By Daily Press staff
The Westside Waldorf School just received a gift that will help the school continue to grow and give education to Los Angeles’ kids.
The Ronald and Catherine Gershman Foundation gave $650,000 to the school. “This is the largest gift the school has ever received,” said Jeffrey Graham, the school’s administrator and director. “It is a substantial amount that we will apply to our future growth to help to ensure that we become — for the long term — an important leader among private pre-school and primary schools in Los Angeles. All nonprofits rely on gifts such as these. The Gershmans will enable us to carry forward our mission.”
Waldorf education consists of an integrated and art-based curriculum that addresses a variety of learning styles: logical, linguistic, spatial, kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal and intrapersonal. The school strives to have subjects play off one another: math by music, language by handwork, science by drawing, to name a few. The school is part of the largest non-sectarian independent school movements in the world, with 200 such schools in North America and more than 1,000 throughout the world.
Founded in 1988, the Westside Waldorf School offers classes for parents and toddlers, all the way through the seventh grade, as well as summer camps and afterschool enrichment programs open to all.
The Westside Waldorf School has two campuses, one at 1229 Fourth St. with an auxiliary nursery on Fifth Street, and the Waldorf Early Childhood School at 1441 15th St. For information call (310) 576-0788 or visit the school on Fourth Street.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 15, 2005. Read the original PDF.