Every year, Williston relies on alumni, faculty, staff, and friends to make gifts to the Annual Fund and Parents’ Fund. These gifts provide support for academic programs, athletics, the arts, extracurriculars, financial aid and faculty support.

In 2011-2012, the Annual Fund raised $1.42 million. Gifts ranged from $1 from a graduating senior to leadership gifts of $1,841 or more—but the key to the Annual Fund was, and continues to be, participation. In the past five years, nearly 4,000 alumni contributed to the Annual Fund.

In the November appeal, Tim Murphy ’96 wrote that he contributed to the Annual Fund “because this is the first place where I felt connected to something larger than myself.”

“My gifts are small, but consistent,” he wrote. “It’s the only quantifiable way that I can be sure Williston Northampton knows that it has made a difference in my life.”

This year, the goal is to raise $1.5 million by June 30, 2013. By making a gift before December 31, you’ll show your support for the education and experience Williston Northampton provides, and will help ensure that the school continues to thrive.

Give now.

After 36 teams had been eliminated, Emma Freeman ’05 and her teammates on The Gordon Hirabayashi Memorial Team argued in the final round of Harvard Law School’s Ames Moot Court competition.

The final round of the competition, in which Freeman’s team was pitted against the The William J. Stuntz Memorial Team, was presided over by retired Supreme Court Justice The Honorable David Souter, The Honorable Reena Raggi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, and The Honorable Mark Wolf of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.

The trio awarded Freeman with the distinction of “best oralist” as well as honoring her team with the award for best brief.  In this year’s competition the teams argued the constitutionality of a statute that would require, “all state and local government entities in Ames to purchase only green technologies manufactured in the United States using domestically sourced materials.”