ALUMNAE/FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
Katie Eldridge Weaver
NCS 78, TTW 78, NCS staff 83, 15-present, CTT staff 84-87, 2002-present, parent 03-08 By Emilie Allen
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Twin sisters, Katie and Noni were raised at School and Camp from a tender age. Their dearest memories tell of time passing in seasons. As children, they meandered along the acreage on foot or horseback over mud and snow, field flowers and clover. Both recall a sense of awe at the vast landscape, even a little fear, when they trudged home alone in the dark between the Main Building and South Meadow, a dorm house across the road where their family lived. Once, Noni recalls the mist rising like a flock of luminous seagulls, otherworldly and strange, over the pasture. Growing up amid such wild, fantastic surroundings cultivated in both Noni and Katie a deep sense of creativity. Today, they are artists and educators. Noni works
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Noni Eldridge
NCS 78, staff 91-92, 99-present, parent 99-09, CTT parent 03
primarily in crafts traditional to School and Camp, such as weaving and pottery. Katie prefers painting and other two-dimensional forms. In recent years, she has illustrated numerous buildings and special locations across campus. (See her illustration of Round Lake Cottage on contents pages and of the barns on pages 31-32.) In September 2015, after teaching art for 25 years at Northwood School in Lake Placid, Katie joined Noni in the North Country School art department. Together they are the third generation of Clarks to teach at NCS, following in the footsteps of their grandparents, founders Walter and Leo Clark, and parents, NCS codirectors Harry and Betty Eldridge. Harry’s and Betty’s childhoods were also deeply rooted here. Treetops was, in many ways, the defining experience of their youth. In 1951, Harry appeared in