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VOLUME 65, NUMBER 3 DECEMBER 14, 2018
IN EXACTLY 26 DAYS, ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS ADDITIONS TO THE SCHOOL’S ALREADY IMPRESSIVE CENTERS FOR LEARNING — THE WINN SCIENCE CENTER — WILL OPEN ITS DOORS TO STUDENTS. WITH FIFTY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OF FLOOR SPACE AND STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITIES, THE WORLD OF SCIENCE HERE WILL BE FOREVER CHANGED.
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For complete coverage of the new Winn Science Center, see discoveries addendum.
Three long-serving faculty members announce retirement at end of school year by Colin Campbell, Lyle Ochs hen students and faculty come back to campus to begin the 2019-2020 school year, they will be without three teachers with 100 years of combined teaching experience. Third grade instructor Frank Jordan, known by almost all as “Mr. J;” Suzanne and Patrick McGee Family Master Teaching Chair in Mathematics JT Sutcliffe and art instructor Max Wood announced they will retire at the end of the school year. Jordan, who joined the faculty in 1968, feels as though his transition into retired life won’t be seamless. “I think my body is going to still be
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conditioned for writing comments in the spring and getting ready for school in August,” Jordan said. “It’ll take me some time, and honestly, I’m not sure what I’m going to do yet, but I want to keep my body and my mind active.” Jordan has led a wilderness trip for fourth graders for over a decade, but his post-retirement wish list includes a trip of his own, one that he did the summer before beginning his time at 10600 Preston Rd. “If there’s a place I want to visit, it’s a place called Waterton up in Alberta, Canada,” Jordan said. “There’s a small national park called Glacier Waterton National Park.
It has a 12-14-mile trail I did 50 years ago that I’d like to do again.” Similarly, Sutcliffe, who has operated in various roles during her 35-year tenure, is looking forward to traveling. “I’m looking forward to being able to get out and do things at times of the year that I can’t because school is on,” Sutcliffe said. “I’m excited to take trips to catch up with friends I haven’t seen for a while or going to the east coast and seeing the leaves changing.” Sutcliffe believes leaving her students will be the most difficult part of the change. “It’s fun to come to school and to figure
out how to help [students] find interesting things about mathematics and getting to know [them],” Sutcliffe said. “Because we’re family, we come and we have fun with our family, and then, you go home, and you miss your family already. So I’m going to miss [my students].” Wood has taught several art classes on campus, but like Sutcliffe, she believes life without students will be difficult. “Boys here bring me a smile, so I’m going to miss them tremendously, both Middle and Upper School,” Wood said. “I’m going to be actually crying. That’s what I’ll miss the most.”