About Wayland Made Challenge
At Wayland Academy, you had the time and space to both innovate and form meaningful relationships, to discover raw talents, passions, discipline, and resilience. You challenged yourself to be better and to set a precedent for the whole community.
At Wayland, we know that challenges are more successful when we come together to meet our goals. To encourage broader participation in our Wayland Made campaign which is in the home stretch towards our $10,000,000 goal, a generous alum has offered a challenge. The campaign has focused on building Burnham Hall, renovating the Biology labs in Discovery Hall, and significantly growing our endowment. When the first 100 people make a gift to the Wayland Made Challenge, a $50,000 pledge will be unlocked for the campaign!
Please take this opportunity to make a difference for our current and future students by giving back to Wayland, a school that has made a difference in so many people’s lives. Your gift matters!
Participate in the Wayland Made Challenge!
We need 100 donors to participate to unlock the challenge gift.
Guidance with discipline.
Instruction with clear goals.
Discipline with compassion.
For many Wayland alumni, Ms. Alpaugh H`83 was, and still is, one of the school's most beloved individuals that have ever graced campus. From her 40 years of teaching, coaching, mentoring, and being the Dorm Head in Warren Cottage, Ms. Alpaugh touched the hearts of the Academy's students, faculty, and staff.
"When I think of Diane Alpaugh, I think about Friday and Saturday nights of card games in her Warren Cottage apartment. Spades, Hearts, Bridge. Ordering pizza from the local delivery place and watching the brand new HBO on a 21” screen. I think of Sunday nights with a group of us cooking dinner so that we didn’t have to have “Saga Sunday Leftovers”. I think about softball and field hockey practices and freezing my butt off hiking down to the field in late fall and early spring. I think about keys jingling down a hallway while doing room checks. But most of all, I think about leadership." - Carri Carl `81
"Being sports at Wayland, it wasn't winning that motivated us; it was an inspiring coach and the great sense of teamwork she (Alpaugh) created...She supported us in most of our outlandish ventures, which even included running a classmate as a write-in for mayor of Beaver Dam (as part of an AP Government project, of course)." - Laura Bachmann `10
Since retiring from Wayland in 2014 and as Faculty Emeritus, Ms. Alpaugh continues to be engaged with the Academy. She serves as a member of the Athletic Hall of Fame Committee, and continues to support the school through her time, talent, and treasure.
Let's come together to name the ALPAUGH ALCOVE!
This August, the girls at Wayland will move into Burnham Hall. And what would a girls dorm at Wayland be without Ms Alpaugh's influence? That's why we have started this collaborative effort to name one of the dorm alcoves in her honor.
Let's come together, like she taught us to.
(see below for more information)
The Difference Wayland Made in My Life
"I learned from Wayland that if you studied hard and paid attention, you got more privileges, and that was a great incentive for me. I noticed that the popular girls seemed to be the smart girls, and I came from a school where it was not cool to be so smart. I thought, 'I better get on board with this and study,' which I did. I did very well. Wayland was wonderful, and college was very comfortable for me. I look at the things that the campus does now, and it's amazing."
—Nancy "Nan" Howe Spivey `52
"Seize the Day"—Unlocking My Creativity at Wayland
"I credit what I learned from my English teacher because I realized that I was more creative than I thought I was. Going to Wayland was a profound experience. My English teacher wrote 'Seize the Day' on the blackboard in Latin on my first day, and we went out for a walk to enjoy the weather. My grandfather had been a great salesman and athlete, and my English teacher pointed at pictures of him. What I learned about how to think creatively are very specific techniques that I have used for many years to solve problems."
—John E. Brackett `62
Coming Together as a Community, as Family
"One of the valuable lessons I learned at Wayland Academy was to accept everybody with all of their quirks and idiosyncrasies. We had people from different parts of the world as well as all different kinds of economic and social levels. I loved how we all came together. "
Wayland Made Experiences
"Wayland made me an independent thinker and taught me to fend for myself a little bit. I accomplished goals that were set before me, and I was able to achieve what I wanted to achieve at Wayland. They set me up to be able to achieve things throughout my life that may not have seemed to be doable."
—Neill T. Mullett `93
"Wayland made me an independent thinker and taught me to fend for myself a little bit. I accomplished goals that were set before me, and I was able to achieve what I wanted to achieve at Wayland. They set me up to be able to achieve things throughout my life that may not have seemed to be doable."
—Neill T. Mullett `93
Finding My Passion and Lessons Learned
—Emmaleah "Emma" Grace Vickers `21
