Luke Rasmussen (above) is back at The Haverford School, looking much different than when he left. (Photo: Josh Verlin/CoBL)
By Josh Verlin
When Luke Rasmussen decided to spend his senior year at the Haverford School, he was back in familiar surroundings, at the school he spent his middle school and ninth grade years. Even if the Lower Merion native was, himself, unfamiliar.
“None of my old teachers recognized me,” he said with a laugh.
That’s partly a product of being away from the Main Line and going to the Hill School for three years, repeating his freshman year at the Pottstown boarding school and entering the Class of 2023, most of his former classmates having graduated in the spring. But it’s mostly because when he left Haverford, he was a 5-foot-5, 90-pound kid who was cut from the freshman basketball team — and he’s now more than a whole foot taller.
“I guess that’s the biggest change,” Rasmussen said with a smile. “Just my whole stature.”