Fifty years ago, James Cavanaugh, Peter Figgie, and Charles Drake stood very near to where my office is today, looked at a hillside with nothing more than a colonial home, a barn, and an orchard, and saw the opportunity to build something remarkable. They saw a place where human diversity would be a cause for celebration rather than a path to certain failure, where students would compete against their own past performance instead of some arbitrary standard, and where teachers would be given the tools for true innovation. Standing on this spot fifty years ago, they could see the dream of Eagle Hill emerging, and in that moment they became the founders of this great school.
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