Welcome to our 38th year:

We admire your bravery! It is our adventure together.

The Moment of Quiet: (Kent Bicknell) At Morning Session after announcements and a presentation we have a moment of quiet. It will be a full minute this year. Please “unplug” and put yourself into neutral for this moment. It is a time to be “aware” not to pray.

School Rules Refresher:

1. Demerits/Discipline Committee—
   The Committee is run by students with teacher advisors; you can appeal the demerit if you think there is an issue, but the committee has the final say; and the committee will determine your punishments.
   Outdoor shoes & chewing gum are two basic offenses, but there is a longer list in the handbook.

2. Service—
   Service is an integral component of life at Sant Bani; committee work fulfills service, as well as doing jobs for others outside of school.
   
   After you’ve completed your service you will type it up in a report
   Each semester you are required to do a minimum of 15 hours of service and turn your reports in to Todd Schongalla
3. Permission Slips—
   All students must turn in required permission slips before the field trip can leave.
   In some instances, a teacher will warn you that you will NOT GO on the trip if the slip isn’t in by a certain date before the trip and that they will NOT call your parents
4. Clean-up—
   After lunch we all clean sections of the school with a senior in charge to train and assure the job gets done.
5. Student Committees—
   Earth Support, recycling & composting
   Discipline Committee, decides you punishment
   Cygnet, school literary magazine
   Yearbook, photography & design of the final publication
   Dance Committee, plans dances & the semi-formal at the end of the year
   
6. Shoes—
   You must wear indoor shoes, and you must take off your outside shoes in the vestibule or you will get a pink slip.
7. Recycling—
   Please recycle all you can properly.
   Paper goes in the paper bin
   Use the plastic bottle bin, but take off the caps
   Compost bins are in the lunchrooms for your compostables
   Cardboard boxes can be broken down and put taken up the Upper Building garden
   
8. Veggie Food—
   Jell-o, egg-salad, fillet of salmon, chicken or beef, mayonnaise all are on the “do not eat” list here—probably more than that, too.

Performing Arts
Craig Jaster sign up for this variety of activities in Performing Arts
Jazz Band
Chorus
Music Lessons
Theater productions, 2 plays a year, December & April; April will be a musical
Modern Dance with Joan Wiegers

From Kent
9th/10th grade English: All Quiet on the Western Front, bring your copy to class on Thursday 9/2
Run Your Buns Off

Basic Ingredients 9:00am Saturday Morning,4.2 miles to support the local food pantry in Bristol

Fall Sports
Chris Demian Athletic Director
Three teams this fall to sign up for:
Todd Schongalla Soccer bus at 3:30 to take you to the practice field Van A
Scott Clark Cross-country, bus at 3:30 to take you to run in the woods Van B
Brittney Lewellen (no e-mail available now), Field Hockey 3:30 here at the Middle Building

The school has a calendar but you need to survive the next two weeks!
If you have joined a team, check with your coach about specific dates/times for practices!
Weds 9/1 Orientation 12:00-3:30, sports practice after school
Thursday 9/2 First Day of classes, full day: 8:05-3:30, sports practice after school
Friday 9/3—DO NOT come to school
Tuesday 9/7—Full Day of classes: 8:05-3:30, sports practice after school
Wednesday 9/8—DO NOT come to school
Thursday 9/9—Come to school for a HS service day, 8:05-3:30, sports practice after school
Friday 9/10—Full Day of classes: 8:05-3:30, sports practice during 7th period or after school

High School Service Day, Thursday 9/9 with Todd Schongalla
We will be traveling to “D-Acres” a sustainable “permaculture”, non-profit farm in Rumney. Plan to bring:

• work clothes


• work gloves


• lunch


• water to drink


• a bathing suit to swim afterwards

Earth Support Group
Jen Schongalla
Meeting Thursday 9/2 at lunch to design “challenge by choice” activities around carry-in/carry-out and other related activities.

Counseling Office
Priscilla Fay in the counseling office. She will find you if you are new and tell you how to find her if you need her to “care.”

