Chapel Talk, 2000 January 26: Remarks on Martin Luther King Jr. Day / Tad Roach

In discussing privilege in American and boarding school life, Headmaster Tad Roach asserts: "We can easily develop the habit of seeing the world and its inhabitants only to feed our own personal desires"; and that "we are lucky to live amidst such beauty and comfort every day at St. Andrew’s. But it is also good to know or to remember what it is to be cold, lonely, frightened, hungry. It is our human lot. When we lose touch with our essential human condition, we lose ourselves forever." He relays the story of one alum's unexpected encounters in her life, her fortitude, and her compassion.