Knightly News

Remember back to your first semester exams in college.  You may still have been reeling from transitioning to adult life, much less acing that Physics 101 class. You likely spent long hours in the library, the coffee shop or your dorm room pouring over notes and textbooks. In addition to pouring over notes, you likely poured many cups of coffee to accompany the highlighters, calculators and laptops that were strewn about.  Today’s college freshmen are discovering that the hustle and bustle of wrapping up those first few months away can certainly be overwhelming and stressful.   But soon they’ll peer into their mailbox and find a familiar Knights emblem on a box personally addressed to them.  

Similar to an old friend or a well-loved, tattered and worn stuffed animal, a care package from home has the power to calm and comfort.  The Episcopal care package tradition stretches back at least twelve years with sixth graders handcrafting items for the previous year’s graduating class.

This year, the Class of 2017 is receiving boxes stuffed with mint wreaths, sock snowmen, homemade cookies, notes from Lower School, snowflake paintings and even a prayer for exam times.  There was excitement and joy as the Class of 2024 created these tokens of love this week.  Students laughed as they stuffed rice into socks for the snowmen and they squealed as they squeezed the slime into a stress ball for pre-exam tensions.  They were also confident that their gifts would be well received and even hopeful that items such as the peppermints inside would help the alumni to study and focus.  

These care packages take considerable time and effort to plan, prepare, create and mail, and that time is certainly worth it to remind the recent graduates that they are still a part of the Knights family.  Hopefully, each box generates a smile as the college freshmen feel the love and support of the Episcopal school community surrounding them.  Whether the packages are received in chilly Cedar Rapids, Iowa; sunny San Luis Obispo, California or even in a purple and gold dorm room closer to home, the message is the same.  We wish you well.  You make us proud.  
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