Chance meeting in Geneva

By, Wenke Thoman Sterns, MacJannet Fellow 1968
Dear Friends,

I want to tell you about a wonderful and stirring event that occurred on Monday evening in Geneva after we left Talloires.

How I learned of the MacJannet Realm: A chance encounter at a lodge in Costa Rica and the Camp summer of 1948

By Robert Schmalz, MacJannet Camp Counselor in 1948. 
Two items which may be of interest:  At the time Donald came to Tufts, my mother was serving on the Board of Trustees.  Consequently the family had relatively frequent contact with Donald and Charlotte.  I studied French at

Chess, whales and Thoreau , From Talloires to Boston, for a memorable month

Editor’s note Dan Rottenberg: With funding from the MacJannet Foun­dation, each year Les Amis du Prieuré de Talloires provides scholarships to students living around Lake Annecy to spend four weeks attending the English summer program at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. One of the four students chosen last summer, Leo Dancette, who is 19, lives in Annemasse, near Geneva, and attends a highly selective post-baccalaure­ate course at Lycée Berthollet in Annecy. His written account follows.

How I learned of the MacJannet Realm: Jerri Husch meeting Charlotte MacJannet

Jerri Husch - tea with Charlotte MacJannet

I met Mrs. MacJannet when I was a professor of Sociology at Tufts and taught "International Drug Policy" at Talloires. I would walk up to her cottage and we would talk about the power of nature and the healing plants

Learning is a life-long joyous adventure

The MacJannets made learning a joyous adventure by modeling that excitement - taking their students to locations of astonishing beauty in order to  awaken aesthetic awareness and to historic sites that open curiosity.

Introduction - MacJannet Foundation on Social Media

Donald and Charlotte MacJannet were 20^th-Century teachers who inspired many people through a revolutionary concept: Education should be exciting.

The celebrity link - What attracted so many famous people to the MacJannets’ humble orbit?

By: Dan Rottenberg (Les Entretiens - Spring 2014)

What did Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jawarlahal Nehru, Risë Stevens and Audrey Hepburn (above) have in common?


All were world-famous figures of one sort or another. And all— not to mention dozens of other notables, including corporate executives, diplomats, generals, admirals and writers— entrusted their children to the egalitarian and frugal hands of two educational revolutionaries, Donald and Charlotte MacJannet.

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MacJannet Foundation Amis du Prieure Traveling Scholars

2009 Venez partager notre expérience à la Tufts University et partons à la découverte de l'Amérique. Each year the association "Les amis du prieuré de Talloires" gives 2 scholarships to students from Lachenal's prep school. Each scholarship

Fernand Bise

Members of the MacJannet Foundation are saddened to learn of the recent death of Fernand Bise, after a brief illness. The funeral took place on Tuesday, August 4, 2009. Both Fernand Bise and his father maintained a friendship with the camp director, Col. Woodworth, as well as the MacJannets. Fernand’s was a camper at the