Internships In Bloom
Taft School is pleased to welcome alumnus Ezra Levy ’15 and renowned New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) scientist Dr. Damon Little to campus for an open lecture Friday, January 29, at 6:45 pm. The event...
View ArticleBolling You Over
Taft is pleased to present Bolling You Over, an evening of jazz, featuring crossover musical suites composed by Claude Bolling. Part of our Music for a While performance series, the concert takes place...
View ArticleA Testament of Hope: Embracing Diversity
Members of the Taft community will once again honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a series of programs, activities, speakers, and workshops built around a common theme: Listening to...
View ArticleJeon '17 and Elrad '17 Share Their Talents with the Taft Community
The talents of violinist Jennifer Jeon’17 and cinematographer Jack Elrad ’17 are on display in their recent collaboration, a powerful short film capturing Jennifer’s violin performance of Vittorio...
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Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn
At its core, suggests Headmaster Willy MacMullen ’78, Taft’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day initiatives are an extension of who we are, and what we do at Taft each and every day. “I would argue...
View ArticleJuan Gonzalez: The Media and Race Relations
Progressive broadcast journalist, investigative reporter, Daily News columnist, and author Juan Gonzalez recently visited Taft as part of the Paley Family Lecture Series. Born in Puerto Rico and...
View ArticlePage-Poole Grant Recipients Detail Service
Each year Taft awards students grant dollars to fund service-based summer travel. Those grants are generously funded by the Page and Poole families to memorialize their loved ones and to support...
View ArticleArguably on Top
Taft’s novice debate team recently took home three prizes in Loomis Chaffee’s 34th Annual Debate Tournament, including a first place award in the individual speaker category. The debate was a...
View ArticleBig Band Sounds to Fill Walker Hall
The Ken Nigro Band returns to Taft School Friday, February 26 at 7 pm for an evening concert in Walker Hall. Part of Taft’s Music for a While performance series, the event is free and open to the...
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Ayes of the World
Members of Taft’s Honors Model UN class traveled to Boston recently for the sixty-third session of Harvard’s Model United Nations (HMUN), a four-day international relations simulation. HMUN 2016...
View ArticleStudent Photography in Potter Gallery
The photographic works of Taft seniors Emma Howie and Maggie McNeill will be on display in Potter Gallery from February 12 through March 2. An opening reception will be held in the Gallery Friday,...
View ArticleWhat's Done Cannot Be Undone...
"What's done cannot be undone," wrote Shakesepeare, and what is done, now, at Taft is the 2016 annual lower mid Macbeth recitation."It is one of my favorite nights of the year," said Headmaster Willy...
View ArticlePolitics on the Front Line
Taft students hit the campaign trail on the eve of the New Hampshire primary for a firsthand look at our nation’s political process. “The New Hampshire primary is arguably the most important event...
View ArticleTaft Students Mount The Laramie Project
In 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming. Shepard was gay, and his murder was denounced as a hate crime. In the aftermath, the absence of state...
View ArticleKilbourne Grant Recipients in Morning Meeting
John Kilbourne ’58 traveled to Taft this week to hear from four seniors who spent a portion of last summer living the arts, thanks in part to grants from the Kilbourne Summer Enrichment Fund. The...
View ArticleRhythm and Muse
Ciara Connolly ’17 was relatively new to the art of drumming when she arrived at Taft as a lower mid. “I started playing drums in sixth grade, when a lot of schools first have students choose an...
View ArticleOn Stage: Romeo and Juliet and the Winter Dance Concert
The arts are alive at Taft with two different Parents Weekend performances.Under the direction of Performing Arts Technical Director David Kievit, Taft students mounted a powerful production of...
View ArticlePianist Andrew Armstrong Plays Taft
Taft’s Music for a While performance series continues Friday, March 4 with pianist Andrew Armstrong and his guests, violinist Livia Sohn and cellist Ani Azanavoorianm. The concert begins at 7 pm in...
View ArticleChanging the World
“Come, my friends, 'T is not too late to seek a newer world,” former congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) told Taft students, invoking the words of Alfred Lord Tennyson to share his message of hope and...
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Winter Sports Honorees
Congratulations to all Taft athletes on another fine season of competition. A listing of Winter 2015-16 Founders League All-Stars and special award winners follows, along with the names of our 2016-17...
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