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News Stories from the 2004-2005 Academic Year:
Olney Student Travels to China with the Capital Suzuki Violin Tour Group
Sarah Mozena, a junior at Olney Friends School, Barnesville, OH, recently traveled to China with the Capital Suzuki Violin Tour Group as part of an eleven day concert tour. The group left April 1, 2005 and returned home April 11, 2005. Also participating in the tour was Priscilla Mozena, music teacher at Olney Friends School. The purpose of the tour was to give the participating students the chance to share in music from different cultures and promote the Suzuki method of teaching violin.
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Olney Friends School Students Participate in "Five-Day Intensive Program"
Students at Olney Friends School, Barnesville, Ohio, took a week off from regularly scheduled classes in March to participate in the school's annual Five-Day Intensive Program. The activities offered to students this year included a tour of Boston-area colleges for juniors, a 9th grade trip to Washington D.C., an opportunity for service work in Philadelphia, a back-packing adventure in Kentucky, cooking classes on campus, and a Midwest tour of places of worship from various world religions.
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Olney Friends School Students Attend Quaker Youth Leadership Conference
Earlier this month, four students and one faculty member from Olney Friends School, Barnesville, Ohio, attended the annual Quaker Youth Leadership Conference in Philadelphia, PA. The theme for this years conference was US and how we got here; a look at identity and politics of the United States.
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Organic Gardening
Chris Basler, Olney Friends Schools organic gardener and Humanities 10 teacher, recently attended the 14th annual Farming for the Future Conference sponsored by PASA, Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. The theme for this years conference was Reclaiming Health: Nourishing Our Farms and Families.
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Olney Friends School Participates in Service Day
On January 31, 2005, students, faculty, and staff from Olney Friends School in Barnesville, OH, participated in an all-school service day. On several occasions each school year, the entire school community performs volunteer service instead of participating in regularly scheduled classes and activities.
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Olney Friends School Featured in Teaching Tolerance Magazine
Olney Friends School is enthusiastically featured in the current issue of Teaching Tolerance magazine. The article, which focuses on holistic approaches to education, describes Olney Friends Schools commitment to goodness, intelligence, and relationship inside and out of the classroom. Illustrating the printed article are beautiful photographs of Olney Friends School students taken by Michael Prince of New York.
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Olney Friends School Teacher Presents Workshop at TABS Conference
Brett Potash, Outdoor Education Coordinator at Olney Friends School, recently gave a presentation entitled Outdoor Education: Fostering Independence at the annual The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) conference.
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Olney Friends School Students Attend Technology Conference
Ingrid Pancoast, freshman, and Nathan Mintzer, junior, of Olney Friends School Barnesville, OH recently attended a Students of Future Technology (SOFT) conference at Catholic Central High School in Steubenville, Ohio.
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Students Attend Leadership Skills Retreat
Thirteen student dorm staff members and four faculty dorm staff members from Olney Friends School recently attended a Leadership Skills retreat at the Linsly Outdoor Center in Georgetown, PA. Workshops covered topics such as navigating leadership positions and conflict management.
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Olney Friends School Students Attend Peak Oil Conference
Thirteen students and three faculty members from Olney Friends School, Barnesville, Ohio attended the "Peak Oil" conference held at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio as part of their environmental science class.
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Olney Friends School Senior Wins Travel Award for College Visit
Erin Hogan, a senior at Olney Friends School, Barnesville, Ohio, was recently selected to participate in the Presidential Scholars Fall Fly-In Program, offered by the College of the Atlantic (COA) in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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Olney Friends School Teacher Presents at OAIS Conference
Jeff Basler, eleventh grade humanities teacher at Olney Friends School, Barnesville, OH, recently gave a presentation entitled "A Midrashic Approach to Facilitating Close Reading of Literary Texts" at the annual Ohio Association of Independent Schools (OAIS) conference.
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OFS Announces New Hires
Olney has started the 2004-2005 school year with three new classroom faculty...
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Two Teachers Awarded Grants
Two teachers from Olney were honored this summer with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities...
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Photos from the 2004-2005 Academic Year:
New Staff Hired, Fall 2005
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World Religions trip to Bloomington, Indiana
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Service trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Backpacking trip to Natural Bridge State Park, Kentucky
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Service Day
On January 31, 2005, students, faculty, and staff from Olney Friends School in Barnesville, OH, participated in an all-school service day. On several occasions each school year, the entire school community performs volunteer service instead of participating in regularly scheduled classes and activities.
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Snow Fun
Olney Friends School students and teachers took some time to enjoy the winter snow as part of teacher-student Advisory groups. Activities included tobogganing and making snowcones.
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Bookmaking
ESL (English as a Second Language) students, along with their teacher Jeff Basler, spent a week learning the craft of book making, taught by Martha Penzer, Librarian.
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Junior Class Debate
On Monday, December 6, the Junior class held a debate as part of a humanities class project. The debate topic was "Resolved: The Adoption of Sedentary Agriculture was a Negative Development in the History of Human Kind."
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Dorm Staff Leadership Retreat
Thirteen student dorm staff members and four faculty dorm staff members attended a Leadership Skills retreat at the Linsly Outdoor Center in Georgetown, Pennsylvania. The November workshop was funded by a grant from the Friends Council on Education.
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Laurel Highlands Hike
On a chilly November weekend, six students and two faculty members traveled to the Laurel Highlands in Pennsylvania for an eleven mile hike. The hike was part of a series of outdoor education events planned throughout the fall.
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Halloween
Olney Friends School students enjoyed the Halloween Social put on by the senior class.
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Outdoor Class
Teachers at Olney Friends School have been taking advantage of the beautiful fall weather by having classes outside.
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Garden Class
The Garden Class, taught by Chris Basler, prepares compost, and harvests and sorts vegetables for use in the Olney Friends School kitchen for school meals.
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Piano Class
Students practice on newly purchased keyboards in Piano Class, taught by Priscilla Mozena.
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Upcoming Events:
Family Weekend
Family Weekend is a time for family members and sponsors to visit the school and get to know us better, October 28-30.
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Thanksgiving Break
Olney's Thanksgiving break began Saturday November 19, with students returning on Sunday November 27.
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Christmas Vacation
We would like to invite families to join us on Friday, December 17 for our traditional pre-Christmas dinner meal and student performances.
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