Working Our Way to the Water Update on the Progress of our 2014 Auction Fund-a-Need Project
The campus restoration projects funded by WOWW 2014 would not have been possible without the dedicated leadership of faculty members Jeannie Nichols, Roger Crafts, and Norma Jenner.
March 2014 - Fund-a-Need Success Our generous community gave nearly $170,000 to improve access to our beautiful waterfront and elevate Villa’s outdoor education experience.
August 2014 - Faculty Training Faculty participated in an all-day outdoor education workshop at the Island Wood Outdoor Education Center on Bainbridge Island.
Fall 2014 - EarthCorps Days Students worked with their buddies and EarthCorps volunteers to remove invasive plants and plant native species.
February 2015 - Outdoor Education The University of Washington’s Department of Landscape Architecture team led faculty, staff, and student discussions on how to further incorporate outdoor education within our various curricula.
Spring 2015 - Garden and Greenhouse Students and their buddies helped re-design and re-plant the school garden adjacent to the new greenhouse.
May 2015 - Restoration Day Over a hundred volunteers, including faculty, staff, students, parents, and alumni, spent a Sunday making excellent progress on creating garden paths, building trellises for the garden, weeding native plant areas, and cleaning up the entrance to the lake trail.
May 2015 - Historic Grotto Rebuilt 20 stonemasons rebuilt our historic grotto. They refined their skills in the art and craft of dry stonewalling with the assistance of world-renowned dry stone masons Andrew Loudon of London, England and Dean McClellan of Toronto, Canada.