Alex Burness, of Chevy Chase, Md., brought sheets, clothing and all other necessary dorm room items to the cherub program this summer.

But he couldn't forget his “bee.” 

“I took out my bee one day and just started tossing it around,” Burness said of his Frisbee.

From then on, cherubs at the National High School Institute played Frisbee on the grassy knoll outside almost daily or in the hallways of Jones Residential College, being careful not to hit people leaving their rooms.

“Frisbee is fun and relaxing, and it’s a good thing to do with people when you’re just hanging out,” Toby Hollis, of Piedmont, Calif., said.  

Hollis and the cherubs can sometimes persuade program director Roger Boye to play. The party on the lake fill on the first Saturday gave cherubs a chance to see Boye's skills. 

“He has an interesting way of throwing the Frisbee I have never seen before,” Hollis said.  “It worked, but I hurt my wrist trying to copy him.”

Matthew Wong, of San Diego, played Ultimate Frisbee with other cherubs. After playing for a little with just journalism cherubs, theater cherubs decided to join in the game.

“It got pretty competitive,” Wong said. “We were losing by two or three and came up and won by one point at the last minute.”

“We were particularly happy because we came back at the end and also because we defeated the theater cherubs.”

Lauren Baldwin, of New Canaan, Conn., played Frisbee with her friends one night and learned that she was actually good at it. She said she had once played in gym class before, but hadn't taken it very seriously.

“I learned how to do some cool Frisbee moves,” Baldwin said.  “I don’t have very good hand-eye coordination so this was good practice.” 

Her favorite part of playing Frisbee on the knoll was being able to chat with her new best friends while still being active.