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RE welcomes Booker T. Washington exchange students
Ransom Everglades welcomed two dozen students from Booker T. Washington Senior High on Feb. 5 for the schools' annual and eagerly anticipated exchange. The participating students, including 26 from RE, kicked off a week of classes and immersion on the schools' campuses in Coconut Grove and Overtown by jointly attending Michael Fosberg's autobiographical one-man play "Incognito" at the Lewis Family Auditorium.
Fosberg fielded questions from the Upper School student body after the performance, which was designed to explore issues of diversity with humor, then met with the exchange participants for a more personal interaction. The production was made possible by The Douglas Vogt Dutcher '80 Fund for Equity and Justice Initiatives, which was recently endowed by Darrow Dutcher Hodges '63 with brothers Arthur Dutcher '69 and David Dutcher in memory of their deceased sibling, Douglas Vogt Dutcher '80. The fund is intended to support equity and justice initiatives at Ransom Everglades.
After the introductory day in Coconut Grove, 12 RE students were scheduled to travel to Overtown Feb. 6 to conclude the week with their partners at Booker T. Washington. Fourteen RE students and their partners were to remain at RE.
Faculty member Joshua Stone orchestrated the event with the assistance of Booker T. Washington Senior High Principal William Aristide. Both schools are historically significant in Miami: Paul Ransom founded Ransom Everglades as the Adirondack-Florida School in 1903; Booker T. Washington opened to black children in Miami in 1926.
RE's travelers:
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After the introductory day in Coconut Grove, 12 RE students were scheduled to travel to Overtown Feb. 6 to conclude the week with their partners at Booker T. Washington. Fourteen RE students and their partners were to remain at RE.
Faculty member Joshua Stone orchestrated the event with the assistance of Booker T. Washington Senior High Principal William Aristide. Both schools are historically significant in Miami: Paul Ransom founded Ransom Everglades as the Adirondack-Florida School in 1903; Booker T. Washington opened to black children in Miami in 1926.
RE's travelers:
Thomas Murphy '19
Grace Waibel '19
Casi Cobb '18
Jessica Blatt '18
Kathleen Hutchinson '18
Ande Edmunds '18
Catherine Kolski '18
Sophie Sokol '18
Eitan Dooreck-Aloni '18
Jacob Weintraub '18
Ryan Sears '18
Hannah Tacher '18
RE's hosts:
Gregori Estime '19
Emma Danon '19
Courtney Sell '19 and Abigail Roberts '19
Alexia Ouelette '19
Marley Rywell '19
Leo Ratzan '19
Lauren Bausley '18
Briana Pottinger '18
Saachi Mehrotra '18
Erin Bakes '18 and Libby Meland '18
Wes Mihm '18
Margo Squire '19
Middle School
2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 250 6850
Upper School
3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 460 8800
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.