World of Wellesley, Sun Life Host Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast Today
13th annual breakfast event features keynote address by Massachusetts Medical Society President-Elect Dr. Ronald Dunlap.
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World of Wellesley, Sun Life Host Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast
13th annual breakfast event features keynote address by Massachusetts Medical Society President-Elect Dr. Ronald Dunlap.
The 13th annual World of Wellesley Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast is coming up on Monday, Jan 21, at 9:30 a.m. Sun Life Financial is hosting the event at their Wellesley Hills campus on Route 9. The event listing indicates tickets are $25.00 for adults, $5.00 for children, or $250 for a whole table, they are available by mail or at the event. Speaking as the keynote is Dr. Ronald Dunlap, president-elect of the Massachusetts Medical Society, who will be joined by performances from the Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church Choir and Wellesley High School’s Thunder Step Squad. To commemorate the work of Dr. King, supporters moved to declare Jan. 15 (King’s birthday) a federal holiday, beginning with Michigan Congressman …
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
World of Wellesley Hosts 12th Annual MLK Breakfast
Dr. Fayneese Miller, dean of the College of Education and Social Services at University of Vermont, will speak tomorrow.
The following is a press release about the 12th annual World of Wellesley Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast taking place tomorrow at Sun Life Financial: Dr. Fayneese Miller, dean of the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont, will address Wellesley’s 12th annual Martin Luther King Day breakfast on January 16, 2012, at Sun Life Executive Park at Wellesley Gateway (intersection of routes 9 and 128). Breakfast food will be available beginning at 8:00 a.m. and the program will take place from 8:30 to 10:00. The breakfast is jointly sponsored by the World of Wellesley (WOW), the Interfaith Community for Action in Wellesley, and Sun Life Financial. Keynote speaker Fayneese Miller is a social psychologist who…
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Monday, September 12, 2011
World of Wellesley to Host Multicultural Festival
The event will take place at the end of October.
The World of Wellesley, a local organization focused on embracing diversity locally, will host a multicultural festival in late October, according to an announcement Saturday. The free event will take place at the Knight Auditorium at Babson College Sunday, Oct. 23.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
World of Wellesley Fifth Grade Essay Winners Recognized
The students wrote movingly about discrimination and how it has affected their lives.
Two 5th graders from each school were recognized by the School Committee Tuesday as winners of this year’s World of Wellesley (WOW) essay contest, a part of the elementary curriculum in which every student writes about racial or cultural inequality. “The essays really were amazing and inspiring,” said WOW board member Michelle Chalmers who read essays from students at Sprague Elementary School. She said one of the essays she chose for acknowledgement was about Jackie Robinson, the first African-American player in Major League Baseball. She said the student wrote about how Robinson, in the face off discrimination and harassment, played baseball peacefully, showing grace on the field rather than resorting to violence. Another winning essay, …
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Monday, January 17, 2011
World of Wellesley Celebrates MLK Day
Carole Simpson, a former network news anchor, described her personal encounter with the civil rights leader at WOW's 11th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast.
On a day when Americans remember the bold words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Carole Simpson, a longtime ABC News reporter and the keynote speaker at the World of Wellesley’s 11th annual MLK Breakfast at Sun Life Fiancial, recalled the civil rights leader’s softer words — whispers, in fact — that changed her life more than 45 years ago. “I had only been reporting for a year,” said Simpson, who was then the first and only female broadcast journalist in her hometown Chicago, “when Dr. King held a news conference in Atlanta announcing he was bringing his non-violent crusade to Chicago — but he didn’t say why.” It was late 1965, and the inexperienced Simpson would not have been WCFL Radio’s usual choice to cover an event as significant as …
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Selectmen Approve High School Heaters, Commend World of Wellesley
Selectmen meeting talks High School project, World of Wellesley and Cable Access channel.
In order to build inside the Wellesley High School during winter, Project Manager Richard Gurney and project Superintendent Jamie Meiser presented an updated plan to use exterior heaters to the Board of Selectmen. The 4.5 million BTU, propane-powered heaters, are needed to pump warm air into the building for proper curing of the mortar and drywall. "Required for material, not for manpower," Meier explained. He added with a smile that "the guys" do love it, however. The original site plan included four of the heaters, which will run 24-hours a day. The group's request changed the proposed location of one of the four heaters from Rice Street to the side of the building. A network of propane tanks will service the heaters which, because of …
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Monday, October 4, 2010
World of Wellesley Brings Frank, Creem, Peisch and Ross to Talk Education
Four Massachusetts politicians met at Mass Bay Community College to talk education reform.
Four state legislators met in a forum sponsored by the World of Wellesley and Mass Bay Community College to talk about education reform. Congressman Barney Frank, Senators Cynthia Creem and Richard Ross, and representative Alice Peisch also discussed how education impacts other issues such as immigration and healthcare. The forum was moderated by Edward Harding, anchor for WCVB News. Two of the specific educational issues mentioned by the legislators involved lengthening the school day and school year, and closing the "achievement gap," which Peisch as "the difference between higher performing students and lower performing students." Peisch commented that, with extracurricular activities and schoolwork included, the school day is already …
