Service rings true at BHS Welcome
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s I write this, 11 students and 3 staff members are about to embark on a trip to Peru to work on a Round Square International Service Project, similar to the one 25 students participated in last year. The photo on the cover was taken during last year’s trip as the group hiked the Incan Ruins of Machu Picchu and Moras in the Moray.
In both Cusco and Las Lamas, outside Lima, the students and teachers worked to improve the infrastructure of schools and general life of the inhabitants of the areas, while taking time to experience the culture and make friends with local children. This year’s project will include rebuilding houses in Ica which were demolished by an earthquake.
Service is one of the Round Square pillars, with Internationalism, Democracy, the Environment, Adventure and Leadership rounding out the IDEALS central to the Round Square ethos. BHS has been a Round Square school since 2005 and is the only school in Bermuda with global membership. You can learn more about BHS as a Round Square school on pages 13-15, but suffice it to say that it offers our students opportunities that work to strengthen their confidence, recognition of sustainability and international understanding.
Service, to School and community, will also be recognised on April 18th at the 76th annual Torch
Ceremony (still affectionately known as Old Girls Day to many). After the actual ceremony, which will see the lit torch touched first by the oldest of our alumni and carried past alumni, staff and students, down to the smallest Year One student, the Alumni Association will hold a luncheon. It is here that we will recognise two alumni who have given outstanding service to BHS and to the community and a non-alumni recipient, but member of the BHS family, who has given consistent and dedicated service to the school. I encourage all alumni to make an effort to attend the Torch Ceremony and Luncheon – you can register at
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The opportunities to serve, and importance thereof, start as early as Year One at BHS when 5 and 6 year-olds collect food to be donated to Meals on Wheels, write personal holiday cards, or visit local nursery schools to read to those students, despite having only recently mastered reading themselves. Two of our IB students were runners-up for the Youth Philanthropist of the Year Award for having created Operation Smile, an autism playgroup run by Secondary students on Saturdays, which you may recall we profiled in the Spring 2012 edition of Torchbearer.
As an alumna myself, the idea of thinking of others is one that is ingrained in me, and I am proud to be part of a group of alumni who have given so much of themselves, so selflessly. Additionally, I am proud of BHS for continuing to be a school that encourages our students to look for ways to help others.
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Torchbearer is published by the Advancement Office of The Bermuda High School for the alumni, parents, friends and students of the School. Its purpose is to inform and inspire the School’s community and to acknowledge the many accomplishments of the BHS family.
Advancement and Alumni Affairs Office Jennifer Burland Adams, Director of Advancement Minta Watson, Advancement Officer
Contributors
Michelle Frumkin, Peter Backeberg, Jennifer Burland Adams, Mary Faulkenberry
Design and Layout Peter Backeberg
2 Torchbearer Spring 2013
Jennifer Burland Adams ‘95, P’23 Director of Advancement
THE BERMUDA HIGH SCHOOL BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Joel Schaefer, President Celia Powell, Vice-President Mariette Savoie, Treasurer Linda Parker, Head of School Martin Brown Kevin O’Donnell Horst Finkbeiner Judy Gonsalves Sophia Greaves Lisa Howie
Andrea Jackson Janet Kemp Kevin Monkman David Sussman Kevin Taylor
Myra Virgil, PTA President Laura Cutler, Co-Chair Alumni Linda Swan, Co-Chair Alumni Fiona Lines, Recording Secretary
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