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RE honors MLK with speakers, service
Ransom Everglades celebrated the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with a trio of events that amplified key elements of King’s distinguished life: Aspiration, service and a quest for justice. Students and faculty heard from notable speakers at the middle and upper schools, and some also participated in a “Little Dresses for Haiti” service day on the national holiday.
Teen social entrepreneur Taylor Moxey kicked off the weeklong celebration by sharing her story and offering words of inspiration to middle schoolers during a virtual assembly on January 11. On the January 18 holiday, RE students and faculty sewed more than two dozen dresses for girls in Haiti, working from home and gathering virtually under the direction of Middle School Dean of Studies Doreen Johnson.
At a virtual assembly at the upper school a day later, alumna and March of Dimes executive Cheyenne Range ’14 admonished upper school students to make a commitment to service and justice.
“You have an absolute moral responsibility to commit yourself to service,” said Range, granddaughter of M. Athalie Range, the first African American to serve on Miami’s City Commission. “Service can look like many different things.”
Prior to becoming Manager of Executive Initiatives for the March of Dimes, Range served as Special Assistant to Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson in the U.S. House of Representatives. Though she is seven years removed from high school, Range talked to RE students as peers: “I truly believe we are the generation that will make King’s dream a reality.”
Moxey, who turned a cupcake business into a Miami-based foundation that supplies libraries to areas in need, told RE’s middle school students to follow their dreams. “If you have a dream, it doesn’t matter how old you are,” she said, “just go out and do it.”
Johnson, the middle school dean of studies, rallied students and her peers to participate in the third-annual dressmaking service event. Participants assembled supplies in advance and tuned in via Zoom for instructions, encouragement and background music to complete their dresses.
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.