RE LOG Fall 2017

82 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2017 BOOKSTORE Your one-stop shop for gifts and goodies We’re open from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and located opposite the Ansin Aquatic Center on the Upper School Campus. All students, parents and alumni are welcome. For more information, contact Katrina Patchett, Director of Bookstores, at 305 460 8885 or kpatchett@RansomEverglades.org. Shop online at RansomEverglades.org/Bookstore New Talent continued from page 53 assistant for Steven Spielberg’s entertainment company, Amblin Entertainment, coordinating a nation- wide open casting call for an upcom- ing feature film. A Miami native, Miss Shapiro honed her skills at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, even training there for a time under Gina Montet, now RE’s Middle School Performing Arts Teacher. After graduating from Florida State University, Miss Shapiro lived and worked in New York City. Continue To have been “life changing” and “otherwise would not have been possible.” I appreciate the work of the fellowship committee members — Department Chairs Mike Groeninger and Jen Nero, Dean of the Junior Class Paul Natland ’02 , and Advisor to the Head of School Mr. Bowden himself — whose careful review and deliberation of the fellowship applications, and mentorship of the fellows as they entered the early phases of their research, were invaluable. The parents, professionals, artists and alumni who engaged our fellows also deserve our thanks. Dan Leslie Bowden’s sharp intellect and sense of humor, his high expectations coupled with caring and compassion, the humility of his teaching and the honest way he has lived, and his deep curiosity about the humanities and his lifelong quest to come closer to knowing what is really meaningful, have made possible not only these fellowships, but have made better the lives of so many by encouraging them to hold themselves accountable to higher truths and to wonder. Though he was never my teacher, he has become my friend, and like so many others, I am indebted to him for the culture of learning he helped to create at Ransom Everglades. We all strive to help others be their best selves — intellectually, morally, aesthetically — that is, to embody at all times, the best of what it means to be human. The Bowden Fellows look forward to sharing and discussing their work with their fellow students and the RE community at large in events on October 10-11, 2017. See myCOMPASS and forthcoming communications for more details. Summer studies in the humanities continued from page 36