Summer!   

How is it possible that an entire school year has passed since the Rose Ceremony at the beginning of the year when we welcomed our new first grade into the grade school? At graduation on Saturday, June 8, those rising second-third graders will complete the cycle by giving roses to our graduates. We will miss the students of Ashwood's graduating class. They have been good leaders as our senior class. They are a sensitive, humorous, compassionate, and vibrant group. I am confident that they will be fine representatives of Waldorf education, just as the many classes who have gone before them. While we will no longer be there to teach and guide them each day, the faculty will hold them lovingly in our thoughts as they now begin the journey into the rest of their lives.

With warmth in our hearts, the faculty wishes to acknowledge Elizabeth Doshi, who has given these students her very best for the past two years. I admire Elizabeth's unending striving, her can-do attitude, the depth of her lesson preparation, and her commitment to the students and to this work. The incoming first grade is fortunate to step into this journey with such a fine and experienced Waldorf teacher.

The administration will "hold down the fort" during the quiet days of summer. We look forward to the beginning of the next school year, which is bound to be filled with a multitude of new triumphs, large and small, and, I am sure, new challenges as well.

I hope you all have a wonderful summer filled with fruitful gardens, exciting journeys, lazy warm days, berries, blue skies, clear waters, barbecues, ice cream, lots of fun, and lots of rest.

We look forward to seeing all of you in September.