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LREI at 100 (1921-2021)

LREI at 100 (1921-2021)

LREI at 100 (1921-2021)

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A Real Life Plan

Students study and play together in the 1960s.

Happiness comes from many sources but primarily, we believe, from an ability to make good social relationships and to find adequate expression for normal creative impulses.

—Elisabeth Irwin: from A Real Life Plan – New York Times – May 15, 1932

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