Peter Becker

Head of School

[The Frederick Gunn School @GoGunn1850]

Kicking off this week of classes with some #highlanderpride Thank you, Katherine '21 for this beautiful chalk drawing of our shield! Absolutely amazing! How do you show your #highlanderpride? #gunnstudents #gogunn #community

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

Easily the most excited I’ve been to welcome students back in years!! Everyone’s doing a great job with new practices. Welcome! Onward!
@GoGunn1850

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

“America, you great unfinished symphony”
https://t.co/P5KPmcRk4O

Let’s dig in an stay committed to getting democracy right.

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

Celebrating July 4th!

“The world will never be the same”
https://t.co/1FVWK3cVpx

“The world turned upside down”
https://t.co/0nPjrRLoR2

An unlikely, incredible experiment and work in progress 245 years (and counting) the making.

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

As Disney+ prepares to stream the highly anticipated film version of ‘Hamilton’ on July 3, the Broadway sensation feels as apt as ever: “It all hits in different ways, based on where America is,” Miranda says https://t.co/o1wgUIn8v3

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

Bravo to The Gunnery Virtual Ensemble on their rendition of The Star Spangled Banner https://t.co/08SkQdZWXW !

@TheGunnery1850 #GoGunn

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

"continually to try new things, even in conditions that seem as hopeless as ours do, here and now.”

https://t.co/OnuYlJIE2j

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

Grateful to @MGThompsonPHD & Rob Evans for sharing their wisdom on today's @CAISCT call. Rob shared this from Vaclav Havel:
"The kind of hope I often think about I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. . .

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

"one that can keep us above water and urge us to good works, and the only true source of the breathtaking dimension of the human spirit and its efforts, is something we get, as it were, from ‘elsewhere.’ It is also this hope, above all, that gives us the strength to live and

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

Noted Philosophers Reconsider Their Key Insights After a Month of Social Distancing - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://t.co/Jy0NBEXcm4

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

No one can opt out of this pandemic. And that will change us forever. https://t.co/0ACBF31pJS via @voxdotcom

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

Beautiful. A great Sunday listen if you can get out for a walk. ⁦@TheGunnery1850⁩

Thank you ⁦@kristatippett⁩ & ⁦@onbeing⁩ https://t.co/8axyvi302H

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

Prefect speeches are always a highlight of the year @TheGunnery1850 . That is more true than ever now, even having to watch them online. 23 terrific candidates putting themselves out there. We are going to be in great student leadership hands for the '20-'21 school year! #GoGunn

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

This is so cool! I don’t know how you do this remotely but the fact that we can keep making music remotely, across every imaginable time zone, and have fun doing it—getting into it—is just awesome. Thanks & keep it going @TheGunnery1850 #gunnarts

[The Frederick Gunn School @GoGunn1850]

The Gunnery String & Voice Ensembles came together to perform this number for you all - composed by our very own Director of the Arts Ron Castonguay! Give it up for “Isolation Funk” 👏👏👏 #gunngoesthedistance #gunnarts #gogunn

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

A good read about flexible thinking for such a time as this for everyone @TheGunnery1850
https://t.co/ar0NBJA44f
@farnamstreet

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

Controversial call by the judges at virtual School Meeting awarding Graham House first place over Van Sinderen in first-ever TikTok Dorm Challenge! But super fun community moment nonetheless. @TheGunnery1850 #GunnDormChallenge

[Peter Becker @pwebecker]

Hope everyone @TheGunnery1850 will read this brief piece before we start week two online together, "Learning in a Time of Isolation"
https://t.co/NBYMN5K9UL
Thanks @ToddBreyfogle ht @mrianleslie