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Porter’s Center for Global Leadership Creating changemakers.

WAY TO GO!

Tyler Gaston ’23, senior captain of the field hockey team, was one of 16 Southern New England players named to the National Field Hockey Coaches Association high school all-region team.

FALL PLAY

Mistaken identity? Slapstick? Drama? It was all there in “The Comedy of Errors,” by William Shakespeare.

Mountain Day

The freshman class couldn’t have had a better day to leave classes and study halls behind for a climb up Talcott Mountain last October.

Sharing knowledge

The fall Demonstrations of Learning were an educational event for the entire school community.

The school’s FaceUp group led by Kat Cokeley ’25, Leah Glaspey ’24 and Lucy Newmyer ’23 organized a bipartisan summit last fall to consider issues pertinent to the November midterm elections. Porter’s and Ethel Walker students heard from area politicians and community leaders and attended sessions on voting, democracy and politics.

Two of Porter’s athletes signed with Division I colleges. Ellen Jacobson ’23 will play lacrosse for Lafayette College, and Adi Botet ’23 is taking her soccer skills to the College of the Holy Cross.

Modeling diplomacy

Thirteen students participated in a Model United Nations conference at Avon Old Farms last December, with two taking high honors. Katherine Rosenorn ’24 won the Best Delegate award, and Isabella Kao ’26 was named an Outstanding Delegate.

What’s more harmonious than the Porter’s Perilhettes singing a cappella? The Perilhettes plus the Whiffenpoofs singing a cappella! Yale Music’s famous group came to campus for a workshop last November.

Winter Concert

“My Favorite Things” was the theme of the winter concert by the MPS Chorus, Orchestra and Perilhettes. The program featured an eclectic selection of pieces, ranging from Rodgers & Hammerstein and Disney to Chopin, Mozart and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Eco Tour

Juniors explored the rainforest, collected endangered plant specimens, documented migrating birds and released young turtles into the sea during their 10-day stay in Costa Rica in October 2022. It was part of their advanced interdisciplinary seminar within the school’s Global Citizenship Program.

Chills And Thrills

Seniors shot the rapids on the Deerfield River in western Massachusetts during 12th-grade Program Day last September.