Roses for Dana Farber

Every February, the girls’ varsity field hockey team organizes a rose sale for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Students can buy red roses to represent love, pink roses to represent a crush, and yellow roses for friends. The week prior to Valentine’s Day, students purchase different colored hearts (red, pink, or yellow) and write notes to their friends or valentines. On Valentine’s Day people are excited to read the notes from their friends and to pick up their roses. Most people buy roses for their friends, which takes a lot of pressure off Valentine’s Day. The...