The first teacher we met was Vince Barrett who teaches computer to Mac.  He said Mac was doing well in his class and we saw some of Mac's work.

Paul Getzel is both Mac's Dorm Master  and  his Environmental Science teacher.  The 125 acre wooded campus serves as their class laboratory.

Doug Cotter teaches Global Studies and is also the Rowing coach.  Islamic Civilization is the current topic.  China, Japan & India after Christmas.

Brian Taylor teaches the Reconstructive Language class.  He said he was pleased with how hard Mac worked even when his average was over 100.

Mac's math teacher and his advisor is Joe Shanahan.  He is doing well in Algebra.  Joe is also in charge of athletics and helped Mac pick good classes.

English is taught by James Perry.  He used one of Mac's papers as an example in his introduction to the class.  Mac is reading some great literature.

Bill Patterson (left) is the Headmaster of Gow and a visionary leader.  In this picture, he seems to be leading the parents to a higher calling.  See my take on this image.  One of the most active members of Gow's parent association is Sharon Alexander (right) who lives near Gow.  Her son Doug is Mac's age.  She and her husband Bill have been extremely helpful and we have greatly enjoyed the friendship we have shared.

Mac lives on the second floor of a two-story brick dorm building called Whitcomb.  He shares a room with two beds, drawers, closets and a long desk with a boy from Montreal named Eric.  Most of his studying is done in the study hall.  With his very busy schedule, about the only time he is in his room is to sleep or change his clothes.  The school has many fields, basketball and tennis courts, rope courses, mountain biking trails, wall climbing, a ski slope, a fully equipped gymnasium, etc.  On the right is Mac with some of his friends playing basketball and rollerblading on a Sunday.

We took Olive to Niagara Falls.  Mac & Denny had been twice, but had never taken the Maid of the Mists boat ride.  We thought of it as one of those required tourist things, but when we were actually engulfed in the thundering waters and the blinding white color of the falls in the noon day sun, it was spectacular beyond words.  Mac and Olive (upper left) at the observation tower.  Mac captured the lovely picture of his parents (lower left) just as we prepared to enter the falls on the Maid of the Mists.  Lunch was at the Hard Rock Café.