By Janis Fontaine
We asked some of our friends in the religious community to tell us about their most memorable Christmas or Hanukkah gifts. Here are their touching, thoughtful reflections.
A grateful recipient
The Christmas season brings with it the
By Janis Fontaine
When students return to Unity School in Delray Beach this month, they’ll find a new smile greeting them in the carpool line. It belongs to their new head of school, Genevieve Hoppe.
“I do carpool every morning,” Hoppe said. “The kid
During a celebration by orientation and preschool students at Unity School, children pose in front of the Bright Red Mayflower. (l-r) Teacher Alexus Hinton, with students Theodora Tate, Julian Tenhagen, Oliver Tonti, Annabelle Stoneking, Skylar Yoos
Students react to Melissa Norelli during a Skyped lecture.
Norelli as viewed through a hatch in the Florida International University’s Medina Aquarius Reef Base.
Photos provided
By Janis Fontaine
Melissa Norelli loves math and science.
The alw
In the early days, the school founded in 1964 was referred to as the Wee Wisdom School, and VW microbuses served as student transportation. Photo provided
By Ron Hayes
If you want to know why the Unity School of Delray Beach has flourished for 50 year
After five decades of educating thousands of students, Unity School families had thousands of reasons to celebrate. More than 300 supporters – including Don and MaryAnne Shula – gathered and raised a record $200,000. ‘We are blessed to have such fant
A Unity School fundraiser supporting the 50th-anniversary party, set for Feb. 21, was attended by nearly 120 parents who engaged in friendly but competitive live-auction bidding for 14 of their children’s class projects. Students spent weeks creating
Unity School kicked off its half-century mark with a pool party for 200 students, their parents and supporters, featuring beach football and volleyball contests, a 20-foot water slide, swimming in the ocean and lunch. A total of $10,000 was raised fo
Eighth Grade Poetry Contest winners (from left) Gus O’Hare (Gulf Stream), Luke O’Carroll (Ocean Ridge), Morley Wyler (Ocean Ridge) and Remy O’Hare (Gulf Stream) display the pictures that served as the inspiration for their poems. Unity Middle School
Unity School second-grader Gemma Ward of Ocean Ridge poses with Director of Educational Technology Dana Fritzinger. On the screen is a page from Gemma’s Scratch project that won the attention of the media lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Techno
The victorious Unity School Mustangs pose during the school’s Junior Varsity Invitational Basketball Tournament on Feb. 4. Back row, from left: Paul LaNoce, Coach Torres Young, Daniel Leathers, Erik Kretsinger, Gus O’Hare, Grant Navilio, Zach Petrol
First-grader Nong Ex Dubose, of Ocean Ridge, takes a closer look at the ‘Mosaic of Life’ mural, while second-grader Jason Falk, of Boca Raton, and sixth-grader Isabel Wheeler, of Delray Beach, look on. The mural is being created on the school campus
