Whitman students help girls go to prom

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Whitman students help girls go to prom

Christina Marnik |

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Three Walt Whitman High School students are donating their time to make sure other girls can have the chance to look beautiful for their proms.

Twins Lexi Perman, Nicole Perman and their friend Carlyn Rosenblum are all Whitman sophomores who are taking part in Once Upon A Prom, which is an organization in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area that is dedicated to providing prom dresses to girls who could not otherwise afford them.

‘‘Prom is a really important part of your high school experience and I wanted to help out in any way I could,” Rosenblum said.

The girls have already collected approximately 35 dresses from Whitman students, which will go to students at several Washington D.C. public schools. They will keep collecting throughout April.

‘‘I wanted to get involved and I thought it was a great idea to help the community,” Lexi Perman said.

At the end of the collection, an event will be held to distribute and alter the dresses and teach the girls how to do their hair and makeup.

For more information about Once Upon A Prom and fundraising events, visit www.onceuponaprom.org.

An evening of pastaand b-ball at WJ

Walter Johnson High School’s Booster Club will host a family pasta dinner and student vs. staff basketball game on Friday.

The dinner will include pasta from Mamma Lucia Restaurant, salad, drinks and dessert.

The cost of the dinner is $9 for pre-registered adults; $7 for pre-registered students, staff and faculty; $10 for adults at the door and $8 for students, staff and faculty at the door. Kids 5 and under eat free and a family of four or more is $30.

For more information or to register, call Ann Gradowski at 301-530-8845 or e-mail her at gradowski7@msn.com.

A student vs. staff basketball game will also take place on Friday.

The dinner will begin at 5:30 p.m. and the basketball game will begin at 7 p.m. Both events will be at the school, 6400 Rock Spring Drive, Bethesda.

Black history broughtto life at WES

The Washington Episcopal School hosted the Black Facts Museum as part of the school’s Black History Month program.

The museum is an interactive research project done by third-graders in February of each year.

The project requires students to research someone significant to black history and then prepare a living museum exhibit to present in the school library.

This year Fred Valentine, a former Baltimore Oriole and Washington Senator, surprised the student who researched the baseball player for his project, 8-year-old Preston Heard.

Valentine came to see Heard presenting his project during the exhibit.

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