About NMH Future

President Mueller Accepts Position in Hong Kong

April 5, 2005

To the NMH Community,

I wanted to let you know I will be the next Head of School of Hong Kong International School (HKIS) beginning this summer. The search process formally concluded on Monday. Claire and I are enthusiastic and energized. HKIS is an outstanding international school with an extraordinarily diverse student body. It has 2,600 day students from pre-kindergarten through high school. In many ways it reminds me of Northfield Mount Hermon.

Many of you know we lived in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s when we were in the Foreign Service. Our sons Jon and Eric both attended HKIS, and I served twice on the school's board of trustees, and as the chair in 1997-98 just before coming to NMH.

I will continue at NMH through June, so this is by no means farewell. We will move to Hong Kong early in August.

We would like very much to keep up our strong connections with NMH. As an alumnus and as a former Head of School and President, I am committed to the success of our new vision for NMH. Claire is an honorary member of the class of 1962. I support a continuation of our faculty exchange program—the Kenyons and Ewings participated last year. And we have many alumni who live in HK. There will be many ways to stay in touch given both schools' commitment to global connections.

We look forward to seeing many of you as you travel to Hong Kong in the coming years!

Best,
Richard

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