Please join me in welcoming Asher Joseph to TGS. Asher started in the preschool on Tuesday and is our newest member of the TGS community. Welcome Asher! 

Many parents have reached out to inquire about how they can offer support for Kathy. We will be in touch  soon regarding ways that will best help Kathy and her family. Thank you for your kind gestures during this challenging time. 

We officially ended our fall athletic season last week with a very wet TGS XC Invitational. Despite driving rain and cold temperatures, our harriers ran well and TGS was very well represented in both participation and performance! I want to thank Mary for all she did to make this race, and our fall sports, a success. I am glad we persevered and had the race despite the ominous weather forecast, and I look forward to more great races in the future as we keep this strong tradition alive. 

Dear TGS Community: 
As outlined in our letter this past Friday, October 30 (refer to email originating from Dan on the 30th), TGS will start a search immediately in order to secure our next head of school (HOS) to start July, 2016. An open search is a prudent and important process as it allows an organization to create a pool of potential and viable candidates, which manages any risks in ultimately securing one individual (read: a pool of viable finalists is needed in case the #1 choice does not work out for whatever reason). We aim to provide very frequent updates regarding the search plan and process, so please see below some information, further to the note and details provided this past Friday.

1) Right now we are receiving requests to serve, and these are being compiled. Within a week or so, we will identify from this list of volunteers a roster that provides distribution across TGS, e.g. we want to make sure we do not have representation only from parents, faculty and/or staff from, say, the lower school, with little representation from the upper school. The search committee members will be determined from the list of volunteers by the board executive committee.

2) The advertisement is going out right now.  The position profile will be created within a week or two.  We will likely circulate a survey so that feedback from parents, faculty, and staff can be gathered regarding qualities and capabilities they see as important in our next HOS and which will be used for the position profile, in addition to some open sessions we will plan this month.

3) We hope to have applications for review by December, and aim to conduct phone interviews over the holiday period. Finalists will be invited to campus - where everyone will meet them - in late winter/early spring.

Thank you for your support as we start this important search. And thank you in general for staying positive about this process and about our wonderful TGS during this transition year. 

Peter Eden