From our Head of School:

We are rapidly approaching the opening of The Oliverian School on Tuesday, September 7, 2004. It’s hard to believe that our three year design phase will be over, and soon there will be students finding their way around our beautiful 1,800-acre campus. In an ongoing effort to help keep you informed about newly hired faculty, conferences attended by our Design Team, renovations to the physical plant, and any other newsworthy items, we’re starting to make weekly updates to the “news section” on our web page. I hope you’ll find it interesting and informative. Please feel free to call me at school if there are any questions I can answer for you.

In April, we finished renovating the buildings on the west end of campus. Click on the photos for bigger pictures.

The Creamery

The Creamery, the former hub of "commerce" in the village of Pike, NH is our admissions office. Newly renovated this year, it is a comfortable, cozy spot where our guests are warmly welcomed. Barclay, Mike, and Barrie currently have their offices in this building until renovations to the academic center are completed. A few decades ago, Pike residents would exchange empty milk bottles for full ones and pick up any other needed dairy products from this quaint building rich in history. As part of the "Local History" project students will turn the wall space into a local museum to help preserve the history of Pike Village.

The Farm House

The Farm House is one of 5 student dorms and faculty apartments to be renovated. This 3,600 square-foot dorm has 7 bedrooms, two full bathrooms, a large common area, and in-house laundry facilities. It will be home for as many as 8 of our older girls. A two-bedroom staff apartment is attached to the dorm where the dorm parents will reside. The apartment has a private entrance, bath, kitchen, two bedrooms and a lofted living area.

The Oliverian School has hired its faculty for the 2004 school year. Here are the first two staff members in our "faculty of the week" series.

Chad Marriott is a living mosaic of education. On the road to a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Utah and a master's degree in outdoor recreation from Indiana University, Chad studied engineering, chemistry, technical writing, literature, education, and public administration. To top it off, he spent the summer of 1999 studying Shakespeare at Cambridge University in England. Chad spent two years as a live-in residence hall supervisor and will be an assistant instructor at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in Maine during the summer months. He's a Virgo who enjoys international travel, long hikes in the desert, and spending time with his fiancee, Lizzy. Chad will be teaching English at Oliverian and is also part of the adventure faculty.



Jessica Ross graduated with a B.A. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard, where she learned perhaps even more from her extracurriculars than from the classes themselves. After working with Harvard's First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP) for four years, she was hooked on outdoor expeditions. With her love of geology and of the outdoors, she left her college experience in search of adventure on a NOLS trip in Patagonia, followed by a job working at the Sargent Center for Outdoor Education and a third summer of trip-leading at Camp Merrowvista. Jessica hopes to translate all the best parts of her previous programs and experiences to the exciting creation of the Oliverian School Community this fall. Jessica will be teaching science and is also part of the adventure faculty.