By Izzy Taylor
History is repeating itself for Cameron Glass. Three decades after starting her freshman year at Lovett, she dropped her daughter Meriwether off for her first day of high school.
But already, she’s trying not to make assumptions about what things will be like for her daughter. “As a parent,” Mrs. Glass (‘99) says, “Sometimes I rely too much on what I know from my own experience. And then [Meriwether] has to tell me, Mom, that’s not how it is anymore. It was 30 years ago.”
I caught up with Mrs. Glass a few days into the school year by the pond. She’d just dropped off lower schooler Annie, middle schooler Robert, and upper schooler Meriwether. An avid tennis player and part-time consultant, Mrs. Glass was a Lovett lifer, attending Lovett for fourteen years. She said she was always a good student and played on the tennis team. She said she “loved high school.”
With a child in each ot the three divisions, she has had plenty of opportunities to experience Lovett from a different perspective.
Now, as her daughter Meriwether enters her freshman year at her Alma Mater, Mrs. Glass has been reintroduced to high school at Lovett. “There are just so many cool things that y’all have access to now that 30 years ago, that wasn’t a thing yet,” she said.
While much has changed on the Riverbank, Mrs. Glass has found that many of Lovett’s traditions have remained the same. For example? “Having the same advisor for four years and the PALS,” she said. “I’m sure we’ll continue to be just sort of amazed how much stays the same and how much is different too.”
For Mrs. Glass, the Lovett community she built in her youth has stood the test of time, continuing to impact her life long after leaving the riverbank. “As you go off into the world,” she says, “It’s funny how many people you intersect with that went to Lovett or know of Lovett or know somebody who went to Lovett.”
Whether she was at Wake Forest or living in New York City, she always found herself connecting withing with someone from her past at the Lovett School. “There were people I would see that had been at Lovett with me,” she reflected. “Lovett has been a backbone, has always just been really great for me.”
She advises Lovett students (including her own) not to take their years here for granted and to make strong connections for the future. “When you’re going through it, you don’t appreciate it,” she said. “I appreciate it a lot more in hindsight.”
