Highland Hall Capital Campaign
For fifty-four years Highland Hall has primarily focused on providing our students with an outstanding Waldorf education by creating more and more programs to meet the needs of the developing and evolving students who attend our school. With a healthy enrollment, and rich and diverse programs, the school finds itself squeezed for classroom space and in need of additional buildings.
Our school has been conservatively managed and has operated in the black for the past sixteen years. We paid off a fifteen-year construction loan for the high school in ten years and we are very fortunate that we own our eleven-acre campus free and clear.
Three years ago parents, teachers and students were interviewed about the facilities needs of the school. As a result of those conversations, plans were laid down and a master plan for the revitalization of the classrooms and the campus was created. High on the priorities list was enlarging the lower school classrooms, and building a gymnasium, a science center and a Performance Theater.
Building Update
In eight short months our school has addressed three of our community’s four top priorities: During the summer of 2008 the lower school classrooms were enlarged by 50% giving the lower school teachers adequate space for movement - an integral part of Waldorf Education, and we added two modules for 7th and 8th grades to the lower school. We are within days of breaking ground for a gymnasium, one that meets special environmental standards guidelines. The gymnasium will house the basketball and volleyball programs, as well as provide shelter for games programs when the weather is too hot or too wet to be outdoors. Our middle and high school students will no longer need to spend 1½ hours on a bus to practice basketball at the Stonehurst Park facility, and the whole community can finally support our fine athletes by attending home games right on our campus.
Now we are preparing to move into the next phase: the Performance Theatre. With your support we will begin construction on a Performance Theater in the spring of 2010 which means our teachers and students will be holding performances by the winter of 2010 or early spring of 2011.
On behalf of the Capital Campaign Committee,
Bari Borsky, Development Director and Campaign Manager
Capital Campaign Committee Members:
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Vicky Waldorf
Amy Brenneman
Korey Pollard
Rodney Vacarro
Dave Schwartz
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Linda Keefer
Stefanie Pollard
Robyn Samuels
Sue Drew
Christine Hendricks |
Jonathan Stark
Elias Matar
Francis Onelum
Lisa Cavallo
Valerie Miller
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