Greetings Fine Families of Cedar Springs Waldorf School!
Welcome to a brand new year. I love that first day: shiny faces, new shoes with nary a scuff, little lunches packed in baskets with checkered cloth covers...yes, those teachers look so cute. You would never guess they've been up until midnight the sixteen previous nights getting ready to fill our children's little heads with fascinating facts!
I want to take this opportunity give to you parents some words of encouragement. First, you can do this. You CAN put a foot, and then a leg, and eventually your entire body out of the bed each morning. I am a success story, and here is my secret: each evening, set the automatic coffee maker to fire up at 5:45 AM, hook it to an IV catheter, and then set up the catheter so that caffeine feeds directly into your veins. Voila. Secondly, know that this too, shall pass. My children, who graduated from Cedar Springs, are now in their twenties. I do not pack lunches, leave work early to pick up my barfing child from the office, chaperone other people's children on field trips, or leave my car outside of the garage for the entire month of September because there is no room for it around the paper mache and chicken wire that will soon become a Michaelmas dragon. There is much for you to look forward to.
Speaking of dragons, your Board certainly isn't draggin' its wagon. We've already had a Board meeting in August (unless there are emergencies, the Board of Trustees meets at least once a month), and I'd like to take this opportunity to give you the Trustees' names to memorize for the test at the end of this story: We have the esteemed Tracy Work, the superior Janette Robinson-Dodge, the mathematical Christine Land, the strong Grayson Williams, the ubiquitous Amy Elder, and the facilitating and properly consenting Matt Taylor. In ex-officio positions (that means we make them talk a lot at the meetings, but we don't let them vote - hmmm, seems unfair) we have the Queen of Everything Jennifer Bumgarner, the King of all things Financial and Facility Scott Krieger, and the powerfully pedagogical Paula ThompSon.
Maybe you're curious about the workings of the Board? Of course you are welcome to attend the Board meetings! Just let me know at least a few days in advance so that we can get your background history, finger prints, and credit score checked out. If you'd prefer not to leave the house on a dark and stormy Thursday night to learn about the Board workings, even though you can be fairly confident that you'll be back home and in bed by 9:32 (we try to end the meetings around 9:15 because the Board President loves to sleep now that she doesn't have children at home - see paragraph two above), let me give you a short synopsis: we are in charge of the legal realm of our lovely school. The End.
P.S. And we hear about the financial status of our school, enrollment numbers, marketing work, faculty updates, human resource changes, development items, school events, Livery purchase progress, as well as fitting in a book study, facilitation/consensus training, and two or three joint Board/Faculty meetings each year, etc. Trust me, it is good work!
So, here we go! If you're new to the school, welcome, and if you're returning, welcome back. Have your people call my people so we can meet. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE!!!
Love and hugs,
Nancy Weiner
CSWS Board President
530-906-7724 anytime before 9:32 pm
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