Student-led High School Open House Scheduled

Our open house admissions tour date is:
Saturday Afternoon August 14th
1:00 – 3:00 pm

Sant Bani School in Sanbornton will be holding an informational High School Admissions Open House on Saturday, August 14th
1:00 – 3:00 pm. If you have ever considered an independent education for your children, an open house is a great way to explore what Sant Bani School has to offer. Come hear what current students and faculty have to say about the school.

Sant Bani is a fully accredited day school offering a college-bound curriculum within a warm and welcoming community. Since 1973 the school has educated students from central New Hampshire in the classroom, on the playing field, on stage, in the studio, and through service projects around the Lakes Region. A generous scholarship program means the school is affordable to all families, ensuring a diverse student body. International students housed with local families add much to the mix. With support from our college counseling program, all Sant Bani graduates are accepted to colleges of their choice.

Please contact Susan Dyment or Becky Beane for more information or follow-up questions you may have or about attending our next Open House.

All are welcome to please join us for our next tour and information session!

Dear Sant Bani Staff and High School,

The garlic is ready! Anyone interested is welcome to join us for harvesting on Thursday July 22 from 4-7pm. at the school.

We’ll pull the cloves, clean and bundle them and hang them to cure. It’s a simple job requiring no special skills, equipment or heavy labor! Chat with your friends while working and take some garlic home. J

For more information, contact Susan Dyment cell -387-7050 or Jen Schongalla

First Garlic Harvest 2009

Sant Bani School’s great garlic garden turned into a harvest to behold—500 beautiful blubs ready for sale at local Farmers Markets. Sales tables appeared in late summer on Tuesdays in Franklin at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse and int Tilton at the Tanger Outlet Mall on Wednesdays. The whole crop was sold out in just a few weeks.

Our success will foster more success. This year we will plant one thousand cloves in late October. Watch for scapes to be on sale in mid-June and the bulbs in August. Scapes are the delicious flower stems that garlic plants produce before the bulbs mature.

More Than Garlic

Parents and students who want to grow in a new direction are invited to participate in Sant Bani Schools new garden that follows on the successful experiment with garlic.

Fridays from 3:30-5:30 there is an open gardening opportunity open to the entire community. The site is ont eh north side of Ashram Road between the road and the Upper Building. Extended or weekend hours can be arranged by contacting Susan Dyment.

A kale planting is the pilot for the expanded project, and butternut squash is already part of the Ashram garden and will be used in the soup for the Empty Bowls Dinner on October 9th as well as the Lower Building autumn harvest celebration. Lettuce will be planted in the spring of 2010.

Sustainable gardening is part of the vision of Sant Bani School for both parents and faculty. There are many possibilities and your interest, input and participation will help direct the project.

To bid at the auction click here.

Opechee Garden Club Grant Awarded to Sant Bani School Environmental Studies Intern, Travis Filter

SANBORNTON: In the fall of 2008 Environmental Science teacher Todd Schongalla and his students decided to take the classroom to the soil. They reclaimed a fallow plot and planted an organic garlic garden that yielded 500 heads of garlic in August of 2009. The juicy pungent garlic sold out in a matter of weeks. This school year the crop size was doubled and 1000 bulbs of garlic are now slowly sending up garlic scapes from the earth waiting for the cloves to grow in order to be sold later this summer at the school and at local Farmers’ Markets. A crop of kale was added as well and with the help of the school’s intern, the gardens that students walk past every day have become part of their classrooms and playing fields.

Sant Bani School alumnus and Environmental Studies Intern Travis Filter arrived on campus in March to begin a late winter/early spring internship at Sant Bani School under the direction of Susan Dyment, the school’s Admissions Director and College Counselor. Dyment is a life-long gardener and was excited to oversee Filter’s course work for Lesley College. Filter has spent his time observing, sharing, and teaching and has been joined in the school’s gardens by students from kindergarten through grade twelve to learn the joys and rewards of working the earth.

Filter and Dyment enrolled in the UNH Cooperative Extension Master Gardener’s course. Each Tuesday through the winter and early spring this gardening duo traveled to Goffstown to hone their skills and broaden their knowledge of gardening. During this period Filter also applied to the Opechee Garden Club for its annual grant from the Evergreen Fund. The fund is earmarked for individuals or not-for-profit organizations that wish to pursue projects or advanced studies to promote educational and/or career building skills within the disciplines of conservation, environment science, forestry, agriculture, horticulture, landscape design or any other area supported by the club with a focus on the environment.

