Announcements & Reminders

Join the Parents Association in the Davis Center Winter Garden at 5:15 PM for a "Parent Prom" reception. We will provide 80s music, drinks and hors d'oeuvres.

We hope you will join us for Grandparents & Family Day on Saturday, April 27. Here is the schedule of activities.

If you are interested in nominating a book for the All-School Summer Read, please send a brief description of the book, along with the reason you believe it would be a good choice, to English teacher Marilee Lin at mlin@holderness.org.

This summer, I came across an article that resonated about something that happens each school year at Princeton University. One day, one of their chaplains and one of their students were talking about the concept of compassion and how hard it is to cultivate in a high-powered setting, where the emphasis always seems to be on matters of achievement culture, high-pressure performance, and survival. They acknowledged that unless they are really intentional about it, kindness sometimes slips by the wayside.

The student started talking about the woman who swiped his card at the dining hall- she did it with a smile and always asked about his family.  He looked forward to it every day.  The Princeton chaplain heard the story and said, “She’s doing my job!” And that’s how they started to identify and celebrate their “hidden chaplains”

Apart from the 4,139-foot vertical drop, 2,500-acres of in-bounds terrain, and dizzyingly high elevation, the Holderness School Freeride team felt right at home when they visited Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in early January. 

Ethan, E-T-H-A-N, is what the hard-hatted ironworkers called out as they spray-painted my name in red onto the steel girder frame of the new Dana-Farber Yawkey Center for Cancer Care. With my dad, I watched from the connecting bridge to the Dana Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, where I was receiving treatment. The port on my chest bulged over my heart, and I thought, I am Iron Man.

Transportation following WCW - February 6

One way we try to show you how connected you are to each other is the JOB PROGRAM.  It has been in existence at Holderness forever, and I want to try to articulate for you tonight how critical a piece it is of your experience (dare I say education) here. 

There is no time like January to set some new goals, start over, and begin again. The calendar moves to a whole new year. The first semester of the year is over. We are halfway done. It is no longer 2023. Bring on 2024.