Vince d’Assis’s first memory as a White Pony student was riding in this cart around the campus where he would one day be elementary co-principal. “I must have been about one year old,” he says. (We had an infant-toddler program in those days.)
Two of Vince’s classmates from the Meher School Class of 1998—Brenda Barnhart, who teaches second grade, and Warren Wallace, our director of admissions—were in preschool with him. They don’t remember the cart, but chances are they were shuttled around on it too. Cart rides were a happy feature in our preschool for many years.
Over time, though, teachers grew weary of the constant flat tires and stopped using it to ferry children. In the years since, it's sometimes been decorated and used for special events, like Halloween. On one such occasion, our long-time beloved art teacher Diane (“3-B”) Cobb painted bunnies and flowers on it, which are visible in the above photo. It’s also been used at times to store nap blankets and extra toys. But since it took up precious space and served no specific purpose, we decided the time had come to let go of it.
Yesterday Vince and Brenda, with Warren at the helm, went for one last ride. The cart’s next—and final—trip will be to a landfill site near Pittsburg.
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