Claudia Dey, Globe and Mail columnist, St. Clement's School Alumnus
In 2009, we interviewed Claudia Dey, columnist for The Globe and Mail, about the formative aspect of her time at St. Clement's School, an all-girls school in Toronto.
A: Rigorous thinking, mid-sized rebellion, basketball, basic Latin, how to sing Janis Joplin's Mercedes Benz, and how to individuate oneself in a navy blue tunic. Mostly though, it taught me how to parse knowledge.
A: Education is an act of accretion; St. Clement's led to McGill which led to the National Theatre School which led to my work. I wrote my first play at St. Clement's, a French melodrama with a poisoning scene. I made a first book of poems. I wrote essays about Dylan Thomas and Leonard Cohen. I uncovered a lot of what I would later consider to be heroic and defining.
A: There was a lot of laughter and scheming. There was a lot of concentrated scholastic effort. Mostly, there was, because we were a small school with a carpeted gym and no grounds, a fiercely collective spirit in which our teachers were equal participants.
Claudia Dey is an author, playwright, and columnist for the Globe & Mail.
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