Welcome From Matt Byrnes

Dear Wooster Alumni Community,

I am excited to welcome you to our new Alumni E-Newsletter. One of our goals in creating this newsletter in this particular format is to create yet another channel of communication between Wooster School alumni and the school itself. Our vision is that alumni and their stories will drive the narrative of the newsletters while also providing us with the opportunity to share more of the good news that is happening at Wooster every day. In this way, we hope to strengthen the bonds which connect today’s students and families with those who have come before.

One of the great paradoxes facing schools and their alumni is how change is inevitable, and always central to every school narrative, and yet often the thing which makes the maintenance of the long-term relationship difficult. Ironically, the greatest success stories of our graduates are always based upon change, how each person who leaves the school builds on the foundational ethos of the school and uses it to create, and change, the narrative of their own lives. In the case of Wooster graduates, this also often includes changing the lives of others for the better. Hopefully, through this newsletter, we can bring the stories of how our graduates have built upon their Wooster foundations and made positive changes for themselves and others, while also telling the stories of how we continue to build upon those same foundations with today’s Wooster community. Inevitably, we know that we will find, and celebrate, the goodness that is rooted in and emanates from our motto, our School Prayer, and from the nearly 100 years of relationship and community-based learning that continues through to this day at Wooster School.

Thank you so much for reading, sharing your stories, and for your support through the years.

Be well,

Matt Byrnes
Head of School