By Ray Dent, Director of Development and Alumni Relations
Lakehill Preparatory School
Although we have been planning it for a long time, it feels a bit strange that I am retiring this Friday. According to the Social Security Administration’s recent letter to me, they first started taking money from my pay check in 1961 when I was a ten-year-old busboy at Furr’s Cafeteria in Lubbock, Texas. I have been quite fortunate in the work I have had, the different lives I have lived, the adventures I have enjoyed, and the people I have known since then.
With regard to future plans, there is a good-looking girl, named Nancy, whom I met when we were eighteen year old freshmen at SMU. We celebrate our forty-fourth anniversary in a couple of months and we plan to spend the next few decades traveling, spoiling our children and theirs, volunteering, playing with friends, and pursuing our creative interests. She loves to paint and I think I still have at least a couple more good novels left in me.
There is no question that I will miss my Lakehill Family. This school, its people, and its programs are a rare treasure that I have seen nowhere else in my twenty years in educational development. It has been an honor, and a true pleasure, to be a part of Lakehill Preparatory School for the past five years.