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Woodberry Opens 130th School Year
Woodberry Forest School welcomed 127 new boys to campus Sunday, August 26 as it began its 130th year.
This year’s student body of 395 boys hails from twenty-three states and the District of Columbia, as well as more than twenty countries around the world.
The senior prefect, selected earlier this month by a vote of his fellow prefects during a retreat in Colorado, is Dylan Walmsley of Charlottesville, Virginia. Dylan, who will serve as a prefect on Turner Hall, is a member of the Cum Laude Society and plays varsity soccer and varsity lacrosse.
In remarks to the student body Monday evening, Dylan called on both old boys and new boys to ensure every Woodberry student feels like a part of the school’s brotherhood. He also urged students to focus on taking advantage of the school’s campus and to prioritize their relationships with fellow students and with faculty ahead of technology or other distractions.
Students attended their first classes on Wednesday, August 29. In the two preceding days the old boys helped orient new students to life at Woodberry. The entire community enjoyed an advisor dinner and chapel, as well as a special scavenger hunt for new boys and evening gatherings for all students with their advisors.
Taylor Tucker of Manakin-Sabot, Virginia will serve as deputy senior prefect and live on Taylor Hall, while Billy Huger of Atlanta, Georgia serves as scribe for the prefect board and will live on B Dorm in the Walker Building.
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.