Chronicle 2018

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

REBELS & REFORMERS EDWINA DICK STOATE 1975 President, Havergal Old Girls Association

Welcome to the 104th edition of the Chronicle , Havergal’s premier connection to our more than 9,500 Old Girls around the world. Whether you just graduated or have recently joined the Stoneagers, there is a special bond which we all enjoy from our days spent behind the ivy walls. As Havergal embarks on its Limitless Campaign to maintain its position at the forefront of girls’ education, I am reminded that the Havergal Old Girls Association’s core values of friendships and connections, leadership and philanthropy, and tradition and innovation are also limitless. Although we all leave the physical Havergal, we never leave the spiritual Havergal. While there are the obvious connections from lifelong friendships, over the years, I have seen so many more examples of the ties that bind us: • An Old Girl mentoring a recent grad as she pursues her education and career choices • Classmates providing comfort and support to a friend in her journey through a terminal illness • A foursome of former students and a faculty member taking up rowing in middle age • Former roommates and their spouses travelling together in retirement

• Grads bringing their young children to the Grandchildren’s Party and wistfully wondering if their girls will experience Havergal as they grow up. As we think about leadership and philanthropy, we are very grateful to an anonymous Old Girl who has challenged all of us Old Girls to support Havergal’s Limitless Campaign through her commitment to the BioWall, a three-storey living wall designed to be the focal point of the new Upper School learning commons. I encourage each of you to join me in ensuring that Havergal can continue to offer the very best education for generations of girls to come. The theme of this year’s Chronicle is “Rebels and Reformers” – the Old Girls profiled in the pages that follow have bucked tradition and embraced innovation in its true meaning, showing us that our capacity for change can be and should be limitless. Reading their stories, we should all be inspired to be rebels and reformers in our own ways in our everyday lives. As we look forward to Havergal’s 125th anniversary in 2019, the Havergal Old Girls Association is planning a number of opportunities for all of us to connect and reconnect. I encourage you to join us – the benefits are limitless!

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