Monthly Archives: January 2012
Senegal Alumna Honored for Volunteerism
Izzie Levinson, a 2011 Community Service Senegal alumna, was recently honored for her volunteerism in Jewish Journal’s annual Mensch List. An 11th grader at Oakwood School in Los Angeles, California, Izzie is a leader in a number of community service …
Featured Leader: Ted Samuel
Ted Samuel has led four Putney programs. He began in 2008 with Community Service India, went on to lead two consecutive summers of Community Service Vietnam, and recently headed our Global Awareness in Action Cambodia program in 2011.
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Global Action El Salvador Alumna Headed to Honduras
We recently got back in touch with Lindsey Weiss, a 2008 alumna of Global Awareness in Action El Salvador who is now majoring in Health: Science, Society, and Policy at Brandeis University. She talked with us about how her experience
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Language Learning France: A History of Immersion
We recently pieced together these then and now photos from Language Learning France and realized that both were taken by leaders who currently work here in the Putney Barn! The black and white version was taken by Co-Director Jeff Shumlin …
Student Blogs: A Tico Fashion Show
Nakeya Boyles, a 2011 Community Service Costa Rica student, contributed this piece to her trip’s summer blog. Come along with Nakeya as she rallies members of the Tico community to put on a fashion show on the final night of …