Students check out the new upper school science center.
2011 – A New Chapter
In September 2011,
the fifth grade moved
into the middle school.
120 L AT I N M AGAZINE
In 2010 a search committee made up of
members of the board of trustees, faculty and
administrators, embarked on an extensive
national search for Latin's 15th head of
school. Recognizing how far Latin School
had come over the last three decades, the
committee faced a challenging assignment.
The new head would have to be someone
who could lead the school as it fulfilled its
ambitious vision for the future while also
respecting its tradition for excellence and
the work faculty, students and families had
been doing on behalf of the school for more
than 120 years. Moreover, he or she would
have to be someone who could embrace
the complex and vibrant community that
Latin had become.
It was with great anticipation that
Latin welcomed Randall Dunn in July 2011.
"Randall was everything and more we
could have hoped for in a head of school
and we felt that he had the potential to take
an already great school and make it even
greater," former Board of Trustees Chair Jeff
Sharp said recently. "In the last three years,
his positive energy and enthusiasm have
infected students, faculty, parents and alumni
at Latin in a very exciting way."
Dunn came to Latin with a lifelong
commitment to academic excellence and
a belief in the transformative power of
education. A graduate of Brown and Harvard
universities, Dunn had most recently
served as head at The Roeper School, an
independent school outside of Detroit,
for seven years. Previously he had worked
as a classroom teacher, coach and senior
administrator at independent, public, day
and boarding schools on the East Coast and
in the Midwest. He also had been an active
leader and board member of educational
organizations nationwide.
Randall Dunn, Latin's 15th Head of School.
