RE LOG Spring '25

SPRING 2025 Ransom Everglades LOG 3 As we continue building for the future, we share the story of a special alumna who is highly familiar with blueprints: Laurinda Spear ’68 . A proud Everglades School for Girls graduate, Laurinda has spent decades building our city and improving Coconut Grove through the company she co-founded: Arquitectonica. Besides having a hand in some of Miami’s most iconic buildings, Laurinda also helped design much of the modern middle school campus, and, more recently, has worked as a member of the Everglades Steering Committee to help preserve the Everglades School for Girls’ history and traditions. Find her story from longtime Miami Herald architecture writer Beth Dunlop P’01 on page 6. We know our alumni will enjoy a ninth grader’s take on the most recent Everglades Experience with Outward Bound; Noelle Dubose ’28 – one of our award-winning student writers – takes us on a journey through the Ten Thousand Islands with a first-person account that begins on page 24. And many of you may have heard that our speech and debate coach, Kate Hamm, suffered serious injuries when she was struck by a car last spring; Coach Hamm is back, continuing to motivate our students and build our magnificent speech and debate program. You will marvel at her story on page 36. There is other good news: Our Director of Environmental Sustainability Kelly Jackson provides a positive report on our sustainability programs and progress, from new EV charging stations to additional solar panels, and Victoria Beatty ’00 , the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant to Ransom Everglades, shares how an Everglades alumna, Darrow Dutcher Hodges ’63 , has helped RE provide inclusive and insightful programming in honor of her late brother through the Douglas Vogt Dutcher ’80 Fund for Equity & Justice. The “Why I Give” story at the end of this magazine highlights parent-of-alumni Alan Bernstein’s devotion to RE long after his son, Marc Bernstein ’03 , graduated, showing how RE families can pay it forward with their loyal support. I hope you enjoy this magazine’s look at a school that is forever under construction. Whether erecting new academic centers or assembling new ideas, we will never stop building a better future for the next generation of RE students. Rachel Rodriguez Head of School Buildings are incredibly important, but what resides in them is what makes Ransom Everglades one of the strongest schools in the world.” “