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COUNTING the DAYS You’Re Probably a Philanthropist – That Is, You Yet Global Humanitarianism, As Important As It Second Graders Measure, Then Capture a Year From the Buffett’s Dilemma 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Board of Or, why I give to Princeton Friends School Trustees By Michael Robertson 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 f you’re reading this issue of Close Friends , worldwide poverty and disease. COUNTING THE DAYS you’re probably a philanthropist – that is, you Yet global humanitarianism, as important as it Second graders measure, then capture a year. believe in devoting some portion of your is, isn’t the only cause worth supporting; Buffett 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 income and assets to charity. And as a philan - acknowledged as much when, in addition to his gift By Jessica Hurwitz thropist, you no doubt were as fascinated as I to the Gates Foundation, he pledged another $6 was last year to read about Warren Buffett’s decision billion to other good causes, including education. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Ito donate $31 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Americans are generous donors to education. Foundation. Buffett, whose ego is evidently as small Anyone with a college degree is aware that regardless anuary, February, March and April....” PFS accuracy. They ask questions. “Why are there some - as his fortune is large, decided that he didn’t need of whether the college is private or public, his or her 2nd graders sing to the tune of Ten Little Indians . times 28 days in February and sometimes 29?” one his name on a foundation or building. The Gates education was subsidized by alumni donations. A Gathered in front of the classroom calendar child inquires. Another wonders, “Why do we have Foundation was doing work he believed in, so he high proportion of America’s college graduates feel on a late summer morning, the children sing leap year?” And so we investigate. donated his fortune where he thought it would do an obligation, in turn, to support the students who through the months of the One child moves to the most good. come after them. Jyear. An important part of the center of our circle, Buffett’s gift to the Gates Foundation is many That’s true for me. I got a first-rate education at life in most elementary pretending to be the sun. zeros away from anything most people can imagine a university that never fails to remind me each year classrooms, calendar activ - Another child spins around donating. Yet no matter the size of our annual con - how much it depends on alumni donations. I duti - ities have an added signifi - the first, becoming the tributions to charity, we all face Buffett’s dilemma: fully send in my check. But for every dollar I give to gance for this group. The Earth rotating in orbit. In where do I donate my money in order to ensure that my alma mater, I give many times that amount to children will spend the fall our classroom it takes 15 or it does the most good? Princeton Friends School. making their own calen - 20 rotations for the Earth Buffett, along with Bill Gates, answered the The reason is simple: my gift makes much more dars, and they are quite to journey around the sun, question by putting his money into a foundation of a difference at Princeton Friends School. I went excited. “May and June but we learn that in reality, that works to reduce poverty, disease and premature to a medium-sized university, founded in the 19th and July and August,” they the journey takes much death in the developing world. No one can doubt century, that graduates 1500 students a year. My sing with gusto. longer – 365 ? days. Since the urgency of this task, and I’d argue that everyone alma mater has thousands of alumni across the U.S. “September .... ” there are no quarter days in ought to give money annually to organizations such who donate annually. Many are eager to have their It is September, only a our calendar, we stand up as Oxfam, UNICEF, and the American Friends names associated with a high-profile institution, and few days into the school Jessica Hurwitz with students and their calendars. and make quarter turns, Service Committee, whose mission is to reduce the university just successfully completed a $1 billion year. Students in the 1 st to determining that it will take continued on page 17 8th grades anticipate a field trip to the shore, where four to make a whole rotation – a whole day. After we will launch the Central Study theme of From the four years, we will be able to add an extra day to the The Year that Was, the Building that Will Be Ground Up with a day of building on the beach. On calendar, and so every four years we will have leap From the this morning, the 2nd graders have clustered on the year. It isn’t often that dents and families, Quaker meetings, educators and carpet to hear The Castle Builder , a story in which a boy In November, as 2006 draws to a close, 2nd Development our one-room, admirers of Quaker education, friends of the school, imagines his sand castle is real. The book connects graders fill in blank calendar grids for each month Office 200-year-old PFS “neighbors” such as the Institute for Advanced Study, nicely to our trip, but also to our calendar project. of 2007. Working through the months in order, development office and others stretched to give what they could to see us The illustrations each child creates for a calendar students begin to understand the cyclical nature of has something in through. Even our current PFS students took part, will reflect the stories we share this fall – stories the calendar. “May ends on a Thursday, so June common with the corridors of power. But I was struck organizing a collection that jingled all the way to the related to the Central Study theme. starts on a Friday, right?” one child asks. Another recently by the idea that while much of the country was bank and will help us build the portal into our new In the younger grades, students are exploring confirms. Knowing that their calendars will amazed this spring by the power of grass-roots building. From the Ground Up by studying animal homes and become holiday gifts for their families, the children fundraising among presidential candidates, the practice Of course, we would love to be talking about human homes, and these topics figure prominently write the dates neatly. looked pretty familiar from where we sat at 470 Quaker raising $10, $20 or even $30 million to support in in the stories 2nd graders read and discuss during By early December, each 2nd grader has a folder Road (under ceilings that are maybe seven feet high, by perpetuity the gem of a school you’ll read about in the reading workshop. As they sound out words, identify full of calendar pages and another filled with the way). Barack Obama surprised everyone by solicit - following pages. And perhaps one day such a gift will setting and characters, and consider an author’s illustrations of the stories we shared. It is time to ing many small gifts that added up to a big number. find its way to our mailbox. (It’s the big white one on message, students also deepen their connection to assemble the projects. Each student glues one calen - And that’s how we do it here at PFS, although our defi - Quaker Road, you can’t miss it.) But Princeton Friends the theme. They note the reasons characters build, dar page and one illustration onto a large piece of nition of a “big number” is unavoidably different. In School, built on the faith and foresight of so many, will pay attention to the resources used for building, and construction paper, then repeats the process for the both cases, money has been raised from a wide variety of always be the product of many hands and many gifts. discuss the difference between a house and a home. other 11 months. As the children work, the class - donors, who stretch to give as much as they can, moved For that, we are deeply grateful. PFS is the home of They also look for important moments to illustrate. room is filled with voices. “Look, here’s my birth - to do so by both generosity and passion. Quaker education in our area, a school dedicated to By December, we will have shared 12 theme-related day!” someone says, pointing to a date in February. Two months ago, we successfully closed Building on the serving children from a broad range of economic and stories, and each child will have made 12 illustrations “That’s after Valentine’s Day,” replies a friend. Vision , our $3 million capital campaign for new class - social backgrounds and to teaching the value of integri - to decorate a calendar. Many children sing as they put their completed room, science, studio, outdoor play, and other space. ty, equality, justice, and peace. As 2nd graders work with the classroom calen - calendar pages in order. They recall favorite stories Three million dollars is a very large amount of money That’s the vision we continue to build on, thanks to dar each morning, they pay careful attention. They as the song continues in the background. for a school our age and size. Yet we raised it because so you all. sing the months in order and use the “Thirty days “September, October, November, December . .” many people gave, in so many ways.
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