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Woodberry Forest School Opens 126th Session
Woodberry Forest School welcomed 112 new boys on September 7, 2014. The boys moved into their dorm rooms and participated in several events designed to orient them to school life.
Highlights of the first days at the Forest included the opportunity to meet and hear from Woodberry's ninth headmaster, Dr. Byron Hulsey ’86, who took leadership of the school this summer. He told new students they would always remember the day they joined the Woodberry Forest community, just as he remembers the day thirty-one years ago that he moved onto Taylor Hall. And he shared with them the school's expectation that they would work hard, build their character, and take care of each other, a theme that would be echoed in his sermon during the year's first service in St. Andrew's Chapel and at Monday evening's Honor Convocation.
New boys also met with their advisors and peer mentors and enjoyed skits, videos, and testimonials at a student-run orientation assembly on the culture of Woodberry Forest. By the end of the two-day orientation, they were prepared to begin classes on Tuesday as part of the 396-member student body.
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Highlights of the first days at the Forest included the opportunity to meet and hear from Woodberry's ninth headmaster, Dr. Byron Hulsey ’86, who took leadership of the school this summer. He told new students they would always remember the day they joined the Woodberry Forest community, just as he remembers the day thirty-one years ago that he moved onto Taylor Hall. And he shared with them the school's expectation that they would work hard, build their character, and take care of each other, a theme that would be echoed in his sermon during the year's first service in St. Andrew's Chapel and at Monday evening's Honor Convocation.
New boys also met with their advisors and peer mentors and enjoyed skits, videos, and testimonials at a student-run orientation assembly on the culture of Woodberry Forest. By the end of the two-day orientation, they were prepared to begin classes on Tuesday as part of the 396-member student body.
Woodberry Forest School is an exceptional private school community for high school boys in grades nine through twelve. It is one of the top boarding schools in the United States and one of the only all-boys, all-boarding schools in the country.
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Woodberry Forest admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and national or ethnic origin to all of the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic or other school-administered programs. The school is authorized under federal law to enroll nonimmigrant students.