Celebrating good news...

It has been a busy couple of days since returning from my Asian travels, and there have been a number of highlights:

• Marily and I drove to Maine this weekend to watch our Men's Lax team record a win over Hebron on Saturday night and then play a close game against Gould on Sunday. While Gould also played impressively and recorded the win, I couldn't help wonder what happened to the mattresses we used to provide visiting athletes when I was at Gould. Was Coach Lehman at Gould so worried about the strength of the Winch team that he felt it necessary to have the players sleep on the hard basketball floor so as not to be at their freshest on Sunday morning?
• We had a wonderful group of families revisit on Tuesday. It was a pleasure to meet these prospective families and many others who have visited in recent weeks, and we hope that most will choose to join the Winchendon community next September.
• The guys from West Wing were down here at Homewood (the headmaster's house) for chocolate sundaes last night, and most of our hosts/interpreters for Mr. Blair's and my recent Asia trip were here for Marily's pasta and lots of chat tonight.

Perhaps most exciting however has been the great news heard by many of our seniors in recent weeks. All of their hard work has paid off, and acceptances have been coming in from a great range of schools including NYU, Norwich, USC, U. of Illinois, UMASS, George Washington, BC, BU, Brandeis, Babson, Quinnipiac, Northeastern, Middlebury, Skidmore, American, Fordham, Penn State, Perdue, Richmond, FPU, Emory, Nichols, Syracuse and many, many others. We will provide a complete list (I am doing this from memory!), but the highlight has been in seeing so many with so many great options. Great job class of '09!