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 Linden Hall  marks News and Features written by Students at Linden Hall School for Girls

THE LITITZ, PA., RECORD EXPRESS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011 A15

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LindenHallAces the Nation’sTopSAT Scores.

Linden Hall students study agriculture

The new 5th and 6th grade classes at Linden Hall ventured to Brecknock Orchards to compare cur-rent farming methods with those of ancient times under a program sponsored by Penn State’s agricultureprogram. Adventurers include (standing back row, left to right) Meredith Longer, Ansley McFarling, EmilyMyers, Tricia Phillips, Mar tina Ross, Chloe Hain, Alyssa Sheffy, Victoria Kreider, Rachel Kauffman, LaurenHughes, Lelani Henson, Hannah Smith (middle row) Halle Richardson, Jacquelyn Denker, Ava Warfel,Tahri Phillips, assistant teacher Kate O’Neal (LH 2006); (seated) Kyra Longenecker (special visitor) SarahStambaugh and Audrey Salmons.

 JILLIAN SILBERT

Class of 2014When Linden Hall headmas-

ter Dr. Vincent Stumpo rstannounced that the school wasplanning to construct a newacademic center and tear downparts of the old buildings, manystudents were dismayed, fearingthat pieces of history would betorn down. However, this typeof renovation is not new for theschool. Linden Hall built ad-ditions in both 1769 and 1804,so why shouldn’t we continuethis tradition of improving ourschool on both the inside and theoutside?

With excitement slowly start-ing to replace alarm, LindenHall girls came to eagerly awaitthe beginning of construction.

Last May, at the end of the grad-uation ceremony for the class of 2011, students and faculty alikerushed over to watch LindenHall representatives symboli-cally push their shovels into theearth. With this act, the con-struction ocially started.

Campaign 265, so named be-cause 2011 marks the 265thanniversary of the founding of Linden Hall, plans to create aCenter for Academic Excellence.

 This center will include a state-of-the-art library and researchcenter, as well as a large lecturehall, new classrooms, a welcomecenter, and a college-counselingcenter. Important to many stu-dents, the new construction will

Construction update

A digital rendering of the Linden Hall Center for Academic Excel-

lence, now under construction and expected to open for the 2012-13school year.

connect almost all of the campusbuildings. One year of muckingthrough mud during constructionis worth the reward of walking in-side during many cold winters tofollow.

Construction began with a bigbang this past spring, and theprogress made by the construc-tion crew is amazing. In about sixmonths, the construction site hasrisen from a hole in the ground tothe erection of walls, the laying of oors, and the basic plans for dif-ferent rooms. Students need onlyto look out windows every day tosee the evidence of progress.

When they return next schoolyear, Linden Hall students willsurely be excited to walk throughthe halls and take classes in thenewly constructed areas. LindenHall already has a good track record of nishing constructionbeautifully, as established by theearlier construction of a librarycommons, science wing, and hu-manities wing. With constructionworkers racing against the clock,the student body wishes the con-struction crews lots of luck withtheir progress and looks forwardto the opening of the new Centerfor Academic Excellence.

SAVANNAH THORPE

Class of 2012 Basketball season is here

again. The Lady Lions have justcome o a winning season andappearance at the semi-nals,and are looking to have anothergood season. This year, the bas-ketball program is undergoingsome changes. First, the Lionsare welcoming back Mr. RobertKauman, father of studentsLiz, Becky, Sarah, and Rachel

Kauman, as head coach, andMs. Kate Kreider as assistantcoach. The combined experienceof these two is sure to take the Li-ons far once again.

Also, this year there will be notonly a Varsity team, but a JuniorVarsity (JV) team as well becauseso many girls were interested.

 The hope is that, with a JV pro-gram, each group will get moreattention, and the future Varsityteam will be even stronger.

 This year’s team is also heav-ily emphasizing the importance

Basketball season underway

The Linden Hall basketball team is beginning its new season andexpects to do every bit as well as it did in former seasons.

of working together. From the

physical aspect of matching shoes

to the more gurative aspect of 

having one heart and one goal, this

year’s team is sure to be tighter

than ever.

 JILLIAN SILBERT

Class of 2014Linden Hall students love thesense of security they have in attend-ing an independent school; however,many girls feel that they are kept ina bubble — they do not know what isgoing on in the world outside LindenHall.

Alumnae Joy Dong and VioletZhou created a Model United Na-tions club at Linden Hall two-and-a-half years ago to help combat thisproblem. As Sarah Sandkuhler, classof 2015, remarked, “I like [ModelUN] because it really helps me be-come more aware of what’s going oncurrently in the world.”

Model UN is exactly what itsounds like: a model of the UnitedNations. The United Nations wascreated in 1942 to act as a source of international peace. Representativesfrom all over the world meet in theUN’s New York headquarters to dis-cuss a variety of dierent policies.

For Model UN, students choose

dierent countries to represent. Atdierent conferences, they repre-sent these countries’ political views. This poses a challenge for the girlsbecause they could very likely get acountry that has views very dierentfrom their own. To represent theircountry to the best of their abilities,they must forget their biases andlearn as much about their country aspossible.

Model UN keeps studentsin touch with the world

Co-faculty advisor Dr. George Scouten discusses tactics with mem-bers of Linden Hall’s Model UN team.

Erica Maney, class of 2015, saysof Model UN, “It’s so much fun, andI’m really glad I decided to join.”

Model UN’s rst conference this

year was held in Juniata College onNov. 14. To prepare for this confer-ence, the club hosted a practice sym-posium on Oct. 30. At their sympo-sium, the girls discussed the UN’sMillenium Development Goals, twoof which hope to address gender in-equality and people living in extremepoverty and hunger.

At this symposium, Sandkuhlerrepresented Saudi Arabia, a country

whose conservative views on genderdier greatly from America’s. Sand-kuhler stated, “It’s challenging toconvincingly represent the ideas of 

these people, because their cultureis very dierent from ours. But…it’spretty fun.”

In November, the girls had achance to win prizes in individualcommittees and see their own ideaspass as resolutions for the confer-ence. Last year’s Model UN did ex-traordinarily well, and there’s nodoubt that this year’s club will acquitthemselves well, too.

OLIVIA DAVIS

Class of 2015As volleyball and tennis seasons

came to an end, basketball season israpidly approaching. Girls in grades9-12 have been preparing for the in-tense try-outs for the Varsity and Ju-nior Varsity teams. The Junior Var-sity is new this year and a result of the large interest in basketball for theupcoming season. This means thatthere are twenty girls on the team asa whole instead of fteen, and moregirls will get the chance to play.

Ocial basketball try-outs beganon Oct. 24. The girls went throughlong exercises and drills to see if theyhad what it takes to keep up withthe fast-paced, aggressive basketballteam that made it to Districts lastyear. From running to cardio work-outs to basketball drills, the girls dideverything to prepare for the upcom-

ing season. This year, the basketballteams have bright futures ahead of them with all the talent. Linden Hallwishes all the girls lots of luck duringthe upcoming season.

Sports wrap-up and preview

Linden Hall’s volleyballl team played extremely well last season.

Artist aids LH recovery eort

A watercolor painting donated by local artist, and current Linden Hall parent, Mark Workman was re-cently auctioned. The piece sold for $2,800 to a 1965 Linden Hall alumna. All proceeds will be directed tocampus beautication efforts resulting from the devastating storm that blew through Linden Hall’s campusin the summer of 2010.