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Chapel Talk, 2003 February 19: Asking Questions / John Burk

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Through an examination of Walt Whitman's poem, The Learn'd Astronomer, physics teacher John Burk discusses the deeper and expanding understanding that comes of asking questions...

Chapel Talk, 2003 May 11 / Tad Roach

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In this talk, Tad opens by welcoming Billy Peebles to St. Andrew's School as our speak...

Chapel Talk, 2003 May 21 / Tad Roach

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Headmaster Tad Roach honors the incomparable Nan Mein, who officially retired at the end of the 2003 school year.

Chapel Talk, 2003: Building Houses / Peter Caldwell

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In telling of building sand castles, tree houses, and his own house in Vermont, Assistant Headmaster Peter Caldwell ponders what a sense of place provides.

Chapel Talk, 2002 December 2 / Tad Roach

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"St. Andrew's was born to follow a different, more difficult path than its prestigious cousins...

Chapel Talk, 2002 January 9: Christmas Eve / Will Speers

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This chapel talk reflects on the Christmases as the Speers celebrated it with those who joined in the annual celebration and rituals.

Chapel Talk, 2002 April 4: Remarks for Hoover Sutton / Will Speers

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Remarks for Hoover Sutton's memorial service held at the First Presbyterian Church in New Canaan, Connecticut. Hoover Sutton taught drama and counseled at St. Andrew's from 1980 until 1993. He died in the winter of 2002...

Chapel Talk, 2002 May 3: Humiliation / Will Speers

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This talk examines what it means to be humiliated and what can be learned in facing humiliation. "It seems that humiliation has the potential to create knowledge, even if the transformation is painful, devastating, frightening."

Chapel Talk, 2002 October 2: Car Trips / Will Speers

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The confines of a car, or other small space, can lead "not only to fights and tension and cars pulling over in the breakdown lane, but also to conversations, conversations that start friendships or clarify emotions or assert care
and love and even c..

Chapel Talk, 2002 January 30/ Tad Roach

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In this talk, Headmaster Tad Roach outlines the criteria for "a community of hope, of goodness" as opposed to one that settles "for lower standards, expectations, diminished codes of conduct." The School is challenged to be a great community.

"The..

Chapel Talk, 2002 April 10 / Tad Roach

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Headmaster Tad Roach speaks of a discussion held with Emory College President Bill Chace, in which Mr...

Chapel Talk, 2002 May 19 / Tad Roach

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In this final talk of the School year 2001-2002 held at Old St. Anne's Church, Headmaster Tad Roach reflects on the loss of Ches Baum, Hoover Sutton and Robert Jordan'86...

Chapel Talk, 2002 September 11 / Tad Roach

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Headmaster Tad Roach commemorates the events of September 11, 2001. Included are Poems by Galway Kinnell and Rupert Brook, as well as a quotation of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

Chapel Talk, 2002 October / Tad Roach

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Headmaster Tad Roach discusses empathy and citizenship as manifested in the form of Community Service. "Service is not an expression of selfishness on the part of the volunteer. It is not an expression of condescension, superiority and elitism...

Chapel Talk, 2002 May 2: A Sense of Place / Elizabeth Roach

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In this talk, English teacher Elizabeth Roach speaks of the powerful connection between memory and place. Originally published in May 2002 issue of The Garth.

Chapel Talk, 2002 September 25 / Bob Colburn

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In this talk, chemistry teacher and baseball coach Bob Colburn proposes ways for getting along well in this School community, offering many suggestions for maintaining a strong communal environment...

Chapel Talk, 2002 / Dana Byrd

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History teacher Dana Byrd provides her interpretation of two N.C. Wyeth images: the infamous mural in the dining hall and Pilgrims, a mural featured in the Metropolitan Life Building.

Chapel Talk, 2002 October 27: Educating With All Your Heart / David DeSalvo

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On Parents Weekend, Chaplain David DeSalvo speaks of Jesus as teacher - "one can tell that when he is talking about the kingdom of God, that teaching is the most extraordinary thing about him." The example set is that in teaching and raising children..

Chapel Talk, 2002 October 16 / Peter Caldwell

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In relaying his coming to love and his passion for opera, Assistant Headmaster Peter Caldwell speaks of the need for time to explore and develop passions of one's own. High school, he suggests, is an ideal time for that discovery.

Chapel Talk, 2001 February 7: Questions # 2 / Will Speers

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In this talk, Will reflects on the power of asking questions; about asking difficult questions; and about leading meaningful lives. This talk is a revision of one given ten years earlier, titled Questions # 1.

Chapel Talk, 2001 April 18: Knitting / Nan Mein

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Nan Mein, Faculty Member, talks of why she knits, closing with 5 points: "Our lives must be knitted together in community to be strong...; Good work takes time; Knitting for someone else carries love and prayer; Working with your hands disciplines t..

Chapel Talk, 2001 April 27: Letting Go / Will Speers

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Reflections on letting go: "... I have lived here for 22 years, half of my life, and practically had to be fired just to take a sabbatical. Before coming to St. Andrew’s, I lived with my family in the same house for the previous 22 years of my life...

Chapel Talk, 2001 September 26: Fear / Will Speers

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Talk given after the September 11 Terrorist Attacks. "We can’t run away from fear or the events of this world...

Chapel Talk, 2001 March 28 / Tad Roach

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Headmaster Tad Roach speaks on the nature of sexual relationships that occur without love, without rational thought, with pressure. "I am...concerned about the way sexual relationships begin, develop and end in our culture...

Chapel Talk, 2001 May 20 / Tad Roach

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Headmaster Tad Roach reflects on the end of the School year 2000-2001: "What elements, what forces have held us back from achieving more, learning more, loving more, aspiring to more?"

Chapel Talk, 2001 September 9/ Tad Roach

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Headmaster Tad Roach discusses the significance of historian Professor Joseph Ellis's fabrication of military service: "Professor Ellis wanted the badge of honor of being a war veteran and ironically risked his reputation and identity as a scholar in..

Chapel Talk, 2001 September 19 / Tad Roach

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Headmaster Tad Roach gave this talk to the School community after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and relates the School's response to those events...

Chapel Talk, 2001 October 10 / Tad Roach

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Headmaster Tad Roach outlines the facts of the September 11 terrorist attacks as is known at the time, and defines topics of national discussion during this conflict "which is as dangerous as it is complex." "So many questions now demand our attenti..

Chapel Talk, 2001 October 24 / Nathan Costa

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Classics teacher Nathan Costa imparts the importance of patience in pursuing justice while grieving the recent terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Chapel Talk, 2001, December 12 / Aimeclaire Roche

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Classics teacher Aimeclaire Roche struggles with "making room" for Christ, and getting into the Christmas spirit.

Chapel Talk, 2000 September 27: Time and Birthdays / Will Speers

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"This school, and primarily the students through my 22 years here, take birthdays seriously..." Contained in this talk is the story of how the school community celebrated Tad Roach's 23rd birthday.

Chapel Talk, 2000 January 26: Remarks on Martin Luther King Jr. Day / Tad Roach

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In discussing privilege in American and boarding school life, Headmaster Tad Roach asserts: "We can easily develop the habit of seeing the world and its inhabitants only to feed our own personal desires"; and that "we are lucky to live amidst such be..