Hello, Mr. Stewart

I will always be "Mr. Stewart" to Camilla, who was a student at Gillispie School when I was asst. head. But now that we're working together I have begged her to call me Jim. "I can't call you that. I'll always know you as Mr. Stewart."

I can understand, since she's known me from when she was a preschooler and has known me as Mr. Stewart.

But if she were the only one I would really help her, even pay her, to call me Jim. She's not alone.

I have known dozens of families from my 13 years at Gillispie (1990 - 2003) and, earlier, five years at La Jolla Country Day. For many of those parents and, now grown, children, when they see me at Warwicks I am and probably always will be "Mr. Stewart."