In April Filter was awarded the Opechee Garden Club’s grant for $500. Asked what he plans to spend the grant on and he says, “I hope to buy hand tools sized to fit small children as well as the older students. Markers and small whiteboards will be bought and used to diagram garden plots in the classroom and carried out to the garden. I also have bought potting soil and shop lighting for grow lights with pulley systems for the school’s renovated greenhouse in order to get that back up and running. I want to buy infrastructure to support the school’s gardens and educational material for the classrooms.”

In short, he has put the grant towards exactly what it was intended for. Sant Bani School is a non-profit school educating children from kindergarten through grade twelve. The assistance the grant will give to enrich the students’ knowledge of gardening will pay off both now and far into the future when some of them may begin their own gardens built from the lessons they learned from an inspired intern at the hillside gardens of the Sant Bani School.

Filter showcased his internship for the public on May 17th at 6 p.m. at Sant Bani School. He had samplings of his garden for tasting as well as a slide show and information session. The public was welcomed to attend and joined in tasting how delicious a garden can be.

Annual Sant Bani School Yard Sale

Friday May 21, 2010

St. Petersburg String Quartet Website

One of the world’s leading string quartet, the St. Petersburg was founded in 1985 as the Leningrad Quartet by Alla Aranovskaya, Alla Krolevich (Goryainova) and Leonid Shukayev, all three graduates of the Leningrad Conservatory. The Quartet blazed a trail through international chamber music competitions, winning First Prize at the All-Soviet Union String Quartet Competition, the Silver Medal and a Special Prize at the Tokyo International Competition of Chamber Ensembles, First Prize and both Special Prizes at the Vittorio Gui International Competition for Chamber Ensembles in Florence, Italy, and First Prize and the “Grand Prix Musica Viva” at the International Competition for Chamber Ensembles in Melbourne, Australia.

In 1988, second violinist Alla Krolevich immigrated to Israel but in October 2005 re-joined the Quartet. Violist Boris Vayner joined the Quartet in January of 2005. When the city of Leningrad resumed its historic name, the Quartet changed its name to the St. Petersburg String Quartet.

They have built a reputation of worldwide proportions including a Grammy nomination, and several “Best Record” honors. The Quartet was Quartet-in-Residence at the Obrlin Conservatory of Music from 1999 to 2003. Audiences from Toronto to Tokyo, from Lithuania to London and in concert halls across the United States give the St. Petersburg Quartet standing ovations.

6:00 pm reception with refreshments
7:00 pm concert

Tickets available by calling 934-4240 or e-mail Tickets

On Thursday, May 20th the Sant Bani School will host an Arts Festival between 5 and 7 p.m.

The Lower Building will have a Healthy Food Café and Museum that will begin at 5:30 and run until 7 p.m. with food, displays and guided tours by students in grades K through 2.

In the Middle Building the High School art students will present their final projects for the year in the Studio and the Gallery between 5 and 7 p.m.

The Jazz Band under the direction of Craig Jaster will perform a number of sets throughout the evening and there will be refreshments provided by the students.

We hope you will join us for a celebration of the ARTS!

Greenstock is the brain-child of the Sant Bani Senior Class. This is their Senior Class Service Project, using funds from the Judith Perkins Memorial Fund for Service.

What is Greenstock?

Greenstock is an open-mic and concert event with the aim of bringing the community of central New Hampshire together around the idea of working collectively to create a sustainable and healthy environment. We hope to educate those in our area about the environmental issues that we currently face with the aspiration that we can better the future for younger generations. By connecting through music, we hope to generate a creative outlet for the youth of our community to come together over a common cause.

