Nottingham's Parent-Teacher-Student Organization continues to support many teacher and student activities at Nottingham. The group sponsored the 3rd Wall of Fame dinner on October 11, welcoming a record number of guests and our outstanding group of honored alumni. The proceeds from the dinner were used to fund 27 teacher grant requests, including the registration for 30 ESL students to go snow-shoeing, new class sets of six novels used in English classes, instructional materials for the new Mandarin language class Nottingham now offers, and 8 goose-neck lights for the pit band to use during theater performances.
The PTSO also donated $1900 to the Nottingham library to help update the school's nonfiction collection. Nottingham librarian Manami Tezuka has been weeding outdated texts and adding to the areas of science, technology and social studies so that Nottingham students have current and relevant materials to work from. Nottingham's theater troupe The Meadowbrook Harlequins took on the challenge of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet for its fall production, and many students new to the stage did an excellent job. This spring, the group staged the classic rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, a show more familiar to many.
In early January juniors and seniors met with a panel of Nottingham alumni who had just completed their first semester at college. Before returning for their second semester, the Nottingham grads talked with students about college life, academic challenges, time-management and adjusting to new social situations.
Many Nottingham students voted for the first time in the 2008 presidential election, and there was great excitement on the part of many students over the election of Barack Obama. Nottingham is very proud of newly-seated U.S. Congressman Dan Maffei, Nottingham class of '86.
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