RE Log Spring 2023

SPRING 2023 Ransom Everglades LOG 27 senior leadership team. We are delighted at their productivity and accomplishments this year. It may go without saying, but we are also exceedingly grateful for RE’s outstanding faculty, who remain the heart and soul of our school. Ransom Everglades executed a “REimagining” of its college counseling office in January that brought in more than a half dozen new counselors (read more about that on page 36). RE has also focused on safety and security: after adding Rob DePriest ’86 last summer in the new position of Director of Security, in March we hired an Assistant Director of Security who is based on the middle school campus. The upshot? Both campuses now have former FBI agents working alongside City of Miami police to ensure a high level of expertise, preparation and readiness for security scenarios that we hope will never come to fruition. Both of these developments resulted from our listening to the RE community, and responding. Another exciting initiative is to help alleviate the housing challenges to support our faculty. We will share more about this important project in the near future. RE has bought a number of properties adjacent to our Everglades Campus in recent years, and we plan to utilize those tracts for needed playing fields, parking and other needs. It’s been an immensely rewarding year as chair of the board, and I could not be more thankful for my dedicated colleagues. I am especially grateful to trustees Miguel Dueñas ’95 and Elana Oberstein-Harris ’93 , whose guidance, support and passion for RE have been invaluable. Make no mistake, we have lots of work ahead of us and we cannot rest on any of the progress. We are tremendously excited about what lies ahead for this school, and extremely proud of what’s occurring at RE every day. Reading this magazine will shed light on many of those activities and help you understand, as we do, the absolute Joy of Ransom Everglades. Jonathan Fitzpatrick P’20 ’23 Chair of the Board of Trustees Make no mistake, we have lots of work ahead of us and we cannot rest on any of the progress. We are tremendously excited about what lies ahead for this school, and extremely proud of what’s occurring every day.” “