Home & School News Under the leadership of clerks Tonya Baynes, Amy Blake, and Fola Adebi, the WFS Home & School Association (“H&S”) continued to rise to the challenge of coming up with new and creative ways to fulfill its mission of building community and raising funds for the school in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the spring semester, H&S focused on creating community through a series of virtual events. It organized a three-part Zoom series on “Parenting with Resilience” with Lani Nelson-Zlupko, Ph.D., LCSW, who gave parents practical tips and strategies for helping their children manage common struggles related to mood, relationships, and time and task management.
H&S also organized two very popular virtual cooking nights, which were a fun and delicious way to build community among students, parents, and faculty who learned to cook ricotta gnocchi with WFS parent Dan Butler of Piccolina Toscana restaurant, and Korean chicken bulgogi (“fire meat”) with WFS parent Sonia Connor of SoCoToGo. H&S is very thankful to Dan and Sonia for sharing their time and culinary talents with the WFS community. The H&S Parent Ambassador program, spearheaded by Kyle McKean ’98 and Kelly O’Donnell ’93, helped to organize a virtual “Community & Conversation” event for parents of students who were new to WFS this year. Parents connected over Zoom with Head of School Ken Aldridge and Parent Ambassadors in
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