Bronxville High School hosted a Family-School Partnership workshop on December 1. The program featured presentations about service projects in Tanzania, Zambia, and India. Participants in last year's Spanish and French exchange programs also made presentations.
The program opened with remarks by Jim Agnello, Counselor, and Judith Schwartzstein, Director of Public Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College. Christopher Gates of the Janada Batchelor Foundation for Children described the ongoing partnership with Bronxville that has brought many Bronxville students to Tanzania to work at the JBFC orphanage. These year's group included Brian Forst, Ellie Hanrahan, Hanna Buendia, Steve Chrappa, Jack Deasey, Jackie Faselt, Daniel Guglielmo, and Kevin Reich. Each of them told a story about how the experience affected them. Chris Davis, Sarah Blanco, Nick Capasso, and Julian Bardin also made presentations.
Doris Benson, former Rotary President, reviewed the international projects that Rotary has made possible and how the local Rotary helped sponsor Bronxville's students. Amanda Ota and Meghan Roguschka, Sarah Lawrence students, explained their building community gardens in rural India as part of the Davis Grant they received. David Quattrone, School Superintendent made closing remarks about the value of a Global Scholars program.About fifty students, parents, teachers and residents attended the program, including representatives of the Police Department, the Reformed Church, and the program's sponsors, the International Club and the Middle School Global Ambassadors.
