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Seniors Present 2026 Hemenway Speeches
Traditions punctuate every season of life at Winsor, marking the rhythm of the year and the milestones that shape each studentโs journey. For seniors, these traditions can feel especially meaningful as each familiar experience and gathering brings them closer to graduation and life beyond Pilgrim Road. On April 2, every member of the senior class…
The Unseen Work That Keeps Winsor Going
Winsor had some invisible help staying healthy during the past few cold and flu seasons. Well, not visible to the human eye, anyway. Thanks to Winsorโs portable ultraviolet (UV) light sanitizer, the school’s facilities and janitorial teamsโled by John Crompton, director of facilities and constructionโhave been able to maintain exceptionally clean and healthy spaces for…
Spring Rally: A New Winsor Tradition Takes the Field
On Saturday, April 11, Winsor brought student athletes, families, and fans together for a day of clinics, competition, and school spirit for the first ever Spring Rally. Below, Associate Director of Athletics Katrina Hable shares her reflection on the new event: The day began with a clinic led by our varsity lacrosse and softball student-athletes,…
International Night Offers a Winsor World Tour
International Night returned to the Brock-Wilson Gymnasium this week for its biggest year yet. The event was a celebration of the many cultures, traditions, and cuisines that come together to form the Winsor community. Across 40 tables, more than 120 participantsโstudents and their families, as well as faculty and staffโoffered some 300 attendees small, meaningful…
Wellness Project Assembly Offers Tools for Finding Inner Peace on Life’s Journey
Students, faculty, and staff each showed up to last week’s assembly in the midst of their own journeys. Some were stressed about a deadline, others were anxious about an interpersonal conflict or troubled by something happening in the world outside of Winsor. But on that Friday, February 13, the Wellness Project student leadersโChloe Lien โ29,…
Chris Player Awarded Inaugural Bondoc Family Fellowship
At an all-school assembly on January 30, Science Faculty, STEM Coordinator, and Innovation Lab Coordinator Chris Player was awarded the newly established Bondoc Family Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. The three-year fellowship, established by alumnae Victoria Bondoc โ77 and Josefina Bondoc DeBaere โ75, was created to recognize and support the compensation for a…
Erin Cantos Wins the Pennypacker Prize
The Pennypacker Prize is awarded each year to a teacher who is in at least their third year of full-time teaching at Winsor. 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…
Class I Play Celebrates the Magic of Creativity
The Winsor community was treated to a fable of childhood wonder on Friday, January 16, with the Class I play, The Magic Paintbrush. This yearโs production, written specifically for Winsorโs Class of โ33 by Theater Director Jeremy Johnson, was an original musical adaptation of the Chinese folktale of the same name, with original music by…
How One Alum Is Reimagining Life in Space
First taking the stage at an all-school assembly and then dropping into classes like AP Physics to meet with students, emerging technologies designer Sana Sharma โ10 returned to Winsor. โโEmerging technologies designerโ is a fun way of saying I couldn’t quite choose between the sciences and the arts and have found a way to do…
CEO Mira Mehta โ02 Encourages Young VCs and Entrepreneurs to โStay Curiousโ
Running a Nigerian tomato paste company was never part of the plan for Mira Mehta โ02. But when you โstay curious,โ as she encouraged students in Winsorโs Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship Club, life takes some fascinating turns. โI thought I wanted to be an Olympic athlete,โ she told the club on a recent visit to…