For her independent Social Action project, Liz Master (’12) spends every other Wednesday going to Learning Ally, an organization that helps people with reading impairments. Tucked away in a nondescript building in Suite 312, Liz spends all day secluded in a booth recording novels, textbooks and other works that are then transcribed onto CD’s and [...]

For the Social Action 2012 year, I spent my time exploring the various independent sites Stone Ridge offers. What started out as a simple journal assignment quickly turned into an informative and exciting mission. Each week I went to a new site and had the amazing opportunity to learn about unique projects, and see 4th [...]

Days End Farm, a horse rescue and rehabilitation facility in Woodbine, Maryland, is a new Social Action site for the 2011-2012 school year. Established in 1989, as a small non-profit shelter with the mission “to ensure quality care and treatment of horse thorough intervention, education and outreach”, it has now become a national rescue and [...]

For her independent Social Action site, Caroline Shook ‘12 wanted to return back to her roots and give back to the school that gave her so much. Every other Wednesday, Caroline goes to her old school, St. Jane de Chantal, and volunteers in the Resource Center. There, Caroline helps students in kindergarten through eighth grade [...]

On Social Action Wednesdays, Katie Tehan ’12, an aspiring marine biologist, can be found volunteering at the National Aquarium in NW Washington, DC as her Fourth Academic independent site. There, she talks to the visitors and educates them about the fish and the environments from which they come. She says that it is important to [...]