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Lowell Kingsley ran the Kingsley School as Director for nearly 40 years, from 1948 to 1985. The School had been founded as a school of "remedial reading" in a home on Marlborough Street by his mother, Edith Kingsley, in 1938.
He wrote in his recent memoirs:
"In the beginning, there were three: a faculty of two, a student body of one. The "one room schoolhouse," with its half dozen desks and chairs, was a large, attractive, second floor living room overlooking the tree-lined Marlborough Street in the Back Bay...
That Monday morning in October, 1938, when she and her friend, Helen Loud, opened the door of the apartment of 360 Marlborough Street, they did not know that they were opening the first independent school in the United States devoted specifically to children with reading and learning disabilities."
Lowell and his wife, Charlotte, remain active at the school to this day and were a daily part of running the school up until the mid 90s, all the way through its transformation into a fully certified Montessori School. Today, Lowell serves as Trustee Emeritus on the Board of Trustees.
Lowell is a committed peace activist, an avid gardener, an active Boston University Alumni, a grandfather and a great keeper of correspondences. He is busy writing his memoirs.
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