Merrimack Valley 50+ June 2018 Active Life HELLO SUMMER! A Road Less Paddled Healthy Social Eating A Brief History of Mass Prep Schools Things to Do: Merrimack Valley Community Free Calendar www.merrimackvalleyactivelife.com Merrimack Valley 50+ Active Life Page 3 Merrimack Valley 50+ Healthy Social Eating By Samantha McCarthy, MS, RD of Cedardale Health and Fitness in Andover, MA June and the upcoming summer Drink a large glass of water before the to indulge a little. Never over restrict or “are watching what you eat.” Be Active Life months can be a busy season for party and also drink plenty during the yourself. This can lead to binging on polite. Simply say you enjoyed plenty families. June is often filled with party. This will help fill you up. foods. of food already and are full. Try eating graduation celebrations, Father’s Day slower so that you are eating with June 2018 parties, weddings, and BBQ’s. July and Before diving into the buffet line, Watch your portions and quantity of everyone else. August are a time for July 4th celebra- survey the situation. The worst thing food. This is the most important thing tions, family vacations, and even more you can do is start at the beginning you can do at a party. Those meatballs Lastly, if you are responsible for bring- BBQ’s. Summer is a fun time, we can and grab a little of everything. Before may be small, but if you keep heading ing a dish to the party, make it healthy. Features all admit that, but it can be tough on you know it, you need a second (or back to the food table for more and That way you know there will be at your health if you aren’t careful. Social third) plate. Take a look at all the op- more, eventually you have had more least one healthy option available for eating is a common theme during the tions available to you first. Pick one or than you can count and are feeling you. warm months and this often leads to two “unhealthy” choices that seem the guilty. Take one plate of food (prefer- 3 Healthy Social Eating 8 Hello Summer! overeating and choosing the wrong most appealing to you. The rest of the ably a small plate), fill it up, and stop Staying healthy at parties is no easy foods. But, there is hope. You can still food you choose should be relatively yourself there. Avoid the temptation to task, but if you set your mind to it and maintain your health and waistline by light and healthy. For example, maybe grab little bites throughout the whole plan ahead you can stay on track. So paying more attention and making the dessert option is really calling your party. After you finish eating your instead of using each and every party 4 A Brief History of 11 June Calendar of Events healthier choices. name, so you decide you are going plate, move away from the food table. as an excuse to overindulge, teach to let yourself indulge on dessert. But Don’t stand in arms reach of all the yourself how to eat in moderation so First off, don’t arrive hungry to the instead of having dessert on top of food. Keep yourself busy. social events become apart of your Massachusetts Prep Schools View the Digital Edition at: party. Have a healthy snack prior to the everything other option available, you healthy lifestyle. party or event so that you aren’t raven- skip out on the cheese and crackers Peer pressure can be a big problem at www.merrimackvalleyactivelife.com ous. This will help you control your and chips and dip. Being more selec- social events. 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Although the academy initially Having been in the education world for Mira Hall died suddenly on August 25, become familiar from the very beginning operated in a one-room schoolhouse over thirty years I thought I knew all about 1937, while on vacation in Maine. In the with the content of a liberal education.” which still stands to this day, it had access the prep schools in New England. That was words of students who wrote a tribute at starts with Phillips Academy. Originally his famous signature to the schools articles through the early 18th Century struggles Among the many benefits of living in to the grand mansion of the late gover- until I was asked to write a letter of recom- the time of her death, she “inspired in us The Waring’s understood the importance established in 1778 by Samuel Phillips Jr,.it of incorporation. Famous silversmith and with the French and Native Americans. Massachusetts is our nation’s best pub- nor, that remains a central fixture on the mendation for a student who was going to the will to live our lives well and to make “place-based learning.” In the spring of is the oldest incorporated academy in the propagandist Paul Revere designed the These little known battles are referred as lic schools. Rigorous standards and a campus as the headmaster’s residence. attend Ms. Hall’s Academy. My answer to them worthy of her confidence in us.” 1974 the whole school went camping in country. Its partner school, Phillips Exeter schools seal. Revere’s design of the school’s Dummer’s War. challenging MCAS system have pushed Over time other structures were built and the student was “ who is Miss Hall and why the Smokey Mountains for three weeks, Academy was founded by his uncle Dr. seal incorporated bees, a beehive, and the students of the Commonwealth to the top the faculty and curriculum expanded so does she have an academy?” Cushing Academy ( Ashburnham, Mas- and the following year everyone set out for John Phillips in 1781. Andover can boast sun. The school’s primary motto, Non Sibi, Dummer hailed from a well to do and of the heap. But our public schools are that by the time of the school’s centennial sachusetts) California in a G.M.C. diesel bus. Overnight it has the nation’s oldest secondary school located in the sun, means “not for oneself”. educated family. His brother was one of only a piece of the educational opportuni- in 1863, the Dummer Academy had grown Miss Hall’s School was founded in 1898 Upon his death in 1854, Thomas Parkman trips and travel experiences remain vital newspaper, The Phillipian, while Exeter has The school’s second motto, Finis Origine the founders of Yale University. The fam- ties available in this area. Massachusetts is into a well known 19th century prep school when Miss Mira Hinsdale Hall began her Cushing, a successful Boston Merchant, parts of the Waring experience. the second oldest publication The Exonian. Pendet, meaning “the end depends upon ily saw a need for a college preparatory home to some of the best prep schools in that catered mostly to children from afflu- forty-year leadership of the School, an era bequeathed money to establish Cushing The Phillipian was first published in 1857. the beginning”, is scrolled across the bot- school that catered to the outlying areas the world. From Phillips Academy to Brooks ent families. that brought the School to the forefront of Academy. In Cushing’s will it was decreed The interesting and authentic curriculum Exeter has the oldest high school debate tom of the seal. on the North Shore. In 1763 the Dummer School, our area offers opportunities for women’s independent secondary educa- that his money would grow for ten years presented by the Warings led to a growth society, The Daniel Webster Debate Society Charity School , also known as the Dum- our best and brightest to shine.