Brian served as a Peace Corps volunteer along with his wife in Kenya in the 90’s. After their three year tour, they worked for an anti poaching nonprofit in Tanzania. They moved to Alaska in the late 1990’s, where he worked in the administration of RuralCap, which placed AmeriCorps volunteers in communities in rural Alaska. Since the mid ‘00s, Brian and his family has returned to Africa, where he has worked in the administration of Peace Corps Malawi and Tanzania. Currently, he’s a regional Safety and Security officer, overseeing a dozen countries in East Africa.
Capoeira!
Check out these amazing solo performances by the Capoeira group of Martha’s Vineyard in the library on Friday, featuring performers from Martha’s Vineyard, Boston, and Brazil. This was part of the annual Brazilian-American Friendship lunch, sponsored by Elaine Weintraub’s Brazilian History & Culture Class.
Thank you Laura!
Thanks to Laura Jernegan (MVRHS class of 2009) for her inspirational talk today about her experience in Vanuatu as part of the Peace Corps!
Watch it here:
1918 Oak Bluffs High School Commencement Speech
In 1918, through references to the Bible, World War I, woodchucks, suspenders, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Theodore Roosevelt, Stanley Enoch Rodgers Jr. calls upon his fellow students at Oak Bluffs High School to strive for upstanding moral character.
We just received these three fragile pages entitled “Address to Under Graduates” written by Mr. Rodgers. Later in life, Mr. Rodgers moved to Minnesota. Now deceased, the letter comes courtesy of one his fellow parishioners at a church in Eagle Lake, MN. The donor suggested it would be great to be read at the 2018 commencement.
Oliver Silberstein’s Student Talk: Language Immersion in China
This past summer, Oliver travelled to China with Where There Be Dragons. The course was a six-week language immersion course. In it he spent half a week in Beijing as the introduction to the course, then traveled to La Shi Hai, a little village in Southwest China, to stay with a host family for two weeks. Then he spent one week exploring the Yunnan province. After that he stayed with a host family in the city of Kunming. As a conclusion to the trip he stayed at a Tibetan monastery for a half week, and then flew back to America.
Crockett Cataloni’s Student Talk
Crockett spoke to a packed audience in the MVRHS Library (photos below video).
