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Can you give us one example that makes you and extracurricular experiences such as
proud to work at Pine Crest? travel experiences and / think that our
Students here seem all to have a very students tend to be very worldly.
sophisticated sense of humor, / am always able
to sit down with a student in my office or What’s your favorite lunch at Pine Crest?
elsewhere and have a conversation that is not Currently, I have put myself into a dieting
adult and child but peer to peer, Pine Crest mode and the best way for me to lose weight
students are extremely articulate and often base is to stay out of the dining hall. Contrary
their opinions on facts, and they come to the to the opinion of some students at the
table always prepared to discuss a topic school, I have always found the dining hall
intelligently. I always feel that / am involved in to be one of the best restaurants in town,
a challenging, sophisticated exchange of ideas. (if he w asn’t on a diet)- I like the
international food that they serve, arepas
How have you dealt with the constant pressure and arroz con polio and churros for dessert
of being head of school at such a prominent and talso the tacos and enchiladas.
place as Pine Crest?
I would say that lfeel much more pride in being
How has Pine Crest affected you throughout
here than I do suffer from any pressure
the years?
regarding the job. To be perfectly sincere, / work Pine Crest is really one of the largest
with outstanding people, and the four division
independent school in the country. There's
heads (the principals) Mrs. Fanning, Dr. a great deal to be learned here not only as
Grunfeld, Mr. McGrath, and Dr. Huebsch are a student but as a faculty member or as an
really four of the most expert professionals in administrator. It takes special training and
their field that I have ever met. So, together we
years of experience to be able to embrace a
oversee an academic program very successfully. program that is as large as ours and which
I also would like to say that working for Dr. is as diverse as ours. We’ve got 4 divisions
Cowgill, who is our president, and having her
on this campus; pre-primary, lower school,
as my very venerated counsel is extremely
middle school and upper school and we’ve
helpful in doing the job that I do. And it’s a
got maybe 160 faculty members to know
very joyful experience for me to meet with
and to communicate with. Plus, we have
parents in large and small settings and to speak over 1,650 students on this campus, and
with students individually or in large settings.
we are on the cutting edge of instructional
The kind of things I am asked to do as the head
technology. We offer close to 30 AP courses,
of school I really enjoy doing. So in terms of
and so we have a curriculum that is
pressure, there are always uncomfortable
extremely sophisticated, and with all of
moments or unfortunate moments, but in terms
these things in mind, there is a great deal
of the job, I wouldn ’t want to be doing anything
to be learned in terms of embracing,
else anywhere else.
overseeing, becoming familiar with all
these students, all these teachers, and the
What would you say your favorite part of Pine
expansiveness of our program.
is?
Id say tfuu o f iill the schools I’ve ever
What do you after Pine
in a p l year career, Pine^Crest by far
Crest?
brightest, most respectful student body
I would like) to I ’ll be at Pine
’ve ever met. I think that our students here
Crest until I’m ca out.
from very good parenting when they've
all kinds of positiveT-experiences,
listically and in terms of other academic