More than 200 people, Bishop’s alumnae and faculty as well as friends of Rosamond Loomis, attended a 100th birthday party for the former headmistress on Feb. 12, marking a major milestone in the school’s 102-year history. Bishop’s spokeswoman Suzanne Weiner described the gathering, held on the school’s campus, as “fantastic.” “”The hall was full and Rosamond’s energy was amazing,” she said. “Rosamond was headmistress of Bishop’s from 1953 to 1962, and most of the alumnae present were from these years — ‘her girls,’ as she calls them.” Rosamond shepherded Bishop’s through a major transitional era, successfully managing a school that more than doubled in size from 140 students in her first year to 303 students in her last, according to the school’s centennial history book. “Our traditions are 102 years old and generations of families have attended and graduated from Bishop’s,” said Weiner. “We consider ourselves a family and families celebrate the good times — and birthdays.” Born on Valentine’s Day in 1911, Loomis’s mother told her St. Valentine gave her lots of love that she must give away — and she has her whole life. Loomis served on an inter-racial committee at the age of 13, and still serves as a volunteer for her alma mater, Hollins College in Virginia, where she enrolled one month before the Great Depression. Loomis lives at Chateau La Jolla, located at 233 Prospect St., and it a longtime member of St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church. Of her century-long life, she says she’s “young at heart, but slightly older in all the other places” “The secret of longevity is hard work and lots and lots of friends,” she says.