Reflections of Havergal: 1994-2019

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COMMUNI T Y

A map of students and Old Girls from around the world.

Havergal Old Girls feel a particularly muscular link when it comes to the school. Just how strong it is never fails to amaze those people in our lives who don’t know Havergal as well as we do. Many of us Old Girl volunteers, and in particular some of my classmates from the Class of 1988, refer to this connection by a name. It’s the Big Green Magnet, and the force of it keeps more than 220 volunteers, representing a broad span of graduating years, firmly attached … Fostering a sense of community is what, I feel, we do best. And I think it’s our flexibility as a group that keeps HOGA energized as we grow from year to year. We

HOGA Award Winner Plaques

The map above, featured in the upper level corridor outside the Admissions office, shows that Havergal students and Old Girls represent a wide range of countries around the globe. Yet, those students who go on to live lives far from the ivy-covered walls often reflect on the pull Havergal exerts long after they leave. In the 2006 Chronicle , Maryam Sanati 1988, then HOGA President, remarked in “Celebrating Havergal’s magnetic draw” that

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