Taking a Look at a Significant Winsor Tradition: Ring Day

By, Leslie M. '19 As a Lower Schooler, I loved the springtime. I especially loved watching the Upper Schoolers hold all their wonderful traditions outside in the courtyard under the cherry blossom and willow trees, walking on the vivid green grass. They were celebrating their accomplishments through the many traditions at Winsor. Upper School traditions …

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Distracted Play Sparks a Conservation About ADD/ADHD

By, Talia W. Distracted by Lisa Loomer, Winsor’s spring play, depicts one mother’s experiences with her son, Jesse’s, behavioral challenges and explores the ways in which she learns how to parent him. The play presents the questions, “Who wouldn’t have attention deficit problems?” and “When do those problems qualify as a medical condition?” Although these …

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Commencement Speaker 2018: Reverend Liz Walker

By, Teresa L. Reverend Liz Walker, this year’s graduation speaker, had a long and exceptional career as a journalist, but that work was just preparation. She spent close to thirty years in television, culminating in twenty years as a co-anchor of WBZ-TV in Boston, where she was the city’s first African-American television news anchor. For …

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