To enter to play or to get more information about the venue go to Greenstock for information

Kevin Leville from Eat Right America to Speak at Sant Bani

When: May 12, 2010 General Parent Meeting 7:00pm
Where: Middle Building, Sant Bani School

We are happy that Kevin Leville, CEO of Eat Right America, will be joining us again this year. Kevin was the keynote speaker at last spring’s Health Education Day, “Feed Your Mind, Body and Soul,” and his captivating presentation generated lots of great questions and subsequent dialogue (and Kevin himself said we were his favorite audience!).

The Eat Right America (ERA) approach encourages us to be “nutritarians,” weighing the impact of the nutritional value of what we eat.

After Kevin’s visit parents expressed much interest in having him come back to talk to the broader school community. Kevin will speak to students and staff during the day (Wednesday, May 12th), and then offer a presentation for parents and their guests in the evening at 7:00 in the Middle Building of the school. This promises to be a lively and informative presentation.

Kevin is also on the Board of the Eat Right America Foundation, whose mission is to “promote scientific research and public education to prevent dietary-caused disease, the major cause of chronic illnesses and premature death in modern countries.” He has a wealth of scientific information that he is able to share in a most engaging fashion.

Meet the Artist – Ann Saunderson

Where: Sant Bani School Library and Gallery
When: May 3, 2010 5-7pm
Who: All are welcome!
Refreshments: Light Refreshments provided by Sant Bani School Art Students

SANBORNTON: Sant Bani School is hosting a “Meet the Artist” reception for art department chair Ann Saunderson on May 3 from 5 – 7 p.m. The public is invited to view an exhibit of her recent work, some of which is available for purchase. Saunderson holds a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I. In her exhibit statement she writes about being excited about making art in most every media. “Because my art-making time is so limited the work often ends up being about the media rather than the subject.” She continues, “For me, developing a ‘body’ of work takes time. The process is slow, so slow. When it happens it comes out of nowhere, and hard work. It often isn’t till I’m well into a series of pieces that I begin to see that they connect—that they’re about something; that one idea leads to the next. I do a bit of this and some of that. I love painting outside in the summer. I love the smell of oil paint. I love drawing the figure. I love marks on the page. I love the slow layering of printmaking.”

Saunderson has taught at Sant Bani for over twenty years. More than half of the current high school students have chosen to enroll in an art course with Ann this year. This is an opportunity for past students, as well as the wider community, to see her work. Founded in 1973, Sant Bani is a private kindergarten through twelfth grade day school of 165 students. It has a long and continuing history of supporting the arts, both for its students and for the local community.

Three one-act comedies by Anton Chekhov will be performed by the Sant Bani School on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: April 22, 23, and 24 at 7 p.m. in the school’s Studio Theater.

Admission is $5 ($2 for students and elders). Reservations may be made in advance by calling the school, 934-4240 or contacting the front desk.

The High School play production will be three one-act comedies by Anton Chekhov. Though best known for sensitive and subtle dramas like The Three Sisters and The Seagull, Chekhov’s early short stories and one-act plays are pure comedy, with boldly drawn, hilariously flawed characters.

In Two Fools Who Gain A Measure of Wisdom, a pair of newlyweds (Caleb Jaster & Emily Monfet) visit a rich aunt, (Jen Hammel), whose flagrant disregard for convention brings shame and embarrassment but in the end also brings the couple closer together.

In The Festivities (which director Craig Jaster likens to the hit TV series The Office), a bank branch manager (Andrés Orr) is driven to distraction on the day of the bank’s 15th anniversary by his volatile employee (Adison Lintner), gabby trophy wife (Deanna MacNaughton) and a not-too-bright but incredibly persistent woman (Lydia Walker).

The Bear is an absolute classic; a battle of the sexes in which a retired army officer (Marc Gonzales) meets his match–to put it mildly–in a petite widow (Justine Borceux).

Sant Bani School Earth Day Celebration

April 14, 7 p.m.

“Rediscovering Afghanistan: Lessons from the Home” will be the subject of an illustrated talk by linguist, feltmaker, scholar and photographer Rachel Lehr at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 14 at the Sant Bani School Library, 19 Ashram Road, Sanbornton, NH. Sant Bani School’s International United States History class will be hosting this evening event. Soraya (Samira) Afzali, a tenth grade student from Afghanistan, will prepare an assortment of traditional vegetarian foods with the help of her fellow International classmates. Some students will also dress in traditional clothing from their countries.

