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Laurinda Spear ’68 has dedicated her life to building our city and community
by Beth Dunlop

Laurinda Spear ’68 would be the first to argue that she is not Wonder Woman, but the facts of her life and the trajectory of her career might suggest otherwise. She is a graduate of Everglades School for Girls, Brown University, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Florida International University’s landscape architecture program. She has had a stellar and groundbreaking career in both architecture and landscape architecture, with work that has helped create the Miami we know today and continues to shape our thinking about the future, not just of the city but, more importantly, the environment.

List of 2 news stories.

  • Cost-of-living-allowance giving opportunities

    A Lifeline for RE Faculty

    Amy Shipley
    The ‘cost-of-living-allowance endowment’

    The 2002 GMC Envoy driven by Ransom Everglades science teacher Emily Grace sputtered to a halt near her home in Hollywood, the engine dying at nearly 220,000 miles. She and her husband, a K-8 art teacher in North Miami, pushed the SUV down the block to their driveway.

    The couple was despondent. Their other car, a 2006 Honda Civic, had a broken A/C system and front windows that didn’t roll down. The parents of two children ages 4 and 9, Emily Grace and Piper Williams needed reliable transportation. Yet with mortgage payments and other expenses, replacing the car, Williams said, “didn’t seem possible or realistic at all.”

    That changed a couple of days later.
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  • Students in AP English Literature classes present scenes from Antigone in togas.

    RE’s Foundation: The Humanities

    Matt Margini, Humanities Department Faculty
    In an ever-changing world, Ransom Everglades reinforces its foundation in the humanities

    On December 10, 2024, Boston University sent out a terse email that made shockwaves in the academic world: “After careful consideration, we have decided to suspend admissions for many of our programs for the upcoming academic year.” The programs in question? All doctoral programs in the humanities, including philosophy, English and history.

    In the Chronicle of Higher Education, prominent English professor Leonard Cassuto called the announcement a “harbinger of things to come.” But it was also just the latest in a long string of high-profile humanities cuts at schools and universities around the country, including West Virginia University’s controversial 2023 decision to do away with 28 majors – including French.
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Highlights

  • Legacy of Inclusion Legacy of Inclusion
    A Chat with Darrow Dutcher Hodges ’63, creator of Ransom Everglades’ Douglas Vogt Dutcher ’80 Fund for Equity & Justice
  • Why I Give Why I Give
    Parent-of-alumni, Alan Bernstein, has continued to support the school long after his son Marc Bernstein ’03 graduated

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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.