Have a Wonderful Summer

 

With grades posted, lockers cleared, faculty meetings completed, and students off enjoying these long, early days of summer, Tower Hill’s hallways are quiet and the 2015-16 school year has come to a close. Summer is a time of rest, relaxation, and reflection as we look back on our accomplishments, engage in professional and personal development, and recharge for year ahead. I look forward to delving into my ever-growing pile of books to read and adding a few titles shared by our faculty and compiled into this list by our librarian, Ellen Potter.

 

I have been impressed with and appreciative of all the ways our faculty, students, and families have embraced our word for the year — gratitude — and our two institutional goals: curricular innovation and being a school of Wilmington and the world. While we will continue to embed these important goals into the fabric of our lives at Tower Hill, I look forward to sharing details about our institutional goals for the 2016-17 school year with you later this summer. Our faculty and administrative team have engaged in preliminary conversations about our institutional goals for next year, as well as a word for the year. I am ever grateful to our faculty, students, parents, alumni, and trustees for all the ways we come together and contribute to this wonderful school community. From the words of Ted Loder, I wish you each "a season of sun and slow motion, of games and porch sitting, of picnics and light green fireflies, on heavy purple evenings."

 

I would like to close the year by sharing English faculty member John Robinson’s lovely Invocation from this year’s Graduation; his words have meaning for all of us:

 

Wishing you a wonderful summer,