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![Bailey Moon ’11 has work featured in Harper's Bazaar]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1597066419/walnuthill/cplm9vxncpzdrxoagvth/12-1596463817.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1597066419/walnuthill/cplm9vxncpzdrxoagvth/12-1596463817.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1597066419/walnuthill/cplm9vxncpzdrxoagvth/12-1596463817.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1597066419/walnuthill/cplm9vxncpzdrxoagvth/12-1596463817.jpg","width":980}])
Former dance major and Walnut Hill alum Bailey Moon ’11 shines using his training in a creative way as a member of designer Gabriela Heart’s communication team with an inspired idea: marrying the movement of high fashion with the high skill and athleticism of NYC ballerinas.
![Patricia Eakins '60]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1596832170/walnuthill/l6qyszlympimdkdvikoo/1960-eakins.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1596832170/walnuthill/l6qyszlympimdkdvikoo/1960-eakins.jpg","width":460}])
Tough Poets Press recently published a special 30th anniversary edition of Patricia's first book, The Hungry Girls and Other Stories.
![A Letter to Our Community]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1594919033/walnuthill/mhbli9kadt1fecwjvklz/ScreenShot2020-07-16at10012PM.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1594919033/walnuthill/mhbli9kadt1fecwjvklz/ScreenShot2020-07-16at10012PM.png","width":476}])
This past month has been a moment of reckoning for the United States and the rest of the world as we work to acknowledge, understand, and take steps to eradicate the systemic racism and other forms of bias that exist throughout our society, including educational institutions like Walnut Hill.
![Community Town Hall Recap]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1594146422/walnuthill/rl40nzzqlieopvaumoey/ScreenShot2020-07-07at11800PM_1.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1594146422/walnuthill/rl40nzzqlieopvaumoey/ScreenShot2020-07-07at11800PM_1.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1594146422/walnuthill/rl40nzzqlieopvaumoey/ScreenShot2020-07-07at11800PM_1.png","width":751}])
Walnut Hill held a Community Town Hall on Tuesday, June 30 to answer questions about our 2020–21 Reopening Plan. Watch a recording of the Town Hall and download the slide presentation.
![Reopening Plan 2020–2021]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1593095114/walnuthill/lhnjuiemlyknkm2iwu24/Dance_Barn.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1593095114/walnuthill/lhnjuiemlyknkm2iwu24/Dance_Barn.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1593095114/walnuthill/lhnjuiemlyknkm2iwu24/Dance_Barn.png","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1593095114/walnuthill/lhnjuiemlyknkm2iwu24/Dance_Barn.png","width":1080}])
Information about the plan for reopening Walnut Hill in the 2020–2021 school year.
![International students, grounded by coronavirus outbreak, spending summer at Walnut Hill School in Natick]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1592923089/walnuthill/hzvrt2dyqdide0se32kj/104976721_10157751854214191_5396754005945135573_o.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1592923089/walnuthill/hzvrt2dyqdide0se32kj/104976721_10157751854214191_5396754005945135573_o.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1592923089/walnuthill/hzvrt2dyqdide0se32kj/104976721_10157751854214191_5396754005945135573_o.jpg","width":637}])
Spring break was on the horizon, and like millions of students across the land, “My plan was to go home,” said Quinyu Yuki Huang, a sophomore at the Walnut Hill School for The Arts in Natick.
![Five Ways to Learn & Celebrate on Juneteenth]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1592573085/walnuthill/pdtt6pxrctdusckidcae/1.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1592573085/walnuthill/pdtt6pxrctdusckidcae/1.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1592573085/walnuthill/pdtt6pxrctdusckidcae/1.png","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1592573085/walnuthill/pdtt6pxrctdusckidcae/1.png","width":1080}])
![Matt Risch '00 in Modern Family]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1586808752/walnuthill/f5vojvpqduiofpgwxwch/mattrischmodernfam.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1586808752/walnuthill/f5vojvpqduiofpgwxwch/mattrischmodernfam.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1586808752/walnuthill/f5vojvpqduiofpgwxwch/mattrischmodernfam.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1586808752/walnuthill/f5vojvpqduiofpgwxwch/mattrischmodernfam.jpg","width":1000}])
Matt appeared in the series finale of Modern Family as his recurring character, Jotham.
![Kelly McWilliams '06 to publish debut novel]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1592420548/walnuthill/luatdbmssyx1fum5q2rw/ScreenShot2020-06-17at30055PM.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1592420548/walnuthill/luatdbmssyx1fum5q2rw/ScreenShot2020-06-17at30055PM.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1592420548/walnuthill/luatdbmssyx1fum5q2rw/ScreenShot2020-06-17at30055PM.png","width":596}])
Kelly's debut novel, AGNES AT THE END OF THE WORLD, is set to be published in June by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
![Briga Heelan '05 to star in Once Upon a One More Time]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1583350856/walnuthill/itgsitu3yvl6jbu0vwev/ScreenShot2020-03-04at24045PM.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1583350856/walnuthill/itgsitu3yvl6jbu0vwev/ScreenShot2020-03-04at24045PM.png","width":321}])
Briga has been cast as Cinderella in the upcoming world premiere of Once Upon a One More Time, a Britney Spears jukebox musical.
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