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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 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...

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 April 27 / Tom Fritz

2011
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Tom Fritz speaks to us about the pressures in today society for men to act or behave a certain way and to not show emotions, such as crying, because it is considered weak...

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 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, 2010 May 12 / Sarah Demers

2010
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In this talk, Sarah Demers, a third year teacher in our English Department, speaks of her love of teaching, of surprises in teaching, of teachable moments, and that learning is never done.

Chapel Talk, 2010 May 30: Baccalaureate / Morgan Scoville '00

2010
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Speaking to the Class of '10, Assistant Director of Admissions Morgan Scoville, class of '00, advises the graduates to reflect on what the Chapel Program has given them over the course of their time at the School, and that "[s]pending time in this sp..

Chapel Talk, 2010 March 24: Philippe Petit / Mark Hammond

2010
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In discussing wire-walker Philippe Petit's feat of walking between the World Trade Center towers, Physics teacher Mark Hammond speaks about what it takes to accomplish an objective: "The story of Petit's wire-walk is one of perseverance and resilienc..

Chapel Talk, 2010 October 3: Proper 22 / Rev. Louise Howlett

2010
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Former St. Andrew's Chaplain Louise Howlett, speaks of the truth about life in the Bible: "The Bible writers don’t try to say that if you just have faith enough nothing bad will ever happen, or that with God watching over us everything makes sense...

Chapel Talk, 2009 September 13 / Tad Roach

2009
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At the fall St. Anne's Sunday Service, Headmaster Tad Roach addresses how individual achievement alone does not serve the whole, but relinquishing the ego and putting others ahead of yourself serves the greater good.

Chapel Talk, 2009 May 17 / Tad Roach

2009
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In the May 2009 issue of The Atlantic, Joshua Wolf Shenk described a Harvard study that followed 268 men for 72 years with the objective to find out why some men flourish while others fade...

Chapel Talk, 2009 January 14 / Tad Roach

2009
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Headmaster Tad Roach speaks about the 10,000 hours that is required to achieve mastery over a subject, whether it is academic, competitive, or in character development.

Chapel Talk, 2009 November 4 / Peter Caldwell

2009
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In this talk, Assistant Headmaster Peter Caldwell reflects on his years of training to make the Olympic cross-country ski team, and on what that hard-work experience has taught him about community.