From the Headmaster

It is special. It is unique.

It is Collegiate.

By Tom Davis // Headmaster

FROM THE HEADMASTER

“HOW LUCKY I AM TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT MAKES SAYING GOODBYE SO HARD.”

Dear Collegiate family, By the time you read this issue of the Connection, the past school year will be a distant memory. You and your family will be well into summer activities and, in fact, you may even be anticipating the start of school in August. I am writing this message on the last day of May, my last day as the Headmaster of Wichita Collegiate School. The campus is quiet. The students have been dismissed. The faculty have said goodbye for the summer. It is a lull between the end of the school year and the beginning of summer. It is said that, in every end, there is a beginning. Today marks the end of my time as a daily member of the Collegiate family. It has been a wonderful time for me, these past nineteen years, or the past thirty-three years since Debi and I sent our oldest child here. Collegiate has been our life. And, with no regrets, it has been a good life. In what job can one work with such a talented and committed group of educators who dedicate themselves every day to being a positive influence in the lives of children? Faculty and staff who teach, who model, and who nurture the very hearts and souls of young people. Where else can one find such loving parents who unselfishly sacrifice to give the gift of a Collegiate education to their children? Where else can one find the sense of belonging, of being part of a family, than within our Collegiate family? It is special. It is unique. It is Collegiate. A.A. Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh, wrote, “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” I feel that lucky, that blessed. I feel how hard it is to say goodbye to the Collegiate family. But it is a warm and heartfelt goodbye from a heart filled with thankfulness. I have been the one blessed by all things Collegiate. I take that with me and I will cherish it for the rest of my life.

With this end, let there be a wonderful beginning. I pray God’s blessing on Collegiate and on each and every one of you.