(We received this post and photo from alumna Alice Yoe after the school invited her to join the upcoming alumni panel.) Were it possible, I would love to drop in and be on the panel, but that might be a little bit tricky, considering that I’m a little… in Japan. I’m living in Fuji, Shizuoka–3…
“Education is a process of expansion—expanding strategies as writers, expanding knowledge as scholars, expanding concerns as citizens. Every class should be a community in which students safely and certainly expand their worlds.” -Cole Swenson, poet and scholar Although this quotation speaks to education in the narrower frame of traditional schooling and writing, if one substitutes…
On Friday, September 21st, Fairhaven School lost a cherished member of its community. Tim Craighead, 24, was a student at Fairhaven from 2000-2004. When I heard the news on Sunday I immediately knew that I wanted to return to the school grounds with those I call my “Fairhaven family”. Many others felt the same, so…
