Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011
Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011
Woodstock School Alumni Magazine Vol CIV, 2011
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Quadrangle - 13<br />
Amy Seefeldt ‘93<br />
I loved my<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
experience<br />
and was sad<br />
to leave, but<br />
actually never<br />
thought I’d<br />
return (other<br />
than to visit<br />
family). Through<br />
college, I drifted into studying education<br />
and history, moving to Atlanta for about<br />
ten years. After eight years teaching<br />
history at a college-prep school there, I<br />
started feeling restless. I heard about a<br />
history opening through Ms. Chander,<br />
and the rest is literally history. It just<br />
seemed like the right time to come back.<br />
A better question than why I came back<br />
is perhaps why I’m choosing to stay now.<br />
I’ve signed my second contract. I worked<br />
on the recent 2020 Vision. I’ve realized<br />
that, even as we imagine our communal<br />
future, it’s important to preserve the best<br />
parts of the <strong>Woodstock</strong> experience: the<br />
intense debates about everything from<br />
Wai Wai to reincarnation, the simplicity<br />
of walking to experience our world, the<br />
passion to see increased justice and<br />
equality in the world, music practice<br />
in the sunny Quad. It’s important to<br />
preserve a way of life that allows for bun<br />
omelettes at Char Dukhan. After being<br />
back for three years, and despite the<br />
occasional turmoil, I firmly believe that<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> is uniquely placed to find<br />
the road forward the world needs. Our<br />
natural, socioeconomic, and cultural<br />
environments, our Christian heritage,<br />
and the strange fearlessness that<br />
<strong>Woodstock</strong> students absorb seemingly by<br />
osmosis all conspire to forge an intense<br />
community of learning that I count it an<br />
unqualified privilege to serve.<br />
Sue Swain Rollins ‘ 77<br />
I love working with the students from<br />
many different nationalities and it is<br />
also nice to be able to work in a boarding<br />
school setting as you have more<br />
input into the students’ lives than in a<br />
day school. I feel that I am able to give<br />
many things to the students sharing<br />
my love of hiking, nature, history, cultures,<br />
crafts and writing in this lovely mountainous setting.<br />
Kirsten Bradby ‘96<br />
I was born in Mussoorie and<br />
spent my most formative years<br />
here, until the age of 13. I loved<br />
growing up here. I enjoyed<br />
the close sense of community<br />
at <strong>Woodstock</strong> as well as its diversity.<br />
I was very attached to the<br />
physical surroundings – the mountains, the trees,<br />
the khuds, the views, the misty green monsoons and<br />
the clear October skies. I was drawn back to <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
through an email sent to alumni announcing<br />
a job opening to work as part of the admissions team,<br />
focusing on student recruitment around the world.<br />
At the time I was working long hours as a corporate<br />
finance lawyer in London, and had been hankering<br />
after something different. This role seemed like<br />
a good fit for me. I greatly value the education I received<br />
at <strong>Woodstock</strong>, and I felt that the wonderful<br />
opportunity <strong>Woodstock</strong> offers students in combining<br />
academic excellence with a well-rounded social and<br />
cultural education, all in the beautiful surroundings<br />
of the Indian Himalaya, was one which I would<br />
be keen to promote. Although moving from corporate<br />
law to school admissions was a big change, I’m<br />
happy I took the plunge. I love being back in these<br />
mountains, and I am enjoying being part of the<br />
community here. A lot of what makes this school so<br />
special is its students - the diversity of cultures, religions,<br />
backgrounds, abilities, talents and dreams<br />
they each bring with them. It is a privilege to be part<br />
of the admissions team, seeking to ensure <strong>Woodstock</strong><br />
continues to have a wonderful, motivated and diverse<br />
student body, and seeing individual lives transformed<br />
and horizons widened with each new intake<br />
of students to <strong>Woodstock</strong>.