Weekend of Fun & Fund Raising

The weekend of May 15 saw lots of on- and off-campus activity, with Blair students involved in walking for charity and boat-building. The first annual Kon-Tiki “cardboard and duct tape boat race” – a competition among dorms spearheaded by science teacher Rod Gerdsen – took place on Blair Lake, with vessels festooned with beads, lace and all sorts of garnish. As long as the structure of the boat was not affected, it was all fair game.

Meanwhile, a group of faculty and students – Blair’s GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance) – traveled into New York City for the 25th Annual AIDS Walk. According to teacher Sam Gogolak, the six-mile walk is the largest AIDS fundraising event in the world and has helped to raise over $100 million to fight AIDS in the tri-state area through education, prevention, treatment and support services. This year, Blair’s student-led team, along with Sam and Penn and Eric Lunger, raised over $2,500 – an impressive figure which placed it in the top 250 of over 3,000 walking teams. It was a beautiful day in the Big Apple and a meaningful way to end the school year by fighting a world-wide pandemic one step at a time. Jenny Hsu ’10 snapped the group photo.

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Posted 5/18/2010

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