Tabor Welcomes Class of 2018

Tabor students have completed their first week of classes and are now back to the routine of the school year. The new students took part in a variety of orientation activities to help them adjust smoothly to their new life at Tabor. The majority of these new students are freshmen, 45 of whom are day students who live locally. The 114 students are from a total of 13 states and 4 countries.

When the new students arrived at Tabor, they registered and immediately continued on a tour of the campus. Although as prospective students many had already received tours, this one was more in depth about what their upcoming day-to-day life would entail.

When their on-campus orientation was completed, the Class of 2018 hopped on buses and headed off to Great Wolf Lodge in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The freshmen were accompanied by excited faculty members, as well as a group of junior and senior student leaders. Great Wolf Lodge is an indoor water park and a conference site. This trip was organized by Lauren Millette, the freshman class dean.

The students started their overnight orientation with a trip to the indoor water park. This was a great bonding activity for the class as they explored the park together and had fun on the various rides. Great Wolf Lodge’s water park and arcade provided a number of unique and entertaining activities for the students to take part in together.

The trip was not only a chance for the class to be together and kick off the year, it was also an opportunity for the freshmen to get to know one another before entering the populated Tabor community. At Great Wolf, the students did activities to meet their fellow Seawolves and find peers with common interests.

Later, the freshmen divided into smaller groups to do goal-setting activities and discuss their upcoming Tabor careers with upperclassmen chaperones. The trip was intended to ease the nerves of the incoming students by making them comfortable with their peers and confident about their transition to busy Tabor life.

The next day, the group headed to the ropes course at Great Wolf Lodge. While doing this empowering activity, Abi Taber (’15) organized a photo-shoot. This photo-shoot was for a slideshow that will introduce the Class of 2018 to the Tabor community. The slideshow will flash through photos of each freshman holding a sign that declares what they “are.” For example, one student wrote, “I am excited,” while another said, “I am a basketball player,” and another declared, “I am a musician.” The various answers demonstrate the diverse interests of the incoming class and also allowed the students to evaluate who they feel that they are.

The trip was a success, and the students arrived back at Tabor excited and ready for their first day at school. Now that the orientation process has ended, all Tabor students are settling into their routines and are off to an auspicious start for the 2014-2015 school year.

By Julia O’Rourke

Tabor

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