Winchendon Weekly News -- February 2, 2023
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Murdock Middle School Offers Band, Choir and Guitar Club
Band, Choir or Guitar Club is now available for all middle school students!
Band: Monday/Thursday
Choir: Tuesday/Friday
Guitar Club: Wednesday
For more information, contact: Mr. Freitag, Middle School Music Teacher at: kfreitag@winchendonk12.org
UT Student, Domenic Iannacone, of Winchendon Earned Dean's List Honors
TAMPA, FL (02/08/2024)-- Domenic Iannacone, of Winchendon, earned dean's list honors at The University of Tampa for the Fall 2023 semester. Iannacone is a Junior majoring in Film and Media Arts BFA. Students must maintain a GPA of 3.75 or higher to be eligible for the dean's list.
The University of Tampa is a private, comprehensive university located on 110 acres on the riverfront in downtown Tampa. Known for academic excellence, personal attention and real-world experience in its undergraduate and graduate programs, the University has about 200 programs of study and serves more than 11,000 students from 50 states and most of the world's countries.
MWCC Celebrates Black History and Women's History Months with Speaker and Performance
Queen Sheba will be performing at MWCC on February 29.
GARDNER, MA - February 7, 2024 - Mount Wachusett Community College is hosting two guests for an evening of dialogue and performance in celebration of Black History and Women's History months at 5:00 pm on Thursday, February 29th in the South Café at the Gardner Campus.
The evening will begin with a spoken word performance by Queen Sheba, internationally known spoken word poet, motivational speaker, comedian and author. Born in Detroit, MI and now living in Atlanta, GA, Queen Sheba is the co-founder of the award-winning Poetry vs. Hip-Hop the production and the organization, and International 4 Countries Slam Champion, and two-time National Poetry Slam Champ. Sheba has released six albums, two of which were Grammy nominees in the Spoken Word category, and she is a two-time NAACP Image Award Nominee.
Following Queen Sheba will be a presentation by Ron Jones, Executive Director/Artistic Principal at Dialogues on Diversity, a premier social justice and diversity theater company. Jones will be presenting "Her Investment" the story of the strained relationship women have always had with the American banking system and of one young Black woman who is determined to change the game for all women. Through this journey she tries to enlighten some of her classmates to a world too often denied to women simply because of gender.
This event is free and open to the public, however guests must RSVP at mwcc.edu/speaker. The event is sponsored by the Office of Student Life and the Student Government Association.
Welcome a Lifelong Friend - Open Your Home to a Foreign Exchange Student
World Heritage International Student Exchange Program (WH), a Non-Profit, Public Benefit Organization, is seeking local families to host foreign exchange students this coming school year. World Heritage students come from a variety of countries worldwide: Italy, Denmark, Spain, France, Germany, Ukraine, Japan, Australia, to name just a few. They are between the ages of 15 and 18 years, and they are enthusiastic and excited to experience American culture, family life, school, sports. etc. They also love to share their own culture and language with their host families, who welcome the students into their home, not as a guest, but as a family member, giving everyone involved a rich cultural experience. Host families may be single parents, couples and single persons.
The exchange students have pocket money for personal expenses and full health, accident and liability insurance. World Heritage students are carefully selected based upon academics and personality, and host families choose their student from different backgrounds, countries and personal interests.
World Heritage also offers qualified American students the opportunity to learn another language and culture by spending a school year, semester or a summer with a host family in another country.
If interested in hosting an exchange student or becoming an exchange student abroad, please call Debra at 1-800-888-9040, visit www.world-heritage.org or send an email to info@world-heritage.org to request more information or start the application process. Students are eager to learn about their American host family, so begin the process of welcoming your new son or daughter today. The memories and the relationship you create with your exchange student will stay with you forever.
Contact: Debra Garbon, World Heritage Program Director, at 1-800-888-9040 or send an email to info@world-heritage.org