Alum Melissa Hoey (‘10) Runs 4,000 Miles for Cancer Patients
Nashoba Brooks School alumni Melissa Hoey (‘10) ran 4,000 miles across the country this summer from San Francisco to Boston for the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults (UCF).
UCF is a Baltimore-based organization that ensures no young adult faces cancer alone by providing a community for patients and their families both during and after treatment.
“I chose this organization because I have had family and friends in my life affected by cancer. I wanted to do something in their memory, and make a difference in the lives of other young adults.”
Melissa, whose love of running began on the Nashoba Brooks track team, ran this summer with a team of 24, visiting hospitals, treatment centers, and homes for patients. Donations from local communities covered food and housing expenses and, as they stopped in these communities, they got a chance to meet new people, many of whom were cancer survivors. “One of my favorite parts of the trip was sitting down each night after a long day of running with a complete stranger from a town I had never even heard of and, after a couple of hours and a shared meal, walk away feeling like I had made a friend,” Melissa stated.
Melissa says that her time at Nashoba Brooks School taught her the importance of giving back and being kind. “It became part of what I valued, and I really fell in love with all sorts of community service during my time at Nashoba Brooks.”
“I think the most important takeaway I had from this experience was that it doesn't take a lot of effort to make a difference in someone else's life and it is always worth it.”
It was a packed weekend on the Nashoba Brooks campus for Fall Weekend!
Thank you to all the parent volunteers, student ambassadors, faculty members, and all other roles who contributed to making this weekend so memorable for our School.
After weeks of hard work, Grade 3 students had the opportunity to present their Community Hero projects to their families and their interview subjects!
The Nashoba Brooks School campus was bursting with excitement Friday, November 4, through Sunday, November 6, as we celebrated our annual Fall Weekend.
After almost a year of research, school visits, interviews, self-reflection, and essay writing, the Grade 8 class is enjoying a variety of excellent high schools to choose from.
Alongside the book fair and poetry month, April has been a wonderful time for literature at Nashoba Brooks School. Sharon Draper and Jen Campbell, two celebrated authors, left their mark on the community over the past few weeks.
More than 75 parents responded to this year’s annual School survey and numbers were well balanced across all grade levels. The results of the survey are impressive and the feedback the parents offer to the School is glowing.
As Black History Month comes to a close, students and faculty alike celebrate diversity, acknowledging that a school is not only classrooms, gymnasiums, and fields, but also the people within these walls. Each year and at every grade level our students contemplate the presence and importance of different backgrounds, experiences and beliefs. And this month provides community members with an opportunity to reflect on what it means to be Black in America.
Rachel Adams graduated from Nashoba Brooks School in 2001. She went on to study at Lawrence Academy followed by Maine College of Art and Design. Now living in Portland as a successful artist, textile designer, entrepreneur, wife and mother of two, Rachel shares her journey from student to full time artist.
Guida Mattison, Nashoba Brooks School's director of secondary school placement, wants to remove as much stress as possible from the high school application process that Grade 8 students go through each year.
Situated on a beautiful 30-acre campus in historic Concord, Massachusetts, Nashoba Brooks School enrolls all genders in Preschool through Grade 3, and students identifying as girls in Grades 4 through 8. Nashoba Brooks is an independent school designed to build community, character, and confidence in its students.