They came back, during a pandemic, from Rhode Island and Minnesota and New York. They shared a unique responsibility and a singular bond: All had served as senior administrators at Lakeside over the past two decades and had been shaped by the experience. • They personified one of the challenges and mixed blessings at a national feeder school like Lakeside, a place that intentionally attracts, recruits, and hires supremely talented and ambitious educators, then equips them to become leaders in their own right. • At an afternoon board meeting in the Fireplace Room, and afterward, during a four-hour conversation in a private dining room atop the Space Needle, they gathered and shared reflections on what they'd taken from Lakeside. And bid farewell to the leader they had learned from, Bernie Noe.
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