Keeping Up With Our Boarders, Term 4 2020

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Term 4, December 2020

Keeping Up With Our Boarders It is with great excitement that I pen this final column for the year. Of course, I am excited at the prospect of a well-earned break for all of us but even more excited in anticipation of what 2021 holds. In a year filled with challenge, I am proud of all we have achieved, the resilience we have demonstrated and the relationships we have forged. I am delighted to see these qualities shining through in our new Boarding leaders and I am filled with hope for an enriching and rewarding year to come. I hope you also enjoy reading of their dreams and aspirations for this special community.

Our Revs Anne Graham, House Supervisor, Lang Pymble’s two Chaplains, Reverend Lorenzo Rodriguez Torres (LRT) and Reverend Punam Bent (PB), provide spiritual leadership and pastoral care to our Boarding community. In this interview, they give brief insights into their early lives and chosen paths. Where were you born and where did you go to school? LRT: I was born in Perpignan, in the south of France. I went to mostly Catholic schools in Spain, France and Australia – around ten schools.

As you will read, these girls have outstanding role models in our beautiful Chaplains, Reverend Punam Bent and Reverend Lorenzo Rodriguez Torres. These extraordinary people are our neighbours, friends and family, leading our fortnightly Chapel sessions and being a regular and much-loved presence in our Boarding lives. As you will come to appreciate, our leaders from years gone by, including Hannah Green have also been a strong influence in shaping the quality of leadership in our community. And, it is wonderful to see leadership coming to life here in this very publication with our Boarding Editorial Team, lead so ably by Anne Graham, preparing yet another spectacular edition of Keeping Up With Our Boarders. My deep gratitude to each and every one of you who finds a special place in their hearts for our Boarders. Our wonderful Day School Staff, our Boarding Family Friends, our Alumni and the tireless Boarding staff, we are lucky to have you in our lives. Thank you to our wonderful families who entrust us with the care of their most precious assets – their beautiful girls. And, to those precious girls – thank you for the joy you bring to us every day. Every good wish to you and your families for a happy, healthy and holy Christmas and a fabulous start to 2021. Mrs Carolyn Burgess DIRECTOR OF BOARDING

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