St. Clement's School - Red Blazer - Fall 2017

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From the Desk Impact Story

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The number of plastic bottles our school water fountains have saved since they were installed in 2012 and 2013, respectively.

We’re all in this together Trilby Goouch ’09 Sometimes dreams just come true.

Sometimes you have to work hard to make them a reality. Trilby Goouch ’09 was 11 years old when she figured this out. “It was my dream to attend SCS,” she recalls. “My best friend’s sisters were St. Clement’s students. I looked up to both of them, and I envied their navy tunics and red blazers.” Her family couldn’t afford to pay for an independent school education, but Trilby did everything in her power to become a Clementine. Thanks to the generosity of the SCS community, Trilby’s educational path was forever changed by our Financial Assistance program. “So much of our youth is spent in school, which means that it has a huge influence on how we develop,” she says. “If you’re able to provide a child with the means to be part of SCS’s school community, as I was, that tuition is providing an incredibly significant opportunity for her to grow personally and professionally — something I’m truly grateful for.” Before coming to SCS, Trilby was an average student with little interest in achieving academic success. As a Clementine,

she learned what it felt like to be supported and encouraged to do her best. “I was exposed to this new approach to education that made learning fun and rewarding,” she reflects. “I learned to embrace challenges rather than give up on them, because the teachers and my peers had such a ‘we’re all in this together’ approach to every project, every exam.” In university, Trilby applied the same approach to her studies that she had learned at SCS, making the effort to get to know her professors and to raise her hand if she had a question. “If I hadn’t attended SCS, I don’t think I would have had the confidence to do that,” she says. Now at the outset of a promising career in marketing, she asserts that the support she received at SCS motivated her to work hard to succeed, a work ethic she maintains to this day and credits to the School. “SCS instilled in me a drive to succeed that I carry with me in my career and my personal life. I can’t imagine who I would be without that as it makes up such a huge part of who I am today.” She believes this, along with her attention to detail, is why she landed an internship in an area in which she had no prior experience. Furthermore, it was her discipline and focus on self-improvement that helped her to evolve into a coordinator and now manager of a brand.

If you’re able to provide a child with the means to be part of SCS’s school community…your gift is providing an incredibly significant opportunity for her to grow personally and professionally.

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