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New Canaan High School SLOBs Turns 20 [Q&A]

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One of the most active service organizations in town, the New Canaan High School Service League of Boys, turns 20 this year. 

As school starts Thursday, we put some questions to its communications team, led by Sarah Wrede, to mark the milestone. Here’s our exchange. ***

New Canaanite: For those who haven’t heard of the Service League of Boys or “SLOBs” at New Canaan High School, please tell us a little about the organization’s history. 

Sarah Wrede: SLOBs was founded 20 years ago this fall by a group of service-minded mothers who wanted to educate their sons on the importance of volunteering in their community. The National Charity League (NCL), a national mother-daughter service organization, had been introduced in New Canaan in the early 1990s, but there wasn’t a similar organization for boys. And NCL wasn’t part of the high school.

Anne Wagner

P&Z Approves New Entrance Sign for NCHS

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The Planning & Zoning Commission on Tuesday night voted unanimously to approve a new ‘New Canaan High School’ sign at the entrance to the Farm Road campus. The NCHS PFA is paying for the estimated $30,000 sign thanks to “the success of our annual appeal fundraising efforts and the generous giving community the past several years,” Anne Wagner, a co-president of the PFA Executive Board, told members of P&Z during a special meeting. “ It was actually inspired by the New Canaan Library site that sits at South and Maple,” Wagner said during the meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. “The proposed new entrance site will measure three-and-a-half feet high by 20 feet long by two feet thick, and will be built in a gentle curve of stacked Connecticut stone. It will feature 10-inch-high architectural metal letters in a font that matches the existing lettering on the school building.