From Cradles to Lasell Village

Lasell College's media relations class hosted a fundraising event at the Campus center last Thursday. The event was called "Rock the Cradle", and it consisted of a dance party with food and drinks in which admission was either 1$ or a winter clothing item. Erin Dologhan's media relations class organized this event, which raised 200$ for Cradles to Crayon's "gearing up for winter" clothing drive. The fundraiser also collected many jackets and other winter gear. DJ Mr-Rea was on the turn tables during the dance, as there was also food, popcorn and drinks available. I attended this event, took many pictures and enjoyed the music. I think more people would have gone if the dance party was later in the evening, (it ran from 7:30-1030)

This morning I had the opportunity to attend probably one of the cutest events I have been to in months. Since Thanksgiving is on Thursday, children from the Rockwell Nursery school came to sing and hang out with the residents of Lasell Village. This nursery school children come for most holidays and many of the Village residents such as Mrs. Kaplan and Mrs. Thurber visit this school multiple times a week. I loved seeing the cute little kids dressed up as Native Americans singing and drumming (on their hand-crafted drums). The teachers were very nice and energetic as well. It was definitely a nice way to start my day, reminding me of youth and the purity of little children!

Project ACES

What a fabulous idea! Students from the Boston Renaissance School came to visit two Thurdays ago for Lasell's Awareness Confidence Education Success (ACES) program. CCBL ran a couple of days full of entertainment for these students as they explored the campus as if it were their own. The students were given campus tours, time to build their futures electronically, time to play basketball, classroom activities and time to simply indulge in our campus dining hall/ 1851.

I met these students to take pictures in the 1851. They got very excited when they saw that I had a camera and their leader James had them pose for some very cute photos. Next I followed them into Wolfe hall, where I watched as several of the classrooms were used for the students to play facilitated games.

It was adorable too, there were 44 students and many of them knew a lot about college already! I remember being that age and not knowing ANYTHING about college life. What a great Idea to give kids early exposure to college in order to mark it in their minds as an ultimate goal.