04/26/2012Gene Baxter, a longtime instructor here at William Holland, passed away on 04/19/2012. He was a wonderful man, a dear friend, and an invaluable part of William Holland. Our hearts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time. Services are to be held on 04/25/2012 at 11:00 AM at the Wages and Sons Stone Mountian Chapel. For more information, contact our office.

03/23/2012Every year, we open the school one week early and ask everyone to come and volunteer their time to help us do the work that gets the School ready for the season. This year, we will be opening the School on the week of 04/01/2012 and extending work week to those two weeks before the beginning of the season. If you would like to come and be a part of our wonderful School and help us be ready to offer the best classes and services we can to all of you, please contact us as soon as possible to let us know when you plan to be here so that we can have rooms prepared for you.

02/24/2012Our hearts and prayers go out to the family of Belinda Miller. She and Rich Williams, who has been an instructor here at William Holland for many years, have always been dear friends of the School. We cannot say how much both of them have meant to all of us here at the School. Services will be held this friday. Rich asks that those wanting to make donations in her honor make those donations to William Holland Retreat Inc.

02/22/2012Mr. Paul Casteel passed away yesterday. He was a former member of William Holland's Board of Directors as well as one of our founding instructors (He taught Silver and even designed our silversmithing classrooms). Our hearts and prayers go out to his family. Services will be held at Oaklawn Cemetary in Jacsonville, FL this Saturday at 10:00 and a graveside service at 11:00.

01/13/2012All instances of the use of the term Dormitory to refer to our lodges in our Policies and Guidelines have been removed in order to prevent confusion. This term was previously used in order to make plain that our lodges are not indiviual cabins, but offer a situation much more like a dormitory or motel.

01/06/2012Today we updated our Policies and Guidelines to remedy some recent confusion. The text "All class fees and lab fees are payable directly to the instructor at the time you take your class. William Holland does not handle these charges." was added to the "Tuition Charges" section to make plain when and how these charges are to be paid.

01/06/2012John Eberle passed away peacefully December 26, 2012. He was a wondeful man; active in his community and beloved by his family. For many years, He taught cabochons and faceting here at William Holland. The family requests memorials be made to the First United Methodist Church of Copperhill, 146 Scenic Drive, Copperhill, Tennessee 37317 or to Ducktown Troop 14, in care of Ducktown Basin Museum, 212 Burra Burra Street, Ducktown, Tennessee 37326.

12/15/2011Thank you to all of those who have already submitted their application for classes during the 2012 season. We are doing our best to process as quickly as we can and get everyone into the classes they desire. If you haven't gotten your catalog yet or have not applied yet, we encourage you to check the online schedule and email us to get started applying. In website news, we have been able to enable scrolling of all text on our website on the iPad, iPod and other touchscreen devices. Support for these devices is far from complete, but it should make is much easier to use our website.

12/06/2011We do appoligize to all those who experienced a few issues with our website during the open of enrollment yesterday. Most issues were caused by the large volume of requests submitted during that time. All those who specifically had trouble getting classes to appear when selecting a week on our online application should have no further issues as we have corrected the cache control issues that caused this error. If you do have any problems accessing any portion of our site, contact us and we will do our best to resolve the issues. Touchscreen users (iPad, iPod, iPhone, and Android) should be aware that scrolling boxes will not scroll on their devices. We are still working to find a good fix for these issues.

12/02/2011The William Holland Alumni Association has awarded their first scholarship for a first-time student to Ms. Mary DeJan of Holly Hill, FL. She will be recieving room, board, and tuition as well as $100 toward supplies she needs in the classroom.

11/28/2011We invite all of our students to check out the refined and revised look, feel, and services offered by our website. As always our goal is to make our website as easy to use as possible. If you would like to contribute and idea or give us feedback, stop by our contact us form and let us know what you think.

11/10/2011We have updated our Policies and Guidelines and Privacy Policy in order to provide more information, correct errors, and take into account changes from the last posting. It is advised that all students read both of these policies before continuing their use of this website or the Services of William Holland Retreat Inc.

Have you not yet recieved your copy of our print catalog or did not find us in time to be placed on the mailing list? Do you have a friend you would like to pass our catalog along to or just need an offline reference to our classes, course descriptions, and instructor biographies? Of course all of the information contained in our print catalog is available right here on the website, however, if you would like a printer friendly version, then please click here to download a copy of our print catalog. Of course, you will want to check back on our website often to see updates and changes to our class schedule.

