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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Highlanders: A History of Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, 1951-2021

Highlanders: A History of Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, 1951-2021

Popp, Trey

Hardcover

General EducationGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: South

ISBN10: 0578339595
ISBN13: 9780578339597
Publisher: Heathwood Hall
Published: Feb 25 2022
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.49
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Ultimately, the story of a school is made up of the stories of its people. The people comprising Heathwood Hall have long been a diverse mix, with perspectives as varied as their personalities, and priorities that have shifted from one era to another.


From its founding in 1951, Heathwood Hall Episcopal School has charted a path that is unique and unusual in the history of South Carolina education. Having started out in Columbia as a small elementary school whose classes were held in the repurposed bedrooms of a Greek Revival mansion, Heathwood Hall pivoted in 1965 to become a racially integrated institution-at a moment when most private schools in South Carolina were moving in the opposite direction. Yet that transition, which was contested in its time, is not all that has distinguished Heathwood from peer institutions over the last 70 years. It is just one element of a history whose full sweep embraces matters of pedagogical philosophy, spiritual life, scholarship, service to others, personal development, varied approaches to leadership-and the tensions that inevitably emerge when idealists and pragmatists join forces in the pursuit of ambitious and varied goals.

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