Grant for PAL
The Center for Global Leadership and Service (CGLS) is excited to announce a three-year grant from Ion Bank Foundation for $13,200 in support of the Taft School-Police Activity League (PAL) Summer...
View ArticleGuatemala
Fourteen Tafties and two faculty members just returned from Taft's 7th annual service trip to Guatemala. They built three houses in and around Antigua, the colonial capital, and also volunteered at the...
View ArticleSummer School Challengers Soar
Lou Dantzler believed in people. He believed that every child "has the capacity to do something positive with their lives, to make a contribution…” Sometimes, Dantzler thought, just taking an interest...
View ArticleA Record Year!
From the entire Taft community, thank you alumni, parents, grandparents and friends. Your generosity raised the 2013-14 Annual Fund to new heights, with record giving totaling more than $4.4 million....
View ArticleOne for the Books
Like many people her age, Olivia Paige ’15 gets a lot of information from social media. It isn’t often, though, that a Facebook post can create extraordinary opportunity.A few years ago Justin Muchnick...
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Go Pro
Taft’s Senior Food Service Director Jerry Reveron has earned ProChef Level III certification from the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park, New York.Developed by CIA, the ProChef...
View ArticleCollegium Musicum in Italy
Taft's Collegium Musicum traveled to Italy for its “Living the Arts in Italy” concert tour in June 2014. The group performed in the country town of Faicchio and in Rome’s Basilica di Santa Maria del...
View ArticleA New Beginning for an Educational Landmark
For more than 90 years Baldwin School — proud and tidy and alive with students and teachers — served as a school for the children of Watertown. In 2000, with the opening of a new school in town,...
View ArticleBuilding a Community of Educators
In 1975, longtime Taft physics teacher Ed North organized a summer workshop for fellow teachers on Taft’s campus. The workshop’s goal: to help teachers become better at teaching. Fast forward to this...
View ArticleHistoire Vivante
Some of the more captivating sights History teacher and Academic Dean Jon Willson '82 saw during his trip to France this summer were in places many tourists never go. Willson, traveling with assistance...
View ArticleBe Good. Do Good.
In the small town of Mtubatuba on South Africa’s northeast coast, a simple, yet profound sign hangs outside the local football academy. It reads, “Be good. Do good.” Each day this summer, as Fjordi...
View ArticleTaft Welcomes 200 New Students
Work hard. Carry in equal amounts resilience, perseverance, and humor. Be nice. Recognize the edges of your comfort zone – and then step right over them. Get to know your teachers well. This was just...
View ArticleIn the Gallery: Mark Lewis
Rockwell Visiting Artist Mark Lewis will be in residence at Taft this week, meeting with art students and addressing the entire Taft community during Thursday’s morning meeting. An exhibit of Lewis’s...
View ArticleSuper Sunday 2014
The Taft student body came together on Sunday, September 14, for “Super Sunday” – an annual orientation event (think: messy field day) where all students are assigned to a different color team. The...
View ArticleThe Elephant Conservation Project
For eleven days this summer, Emma Belak ’16 and Ai Bui ’16 lived the life of a mahout, as they trained to become certified elephant handlers. Mahouts, or Thai elephant keepers, dedicate their lives to...
View ArticleThe Essence of Art
The origin of photography is inextricably linked with the art of printmaking through etching. In the first half of the nineteenth century, artists were experimenting with a variety of techniques...
View ArticleMarch of the Green Rhinos
Wearing “Green Rhino” t-shirts, 21 Taft students and faculty were among the 400,000 people who demonstrated at the People's Climate March in New York City on Sunday, September 21. The march was...
View ArticleJoin us: New York Botanical Garden Lecture
Taft welcomes Ethnomedical Research Specialist Dr. Ina Vandebroek to campus for an open lecture Friday, October 3, at 6:45 pm. The event is part of Taft’s ongoing New York Botanical Garden Series, and...
View ArticleChopin & Friends
Renowned pianist Andrew Armstrong will open this year’s Music for a While performance series Friday evening, October 10 at 7 pm in Walker Hall. The program is free and open to the public.Praised by...
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"Harmony in the Forest"
Kelly Sunho Park ’15 is an actress, a musician, editor of Taft’s Global Journal, and now, a published author. “Harmony in the Forest,” written and illustrated by Kelly, is currently available on...
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