Dana Hall School
Dana Hall School is unlike any other learning environment a girl will ever experience. We’re a school where students tackle demanding coursework and high academic expectations with joy, enthusiasm, and genuine curiosity. A place where girls take the lead in every classroom, on every stage, and on every sports field. We cultivate an environment in which students feel free to discover, become, and express exactly who they are.www.danahall.org
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Sep 26, 2026
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Jane grew up in Needham, a quiet suburb about 12 miles west of Boston, surrounded by books, intellectual conversation, and the assumption that rigorous thinking was simply how people moved through the world.
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She attended the Dana Hall School, a private girls school in Wellesley, where she learned to ride horses, play the piano and organ, and paint.
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She was good at all of it, genuinely talented across multiple disciplines, but it was her mind that people remembered most: sharp, restless, funny in a way that caught you off guard and sometimes made you uncomfortable, which she seemed to enjoy.
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At Radcliffe College, Jane majored in anthropology and wrote her senior thesis on comparative methodology in studying one of the Paragordian cultures, a subject so specialized that most people outside the field wouldn't know what it meant.