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Local organizations are recipients of WPS holiday giving

Upper School students shown are in back (l-r) Hayes Peterson, Alex Bunting, and Gavin Henschel. In front are students Brooke Phillips, Anna Williams, Quinn McColgan, and Maddy Shanahan with WPS English teacher/NHS advisor Kathleen Otway and United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore Leadership & Planned Giving Officer Cathie Thomas, a Pajama Program volunteer. SUBMITTED PHOTOS
December 30, 2019
Pictured with Santa are WPS first-graders (l-r) Olivia Mason, Maximus Farrell, Darius Jones, and Sloane Smith.
WPS Lower, Middle and Upper School students are shown with a few faculty/staff members.
Student volunteers gathered Dec. 19 to load up the gifts that Middle and Upper School students donated. Shown are in back (l-r) Brice Richins, Anika Larsen, Gavin Carmody, Grace Baeurle, Anderson Taylor, Carter McCabe, Arusa Islam, Jack Tucker, Lily Baeurle, Audrey Stearns, Acting Head of School/Head of Upper School Mike Grosso, and Spanish teacher Bianca Perez. In front are Ian Betterson, Kate Abbott, McKenzie Blake, Alessia Matha, Ellie Todorov, Madison Van Orden, and Mesa Cammack.

Students and faculty at Worcester Preparatory School have been busy elves this holiday season giving back to the community with various projects, from choral concerts for the elderly to multiple food and toy drives for local families in need.

To help make the holidays a little warmer for those less fortunate, Worcester Prep’s Student Government Association and National Honor Society sponsored a Pajama Drive for the Pajama Program Eastern Shore Chapter. Upper School students collected and donated more than 200 pairs of pajamas Nov. 25 to be distributed in the tri-county area.

Lower School students from prekindergarten to fifth grade lined up Dec. 16 to visit with Santa and give gifts to those in need at Diakonia. Hundreds of gifts were donated to Diakonia’s two homeless shelters in West Ocean City, Md., that provide emergency and transitional housing, food services and counseling for their guests.

WPS students from Lower, Middle and Upper School collected more than 7,500 canned goods, nonperishable food items and monetary donations to purchase meat products for the Annual Food Drive Dec. 2-13, sponsored by the WPS Student Government Association. Students sorted food into bags for delivery to local distribution centers in Maryland and Delaware that feed those in need during the holiday season, including Diakonia Inc. and Atlantic United Methodist Church in Ocean City, Md.; Berlin First Baptist Church and Stevenson United Methodist Church Spirit Kitchen in Berlin, Md.; The Joseph House and Halo in Salisbury, Md.; The Seaford Community Food Closet in Seaford, and Food Bank of Delaware in Milford.

Also, WPS volunteers sponsored a gift drive to collect presents for Worcester County GOLD (Giving Other Lives Dignity), a nonprofit organization that provides financial aid to families in crisis, vulnerable adults and children in foster care.

Founded in 1970, WPS is an independent prekindergarten through 12th grade private school located in Berlin, Md. An average of 500 students attend from Maryland, Delaware and Virginia.  For more information, go to www.worcesterprep.org or call 410-641-3575.

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