Chosen because of it's location at the center of campus, as well as it's calm, quiet atmosphere, this is the traditional setting for Waynflete's Convocation.
What is the Sanctuary?
100
On September 21, 1898, Caroline Crisfield and Agnes Lowell opened their first school, calling it this.
What is The Portland School for Girls?
100
Agnes' partner.
Who is Caroline Crisfield?
100
Caroline met Agnes Lowell when they were both teachers a t this school in Pennsylvania.
What is the Ogontz School?
100
What a culture agrees on as acceptable and unacceptable behaviors.
What are norms?
200
Mark blows his horn at the end on Convocation to symbolize this.
What is the official start of the school year?
200
This estate was bought in 1912. Waynflete remains at this location today.
What is The Dudley Estate?
200
According to her death certificate, Agnes was born in Calais, Maine, but family genealogy states that she was actually born here.
What is Upper Mills, New Brunswick?
200
When Caroline was 28 she started her college studies at this school.
What is Swarthmore College?
200
A formal act or series of acts performed in honor of an event or special occasion. Convocation is an example.
What is a ceremony?
300
These two Latin root words mean "call together."
What are "con" and "voco?"
300
The founders visited England in 1897, and were inspired by this educator, whose birthplace in Oxford they visited.
Who is William of Waynflete?
300
To purchase the 65 State Street building, Miss Lowell borrowed money from this former pupil at the Ogontz School.
Who is Margaret Thaw Carnegie?
300
Caroline Crisfield was born on this date.
What is December 7, 1860?
300
This is a statement of body of statements held as true by a society or culture.
What are beliefs?
400
Each year, a committee is formed to plan Convocation, including deciding on this, which becomes the prompt that voices in the community respond to.
What is the theme?
400
Fearing that the school could not survive otherwise, in 1923 a group of parents drew up the Articles of Agreement and Association that created this.
What is Waynflete Latin School, Incorporated?
400
Miss Lowell taught this subject during the school's early years.
What is English?
400
Miss Crisfield "seems to have been a particularly able student of" this, according to 'Celebrating Waynflete: One Hundred Years in the Life of a School.' It was the subject she taught.
What is mathematics?
400
These human-made objects, documents etc., reflect the values and norms of a culture.
What are artifacts?
500
The horn Mark blows is this type of horn, which Mark found at an antique store on Cape Cod.
What is a Coach Horn?
500
During Waynflete's early days, the school day began with the singing of this hymn. A hymn is still part of the School's graduation ceremony.
What is "The Church's One Foundation"?
500
Miss Lowell asked this person to help her and Miss Crisfield locate a site for a school where they could teach or be administrators.
Who is her father, George A. Lowell?
500
According to the School's newspaper, Miss Crisfield experienced this. The authors of 'Celebrating Waynflete: One Hundred Years in the Life of a School" speculate that this may have been one reason she and Miss Lowell decided to retire in 1923.
What is "a long illness" during the 1921-22 school year?
500
The basis for it's norms, these are what a culture considered worthwhile or desirable.