Suzanne Grush Crow, who graduated from The Avery Coonley School in 1935, recently visited campus. The school facilities have expanded in the intervening seventy-five years, but one landmark that remains the same is the barn that Suzanne and her fellow students helped to build. In the early 1930s, when our current location was still brand-new, goats, rabbits, and chickens were an integral part of school life. In order to give the animals a fitting home, students undertook a three-year project to plan and construct the barn.
A description and photograph of the construction project appeared in Finding Wisdom: Chronicles of a School of Today (published in 1938), and the photograph was reproduced in our recent history publication, A Simple Wish: The First Century of The Avery Coonley School. Suzanne is one of the students in this iconic photograph (3rd from the right), so it was most fitting that she was again photographed, nearly eight decades later, by the barn. We thank Suzanne and her daughter Pat for sharing this wonderful piece of living history with us!
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Suzanne Grush Crow, who graduated from The Avery Coonley School in 1935, recently visited campus. The school facilities have expanded in the intervening seventy-five years, but one landmark that remains the same is the barn that Suzanne and her fellow students helped to build. In the early 1930s, when our current location was still brand-new, goats, rabbits, and chickens were an integral part of school life. In order to give the animals a fitting home, students undertook a three-year project to plan and construct the barn. 