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FROM THE DIRECTOR

Dear Lincoln School Parents,

The 2009-2010 school year has now come to an end. The Graduation Ceremony for the Class of 2010 took place at the Soaltee Hotel on Wednesday. Those in attendance heard Keynote Speaker Ben Ayers as well as Board Chair Dave Sadoff make insightful addresses. In addition Suraj Karmacharya and Rapden Lama made the student speeches as Valedictorian and Salutatorian respectively. Special thanks to Liz Shrestha, Shira Daryn, Bob Cofer, Minush Rajbhandary, and Bernie Lenoue, our Senior Class Advisors, for all of their work organizing the ceremony.

Report cards for all students and transcripts for those departing were distributed to elementary students earlier in the week and to secondary students today. Students that did not return text books and materials or that have any remaining bills did not receive their report cards or transcripts. Outstanding bills or fines may be paid in the Finance Office and report cards can be picked up there as well.

As you know, I am departing Lincoln School after a wonderful five years here. It has been my honor and pleasure to serve you and your children and to watch them grow. The international community is a small one and I am hopeful that our paths will cross again someday soon. For those returning to the school next year, please enjoy a well deserved summer holiday. The school will reopen on Wednesday, August 11th.

Sincerely,

Allan Bredy

FROM THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DEAR LINCOLN SCHOOL

Over the past few summers, we’ve initiated a “Dear Lincoln” program to encourage our elementary students and staff to send postcards from the different places they visit during summer vacation. Once again we would like your children to send post cards to Lincoln School from wherever they might be this summer. We’ll turn this into an elementary geography project in August and make a special display of all the post cards. Just have your children write “Dear Lincoln,” and a few lines about where they are in the world. The address is: Lincoln School, P.O. Box 2673, Kathmandu, Nepal. For those students leaving Lincoln School this year, we’d still love to hear from you. Please send us a postcard when you land in your next home.

News from the Library

Last minute news from the Library:

• Summer check-out—The library will be open from 9 to 11 every Tuesday and Thursday morning beginning Tuesday, June 29, and continuing through the month of July. Parents are welcome to make use of the library to help fill the lazy days of summer, as well as Lincoln students.
• Elementary students came to the library yesterday to get library books to get them started on their summer reading. (Many of them left with their backpacks full!) These books may be kept through the summer holidays or, if you are in Kathmandu all summer, they can be turned in and others checked out. It is especially important for children who are not using English regularly during the summer break to keep those “English-language brain cells” working, so please encourage your kids to read!
• Our Lincoln Author project is finished and our elementary students are now published authors with their names in the Lincoln Library card catalog and their books ready to be checked out. I hope many of those books will start circulating this summer. If you check one out, please be very careful with it: they are precious and virtually irreplaceable! The exciting news is that many of our students are now writing books on their own to contribute to the library. I’ll have to warn the incoming librarian that Lincoln Press needs to continue!
• Speaking of contributions to the library, our library now has one of the few copies in Kathmandu of Kai Bird’s new book, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978. Kai donated it to the library after his talk with the Lincoln parents’ group last week and it is now processed and ready to be checked out.
• The library also has received many, many donations from families who are leaving or who are doing their spring cleaning and thought of Lincoln. Thank you very much for your donations! Many are already processed and on the shelves and many more are stacked in the librarian’s office, waiting for the new librarian’s attention in August. The library always welcomes donations. If they aren’t useful for our collection, we pass them on to a number of local schools and libraries who are developing their libraries.
And now comes the hard part. It’s time for me to say good-bye to Lincoln—again! I will be spending next year with my grandchildren in the States, being a full-time Grammy for a year. I realized if I don’t make the effort to be in their lives, I’ll be missing out on something very precious. Then who knows? I may decide I’m ready to take a longer break, or I may be off on a new adventure. For sure, I’ll be back to visit Kathmandu and Lincoln in the future, and I’ll always have a special place in my heart for this place and the wonderful friends—colleagues, students, parents, and others—who have been part of my life here. Thank you for the many ways you’ve supported the library program, for helping your children value reading, for reading to them and listening to them read to you so they now identify themselves as readers (and authors!), and thank you for your personal and much valued friendships.
My mother once gave me a little wall hanging that said just how I feel as I say good-bye: “The sadness of parting is only for this moment, but the joy of having known you is forever.” Namaste and best wishes to all of you!

Peggy Keough, Librarian

New Phone Numbers

De korte family:
mom: 9849590383

Hodgson family:
mom: 9801038052

Tasco family:
mom: 9801046479

Lindblom family:
Home: 9803868011
Dad: 9802032394
Mom: 9802032395

Shrestha, Shinab:
Home: 4033129

Carlson, April:
9801000974

Summer Camp
If you plan to be in Kathmandu this summer and are looking for activities for your children ages 3-12, please note that Lincoln School will be holding a Summer Camp starting June 21st. The camp is open to Lincoln students as well as others. Additional details are included in this edition of the Newsletter.

Sincerely,

Allan Bredy

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