Your Final Microschool #7️⃣ Location Resource

The long strange experiment is coming to an end.  Our final COVID 19 Microschool gets underway on April 12th.  

Microschool #7 (and Maths) Map

 

Personnel Committee Needs Your Help!

Every day we ask our students to lean into discomfort, to explore things about the world and about themselves that they didn't know or couldn't see.  We point out their mistakes, challenge their assumptions, and push them to do and to be better. We ask them to learn and grow, but we would never ask them to do something we wouldn't be willing to do ourselves.  That's why we are asking the YIHS community; students, parents, faculty, and community members, to share their wisdom and experience in helping our faculty better live into our values.  Please read the instructions and follow the prompts below.  All evaluations are 100% anonymous. Deadline to submit evaluations is May 9.
 

YIHS Merch is Back with Fresh(er) Designs

EVERYBODY wins when you buy a t-shirt or hoodie, designed and printed by YIHS senior Sebastian Danneil and his intrepid team of garment workers!  All proceeds go to YIHS, Sebastian's senior project becomes a success, you look cool, and the general public doesn't have to see your nipples anymore!  Start winning! Start shopping!

Are You Powerful Enough to Seize the Trident of Development?

If not, maybe you want to just grab a prong?  The YIHS Development office is hiring!  3 positions are available and could be combined for the right person!  Check it out and share it with your super-qualified friends.

Only If You Want To

Vaccinations are now available for all persons over 16 years of age in the state of Wisconsin.  The Vernon County Health Department has begun a self-scheduling process for the Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson vaccines.  You can also make appointments at Walgreen's, at the Mayo Clinic in LaCrosse, or through the Wisconsin DHS Community-Based Vaccination clinic in LaCrosse.

We're Getting Serious, Don't Make Us Release the Hounds

It's time to look forward to the 21-22 school year!  Pledge season is upon us.  Please sign up for a pledge meeting today!  We've added fresh new dates for your convenience!

Your One-Stop Re-Invitation Resource

YIHS students, you may have heard that the Re-Invitation Committee has been asking questions lately.  Maybe you accidentally deleted all those emails and lost all those slips of paper and forgot all those morning announcements and now you don't know what to do.  Don't fret we've got you covered.  Just click the party popper to (re)learn everything you (already) need(ed) to know.

Since this is the last night I keep you home,
Come, I will consecrate you for the journey.

Rather I had you would not go. Nay come,
I will not again reproach you. Lie back
And let me love you a long time ere you go.
For you are sullen-hearted still, and lack
The will to love me. But even so
I will set a seal upon you from my lip,
Will set a guard of honour at each door,
Seal up each channel out of which might slip
Your love for me.
 
I kiss your mouth. Ah, love,
Could I but seal its ruddy, shining spring
Of passion, parch it up, destroy, remove
Its softly-stirring, crimson welling-up
Of kisses ! Oh, help me, God ! Here at the source
I'd lie for ever drinking and drawing in
Your fountains, as heaven drinks from out their course
The floods.

I close your ears with kisses
And seal your nostrils ; and round your neck you'll
wear—
Nay, let me work—a delicate chain of kisses.
Like beads they go around, and not one misses
To touch its fellow on either side.

And there
Full mid-between the champaign of your breast
I place a great and burning seal of love
Like a dark rose, a mystery of rest
Lawrence On the slow bubbling of your rhythmic heart.
Nay, I persist, and very faith shall keep
You integral to me. Each door, each mystic port
Of egress from you I will seal and steep
In perfect chrism.
Now it is done. The mort
Will sound in heaven before it is undone.

But let me finish what I have begun
And shirt you now invulnerable in the mail
Of iron kisses, kisses linked like steel.
Put greaves upon your thighs and knees, and frail
Webbing of steel on your feet. So you shall feel
Ensheathed invulnerable with me, with seven
Great seals upon your outgoings, and woven
Chain of my mystic will wrapped perfectly
Upon you, wrapped in indomitable me.

Don't Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.  That's why YIHS has lent its soup fundraiser to the PRWS 7th Grade class to help fund their class trip!  Make your Sunday dinner easy. Order soup and bread (made by students and families) online, and then pick up (contactless) in the greenhouse behind Pleasant Ridge.

We'll be back with more soup offerings after spring break!

You've Probably Noticed: It's Spring!

As we prepare for spring and fill up our greenhouses, we are eager to share our space with you! Come visit Viroqua’s in-town greenhouse Thoreau’s Garden open house from 9am-4pm on April 10th, located at 520 E Terhune St, Viroqua, WI. Explore our lush greenhouses that become more vibrant by the day with our locally grown herbs, vegetables, annuals and perennials, hanging basket combinations, while accompanied with refreshments. This month we want to show appreciation for the parents of students in our community by offering a 15% discount of our annual plants for the month of April to parents of children at Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School and Youth Initiative High School.  To receive your discount, tell us your name and we can confirm that you’re a parent of a student. We are excited to see you in Thoreau’s Garden this month as spring becomes more vibrant and we continue to Root. Grow. Give! Contact us at 608-637-8200 or email us at gardens@thoreaucollege.org

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