2010 - 2011 ANNUAL REPORT - Rowland Hall

GRANDPARENTS
Over a period of 25 years, we have experienced
education at Rowland Hall through the lives of 10 of
our grandchildren. We go back to the good-old First
Avenue days. The superior education our grandchildren
received at Rowland Hall enabled one to become
a pediatrician, another a psychologist, another an
attorney, and our latest college student graduated in
May from UC Berkley in three years rather than four,
owing to Advanced Placement credits he earned during
his high school years. Our youngest grandchildren,
Daphne and Lochlin Michie, will next year be in
seventh and fourth grades respectively.
In addition to the excellent academic program, the
values stressed at Rowland Hall have enriched our
own family dynamics: respect for other students and
for diverse backgrounds and personalities, creativity,
art appreciation, sportsmanship, community service,
modeling of talking through interpersonal problems,
concern for others, and personal access to teachers and
mentors. When we visit, we know RH is a happy place.
Vibrant and original art covers the walls, students
are working together in small groups, classrooms
are creative and safe places in which to explore, and
teachers are fun and approachable.
We are immensely grateful for the whole Rowland
Hall experience for our grandchildren – and for what it
has meant to their parents as well as to us.
Nick and Marion Smith,
grandparents of Lochlin and Daphne Smith Michie
30 2010 - 2011