Reflecting Back

250 GRANDPARENTS AND SPECIAL FRIENDS joined lower schoolers for a morning of connection on May 12. The generational pairs participated in classroom activities like creating artwork, playing P.E. games, sharing books, and even dissecting owl pellets. We caught up with four Lower School students and their special guests who commented on what is most different from what they see at Flint Hill and what they experienced in their grade school.

My school was very small. Most everything we learned about the world we learned through books. No iPads, no recording devices. The teachers really had to bring all of that alive for us. Their descriptions of how the world worked were important and fun. Because we walked to school, we had to carry all our skis and boots to and from school because our skiing classes were at lunch!

–Diane Ward, Special Friend of Ciaran Lindroos ’32, (pictured with Kim Ward and Becky Raucci)

The difference is technology. With all the electronics and tablets that you use — we just had paper, pencils, and pens. That was our technology back then!

–Frank Johnson, Grandfather of Melissa Greene ’34, (pictured with Diane Johnson)

It’s so long ago, I can’t remember! The technology — we didn’t have all this.

–Lan Spruell, Grandmother of Parker Woods ’35, (pictured with Pat Woods and Wayne Spruell)

Oh my goodness, I don’t know where to begin. I walked a mile to school, a mile home at lunch, a mile back after lunch, and then a mile at the end of the day. The school wasn’t far enough away to get a school bus. When we had assignments, we had to go to the library to look up things and use encyclopedias. You have such advantages. It’s one of the reasons you all are so far ahead in classes!

–Bernadette Stack, Grandmother of Lucy Stack ’29