Brockport Campus School Reunion News

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T h e C ol l e g e at Br o c k p ort — S tat e Un i v ersi t y of Ne w Yor k

Brockport Campus School April, 2011

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REUNION NEWS

As a proud graduate of “another” Campus School (just down the road at—sorry—Cortland) back in the 1960’s, I‘m excited to welcome all of Brockport’s “Campus School Kids” plus faculty, staff and friends to our campus in July to celebrate your first true reunion. That was a very special time in my life where I made friendships that have lasted a lifetime. I know you have some of those same enduring relationships and are looking forward so much to re-connecting with Dr. John Halstead, PhD everyone this summer. Please know how excited we are, as part of our 175-year celebration at The College at Brockport, to welcome you back to campus.

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Cortland Campus School class of 1960. Can you pick out Dr. Halstead?

Value learned while attending school By Dr. Wallace Elton, Class of 1958 I don’t know just when I recognized the value of what I learned while attending the Campus School (1949 – 1958; actually longer because I went to Mrs. Stebbins’ pre-K). I must have had an inkling when the top 5 students in our high school graduating class had come through the Campus School, but I guess I didn’t fully appreciate it until later. The learning included fundamental skills and values such as verbal expression, curiosity about the world, and treating others with respect. In 2008, realizing that it had been 50 years since we graduated, a few of us tried to pull together an informal class reunion. It didn’t happen until the next year, when about eight classmates and one teacher (Miss Bean/Mrs. Smith), plus a few other family and friends, gathered for a dinner near Brockport. That is when I recognized something else: at the Campus School, we shared our lives rather closely with a group of peers for nine Dr. William B. Nestle’s seventh grade class formative years – as long as with any group outside of family until well into adulthood. We knew each other well. For me, it was wonderful to reconnect with members of that group and discover that we all see those years as important to who we became. Do you feel similarly about your time at the Campus School? If so, I hope you will be able to participate in the broader school reunion in July. You will not regret it. And if you are in touch with classmates or have family members who were Campus Schoolers, please be sure they know about the event.

www.brockport.edu/alumni/campusschoolreunion/index.html


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