Family Profile
Your family plays such an active in Keystone’s various Joya: Every year Keystone organizes experiential
cultural, artistic, theatrical and community activities. learning trips, service learning trips, and global
What influence do you think this has on yourself and your service programs. For example, we’ve helped local
children? villagers in Laos build holiday homes so that they
can become economically independent. I’ve accom-
Cherry: We admire Keystone’s professional faculty panied Mr. Watts to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in
and staff, the beautiful facilities, and excellent Tanzania. During our trip, we exchanged thoughts
senior leadership management team. For us, and held discussions about the environment,
however, the most important thing for our family but also taught in local schools in Tanzania. At
are the art activities offered by the school. Keystone, I was the President of the Round Square
For example, Keystone’s “I Love Artists” and together with my classmates.
Organization. I’ve initiated several service projects
Education Salon organized by the Marketing
and Communication Department bring excellent Everyone has a different definition of service, and it
musicians, theater directors, poets, painters, and takes different forms. Your actions make the world
playwrights to Keystone to have close contact with a better place, and even if you think you are using
parents and students. This not only broadened our your talents in small ways, it is still a big contri-
children's horizon, but our parents also benefited bution to the world. Those are the most valuable
from these experiences. services, ones in which you use your gifts to help
others.
Robby: The pursuit of spirit and knowledge is an
integral part of our family life. Keystone provides Parents and children are always growing together. As
us with a community and resources so that we can a parent, did Keystone have any influence on your self-
grow together alongside other members of the growth? In what ways are these reflected in your lives?
community.
Cherry: Education is a growth process for both
In this issue, we are discussing Service Learning at
parents and children, so choosing a good school
Keystone. How do you define "service learning"? Does is as important for parents as it is for children. We
your family participate in any service activities? What relocated to Houshayu because our children attend
long-term effects do you think service learning can bring school here. We’ve also met a lot of parents and
to a child’s life? made a lot of new friends. At the same time, we’ve
Robby: We’ve been so inspired by our eldest deeply inspired us.
become good friends with many teachers who have
daughter, who has been actively involved with
projects in theater, the Round Square Organization, The Head of School, Malcolm McKenzie, is an
Keystone’s Summer Program, among others. She’s excellent role model. He is disciplined, knowledge-
matured into her service and is doing meaningful able, and humorous. Last year as he went to the
and good work for the community. From my per- US for a medical leave, the school was still moving
spective, service should always be an important forward. When he returned to campus, standing tall
aspect of a child’s life. at the school’s cast iron gates, I couldn’t help but
become a bit emotional. I learned from watching
As a student in Keystone’s High School, what service Mr. McKenzie what self-discipline and fortitude
activities have you participated in at Keystone? How do you are. David Beare, Keystone’s Deputy and Dean
think these activities have influenced who you are today? of Faculty, is a wonderful example of a Harvard
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