Happy Birthday Al!

Al Kerr has one today, Monday, June 7. Hope it was great!

Student Cleanup

After a big wind storm wednesday night the week of graduation - DA students and faculty helped rake up the remnants to get campus ready for parent arrival on Friday. And they looked good doing it! DA Flickr feed

Cost Award makes library possible

At the last school meeting on May 28th, this year's recipient of the "Charles Piper Cost '83 Award for Community Service" went to Muheb '12 who will be a junior this fall. His project this summer will focus on rebuilding a school library in his home country of Afghanistan.

From his funding proposal:
Qarabagh high school is located outside of the city (Kabul). It has 5000 students from first grade up to twelfth. Most of the students in this school have never read a novel or referred to anything else other than their textbooks and that is because of two reasons: first, most of the families can not afford to buy books for their children, and second the library of the school is non-existent. I have heard that Qarabagh used to have a library, but it was destroyed during the civil war. The only thing that remains is an empty room.

With this award I want to build a library for this school, I will spend two or three weeks of my summer vacation to work on this project. I will build book shelves, desks, chairs. Additionally, I will start a book-drive to collect books for the school, both from NGOs, but also from individuals including the families that send their children to this school.

Thanks to the Cost family for funding the annual stipend for community service. Charlie's legacy lives on.