Co-founder of Rubia, the Afghan Women’s Handwork project, Lehr spends several months each year in Afghanistan, working and living with village women and children. Through compelling stories, brought to life by beautiful and informative visual images and a fascinating collection of domestic artifacts, Lehr takes us into the homes of ordinary Afghans. Her photographs and personal anecdotes illuminate the rich cultural heritage of Afghanistan in a rapidly changing world.

Rubia is a non-profit organization, which works to translate the heritage and skills of Afghan women into sustainable livelihoods. Lehr’s presentation includes a traveling Afghan Culture Trunk of domestic artifacts, which she has collected during her frequent stays in the villages of Afghanistan.

Lehr’s academic training (in linguistics and Persian, at Barnard College and University of Chicago) took her traveling across Central Asia during the 1970s-80s. While studying and living in Iran, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, Rachel developed a deep interest in the culture and arts of the region, and in the lives of its women and children.

In 2000 Rachel reestablished contact with a community of Afghans then living as refugees in Pakistan. Following her first trip to Pakistan, Rachel helped found Rubia, a nonprofit organization, as a response to the critical need for economic opportunities among Afghan refugee women living in Pakistan. Through education, skills training and the promotion of their hand-embroidered textiles, Rubia, now headquartered in Afghanistan, works to translate the heritage and skills of Afghan women into sustainable livelihoods. Rubia’s embroidery project is actively involved in helping rebuild Afghanistan.

For the past six years Rachel has been principal artist/scholar for the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire’s “Heart of the Silk Road” Project, bringing arts and humanities workshops, seminars, teacher institutes and presentations to communities and schools throughout the state.

Pam Hunt’s class: United States History for International Students, will host.

The presentation is funded by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. For additional information, contact Sant Bani School at (603) 934-4240.

Here’s how to help now!

If you are wondering how to help now donations to PIH are urgently needed TODAY. PIH doctors and health care workers are on the ground already and they know what is needed. Their extensive network in Haiti already includes thousands of community health workers, doctors, nurses, drivers, etc. they are already running a field hospital.

Your money will flow more quickly and directly to where it’s most needed: 94 cents out of every dollar goes to work to help the community, no middlemen or bureaucracy or politics. During the 2008 hurricanes they got supplies and personnel in place immediately, even with all the bridges out. faster than most of the larger relief agencies because they live there and are already organized!

Looking at the long road ahead, PIH has asked the Walk Committee to stick to the original pre-earthquake focus of raising money for schools/education. This is even more vital now, as much of the Port-Au-Prince population is homeless and beginning to migrate away from the city.

More updates coming soon
Mesi anpil!
Jen

PIH has been instrumental in providing quality medical care to the poorest areas of the world, as well as in the fight against HIV/Aids, and providing infrastructure to ensure people’s health.

This year’s donations will go to support building homes for families displaced by the September 2008 hurricanes in Haiti.

If you want to walk or donate click here.

Empty Bowls

Join us for the 12th Annual Gilmanton 5k Road Race and Walk

RESULTS HERE!

Saturday March 27, 2010 10:00 AM sharp. Entry Fee $20

Pre-Register by mail or online using a secure form

All are most welcome.
Support the Sant Bani School running program and other local charities with a community spring run or walk.

Race Director: Coach Scott Clark

Check the 2009 Results Here! Check the 2008 Results Here! Check the 2007 Results Here! HIstory and other Results Here! TOP 2009 RUNNERS: 17:34 Heidi Westerling 16:08 Justin Fyffe Some SANT BANI RUNNERS: Mira Carey-Hatch 22:36 SBS’10 Dylan McGuffin 17:40 SBS’06 Taylar Clark 24:46 SBS’10 Dong-Ho Choi 25:01 SBS’09 Colby Clark 26:20 SBS’11

Again this year, the Gilmanton Road Race is proud to be part of the C.A.R.S. 6 race Series of six road races. Sign up for all six races, and start the season with the Gilmanton 5k. You have the option to register and pay for all six on the day of the Gilmanton 5k.

