American Friends of Winchester College
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The American Friends of Winchester College
Board of Directors 2009-2010
Meg Bradt (Past Parent)
Michael Donovan (A,1954-59)
Daniel Gordon (E,1968-69)
Richard Gridley (C,1948-53)
Jonathan de Lande Long (I,1964-69)
Henry Ormond (Coll,1985-90)
Andrew Watt (B,1976-80), Chairman
Mary Emerson, Executive Director
228 Park Avenue South #37070
New York, NY 10003
tel: +1 917 747 9517
Membership in The American Friends of Winchester College is open to all OW’s, parents and past parents living in North America
The mission of the AFWC is to facilitate communication between the school and OW’s in America, to provide a focal point for the community of OW’s in America and in addition, to raise funds supporting a range of projects including bursaries and the renovation of the school’s ancient buildings.
If you would like to become more involved with the American Friends group, you may contact either Andrew Watt (awatt@afpnet.org) or Mary Emerson (me@wincoll.ac.uk) directly. Your suggestions and comments are extremely valuable and we would like to hear from you.
Lecture January 13 2010
Timothy Wilson, (C 1963-1967), Keeper of Western Art, The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, delivered a lecture at the Frick Collection on January 13 entitled 'From things for villas to princely gifts": Maiolica for Renaissance Dukes and Duchesses of Urbino'
Background details of the lecture are below.
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the small principality of Urbino was one of the cultural powerhouses of the Italian Renaissance. It also was where the art of tin-glazed earthenware, maiolica, achieved supreme pictorial sophistication. This lecture will examine the maiolica produced in Urbino and the way in which this local art form was used by the dukes and their wives for personal and diplomatic purposes.This lecture was offered in conjunction with the special exhibition, Exuberant Grotesques: Renaissance Maiolica from the Fontana Workshop. Presentation of this lecture was made possible by the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation.
Visit to New England by the Music School String Quartet and the Drama Department's School Play March and April 2009.
During the 2009 Easter break, Winchester College String Quartet and Harry Sever (singer) gave a concert in Charlottesville as part of its tour of Virginia and the term's School Play was performed at various venues in New England. Photographs of this event are visible on the right hand side.
The music concert included works by Samuel Barber, Joseph Haydn, Vittorio Monti, Cole Porter & Ralph Vaughan Williams and was followed by a Reception for Old Wykehamists, Parents and Past Parents.
The play, Our country's good by Timberlake Wertenbaker, was performed at four different venues during April 2009.
Chapel Choir visit: 10 - 17 April 2008
Chapel Choir visited New York, Greenwich and Princeton in April 2008.
The Choir sang at the American Friends Dinner on Wednesday 16 April:
The Choir also performed at the National Awards Ceremony on Ellis Island on Thursday 17 April.
on Ellis Island: 17 April 2008