50th Timeline: 2012 – Saving the Planet with Solar Power
Another key initiative during this period was a complex initiative to replace the deteriorating roof on the Noel-Baker Building, while also adding solar panels to provide the school with cheaper electricity and doing right by the planet. Several donors from across the Delaware Valley were needed to pull this project together, but Bruce Haines pulled everything off. One of the key moments in the...
50th Timeline: 2011 – The Multicultural Network
Issues of diversity and empathy had long been important to the School, and the struggle to maintain the warm and welcoming environment was one being constantly renewed. Bruce Haines decided to form a special School committee focused on this issue, and he asked Emily Blanck, a parent and a Quaker with a special interest in this matter, to clerk a new School committee that would include both staff...
50th Timeline 2011: The Return of Three-Year Old Children
The administrative team led by Bruce and the newly hired Beth Reaves in the role of Admissions and Development Director devised a new initiative to address the enrollment crisis, namely the return of 3-year-old children to the School. It had been so long since the School had an organized 3-year-old program that no one at the School besides Hanshi Deshbandhu remembered anything about the program....
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