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Tommy Robertshaw ’ 10 Gives Special Mother-Son Event Chapel
Saint David ’ s welcomed back Tommy Robertshaw ’ 10 to deliver a Chapel talk at one of Saint David ’ s special traditions , the Mother-Son Chapel . The annual Chapel gathers our Fifth Grade boys and their mothers or mother figures for a special , shared experience ; a Chapel talk by a young alumnus who reflects upon the role his mother has played in his life .
Tommy ’ s talk is featured below :
One of my very early memories is from Kindergarten , making gold and red streamers out of construction paper in the back yard — right out there — for the school ’ s Golden Jubilee – its 50th birthday . Now the school is 72 and I ’ m 26 . But this room is exactly the same .
And so is this : All that we can be , all that we will be , all we are began in thee . O alma mater , fostering parent , hail to thee Saint David ’ s School .
Can anyone tell me what “ alma mater ” translates to ? It means nourishing mother – the song goes with fostering parent , that ’ s pretty close . But today is about the moms . When
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