05/16/2012The 08/12 Casting class with Vincent Flores has been cancelled.

05/09/2012All remaining classes previously taught by Ken and Mary Ann Devos will now be taught by Teva Chaftin. She is an experienced PMC instructor reccomended by the Devos's and will be following their class descriptions.

04/30/2012The 06/03/2012 Wire II class has been cancelled.

04/30/2012Jim Brogdon's Carving: Wood classes for the weeks of 04/29/2012 and 05/06/2012 have been cancelled.

04/27/2012The 05/20/2012 Lampwork Beads class has been cancelled.

04/23/2012The 05/13/2012 Gold course has been cancelled.

04/18/2012The 09/23/2012 Wire I course will now be taught by Judi Wild.

04/18/2012The 09/23/2012 Silver I class will now be a Silver I: Beginner Only course taught by Nancy English

04/09/2012Cherie Crist will be assisting Sara Adams teaching the 04/22/2012 Wire I class.

04/06/2012The 10/28 Chain Int. class has been reinstated and Janet Trosino will now be assisting the Conybear's in teaching this class.

04/02/2012Kim St. Jean has added a Cold Connections class for the week of 04/29/2012

03/30/2012Kathy Morris will be taking over teaching the 04/15/2012 Wire II course. The class description shows Kathy and the original instructor Bobbie Chumack, however, Bobbie will not be teaching this course.

03/30/2012The 04/15/2012 Chain class has been cancelled.

03/30/2012The 04/29/2012 Silver I class with Don and Ann Monroe has been cancelled.

03/30/2012Ms. Jan Stephen's Wire II class description has been updated to fix an oversight regarding prerequisites and class fee.

03/28/2012Mr. And Mrs. Devos have had to cancel the 04/29/2012 and 05/06/2012 Silver Clay (PMC) I courses. Mrs. Devos has had some recent surgery and will be receiving followup care during that time period.

03/16/2012The 10/28/2012 Chain Int. class taught by Dee and Bill Conybear has been cancelled.

01/04/2012Mr. Bailey's 10/14/2012 Faceting II class has been cancelled.

12/20/2011Ron Gibbs has added Digital Photography for Jewelry classes on 04/15/2012 and 05/06/2012.

12/09/2011Judi Wild will be assisting Diane Mason on 04/29/2012 and 08/26/2012 with her Wire I classes.

12/06/2011We are now aware that the email address published in our catalog under Application Instructions differs from that shown elsewhere. Both registrar@williamhollandschool.com and registrar@williamhollandschool.org are functioning and we will recieve all email

12/02/2011It appears that Mr. and Mrs. Jewell's classes were incorrectly listed under Intarsia in the print catalog schedule. They are, in fact, teaching Inlay both weeks they are schedule.

11/28/20112012 Season Schedule Added to Website. Enrollment will begin at 9:00 AM EST 12/05/2011.

11/17/2011Don Roberts will not be teaching his 5/27/2012 Silver I: Basics and Beyond class. This class is being replaced with a Silver I: Beginner Only course taught by Nancy English.

11/05/2011The 10/21 Polymer Clay class should have been marked Int.

11/05/2011The 10/14 Polymer Clay class should have been marked Adv.

11/05/2011The 10/14 Cold Connections class should have been marked Adv.

11/05/2011The 9/23 Polymer Clay class is a regular class not an advanced class.

11/05/2011The 9/16 Polymer Clay class should have been marked Int. not Adv.

11/05/2011The 9/9 Polymer Clay class should have been marked Int. not Adv.

11/05/2011Nancy Callaway's 9/9 and 9/16 classes are regular classes, not advanced.

11/05/2011All of Nancy English's Silver I classes should be subtitled 'Beginner Only'. See online description for details.

11/05/2011Case Leeser's 4/29 Chain class should not have been marked intermediate. It is available to beginners.

11/05/2011Sandy Cline has added Carving: Soapstone classes for the weeks of 05/27 and 06/03.

03/16/2012Only five more weeks until the start of the 2012 season. We are looking forward to having everyone here with us again and cannot wait for everyone to see the renovations we have made during the off season. If you have not yet applied for your classes, you will want to do so as quickly as possible because there are many classes already full throught the season. On a different note, we are looking forward to deploying the latest revisions to our website design. Our staff have been working very hard to rememdy the usability and compatablity concerns with the current design. The new design will move us forward in these respects and will also allow us to get a better base for introducing new featrues easily. We do not yet have a firm date for rolling out the new design, but we will let you know as soon as we do.