I look back now and ask how much am I still the person I was at 17. How much have I changed? What has allowed me to deal with life’s experiences and what has determined how those experiences have contoured my personality?  I look back now to what has molded me, and I come back to this place I now stand–this Big Room, this campus, this rare  few acres called High Mowing.

It is here that I was encouraged to be me. Education here was not about forcing me to conform to a role that broke me and re-molded me, but rather it was an education that inspired me to want to develop MYSELF into an individual who would present something wonderful to the world that by way of MY individuality would be worthwhile, would be creative, would transform and enlighten. I was given the strength to believe in ME, so that the experiences of the world would not break me but would contour me, and I in turn would have the strength and self-confidence to persevere.

This is what I thank High Mowing for. I thank High Mowing, I thank Mrs. Emmet who had the dream to create this school and I thank the dedicated teachers who believed so much in allowing me and encouraging me to be who I was that I gained a belief in myself. 

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