![Last Wednesday, the Wayland School Committee gathered to discuss a number of topics regarding the health curriculum and Innovation Career Pathway course. Another large topic of conversation was the ways to potentially mitigate distracting cell phone usage. "These [phones] are going to distract your learning and social relationships," Superintendent David Fleishman said. "That's concrete right there."](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-04-at-9.49.31 PM-1200x886.png)
![Troy Hoyt finishes the Boston Marathon, running for the Hoyt Foundation. T. Hoyt is the son of Hoyt Foundation CEO Russ Hoyt.
“[Running a marathon] might seem like a big thing, when it’s presented to you at first, but if you break it up and just keep telling yourself, “Yes, you can,” you can start chipping away at it. And before you know it, you’ll be running the whole 26 miles, and you won’t even think twice about it.” T. Hoyt said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/C36E8761-1CBB-452E-9DF2-543EF7B1095E_1_105_c.jpeg)
Before the first period bell rings and the hallways flood with students, a variety of specialized clubs are hosted within the school. The newest addition to this list is Women’s Club, founded by sophomores Ryan Frutman and Sazie Wrentmore. The club held its first meeting on May 20, and although this club is starting late, the preparation goes back months.
“Five months ago, we started planning for [the] Women’s [Club], and we had learned that there had been a past Women’s Club with a different advisor, but it has not been going,” Frutman said.
The club’s advisor, English teacher Sara Pourghasemi, attests to the club leaders’ genuine dedication and mission of the club.
“The students who asked me to act as the faculty supervisor are really excellent and passionate students who I know have shown a lot of care behind everything they do,” Pourghasemi said. “I was really excited to work with them.”
With the rise of misogyny in the media, both the students and advisor felt it was important to create a safe environment for any students interested.
“I think the Women’s Club will be able to offer content and moments where we can get together as a community and figure out ways that we feel proactive and therefore help the community when there’s a lot of stress happening right now,” Pourghasemi said.
At the Women’s Club, the main priority is to provide a safe environment to all girls at WHS, and raise awareness for certain issues that affect women. One specific point of interest for the club is raising awareness for breast cancer, specifically during the month of October, which is the Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women, according to the American Cancer Society, with a 13% chance that a woman will be diagnosed with it at some point in her life.
“Our goal in the fall is to sell ribbons for the sports teams to put in their hair to spread breast cancer awareness,” Wrentmore said. “All the proceeds will go to research for [breast cancer].”
The club sees this as a long term project, one that they see themselves continuing until they graduate and then passing it on.
“There’s a lot of goals that the club has already set,” Pourghasemi said. “I think it’ll take many years for us to work on those goals, and then [we’ll] just add new ones as we want to.”
