Mount Madonna School

Last week, the seniors’ World Religions class, led by teachers Dayanand Diffenbaugh and Shannon Kelly, journeyed to the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur for a glimpse into the world of Christianity in a monastery setting.
They were met by MMS friend, Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, now Prior of this Benedictine hermitage, who previously has come to MMS many times as a guest of Diffenbaugh’s during the class’ unit on Christianity.

 

When twelfth grade students at Mount Madonna School (MMS) began gathering donations for heir upcoming “global” field trip to India, student Renata Massion contacted Bill and Linda Pope, owners of The Print Gallery in Santa Cruz, a screen printing and embroidery business, to enlist their support.

 

In 2013 while in India, Mount Madonna School students interviewed Rinchen Khando Choegyal, director of the Tibetan Nuns Project. Choegyal s a former Minister of Education in the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, founding President of the Women’s Tibetan Association and sister-in-law of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She resides in Dharamsala.