The Key Club delivered 21 bags of clothes, blankets and coats along with 100 bag lunches, a case of bananas, and 100 bottles of water and juice to the homeless in Washington, D.C. Twelve Highland School students participated in the effort including Ryan Dunn, Ace Chung, Lauren Kruck, Jillian Gorsuch, Hannah Savage, Sara Smith, Melissa Sanford, Justine Leu, Jocelyn Leu, Melanie Loba, Adrienne Rinella and Iulia Bebco.

This week's School-wide dress down day raised $1,732 for our sister school in Kenya. The money will help pay teacher salaries there throughout the end of the school year.

New college acceptances this week include Stetson University, University of Mary Washington and Longwood University.

The annual faculty appreciation luncheon will be held Friday, Feb. 25. Help the effort by volunteering to send in your signature dish—appetizers, main dishes, side dishes and desserts are all needed. Volunteers are needed to help setup the luncheon as well as to substitute in classrooms for Pre-K through Grade 8 so that those teachers may attend. Sign-up sheets are posted in the Upper School office and on the bulletin board in the hallway outside the Lower School office. For more information, contact Wendy Hale or Whitney Petrilli.

Susan Barton, internationally recognized expert in the fields of dyslexia and ADD, returns to Highland School to conduct a workshop on Feb.17 from 7-9 p.m. in the Center for the Arts. Called "Dyslexia, Symptoms and Solutions," the event is free and open to the public. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m.

Chess Team advisor Ranjan Kaparti said recently that with three matches left in the season, the team still has a good chance of progressing to round 2. The team lost Tuesday to Madison High School at home with four losses and one draw. The next three matches are "must wins" in order for the team to advance to the final round and up the League ladder. "I am counting on Nathan Bryan, who was recently promoted to board 5, to give us the edge down on the lower boards," said Kaparti. "It really is a team sport to win a match."