Celebrate the Earth
Children’s Earth Month Teawith Emeraldalicious author and illustrator Victoria KannSunday, April 6, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 pm at the Taft School Kick off Earth Month with an afternoon of family fun...
View ArticleNYBG Lecture
Taft is pleased to welcome tropical plant ecologist Dr. Chuck Peters to campus on Friday, April 4. Dr. Peter’s lecture begins at 6:45 pm in the Laube Auditorium of the Hulbert Taft Jr. Library....
View ArticleScience Olympics
Taft sent two teams to compete in the Connecticut State Science Olympiad. In this contest, teams of up to 15 students compete in 23 events, usually two students per event. The events have names like...
View ArticleDivine!
Festival Music for Choir, Organ and Brass with Collegium Musicum, Cantus Excelsus and the Woodward Chapel Brass Ensemble Sunday, April 27, at 2:00 pmThe Cathedral of St. John the Divine1047 Amsterdam...
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Literacy First
Taft’s Service Learning course, now in its seventh year, has a new focus…on literacy.“We wanted to improve the quality of our service,” says Jamella Lee, who teaches the class, “so that our service...
View ArticleOf Grace
Mark W. Potter Gallery @ the Taft SchoolApril 18 through May 27, 2014 Of Grace is a series of portraits of young people that I have met as an educator. These pictures explore the concept of universal...
View ArticleSteel Magnolias
by Robert Harlingdirected by Susan Becker AzizWednesday, April 30, at 2 p.m. and May 1 & 2 at 7 p.m.Woodward Black Box Theater withSimmons Gaines '15Celina Piechocinski '16Samantha Westmoreland...
View ArticleSpring Break Service
This year, 29 Tafties (24 students, 3 faculty members, and 2 faculty children) spent a week over March break volunteering in the Dominican Republic."We worked with Outreach 360 teaching English in the...
View ArticleNYBG Lecture
Taft is pleased to welcome tropical plant ecologist Dr. Chuck Peters to campus on Friday, April 4. Dr. Peter’s lecture begins at 6:45 pm in the Laube Auditorium of the Hulbert Taft Jr. Library....
View ArticleDuBois Speaker
Admiral James Stavridis is this year's DuBois speaker. His talk in Morning Meeting this week will address 21st-Century Security, with a quick look back at 20th century security. He will touch on...
View ArticleAnita Schorr
The school will commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Tuesday, May 13, with a Morning Meeting talk by Ms. Anita Schorr, a Holocaust survivor. Schorr has received many recognitions,...
View ArticleNational Merit Scholar
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) has announced that Tiffany Li '14 is among this year’s National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners. These scholars were chosen from a talent pool of more...
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Visiting Writer
Oonya Kempadoo grew up in Guyana and has worked and lived in various Caribbean islands and currently resides in Grenada. A creative writer and novelist, she also works freelance as a researcher and...
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PERSEPOLIS
The Summer Reading Committee selected PERSEPOLIS with the commitment to find a book with a female protagonist, and to expose our community to a part of the world sizzling with unrest, so often vilified...
View ArticleSenior Service Day!
Four years ago, the senior class began what is now a tradition during Senior Week: Senior Community Service Day! The seniors thought it would be fun, memorable to start off Senior week, ending their...
View ArticleAlumni Return in Record Number
More than 700 people came back to Taft to enjoy at least one of the many celebrations that made up Alumni Weekend 2014. Saturday's perfect weather surely contributed to the record turnout, which was...
View Article124th Commencement Exercises
Sunday, May 25, 2014Scroll down to view the photo gallery from the day.To order photographs directly from the photographer, visitHighpoint Pictures (available later in June) or Robert Falcetti Studios...
View ArticleHead Mons Named
Seniors Quentin Harris and Vienna Kaylan have been named head monitors for the 2014-15 school year. Head mons are the leaders of the student government at Taft, working closely with the headmaster and...
View ArticleNYBG Intern
For a second year in a row, the New York Botanical Garden, is sponsoring a full-time, six-week internship for a Taft student. Natasha Batten '15, will work and learn from NYBG scientists Drs. Barbara...
View ArticleFor Zoë
Crew coach Carly Borken would have liked nothing more than to have Zoë Klimley ’15 back in the first boat this spring, but her unexpected death in early January changed all that. “At the time, I dubbed...
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