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Chapel Talk, 2012 November 16: Thanksgiving / Tad Roach

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In reflecting on the "concept of gratitude" Headmaster Tad Roach takes the listener through the learned levels of thankfulness, noting that "[l]earning the art and resonance of civility, gratitude and appreciation, we commit to an integration of the ..

Chapel Talk, 2012 September 16 / Will Speers

2012
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In recounting his previous year's sabbatical, Associate Headmaster Will Speers describes two experiences - "pictures" - that held great meaning for him: teaching at a public high school in Boston; and visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Chapel Talk, 2012 September 9 / Tad Roach

2012
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During the first Sunday service of the 2012-2013 school year, Headmaster Tad Roach provides an alternative view to the school's institution of Sunday services...

Chapel Talk, 2012 November 7 / Chiachyi Chiu

2012
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In describing her experiences with her children Ryan and Evan when they were very young, Chinese teacher Chiachyi Chiu talks about how the lessons of her life have taught her how to be respectful of all students in her teaching: "If we can all treat ..

Chapel Talk, 2012 February 29/ Jory Kahan

2012
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In this talk, Jory Kahan, who is a member of our math department, captures moments over the past five years that showcase success, rejection, and what he believes is the true definition of failure...

Chapel Talk, 2012 January 12: A Stone Of Hope / Tad Roach

2012
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Headmaster Tad Roach discusses the concept of hope, as embodied by Václav Havel, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and in Bard President Leon Botstein writings in the book, Jefferson's Children. Tad reflects that hope is specifically embraced in the St...

Chapel Talk, 2011 September 21 / Will Robinson

2011
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In this talk, Communications Director, Will Robinson tells us of the love story that blossomed at St. Andrew's school during his 9th grade year between himself and the then Lindsay Dormer.

Chapel Talk, 2011 May 25: Baccalaureate - Memories / Will Speers

2011
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In discussing two childhood memories, Will Speers reflects on how memories "can bridge distance and absence." How the students here remind us of our uninhibited selves: "You inspire those in our 20’s and those in our 50’s to reconnect to our childh..

Chapel Talk, 2011 November 9 / Lindsay Wright

2011
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French teacher and Girls's Athletic Director Lindsay Wright, shares with us what New Year's Day means to her and her family. Their New Year’s tradition was to watch the Rose Bowl...

Chapel Talk, 2011 October 26: Hazel River / Peter McLean

2011
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Science teacher Peter McLean, in speaking of hiking, drinking, swimming in the Hazel River, discusses ways in which others have fought for a protected, healthier environment; and explores ways in which each of us also can better observe, better appre..

Chapel Talk, 2011 September 28 / Kassy Fritz

2011
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In this chapel talk Kassy discusses her summer vacation with her family at Moose Head Ranch in Wyoming. Kassy talks about striking the balance between being a mother, wife, teacher, coach, and advisor to her family as well as that of the St...

Chapel Talk, 2011 February 6 / Tad Roach

2011
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The reading for this Sunday Chapel was Matthew 5:13-20.

In this talk, Headmaster Tad Roach says "I have been thinking about the concept of longing" for knowledge, discovery, human rights, equality, justice, as embodied respectively by Carolyn Por..

Chapel Talk, 2011 May 22 / Tad Roach

2011
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In the spring St. Anne's Sunday Chapel Service, Headmaster Tad Roach contemplates a change to the traditional wording of the St. Andrew's diploma.

Chapel Talk, 2011 November 18 / Lindsay Brown

2011
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For the annual Thanksgiving chapel talk, Mr. Brown shares with us his own personal experiences with regard to hard work. Thinking of the Pilgrims and how hard they would have had to work in order to survive...

Chapel Talk, 2011 October 16: You Have A Voice / Bill Cashion

2011
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In this talk, Bill Cashion, a member of the School's Technology Department, speaks of a video that CNN shows of a 16 year old boy, Philip Garber who has a stuttering problem and for this he is treated differently by adults and his peers. Mr...