As we navigate the Covid-19 pandemic, we share President William Lahey’s messages to the community.
As we navigate the Covid-19 pandemic, we share President William Lahey’s messages to the community.
Dear members of the King’s community, As we move deeper into the holiday season, I take this moment to offer you my heartfelt best wishes. At the hot chocolate social we held on December 7 to mark the end of term, Dr. Daniel Brandes spoke of a rest that is not merely the cessation of…
Dear members of the King’s Community, At the conclusion of this long year, I send you a short message to mark its end and to anticipate the better year to come. Whatever this year has thrown at us, it has also brought us together in new ways, strengthened relationships, and united us in our dedication…
Dear King’s community, I have not written to you since ending my weekly letters during the first months of the pandemic. Since then, we have each faced challenges, amplified by isolation. Nonetheless, despite COVID-19 and all its complications and uncertainties, I hope the warm balm of the summer months helped to buoy your hope and…
For the past eight Fridays, I have been sending you a letter. This will be the last of these weekly letters. From here, I will be writing less regularly as we all shift from our response to the first wave of this pandemic to living with COVID-19 under the reopening plans that are being developed…
Recently, I received this note from a King’s parent: “Our family welcomed our daughter back from her FYP experience a month ago. She is hale and hearty, and perhaps even more importantly, she is full to the brim with a new confidence and fresh insights into literature, history, and current events. Despite a fall hurricane,…
Happy May Day. As I write, I am reminded of my student days at Oxford, where the ancient observance of May Day continues, starting with the singing at 6 a.m. of a hymn from the Tower of Magdalen College. As I recall it, as the beautiful sound of that singing reached us below, the sun…
This week, our preoccupation with COVID-19 and how it has and will affect our community was brutally interrupted by overwhelming disbelief, sadness and grief at the murder of our fellow Nova Scotians. Six days ago, our province lost 22 loved and loving people who have been said to “epitomize Nova Scotia’s neighbourly, service-minded society.” They…
In a previous message, I shared our concern about the financial impacts of COVID-19 on our students and their ability to begin or continue their university education at King’s. So far, 22 students have applied for and received bursaries from the Student Emergency Relief Fund we announced on Friday, March 13 – the day we…
I hope you are all bearing up through the pressure, anxiety and isolation of these unusual days. A few days ago, as I looked out on a radiant spring day, I wrote in an email that we were simultaneously experiencing the best of spring and the worst of relentless bad news. Today, the sun is…
