Parents’ Association: Letter from Co-chairs David and Mary Beth Lohuis P ’10 ’21

Summer 2020

Dear Abbey Parents,

Above all, we hope that our first greeting to you as newly appointed Parents’ Association Chairs finds you and your loved ones safe and in good health.

We are honored to serve in this role and grateful to you for your continued engagement. While our daughter Martha came to the Abbey as a new Fifth Former last September, we are actually returning parents of twins Ryan and Patrick, members of the Class of 2010. That said, we have not had an opportunity to meet many of you and look forward to that occasion when it is safe to do so. As our cherished students will be welcomed back to the Abbey in September, we will have much to consider as we adapt to new protocols amidst the complex, unprecedented challenges that are before us. We have great faith in our school leaders, faculty and staff, and monks who are all working tirelessly to assure the health and safety of our beloved community. The Abbey’s ongoing commitment to ensuring that our students are offered an unsurpassed education that nurtures the mind, body, and spirit will continually unify and enlighten all of us.

As many of you know, the Parents’ Association’s newsletter, “Communitas,” arrives monthly via email, and we encourage you to read it for general campus updates and for updates specific to your student’s form. You will find information on academic, social, spiritual, and athletics and performing arts events for each of the upcoming months throughout the academic year. We have found this to be a terrific resource and a helpful roadmap for new parents.

The Parents’ Association also welcomes all parents to volunteer and engage in school programs, initiatives and events. We always appreciate your thoughts and ideas. Your contributions allow better communication of our shared goals as parents and are critical to our efforts in support of the collective benefit of our children and our Abbey community. We also look forward to partnering with you during Parent Participation Month in October when the School asks our parent community to demonstrate its support through contributions to the Annual Fund.

We are looking forward to meeting you all when our children assemble again for the fall term. Please feel free to contact us or your Form Chairs with any questions, comments, ideas.

Warmest regards,

David and Mary Beth Lohuis P’10 ’10 ’21 Parents’ Association Chairs

Parents’ Association Chairs David and Mary Beth Lohuis, parents of Martha ’21 and Patrick and Ryan ’10

Sixth Form Chairs Anson and Marilyn Stookey, parents of Ella ’21 and John ’19

Fifth Form Chairs Brendan and Laurie Loftus, parents of Michael ’22, Eve ’19 and Joy ’16

Fourth Form Chairs Albert Dahlberg and Hilary Fagan, parents of Alexis ’23

Third Form Chairs – Frank and Rhonda Landers, parents of Regan ’24 and Nathaniel ’20