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Messagefrom the Lower School Head
June 2016
Dear Wardlaw-Hartridge School Eighth Grade Graduates,
Congratulations on completing Middle School and on all the growth and achievements you have accomplished during your time here. You have been part of an amazing class and had a fantastic year. You have made your parents, your teachers, and me so very proud!
During your time in Middle School you have discovered much of what the world can do for you, and have begun to understand what you can offer the world. It needs you - we all do - so as you make your way through the next portion of your formal education, pay attention, draw upon the lessons learned here, and continue to be your best self and do you best work. Y ou havej ust 8 short years of school before your college graduation and there's a lot to learn in and out
of school in those days!
What you do during the next 8 years and beyond will certainly be a determining factor in how you spend the rest of your life, but even more paramount that what you do is who you will be during this next chunk of life.
Go forward, give it your all and make the most of it. Be kind. And be grateful - to and for youself, your peers, your parents, and your world. Look for every opportunity to express appreciation and gratitude in life and take advantage of as many choices as you possibly can.
And remember that while your last day of classes in Middle School is behind you, your tie to us remains and will get stronger in the years ahead. So I will make the requests I always do as I close this communication with you: give us a big hello when you see us, stay in touch and let us know how you are faring in Upper School, in college, and in life. You have a home on "C- Deck" forever. And, dear parents of our Graduates, so do you - so please stay close as well.
With great fondness. Respectfully yours, Mrs. Granados
Margaret Rourke Granados
Assistant Head of School for Lower and Middle School Dean of Studies PreK-Grade 12