When former World Language teacher Nathaniel Glidden taught seventh graders between 1963 and 1976, he invented his own vocabulary words and taught their definitions to students. Years later, Glidden's...
When history teacher Dr. Emily Straus ‘91 was a teenager, she would constantly read long biographies and books by famous historians, which, in addition to her “stellar” history education at the...
“While we feel that we are more accommodating parents, there is, unfortunately, a certain level of expectation that things need to get done,” Fernando Romero P ‘22 ‘25 said. Fernando and his wife...
Functions and syntax trees: Acharjee unites math and linguistics
Dylan Acharjee (12) conducted their first Independent Study Project (ISP) presentation this Thursday on the intersections between math...
“It’s hard to stop and make one specialty sandwich for one student when we’re concentrating on feeding 1,500 people, but we do it,” Head of FLIK Dining and Service Brenda Cohn said. “We do our...
“The HMPA always embraces people who want to roll up their sleeves and pitch in,” Executive Committee Chair of the “Friends of the Arts” Committee Sara Zion P‘22 ‘24 wrote. The Horace Mann...
Dan DeCecco is the school’s facilities supervisor and, as of last Sunday, champion of the BrickFair LEGO Fan Expo’s Bridge Build competition with a record-breaking bridge that held 188 pounds. At the...
“I've always been a pretty calm person, even as a kid, I was always quiet,” maintenance staff member Joel Colon said. “I try not to let anything get to me. Even though I think everyone has some level...
Nancy Rosoff ‘78, the Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of the Arts of the Americas at the Brooklyn Museum, has spent the last 12 years working on a project that involves reviewing, deaccessioning, and...
“Horace Mann really taught me to be excited by new things, but also to scrutinize them, and at Davidson, I was given the opportunity to be exposed to a lot,” Dahlia Krutkovich ‘17 said. At both the...
Sydney Pruzan (12) looks forward to driving her friends home most afternoons after school, she said. “It’s lots of fun to drive everyone around and hopefully in the spring we can leave school during...
“Every time you relax, you feel bad about it because you know that you’re wasting time that can be useful,” Avi Kumar (11) said. Summer is a time to unwind, but for Kumar and other students, a culture...
