In opening the 2016-17 school year, Headmaster Willy MacMullen ’78 referenced the table where Horace Taft and a school community of 14 sat in 1890, on the first night in the school’s history, as a metaphor of all that we strive to be as a school: a place where gifted teachers and curious students gather, speaking and listening to one and other, perpetually learning and growing.
“I like to think that there is more than enough room for everyone at the table of Taft, and that we genuinely embrace the fact that it’s a noisy, colorful, and crowded table—the boys and girls, the men and women, from scores of nations, worshipping in diverse manner, in all ways of living as sexual beings, with the beautiful palette of skin colors, animated by the wonderful richness of ethnicity, and charged by the electrical difference of politics.”