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basketballFaculty Basketball Game
(March 27, 2012)
 
basketball"The Heights of Talent,"
a community talent show
(May 11, 2012)
 
basketballLord & Taylor
Fundraising Day (Spring 2012)
 
basketball"Literary Lunches,"
an intergenerational book club.

2011 Scholarship Recipients:
Austin Poon
GLHS
Academic Acheivement

Melissa Reedy
GLHS
Community Service

Michael Middlebrook
Lauren Sobol
CMS Awards

Literary Lunches


  
Sponsored by:

A BHEF Partner in Education

Literary Lunches – An Intergenerational Book Club
2011-2012 Program

Do you like to read and talk about books?
For several years, the Berkeley Heights Education Foundation has sponsored a “Literary Lunches” program at Columbia Middle School. This program brings together students, staff and senior citizens to discuss a book while enjoying treats provided by the BHEF.
This program will continue during the 2011–2012 school year, with two sessions each planned for the 6th and 7th grades and one session for 8th grade (there are separate sessions for each grade). Interested students will have the opportunity to sign up through their Language Arts/English teachers and receive a pre-selected book courtesy of the BHEF. Books are also provided to participating seniors. On the day of the session, participants will gather in the CMS Media Center for conversation and refreshments.
FALL
NOVEL
Grade 7
The Thief Lord
Grade 6
Code Talkers
Grade 8
The Hunger Games
SPRING
NOVEL
Grade 7
 Maus
Grade 6
A Corner of the Universe 

If you are an interested Columbia Middle School student, please contact your Language Arts/English teacher to sign up. If you are an interested senior, please contact BHEF trustee Alice White via e-mail at
 Literarylunches@bhef.info to sign up.  You can attend as many sessions as you would like. Due to the popularity of a special book club session that convened at Governor Livingston High School last year to discuss Three Cups of Tea (part of a “Pennies for Peace”-inspired initiative), a similar session is being planned for the fall. Discussion will center on the book Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.