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Resident Hall Highlight: Lambein Hall Jennifer Meyer, Resident Director We had lots going on in October starting with Homecoming weekend, the traditional Serenading our brothers in Rothenbuhler and Shenawana, Lambeins first ever Improv Night performed by RA’s and Leadership Council, to our Monthly Worship night with everything in between!
In October is also Lambein’
annual Apple Fest! It was a huge success this year! Each
floor prepares an apple dessert to share and be entered
into a contest. We invite our sisters in Gillette Hall
and share in a time of crazy fun activities and
fellowship with one another. We met in the first floor
lounge with lots of little white lights and apples
everywhere! The evening started with a huge line for the
Apple desserts! We had a Great selection this year from
the traditional apple pies to apple crisp and apple
dumplings. We had an apple bobbing contest and the girls
went all out for this one and got soaked! We had an
apple spitting contest which got quite competitive.
There was a fresh picked apple tasting display with
several different varieties of apples to try. And we
ended the night with an apple piñata, random drawings
and lots of fun Apple prizes! |
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The other exciting Lambein News is our T-shirts! We sold quite a few of our newly designed “Lambein Sisterhood” T’s! Were all excited to show our Lambein Pride in style together as Sisters! | |
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Small Groups Delve into
Special Topics In addition to the wide variety of small group Bible and topical studies offered by the residence life staff, Dean of the Chapel John Brittain is wrapping up weekly sessions of the well-known Alpha course right before Thanksgiving. Spring semester he will be leading interested members of the community in a systematic study of Richard J. Foster's Celebration of Discipline: the Path to Spiritual Growth. Supplementing these group opportunities, the Imitators of Christ mentoring program pairs individual students with mature Christians from the campus and community for one-on-one Christian growth relationships.
Dr. Brittain will be leading a
small mission team to Myanmar (former Burma) for three weeks
beginning immediately after graduation in May. They will be
working with Rev. Dr. Morris Liana, President of Union Bible
Seminary in Yangan and National Superintendent for Wesleyan
Church of Myanmar.
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Thanksgiving Marks Turning Point in Lives of College Freshman Thanksgiving weekend presents an opportunity for the final stage of parenting: the blessing, the letting-go as grown children are cheered on with affection and respect toward full autonomy.
Dr. Janet Butler
Haugaard, Executive Editor and Writer at St. Mary's
Dr. Lynn
Willett, Vice President for Student Affairs at Coastal
It’s Thanksgiving weekend, and here they are, your children, home from college. This, however, is no ordinary Thanksgiving—It’s the Thanksgiving of their freshman year and, although neither of you knows it yet, it’s going to prove to be a milestone for both of you. What do you do when this exuberant son or daughter of yours arrives on you doorstep with a bizarre haircut (or none at all)? In the three months or so since you last saw them, they’ve been telling their new friends about the home they came from, about the successes they enjoyed in high school. Uneasy in the new leveling environment of college, they’ve been point backward in order to present an identity—star quarterback, editor of the paper, counselor at a drug center. By the time they leave home again at the end of Thanksgiving weekend, the pointing backward will have changed to a pointing forward. Now they will be almost eager to get back to the dorm and hear how their friends’ weekends went, and in the next four weeks they will be anguishing their way through their first college final exams and term papers. In the few short weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas—as any professor or dean can tell you—they will finally settle into their new lives. Parents don’t usually realize, how-ever, that although their children’s perceptions of home will necessarily change during the weekend, the quality of this change is pretty much up to the parents. In her book “Necessary Losses,” Judith Viorst points to parents who are change-resisters, who “defy the realities of time by hanging on to their power and to their non-negotiable ways of doing things. Thanksgiving weekend presents an opportunity for the final stage of parenting: the blessing, the letting-go as grown children are cheered on with affection and respect toward full autonomy. So now it’s Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. Your child has arrived—unexpectedly thin (or pudgy), sprouting facial “zits” from too much midnight junk food and lugging a duffel bag full of books for a term paper. What now? We offer nine pointers that, admittedly, emphasize verbal restraint. (“Bite your tongue,” “Grit your teeth.”) 1. Say positive things. Comment six times in five days, “You look wonderful!” or “It’s wonderful to see you!” The corollary is that you make no remark on the weight gain, the miserable hair, the ragged nails. 2. Get Information gently. “Tell me about your friends” is a good opener to help your children see their new acquaintances somewhat objectively as they describe them. 3. Use your third ear. Listen, listen and listen some more. Behind the extra pounds and the overly loud voice lurks more self-doubt than you’ve experienced in a long time. Your son or daughter’s unexpressed but overriding anxiety this first semester is, “Can I make it? Will people like me? Should I even be in this hard school?” You can help by listening and reassuring. 4. Don’t ask ... Your children already know your wishes, and grilling them now may force them into lying. Restating your opinions may make you—and even them—feel better; but outright probing and threatening will be counterproductive.
5. Keep calm. Despite your valiant efforts, flare-ups may
erupt during the long weekend. Your freshman has had some
difficulty learning how to deal with emotions this semester
(the creepy roommate, the “stupid” professor) and the sudden
temper loss may be due to college stress or to outright
irritation with you. 6. Ignore unopened book bags. As Friday turns into Saturday and these supposed college students still have not touched the book bag, they continue to mention “I have this chem. Test next week.” Bite your tongue. You want them to succeed academically, but they have to want it before anything can happen. And truthfully, it may not happen until second semester—if then. 7. Limit yourself to one (good-natured) comment on their appalling loss of table manners. One day these will return.
8. Respect their new status. On the matter of curfew:
Three months ago, you sent your nearly grown child to a
community where students are respected as full adults by
faculty and staff alike. Your daughter has been deciding
for herself when (or even if) to quit socializing and go to
bed. Your son has had to discipline himself—without your
help—to hit the books. She is old enough to vote, and he is
old enough to enter the military and be killed. 9. Give. Hug them hard when they leave at the end of the weekend. And give them something to take away, like cookies. Or a little extra cash. No
other species on the planet Earth has the difficulty humans
do in releasing their young. No other species tries to hang
on for so long. Thanksgiving weekend provides a specific
four-day period in which parents can, with forbearance,
courtesy and good will, practice treating their own children
as the adults they are becoming. Dr.
Janet Butler Haugaard, Executive Editor and Writer at St.
Mary's College of Maryland |
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