On team
WILLIMANTIC — The Warriors at Eastern Connecticut State University recently named 14 students to the 2018-19 women’s cross country team, including: Sylvia Lawrence ’21 of Woodstock, who majors in social work.

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WOODSTOCK — Since 2012, visual artists and writers have had the opportunity to participate in one-week residencies at Trail Wood, the Hampton homestead of Edwin Way Teale, one of Connecticut’s premier 20th century naturalists and a Pulitzer Prize winner. The Edwin Way Teale Artists-in-Residence Program is administered by the Connecticut Audubon Society and coordinated by Richard Telford, Woodstock Academy English department chair and teacher. Throughout the years, several Academy alumni have completed residencies at the Teale homestead.
March 28, a special event jointly sponsored by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, titled “Preserving Land and Legacy - Writers and Artists Connecting to Nature at Edwin Way Teale’s Trail Wood,” will feature a panel discussion followed by a gallery reception.
The panel discussion will begin at 5 p.m. and will be followed by a gallery reception from 7 to 9 p.m.
The event will be held in Burke Auditorium, located in Kroon Hall on 195 Prospect Street in New Haven, CT. Metered street parking is available.
The gallery will include the works of 2017 artist-in-residence Rachael Budd, a 2009 Woodstock Academy graduate, and 2018 artist-in-residence Jessica (St. Jean) Yagid, a 1998 Woodstock Academy graduate, as well as Philippa Paquette, a trustee of The Woodstock Academy.
The panel will feature Telford, as coordinator of the Edwin Way Teale Artist-in-Residence Program; Sarah Heminway, director of the Northeast Corner of the Connecticut Audubon Society; Oswald Schmitz, the Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology; and Melissa Watterworth Batt, archivist at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries.

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Concert
Left to right: Killingly High School alums Reynolds, Panteleakos and LaHaie. Courtesy photo.


KILLINGLY — Killingly High School graduates Class of 82’ Donna LaHaie, Class of 81’ David Panteleakos and Class of 80’ Ted Reynolds, combine their efforts to help raise money for Killingly High School Music Programs and Quinebaug Valley Community College Foundation with a benefit concert at 2 and 7:30 p.m. March 30 at Killingly High School called “Voices in Concert with The New England Jazz Ensemble.”
Tickets are $18 for the 7:30 performance and $16 for the 2 p.m. matinee and are now available on-line at www.mybroadwaylive.com
All three local northeastern Connecticut residents attended Killingly High School and QVCC in the ‘80s and have been actively involved in philanthropic events centered on music and live performance as part of Broadway Live Productions for the past 19 years. David Panteleakos, creator and owner of the production company, said: “Donna and Ted have been so generous to share their amazing talents with us over the past 19 years and I could not be more excited to go back to where it all started for us, Killingly High School. We will be performing the music of jazz, big band and Broadway with a 24-piece professional orchestra, commissioned musical arrangements; and with professional technical lighting and sound support. It does not get any better than this for a music lover.”
Reynolds added, “I am so honored to be performing on March 30 with Donna and Dave, as it is our time to give back to a school that gave us so much and to once again be a part of an effort to help to raise money for student scholarships for higher education is so rewarding.”
All three attended both Killingly High School and attended QVCC at some point in their undergraduate academic experiences LaHaie said: “I have so many fond memories of my high school years because of my involvement with band, choir and stage performance. Reflecting back, I especially remember how impactful Pam Rogers was on my singing experience as our choral director and how I look back now with such fond memories.” Broadway Live Productions began in 2000 and has staged hundreds of performers, musicians and actors over 19 years with thousands.

of people attending one of the many productions at local venues including: Broadway Live 2000, 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2015, Voices in Concert 2003, 2004, Voices and Friends 2003, Encore!, Broadway Live Helping Hands, Broadway Live Christmas 2006, 2009, DIVAS Live, Follow The Fifty Red Dress DIVAS, Les Misérables and The Conncert and Michael Dutra “Simply Sinatra.”
All net proceeds from every performance have benefited numerous local and National non-profit 501 (c) (3) beneficiaries including:  American Cancer Society, American Red Cross, Day Kimball Healthcare, Doctors Without Borders, Eastern Connecticut Performing Arts Association (ECPAA), Habitat for Humanity,  Hale YMCA Youth and Family Center, HealthQuest of Northeastern Connecticut, Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund, Putnam Rotary Club, Thompson Lions Club, Thomson Ecumenical Empowerment Group (TEEG), Interfaith Human Services of Putnam and Daily Bread Food Pantry, The Bradley Playhouse, Quinebaug Valley Community College (QVCC) Foundation.

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