100 Years, 100 Stories

We are collecting memories from across generations—teachers, performances, classrooms, traditions, friendships, and the moments that stayed with you long after graduation.

We’ll be adding to this collection throughout the year—check back or add your own!

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Stefan Weiner ’03

“I had caught the performance bug and I’m still doing it today.”

The Campus School provided a rich start for my musical ambitions. I loved being part of the orchestra, singing and playing in music class and performing in the fifth grade play. But perhaps the first moment I realized performance was something I could potentially pursue as a career was the sixth grade talent show.

I had been given a best-of CD of a band called Dispatch earlier that school year and fell in love with their song “The General.” At the time, I only played cello, so I asked a friend to learn the guitar part to accompany me. He didn’t end up following through, so I opted to perform the song a cappella. It was certainly nerve-wracking, but when I finished, the crowd stood up simultaneously and gave me a standing ovation.

The song was all-too relevant in 2003—an anti-war anthem as the U.S. was terrorizing Afghanistan and had just invaded Iraq several weeks before. Whether the crowd was clapping so enthusiastically for the message of the song or for my rendition of it, it didn’t matter. I had caught the performance bug and I’m still doing it today.

A young boy in an orange shirt smiles at the camera with a butterfly perched on his wrist

Stefan Weiner ’03 in the Botanic Garden of Smith College

Seth Gottlieb '81

"We are forever grateful to the Campus School for bringing us together!"

"I met my wife Jennifer in Mr. Seidman's kindergarten class in 1974.

We reconnected after college, in 1994, after I ran into another classmate and mutual friend of ours, Susannah (Nan) Wolk, on my way to Washington D.C. where Jen was living at the time.

Decades later, we returned to Northampton to raise children of our own -- and we are forever grateful to the Campus School for bringing us together!"

Seth and Jenny pictured in Mr. Seidman's 1974 kindergarten class.