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Holding On To Your September Optimism
We’ve been grinding for months. We’ve made it through the longest part of the school year without a major break (September to Thanksgiving) and now many of us will enter the final exam crunch next week- for students taking exams and faculty grading and writing comments. We’re tired. Here’s a fun video that that Trinity-Pawling [...]
Read MoreTrinity-Pawling Head Talks Boys Education While Participating in Social Media
Confirming the growing power, and influence, of student produced- less formal- media, Trinity-Pawling School headmaster, Arch Smith sat for a video interview with student vloggers Teddy and Ian. This conversation dovetails nicely with yesterday’s post (Reality Coming Into Relief: Boys Education Needs Attention) covering Thomas Mortenson’s study “Economic Change Effects on Men And Implications for [...]
Read MoreCongratulations to AdmissionsQuest Schools in New England Basketball Championships
UPDATED (3/8/11) Girls Basketball: We send congratulations to our AdmissionsQuest schools whose girls basketball teams participated in, and in two cases won, their respective New England championship tournaments. The Class A NEPSAC girls tournament featured three AdmissionsQuest member schools, Tabor Academy (Class A champions), Noble & Greenough, and New Hampton. Class B- Brooks School & [...]
Read MoreLiving and Working the World’s Fiercest Negotiators: Our Kids
Last week, we shared opening of boarding school thoughts for students from Episcopal High School dean, Kevin Soja. Today, we look at the opening of school through the eternal parental quest- meaning what we say and following through when we say ‘no’. We (parents/guardian of adolescents and their teachers) live and work with the world’s [...]
Read MoreBanner Day for Boarding School Alumni in the Sunday New York Times
Two boarding school alumni featured prominently in the Sunday New York Times (8/1)- retired baseball player, now, real estate developer, Mo Vaughn and actress Laura Linney; Trinity Pawling and Northfield Mount Hermon appear as contributors to the pair’s formative years. Vaughn’s piece ran in the first section of my national edition (Power Player); Linney’s story [...]
Read MoreSenator Charles Mathias, Trinity-Pawling School Alumnus Dies
Charles Mathias, the three term Maryland Senator and classic “party of Lincoln” Republican died this past Monday. Noted for his “bold stances that were often at odds with the prevailing views of his party” and his unwillingness to participate in the Southern Strategy Senator Mathias practiced an honesty and belief that sometimes put him at [...]
Read MoreTrinity-Pawling School Architecture Noted in Sunday’s New York Times
Trinity-Pawling School‘s campus received mention this past Sunday in Christopher Gray’s article “Designing for High and Low.” Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker have written a monograph, The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury. Atterbury’s work included everything from vernacular to to high design with a focus on cities. “…By the time Atterbury died in 1956, his practice encompassed [...]
Read MoreBoarding Schools Acting on Climate Change: Blog Action Day 2009
Who would’ve imagined a few years back that you could so easily unite and share thousands of voices and perspectives on a single day. Today, 10/15/2009, Blog Action Day, is dedicated to addressing and covering climate change. As part of Blog Action Day 2009, we’d like to highlight the AdmissionsQuest schools that are working to [...]
Read MoreIt’s All in the Effort
Woody Allen was almost right in his famous declaration, “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” While we certainly have to arrive to be successful, it turns out effort and experimentation are the keys to success once we’ve made it into the room or on to the stage. A recent post (How we learn) by Chuck [...]
Read MorePawling to Palo Alto: Shane Skov Hits the Field for the Cardinal
Mark Purdy of The San Jose Mercury News published a profile of Trinity-Pawling Alumnus and Stanford Freshman, Shane Skov in last Wednesday’s paper (Stanford’s Interesting Freshman). Purdy chronicles Skov’s development as an American football player in Mexico, to Trinity-Pawling School and now to Stanford. “…From south of the border … to east of the Catskills… [...]
Read MoreTrinity-Pawling Alumnus Dillon Quinn Joins the Boston College Defensive Line
Just a couple of months removed from Trinity-Pawling School, Dillon Quinn fights to learn the techniques and discipline of becoming a sound, major college defensive lineman. Boston College defensive coordinator Bill McGovern told the Boston Globe (Quinn Could Offer Eagles Raw Power): “He’s an interesting kid. Obviously, he’s physically imposing. But like any young guy [...]
Read MoreIt’s Tough. But, when we acknowledge the problem, we can work with it.
From hearsay to media reporting, the subject has found the light. The economic slowdown has, and will, affect private schools and their families. In an earlier post, we noted Trinity Pawling School Headmaster, Arch Smith’s open, honest letter on the matter; his was the first public discussion from a school administrator that we’d seen on [...]
Read MoreContracting Budgets at the Collegiate and Secondary Levels Mean Something for Everyone in Private Education
Let’s be blunt; the crazy year in the financial markets is crushing and causing a wholesale resetting of budgets in priorities for everyone in tuition based education. Collegiate losses of endowment value and income are affecting college budget priorities and decisions. Wealthy, heavily endowed colleges and universities are paring back- beginning with (most obviously) building [...]
Read MoreA Special Player Finds a Different Route to Stanford and NCAA BCS Football
Don’t miss the Sports Illustrated story about Trinity Pawling School student Shayne Skov and the international route he’s taking to Stanford football. Suffice to say, the story begins in California, moves to Mexico, back to California, to New York, and back to California. Include international living, personal growth, academic ability, athleticism and the serendipitous connections [...]
Read MoreTrinity-Pawling School: A Year of Creative Dining
We came across a great story about Trinity-Pawling School‘s dining hall renovation that will leave the school without a permanent dining room for the 2008-2009 academic year. The story of how the school will work through the renovation is a testament to planning and it’s just fun. How do you feed the community while the [...]
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