
Julia Cueto, a student at St. Timothy’s School, MD, learned about the ASSIST Program through a friend in her native Spain who had been an ASSIST Scholar. “He told me I should do it because it was an amazing experience,” she says. And she has not been disappointed. Julia is particularly impressed with the difference in teaching styles between St. Tim’s, where students learn through reading and class discussion, and in Spain, where most of the learning takes place through memorization. It was challenging at first to find new friends and use her English all the time, but Julia says her new friends gave her a lot of support and now she speaks English easily. Julia will go to university in Spain, but she hopes to come back to the US for another year of study. Meanwhile, Julia will be happy to see her friends and family at home, and “show them my new and best me.”

Summer Riding Camp

St. Timothy’s School’s Summer Riding Camp is a wonderful opportunity for children ages 8-14 to hone their riding skills, learn about equine care, and meet promising young riders in a fun environment!  All sessions are offered at the St. Timothy’s School Hamilton-Ireland Riding Arena on our scenic campus.

The camp program includes:

• One riding lesson per day
• Demonstration Day for parents
• Local field trips and guest speakers
• Crafts in our Art Barn

In addition, we provide lessons and demonstrations in: barn management, horse health care, training your horse, anatomy and conformation, equine nutrition, and, equine shoeing

Session Dates:

Session I – June 18 – 29
Session II – July 2 – July 13
Session III – July 16 – 27
Session IV – July 30 – August 10
2012 Cost (per session): $785

To register, please complete and submit the below forms to Elizabeth Blaisdell, Director of Riding, eblaisdell@stt.org.  For questions, please contact Elizabeth Blaisdell at 410.486.5483 or 410.486.7400, ext. 3143.

2012 Summer Riding Camp
Summer Riding Camp 2012 – Participant Application
Summer Riding Camp 2012 – Medical Examination Report

Where are you from?
I live in Annapolis, Maryland

What school did you attend prior to coming to St. Tim’s?
I went to Severn School, in Severna Park, Maryland.

 What made you choose St. Tim’s?
I chose St. Tim’s because my sister went to high school here. I wanted the same experience she had with all of the fun traditions and all of the friends she made.

What is it like being a Day Student at St. Tim’s?
I love being a day student at St. Tim’s! I live about 40 minutes away, which is the only down side. I used to board during my freshmen and sophomore year. Having been both a day student and a boarder has really allowed me to have best of both worlds.

What sports are you involved in?
I do a sport outside of school. I swim for a club team in Baltimore. I practice Monday- Friday from 4:00 pm to 6:30pm and on Saturday from 6am-8am. I also practice before school on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 5:15am-6:15am.

You are quite the accomplished swimmer! Will you tell us more about your accomplishments/awards?
This past December, I competed at the US Winter Nationals in Atlanta, Georgia. It was one of the coolest experiences I have had so far and there were swimmers from all over the world competing.   My best events are 100m backstroke and 200m backstroke. I am also a Scholastic All-American in 4 events, which means you have to qualify for certain times but also have to have a GPA of a 3.5 or higher. I am also ranked #1 in Maryland for the 100 backstroke.

How has STT supported you and your swimming?
STT has been one of my biggest supporters! Since I live so far away, STT drives me to practice everyday at 3:00, and I am very thankful for all the wonderful teachers who have taken me. The teachers are also very supportive when I need to miss school for my swim meets.

What do you think sets St. Tim’s apart from other boarding and day schools?
St. Tim’s is completely different from any other school. St. Tim’s has people from all over the world, and I am able to learn so many things about different cultures and countries every day. St. Tim’s is also a place where everyone knows and supports each other because the community is so small.

What are you interested in studying in college?
I am interested in studying communications/ media/ public relations.

What type of schools are you looking at?
I am looking at schools that have communications/ media/ public relations majors. The schools that I am looking at also must have a top Division I swimming program.

What is your favorite tradition at St. Tim’s?
My favorite tradition is the fives high tea. This is my favorite tradition because it only happens once and everyone gets to dress up. I also love this tradition because the teachers serve us tea, finger sandwiches, and cookies.