QA Styling Adjustments | Miss Porter's School

2022: Gaylynn A. Burroughs ’95

2018: Nancy Klingenstein Simpkins ’74

2015: Anne Stillman Nordeman ’65

2014: Margaret Nash Gifford ’48

2013: Judith Milliken Holden ’68

2012: Mimi Colgate Kirk ’57

2009: Barbara Higgins Epifanio ’79

2008: Elizabeth Mead Merck ’38

2007: M. Burch Tracy Ford

2006: Marianna Mead O’Brien, P’74, ’76, ’78

2005: Edith McBride Bass ’50

2005: Beverley Waud Sutherland ’55

2004: Missie Rennie Taylor ’64

2003: Isabel Morrell Beadleston ’28

2002: Virginia Wells Truesdale ’52

1999: Judy Olin Higgins ’54

1997: Alice Babst Bent ’27

1997: Sally du Pont Cahill ’47

1996: Jean Marckwald Chapin ’56

1995: Marie Powell Hincks ’45

1994: Emily Ridgway Crisp ’59

1994: Eleanor Ashforth Harvey ’43

1993: Rachel Hammond Breck 1925

1990: Lucy Pulling Cutting ’54

1989: Edwina Shea Millington ’49

2022: Gaylynn A. Burroughs ’95

2018: Nancy Klingenstein Simpkins ’74

2015: Anne Stillman Nordeman ’65

2014: Margaret Nash Gifford ’48

2013: Judith Milliken Holden ’68

2012: Mimi Colgate Kirk ’57

2009: Barbara Higgins Epifanio ’79

2008: Elizabeth Mead Merck ’38

2007: M. Burch Tracy Ford

2006: Marianna Mead O’Brien, P’74, ’76, ’78

2005: Edith McBride Bass ’50

2005: Beverley Waud Sutherland ’55

2004: Missie Rennie Taylor ’64

2003: Isabel Morrell Beadleston ’28

2002: Virginia Wells Truesdale ’52

1999: Judy Olin Higgins ’54

1997: Alice Babst Bent ’27

1997: Sally du Pont Cahill ’47

1996: Jean Marckwald Chapin ’56

1995: Marie Powell Hincks ’45

1994: Emily Ridgway Crisp ’59

1994: Eleanor Ashforth Harvey ’43

1993: Rachel Hammond Breck 1925

1990: Lucy Pulling Cutting ’54

1989: Edwina Shea Millington ’49

Interactive Hover Block (Wide List)

Interactive hover block update (Wide List)

AMPLIFYING EVERY VOICE DEEP, INTENTIONAL LEARNING FOSTERING A COMMUNITY OF TRUE BELONGING SEEING AND SUPPORTING EVERY STUDENT HONORING TRADITION WHILE SHAPING THE FUTURE AMPLIFYING EVERY VOICE DEEP, INTENTIONAL LEARNING FOSTERING A COMMUNITY OF TRUE BELONGING SEEING AND SUPPORTING EVERY STUDENT HONORING TRADITION WHILE SHAPING THE FUTURE

A woman with long hair wearing a light blue sweater stands by a brick wall and a window, holding a camera up to her face as she takes a photograph.

Amplifying Every Voice

Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.

Deep, Intentional, Learning

Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.

Fostering a Community of True Belonging

Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.

Seeing and Supporting Every Student

Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.

Honoring Tradition While Shaping the Future

Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.

Amplifying Every Voice

Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.

Deep, Intentional, Learning

Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.

Fostering a Community of True Belonging

Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.

Seeing and Supporting Every Student

Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.

Honoring Tradition While Shaping the Future

Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.

Interactive Hover Block (Wide Detail)

1842 1843 1843-1900 1900 1904 1936 1943 1943-1966 1970s-1990s 2008-Present

Historic black-and-white photo of a large, three-story brick house with a wraparound porch, tall chimneys, shuttered windows, bare trees, and a picket fence, taken in a winter setting.

1842

In addition to borrowing $32.94 from her family, Sarah Porter invests her own funds to rent rooms, purchase supplies and outfit an all-girls school in Farmington, Connecticut.

Six women in 19th-century dresses pose for a formal black-and-white portrait, some sitting, some standing, with neutral expressions against a plain backdrop and a column partially covered with ivy.

1843

Sarah Porter establishes Miss Porter’s School and welcomes the school’s first 18 students.

A sepia photo of nine women and one man wearing 19th-century clothing, sitting and standing on the steps of a vine-covered brick building with an arched doorway.

1843-1900

The school experiences rapid growth, gaining a national reputation for its comprehensive curriculum and boasts nearly 100 students by the turn of the century.

