The World Keeps Getting Smaller

As you may have heard, the Headmaster has been in England for the last few days. Last Thursday night I caught a train up to London and had dinner with Dr. Flanagan and another long-time friend, Michael Miller, director of external affairs for the American School in London.

This morning, the always busy Dr. Flanagan stopped at Caterham on his way to Gatwick Airport and back to WRA. The two of us met briefly with Caterham's new headmaster, Julian Thomas. We talked about next month's arrival at Reserve of 12 Caterham students for their two-week visit beginning October 19.

As a final point on the meeting, how about this? A former student had asked me recently to write a letter of recommendation for his application to study history at the University of Oxford. The application is due at the end of this week and needs to be included with the rest of his application materials. So, even though Caterham is about 50 miles from Oxford, I handed the recommendation off to Dr. Flanagan, he put it in his briefcase, it's now going with him back to Hudson where it will be picked up by the student, and then mailed back to Oxford -- total distance traveled by the time it gets there will be north of 6,000 miles!