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2nd Annual Young Alum Art Exhibit

Winsor alums Katya Agrawal โ€™23, Petra Sarkisian โ€™23, and Audrey Cheng โ€™23 returned to campus for a young alumnae art exhibition and reception celebrating their artistic journeys and evolution. Dedicated artists during their time at Winsor, Katya, Petra, and Audrey have continued to pursue and create inspiring art in college. The exhibit was a combination…

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Mary Butcher Wins the 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 โ€œgiven annually in the name of Henriette Pennypacker Binswanger โ€™52, with respect and admiration for the educational excellence of the Winsor School and the memory of an extraordinary experience.โ€ Henriette attended Wheelock…

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The Kindest Bird in the Forest

โ€œIn this forest youโ€™re never alone. Bienvenidos! Welcome to our home!โ€ sang students in the opening number of the Class I play The Bird of One Thousand Colors.

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Winsor Squash Player Takes Top Honors

The Winsor Varsity Squash Team has long been a leader in the Eastern Independent League (EIL). In February they swept the league championship, not losing a single match as they landed their 14th championship win. In 2023, the team sent two students, Caroline Eielson โ€™24 and Judy Liu โ€™29, to the British Junior Open, a…

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Grandfriendsโ€™ Day Is Grander Than Ever

It was another record-setting year for the annual Grandfriendsโ€™ Day event at Winsor. Held the day before Thanksgiving break, over 140 grandparents and grandfriends came to campus for a special day of programming.  Winsor students always have a morning snack break. On Grandfriendsโ€™ Day it was extra sweet, and not just because of the cinnamon…

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Winsor Alum and First Gen Club Founder Joins Students at Assembly

At all-school assembly Winsor honored National Immigrants Day and National First Gen Day by letting students take center stage to share their experiences, and welcoming an alumna back to campus.  With a history dating back over 50 years, National First Gen Day is celebrated annually on November 8 to commemorate the signing of the Higher…

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Cross Country Places 1st at EIL and 4th at NEPSTA

Congratulations to the Winsor cross country team who secured their 20th Eastern Independent League Cross Country Championship with a 1โ€“2โ€“3 sweep. โ€œThe team controlled the race from the gun,โ€ shared longtime Cross Country Coach Moriah Musto of the EIL race. The very next weekend, the team competed against the 14 largest prep schools in New…

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Students on stage performing a play called "Mill Girls"

โ€œMill Girlsโ€ Highlights Female Resilience

At the close of the Lower School Fall play Mill Girls, all of the actors hold up pictures of prominent female figures from throughout history along with the sign โ€œnevertheless, she persisted.โ€ The ending to the play that Winsor audiences saw was not in the script. Developed by Adjunct Performing Arts Faculty Mary Haddad, she…

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129 Years Later, Winsor Speech and Debate Continues to Equip Students with an Interdisciplinary Skillset

by Nika Bigelow ’25 On January 20, 2024, three members of Winsorโ€™s Speech and Debate Club attended the schoolโ€™s first-ever Massachusetts Speech & Debate League (MSDL) tournament at the Boston Latin School. I, as Secretary of Winsor Debate, was one of those three members, and had the opportunity to experience an utterly different style of…

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Winsor Debaters Earn Coveted โ€œTop Schoolโ€ at IISPSC

Winsor won โ€œTop American Schoolโ€ and โ€œTop Schoolโ€ at the International Independent School Public Speaking Championships (IISPSC). Nika Bigelow โ€™25, Theo Zarrow โ€™26, and Emily Zhang โ€™25 represented Winsor’s Speech and Debate Team at the four-day competition held October 17โ€“20 in Bermuda. The annual event, colloquially called โ€œInternationalsโ€ by those on the speech and debate…

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