Three women in Victorian-era dresses sit closely together, examining a large sheet of paper. Bust sculptures are visible in the background, suggesting an art studio or workshop setting.

1900

Sarah Porter dies at the age of 86.

A sepia-toned vintage photo of thirteen women in Victorian-era dresses, some seated and some standing, outdoors on grass with trees in the background. Three women in front hold tennis rackets.

1904

Management of the school falls to Sarah Porter’s nephew, Robert Porter Keep; his wife, Elizabeth Hale Keep; and their son Robert Porter Keep Jr.

Seven young women stand outdoors in winter coats, smiling, with trees and a building in the background. The photo appears vintage, possibly from the 1940s or 1950s.

1936

After organizing charitable sewing societies in several cities around the country, Porter’s Ancients come together to form the school’s first alumnae association.

A group of young women, dressed in skirts, blouses, and sweaters, sit closely together on bleachers outdoors, smiling and talking, in a black-and-white vintage photograph. Trees and a fence are visible in the background.

1943

Miss Porter’s School is incorporated as a nonprofit institution.

Black and white photo of young women seated in a circular formation on a tiled terrace, with their legs extended radially outward, creating a flower-like pattern. They are dressed in shirts and skirts.

1943-1966

Head of School Ward L. Johnson and his wife, Katharine Johnson, transform the school into a college preparatory institution, returning to Sarah Porter’s original focus on intellectual achievement rather than social polish.

Six women in dance attire pose in a studio with wood-paneled walls. Three are standing with arms outstretched, two are kneeling, and one is sitting on the floor with her chin resting on her hands, all smiling.

1970s-1990s

The school enrolls day students, grows its international student body and welcomes increasing diversity—all while emphasizing a growing athletics program and forward-looking academics.

Six young women in white dresses and flower crowns stand outdoors, smiling with arms raised. They wear green and yellow sashes that read Miss Porters School. Lush greenery and a house are visible in the background.

2008-Present

Under the leadership of Katherine G. Windsor, the school has consistently paired tradition with innovation to build an academic and co-curricular program that prepares girls to thrive as powerful women in a changing world.

Interactive Hover Block (Wide Detail, Compact)

Art History Ceramics Digital Art Drawing Technology, Innovation, Etc Painting Photography Printmaking

Historic black-and-white photo of a large, three-story brick house with a wraparound porch, tall chimneys, shuttered windows, bare trees, and a picket fence, taken in a winter setting.

Art History

In addition to borrowing $32.94 from her family, Sarah Porter invests her own funds to rent rooms, purchase supplies and outfit an all-girls school in Farmington, Connecticut.

Six women in 19th-century dresses pose for a formal black-and-white portrait, some sitting, some standing, with neutral expressions against a plain backdrop and a column partially covered with ivy.

Ceramics

Sarah Porter establishes Miss Porter’s School and welcomes the school’s first 18 students.

A sepia photo of nine women and one man wearing 19th-century clothing, sitting and standing on the steps of a vine-covered brick building with an arched doorway.

Digital Art

The school experiences rapid growth, gaining a national reputation for its comprehensive curriculum and boasts nearly 100 students by the turn of the century.

Three women in Victorian-era dresses sit closely together, examining a large sheet of paper. Bust sculptures are visible in the background, suggesting an art studio or workshop setting.

Drawing

Sarah Porter dies at the age of 86.

A sepia-toned vintage photo of thirteen women in Victorian-era dresses, some seated and some standing, outdoors on grass with trees in the background. Three women in front hold tennis rackets.

Technology, Innovation, Etc

Management of the school falls to Sarah Porter’s nephew, Robert Porter Keep; his wife, Elizabeth Hale Keep; and their son Robert Porter Keep Jr.

Seven young women stand outdoors in winter coats, smiling, with trees and a building in the background. The photo appears vintage, possibly from the 1940s or 1950s.

Painting

After organizing charitable sewing societies in several cities around the country, Porter’s Ancients come together to form the school’s first alumnae association.

A group of young women, dressed in skirts, blouses, and sweaters, sit closely together on bleachers outdoors, smiling and talking, in a black-and-white vintage photograph. Trees and a fence are visible in the background.

Photography

Miss Porter’s School is incorporated as a nonprofit institution.

Black and white photo of young women seated in a circular formation on a tiled terrace, with their legs extended radially outward, creating a flower-like pattern. They are dressed in shirts and skirts.

Printmaking

Head of School Ward L. Johnson and his wife, Katharine Johnson, transform the school into a college preparatory institution, returning to Sarah Porter’s original focus on intellectual achievement rather than social polish.

Madeline “Maddie” Goldberg ’16

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Glenda Newell-Harris ’71

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Glenda Newell-Harris ’71

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Glenda Newell-Harris ’71

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