We officially broke ground on the new language and performing arts building last Monday, May 19!  It was a thoroughly Tarrier event!  On a chilly but sunny morning, all the students came together on the lawn outside of the west wing of the Upper School.  Bill White served as emcee, leading a skit involving a variety of auguste CWA personages (modesty prevents me from going into too much detail here!).  A bunch of scary monsters (bearing an uncanny resemblance to members of the faculty and staff) came out of the Upper School and did the Monster Dance to the delight of all, but particularly those in Lower School.  The whole thing was short and sweet, and full of the kind of whimsical humor that characterizes our school.  The tone was wonderfully warm.  All then retired to lunch on the lawn.

One of the most difficult parts of the atmosphere at CWA to explain is our sense of humor.  Those who spend any time at the school feel it in their bones, but it’s hard to characterize.  Two phrases help, but do not thoroughly convey its essence: “it’s hard to be a pompous ass at Charles Wright” and “at CWA, we take what we DO seriously, but we don’t take OURSELVES too seriously!”  Those who know founder Sam Brown know exactly where we got our sense of humor from!  We feel it is such an important part of who we are and we incorporated by reference to it in our last revision of the mission statement.