Academic Year 2019/2020 • Volume One
OnCAMPUS CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
A Newsletter for Parents, Grandparents, Friends, and Alumni
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Strong Community through Connections The first weeks of every school year are always a sprint!
into reality? At Crane, each is carefully considered and I try
All of September and much of October are filled with those
to see each one through the lens of the school’s core values.
beginning-of-year events we have designed for our community
Because it’s a busy time of year, we set the bar high to make sure
— traditions like the State-of-the-School Address, All School
that if chosen, it has the potential to positively influence the
Picnic, Back-to-School Nights, Music Hour,
lives of both the students and the wider Crane
and the Country Fair. Exhilaration and
community.
exhaustion go hand-in-hand until everyone
One such possibility arose at the end
finally settles into the patterns of fall and,
of September when a Crane family told us
hopefully, we hit a bit of cooler weather.
about a Tibetan monk who specializes in
unplanned
the creation of sand mandalas, and offered
opportunity presents itself and we have a
to bring him to campus. Only once before in
Sometimes,
though,
an
difficult choice to make – do we grab this and try and turn it
my life had I witnessed the making of one — it was about ten
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