The End of Tower Hill's 100th Year

Dear parents, 

 

As we complete Tower Hill's 100th academic year, on behalf of all Tower Hill teachers, I want to thank you for sharing your children with us.

 

Our word for the year was integrity. Our students grew, stretched, played, laughed, failed, tried again, succeeded, wondered, competed, sang, acted, painted, created, presented, calculated, served, made friends, helped, loved and lived with great integrity at Tower Hill this year. As a way of celebrating our students' yearlong achievements and giving thanks to you, our parents, for your loyal support of Tower Hill, I share the invocation from last night's Baccalaureate Service, which is held for our seniors and their families as they prepare for Graduation this afternoon:

 

Eternal friend

Grant us an ease

To breathe deeply of this moment, 

This light, this miracle of now. 

Beneath the din and fury of great movements

And harsh news

And urgent crisis, 

Make us attentive still

To good news, to small occasions, 

And the grace of what is possible

For us to be

To do

To give

To receive

That we may miss neither our neighbor's gift, nor our enemy's need. 

Grant us a sense of humor

That adds perspective to compassion,

Gratitude

That adds surprise to joy;

Open our eyes to these signs

and our ears to the summons 

To follow something more

of justice and joy.

 

 

Have a wonderful summer with your children, and here's to the "grace of all that is possible" with and for our children in the months and years ahead.

 

Sincerely,

Head of School