Emma Colacino and Maya Nornberg
May 8, 2020
As Jeren Wei ‘19 watched his home town of New Rochelle suffer from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, he decided he needed to help. Upon his return home from Emory University in Atlanta, Wei has raised over $15,000 through...
Devin Allard-Neptune and Max Chasin
May 8, 2020
The school’s closure has made interacting with members of the community more difficult; nevertheless, the Ministry of Fun (MOF), a faculty-led initiative, continues to connect faculty members to their coworkers. At the...
Lucas Glickman and Teddy Ganea
May 8, 2020
Senior reflections have been a part of the school since 2017, and despite the current pandemic, Upper Division Library Department Chair Caroline Bartels does not want the seniors to lose out on the opportunity to reflect...
Ben Kafoglis, Math Teacher
May 14, 2020 • No Comments
Jenny Odell is a writer and artist, and in this book she calls for people to resist what she calls the “Attention Economy.” The Attention Economy is made up of all those businesses that live off our attention: think social...
Andrew Fippinger, English Teacher
May 14, 2020 • No Comments
I’ve just finished Richard Powers’s 2018 novel The Overstory, a 500-page-long, Pulitzer-Prize-winning tome about trees. Doesn’t that sound exciting? Trust me, it is. Although Powers develops a wide cast of finely-drawn...
Zachary Kurtz, Contributing Writer
May 14, 2020 • No Comments
The world we live in is full of different systems of belief such as Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, all of which rest upon the ideas of creationism. But what if you were to pit scientific facts against creationism? This...
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Carmel Peer
May 14, 2020 • No Comments
I went on my first backpacking trip ever at John Dorr Nature Lab (Dorr) during the winter of freshman year, not knowing what I was getting myself into. Throughout the whole weekend, the temperatures were...
Ava Merker
May 14, 2020 • No Comments
Over the past two months, many of us have encountered news articles, Snapchat videos, and Twitter posts about COVID-19’s effects on global climate change. Even during the first few weeks of the pandemic,...
Dr. Leeds reflects on crisis and contingency
May 8, 2020
De lingua mortua: why I love latin
May 8, 2020
Putting the Active in Activism: Stop Reposting and Start Reacting
May 8, 2020
Liliana Greyf, Staff Writer
May 8, 2020
Determined to make it to her destination, theater teacher Haila VanHentenryck climbed up the steepest side of a mountain. Except the mountain was a sand dune. Made of ice....
Arushi Talwar and Helen Fajemirokun
May 8, 2020
During one of the English Department practice Zoom meetings for HM Online, English teacher Jennifer Little’s five-year-old son ran into the bathroom, forgot to close the...
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Liliana Greyf and Hannah Katzke
May 14, 2020
While stuffing your face with platefuls of penne pasta does not seem like the most typical form of team bonding, consuming gallons of carbs is an annual tradition of the Varsity Swim team (VS). Like VS, many sports teams at the school use traditions...
May 14, 2020
The day after Thanksgiving means following a family tradition for Varsity baseball and football coach Matthew Russo: making his grandfather’s renowned turkey-stuffed ravioli with his family. Cooking from scratch with his late...
Emily Sun and Mia Calzolaio
May 8, 2020
In August, as the Class of 2020 heads to colleges across the nation, Mark Fernandez (12) will return to high school in order to take a postgraduate (PG) year at the boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall. A PG year is a fifth year of high school...
