Saving Miss Oliver's A Novel [Paperback]

The fate of the beloved school is hanging in the balance...

The prestigious boarding school Miss Olivers School for Girls is on the cusp of going under. The trustees just fired the headmistress of the last thirty-five years, and the alumnae and students are angry and determined to hate her successor, the newand malehead Fred Kindler. If only he can gain the support of the legendary senior teacher Francis Plummer, then Fred might have a fighting chance to save the school; but no one except Franciss wife and the school librarian, Peggy, is willing to give Fred a chance.

With Freds career on the line and the Plummers marriage at stake, will Miss Olivers survive to be the school it once was?

Even in that last year of her reign, Marjorie Boyd had insisted that the graduation exercise take place exactly at noon.

When the sun is at the top of the sky! she declaredas she had every year for the thirty-five years she had been headmistress of Miss Olivers School for Girls. Time stands still for just a little instant right then. And people notice things. They see! And what they see is the graduation of young women! Females! From a school founded by a woman, designed by women, run by a woman, with a curriculum that focuses on the way women learn! I want this celebration to take place exactly at noon, in the bright spangle of the June sunshine, so the world can see the superiority of the result! Marjorie demanded once again, still dominant at the very end in spite of her dismissal. She would be the headmistress till July 1, when her contract expired. Until then, her will would prevail.

Even her opponents understood that it was Marjories vivid leadership that had made the school into a community so beloved of its students and alumnae (who were taking their seats now in the audience as the noon hour neared) that it had to be saved from the flaws of the very woman who had made it what it was. Founded by Miss Edith Oliver in 1928 and sl#A