NEWARK — In eighth grade, C. Vivian Stringer had a knack for asking questions — and they weren’t always the kind that grown-ups wanted to answer.
Why did her school offer boys basketball, but not girls? Boy Scouts but not Girl Scouts? And what was the real reason she didn’t make her all-white cheerleading squad when she was the most talented one to try out?
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Mrs. Gellerstein’s 2nd grade class made this fabulous healthy brownie recipe, courtesy of Jillian Michaels.
Fudge Brownies
Health benefits: anti-cancer, heart healthy, boosts metabolism, improves mood
You may have heard that we are making our own coral reef at St. Philip’s! As a few of our grades learn more about the ocean and coral reefs in their science classes, we are coming together as a community to bring that learning to life and crochet our own coral reef.
Dear Parents and Friends of St. Philip’s,
I am delighted to announce that work was begun to install a traffic light in front of the school. We are both thrilled and deeply thankful for the remarkable responsiveness of the County of Essex and for the leadership of our County Executive, Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr., in obtaining a remarkably swift approval of the light and in the expedition and execution of the project. The speed in which human capital and resources were marshaled on our behalf is almost unheard of in any such undertaking, either public or private. I want to publicly thank County Executive DiVincenzo for the undivided attention he gave us, for his ability to organize and lead the various public organizations that were required to move the project forward and for his commitment to the citizens of Essex County.
Dear Friends,
As we return to St. Philip’s, I find myself reflecting on my own time as a young student. In the midst of a project to build a mammoth addition to its grammar school, my hometown made a decision to preserve one of the classrooms from the original nineteenth century structure known as “Center School”. It turned out to be my first grade classroom. Visiting the room for the first time as an adult, I was stunned how quickly I returned to September, 1954. The smell of mahogany still permeated the air and I immediately recognized my desk. This was not difficult, because both the chairs and the desks remained bolted to the floor with shiny brass screws. My desk was the second one in the first row. This was easy to determine because we sat in alphabetical order, mine being in back of Beverly Andrews and in front of Alicia Crabbe. Mrs. Morgan’s formidable desk remained centered in front of the blackboard and the table which supported a cage for our class pet, a monkey, was still in place.
September 20, 2010, 12:03 pm — A Crop Sprouts Without Soil or Sunshine
By TODD WOODY
On the rooftop garden at St. Philip’s Academy, a private school in Newark, students tend plots of everything from broccoli and beets to sweet corn and spaghetti squash.
But since August they have also been helping to farm arugula, chervil, fun jen and komatsuna in a machine installed in a fourth-floor science classroom that grows crops without soil or sunshine.
Jen Kotkin, St. Philip's Science Teacher
