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Welcome Back to the Hilltop
““Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.” ― William Shakespeare On this day, everything is possible. We can ace this course, score that goal, invent the next big thing, and save the...
View Article9/11: A Good Day for Kindness
As one of my first acts as new Head of School at SLS, I led an all-school gathering on the first anniversary of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. I read the Billy Collins poem “The Names” to the...
View ArticleCome Walk With Me
Last week I wrote “Kindness without action is useless…” On October 6, 2013 we all have another chance to put our kind thoughts into action. St. Luke’s Student Service Board has organized the “One Step...
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Veterans Day on the Hilltop
In gratitude for his years of service in the U.S. Marine Corps, Richard Farrell receives a handshake and letter from Jeff Lane ’16, a member of SLS Veterans Club. Mr. Farrell is the grandfather of...
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Let’s Get Uncomfortable
In her Ted Talk about the importance of diversity, Mellody Hobson describes what it’s like to be seven and the only black child at an all-white birthday party. She asks why raising the topic of race in...
View ArticleTrue Patriots
To criticize one’s country is to do it a service and pay it a compliment. Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism—a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar...
View ArticleThe Confidence to Lead
A group of ten year olds earnestly discusses whose life they will affect—the young woman in Indonesia whose village needs water filters, or the young man in Jordan trying to pay his school fees? The...
View ArticleLessons from Penn State
Early this month, 18 fraternity brothers were charged in the death of a young man. He died during a drunken “pledge night.” From every angle, this story is pure heartbreak. For the senseless loss of a...
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