Favorite BCD Memory
At the 65th Anniversary Celebration, several alumni shared their favorite BCD memory. Click on their names below to read their stories and click here to share your own.
I attended BCD in the very early years in the original building on the Lenox School campus and then in the building where BCD moved, which was across from Trinity Church where there now are apartments. The first and second grade shared one class room with each class sitting around a table. Our teacher was Ruth Potter. The members of my First Grade class were Romi Whitman, Clover Swann, Buddy Jastram, Christopher Hallowell and me, Ilene Rubin. Houston Stokes was in an “older class” and I think Sylvia Stokes was in the 2nd or 3rd grade at that time. We spent many recesses playing under the large pine trees, and on the play ground. There were wonderful Spring Fairs attended by the families of all the students. Some of the other students who were at BCD in the early years who I recall are Carol and Stephen Hibbard, Rozie Dana, Margo Hallowell, Mikie Hart, Christine Jastram, Jane Birchard, Judy Kinney. My sister Judy joined me at BCD a few years later. We all remember Mrs. Cowhig and sitting on the ledge near the windows doing our times tables forwards and backwards and practicing our penmanship!! I recall putting on plays on a grassy shaded area in the Spring ! BCD holds some very fond memories from the early years!
how can i have one favorite BCD memory? i loved all my time here. one that’s stuck in my mind right now was a couple weeks ago. a french teenage girl visited the school for the day and spent it with the 9th grade. we showed her around to all the classes and she was so sweet, her name was antonia. when i went with my friend halina to plant sunflowers with the kindergarten she came with us. she taught them the french word for sunflowers. now everytime we visit them to see how the flowers are growing, they tell us the “tournesol” have grown. i just love that our school gives us the opportunity to work with the younger students and be exposed to someone who lives in such a different way then we do.
another great memory was the entire france and spain trip. loved that trip and i love my classmates.
another great memory was the entire france and spain trip. loved that trip and i love my classmates.
I can’t count the number of people I’ve brought to the Brook Farm Campus, hoping to share with them the beauty and greatness of BCD.
My favorite BCD memory is the first day of kindergarten, my first day at BCD, when I walked across an empty playground towards a lone figure of a dark-haired girl on a swing. I asked her if her name was Susan. I told her she looked like a Susan. She said, no it was Sara, which seemed close enough to me. Sara and I have been the best of friends ever since that moment. Though she left BCD before I did and our lives took divergent paths, we still talk at least every few weeks and see each other every chance we get, laughing over all the girlie games we used to play.
