Alumni Feature Helen Baer
"An international heaven above the clouds where I made some of my lifelong closest friends"
This is how alumna Helen Baer described Institut Montana during her recent visit to the Zugerberg. She has more favourite memories than she can count: Cocoa break with friends. Sitting after dinner with a cup of hot tea and chatting about our backgrounds. Gorgeous sunsets overlooking Pilatus, and time spent on the otherworldly Zugerberg.
As many, Helen was nervous when she first arrived as a boarder from her hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the US. Now, she would recommend anyone who is thinking to take that huge step of attending a boarding school in a different part of the world to do it. Helen went onto study Linguistics at McGill University in Montreal, QC Canada and immerse herself in the study of foreign language, including German, French, Spanish, Swahili, and Yiddish. She credits the international environment at Montana, with opening her eyes to the rich possibilities of our world. This led her to begin her career supporting educators in expanding young minds.
Her story is summed up by her choice of the most important things that she believes that Montana taught her: “I developed a curiosity for the world and ability to connect with people of any kind of background – how to find some way to relate. This skill continues to serve me in my current life and career.”
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