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...board by board (including the labor and encouragement of all the classes) on the Concord Academy campus. With Hall as Head, Concord students learned that women could run tractors, paint clapboards, participate in town meetings, pursue dreams. The possibilities of action were unlimited. It was this spirit that attracted Drew to Concord Academy...
...fall of 1960, the Concord Academy teachers were alerted to the arrival of a new freshman boarder from a small town in Virginia. She was only 12 years old, about to be 13. It seemed likely that she would be homesick, unsure of herself, slow to make friends. Drew Gilpin—known in high school simply as Drewdie—was none of those things...
...boarding department, Drew was a leader, though never flamboyantly so. Solid, dependable, inventive, and sensitive to the needs and moods of adults and kids alike, she was able to win the trust of not just her dorm-mates but others as well. Somehow, instinctively, she knew the difference between plotting in fun to paint the bathtubs blue and going out to buy the paint...
...sense of the limits of pranks saved not only her, but also often her more foolish friends and colleagues, from disaster. Having won the confidence of her peers, in the spring of her junior year Drew was elected senior class president, a role even more influential in the lives of others than president of the school council...
...beginning of Drew’s senior year, Hall unexpectedly resigned as Head of the Academy, and David Aloian took her place. His experience included not girls’ but boys’ schools, such as Exeter and Belmont Hill. Among those from whom he sought advice, Drew was one of the most useful in explaining quirky customs and rituals such as “Tripe Night”—the threat of serving tripe instead of turkey at Thanksgiving dinner, the savings to be donated to the poor—and alerting him to the surprise party...