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Alumna Experiences Unrest in Egypt Alumna Jennifer Wivell, Class of 2007, left Egypt just four days before the recent revolution began. “We knew through Facebook that it was coming. Something went out that said ‘The Revolution Will Start January 25’ and everyone started changing the photo on their Facebook page to that phrase. We had no idea it would go so far,” Wivell recently said about her experience.
Wivell’s January 21st trip to return home was already scheduled to coincide with the end of her study term and was unrelated to the unrest in the country. Prior to leaving, she had noticed “slight unrest because of a bombing in Alexandria and a shooting in upper Egypt, but mostly Christians and Muslims were unifying. Both groups felt outside forces were attempting to disrupt the country, so those groups were pulling together. They even prayed together.” Since Wivell has returned home, she continues to communicate with her Host Family through Facebook. She says they are fine and are managing to stay distanced from the conflict in the streets. As Wivell looks back on the experience, she says the most impactful part for her was realizing “how interconnected everyone is, even if it doesn’t seem that way,” and how influential American culture is in the world. “They want the American dream,” she says. Just like us. Wivell is a second generation alumni of Mother Seton School. Her mother, Annette, works part time at the school and her father, Eric, is a member of the Class of 1977. She is trying to decide on one of three schools that have accepted her and looks forward to continuing her language studies at a college or university this fall.
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MSS Alum Jennifer Wivell hosts “Great American Bake
Sale” Patrons
visiting Jubilee Foods in Emmitsburg during the weekend of August 29 and 30 2009
were greeted by Mother Seton School 2007 Alum Jennifer Wivell and a table full
of yummy baked goods.Jenn, a junior now at Catoctin High School, was inspired to team up with the national organization “Share Our Strength” after seeing several commercials. “For some time, I’ve come up with various ideas to raise money for several causes, but none of them were successful either because it cost too much money to start the project or because he item didn’t sell very well. So when I kept seeing commercials for ‘Great American Bake Sale’ and I learned that money goes to help kids in the local community, I decided that I wanted to do my part.” The organization gives people the opportunity to help end childhood hunger by holding “Great American Bakes Sales” in ones own community. The goal of the organization is that no kid in America will go hungry. Jennifer and her bake sale contributed $466.00 to this worthy cause. Although a lot of work went into the preparation of the bake sale, Jennifer says “the work never actually seemed like work because all the while I knew I was helping feed kids whose parents can’t afford to feed them.” Mother, Annette Wivell, who works for Mother Seton School in the cafeteria, said “I’m proud that Jennifer wants to help people in need and chose to organize this bake sale to help hungry children.” Mother Seton School is very proud of Jennifer; not only of how well she did raising the money for “Share Our Strength”, but for her willingness to put into action the charitable virtues of Mother Seton and also the positive role model she is being for other young adults.
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A senior at Catoctin High, Wivell left for Egypt on September 1, 2010 to study Arabic through an AFS Intercultural Program. While in Egypt, she lived with a Host Family in the Sheraton Heliopolis area of Cairo.