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Professor Don Sawyer was the keynote speaker at the New England Youth Identity Summit in March. Dr. Sawyer is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT.. He teaches Sociology of Hip-Hop Culture, based...
End of Year Exam Schedule May/June 2016 All exams in Sills unless otherwise noted. Extended time exams in E-20. Tuesday, May 31 8:30-10:30 English 9 and U.S. History II & History elective Exams Extended time exams 8:15 – 11:15 10:45 – 12:45 English...
Tabarak Al Musawi from Waynflete (who is a former Reiche student) reading to Reiche kindergartners. Read the full article
Robert Shetterly recently unveiled the newest addition to his “Americans Who Tell The Truth” (AWTT) series: a portrait of Nicole and Jonas Maines ’15. In his opening remarks, Robert said that “Nicole and Jonas’s courage, commitment, and outspokenness made them perfect...
Carol Leavitt graduated from Waynflete in 1947 and went on to a glamorous career on three continents. She is a woman of strong character with a delicious sense of humor and, above all, determination. Her determination was always on display...
Sunday, May 22 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Fore River Fields 180 Osgood Street Portland, Maine The Mental Health Awareness Play Day is for everyone! This student-run event focuses on informal high school girls and boys lacrosse scrimmages with athletes...
"Perhaps it is her history as a lawyer that has so thoroughly trained her to detect half-truths and poorly researched papers, but whatever the cause, she is willing and able to call her students out when they fall short of her expectations....
After graduating from high school in the spring of 2012, I took a gap year and spent the first semester living in Kakamega, Kenya, at the orphanage to which I had become closely connected. I spent the second semester working...
During his four years at Waynflete, Mitch Newlin always had a lot on his plate. Whether playing sports, attending meetings and events of RAaW, committing himself to the Kakamega Orphanage, entertaining friends and teachers with his outlandish stories, or just...
2016 Senior Exam Schedule All exams in Sills Hall unless indicated or instructed otherwise. If Seniors are scheduled for more than one exam in a period, they should let their teacher and Peter Hamblin know so that one of the exams can be rescheduled. Wednesday, May 4, 2016...
By the midpoint of his Upper School experience, Matt Page ’97 had developed two passions. The first was for England—the result of a yearlong experience in Plymouth, UK, as part of his father’s sabbatical from Bowdoin. The second: an affinity...
Hibo Abdi received the Rotary Youth Service Award at a recent Portland Rotary luncheon. The Youth Service Award honors students with outstanding service and academic records from area high schools. Abdi will receive $1000 towards college (Carleton College in Minnesota) and...
On April 7-9 the Upper School staged four performances of Cummins & Scoullar’s The Little Prince, based on the book by Antoine Saint-Exupéry. This children’s theater style production was led by two student assistant directors who were trying out directing...
The US Now staff was curious about what makes Waynflete students happy, so we decided to ask them in a one question survey, "What makes you happy?" They offered the following responses: Food, music, exercise AND MORE SLEEP Friends Skiing...
Dialogue, at its best, is the art and science of communicating across differences to distill the wisdom from a diversity of viewpoints. It requires that participants make themselves vulnerable to being authentically affected by being in relationship with another and...
There is still space available for this summer's edition of Sustainable Ocean Studies (SOS). Sponsored by Waynflete and the Chewonki Semester School and comprised of students from across Maine, New England, and beyond, SOS is open to high school students...
A Wayfinder Schools Interview with Alex Koch WS: Tell me about your role here: AK: I'm Lead Overnight Staff at the New Gloucester campus, working the Sunday and Monday night shift. In addition to that, I'm the Ecology Teacher. I spend a...
Emily Tabb, class of 2017, Esme Benson class of 2016, and Christian Rowe, class of 2016, were amidst 40 other Maine students whose ceramics artwork was selected to be shown at Maine College of Art's High School Student Ceramic Arts...
The Upper School presents The Little Prince adapted by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar from the book by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. A tender tale of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss in the form of a young prince fallen to Earth who reflects, "It...
MIST (Muslim Inter-Scholastic Tournament) is an annual national competition, with regional qualifying meets. On March 26 and 27, schools from around New England met at MIT to compete in over 30 competitions, with events ranging from basketball to Quran recitation....
