Parents

How About Those Parents...

As the Hilltop community finds itself at the end of the fall term it is easy and natural to turn our attention to the accomplishments and growth of the students, and we surely will. After all they have been awfully hard at work and play. But there is another group of Hilltoppers who has also been quite active and curious and helpful: the parents. So parents, before the semester passes into holidays and becomes a distant memory thanks must be given for all that couldn't have been accomplished without you.

Cheers to the parents…

for taking on the new school year with a willingness to be flexible and open to new policies, patterns, and routines when you may have felt the old ones were just fine the way they were.
for the painted shelves and walls, clean windows and clean tables, newly hung bulletin boards and window shades, and for simply launching us into the school year with a revived sense of community and readiness.
for your generous help in creating the Wheeler Fund for Staff Development. Your donations are already hard at work for Hilltop.
for your generous support of the Middle School's micro-economies and ambitious fund raising goals.

…and here's to…

the Hilltop Parents Association for its time, feedback, material making, and most of all the baked goodies for the Staff Thank You Party.
everyone who shops for food and washes linens so that they seem to just magically appear on demand.
the Board of Trustees, individually and collectively, for all their time, time, time and commitment to making Hilltop a better place now and into the future.
the chaperones and drivers who ushered students near and far on field trips, to sports events, and back again.
those who toil on one rather anonymous committee or another helping us get it all done behind the scenes.
all those amateur and professional photographers who have helped capture many of those magic moments when we were looking the other way or couldn't make it to an event.

…let's not forget…

all the parent coaches and refs.
those magicians of the annual benefit auction. Springtime may be but a distant hope but they are already hard at work making this year's event better than ever.
Everyone who has already contributed to the Annual Fund. Because of you the Appeal is off to its strongest start ever.

…and a special thanks to…

Leland Jannen Smith, President of the Board of Trustees, who continues to distinguish herself for a level of dedication to Hilltop that is both inspiring and humbling.

And to all of you in the parent community who do so many of the little things, and provide so many of those small, daily acts of kindness and generosity that ripple through our days as big things…please take a bow!