In today’s Washington Post, there was a very good article about the Milton Hershey School (MHS). For those of you who have not heard of it, it is a boarding school for disadvantaged students nestled in the rolling, green hills of Hershey, PA. The school is free of charge. However, students are required to be well behaved and to complete a regular set of chores.

My brother and I are both graduates of the school. The school has a tumultuous past with alumni fighting with the school over its future direction. In fact, most of the coverage in recent years has been on this tiresome topic. I am please to say that the article in the Washington Post is both balanced and accurate. Even 15 years after I graduated, the story rang true.

Many of you know that we are adopting a child for many reasons. One of the primary ones is that we wanted to give back for all of the things that MHS gave to me. Since the school is so well endowed, they do not need our money. So, we decided to help children in a different way – through adoption. I will be forever grateful to MHS and am happy to see that they have remained true to their mission.

Do you want to read more? Here is a link to: “The School that Chocolate Built”