Word: orsini
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fields Road Elementary, a public school in Gaithersburg, Md., this month's pillar of character is Citizenship. School hallways have names: Responsibility Lane, Trustworthiness Terrace, Caring Corridor. In Tammy Orsini's first-grade class, students assemble in groups to list the traits that make good citizenship, which are then read aloud. Being a good citizen, a boy recites, means "to have character...
...what does it mean to be "a person of character?" prompts Mrs. Orsini...
...where do you keep those things?" Mrs. Orsini asks. Now the boy is stumped. Hands are shooting up, and kids start pointing to their chests. "In your heart!" another student volunteers. Lesson learned...
...John N. Orsini '98, the executive director of SCAS, said the program marked a movement toward the completion of SCAS' and PBHA's mission to provide both social service and social action to the community...
...Social service is to provide service to those who are disadvantaged...social action is to change the structure," Orsini said. "We feel this is a strong way to bring the social action component back to PBHA...