Windsor Mountain School

Although Windsor Mountain School only survived 31 years in it’s Lenox home, the former Winthrop Estate, there are several alums who met at Windsor and went on to live together after their time as students. The first to come to mind of course was Heinz and Caroline Bondy. She a student and he a son of our founders Max and Gertrud who would become Headmaster […]

Due to lack of interest, our next planned annual Windsor Mountain School Reunion will NOT be Saturday, September 14, 2024, 11 am to 5 pm (No Rain Date).  So for this year we will work on Commemorative Trees and Brass Plaques along the pathway to the Theater which is easily accessible from the entrance parking circle (front of Main House) year round. Campus owners Boston […]

On Sunday, November 26, 2023 we gathered again online via Zoom at 7:00 PM EST for our 4th Annual Windsor Mountain School Assembly. If you haven’t been receiving an emails, please email Reunion@windsormountainschool.com or use the contact us page to make a request. Sorry for the delay and problems with the Zoom Meeting. I’m not very tech savvy, and rarely use Zoom these days post […]

9/12 from BU-Tanglewood (our host) — Park in the gravel lot in front of Groton Place (Main House). The 2nd & 3rd floors of Groton Place are used by BU Medical Residents and not accessible. For a complete list of alums attending (we know of), email: Reunion@windsormountainschool.com 8/18 from Betsy — “soooo home slice(s)( pl?) the contract, the $2500 and event insurance all went to […]

Our Annual 2022 WMS Zoom Assembly the Sunday after Thanksgiving. We started with 5 minutes each for hellos / how your year has been / favorite Windsor story. We remember those who have passed in 2022, two Davids (Porta & Bean) and others. We discussed our next 2023 Reunion in Lenox … do we want to try to schedule early June or stay with mid […]

After the long Covid two year isolation Betsy Ryan and Myself (Christopher Smith) have been working to renew our Windsor Mountain School (WMS) relationship with Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI). We had hoped to restart the tradition of a yearly September WMS Reunion Picnic in Lenox as we had done 2016 to 2019. As you may know, BUTI began to operate a Music Summer Camp […]

Birthplace Reunion of Windsor Mountain School! FINAL REPORT: Returned back home in Hatfield MA afternoon of October 3, 2021 having spent a breakfast with those alums staying at the Windsor Mansion Inn, along with others staying nearby. It was similar to the Reunions 2016 – 2019 in Lenox, that tend to be smaller allowing for new friendships and bond[y]ing of the alums blending the span […]

As the last of WMS grads coast into retirement, the world around us swirls in seeming chaos. We alums have both our Windsor memories and by some miracle the school grounds remain mostly intact and well maintained, although the Smith House was demolished (more on this coming). Sadly an out of control pandemic interrupted our Annual Reunion this year, so let us hope for 2021 […]

REUNION: Saturday, September 14, 2019 at 11 AM – 7 PM. 45 West St, Lenox, MA 01240-2420, United States (Windsor Mountain School campus). Once again our fearless leader, Betsy Ryan, has secured the Windsor campus for September 14th beginning at 11 am and going to 7 pm. Bring a picnic lunch and a comfy lawn chair. $20 per person (Kids Free) to cover a donation to Boston university […]

It is with great sadness to report that AB Taylor passed away on New Year’s Day after a prolonged illness in California. AB was the adopted son of JB the renown chef of WMS for many years who lived in Pittsfield. He was beloved by alums who knew him from 1967 until he graduated in 1971 as very kind, charismatic and outgoing. He was passionate about […]