“TO THIS DAY, I STILL THINK WE BEST ARE ENSHRINED IN OUR MOTTO, MINDS, HEARTS, HANDS, VOICES: THE IDEA THAT TO BE FULLY HUMAN, YOU NEED TO DEVELOP ALL THESE ATTRIBUTES OF A SEEKING MIND, A CARING HEART, A SENSE OF SERVICE, AND AN ABILITY TO ARTICULATE HOW YOU FEEL.”
ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCHOOL’S CAMPUS:
David Forbes: As we added grades year by year after the School’s founding, we began to fill up the Cathedral’s facilities. We took over the music wing of the cathedral, and we even had a class for a year in the North Tower, before it was part of the Cathedral. (We had double the respiratory rate of disease in that class, by the way.) It became clear that there was no way to continue to expand the school without building a building. Meanwhile, from 1960 to 1964, the Cathedral was raising what was a lot of money in those days, $3 million, to complete itself. We reached an agreement with the Cathedral trustees that as soon as they were finished, we could build our building on what was then the old Crocker tennis court up on the northeast corner of the block. Work started in 1964 with a feasibility study, and thanks to people like Mimi Lowrey and Tay Hopkins, we raised about $600,000, which included the furnishings, to build the first building, which opened in 1966. We had to go through a neighborhood study about maintaining the profile
low enough that the view of the Cathedral would not be hindered. And we had to get the neighbors to agree about the noise levels of the kids. We only had one neighbor who really vociferously objected and the rest were all really fine with it, which I was very grateful for. The Cathedral had been trying over the years to be of good relations with the neighborhood, and I think that paid off.
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