we want you! help us mentor today's students!
By Nancy Schaeffer Braman, '65
My sister, Alice Schaeffer Nadelman, ’61, and I recently had a very gratifying experience. At Steve Wilson's suggestion we had a video call with an MVB graduating honor student who is an aspiring clinical psychologist, since we are both retired clinical psychologists. This very accomplished young woman, who only recently immigrated to the US with her family, sent us an excellent set of questions ahead of time, and we had a very substantive conversation with her. I also put her in touch with my son who is himself a clinical psychologist.
This young woman will be the first in her family to go to college, like Alice and I were. Her parents are supportive of her aspirations, but their life experiences limit what they can offer her in the way of college/career guidance, as is the case for most of her fellow students. That's where each of you can come in.
Steve says there are many, many MVB students with varied career hopes and dreams who could benefit from such conversations with others in our alumni network, which represents an astonishingly wide range of careers and life experiences. It will be rewarding, I promise you, if you choose to share a bit of what you've learned along the way with one of these hopeful young people.
Let Steve Wilson know if this is something you'd like to do, at mvbhsalumns@gmail.com.
This young woman will be the first in her family to go to college, like Alice and I were. Her parents are supportive of her aspirations, but their life experiences limit what they can offer her in the way of college/career guidance, as is the case for most of her fellow students. That's where each of you can come in.
Steve says there are many, many MVB students with varied career hopes and dreams who could benefit from such conversations with others in our alumni network, which represents an astonishingly wide range of careers and life experiences. It will be rewarding, I promise you, if you choose to share a bit of what you've learned along the way with one of these hopeful young people.
Let Steve Wilson know if this is something you'd like to do, at mvbhsalumns@gmail.com.
The mvb chronicles
THE MVBHS CHRONICLES! YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS!
WE ARE TACKLING THE IMPOSSIBLE! We are looking to capture all your favorite personal stories about life when you were at MVB. We are well on our way with the early years, spearheaded by Laurie and Joel, two Bee Line vets from the class of 1965. Their efforts are covering the year from 1955-1971 and it’s awesome. This crowd-sourcing project has taken off in just a matter of weeks, and has proven that we can carry it further and include the next fifty years as well, with your help. We are breaking down the next half century of life at MVBHS into five decades and right now we are looking for a small group of volunteers for each period, who are ready willing and able to help us make the impossible happen. We need five teams, one each for the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s who will reach out to everyone they can, through alumni chains and social media, to ask for everyone’s remembrances and photos and then help organize and catalog them. If you are willing to work on this, just let me know your name and your year. Once each decade team is complete, we will pull it all together and create the most amazing semblance of stories ever done describing our times at the school. BE A PART OF THIS! Put on your memory cap and help get your favorite stories captured! mvbhsalumns@gmail.com
Get your digital copy of the early years, 1955-1971 now on our home page. Only $10!
WE ARE TACKLING THE IMPOSSIBLE! We are looking to capture all your favorite personal stories about life when you were at MVB. We are well on our way with the early years, spearheaded by Laurie and Joel, two Bee Line vets from the class of 1965. Their efforts are covering the year from 1955-1971 and it’s awesome. This crowd-sourcing project has taken off in just a matter of weeks, and has proven that we can carry it further and include the next fifty years as well, with your help. We are breaking down the next half century of life at MVBHS into five decades and right now we are looking for a small group of volunteers for each period, who are ready willing and able to help us make the impossible happen. We need five teams, one each for the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s who will reach out to everyone they can, through alumni chains and social media, to ask for everyone’s remembrances and photos and then help organize and catalog them. If you are willing to work on this, just let me know your name and your year. Once each decade team is complete, we will pull it all together and create the most amazing semblance of stories ever done describing our times at the school. BE A PART OF THIS! Put on your memory cap and help get your favorite stories captured! mvbhsalumns@gmail.com
Get your digital copy of the early years, 1955-1971 now on our home page. Only $10!
a cookbook like no other! VOlume 2!
