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REmembering the Merger

Fifty years of co-education at Ransom Everglades

The countercultural movement and free-spirited attitudes that characterized the late ’60s and early ’70s swept dramatically through the Everglades School for Girls and Ransom School for boys. The influence of hippie fashion, equal-rights quests, war protests and other hallmarks of the times sparked conversations and tugged at long-held rules and traditions at the close-knit girls’ school along South Bayshore and the genteel boys’ school on Main Highway.

It was amid those changing times that discussions about a possible merger between the schools evolved into an agreement to unite as Ransom-Everglades School. The November 1973 decision that altered the course of history for both schools landed relatively softly in an era of institutional transition and upheaval across the nation. Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth and Brown had recently moved to full coeducation, and private high schools around the country were following suit.

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List of 2 news stories.

  • Joshua Williams ’18

    Fighting Hunger 2.0

    Sofia Andrade ’19
    Joshua Williams ’18 sharpens approach to stamping out food insecurity

    Joshua Williams ’18 is no stranger to hard work. The 2024 winner of the Ransom Everglades Founders’ Award for Distinguished Service to the Community was only four years old when, with the support of his family, he founded the Joshua’s Heart Foundation – a nonprofit fighting against global hunger and poverty, affectionately referred to by its members as JHF. It was 2004 and he was living in Miami Beach, spurred to action by the knowledge that people in his very neighborhood were going hungry.
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  • Head of the Upper School Dr. Donald Cramp

    The Joyful REturn of Dr. Donald Cramp

    Matt Margini, Humanities Department Faculty
    RE’s new Head of the Upper School promotes an ‘ethic of care’

    When Dr. Donald Cramp interviewed for the job of Head of the Upper School late last year, one might say he had an ace up his sleeve. It wasn’t just that he had worked at Ransom Everglades 10 years before in a variety of roles, including Dean of Students, Interim Science Department Chair and Assistant Head of the Upper School. It wasn’t just that he was beloved – adored, even – by former colleagues, who remembered him fondly for his warm and joyful demeanor on campus. It wasn’t even the fact that he had served as a successful and well-regarded campus head already at Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart in Houston, Texas. In addition to all that, Cramp had a unique qualification: he had done his doctorate on Ransom Everglades.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.