Another busy week at the Winch!!

The Wapiti Runners ran an impressive race and then rested on the sidelines as the Men's Soccer Team won a great 3-1 victory over a very strong Holderness team.

On Thursday, the students slept in while the faculty worked together on the Self-Study. The students and faculty then gathered for a performance by our a Capella group and gifted African musician John Hughes. (Thanks to Elliot Harvey for these three pictures.)

While the performance was going on in Winchendon, another group of alumni spanning the classes from 1963 to 2009 gathered in Cambridge for a fun evening.
...and many are looking forwards to a well-deserved break in less than a week!

A great eye!

One of the benefits of the digital revolution is that it has resulted in many more people picking up cameras and becoming comfortable capturing images. The vast majority of them capture a moment for sharing on Facebook, Myspace or one of the other many social networks or photo-sharing sites. However, there are also some students who really have an eye and a passion for looking for and creating special images. Vlad, a tenth grader from Magadan, Russia, can often be found looking for that next great shot. The following are several that he shot this fall.

Vlad provides us with another way to see the new Art Studios:


Vlad saw something special on Mountain Day.

Vlad, thanks for sharing these great images.

English IV heads to Macbeth!

The students and faculty of English IV took advantage of our proximity to Boston yesterday to head off to see Macbeth performed by the Shakespeare Now! Theater Company at the Mass College of Art. The comments from the students as they returned were that it was a great experience, and most seemed to really enjoy the performance. The students seemed pretty enthusiastic...

Brilliant educator, perennial favorite teacher, but distinguished navigator?!! Perhaps not!
We should keep Mrs. Blair in the classroom or get her a Garmin...!

The best things are worth the wait!

As impatient as I can be, the new restored and renamed Jon Rotenberg '65 Fine Arts Studios have been worth the wait and certainly reflect the appreciation that we have for the years of leadership that the building's namesake Jon Rotenberg gave the School.

After some not-so-patient waiting, we were finally able to have the first classes in the new studios today. Students and teachers are thrilled with the new space. I can't wait to see the work that will be forthcoming.

Halloween was a blast!

A special dance party Thursday night, incredible pumpkins carved by each dorm, a sleep in morning Friday AM, costumes all around campus on Friday, few tricks and many treats... it was a fun time around the Winch!

In the photo above, MS. Conlon and Ms. Bennett did great jobs of impersonating Jess and Olivia. However, Jess and Olivia won the grand prize for their portayals of Ms. Bennett and Ms. Conlon. I am sure that the girls can figure out how to share the Ipod prize.

...and in the shot below, Hugo has found himself a fine looking date!