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Articles Categorized: Upper School
The Legacy Lives
On Thursday, January 14, 2016, Waynflete's racial awareness group, RAaW, sponsored the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Upper School Assembly. The assembly featured three speakers: Arlie Schardt, a former journalist for Time Magazine and the grandfather of Josh ('17) and...
Dr. Peter Hamblin and Waynflete: Thirty Five Years and Counting
Peter Hamblin (aka Doc to generations of Waynflete students) recently sat down with USNOW staff vidoegrapher Christian Brooks for an interview. Joining the Waynflete community in 1980, Doc's 35 years at the school make him the second longest serving faculty member....
Ben Millspaugh, Waynflete’s 2016 Poetry Out Loud Winner. Performs “Gravelly Run”
The Poetry Out Loud competition is an annual national event in which Wayflete Upper School takes great pride in participating. Every year, ninth graders spend months practicing their poems. In January, classroom champs recite their poems at an assembly from which...
The Rimers of Eldritch – update on the winter play
The Rimers of Eldritch By Lanford Wilson Open dress rehearsal: Wednesday, February 3 at 4:00 p.m. Performances: February 4-6 at 7:00 p.m in Franklin Theater The audience will be seated on the stage for the performance. The play contains difficult subject...
Alumni visiting season is in full swing
Helen Gray-Bauer '15 came by for a visit to discover that she is a local celebrity.
Mary Bonauto Coming to Waynflete on January 21
As the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD’s) Civil Rights Project Director since 1990, Mary has litigated on discrimination issues, free speech and religious liberty, and relationship and parental rights. In 2015 she successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme...
Upper School Music Concert
The Upper School Music Concert will take place on Thursday, January 21, from 7:00 - 9:00 in Franklin Theater. It will feature the Upper School Chorus, Jazz Bands, and Chamber Group. Chamber Ensembles Flute Quartet in D Major, K.285 by...
The Truth Behind the Cushion
On Thursday October 1st, after a day of classes and right before a soccer game, Steve Kautz and I sat across from Jan Robinson, the owner of EcoHome. Her visit came about as a part of the independent study I...
Waynflete Welcomes Arlie Schardt to Speak at Upper School Assembly
To help us explore the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement he lead, Waynflete’s racial awareness group, RAaW, has invited Arlie Schardt - a longtime journalist and public interest advocate and the grandfather of...
Fall Fest, 2015
On a Thursday in November, the Waynflete Upper School celebrated its annual Fall Festival. From eleven o’clock until noon, students gathered at Waynhenge, where an obstacle course, cider, apple crisp, and fresh popcorn had been prepared by student government members. Students...
Phoebe Colvin-Oehmig ’15 Writes Home Midway Through a Gap Year
I stood in Eden. The warm Bahamian sun browned my shoulders. The turquoise waves lapped at my toes buried in the pink sand. Shorebirds flitted around me. I stepped backwards and within seconds the ocean pooled into my footprints. Yet,...
Poetry Out Loud Assembly in the Upper School
On Tuesday, January 5, Ben Millspaugh won Waynflete’s 2016 Poetry Out Loud competition. Maya Schair-Rigoletti was the runner-up. Ben will represent Waynflete at the regional finals on February 10 at City Hall Theater in Biddeford. For those of you unfamiliar...
Exploring the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Upper School will honor the spirit of Dr. King by exploring his legacy and that of the civil rights movement he led in a variety of ways during the second semester. Waynflete's Diversity and Equity Faculty Committee has invited students to...
Meet New Waynflete Student Shuhao Liu
Shuhao Liu is a new sophomore at Waynflete. He came from China through a program working with students who want to attend school in a different country. He intends to graduate from Waynflete in 2018. USNOW staffers Kiera Macwhinnie and Chase Warner...
Congratulations! AllState Music Festival 2016
The students below are among a select group of musicians chosen by audition to participate in the prestigious All-State Music Festival at the University of Maine at Orono on May 19, 20, and 21, 2016. See the links below for...
Save The Date: New England Youth Identity Summit
Join students and educators from schools across New England for a conference designed to spark meaningful conversations about identity, diversity, and community. NEYIS kicks off on Friday evening at the Portland Public Library with a poetry, music, and theater performance by NYC-based Dialogue...
Exams: Everything You Need to Know (December 2015)
During the week of exams (Monday, December 14 - Friday, December 18), students are only required to be in school during their exam periods. They may be on campus when they do not have exams if they choose. Please make...
Giving Back Locally – Ethical Leadership Group Focuses on Preble Street and Rotary
This year's Ethical Leadership and Service group is comprised of 19 students from all grades and is co-led by Julia Hansen '18 and Nick Jenkins '18. To maximize both their learning and impact, ELS members decided to focus their efforts...
