RE LOG Fall 2024

FALL 2024 Ransom Everglades LOG 19 became the placekicker for the football team, and also played on the guys’ varsity soccer team. She was the first woman that played in sports in whatever-the-conference-that-Ransom-was-in at the time. I think we accepted it fully and embraced it.” The full blending of both campuses also opened up more opportunities in the arts for the boys – and many seized those opportunities. At the time of the merger, Everglades had Swenson Hall, but the Lewis Family Auditorium hadn’t yet been built. “I dropped calculus so I could take choir,” Prio Touzet said. “Things like that that you ended up doing; I continued to take more drama. You could see the curriculum blending on the upper campus. That was fun. It was a great experience.” It quickly became clear that neither school would get absorbed by the other, Buermann said. “When the merger occurred, each school had its respective strengths and weaknesses,” he said. “So during the merger these dovetailed together quite well.” The schools, already evolving with the times, effectively joined hands and grew up together. Some traditions, such as St. Alban’s Day, continued. Others were replaced by new ones. Though there were fewer girls from Everglades than boys from Ransom, the girls quickly established themselves. “I don’t think, with Everglades Girls, you ever had to worry about their voices being drowned out,” Penn Noble said. “That was something that was never going to happen. Everglades Girls were always going to make themselves heard or known.” “In every way it’s been positive,” Prio Touzet said. “No question about it; the merger was the right thing to do. It brought two very like-minded but different environments together. Like everything else, maybe some initial growing pains, but for all, it was much better in every regard.” Said Penn Noble: “What we have now is a wonderful school, and a real asset to the Miami community.” “What we have now is a wonderful school, and a real asset to the Miami community.” – Georgia Penn Noble ’74 Watch the Dell + Cannon for a video retrospective on the 50th anniversary of the merger of the Ransom School and Everglades School for Girls.