by Art Rothfuss | Nov 17, 2025 | 100 Stories
For Sybil Prince ‘00, P ‘37, P ‘39, Harley has always been more than a school—it was the place where she first felt truly seen. As a student navigating vulnerable years, she found teachers who recognized her humanity and nurtured her best self. That experience stayed...
by Art Rothfuss | Nov 17, 2025 | 100 Stories
When Lisa Barker became Harley’s Food and Farm Educator in 2017, she already had deep roots in the school’s sustainability work. After collaborating with Chris Hartman ’93, P ’22, ’24 through the Good Food Collective and teaching in Horizons’ garden for the past 5...
by Art Rothfuss | Nov 17, 2025 | 100 Stories
For more than three decades, Al Lamere P ’08 has quietly been one of the forces that keep Harley running. (Although anyone who has seen him walk through the Nursery hallway might argue there’s nothing quiet about the rock-star welcome he receives from the school’s...
by Art Rothfuss | Nov 12, 2025 | 100 Stories
This January marks nine years for me as an administrator at The Harley School, I am the Director of Marketing & Communications. My connection, however, goes back much further—to the day my youngest, now in Grade 12, started Kindergarten in Primary B with Mrs....
by Art Rothfuss | Nov 12, 2025 | 100 Stories
When Louise Sumner, Harley School Director, 1925-1944, arrived in Rochester in 1925 to become The Harley School’s first director (i.e. school principal), she brought with her a quiet confidence and an unshakable belief in the power of progressive education. Born and...
