KINGSTON — Wyoming Seminary, with campuses in Kingston and Forty Fort, will begin its 176th year of classes on Monday, Aug. 26 and continue a year-long celebration of the school’s founding in September 1844.
The Upper School in Kingston will register boarding and day students on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 24 and 25 for grades nine through 12 and postgraduate. New students will participate in orientation activities on Saturday and Sunday, and will attend a special New Student Retreat on Sunday.
A special opening-of-school convocation service will be held Monday, Aug. 26 at the Upper School.
Sem junior and government president Shailee Desai, of Shavertown, will offer words of welcome and will ring the historic Cokesbury Bell 17 times, one for each decade of Wyoming Seminary’s existence, to usher in the new academic year. Catie Kersey, Upper School history faculty member and senior class dean, will address the student body.
The Lower School, located in Forty Fort, will open for its first day of classes for toddler to eighth grade students on Monday, Aug. 26.
Lower School Dean Dr. Kathleen Hanlon encourages all parents of toddler, preschool, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students to attend a Parents’ Back to School Night at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22. A similar Back to School Night for parents of children in first through fourth grades will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 27 at 6 p.m., and for fifth through eighth grades on Tuesday, Sept. 3 at 6 p.m.
For more information about Wyoming Seminary, its programs and activities, call the Upper School at 570-270-2160 or the Lower School at 570-718-6610.
