The 2020-2021 school year has come to an end. As a school, we have prepared to say goodbye to our graduating senior class by honoring their academic, athletic, and leadership accomplishments. However this year, along with the outgoing Montrose Class of 2021, we say goodbye to our headmistress, Dr. Bohlin. On Wednesday June 9, the school gathered to honor Dr. Bohlin in a form that would be most valuable to her, through poetry. A student from each grade stood in front of the podium to share the poem of their choice with Dr. Bohlin and the school....

My first glimpse of Montrose School was from the bumpy back parking lot on a muggy spring evening in 2014, long before I knew that I would one day call Montrose my home. The sunset glowed over the unfamiliar landscape where my dad and I stood together. I reached out to hold his hand, even though I knew sixth graders were supposed to be too old for that.  “You see those big buildings?” my dad asked me. I looked around, feeling confused. My dad was supposed to be taking me to my first appointment at Medfield Dental, and I felt fairly...

With my sister as a senior this year, I don’t think a day passed when I didn’t hear someone in my house bring up graduation. Whether it was conversations about all of the Montrose memories she had made, or how “old” she felt, Lucy’s reflections on her Montrose experience and observations about being a senior made me feel more and more attached to this year’s senior class. I had even been to Montrose graduations before, when my older cousins,  Molly Cahill ‘16 and Nora Cahill ‘19, graduated not too long ago. The magic of this year’s...