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Each year, Waterford Educator Prizes are awarded to acknowledge outstanding teaching and impact by Waterford faculty and staff. It is my great privilege to preside over this ceremony.
Faculty and staff are the heart of Waterford School, and they make it a wonderfully unique and exceptional place where students are inspired and shaped. Waterford is guided toward its mission of providing students with a world-class liberal arts education, by our talented faculty and staff. As this school year comes to a close—a year when each of us, students and teachers, has met unpredictable challenges head-on—we want to take a moment to recognize and thank those members who are retiring, moving or pursuing new passions. We thank them for their many years of service.
During this challenging time, in the spirit of the season, I write to convey our profound gratitude for sharing your talented children with us, and for your sustained and devoted support. Our partnership with you is the foundation upon which the transformational Waterford experience is built.
As shared during a Middle and Upper School Assembly on September 11, 2020
My mother was in ninth grade walking to her best friend, Susan’s house along the cookie cutter suburban streets of her neighborhood. If it had been a year earlier, she would have been wearing black mary-jane shoes and a burgundy plaid dress, but she was in high school now. Public school, so she wore pants. A man walked out the front door of his house house as she passed and told her the news.
Why and/or how did you get into teaching?
Faculty and staff are the heart of Waterford School, and they make it a wonderfully unique and exceptional place where students are inspired and shaped. Waterford is guided toward its mission of providing students with a world-class liberal arts education, by our talented faculty and staff. As this school year comes to a close—a year when each of us, students and teachers, has met unpredicted challenges head-on—we want to take a moment to recognize and thank those members who are retiring, moving or pursuing new passions. We thank them for their many years of service.
Photography faculty member, Bernard C. Meyers work, "Urban Abstracts" will be on exhibition at Camerawork Gallery, March 2-March 29, 2019. Mr. Meyers will open the exhibition with an artist talk and reception on Saturday March 2, 3:30-4:30 PM.