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<편집자 주> 미국 웨스트민스터스쿨에 재학 중인 양현웅 학생이 생글생글에 보내 온 유학생 일기입니다. Hyunwoong YANG(Westminster School, Simsbury, CT) Westminster School is a private, coeducational, boarding and day school in Simsbury, Connecticut that accepts around 20% of applicants. The entire student population is around 400 (75% boarding, 25% day), with students from 25 different states and 30 different countries. It is also a member of the Founders League, a sports league made up of ten college-preparation boarding schools in Connecticut and one in New York.William Lee Cushing, a Yale University alumnus, founded Westminster School as an all-boys school in 1888. Girls were admitted to the school for the first time in 1971. Westminster, like many boarding schools, struggled in the 1970s to compete for a diminishing pool of boarding students.Graham Cole took over as headmaster when Donald Werner resigned in 1993 after 21 years as headmaster. During the Cole years, the school's enrollment increased from 340 to 385 pupils, with 88 members of the teaching staff.Today, Westminster is a community where people know, understand, and care about one another. It offers a vast and diversified program in an intimate, small-school atmosphere. Students mix a demanding academic load that includ