Walden School

All the Oppenheimer children attend Walden School. The narrator describes, “Walden, always friendly to Jews, would open to nonwhite students decades before it was commonplace, and welcomed girls from the outset, but the school truly came into its own when the culture turned in the 1960s. Suddenly little Walden, that Brooklyn experiment, emerged as a prescient institution, both reassuringly established and utterly au courant in terms of its ideals and methodology” (144). Walden is known for its liberalism and progressive teaching style.

Roarke

Harrison attends Roarke: an unconventional two-year college. The narrator describes Harrison’s thoughts upon arriving at Roarke: “Not for the first time, he marveled at how he’d managed to get here. Eighteen years of being coddled… had somehow brought him to this Spartan community of men: rising early to menial, often arduous, chores, consuming food they’d personally raised or helped to prepare, and...