Holton Athletics Celebrates a Historic Spring Season
This season will go down in history. Back on February 24, the first day of winter sports tryouts, no one would have guessed just how historic this spring would be. Not because of records set, team...
View ArticleHead's Notes - Uplifting Others, Uplifting Ourselves
Some of my favorite stories about the Holton community’s experience during the pandemic have been those featuring girls and families helping others during this difficult time: PUNCH organizing...
View ArticleHead's Notes - Rethinking, Reimagining Amid a Singular School Year
This school year promises to be truly unprecedented in every way. Running school with a modicum of safety in the context of a highly contagious virus involves an extraordinary level of complexity; we...
View ArticleHead's Notes - A Closer Look at the 19th Amendment and Its Complex History
Both my grandmothers were born in 1899, one in April and the other in December. The older of the two, whom I called Ahmie, turned 21 in 1920 well ahead of Election Day that November. At the time of her...
View ArticleHead's Notes - Gratitude in the Time of COVID-19
Thanksgiving prompts us to pause and consider all that we have to be grateful for. As many of you know, I try to practice gratitude throughout the year by keeping a gratitude journal. The pandemic has...
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