Board Members
Ranald Macaulay
Ranald Macaulay was born in South Africa in 1936 from Scottish ancestors who
emigrated in 1903 just after the Boer War. He read Law in Cambridge
(1956-59) and was converted from an atheistic/existentialist position shortly
after his arrival. He then met Francis and Edith Schaeffer in 1958 in Cambridge
and later visited them in L'Abri in Switzerland. He worked with the Schaeffers
for 4 years and married their second daughter, Susan. Shortly afterwards he
studied theology in London and simultaneously became involved in founding a
Presbyterian church-plant in west London.
In 1971 he and Susan were asked to start a L'Abri study-centre in England.
They moved with their three children to the Manor House of a small village
not far from Portsmouth in the south of Hampshire. When Francis Schaeffer died
in 1984, the family moved back to Switzerland for 4 years. During this time,
they inherited two extra children aged 7 & 3: they were guardians and the
children had been orphaned. They finally moved to Cambridge, England, in 1996
-- unsure what they were being called to do there in their retirement. Gradually,
the work of Christian Heritage in the UK unfolded. The focus of Christian Heritage
is its base in the ancient Round Church built in 1130. It is visited
by about 100,000 people annually from all over the world. Ranald is involved
in trying to make this unusual setting significant in terms of the gospel of
Christ. (www.christianheritageuk.org.uk)
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott, headmaster of Perimeter School in Duluth, Georgia, director of
the Child Light Schools Association, and founder of the Charlotte Mason Institute
for Classroom Educators, brings 30 years experience to ChildLightUSA. He is
a co-author of When Children Love to Learn (Crossway Books), a Charlotte
Mason education book for school educators. Upon arriving in Atlanta
in 1986, he founded or assisted in establishing 4 other schools, all of which
are now a part of the Childlight Schools Association. Bobby has been the headmaster
of Perimeter School in Atlanta, GA (a 500+ student school of grades 1-8) for
20 years. Most recently, he has led teacher training teams to Joshua Teacher
Training College and the Karanse Christian Academy in Tanzania, East Africa,
where he is training teachers in Charlotte Mason's methodology. In February
2007, he will begin leading teams to Guatemala as well. He holds an M Ed in
Counseling and an M Ed in School Administration. He and his wife Valerie have
a married son, Justin, and 2 daughters in college, Jessica, a nursing
student, and Anna, an art student. His wife Valerie is accomplished drama
instructor and producer of children's plays and musicals.