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New lower school for Potomac
On Friday, the Potomac School held a groundbreaking for its new Lower School, a $17 million, 42,000-square-foot building that will include new classrooms and sustainable design features like a rainwater collecting roof.“The magic of the Potomac School is not really in its buildings – we could probably have school in a tent,” said Capital One CEO Rich Fairbank at the groundbreaking, which was also attended by notable Potomac School parents Ted and Lynne Leonsis and Terry and Dorothy McAuliffe.
Luckily for Potomac, Fairbank didn't take that statement to its logical conclusion – in April 2007 he donated $25 million to the school, a large chunk of which will go toward the new building.
Headmistress Donna Lewis thanked the donors “on behalf of the children. ... who will embody the hopes and dreams of the future.” Following Lewis' speech, current Lower School students in yellow plastic hardhats and Potomac mascot Paws posed with shovels, and another group of students sang a song that included lyrics about “raising the roof.”
Potomac School's new Lower School building will be open for classes in September 2009.
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