STUART STUDENTS SPREADING CHRISTMAS CHEER
Princeton, NJ (December 11, 2006)

Christmas is a time for thinking of others and the spirit of giving is in abundance at Stuart Country Day School.

The entire school community is busily preparing for its traditional Christmas outreach. Students in the Lower School have been laboring to create Christmas tree ornaments. Once the glitter and ribbons have dried on their creative masterpieces, they bring their ornaments to the school's lobby to hang on the Christmas tree. On December 15, the students then take all their ornaments and donate them to the Princeton Red Cross, which uses the ornaments to bring cheer to those who participate in its Meals on Wheels program.

Stuart has a long tradition of community outreach. According to Barbara Ann Cagney, a second grade teacher at the school, this is the sixth year the school has partnered with the local Red Cross to provide tree ornaments during Christmas time. She estimates Stuart's students will donate approximately 200 hand-made ornaments and greeting cards. In addition, the Pre-School students will be making festive placemats for Meals on Wheels clients.

While Stuart's community outreach programs fill the entire calendar year, the school participates in several initiatives during the moth of December, benefiting local charitable organizations such as Martin House and Loaves and Fishes.

Faelen Paladino, a third grade student from Skillman, hangs her hand-made ornament on the Christmas tree at Stuart Country Day School. Lower School students will be donating approximately 200 hand-made ornaments to the Princeton Red Cross for distribution to its Meals on Wheels clients.

For more information on Stuart's social and public service initiatives, contact Echo R. Fling at efling@stuartschool.org or (609) 921-2330 ext. 280.