Our fun-loving, hard-working co-ed soccer team racked up a record of 2 wins, 5 losses, and 2 ties in our longest season to date (2 more games were cancelled because of weather). Given illness, college visits, and other disruptions to the team, students can be proud of this record and look forward to a better one next year. Highlights of the year included Big Tom Frey, one of our two German imports, in goal, and Evan Crispell and David Kern, our other German, at midfield. Oliver Kress anchored the defense, and Alexander Pitman and Jordan Sills struck as strikers. We fielded our largest team ever–22 players–including visiting players from Monument Mountain High School and the Hawthorne Valley School. You can always spot our team on the field–we’re the ones with orange socks.

Evan Crispell, Class of 2010, brings the ball upfield.

You are cordially invited to one or more of our OPEN HOUSES for 2009 - 2010:

Tues, Nov 17, ’09 @ 7:30 pm 

 Thurs, Jan 21, ’10 @ 7:30 pm  

 Tues, Mar 24, ’10 @ 7:30 pm

For more information, please call Stephen Sagarin at (413) 528-8833
PO Box 905, 454 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230 www.waldorfhigh.org

Heavy metal class

Here’s a link to a nice story about blacksmith John Graney and our students from today’s Berkshire Eagle.

An advantage of being a small school is that we can pick up and go–the whole school–when we choose. On Wednesday, November 4, we chose to spend the day in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Each class had a different assignment. Ninth graders had just finished a course in History through Art, and spent the day roaming from Egypt through Greece, Rome, the Italian and Northern Renaissances, to Rembrandt and, later, the Impressionists, taking notes and sketching. Tenth graders are currently studying Ancient History, and so spent most of their time with ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. They will study the history and culture of China in December, and spent time in the Chinese exhibits, too. Eleventh and Twelfth graders will also study China, and joined the 10th grade at this exhibit. They have just completed a study of modern literature, and could relate that to paintings of the last 100 years or so.

Among the special exhibits that some of us attended were Vermeer’s “The Milkmaid,” Robert Frank’s photos from “The Americans,” and the swords, armor, and other art of the Samurai. A video on the making of a samurai sword–steel folded like pastry dough into many layers, then wrapped around a flexible core of a different steel–demonstrated the skill and tradition of Japanese sword makers, although the technology they used looks the same as that used by our 9th graders in blacksmithing–coal fire, anvil, and hammer.

After the museum, we walked through Central Park, stopping at the Zoo, the sculpture at 60th Street and 5th Avenue, and Rockefeller Center’s ice rink, before returning to Grand Central.

On the steps of the Met

In and around Franz West's "The Ego and the Id"