Alumni Spotlight

Scanning 50 Years of Life at The Meher Schools The first personal computer came to market the same year The Meher Schools was founded—1975. We got our first computer in 1983, when Apple Computer donated a computer (an Apple IIe) to every school in California. For the first few years, we used ours only to maintain class lists. Gradually we began to incorporate Access and Excel for some of our record keeping, but we still had to use paper forms to gather information. A major tu

Meet Sidney the Snake and her human friend Jess, Meher School parent and alumna! Jess, a naturalist from East Bay Regional Parks District, visited some elementary classes this week to teach students about native animals and their habitats. In addition to getting to pet Sidney, students compared teeth of carnivores and herbivores, felt coyote fur, observed a taxidermy acorn woodpecker, and deepened their understandings of the natural world we live in.

I was in one of the first classes at The Meher Schools. It was at a church called Saint Anselm’s in Lafayette. I was in the second...

How the search for a school for a very special girl led to the founding of the school whose 50th anniversary we celebrate this year. On...

Teacher’s New Book Celebrates Each Child’s Unique Contribution Most children feel at least a little nervous as a new school year...

That’s Meher School graduate Jewel Roemer on the cover of Skipshot, the official publication of USA Water Polo. Jewel, a Stanford senior...

A parent recently expressed concern about her child graduating from Meher School and entering a public middle school because, as she...

Founders Day 2023 Founders Day, February 25, marks the shared birthdays of our school and its founders, Ivy O. Duce and the Indian...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/01/01/san-francisco-flooding-rainfall-record/ Have you seen the photo in the article linked...

Meet Mari Pongkhamsing, our new librarian. Mari has been a student and a parent and a teacher at The Meher Schools and has worked here on...

Meher Schools graduate Alexander M. M. Uballez was sworn in on May 24 as the U.S. attorney for the District of New Mexico. Alex was...

Meher School alumnus Colin MacKie knows video games inside out – literally. He’s been designing them for nearly 25 years and has worked...

Room 10 first grade teacher Laura White announced to her class last week that she’s going to have a baby. Once they got over their...

When she was a student in our fourth grade, Amy Weinstein told her mother that her teacher, Christie Vinson, was one of her best friends....

Second grade teacher Karima Hastings was at wit’s end. It was March 2020, and thrust practically overnight into remote teaching, she was...

Including the spring and summer, there are 22 Meher Schools staff members who attended the school as children. We asked this special...

In our last issue, we noted that 22 of our staff members are Meher Schools alumni. Now that Brenda Barnhart has returned to the fold,...

Including the spring and summer, there are 22 Meher Schools staff members who attended the school as children. We asked this special...

“No way. I NEVER want to be a teacher.” This is how Elementary Co-Principal Vince d’Assis says his elementary self would have responded...

Marine Scientist, New Mom Earlier this year we told you about “Zebo,” the gazebo on the hill behind Room 6 that was built by an all-girl...