News Archive
Welcome New Faculty and Staff โ 2025
As we kick off the 2025โ26 school year, we are excited to welcome new faculty, administrators, and staff to the Winsor community. While many folks are just beginning their Winsor tenures this academic year, some familiar faces started working on campus last spring and over the summer. Please give a warm Winsor welcome to our…
Two Winsor Students Present at National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention
The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) 2024 Annual Convention was held in Boston November 23โ24. English Faculty Lisa Stringfellow, who recently taught a masterclass during all-school assembly, presented at the convention and invited two Winsor students to participate.ย Ms. Stringfellowโs session was entitled “Diversifying Verse: Expanding the Poetic Canon by Including BIPOC Poets…
Lisa Stringfellow Publishes Her Second Middle-Grade Novel, Kingdom of Dust
โI have always been a lover of fairy tales,โ said Lisa Stringfellow, who teaches Class I and Class II English at Winsor. In addition to her classroom teaching, Ms. Stringfellow holds several leadership roles as a Class I coordinator and the Lower School community and inclusion coordinator. And despite wearing many hats, she still finds…
Welcome New Faculty and Staff โ 2024
As we kick off the 2024โ25 school year, we are excited to welcome new faculty, administrators, and staff to the Winsor community, as well as some returning faces. While many folks are just beginning their Winsor tenures this academic year, some familiar faces started working on campus last spring and over the summer. Please give…
A World Premiere at the Annual Spring Concert
April 18, 2024โWith Lower School Orchestra seated on stage, Emily Chen ’29 and Grace Wu ’29 kicked off the annual spring concert by introducing their ensemble and the pieces they would be performing.ย Chen and Wu asked the crowd to pay attention to the โmusical colors and texturesโ at play in “Adoration” by Florence Priceโa…
Courtney Jackson Named the New Carolyn McClintock Peter Chair in English
One of 10 endowed chairs at Winsor, the Carolyn McClintock Peter Chair in English was named for Winsorโs sixth head of school, who served from 1988 to 2003. The chair was given by three families who wished to honor Ms. Peter as a head of school who made a profound difference here at Winsor, and…
Ann-Marie Holland Named the New Alice C. Jenckes Chair in History
Established in 1980, The Alice C. Jenckes Chair in History was the very first endowed chair at Winsor. Named for one of Winsorโs most dedicated and extraordinary teachers, Alice C. Jenckes, who taught history for 37 yearsโfrom 1929 until her retirement in 1966. Decades later, alumnae still sing her praises. Brilliant, funny, sympathetic, respectful, and…
Stephen Murdock Celebrates 20 Years at Winsor
Each winter, the Winsor Board of Trustees hosts a seated dinner for the faculty and staff to celebrate major milestones and to honor their Winsor tenure. At the annual Faculty, Staff, and Trustee Dinner on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, English Faculty Stephen Murdock celebrated 20 years of service to the school. Ms. Pelmasโs remarks are…
Sara Macaulay Celebrates 40 Years at Winsor
Each winter, the Winsor Board of Trustees hosts a seated dinner for the faculty and staff to celebrate major milestones and to honor their Winsor tenure. At the annual Faculty, Staff, and Trustee Dinner on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, Visual Arts Department Head and Eleanor Thomas Nelson ’49 Chair in Fine Arts Sara Macaulay celebrated…
Samantha Simpson Awarded Pennypacker Prize
The Pennypacker Prize is a special way for us to recognize a Winsor teacher of great promise. Created in 2002, the award is โgiven annually in the name of Henriette Pennypacker Binswanger โ52, with respect and admiration for the educational excellence of the Winsor School and the memory of an extraordinary experience.โ Henriette attended Wheelock…