With opening greetings from Gil Chilton and a farewell by Grace Melchiore, both of whom are closing their USN careers after many years, the 2015 Commencement ceremony was especially moving.
The lively stretch that started with ribbon cutting last August as we entered a new year in a new way concludes with graduation on the Peabody green this Sunday. How did it happen and what comes next?
On Friday, May 1, a panel of middle and high school members of ALBANIE will convene to begin the alumni reunion and Centennial birthday party weekend with a discussion of "The State of Diversity at USN."
USN's Centennial celebration has meant more than just big celebrations and interesting panel discussions--our 100th birthday has inspired us to catalogue and organize our treasure trove of archival material, with some of it now available online.
"For nearly a century, University School of Nashville has stood as a symbol of progress. It's one of the city's oldest schools and was once on the front lines of the city's civil rights movement."
"It began as the vision of a 27-year-old graduate student, in the basement of a psychology building at Peabody College.
There, Richard Thomas Alexander, who years later became a nationally renowned educator, laid the foundation for Peabody Demonstration School, a place for aspiring teachers that he boldly — the story goes — stated would "surpass all others."