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- Jun, 1993 Issue #22 |
ECHO SPRINGS
A Center for Transition Study
Doug Kim-Brown, Executive Director
Sandpoint, Idaho
208-265-0207 (FAX 208-263-6908 )
Doug Kim-Brown,
Headmaster of Rocky Mountain Academy from 1988 until
1993, has announced plans for a new academic and experiential
center which will focus on college-age students who are seeking
a clearer direction for their lives.
In the lockstep progression from
high school to college and from college to their first jobs,
many young adults who are otherwise healthy, emotionally and
socially, suffer from anxiety about finding their places in
the world, about discovering how they want to contribute their
working lives, about developing skills that will support them
and that they will enjoy employing.
The Echo Springs Center for Transition
Study will provide a setting in which important discoveries
of self can be made by young adults in transition. By combining
coursework, testing, guidance, peer counseling, and internships,
the center will lay the foundation from which its graduates
can launch their lives.
Executive Director Doug Kim-Brown
emphasizes that Echo Springs is a departure from the students
he has worked with in the past. "The students at Echo Springs
will be making a choice to take a brief time out from their
formal academic experience in order to gain a better perspective
on their life's goals and needs. They are not students in
need of the intense structure and treatment that is available
at Hilltop or North Star."
The Center is located on a 160-acre
ranch in a rolling valley in Bonner County, Idaho,
10 miles southeast of Sandpoint. There are three main
buildings on the property, as well as a large garden and an
orchard. Since the property adjoins a National Forest, there
will be ample opportunities for backpacking, hiking, trail
rides, and cross-country skiing. The Center's students can
take full advantage of the cultural and educational opportunities
of Sandpoint and the surrounding area.
Before Executive Director Doug
Kim-Brown became headmaster of Rocky Mountain Academy, he
served as the head of the CEDU School in Running
Springs, California. He has also served as the Head of
the Upper School at RMA, co-directed two San Francisco
schools, and maintained a practice as an educational consultant.
Mary Weber-Quinn, the
Assistant Director has been an experiential education consultant
with a Colorado School District where she managed a wildlife
refuge and developed the district's environmental education
program. She has worked the last 6 years with the faculty
at Rocky Mountain Academy, most recently as the Director of
the Academic Program.
The Center's Director of Studies
is Sharon B. Kreider. Sharon has extensive training
in dance, fitness, creative arts and counseling. She has taught
and consulted for over 13 years and has worked 8 years as
a counselor.
Copyright
© 1993, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This article may be reproduced
without prior approval if the copyright notice and proper
publication and author attribution accompanies the copy.)
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