Volume 2 is out! Bigger and better than before. 226 recipes from 72 different countries! We raised enough money from Volume 1 that we were able to start a food pantry to help even more families! Monies raised from Volume 2 will go to keeping the food pantry stocked. Help us feed our families in need, all the while cooking and exploring comfort foods from around the world. Still only $10 (pay what you can afford) for the digital book. Both Volumes are available on our Google drive linked below.
With COVID blanketing our community in Queens, Martin Van Buren High School couldn’t just be a bystander. These trying times demanded something much more, it required a powerful response. We could succumb to all the pain and negativity we are surrounded by, or we could rally together with a call to action to help turn life’s deepest challenges into opportunities.
Our goal was to find a mission that would reconnect our community to rise above all our fears and doubts and find a way to embrace what we have, and what’s most important, and share it with the world. That was the inspiration behind The MVBHS Comfort Food Cookbook.
Our objective is to raise money for those students whose families have been hit hardest by the pandemic and also to find a way to spread joy into our lives, and share this with everyone else we know and love. The result is an exceptional collection of 168 special recipes, representing 60 different countries, contributed by our incredibly diverse community, from both here in Queens, the melting pot of the world, and from all around the globe. These dishes are so special they put a smile on one’s face as soon as one knows it’s on the menu.
The MVBHS community is intent on spreading a dose of much needed hope as part of our Million Cookbook Giveaway. We are doing this as a token of thanks for the global support we are receiving, and to provide the only hug possible in a period of social distancing, one of comfort and reassurance.
Join us and contribute now.
With COVID blanketing our community in Queens, Martin Van Buren High School couldn’t just be a bystander. These trying times demanded something much more, it required a powerful response. We could succumb to all the pain and negativity we are surrounded by, or we could rally together with a call to action to help turn life’s deepest challenges into opportunities.
Our goal was to find a mission that would reconnect our community to rise above all our fears and doubts and find a way to embrace what we have, and what’s most important, and share it with the world. That was the inspiration behind The MVBHS Comfort Food Cookbook.
Our objective is to raise money for those students whose families have been hit hardest by the pandemic and also to find a way to spread joy into our lives, and share this with everyone else we know and love. The result is an exceptional collection of 168 special recipes, representing 60 different countries, contributed by our incredibly diverse community, from both here in Queens, the melting pot of the world, and from all around the globe. These dishes are so special they put a smile on one’s face as soon as one knows it’s on the menu.
The MVBHS community is intent on spreading a dose of much needed hope as part of our Million Cookbook Giveaway. We are doing this as a token of thanks for the global support we are receiving, and to provide the only hug possible in a period of social distancing, one of comfort and reassurance.
Join us and contribute now.
To donate by check, please make it payable to MVBHS Alumni Alliance:
mail to Lapides Asset Management, 500 West Putnam Ave, Suite 400
Greenwich, CT 06830
mail to Lapides Asset Management, 500 West Putnam Ave, Suite 400
Greenwich, CT 06830
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MVBHSAA, and make your own! We will post them!
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Post pictures of your dishes on our Instagram page
Subscribe and watch our videos on our You Tube channel,
MVBHSAA, and make your own! We will post them!
Follow us on Twitter
2 Versions: ePub, for ePub readers and apple devices, and
pdf for android or non-ePub readers.
For ePub, download the zip file.
pdf for android or non-ePub readers.
For ePub, download the zip file.
WE ARE OFTEN ASKED, "HOW CAN I HELP MVB?" HERE IS A LIST OF POSSIBILITIES:
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COLLEGE CONNECTIONS:
With our seniors about to take the great leap and begin their college careers, it's a good time to reflect on our own experience of just how daunting that transition was. So we have begun a program to match our alumni who attended the colleges that our seniors are about to attend. If you went to any often following schools and are willing to be a guide to what lies ahead for these students, please contact us. Fordham Binghamton Boston College SUNY New Paltz Stony Brook Syracuse Siena Quinnipiac Susquehanna Manhattan Temple Albany Hofstra And any of the CUNY schools |
INTERNSHIPS NEEDED:
We are always on the lookout for summer and school year internships for our students so they can explore the work environment and learn what employers need from future employees.
let us know at mvbhsalumns@gmail.com if you can donate or help with any of these items or internships.
Martin van Buren High School-We are A NOBEL Institution
