YIHS Needs to Know - Consider This Our Promposal

Dear YIHS Parents & Faculty & Students,

We are having a Prom this year!  A group of students is already working hard on the planning and we need your help to make this happen!

Prom will be outside at the VFW Shelter on 5/22. 

We need your help to make this happen! Parents & Faculty, we need chaperones; Students, we need you to work some shifts!

Stay tuned for details! 

If you have any questions, please contact Erika.

Thank you for your support, we are thrilled to be able to do this!


Prom Planning Committee

Intensive Rosters Have Landed

What class will you be in next?  Whatever it is, it'll be your last one of the year.

See the Intensive Roster

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!

A-Tent-ion!
We have a student in need of a single-person tent for the upcoming 9th-grade expedition.  If you have one you could lend, please contact Dave.

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!

Boarding House Seeks Hay or Straw Mulch!

The Boarding House gardens are in need of manure and straw/hay mulch.  We aren't picky.  If you have any of the above to donate, please contact Matt.

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer.
For he rolls upon prank to work it in.
For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself.
For this he performs in ten degrees.
For first he looks upon his forepaws to see if they are clean.
For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there.
For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the forepaws extended.
For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood.
For fifthly he washes himself.
For sixthly he rolls upon wash.
For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.
For eighthly he rubs himself against a post.
For ninthly he looks up for his instructions.
For tenthly he goes in quest of food.
For having consider'd God and himself he will consider his neighbour.
For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.
For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it a chance.
For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying.
For when his day's work is done his business more properly begins.
For he keeps the Lord's watch in the night against the adversary.
For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.
For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him.
For he is of the tribe of Tiger.
For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger.
For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.
For he will not do destruction, if he is well-fed, neither will he spit without provocation.
For he purrs in thankfulness, when God tells him he's a good Cat.
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
For every house is incomplete without him and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
For the Lord commanded Moses concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt.
For every family had one cat at least in the bag.
For the English Cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
For the dexterity of his defence is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.
For he knows that God is his Saviour.
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.
For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
For he is of the Lord's poor and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually—Poor Jeoffry! poor Jeoffry! the rat has bit thy throat.
For I bless the name of the Lord Jesus that Jeoffry is better.
For the divine spirit comes about his body to sustain it in complete cat.
For his tongue is exceeding pure so that it has in purity what it wants in music.
For he is docile and can learn certain things.
For he can set up with gravity which is patience upon approbation.
For he can fetch and carry, which is patience in employment.
For he can jump over a stick which is patience upon proof positive.
For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command.
For he can jump from an eminence into his master's bosom.
For he can catch the cork and toss it again.
For he is hated by the hypocrite and miser.
For the former is afraid of detection.
For the latter refuses the charge.
For he camels his back to bear the first notion of business.
For he is good to think on, if a man would express himself neatly.
For he made a great figure in Egypt for his signal services.
For he killed the Ichneumon-rat very pernicious by land.
For his ears are so acute that they sting again.
For from this proceeds the passing quickness of his attention.
For by stroking of him I have found out electricity.
For I perceived God's light about him both wax and fire.
For the Electrical fire is the spiritual substance, which God sends from heaven to sustain the bodies both of man and beast.
For God has blessed him in the variety of his movements.
For, tho he cannot fly, he is an excellent clamberer.
For his motions upon the face of the earth are more than any other quadruped.
For he can tread to all the measures upon the music.
For he can swim for life.
For he can creep.

M-O-M!

We are celebrating Moms this week at Thoreau’s Garden! In honor of Mother’s Day, we are having a special sale with 10% off perennials and 15% off our shade baskets. Browse through our wide selection with everything from irises to bleeding hearts, petunias to snapdragons. While you’re here, pick out an affordable fresh-cut bouquet to celebrate that special lady. Our blooming and bright flowers are waiting for you here at Thoreau’s Garden. Want to celebrate your mom but don’t know exactly what to get her? Our gift certificates are the perfect solution for the particular plant lover, available for purchase in-store or over the phone. We appreciate the Mothers in our community and thank you for all you do.