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THE MEHER SCHOOL
Love Nurtures Learning
Meher School Community
Nov 21, 20241 min read
Sharing Her Love of Native American People and Culture
November is Native American Heritage Month. Room 8 kindergarten teacher Caryl Morton has been interested in Native American culture for...
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Meher School Community
Sep 19, 20241 min read
Fitting In
Teacher’s New Book Celebrates Each Child’s Unique Contribution Most children feel at least a little nervous as a new school year...
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Meher School Community
Mar 14, 20241 min read
“Toward Harmony” In the Staff Room
Art teacher Lara Cannon recently completed this acrylic painting, which now graces the wall of our staff room. It’s called Toward...
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Susie Kohl
Feb 29, 20242 min read
Door to Compassion
We can’t say good-bye to this year’s Founders Day celebration without highlighting the central role of compassion at our school. Last...
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Warren Wallace
Nov 16, 20232 min read
Enrichment Classes: LIBRARY
In addition to their academic classes, our elementary students attend “enrichment” classes that support and broaden the classroom...
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Meher School Community
Oct 20, 20232 min read
New Mom Laura White Returns to Teaching Chorus
Last week’s Wednesday Messages included an article about two of our former first grade teachers, Kimberley Warkentin and Holly Burns, who...
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Meher School Community
Oct 12, 20232 min read
Former Teachers Return—As Moms
A change of perspective and a new appreciation for all that parents do A former first grade teaching team is back at The Meher...
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Meher School Community
Oct 5, 20231 min read
Mr. Doug’s Melodious Melodica
Preschool substitute teacher Doug Tambling always draws a happy crowd when he plays his melodica for the children. The melodica is a...
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Meher School Community
Sep 21, 20231 min read
Good-Bye, Miss Nancy—and Thank You!
Nancy Burgess, who was a teacher at our school when we first opened our doors in 1975, has retired. In 1981 she left to teach in the...
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Meher School Community
Feb 22, 20233 min read
Founders Day 2023: Looking Back
Founders Day 2023 Founders Day, February 25, marks the shared birthdays of our school and its founders, Ivy O. Duce and the Indian...
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Meher School Community
Feb 15, 20232 min read
Remembering Bob Royeton
October 11, 1943–February 9, 2023 His Empathy Touched Everyone’s Heart Beloved Room 1 teacher Bob Royeton passed away Thursday evening....
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Meher School Community
Feb 1, 20232 min read
End of An Era
Monika Kochowiec Is a Link to Our School’s Earliest Days Before her retirement at the end of last school year, Monika Kochowiec was the...
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Meher School Community
Nov 9, 20222 min read
Nari Souleiman’s 6,000-Mile JourneyTo the White Pony
Some White Pony teachers begin working here directly out of college. Some have worked at other schools, or even in other fields, before...
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Meher School Community
Nov 2, 20222 min read
Native American Heritage Month: Acorn Bread Recipe
This time of year, we see a lot of acorns on the ground, but most of us don't give them much thought. Indigenous tribes throughout...
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Meher School Community
Sep 28, 20222 min read
A Bright and Caring Environment, Full of Potential
Meet new third grade co-teacher Kimberly Marks With seven years’ teaching experience, including two at highly regarded private schools,...
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Meher School Community
Sep 21, 20222 min read
Warren Wallace’s Escape from Alcatraz
Sometime during the night of June 12, 1962, three prisoners escaped from Alcatraz. They were never heard from again. Did they make it? Or...
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Meher School Community
Sep 15, 20222 min read
Mari Pongkhamsing Has Plans for Our Library
Meet Mari Pongkhamsing, our new librarian. Mari has been a student and a parent and a teacher at The Meher Schools and has worked here on...
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Meher School Community
Sep 8, 20221 min read
A Song for Ukraine’s Children
One of our fifth graders was awed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership when his country was invaded by Russia in...
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Meher School Community
Jun 2, 20222 min read
Librarian to Retire from “This Place of Love”
After 33 years of checking books out and in, shelving them, and teaching library classes and reading stories to thousands of children,...
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Meher School Community
May 13, 20222 min read
From The Lion King to The White Pony
If you’re someone who watches the credits at the end of movies and you happened to be watching The Lion King (or Pocahontas or James and...
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