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Azonto

What: Taft Dance Ensemble's Annual Winter Concert Where: Bingham Auditorium When: February 22 and 23 at 7 pm Ghana's Azonto, in which the dancers mime everyday activities, has taken over dance floors...

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French Fair 2013

 When many Americans think of French cuisine the thought of expensive restaurants and French fries may come to mind. French cuisine is different from what most Americas are used to. It boasts its own...

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Azonto

What: Taft Dance Ensemble's Annual Winter Concert Where: Bingham Auditorium When: February 22 and 23 at 7 pm Ghana's Azonto, in which the dancers mime everyday activities, has taken over dance floors...

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A Green Home

At boarding school, a house is more than just a home. It’s also a place to host team dinners and advisee feeds—and for most faculty, it’s just a hop, skip and a jump from the classroom or athletic...

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Dominican Republic Volunteer trip - 2013

               Over spring break, Taft students traveled to the Dominican Republic in an effort to aid in teaching English, literacy and community health....

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Spring Fling!

Volunteer Council held its annual Spring Fling on April 6. The dance raised more than $2,000 for Autism Speaks, in honor of Anne Marie Murphy who died while protecting an autistic child at Sandy Hook...

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Non Ut Sibi Spirit

Rashi Narayan ’14 discovered the organization, To Write Love On Her Arm, through a friend who has struggled with depression and self-mutilation for about five years now."To Write Love On Her Arm helps...

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In the Gallery

May 2 to May 30Opening Reception, May 2, 5 -7 p.m.This exhibit will occupy both the Potter Gallery and the Moorhead Wing.Susie Tarnowicz’work has been driven by three consistent, artistic challenges: a...

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NYC concert

Taft School’s Music for a While Series presentsMusic For A Great SpacewithCollegium Musicum and Cantus ExcelsusFeaturing music for choir, organ and brassBruce Fifer, Director____Friday, April 26,...

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Taft School's first annual Chopped Competition

Taft held its first annual Chopped Competition. Chef Mike Floridia faced off against Chef John Peters in a friendly competition that had students and faculty on the edge of their seats. The event was...

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Science Interns

                                                          Bridget Dougherty '14 has been accepted into Yale University’s Discovery to Cure summer internship program. A position that was awarded to...

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Howard Gardner

What does it mean for something to be good?  That's one of the questions Dr. Howard Gardner asks. He spoke with students at Morning Meeting on April 12, and later with the full faculty in Laube...

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Wilder Onstage

Woodward Black Box TheaterThursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. In Thornton Wilder’s 1942 comedy, The Skin of Our Teeth, we meet the Antrobus family and their maid, Sabina, as they face the end of...

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Wilder Onstage

(scroll down for a link to the photo gallery)In Thornton Wilder’s 1942 comedy, The Skin of Our Teeth, we meet the Antrobus family and their maid, Sabina, as they face the end of the world not once, but...

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Green Partner

Since 2010, Taft has been purchasing 100 percent of its electricity as "green power," and has now been recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a Green Power Partner.The Green Power...

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NYBG lecture

Robert F. C. Naczi, Arthur J. Cronquist Curator of North American Botany, The New York Botanical GardenPh.D., University of Michigan...

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DuBois Speaker

Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff will address the school on Tuesday, May 14.Admiral Mullen was sworn in as the 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on October 1, 2007. He...

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Poet Patricia Smith

Author and Performance Poet Patricia SmithAt The Taft SchoolTuesday, May 14, at 7 pm.Woodward Black Box Theater This event is free and open to the public.Please park in the lot on Middlebury...

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Summer Reading

The Summer Reading Committee, made up of students and faculty and chaired by Rev. Bob Ganung and Mrs. Patti Taylor, is pleased to announce that this year’s all-school book is The Legacy: An Elder’s...

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NYBG lecture

Robert F. C. Naczi, Arthur J. Cronquist Curator of North American Botany, The New York Botanical GardenPh.D., University of Michigan...

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