Wow! With the incredible generosity of our Merriam family community, we were able to gift $75 to each specials teacher and classroom assistant. $50 gifts were distributed to every single other faculty and staff member. A total of 55 gifts were given from the shared donation fund after Room Parents gifted to classroom teachers. Thank you to all Room Parents for communicating, collecting and presenting gifts to classroom teachers. Thank you to Room Parent Coordinators Lara Plaskon and Kim Canuette Grimaldi for all their work with Room Parents and collection/distribution of funds. Thank you to parents Maria LeBlanc and Anna Malhan for writing holiday cards for Merriam faculty/staff. Happy New Year to all!