By Craig Gemmell
Head of School
Thanksgiving is coming! Tuesday evening we had our Thanksgiving dinner: a priceless boarding school tradition. We ate heartily and wrote thank you cards between courses. What a sight to see my nine dinner companions hunched over and writing in earnest! Then as we began our dessert, Haitham, a student from Oman, some 7000 miles away from Wolfeboro, spoke to the packed Estabrook in the latest installment of “senior speaks.” With pride and gratitude, he talked about Oman’s king Qaboos bin Said al Said, who has transformed Oman over the past five decades into a place of peace and prosperity by endlessly acting with love. In the wildly diverse crowd with students from 27 countries, even the most fidgety students were rapt. Politics over pumpkin pie. Continue reading “Politics Over Pumpkin Pie”