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Director of Finance Wins 2024 NBOA Professional Achievement Award
Winsor’s Director of Finance Elizabeth McNeil received the 2024 NBOA Professional Achievement Award. “I have the honor of announcing that not only has she won, but she is one of only 10 independent school business office staff members across the world to receive the 2024 NBOA Professional Achievement Award,” Head of School Sarah Pelmas told…
Fall 2024 Athletics Banquet and Season Recap
At the Fall 2024 Athletics Banquet, Upper School athletes and their families gathered in the Carolyn McClintock Peter Hall dining room for a light dinner and a special night honoring the cross country, field hockey, rowing, soccer, and volleyball teams. “I never had to reschedule a game or even cancel a practice due to rain!”…
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 ’24 and Judy Liu ’29, to the British Junior Open, a…
Grandfriends’ Day Is Grander Than Ever
It was another record-setting year for the annual Grandfriends’ 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 Grandfriends’ Day it was extra sweet, and not just because of the cinnamon…
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…
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 1–2–3 sweep. “The team controlled the race from the gun,” 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…
“Mill Girls” 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 “nevertheless, she persisted.” The ending to the play that Winsor audiences saw was not in the script. Developed by Adjunct Performing Arts Faculty Mary Haddad, she…
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 Winsor’s Speech and Debate Club attended the school’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…
Winsor Debaters Earn Coveted “Top School” at IISPSC
Winsor won “Top American School” and “Top School” at the International Independent School Public Speaking Championships (IISPSC). Nika Bigelow ’25, Theo Zarrow ’26, and Emily Zhang ’25 represented Winsor’s Speech and Debate Team at the four-day competition held October 17–20 in Bermuda. The annual event, colloquially called “Internationals” by those on the speech and debate…
Wildcats in Action: Community Curriculum Day Bridges Divides
Every four years, timed to the presidential election, Winsor’s on-campus community shifts from our regularly scheduled activities to come together for Community Curriculum Day. The entire Winsor community including parents and alumnae were invited to help kick off the event on Monday, October 28 with a virtual panel discussion—Bridging Divides: Fearless Conversations with Mónica Guzmán,…