Morning Meetings

Each Tuesday and Thursday during the school year, all students gather in Bingham Auditorium for Morning Meeting. In addition to talks by the headmaster, chaplain or other members of the faculty, students themselves and outside guests frequently address the school. When possible, these talks, or performances, are recorded and made available here.

To listen, simply click on any of the recordings below. You can scroll through the recordings using the arrow on the right of the playlist.

2009-10


2008-09

Headmaster Willy MacMullen
May 28
Spring Athletic Awards Assembly
May 27
Uppermid Awards Ceremony
May 26
Senior Projects
May 21
Seniors Schuyler Dalton, Sarah Albert, Robin Oh and Paul Kiernan
May 19
Students Charlie Wagner, Max Winkler and Mark Simone
May 05
Artist Jo Goldberger '83
April 30
Kabuki Presentation
April 28
Seniors Gigi Espejo and Kira Parks
April 23
Eboo Patel, author of An American Muslim
April 21
Seniors Diana Saverin and Catherine Winslow
April 14
Congressman Chris Murphy
April 09
Seniors Ben Zucker and Chris Zheng
April 07
Annabel Smith, Porteous Fund Faculty Speaker
March 31
James Martin '03, Second City
March 10
Guiding Eyes For the Blind
March 05
Wendy Kopp, Founder Teach For America
March 03
Prof. Zetterholm, Lund University, Sweden
February 26
Presentation of MLK Day Quilt
February 19
Senior Kat Gronauer presents her ISP on SAD
February 17
Kilbourne Artists present
February 10
Island Schoolers
February 05
Roy Chowdhury plays sitar
February 03
Shelly J. Riling speaks on online predator issues
January 29
Senior Julie Foote
January 27
Dr. Augustine Mahiga (Tanzanian Ambassador to the U.N.)
January 22
King Corn director Ian Cheyney
January 13
Rockwell Artist Dawn Clements
January 08
Headmaster Willy MacMullen
December 09
Service Clubs
November 18
Francis Bok on Sudan
November 11
Election Debate
October 28
Cum Laude Society Inductions
October 21
Community Service Day
October 16
Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER)
October 09
Greg Hawes
October 02
Poet Jon Walton, World Vision
September 30
Artist Robert Eshoo
September 25
Will Sayre '09
September 23
Dean of Students Carl Carlson
September 18
Head monitor Bob Vulfov '09
September 16
Chaplain Bob Ganung
September 11
Headmaster Willy MacMullen
September 09

2007-08

Headmaster Willy MacMullen's Uppermid Awards Talk
May 27
Seniors Anne Samuelson, Nate Breg, Camilla McFarland
May 15
Senior Dustin Oria
May 08
School Archivist Alison Gilchrist
May 06
DuBois Fellow Shaazka Beyerle (Int'l Center on Nonviolent Conflict)
May 01
The Rt. Rev. Laura Ahrens (Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut)
April 29
Seniors Luther Masanto, Eli Coston and Matt Ale
April 17
Jon Willson '82 (Taft Academic Dean)
April 10
Seniors Monisha Dillard, Maddy Bloch and Jenny Glazer
April 08
Dr. Michael Stubile (Operation Smile)
April 03
Marc Leuthold '80 (Rockwell Visiting Artist)
March 27
Robert Ganung (Taft Chaplain)
March 25
Anthony Romero (Executive director, ACLU)
March 04
Ulrick Gaillard, Batey Relief Alliance
February 28
Farid Esack (Visiting Muslim Scholar at Harvard Divinity School)
February 25
Shanika Audige '08
February 21
Institute for American Indian Studies
February 19
Headmaster's Parents Weekend Talk
February 16
Faculty Band
February 14
Chaplain Davis (Columbia University)
February 12
Kilbourne Artists Present
February 07
Headmaster Willy MacMullen '78
February 05
Chaplain Bob Ganung
January 31
Louise Truehart '08
January 29
Rusty Davis
January 17
Courtney White '08
January 15
Greg Hawes
January 10
Sounds of Afrika
January 08
Headmaster Willy MacMullen '78
December 04
Colin Farrar
November 06
Linda Saarnijoki
October 25
Cum Laude Inductions
October 23
Reflections on Community Service
October 18
Ashleigh Kowtoniuk '08
October 16
Visiting Artist Robert Eshoo
October 11
Japanese Tea Ceremony
October 08
Greg Ricks
October 04
Pulitzer-Prize Winner Tracy Kidder
October 02
Headmaster Willy MacMullen '78
September 27
Lucy Cluver, AIDS orphans in South Africa
September 25
Tibetan Monks Present Thangka to Sacred Art Collection
September 20
Waverly Ann Harris, Invisible Children
September 18
Head Monitor Lily Lanahan '08
September 13
September 11, 2007 - Chaplain Robert Ganung
September 11
Headmaster Willy MacMullen '78
September 06

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