SEP TEMBER 2013
The Park Parent in this issue: GETTING STARTED // 2
Building on Park’s Position of Strength B Y MICHAEL ROBINSON, Head of School
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ALERTS // 3 PARK21 IN ACTION // 4 NEW FACES // 5 P.A. CORNER // 9 FOOD SERVICE // 10
his summer has been a remarkable introduction to The
Park School. The bulk of that introduction has been meeting individually with dozens
Having worked remotely for many months with the Search Committee, my relationship with the School was, in many respects, theoretical and abstract. With these meetings well underway, my relationship is now grounded in personal encounters with the magnificent women and men who work with your children every day. (I will have met each of my colleagues by this fall.)
of faculty and staff members, beginning with four one-toone meetings my first day!
This transition from the abstract to the actual has reinforced what attracted me to this position in the first place. As the continued on page 8
Celebrating a Park School Milestone:
Our 125th Anniversary! B Y EMILIE KENDALL & DARSH A K S A N G H AV I , 125th Committee Co-Chairs
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he year was 1888. The world’s first dry cell battery had just been invented, and the first radio waves were being sent and received in Europe. The stories of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes
were all the rage in England. Here, President Grover Cleveland would
soon have history’s only White House wedding. Civil rights for all Americans were still a long way from reality. The industrial revolution was in vo l u m e 46 number 1 A PUB LICATION OF THE PARK SC HOOL PARE NTS ’ ASSOC IATION
full swing. In Brookline, Massachusetts, Miss Caroline Augusta Pierce opened the doors continued on page 8