Annual Report
The State of the School
Parents, Alumni and Friends of LWS,
As we present Lowell Whiteman School’s Annual Report for 2006-07 and I complete my eighth year as a trustee of the school, I look back with pride on what the school administration, the faculty and the school’s trustees have accomplished in the last decade and forward with excitement to the school’s immediate and distant future.
This issue of the Experience, which includes the school’s annual report for 2006-07, illustrates that the school has never been stronger financially, that enrollment is solid, and that LWS is thriving as a unique independent, college preparatory school. LWS has completed eight of its last nine fiscal years with a modest positive cash flow, we are hitting our enrollment targets, and students benefit from purposeful, well-designed programs and a talented, versatile, committed faculty.
Critical to the continuing development of the school’s programs and to the recruitment and retention of the faculty and students that comprise the Lowell Whiteman School experience each year are the facilities and spaces we provide for those programs, those faculty and those students.
In the last issue of the Experience, in “A Sense of Place”, we shared our progress with the development of the school’s next campus plan. Now, with two years of contributions from alumni, friends, current and past parents, trustees, student, staff and faculty behind us, we have developed a comprehensive campus plan, Building on the Experience: Pride of Place. The plan envisions a campus that will contribute to The Lowell Whiteman Experiences for the next 50 years.
At its meeting in late August, just as students were arriving for the school year, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously and enthusiastically to accept the plan and to move forward with it. Then, on January 17, the Routt County Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve the plan and grant the school the Conditional Use Permit required to proceed with the plan.
I am pleased to be able to share this progress with you. While this current issue of the Experience reviews the past year, the Spring issue will focus on looking forward and Building on the Experience: Pride of Place.
As ever,
Mary Ewing, Board Chair 2000 – 2008