SCHool Magazine Features

Springside School, Chestnut Hill Academy, and SCH boast over 40 alumni authors including the poet laureate of Vermont, a former cast member of the “West Wing" whose book spent its first three weeks in the top three of the New York Times best-seller list, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, CNBC’s senior Washington correspondent, and a world-renowned athlete who was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated—twice.

Dr. Diana Chapman Walsh ’62

Diana Chapman Walsh is President Emerita of Wellesley College, her alma mater, and an emerita member of the governing boards of MIT and Amherst College. She was a trustee of the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the Mind and Life Institute, and she also chaired the Broad Institute's inaugural board and cofounded the Council on the Uncertain Human Future.

Her memoir, The Claims of Life, is “a book as much about living a meaningful life as it is being an effective college president,” according to Forbes. She is also the author, coauthor, and editor of numerous other books. Walsh, who was part of the National Alumnae Council for Springside, also won the Springside Distinguished Alumna Award.