Thank you to everyone who made a recent new space possible!

We want to thank the over 200 alumni, former staff, and friends who gave to make the below renovations possible. Friends of Woodstock School (FWS), thank you for providing funding to match the donations given towards our new spaces!

The spaces were inaugurated at a beautiful dedication ceremony event held in April 2022. A recap of the event can be viewed on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FcvMOVGQsLo

The T.Z. Chu Science Block Laboratory renovations were funded by a generous donation of $500,000 from Rick Downs ’79 which was matched by $500,000 from FWS, with Woodstock School putting $200,000 towards the project.

$140,000 in donations from the community were matched by FWS allowing Woodstock School to cover the cost of renovating 10 classrooms:

• HS20 – Bill and Dorothy Whitcomb Classroom funded by their children Catherine, John, Patricia, and Robert

• HS21 – Graham and Ruth Hilliard Classroom funded by class members of ’52, ’60, ’66, ’67, ’68, ’69, ’72, ’73, ’81, ’95

• HS22 – Saroj Kapadia

Classroom funded by members of the class of ’79

• HS23 – Sybil Geisinger

Classroom funded by members of the classes of ’62, ’63, ’67

• HS24 – Janette Cowan Blair Classroom funded by members of the classes of ’67, ’68, ’87

• HS25 – Bob Morris Classroom funded by donations to Canadian Friends of Woodstock School

• QS34 – Woodstock Support Staff Classroom funded by donations from members of the classes of ’83 and ’01

• QS37 – Savitaben Amin

Classroom funded by Rahul Amin

• QS30 – Almira Leslie

Classroom funded by the Estate of Almira Leslie

• QS35 – FWS Classroom in celebration of its donors funded by Friends of Woodstock School

• QS39 – Class of ’81

Classroom funded by members of the class of ’81

The Woodstock community thanks you for your generosity!

The Artist Affinity Group (AAG) feels like a one-and-a-half-yearold who has learned to run. Birthed during the 1st Virtual Woodstock Reunion in July 2021 when a panel of eight alumni artists presented their work and reflected on Woodstock’s influence on them, the AAG now boasts a network of almost 100 visual artists, film-makers, writers, and music producers.

With the goal of running events to both showcase and network Woodstock creatives, the AAG has since organized two more panels to share their work with the wider alumni community and has newly launched a regular “Artists Hang.”

One of the highlights of the last year-and-a-half was Woodstock’s first-ever Alumni Artist Residency organized in May 2022 in collaboration with the Centre for Imagination, the Advancement and Alumni Relations Office, and the Woodstock Art Department. Eleven alumni artists spent three weeks on campus making sense of their memories, the school, the town, and the Himalayas through the prism of their art.

Spanning 43 years between the earliest and latest graduating classes represented, the residency was a profoundly intense experience of alumni connecting with each other as well as with their surroundings. Through a process of collective reflection and individual work the residency met its goal of engaging the student body and wider community, ending with an exhibition of contemporary art. We encourage other artists and alumni interested in joining our group to complete this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1 FAIpQLScSdcPh7PavS02sjBepj29IJcqDsOgQSDjL6InTLg8MrLvMw/viewform