WCDS gifted $1.1 million for tuition assistance

Wakefield Country Day School has launched its new Huntly Scholars Program pursuant to a donation of $1.1 million in tuition assistance just received from dedicated benefactors. It is expected that more than 20 students of all ages will receive tuition assistance with these funds. The number of students benefiting from the program is expected to increase to 40 in the near future.

Since May, more than $2 million has been donated to WCDS for tuition assistance and to support ongoing operations. These donations enable students, otherwise unable to attend WCDS, to receive a classical education with relevance in today’s world. Specific eligibility criteria for the Huntly Scholars Program, which promotes diversity and inclusion, will be announced by December 1.

“We are very grateful to the generous WCDS benefactors for their dedication to expanding enrollment and creating a vibrant path for the future of WCDS and its students,” said WCDS Board Chair Paul Larner. “In addition to the Huntly Scholars Program, WCDS has enhanced our curriculum with leading experts in their fields who are serving on our Adjunct Faculty providing seminars, short-term courses, and mentoring.”

WCDS ‘J CLASS’ TACKLES BIG APPLE

Making their annual pilgrimage to New York City this past week, the Wakefield Country Day School Journalism Class witnessed a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse of daily news in the making. At the top of the agenda was their annual invitation to sit in on the Page One Meeting at the New York Times.

At this meeting the editors of each section of the paper hash out the most newsworthy stories to appear on the front page of the NYT the following day. With the Times’ DC office teleconferenced in, the class witnessed a news embargo as Gordon Sondland, the Ambassador to the EU, altered his testimony in the impeachment proceedings. After checking their sources and their facts, the NYT finally broke the story several hours later. The WCDS journalists had been privy to groundbreaking news before the rest of the world!