Just My Size?

Join us for food and festivities:

Wednesday, March 10th,
from 4:00-7:30 pm
in the Middle Building.

Tour the building to view displays of projects from Kindergarten through 12th grade.

Enjoy the Pizza Cafe hosted by the 6th grade from 4:30-7:00 pm.

Proceeds will go to Partners in Health to assist in earthquake recovery in Haiti.

What is NVC?

The Nonviolent Communication model presented in this workshop was developed by peacemaker, mediator and healer, Marshall Rosenberg. Rosenberg’s teaching reflects his understanding that violence begins in the language we use. Similarly peace is rooted in the way we communicate with each other.

Rosenberg teaches that everything that people do is in the service of their needs; what they do to others is the best possible thing they know to do to get those needs met. NVC teaches simple skills that enable people to connect
with their own and others needs in a way that inspires compassionate response and the possibility for peace – interpersonally and in the wider community.

Details:

Dates: Friday, January 22, 2010, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Saturday, January 23, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Snowdates January 29 & 30
Local organizer: Karen Gregg 603-934-4240 ext. 127 or 603-744-6370
Sant Bani School 19 Ashram Road, Sanbornton, NH 03269 www.santbani.org
Register EARLY to ensure a place.
Registration limited to 30.

Tuition:

Fee request is $85.00 for both sessions and includes a vegetarian lunch on Saturday.
Prior registration is strongly recommended.
Please send the registration form and $20 deposit to secure your place. Deposits are refundable up to two weeks before the work- shop begins. After that date deposits are non- refundable. If the workshop is canceled full refunds will be made.
We value participation by ALL who wish to attend and will endeavor to create space regardless of ability to pay. Please contact Karen Gregg for information. 603-744-6370.
Make checks to Peggy Smith
Mail to: Sant Bani School Attn: Karen Gregg
19 Ashram Rd Sanbornton, NH 03269

Introduction to Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

This workshop introduces participants to the basic understanding and practice of NVC
Participants will practice
• expressing themselves authentically and . . .
• listening with empathy by

• observing facts without evaluation, interpretation or judgment
  
• identifying and expressing feelings
  
• expressing the needs behind those feelings
  
• formulating clear and concrete requests for actions

Empathy is our focus.
• Presence, deepening our experience
• empathy for ourselves
• empathy for others
• empathy in the family, at work, in conflict

The quality of our lives and our relationships begins with the quality of our communication with ourselves and each other. We will learn to release judgments of ourselves and others, and to speak more authentically from the heart. We will learn tools to stay centered and in our compassionate nature when we are triggered by someone’s words or actions, and to resolve conflict in ways where everyone’s needs are met.

Farvorfen Vinkel to be performed at Sant Bani School

The Sant Bani School high school theatre production this December is a Yiddish drama entitled “Farvorfen Vinkel” (“In a Forgotten Corner”). Performances are at 7 p.m., Thursday through Saturday, December 17, 18 & 19. Admission is $4 and $2 for students and senior citizens. For reservations call the school at 934-4240. Tickets may also be available at the door.

Written in 1917 by Peretz Hirshbein and translated by David Lifson, this lively drama takes place in a tiny Jewish shtetl in Europe long ago. Two neighbors, a poor gravedigger and a miller who is slightly better off (sophomore Adison Lintner of Franklin and junior Marc Gonzalez of Plymouth, respectively), come into conflict which threatens to ruin both their families’ happiness.

The wives (freshmen Isabel Bogacz of Tilton and Jen Hammel of Bristol) try to bring common sense to the stubborn, feuding men, and of course the miller’s son and gravedigger’s daughter (freshmen Obie Dancewicz-Helmers of Hill and Emily Monfet of Laconia) are in love, against their families’ wishes.

The play is rich with emotion, classic sarcastic Yiddish humor, poignancy (a madwoman, played by senior Justine Borceux of Grapfontaine, Belgium) wanders the cemetery and intrudes on the action at odd moments); and a melee in which a window gets broken; but all ends happily, thanks to a most reasonable solution presented by kindly old Reb Todros (played by sophomore Andrés Orr of Sanbornton).