Welcome
Thank you for visiting High Mowing School online. As someone who attended High Mowing, you are considered a life-long member of this community — wherever you are, High Mowing is with you!
Check back soon — we will be launching an online Alumni/ae portal, where you can log in and stay in touch with classmates. We will also be linking with a revamped High Mowing Alumni/ae Facebook page, where you can get up-to-date news and event info from HMS.
Save the date: Alumni/ae Weekend 2010 will happen June 18-20!
Contact the
alumni/ae office, 603 654-9408 ext. 115, for help in getting their class back to Abbot Hill.
We hope you will stay in touch with the school and friends from your high school years. Please stop into the Emmet House is you are in the area — we would love to see you and hear about your life after HMS.
Ways to Keep in Touch
- Send us your current contact information.
- Send us your news for The Weathervane, our alumni/ae newsletter. Let your classmates know about important and fun events or accomplishments in your life.
- Call Heather Cochrane, Director of Alumni/ae Relations, at 603 654-9408 exr. 105..
- Mail to Heather Cochrane, Director of Alumni/ae Relations, High Mowing School, 222 Isaac Frye Highway, Wilton, NH 03086.
When I Stood in the Big Room Fifty Years Ago
Excerpt from Hartley NEEL's '59 Chapel Talk, June 14, 2009
When I stood in this Big Room 50 years
ago, I was 17. I was looking entirely into my future. Most of my life
stretched ahead — and only in my imagination. . . .
I
look back now and ask how much am I still the person I was at 17. How
much have I changed? What has allowed me to deal with life’s
experiences and what has determined how those experiences have
contoured my personality? I look back now to what has molded me, and I
come back to this place I now stand — this Big Room, this campus, this
rare few acres called High Mowing.
It
is here that I was encouraged to be me. Education here was not about
forcing me to conform to a role that broke me and re-molded me, but
rather it was an education that inspired me to want to develop MYSELF
into an individual who would present something wonderful to the world
that by way of MY individuality would be worthwhile, would be creative,
would transform and enlighten. I was given the strength to believe in
ME, so that the experiences of the world would not break me but would
contour me, and I in turn would have the strength and self-confidence
to persevere.
This is what I thank High Mowing for.
I thank High Mowing, I thank Mrs. Emmet who had the dream to create
this school and I thank the dedicated teachers who believed so much in
allowing me and encouraging me to be who I was that I gained a belief
in myself.
Read the Full Chapel Talk
Cary Hughes, Richard NEEL '57 and Hartley NEEL '59, after Hartley's
chapel talk at Alumni Weekend 2009. Richard played the piano and Cary
gave a talk, too.
